Fox Mulder

Aliases: Spooky, Tom Braidwood, M F Luder, Marty Mulder, George E Hale

Nationality: American

Occupation: FBI Special Agent

Career History

Mulder was a psychological profiler in the FBI Violent Crimes Unit until he stumbled across 'The X Files' - cases deemed unsolvable due to apparent involvement of UFO or supernatural activity.

Third Man: Are you familiar with an agent named Fox Mulder?

Agent Scully: Yes, I am.

Third Man: How so?

Agent Scully: By reputation. He's an Oxford-educated psychologist who wrote a monograph on serial killers and the occult, which helped catch Monty Props in 1988. Generally thought of as the best analytical mind in the Bureau. He had a nickname at the Academy . . . "Spooky" Mulder.

The X Files Season One: Pilot

Biography

Previously a profiler, he prefers to work on paranormal cases known as 'The X Files'.

His sister was abducted by aliens when he was young. He studied Psychology at Oxford University. After a regression hypnosis session, he recalled how his sister disappeared and started working for the FBI in 1984, with successes in psychology profiling. He discovered the X Files which held bizarre and unsolvable cases, which he believes will help him find his sister again.

In the first episode, he is assigned a new partner, a sceptical scientist called Dana Scully, who is to make objective reports on their cases.

Mulder: Sorry, nobody down here but the FBI's most unwanted.

Scully: Agent Mulder? I'm Dana Scully. I've been assigned to work with you.

Mulder: Oh, isn't it nice to be suddenly so highly regarded. So, who did you tick off to get stuck with this detail, Scully?

Scully: Actually, I'm looking forward to working with you. I've heard a lot about you.

Mulder: Oh, really? I was under the impression that you were sent to spy on me.

The X Files Season One: Pilot

Hobbies: Swimming, jogging, basketball, fish-keeping (indoor aquarium), classic rock music, classic sci-fi films, baseball

Drinks: Vodka

Programmes Featured In

• 1993 "The X Files: Season One" portrayed by David Duchovny
• 1994 "The X Files: Season Two" portrayed by David Duchovny
• 1995 "The X Files: Season Three" portrayed by David Duchovny
• 1996 "The X Files: Season Four" portrayed by David Duchovny
• 1997 "The X Files: Season Five" portrayed by David Duchovny
• 1998 "The X Files Movie" portrayed by David Duchovny
• 1998 "The X Files: Season Six" portrayed by David Duchovny
• 1999 "The X Files: Season Seven" portrayed by David Duchovny
• 2000 "The X Files: Season Eight" portrayed by David Duchovny
• 2001 "The X Files: Season Nine" portrayed by David Duchovny
• 2008 "The X Files: I Want To Believe" portrayed by David Duchovny

Agent Scully: Mulder, you could have shown that kid a picture of a flying hamburger and he would have told you that's exactly what he saw.

Agent Mulder: Alright, I wanna show you something. This is a photo, of a UFO that reportedly crashed in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. Now I know, you don't believe that story, but just hear me out. Now, Ellens Air Base, the same base that we're at right now, the same base, that for some strange reason, doesn't appear on your US government map, is supposedly, one of the six sites where parts from the wreckage were shipped.

Agent Scully: Mulder, are you suggesting that the military is flying UFOs.

Agent Mulder: No, planes built, using UFO technology.

Agent Scully: Mulder, c'mon. You've got two blurry photos, one of them taken almost fifty years ago, and another one, you purchased today in a roadside diner. You're going out on a pretty big limb.

Agent Mulder: Tell me, there isn't a remarkable resemblance.

Agent Scully: Tell me, one good reason why either of these photos is authentic.

Agent Mulder: You saw exactly what I saw in the sky tonight. What do you think they were?

Agent Scully: Just because I can't explain it, doesn't mean I'm gonna believe they were UFOs.

Agent Mulder: "Unidentified Flying Object", I think that fits the description pretty well. Tell me I'm crazy.

Agent Scully: Mulder, you're crazy. And it still doesn't explain to me what happened to Colonel Budahaus.

The X Files Season One: "Deep Throat"

We wanted to believe.

We wanted to call out. On August 20th and September 5th, 1977, two spacecraft were launched from the Kennedy Space Flight Center, Florida. They were called Voyager. Each one carries a message. A gold-plated record depicting images, music and sounds of our planet, arranged so that it may be understood if ever intercepted by a technologically mature extraterrestrial civilization.

Thirteen years after its launch, Voyager One passed the orbital plane of Neptune and essentially leaving our solar system. Within that time, there were no further messages sent. Nor are any planned.

We wanted to listen. On October 12th, 1992, NASA initiated the high-resolution microwave survey. A decade long-search by radio telescope, scanning ten million frequencies for any transmission by extraterrestrial intelligence.

Less than one year later, first-term Nevada Senator Richard Bryan successfully championed an amendment which terminated the project.

I wanted to believe but the tools have been taken away. The X-Files have been shut down. They closed our eyes. Our voices have been silenced . . . our ears now deaf to the realms of extreme possibilities.

The X Files Season Two: "Little Green Men"

Agent Mulder: I saw him this morning down by the river, he was eating a fish.

Blockhead: He knows between-show snacks will ruin his appetite.

Agent Mulder: I could be mistaken. Maybe it was another bald-headed, jigsaw-puzzle-tattooed, naked guy I saw.

The X Files Season Two: "Humbug"

Detective Manners: Well, thanks a lot! You really bleeped up this case.

[Cut to present day]

Agent Scully: Well, of course, he didn't actually say 'bleeped', he said . . .

Jose Chung: I'm, uh, familiar with, uh, Detective Manners' colourful phraseology.

[Cut back to the interrogation room]

Agent Mulder: You still going to hold the boy?

Detective Manners: Oh, you bet your blankety-blank bleep I am.

Agent Mulder: But the victim seems to confirm his alibi.

Detective Manners: The hell she did! Those kids' stories couldn't be more bleeping different.

The X Files Season Three: "Jose Chung's From Outer Space"

"Once upon a time, there was a guy with the improbable name of Fox Mulder. He started out life happily enough, as these things go. He had parents who loved him, a cute kid sister, he had a roof over his head, got all his flu shots, had all his fingers and toes and, aside from being stuck with the name 'Fox', which probably taught him how to fight - or not - he pretty much led a normal life.

But the worst thing by far - the biggest kick in the slacks this kid Fox ever got - was what happened to his sister. One day, she just disappeared.

Now, Fox buckled down and worked his butt off. Graduated top of his class at Oxford then top of his class at the FBI academy. None of that hard work made up for his sister, though. It was just a way of putting her out of his mind. Finally, the way I figure it, he went out of his mind and he's been that way ever since.

Fox Mulder pissed away a brilliant career, lost the respect of supervisors and friends and now lives his life shaking his fist at the sky and muttering about conspiracies to anyone who will listen. If you ask me, he's one step away from pushing a baby carriage filled with tin cans down the street.

But now, all that's going to change . . ."

The X Files Season Six: "Dreamland Part Two"

Books Featured In

• 1994 "Goblins" by xxx
• 1995 "Ground Zero" by xxxx
• 1995 "Whirlwind" by xxx
• 1997 "Antibodies" by xxx