Name: Sp. Agt. Dana Katherine Scully
Eye Color: Green
Hair Color: Red
Sex: Female
In 1994, Agt. Scully was abducted by former Bureau agent and self-proclaimed "alien abductee" Duane Barry. Following an intensive manhunt headed by Agt. Mulder, Barry was apprehended. Agt. Scully’s whereabouts remained unknown until she unaccountably turned up in the Intensive Care Unit at North Georgetown University Hospital in a deep coma. Despite an extremely poor prognosis, Agt. Scully eventually recovered, though with no recollection of her ordeal.
Several months later, in the course of an investigation during which Agt. Mulder had been missing for more than two weeks, Agt. Scully was relieved of duty when she failed to respond to an administration hearing held to determine Agt. Mulder’s whereabouts. The two agents were later reinstated following a meeting with A. D. Skinner, who had come in contact with some of the individuals who had impeded Agts. Mulder and Scully’s investigation. Some of those individuals, including rogue agent Alex Krycek and a man later identified as Luis Cardinal, attempted to murder Agt. Scully in her apartment. Instead, Cardinal mistakenly killed Agt. Scully's sister, Melissa Scully.
Shortly thereafter, Agt. Scully discovered a metallic device implanted in her neck. Subsequent Bureau lab analysis of the device indicated that it was a computer chip. Preliminary analysis indicated functionality in the area of replication and monitoring of brain memory and function, however, no definitive conclusion could be reached because the device was unavoidably destroyed while being analyzed. Later, during an apparently unrelated investigation, Agt. Scully met a group of women, all of whom had removed from their necks devices identical to that of Agt. Scully. All claimed to have been abducted by unknown entities and to have been subjected to unidentified medical and biological experiments. A number of the women had contracted various forms of cancer, which they attributed to the alleged experiments. Several also claimed to have come into contact with Agt. Scully during those experiences. The women asserted that the devices were also implanted at that time. Agt. Scully was deeply skeptical of their claims. However, subsequent diagnosis of her own cancer, an inoperable nasopharyngeal brain tumor, induced Agt. Scully to reevaluate the claims of the women, but by that time all except one had died. Agt. Scully was present at the bedside of the remaining member of the group, Penny Northern, at the time of Northern's own death from cancer.
Dana Scully spent her early years moving from one naval base to another. Her upbringing, with two brothers and a younger sister, was by all accounts normal and without any major disruptions, aside from the frequent uprooting of the family due to her father's Navy assignments. While her family lived nearby in Alameda, California, Agt. Scully attended the University of California at Berkeley, where she took part in student political demonstrations, including anti-nuclear protests. After a year at Berkeley, Agt. Scully transferred to the University of Maryland, where she received a Bachelor of Science degree. Her Senior Thesis was entitled "Einstein’s Twin Paradox: A New Interpretation."
Though it was not her father’s wish, Agt. Scully decided to pursue a career in law enforcement by joining the Bureau. As a respected instructor in forensic medicine at the Quantico Academy, and as a medical doctor, Agt. Scully possesses a balanced, rational, and analytical disposition when dealing with criminal cases and her partner in the X-Files, Agt. Mulder.
Despite a rather poor prognosis for her own condition, Agt. Scully has returned to work and continued to perform to her usual high standard.
Unlike her partner, Agt. Scully seems to seek and encourage friendships with others, and when work permits, enjoys social functions.
In early 1997, Agt. Scully was diagnosed with an inoperable nasopharyngeal brain tumor which has since metastasized. The prognosis for most patients inflicted with this type of cancer is extremely poor.
