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Agent Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) is an expert in forensics, and also a medical
doctor, but she doesn't practice medicine. That experience has
caused her to firmly believe that every X-File case has a scientific
solution. A University of Maryland graduate, she taught for two years
at the F.B.I. training academy. Her talents were noticed, and she was
assigned to assist
Mulder
in investigating the X-Files. The plan of
her superiors was for her to keep close track of Mulder's investigations
with frequent field reports and to try to discredit Mulder's explanations.
On there first case together, Scully realized how good Mulder's instincts
were with these types of cases, but held firmly to her beliefs.
Through their years working together, Scully has loosened her hold on science
a little bit, because her scientific investigation of the cases has sometimes
brought up nothing but evidence of paranormal activity. She works hard and is an equal partner
in investigating the X-Files, even though sometimes it seems that Mulder is
running the show. In the second season semi-three-parter "Duane Barry/Ascension/One Breath" she was kidnapped and almost died from her abduction. In the third-season episode "The Blessing Way", she suspected that
Assistant Director Skinner was going to kill her and pointed her gun at him. During her work
investigating the X-Files, she had been diagnosed with a cancerous, inoperable
tumor in her nose. Her cancer caused her to nosebleed often. In "Gethsemane", the season finale for year 4, Scully was told by Mulder to lie about his suicide. In "Redux II" her cancer became increasingly worse, and her family thought that she had no hope of living. Then miraculously her cancer came into remission. In the fifth-season episode "Christmas Carol", Scully found a girl named Emily who's DNA matched her own, revealing Emily as her daughter, even though Scully had never given birth and she could not conceive a child. In the succeeding episode "Emily" she tried to save the life of her sick daughter but Emily died from a growth in her neck.
In the episode "Patient X", Scully had a feeling that she was being called by some unknown force, from her chip. She went to a bridge and gathered with some other alien abductees. Then she was attacked by creatures who looked like the Alien Bounty Hunter. She fell unconcious and was found with burns on her body, which later healed. In "The Red and the Black", Mulder became skeptical as to the source of her burns, but Scully recalled memories of the experience and concluded to herself that her burns were from an extraterrestrial force. At the end of season five, Scully and Mulder were banished from the X-Files.
In the X-Files movie, Scully was reassigned to the anti-terrorist section of the FBI. She almost quit the FBI, but Mulder convinced her to continue with him. She and Mulder almost kissed, but Scully was stung by a bee. She was taken to Antarctica and trapped in a frozen alien pod. Fortunately, Mulder gave her a vaccine and she survived.
In the sixth season episode "Tithonus", Scully was fatally shot by a fellow agent but she miraculously survived when she closed her eyes and "death" passed by her.
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