The X-Files Personnel File

X-Files: the Conspiracy
the Supporting Cast - Personnel Files

The World of the X-Files wouldn't be complete with just Mulder & Scully, you need Cancer-Man and Krycek plotting in the background, as well as the Lone Gunmen (Frohike, Byers & Langly) to draw upon as allies.

Fox Mulder	Dana Scully	Walter Skinner	Frohike	Byers	Langly

Deep Throat	X	Marita Covarrubias	Cancer Man	Well-Manicured Man	Alex Krycek

Melissa Scully	Margaret Scully	William Scully	William Mulder	Samantha Mulder	Senator Matheson

FOX MULDER

Special Agent Fox "Spooky" Mulder was on a fast track in the FBI when he took a detour into the paranormal. Convinced through hypnotic regression that his sister was abducted by some unknown power when they were children, he is now obsessed with discovering the truths hidden in the X-Files, a repository for the extraordinary, the unexplained and the supernatural. Recruited into the Bureau after studying psychology at Oxford, Mulder showed an inclination toward the offbeat from the beginning of his career. His early monograph on serial killers and the occult led to the capture of a notorious murderer. But far from pursuing what could have been a stellar career within the Bureau, Mulder chose "the basement office with no heat" where the FBI hides the X-Files. Only his network of contacts in Congress and other halls of power has allowed him to continue his investigations in the face of official indifference and covert opposition. Opposed by enemies within the Bureau itself and beyond, the only person he can trust absolutely is his partner, Dana Scully.

DANA SCULLY

She is dedicated to objectivity and common sense, but open to extreme possibilities. Special Agent Dana Scully is not only a medical doctor with a specialty in forensics, but a firm believer in reason who thinks there is a scientific explanation behind every X-file. Against her parent's wishes, Scully went from medical school to Quantico, where she taught for two years at the FBI's training academy. From there she was assigned to work with Fox Mulder and the X-Files, with the strong implication that she was to debunk them. Over the years that they have worked together, her trust in his instincts and her respect for his integrity have eroded her skepticism. She finds her faith in a scientific and orderly universe constantly challenged by the cases she pursues with Mulder. Far from being a spy for the bureaucrats who hinder their work, Scully is a full partner in the X-Files, focusing on assembling the hard evidence that will prove the truth is out there.

WALTER SKINNER

An ex-Marine with a stern sense of duty, the Bureau's Assistant Director Walter Skinner has little patience with Fox Mulder's unorthodox methods of investigation. More than once he has warned Mulder and Scully that their inquiries were crossing into dangerous territory, and once he shut down the X-Files entirely. But when Dana Scully was kidnapped, he reopened them, telling Mulder, "That's what they fear the most" -- without clarifying who "they" are. It's never clear whose side Skinner is on, or whose orders he takes, but his efforts on behalf of Mulder and Scully "through unofficial channels" have made it plain that he is deeply concerned about his independent-minded agents and their work.

DEEP THROAT

"I came here to give you some valuable advice." This is how the man known only as Deep Throat introduces himself in the second episode of the series, setting up a relationship with Fox Mulder that defined the tone and direction of The X-Files. Elusive, mysterious and sometimes duplicitous, Deep Throat dangled tidbits of information before Mulder and Scully to entice them into cases that they might otherwise overlook, to draw them along lines of inquiry that might be disregarded, and sometimes to divert their attention from areas he wanted them out of. He rarely answered a question directly, and when he did, it was always on his own terms. He obviously knew as much about Mulder's work as Mulder did, and admitted to watching him for a long time from "his lofty position." Whether it was with the intent of helping the younger man uncover the truth (as he often said) or to hinder him through misdirection, he was always an important source of information. Manipulative, avuncular and enigmatic, he created a presence in The X-Files before sacrificing himself for his protege in the final episode of the first season, "The Erlenmeyer Flask."

