Scully on the x files

In a post-episode interview with Entertainment Weekly , series creator Chris Carter makes it clear just how out of his depth he is with this disgusting excuse of a "twist. There's a term for impregnating someone "with science" against their will, and that term is medical rape. Just to be perfectly clear, if a woman doesn't consent to being artificially inseminated, that's called rape. Add in the part where Scully was apparently drugged and stripped naked for the procedure, and you have such a triggering mess of rape tropes that it's astonishing Carter refuses to acknowledge them.

Viewers see him put on a pair of black gloves before the scene cuts to Scully, in bed and wearing silk pajamas with no recollection of how she got there. The scene was disturbing in , and it's even more disturbing now. Cigarette Smoking Man lured Scully into taking a road trip with him by using the promise of offering her a cure for cancer.

He appealed to Scully's scientific nature, and then he medically raped her while she was unconscious. Scully's fictional story hits all too close to home in , as people continue to share their stories of sexual harassment and assault via the MeToo movement. It's a horrifying scenario that's all too real for so many people, and it's certainly not one that should be used as shock value on a TV series.

The X-Files is presenting viewers with yet another instance where Scully was robbed of her autonomy and had her body violated. Was it not enough that her first abduction left her emotionally scarred, infertile, and sporting an implant that once removed would leave her struggling with cancer? Now the story has taken William, her miracle child, and decided to make him the product of a nightmare scenario.

In his interview with EW , Carter said he believes the development, "adds to the characters in an interesting emotional way. If the Cigarette Smoking Man is telling the truth — and it's not a given that he is since the man is a habitual liar — then Mulder is not William's father , and Mulder's own father hurt the woman he loves. Scully was convinced that Duane was not an alien abductee, as Mulder thought he was, but was instead a dangerously unstable and pathologically disturbed man, who had suffered an injury in the line of duty which left him suffering from paranoid delusions.

Scully being attacked by Duane Barry. Mulder later came to Scully with evidence of what Duane Barry had described during the siege — an alien implant, found embedded in his body, along with other implants in other areas. After taking the implant for ballistics analysis, Scully ran it through a supermarket scanner on her way home and found that a serial number presented on the display.

At her apartment, Scully rang Mulder's answering machine and communicated what she had found, positing that it was as if someone were using it to catalogue him.

As she did so, a noise outside her window disturbed her and opening the blinds, Scully was horrifed to find Duane Barry, who smashed his way into her apartment and knocked her down, as she screamed over the phone for Mulder's help.

Scully held captive by Duane Barry. Mulder arrived at the scene later to find both Scully and Duane Barry gone. Despite attempts by the Syndicate to block Mulder reaching the mountain, he eventually did, but Scully was nowhere to be found, having already been taken away by what was later revealed to be a military operation.

Approximately four weeks later, Scully mysteriously reappeared in a D. As her condition deteroriated, Mulder was hellbent on vengeance against those who had put her in such a condition.

It was only due to the intervention of Scully's sister, Melissa, that Mulder was able to finally put his anger aside and sit with Scully as she fought for her life. A short time later, Scully woke from her coma, with no recollection of what happened to her.

Scully returns to work on, a week or two later on her first case since her abduction, when she and Agents Mulder are recruited by Dr. Adam Pierce to accompany him into Mount Avalon, to investigate the death of a colleague of his — a seismologist named Phil Erickson. Dana Scully was always very close to her father and they had nicknames for each other from the book Moby Dick by Herman Melville, which he used to read to her when she was a little girl.

She called him Ahab, the single-minded captain of the Pequod and he called her Starbuck, the ship's First Mate. Scully was always worried that her father was disappointed in her choice to leave a career in medicine behind and join the FBI. After Scully's father died suddenly, he appeared to her just before she got the call from her mother to tell her he had passed away. In the vision of him, he was sitting in an armchair and appeared to be speaking.

However, Dana can not hear what he was saying. He claimed to be channeling information about a serial killer. He also claimed that he had a message for Scully from her father. Throughout the case she was torn by grief and wanting to know what he has to say from her father. Boggs tried to use this as a bargaining tool but Scully didn't give into him. She tells Mulder that she was afraid to hear the message, afraid to believe Boggs was genuine. When Mulder asked her could she not face that fear to know what her father wanted to say, she told him she does know because he was her father.

When Scully was abducted, her deceased father came to her in a vision as she lay between the world of the living and the dead. He told her it was not the time for them to be together again, but soon. He used their nicknames for each other when talking to Dana. Margaret Scully was a strong, supportive mother to Dana. Scully was sometimes frustrated when her daughter did not always tell her what's going on in her life.

