Dana Scully

Special Agent Dana Scully is one of the main characters of the American television series The X-Files along with her partner Agent Fox Mulder, who in the FBI investigate unexplained cases.

Biography

Dana Katherine Scully was born on February 23, 1964 into an American Catholic family. Her father was William Scully Sr., a captain in the United States Navy. Her mother, Margaret, was a woman who dedicated herself to housework and was also a dedicated mother. He has three siblings: Melissa (killed by Louis Cardinal in the episode titled The blessing way), William Jr., a soldier in the American navy, and Charles (a character who only appeared in a flashback). i> in the chapter «One Breath»).

In high school he studied German, which is shown in episode #77-404 "Unruhe" of the fourth season. Since his youth he had a great desire for knowledge, he wanted to understand the world better and the best way to do so was through the study of science. For this reason, when he finished high school he enrolled at the University of Berkeley, and studied for a degree in Physical Sciences. After earning this degree, he attended the University of Maryland to study medicine. Thanks to his effort and dedication he managed to graduate. Later, he specialized in Forensic Pathology. His undergraduate thesis was titled Einstein's Twin Paradox: A New Interpretation.

When she finished these studies she realized that she didn't really want to be a doctor, and when the FBI chooses to recruit her thanks to her excellent credentials, she decides to accept, against her family's wishes. After three years of training at Quantico Academy (Virginia), she became an FBI special agent. Her ID number is 2317-616. Her address in the series is 3170 W. 53 Rd. #35 Annapolis (Maryland) / Georgetown in Fight The Future. Her gun is a Smith & Wesson 1056 (9mm). Her home phone number is (202) 555-6431, and her cell phone number is 555-3564.

First seasons

During her first years as an agent, she is assigned as an instructor at the FBI Academy in Virginia. After that time, he goes to the office of section chief Scott Blevins to be assigned a mission: to write reports detailing the legitimacy of the investigations carried out by agent Fox Mulder of the so-called "X-files", unsolved cases that are characterized by having some paranormal aspect. What her superiors wanted was for her, being a woman of science, skeptical of everything related to paranormal phenomena, to discredit Agent Mulder's work. Scully introduces herself to him as his new partner on March 6, 1992.

However, they achieve the opposite effect. As she gets deeper into the cases, Scully's tolerance for accepting explanations beyond science grows, while her trust in her tenacious partner increases. For Mulder, who at first believed her to be a spy, in a short time he verifies the integrity of her new partner and decides to trust her, to the point of Scully being the only person who achieves this from him.

Abduction

Agent Scully is abducted during the second season («Ascension» (2x06)) although not by aliens but by an intricate conspiracy of powerful men known as the Syndicate. The number of her season. This disease begins as an inoperable nasopharyngeal tumor that is created shortly after Scully removes from the back of her neck a chip-shaped implant placed during her abduction and discovered when passing through a metal detector (The Blessing Way 3x01). The first reference to this cancer occurs in the episode Nisei (3x09), then it is taken up again in Leonard Betts (4x12) but is analyzed in depth in the chapter < i>Memento Mori (4x14).

At the beginning of the fifth season (Redux II (5x02)), The Smoking Man gives Mulder the key to stopping his partner's cancer: re-implant the chip in his neck.

During the chapter titled Christmas Carol (5x06), another consequence of Scully's abduction is discovered: her eggs, like those of many abducted women, were used to create human hybrids. -alien. One of them is a girl named Emily, who despite Scully's efforts eventually dies. This affects Scully tremendously since her opportunity to be her mother has just vanished, since as a result of her abduction she has been left sterile.

Personal life

Due to the intense dedication to their jobs, the social lives of both Scully and Mulder are practically non-existent. Their professional relationship becomes closer to the point of each becoming the most important person in the other's life. The ambiguous relationship they maintain established a certain tension in the series during the first seasons. In the episodes War of the Coprophages (3x12), Syzygy (3x13) and in which Mulder's ex-partner and lover, Diana Fowley, appears (as of the episode The End from the fifth season), signs of jealousy on Scully's part towards her partner could be seen.

Only in the fourth season is Scully credited with an intimate relationship outside of work. This happens in the episode Never Again (4x14), when she spends the night with a man she meets at a tattoo shop in Philadelphia. The relationship between Mulder and Scully almost crossed the line from professional to romantic in the series' film, "Fight The Future."

Latest seasons

During the following seasons, the agents strengthen their relationship every day. This can be seen especially in the eighth and ninth seasons. In them, Agent Scully is in charge of discovering the whereabouts of Agent Mulder, who has been abducted by aliens at the end of the seventh season (Requiem (7x22)). Also at the end of the seventh season, the viewer discovers, with surprise, that Dana Scully is expecting a child.

During several episodes of the eighth season it is narrated how Scully, desperate to be a mother, had undergone in vitro fertilization procedures. The donor had been Agent Fox Mulder, although the process was unsuccessful. Although it is not clear how, Scully ends up becoming pregnant, apparently by Mulder as implied by Scully herself in the episode existence (8x21).

Episodes later Scully discovers that, during fertility tests, scientists belonging to a conspiracy have experimented on her to conceive a special baby, who will be humanity's hope against the alien invasion. A child gifted with special abilities, such as telekinesis.

In the last episode of the eighth season (existence (8x21)), Agent Scully, in the final stretch of her pregnancy, is forced to flee from a Super Soldier (human-alien hybrid with great strength and practically impossible to kill) named Billy Miles, who wants to end his son's life. Aided by two new companions, John Doggett, who has replaced Mulder in the X-Files since his disappearance, and Mónica Reyes, who will have a great presence during the ninth and final season of the series, she manages to escape from Miles by hiding in a town in Georgia., to give birth to her son, William.

Ninth season

In the last episodes of the series, the enigma hidden by this child is revealed. It is discovered that he is the first super soldier conceived and born to a woman. In the chapter titled William, Jeffrey Spender injects a substance into the baby with the intention of nullifying his powers. Despite this, Dana continues to fear for the fate of her son, and convinced that he will never be safe with her, she decides to give him up for adoption.

Agent Fox Mulder returns for the series finale (double chapter titled The Truth I and II (9x19 and 9x20)). In this episode, the exact date of the arrival of the extraterrestrial colonizers is revealed: December 22, 2012. According to El Fumador, this event is inevitable.

Mulder and Scully flee and take refuge in a hotel room located in Roswell (New Mexico). Mulder, disappointed, believes that his crusade has been for nothing. Scully, despite the terrible situation in which they find themselves, because in addition to being ostracized, they are destined for an upcoming extinction carried out by aliens, decides to leave a door open to the future. She manages to spread her optimism to Mulder, who states: "Maybe there is hope." .

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