Who is the mysterious and dangerous man who alternately warns and informs Fox Mulder? Is he stringing Mulder along in a complex and devious campaign of disinformation, or is he an ally in the search for the truth? He has more than once admitted that he is afraid of getting killed like his predecessor, Deep Throat, and will not risk his neck for Mulder. He went head-to-head with Assistant Director Skinner after he refused Scully's request for information on Mulder's whereabouts in "Endgame." In "Soft Light" he took an even more active role, stepping out of the shadows to intervene directly in Scully and Mulder's case, spiriting away a key figure under Mulder's very nose. Angrily, Mulder told X he wanted nothing more to do with the man, and X warned him,"You're choosing a dangerous time to go it alone." Just whose side is he on? In The X-Files, that answer will always be equivocal.

Marita Covarrubias

The beautiful, but mysterious woman at the SRSG (Special Representaive to the Secretary General of the United Nations) is the latest in a line of quasi-allies to be helping Mulder.

CANCER MAN

The man behind the cloud of smoke has been involved in the affairs of the X-Files since the day Section Chief Scott Blevins assigned Dana Scully to "assist" Fox Mulder. His silent presence in Skinner's office is always a warning that the shadowy government attempting to discredit Mulder is again keeping an eye on the nonconformist agent. When not in Skinner's office, he can be found in the basement of the Pentagon, secreting evidence in a vast storehouse of classified materials. The tension between Mulder and the Cancer Man has increased steadily as the nameless man with the pack of Morleys increasingly involves himself in Mulder's work. In "One Breath," Mulder blamed the Cancer Man for the abduction of Dana Scully, and came within a trigger-pull of killing him. In "Anasazi", we learned that his involvement goes back to the beginning, all the way to Fox Mulder's father. He may be responsible for Bill Mulder's murder, and he is certainly responsible for several attempts on the life of the X-Files agents. His menace may be fading, however, as both the Well-Manicured Man he answers to and Alex Krycek, his tool who has turned against him, threaten to bring upon him a justice Mulder and Scully cannot.

WELL-MANICURED MAN

Who is this man who awes and frightens even the Cancer Man? Tall, poised, impeccably tailored, with a cultured veneer belied by the hooded eyes of a snake, the Well-Manicured Man appears to hold the whip hand in the band of master puppeteers who meet behind the brick facade of the club on West 46th Street in New York City. He is quite open about his willingness to lie, manipulate or even kill to protect his secrets, with the suave arrogance of a man who fears absolutely no power--except the truth.

ALEX KRYCEK

When he first appears in "Sleepless,", Alex Krycek looks like the greenest of rookie agents: enthusiastic, naive, and affected by a certain hero-worship of Fox Mulder. But as we progress through "Duane Barry," "Ascension" and "Anasazi," we learn that there is considerably more to Alex Krycek than meets the eye--and considerably less. For one thing, he works for the ominous Cancer Man, reporting cold-bloodedly to him that "Scully is more of a danger" than the Cancer Man knew, and that closing the X-Files had not stopped Mulder and Scully from pursuing their cases. For another, he is quite capable of taking action, such as his attempts to kill Mulder on a tramway in "Ascension", and his murder of Bill Mulder . Long since dubbed "Ratboy" on the Internet, Alex Krycek has come to be seen as a serious threat to the lives of both Dana Scully and Fox Mulder. His murder of Melissa Scully and his theft of the missing DAT tape in "Paper Clip" put him between the X-Files team and his double- crossing boss, the Cancer Man. Now hunted by both sides, Krycek has gone to ground.

FROHIKE

Short, unshaven and clad in combat boots, Frohike is the Frog Prince of the Lone Gunman editorial board. Next to Langly and Byers, he looks like the proverbial dirty old man. From his first leering appearance in "E.B.E.," he has made no secret of his attraction to Agent Dana Scully. The photographic and surveillance specialist in the group, he once loaned Mulder a pair of night-vision goggles only after extracting Scully's phone number from him. Yet he has shown a tender side as well, being the only person to bring Scully flowers when she lay dying in "One Breath." Not a great talker, Frohike grows loquacious only when Mulder teases him; he succinctly summarized the atmosphere of suspicion and paranoia in Mulder's apartment during "Anasazi" with one bon mot: "weirdness."