However, when she really needed support and help, Dana always went to her mother in the end. She told Mulder a memory of when Dana was a girl and was playing with a BB gun her brothers had given her. Dana is overcome with remorse after she shot and killed a grass snake; she held the snake in her hands, willing it to live, and Margaret said how she knew how her daughter felt that day now that she faced the choice of keeping Dana on life support or letting her go.

Melissa and her sister Dana. Melissa and Dana were two very different people. Melissa believed in new age and mysticism, whereas Dana was a firm believer in hard science.

Melissa came to see Dana when she had returned to the hospital after her abduction and claimed she could feel Dana's spirit was still inside her body. She was the one who persuaded Mulder to really talk to Scully before it was too late — O ne Breath. Sadly, Melissa was killed by mistake by Luis Cardinal in the episode "Paper Clip" , who was really trying to kill Scully.

She was shot in the head as she entered Scully's apartment — T he Blessing Way. Scully eventually caught Luis Cardinal with Skinner's help. Cardinal later died in his cell, his death made to look like a suicide. Main article: William Scully, Jr. The eldest of Scully's siblings. Dana Scully and Fox Mulder 's son born in Scully went with her boyfriend Marcus to her senior prom in They attended a campfire party afterward that was interrupted by the local fire department.

Daniel Waterston was a doctor and taught Scully when she was in medical school. He and Scully had an affair, which ended when she left to join the FBI. She met him again when he was in hospital after suffering from severe chest pains. Waterston told Dana of how after she left he shut down and withdrew from his family and he and his wife eventually divorced.

Scully is shocked when he told her he came to Washington ten years ago, for her. He told her she was all he lived for. Scully speculated that maybe the only reason he was alive now was to make amends for the hurt he caused his daughter Maggie. Dana made it clear that she was a different person when she met him again and that there was no future for them together.

They dated each other for over a year and they even had the same birthday. Scully worked with Willis when he had gotten a tip off about the next bank to be hit by James Warren Dupre and Lula Phillips. Dupre shot Willis and Scully shot Dupre, they both end up next to each other in the hospital. Dupre died and Willis lived, but Mulder became suspicious as to who exactly came back in Agent Willis's body.

Willis kidnapped Scully and went to find his wife Lula. While Willis was with Lula and held Scully hostage, she tried to persuade him that he is in fact Jack Willis and not Dupre. Jack Willis was diabetic and Dupre had been drinking a lot of soda, Willis started to exhibit the symptoms of imminent diabetic coma.

Lula revealed that she had given the tip off and betrayed Dupre, Willis shot her in the stomach and died shortly afterward. Mulder and other FBI agents had mounted an operation to recover Scully but arrived too late to save Willis. Scully went on one date with Rob during her investigation with Mulder into the "Jersey Devil. It seems she was more interested in her work with Mulder. The two developed a romantic relationship throughout their work on the X-Files.

After seven years working together, Scully revealed to Walter Skinner that she was pregnant with Mulder's child, William , after his abduction in In , after receiving the death penalty in a criminal trial, Mulder fled and Scully accompanied him in hope of a better future.

From the onset of their working relationship, Scully has been quick to question Mulder's ardent fascination with paranormal phoenomena. Being a skeptic regarding matters of the paranormal, Scully attempts to uncover reasonable and scientific explanations to the unusual things she and Mulder see during their work on the X-Files. However, over time Scully grew to admire Mulder a great deal, and even displayed signs of jealousy toward women who appeared to be on more intimate terms with him, such as Diana Fowley.

Eventually, when it was revealed that Scully's removed ova that Mulder had found might be viable and she could possibly bear children, she asked Mulder to act as the biological father.

However, the procedure did not work. It is implied however that he is the father of her child, William. The two later began a romantic relationship and became renegades from the New Syndicate. Purely platonic, although she does quickly lay a smooch on him in the elevator — T riangle. After he helped her locate Mulder, who has gone missing in the Bermuda Triangle. He initially refused to help her because they are no longer allowed to contact each other the X-Files were given to Spender and Fowley, while Mulder and Scully were transferred.

Mitch Pileggi the actor who portrays Skinner admitted in a panel that Skinner was in love with Scully but knew he never had a chance with her, given her closeness with Agent Mulder. Initially, Skinner was portrayed as being an adversary to the Agents and their work, however he eventually became one of their only allies. Her and Mulder's assistant director after the X-Files were closed and they were transferred. Season 6. Dana and CSM were in conflict nearly from the time they first met in the pilot episode.

In "Wetwired", Dana nearly lost her mind when she hallucinated that Mulder was in a car with him, handing over the tape of evidence and talking in seemingly friendly manner, suggesting that Mulder was reporting to him. Dana Scully is a skeptic who favours scientific methods but she also was raised a Catholic and could often be seen wearing a small golden cross around her neck, a Christmas gift from her mother at a young age. It would seem that Scully embraced Christianity as a youth but, in her own words, lost her faith "in a way" and "drifted from the church" as she became a scientist, influenced by the scientific community's materialistic views.

