Name: Sp. Agt. Fox William Mulder
Eye Color: Hazel
Hair Color: Brown
Sex: Male
Soon after graduation, Agt. Mulder joined the Violent Crimes Unit under the supervision of Agt. Reggie Purdue and Section Chief Scott Blevins. Agt. Mulder specialized in Behavioral Science, and developed profiles of wanted suspects to aid in their pursuit and capture. Notable cases included the development of a behavioral model for a suspected bank robber, John Barnett, which ultimately led to the suspect's arrest, conviction, and incarceration. Another celebrated case, that of serial killer Monty Props, was also brought to a successful conclusion, in part due to a profile created by Agt. Mulder.
After coming in contact through professional channels with Dr. Heitz Werber, a clinical hypnotist, Agt. Mulder submitted to hypnotic regression therapy. As a result of these sessions, Agt. Mulder concluded that the 1973 disappearance of his sister, Samantha, was a result of an alien abduction.
In 1991, Agt. Mulder requested an assignment to the X-Files unit at Bureau Headquarters. His request was granted by Section Chief Blevins, whose authority included the X-Files. In 1992, over Agt. Mulder's protests, Section Chief Blevins transferred Agt. Dana Scully to the X-Files unit to serve as Agt. Mulder’s partner. Later, the X-Files were put under the jurisdiction of Assistant Director Walter Skinner, who remains in that position.
In his pursuit of X-File cases, Agt. Mulder has regularly circumvented proscribed Bureau policy, often drawing the enmity of his superiors, including Assistant Director Skinner. On several occasions, the continued existence of the X-Files unit has been endangered by the displeasure of Bureau hierarchy with Agt. Mulder’s unorthodox investigative practices. In 1993, a hearing conducted by Section Chief Joseph McGrath found evidence that Agt. Mulder had engaged in insubordination, misconduct, and the violation of a military quarantine area, as well as unauthorized travel while on duty. Section Chief McGrath ordered the termination of the X-Files unit as well as Agt. Mulder’s employment with the Bureau, but his order was countermanded by an unknown authority.
Agt. Mulder’s subsequent performance has been rated by his superiors to be generally of the highest quality. However, his ongoing obsession with his sister Samantha’s disappearance, along with his attempts to uncover evidence of an alien presence on earth, has at times hindered his investigative capabilities. During Agt. Mulder’s pursuit of a potentially promising avenue of investigation into these areas, his father, William Mulder, was shot and killed by an assassin, believed by Agt. Mulder to be Alex Krycek. This circumstance led Agt. Mulder to the discovery of government-sponsored attempts to track all United States citizens through the manipulation of smallpox inoculations, and to knowledge of the complicity of his father in the development of this program. In the course of this ongoing investigation, Agt. Mulder was led to a remote location in southern Canada where young identical workers were observed tending crops. Agt. Mulder claims that the female workers each bore a striking resemblance to his sister, Samantha, however, Agt. Mulder could present no evidence to substantiate his claims.
Agt. Mulder attempted to gain insight into his memory of his sister’s disappearance and other family related incidents by undergoing a controversial, drug-induced therapy that triggered severe hallucinations. Although these mental images may have brought into clarity some aspects of memories previously lost in Agt. Mulder’s subconscious, the overall result was nearly fatal for the agent, and a clear sign of his desperation.
Agt. Mulder’s obsession with the X-Files, unorthodox behavior, and apparent lack of any outside interests, have left him with few, if any, friends outside of the Bureau. While there is no apparent romantic dimension to their friendship, Agt. Mulder's reliance on his partner, Agt. Scully, as a friend and confidant is the basis of his day-to-day existence. Agt. Mulder’s activities outside his official duties are few: jogging, swimming, and occasionally writing for periodicals. Agt. Mulder’s personal habits include a passion for sunflower seeds, watching professional sports on television, and perusing adult publications. He has on occasion expressed no interest in hobbies, and apparently has not dated steadily during the past four years.
Agt. Mulder’s mental condition shows a tendency toward paranoia, though not to a clinical degree. His mental stability has on occasion been severely tested by circumstance, and his ability to recover quickly from defeat or depression shows his innate stability and lack of any psychosis.
Nevertheless, the foundation of Agt. Mulder’s life and work is his conviction that his sister, Samantha Mulder, was abducted by an unknown extraterrestrial element. His attendant desire to rescue Samantha, or at least to learn the truth about the circumstances of her alleged abduction, provides the motivation for his obsession. Information more recently uncovered by Agt. Mulder casts doubt on an extraterrestrial explanation for Samantha Mulder's disappearance, and instead indicates that the participation of Agt. Mulder’s deceased father, William Mulder, in unknown covert activities may have played an undetermined role in the matter.