BYERS

The military and information systems expert of the Lone Gunman cabal, Byers looks like a professor who has wandered into a CIA rendezvous by mistake. His neat beard and dapper suits seem out of place among his grungier colleagues, but his sharp mind and no-nonsense demeanor attest to an encyclopedic knowledge of conspiracy theory and current speculation on everything from the Kennedy assassination to the latest in DNA research. In "One Breath," Byers unerringly recognizes and describes the bizarre recombinant chemistry that lies at the heart of Dana Scully's disease, and quietly expresses sympathy to Mulder. He occasionally indulges in a wit as sardonic as Mulder's, as when he tells him, "That's why we like you, Mulder: Your ideas are weirder than ours." Unlike coconspirators Langly and Frohike, he is the least liable to crack a joke or even a smile, but his calm intelligence lends authority and believability to the unlikely trio's offices.

LANGLY

One wonders just how much of life this man takes seriously. Sporting black-rimmed glasses, long blond hair and T-shirts from a dozen hard-rock bands, he is not the picture of a conventional conspirator. Langly is the communications expert of the Lone Gunman editorial collective, the one most likely to joke with Mulder or invite him to "hop on the Internet to nitpick the scientific inaccuracies" of a new science-fiction show. But he's also a little bent; in "Fearful Symmetry," his colleague Byers explains Langly's absence in a meeting as a philosophical aversion to having his image bounced off a satellite. He automatically records every incoming phone call, and is evidently as conversant with current conspiracy theory as his two compadres. But he is ready with a laugh any time Mulder's theories get a little "out there," such as the idea that UFOs started the Gulf War. Nevertheless, when Mulder insists that Langly turn off the recording device in "E.B.E.," Langly does not hesitate to lie to him. Among the Lone Gunmen, truth is as rare as trust.

MELISSA SCULLY

Tall, red-haired and sweet-faced, the oldest Scully sister prefers soft dresses to her sister's severely tailored suits. In the opening sequence of "One Breath," Margaret Scully recalls that her daughter Dana, "unlike her older sister," was a tomboy. We meet the grown-up Melissa Scully minutes later, when she shows up at her dying sister's bedside to commune with her spirit and dowse for her soul. Clearly of the opposite opinion from her sister when it comes to matters paranormal, Melissa Scully at first irritates Fox Mulder with her New Age views and her "harmonic convergence" babble. But when the chips are down for Mulder, she convinces him that the path of truth, for him and for Dana, lies in light and not in shadow. Murdered by Alex Krycek in a case of mistaken identity, her memory lingers with Dana Scully, who tearfully tells her partner, "she died for me".

MARGARET SCULLY

There is steel in this soft-spoken, woman, a will and a determination that lie just below her conventional surface. Her family is everything to Margaret Scully, recently widowed by the death of her husband, Captain William Scully. She combines a motherly concern with a practical domesticity; clearly, she's a woman whose life has been spent as a homemaker and mother. She may have a bit of psychic intuition, however. When Dana is kidnapped in "Duane Barry," Margaret confesses to Mulder that she had had a premonition about Dana, but was afraid to tell her skeptical daughter. In "One Breath," she sits at the center of a storm when Mulder discovers his partner lying comatose in the hospital; ignoring his rage and the violence of the scene he creates, she focuses entirely on her daughter to the exclusion of all else.

