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. Simultaneously, 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. Believing that Mulder would die anyway, Skinner made the deal, but Krycek reniged and destroyed the cure. 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.
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| 1st stint on the X-Files | 1st closure of the X-Files | 2nd stint on the X-Files | 2nd closure of the X-Files | 3rd stint on the X-Files | Abduction |