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Dr. Dana Katherine Scully ( February 23 , 1964 -) is a Fictional Character on the Television series '' The X-Files ,'' played by Gillian Anderson . She is an FBI Special Agent and partner on the X-Files with Special Agent Fox Mulder . These two work out of a cramped basement office at FBI Headquarters to investigate unsolved cases labeled "X-Files". In contrast to Fox Mulder's credulous "believer" character, Scully is the Sceptic (a role-reversal of sorts for television characters at the time the X-Files first aired). She is also Catholic , which often creates moral dilemmas for her. As with Mulder, work takes up a major part of her life, and she rarely dates or spends time with friends. In fact, she is given the nickname ''Mrs. Spooky'' early in the show for her close association with Mulder , and the two are often mistaken for a romantic couple. She usually wears a small Crucifix necklace which was given to her on her thirteenth birthday, and she lives alone in a small apartment (Apt 35, 1419 of an unknown street, in Georgetown , a neighborhood of Washington, DC ). BIOGRAPHY Early life and education Scully was born on February 23, , but while finishing Med School , she was recruited by the FBI, which she accepted, mostly because she felt she could establish herself there. Her father, however, felt strongly against her joining the FBI, and the two became somewhat estranged. Joining the X-Files Scully initially worked for the FBI at the Academy in Quantico , teaching classes, a position she returned to on occasion when the normal functioning of the X-Files office was placed on hiatus. The X-Files themselves are unexplained and unsolved cases that were shelved by the FBI for various reasons. Prior to Scully joining the X-Files, Mulder had worked for a short time with another agent, Diana Fowley . She, however, was soon transferred, and for about a year, Mulder was left alone to use the X-Files to pursue his goals. The Syndicate , the dark shadow government that served in ''The X-Files'' as the behind-the-scenes puppet masters, knew of Mulder's consuming drive to reveal the truth about the existence of extraterrestrial life, mostly through high ranking member, The Cigarette Smoking Man , the series main Antagonist . Because Mulder had become too high profile, they could not simply kill him, and so devised a strategy to invalidate his work by using Scully to debunk his investigations into the Paranormal , because she had a great understanding of hard science as well as a naturally skeptical personality. Scully, who although was not directly advised to invalidate Mulder's work, immediately understood why she had been assigned to the X-Files. However, Scully did not follow through as the Syndicate had hoped she would, but observed, as a scientist first, the evidence objectively and honestly. The Syndicate soon dropped this endeavor, and Scully remained part of the X-Files office, providing an intelligent, down to earth, empirical opposite to Mulder's more maverick character. Over the years of working as a team, a deep bond of respect and affection would develop between the two. During the first season, her father Bill died of a massive Coronary in the critically-acclaimed first season episode '' Beyond The Sea '' (1x13). In the season 2 episode '' Ascension '' (2x06), Scully is kidnapped by an ex-FBI mental patient named Duane Barry , and gets kidnapped by a military covert operation that were working with the alien conspirators, and is later returned (''One Breath'', 2x08). She later finds out that a super hi-tech microchip was implanted in the back of her neck. After having it removed, she developed Cancer in the fourth season (''Memento Mori'', 4x14). She is hospitalized after her cancer becomes terminal (''Redux'', 5x02). She is saved when Mulder breaks into the Department Of Defense to retrieve another chip to be implanted back into her neck. (It should be mentioned that, at the time, Scully was also undergoing experimental medical treatments and was having a dramatic renewal of her faith.) After being pronounced infertile, Scully became pregnant in the show's seventh season finale, '' Requiem '' (7x22). The child, named William after his grandfathers (Fox Mulder is presumably the child's father; see the Mulder entry for more information), was born at the end of season 8. It was around this time that Mulder was fired from the FBI by Deputy Director Kersh , and Scully left the field to teach Forensics at Quantico . William was given up for adoption during the ninth season after Scully felt she could no longer provide the safety that William needed. William was a "miracle child", of some importance to the Alien Conspiracy. He demonstrated extraordinary powers, including Telekinesis . In the 9th and last season, Scully admits that supernatural phenomena can be a valid explanation to some facts, thus changing the radical scientific position that she maintained since the beginning of the series. As of the end of the series, she and Mulder are currently on the run from the New Syndicate to protect themselves and their son William. IMMORTALITY There are hints given throughout the series that Scully may actually be immortal. The earliest known reference to this occurs in Season 3, during the episode '' Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose ''. Mulder and Scully investigate a man ( Clyde Bruckman ) who can predict how people are going to die. When Scully asks Bruckman how she is going to die, he replies, "You don't." The immortality thread picks up three seasons later in '' Tithonus ''. Scully investigates a man (Alfred Fellig) who takes photographs of dead people. We learn that he also has the ability to predict death. His ability, however, is very different from Bruckman's. Bruckman could predict how people die, but cannot predict when it will occur. Fellig can predict that someone will die soon, but he cannot predict how. Fellig tells Scully that he himself is immortal. Death came for him once and missed; it took someone else instead. At the end of the episode, Scully is shot by her new temporary partner. Before she can die, Fellig asks her to look away (from Death). Scully passes out. When she wakes up, we find that Fellig has died. Mulder suggests that Fellig took her place in death. Death missed her just as it missed Fellig years ago. If that is true, she may be as immortal as he was. Fellig lived to be over 140 years old. TRIVIA
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:Scully: Mulder, you're crazy. - ''Deep Throat'' 1x01
:Scully: I'd settle for a life in this one. - ''Shadows'' 1x05
:Scully: Good, because I put it back in that drawer with all those other videos that aren't yours. - ''Excelsius Dei'' 2x11
:Scully: What is it? :Mulder: It appears that cockroaches are mortally attacking people. :Scully: I'm not going to ask you if you just said what I think you just said because I know it's what you just said. - ''War of the Coprophages'' 3x12
:Scully: Please explain to me the scientific nature of "the whammy." - ''Pusher'' 3x17
:Scully: Even if I knew for certain, I wouldn't change a day. Well, maybe that Flukeman thing. - ''The Field Where I Died'' 4x05
:Scully: You mean, accepting my loss? :Priest: Can you accept it? :Scully: Maybe that’s what faith is. - ''All Souls'' 5x17
:Scully: From who?! :Mulder: Yours truly. :Scully: ...the blind leading the blind. - ''The Rain King'' 6x07
:DET. WHITE: (After looking at Mulder.) I assume you'll call me if you need anything further. (leaves) :MULDER: (To Scully) If it's no bother, if it's not too big a deal, maybe you can get me a few photographs of that thing which bears absolutely no resemblance to a horned beast. :SCULLY: Sure, fine. (Snaps on other glove.) Whatever. - ''Syzygy'' 3x13 |
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