WILLIAM SCULLY

He walked off his ship after the Bay of Pigs and right up to a young, dark-haired girl named Margaret, proposing to her then and there. Captain William Scully, late of the U.S. Navy, was a strong, uncompromising but loving father to Dana Scully and her three siblings. Perhaps he disapproved of her tomboy attitude and her unconventional aspirations, but his quiet pride in her was evident. It was clear Dana looked up to him. Their teasing relationship was accented by a private joke between them, based on Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. She called her seafaring father "Ahab" after the stern captain of the doomed Pequod; in turn, he called her "Starbuck" after Ahab's upright and trusted lieutenant. Her fear that her father never quite approved of her line of work caused Scully no little anxiety, and she clearly set out to win his praise by "distinguishing herself" at the FBI. His sudden death in "Beyond the Sea" opened a deep wound in his "baby girl," who found her skepticism severely challenged by visions of him after his death. It is apparent that Scully got more than her stubbornness, her sense of ethics and her red hair from the late Captain Scully. (Mulder says she also inherited his sea legs.) In "One Breath," her father appeared in a vision as she lay dying, and played a pivotal part in strengthening her will to live.

WILLIAM MULDER

Fox Mulder's father first appears as a flinty, unsmiling and remote man in "Colony," when he reacts to his son's attempts to hug him by putting him off with a handshake. This emotional stiffness carries through their subsequent scenes in "End Game," where the older man's rage and pain turn outward to his son when Mulder must tell him that Samantha is "lost" again. Despite his son's obvious suffering and guilt, Bill Mulder maintains his icy reserve. We learn a little more about Bill Mulder in "Anasazi," when his conversation with The Cancer Man reveals him to be on first-name terms with Mulder's worst enemy. As we learn that the two worked together on a secret project whose exposure they now both fear, we glimpse a troubled, deeply guilt-ridden man who is terrified that his son will learn of his involvement in a secret cover-up. His conscience finally drives him to confess his role to his son, but as he is on the point of disclosure, Alex Krycek assassinates him, thereby framing Mulder for his own father's murder. Gasping his last breath in his son's arm, his final, agonized words are a plea for forgiveness.

SAMANTHA MULDER

The search for his missing sister has become the linchpin of Mulder's life, driving him to abandon a dazzling career for the dusty realms of the X-Files. Samantha Mulder was eight years old, four years younger than her brother, when she disappeared. "It tore the family apart," he tells Scully. "No one would talk about it." Mulder himself repressed the incident until his hypnotic regression sessions with Dr. Heitz Werber, who took him through hypnotic regression in 1989, freeing his confused memories. Since that time, there have been tantalizing glimpses and hints of her fate: in "Miracle Man" a faith healer hinted that she may still be alive. In "Duane Barry", a self- proclaimed abductee warned Mulder that children were often seen in the alien ships, undergoing painful "tests". The appearance of a woman claiming to be Samantha in "Colony" and "End Game" seemed to solve the mystery. Mulder risked his life to discover the truth about her, but in the end his quest raised even more questions than it answered. Still, as he told Scully, he found one thing he needed: faith to keep looking.

SENATOR RICHARD MATHESON

Tall, distinguished looking, and moving with regal grace, Sen. Richard Matheson embodies power and authority. Mulder told Scully in the first episode that certain contacts in Congress had enabled him to pursue his interests in the X- Files; we meet one of those contacts in "Little Green Men." Sen. Matheson summons Mulder to his office to send him on a mission to recover evidence of alien contact; he demonstrates a detailed knowledge of the space program as well as the Voyager mission, and indulges in a little wistful fantasizing as he imagines Bach's Second Brandenburg Concerto as Earth's musical representative to alien worlds. On a more practical level, he states with conviction that he can hold off the secret military UFO retrieval team for only 24 hours, and warns Mulder that these Blue Berets will kill him if they find him with the evidence. Here, it would seem, is an out-and-out ally for Mulder, unalloyed by fear or double-dealing. But although Matheson appears here as a power to be reckoned with, when Mulder goes to him for help in "Ascension," X tells him that the Senator cannot help him now. Whether X is guessing, or is speaking for the Senator himself, he reminds Mulder that "they," including Beltway politicians, have only one policy: deny everything.

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