When Mulder discovered Scully's cross necklace in Duane Barry 's car, he was surprised to see she wore it, considering her skeptical nature — A scension. Scully once spoke to a priest at a confessional, saying, " It has been six years since my last confession.

While fighting cancer , Scully refused spiritual guidance from Father McCue. When death seemed near, she broke down and asked the priest to minister to her faith — G ethsemane , R edux , R edux II. She later attended church services at his church — A ll Souls. A copy of the Holy Bible was in Scully's bedroom — O rison. When phenomena relating to Christianity came up during Scully's investigations with Mulder, she was usually rather credulous while Mulder was typically the cynical one, often suspecting religious fraud.

It is unclear whether Scully fully believes in Catholicism or not and she repeatedly battled internally with this; she has regularly expressed scientific ideas that come in contradiction with the Christian faith and vice versa. Scully's faith and scientific rationalism often appear to run along two parallel courses, science being a matter of the head, faith a matter of the heart. Her position in as a medical doctor at the Catholic Our Lady of Sorrows Hospital in suggests she has found a way to reconcile the two.

Clyde Bruckman telling Scully that she will not die. 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 smiles and replies, " You don't. In the episode " Never Again ", Scully got a tattoo of an Ouroboros.

The Ouroboros is an ancient symbol symbolizing immortality and the cyclic nature of the Universe. Alfred Fellig transferring his life-giving power to Scully, taking her place for death. The immortality thread was again mentioned in " Tithonus ". Scully investigated Alfred Fellig , a crime scene photographer who claimed to have the ability to predict when people would die. Fellig told Scully he saw Death come for him once but missed; it took someone else instead.

As a result, he could not die. Scully was accidentally shot by her new temporary partner, but before she died, Fellig asked her to look away. Scully recovered fully, but Fellig died instead.

Mulder suggested that Fellig took her place in death, which if true, suggests she is now immortal, as Fellig was. Fellig, at the time of his death, was approximately years old, and his death was by his choice alone.

Fellig's age can be extrapolated by using his reference to the Yellow Fever epidemic in New York City as a child. In another episode, " Monday ", Scully and Mulder are repeatedly killed in an explosion but eventually survive because the day keeps replaying which allows them to change the events that take place leading up to their demise. The reason that is suggested in the episode for this ultimate deja vu is that what is supposed to happen by fate is not what has been observed, to include Mulder and Scully's death.

The day finally continues only after Scully and Mulder survive the episode. This would suggest that Scully or Mulder had been fated to not die. It was also hinted that Scully may have obtained her immortality from the chip that was implanted in her neck. The Cigarette Smoking Man took Scully to see the year-old Marjorie Butters , who looked very healthy at such old age. Marjorie had the same chip implanted " En Ami ". However, Agent Scully could still be killed, as were many other women with the implant, but she would probably be resistant to the effects of age, disease, and harmful pathogens that most are not.

In the course of the show, Scully frequently repeats herself, employing specific words and arguments, with minor variations, in commonly encountered situations. To undermine Mulder's theory: "Are you suggesting? Scully's character received her surname in honor of Vin Scully, who is known primarily as the play-by-play voice of the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team. Her middle name, Katherine, is the first name of creator Chris Carter's mother.

Although, his mother spelled it Catherine. When Scully is first introduced in the script of the The X-Files pilot episode , she is established as being in her late 20s and is described as "intelligent, self-assured, with an unblushing sense of her own femininity. X-Files Wiki Explore. The X-Files. Fight the Future I Want to Believe. Alien Syndicate Hybrid Colonization Super-soldier. Other Series. TLG Season 1.

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In fact, during a interview with The Guardian , Gillian Anderson revealed that "there were definitely periods when we hated each other We didn't talk for long periods of time. It was intense, and we were both pains in the arse for the other at various times. Likewise, David Duchovny has also been forthcoming about how the two of them struggled to get along. We couldn't stand the sight of each other. Despite the two's incessant rivalry, both managed to at least maintain a stable working relationship throughout the lifespan of "The X-Files.

However, it actually makes a lot of sense when you dig a bit deeper into the pair's working relationship. So far, it seems like everything David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson have had to say about each other over the years has been negative.

However, if you asked either actor at any point in time, you'd find that they have an underlying respect for each other. This was likely the reason they were able to work together on "The X-Files" set so closely, for such a long period of time. Similarly, Anderson told The Guardian that, while there were "periods" where they hated each other, she felt that "hate is too strong a word.