Fox Mulder's abduction

FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder was abducted in 2000 and his body was returned in 2001. (TXF: "Requiem" - "This is Not Happening") Although seemingly dead upon the return of his body, Mulder was nursed back to health soon thereafter. (TXF: "This is Not Happening", "DeadAlive")

History

2000

Mulder's abduction occurred shortly after he ignored the advice of an FBI auditor, specifically to reduce the resources he used on investigating the X-files, by choosing to work with Scully on a case involving recent disappearances of several multiple abductees from the Oregon town where the agents had investigated their first case together. (TXF: "Requiem", "Pilot") It was only after returning to the FBI's headquarters in Washington, D.C. with Scully that Mulder and his associates learned of a downed UFO hidden in the Oregon woods where the abductees had been taken by aliens intent on covering up evidence of the abductions. Characteristically curious, Mulder headed to the location of the crashed spacecraft with Assistant Director Walter Skinner but was abducted himself, taken aboard the craft with the other abductees and at least six alien bounty hunters. (TXF: "Requiem", "Without")

Mulder's abduction.

Aboard the ship, Mulder was bound to metallic apparatus and endured painful medical procedures, including the drilling of his teeth and the cracking of his chest. (TXF: "Within") In less than a week after his abduction, Mulder traveled aboard the craft to the Arizona desert, where the aliens made an unsuccessful attempt to abduct Gibson Praise. (TXF: "Within", "Without") The following year, the ship carrying Mulder visited Helena, Montana, where the aliens disposed of at least two of the abductees, seemingly either dead or barely alive and with injuries similar to those Mulder sustained aboard the craft. Mulder's body was abandoned outside a farm compound where abductees had been taken and healed of their wounds; he was found by FBI agents searching for him there. (TXF: "This is Not Happening") At the time his body was discovered, he seemed to have been dead for days.

Mulder was consequently buried in Raleigh, North Carolina following a funeral held there in his honor. Several months later, Billy Miles- an abductee who had been taken aboard the same alien craft as Mulder - was found deceased and floating in the Atlantic Ocean, but later regained consciousness. After John Doggett discovered that Miles had recovered, he exhumed Mulder's body, only informing a reluctant Walter Skinner of his theory. They were shocked to discover Mulder was also barely alive and had him hospitalized. Billy Miles' transformation into an alien supersoldier helped them realize that Mulder was, in fact, infected with an alien virus. Skinner approached Alex Krycek, who tried to set up a bargain of Mulder's life in exchange for Scully's unborn child, and showed Skinner a vial containing the cure. Skinner sent Doggett to retrieve the vial, but Krycek reniged and destroyed the cure. Believing Mulder would die anyway, Skinner turned Mulder's life support off. Scully quickly learned that Mulder was alive and used information obtained from Billy Miles' treatment to nurse him back to health, regaining consciousness without encountering the same development as Billy Miles. (TXF: "DeadAlive")

During Mulder's abduction, he is shown in flashbacks in the episodes "The Gift" and "Per Manum" but these are not directly related to his abduction. In the last scene of "The Gift", Doggett also has a momentary vision of Mulder while in the X-files office. Scully later has a similar vision in "This is Not Happening". Scenes of Mulder's abduction shown previously in the series appear in "Three Words", an episode set after his return.

Aboard the Alien Craft

Aboard the ship, Mulder had many painful procedures preformed on him. During the premier of the eighth season, Scully is having nightmares of Mulder's torture, but it actually turns out that what she dreams really happens.

In 8X01 "Within" Mulder is seen on the alien craft twice, in the first scene, he is in a very dirty, dark room, bound to a metallic reclined chair/table. six Metal wires (three in each cheek) are hooked into his face, stretching it out. As the scene begins, a light overhead turns on, seen through a watery camera lens. The Camera slowly pans around, as you see Mulder from the chest up, looking around, possibly wondering where he is. Loud whirring and mechanical sounds are heard in the background as the scene progresses.

A long, metal two-prong device pushes into his nose, and a mechanical device, with a small drill bit turns towards Mulder. He opens his mouth in horror as the drill starts up and advances toward his mouth. As it goes in, a very bright, blue light attached to the drill flicks on, and the drill goes into Mulder's mouth. With a large jolt, the drill rams into his soft palate as he screams in pain.

Mulder screaming as his soft palate is drilled

The second scene of Mulder's time aboard the ship is more graphic than the first one, and seems less like a dream, and you actually see it as it is.

The scene begins dark, but a small light is seen, projecting a silhouette of Mulder, then the large overhead light turns on again. As the camera pans up Mulder, who is still bound to the chair/table, you see that his wrists and ankles are bound by bolts driven through his skin, blood is seen coming from the entry wounds. On the previous scene, Mulder is seen bare-chested, but now you see that he is fully naked, with very little covering him.

Mulder is fully awake, very nervous, and is making weird expressions. He glanced toward his right and sees a long metal arm, with a stryker Oscillating saw-like autopsy blade at the end, rise above his chest. Mulder watches in fear as the saw turns on and lowers toward his bare chest.

The Alien saw blade rising above Mulder

Mulder closes his eyes in fear as the rotating blade touches his chest. The blade breaks the skin, blood flowing out, and begins to move down his stomach. Mulder lets out a loud scream of agony as the saw cut's into his chest.

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The Alien saw cuts into Mulder's chest

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Mulder screaming as his chest is cut into

In 8X02 "Without", Mulder is seen again.

First, in a dream by Gibson Praise. A Blurred camera lens slowly zooms in on Mulder, it seems like Aliens are walking around him. As the camera begins to focus, Mulder's eyes fly open.

Later, a helicopter flying Scully and Doggett to the hospital goes right past the alien ship, which is invisible to them. Mulder seems to know that Scully is near, and calls out her name twice.

At the end of the episode, Mulder is asleep, unknowing that five Alien Bounty Hunters walk up to him. As his eyes begin to open, a sixth Bounty Hunter walks up to him, looks down at his scars, then staring into his face. The episode ends before we know if Mulder actually wakes up to discover his real captors.

In 8X14 "This is Not Happening!", Scully has a nightmare of Mulder lying dead on the alien craft, only to discover at the end of the episode, when he is returned, he is dead.

In 8X15 "Deadalive" and 8X16 "Three Words", Mulder is now alive and is recovering from his abduction and aftermath.

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Mulder in Gibson's dream

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Mulder calls for Scully

Two Alien Bounty Hunters watch Mulder

Background Information

• Although Mulder is shown aboard the alien craft in the teaser of Season 8's opening episode, "Within", it is heavily implied that the sequence is a dream experienced by Scully and it is not until the concluding part of that two-part episode that the same version of Mulder's abduction is actually supposed to be happening.

• Mulder's abduction differs from all others in the series as the interior of the alien craft in which he is confined was an entirely new design and was only seen in connection with his particular abduction; even though very similar abductions are implied as taking place, Mulder's one is the only abduction of its kind to be seen. His abduction is also the only one that actually shows the involvement of Alien Bounty Hunters and the abduction includes the only instance of any Bounty Hunters being shown aboard an alien craft.

• "Without", is also the first and only time you see the Alien Bounty Hunters in clothes that actually fit their location. It is also the first and last time you see more than one in the same room, and they all look similar, but have their own characteristics.

• "Without" is the last time the Alien Bounty Hunters are seen alive, the only time you see them later is in flashbacks.

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