Heitz Werber

Heitz Werber in 1992.

Heitz Werber (played by Jim Jansen) was a doctor who conducted hypnosis on several abductees, including Billy Miles, Cassandra Spender and Dana Scully. (TXF: "Pilot", "Patient X", "The Red and the Black")

History

Working with Fox Mulder

In 1989, Heitz Werber worked very closely with an FBI Agent named Fox Mulder, who he guided through deep hypnotic regression. Mulder was apparently able to recall the night in 1973 when his sister, Samantha, had disappeared from their family home of 2790 Vine Street, Chilmark, Massachusetts. (TXF: "Pilot", "Conduit")

On June 16, 1989, Heitz Werber made a video recording of a session with Agent Mulder. Although Doctor Werber's voice was recorded, he did not make an appearance himself. At the start of the session, Werber counted backwards, from 100 to 96, while Mulder fell into a deep, relaxed state of consciousness. He apparently recalled being at home with his sister, playing a game. He did not feel in any danger while he remembered that, although he and his sister had been arguing, they were only fooling around. However, his fear soon escalated and he began to call out his sister's name, while still hypnotised. (TXF: "Closure")

On June 18 of that year, Heitz Werber made an audio recording of Mulder undergoing hypnosis. He supposedly remembered being paralyzed with his eyes open, but unable to see his sister. However, Mulder also apparently recalled that he had been able to hear his sister while she had repeatedly called out his name. When Heitz Werber asked him if he was scared, Mulder replied that he knew he should be, but wasn't. Doctor Werber then concentrated his questions on a voice that Mulder claimed to hear in his head, telling him not to be afraid, that his sister would not be harmed and that she would someday be returned. (TXF: "Conduit")

Helping Billy Miles

On March 22, 1992, Heitz Werber worked with Billy Miles, a boy from Bellefleur, Oregon, who had been paralyzed in a "waking coma" until recently. While researching an X-File in Oregon, Mulder had met Billy and witnessed him lift a girl named Teresa Nemman up to a bright light in the sky, in Collum National Forest. After the light had dissipated, Billy Miles had no recollection of his actions.

While Mulder watched, Doctor Werber performed hypnotic regression therapy on Billy Miles in the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover Building. Werber started the session by asking Billy to raise his hand if he could hear him. When the boy slowly did so, the doctor asked him to recall the first time he had seen the light.

According to Billy Miles, he and his friends had been having a party in the woods to celebrate their graduation. The light had taken him to a location that he called "the testing place", where a group had told him to gather his friends so that they could do tests. The tests had been conducted, but had gone wrong and the group had left angrily. Billy Miles was afraid that they were coming back. Heitz Werber told him not to be afraid, assuring him that the FBI were only trying to help. (TXF: "Pilot")

Patient X

In 1998, Dr. Werber was a member of the audience at a Visiting Lecturers' Forum in the Massachusetts Institute, where Mulder had been invited to talk. At this time, Werber was treating "Patient X" - Cassandra Spender - a woman who claimed to have been abducted many times. Werber attended the Visiting Lecturers' Forum expecting Mulder to talk about his progress on the X-Files, but was surprised that Mulder had chosen to discuss "Patient X" with the other members of the panel instead. Mulder, who Dr. Werber had not seen in almost five years, disagreed with the opinions voiced by his fellow panellists regarding the woman, doubting her claims of abduction and the very existence of aliens themselves. Although he seemed entirely sure of their existence when he had last spoken to Dr. Werber, Mulder was now convinced that he had been fooled by a lie concocted by the government.

After the conference ended, Mulder noticed Dr. Werber sitting in a seat in the auditorium. The doctor commented that he had been more than surprised by Mulder's loss of belief in the existence of aliens, in spite of the memories of his sister's abduction that Werber had helped him recover. When Mulder explained that he now distrusted those memories, Doctor Werber thought that Mulder was critizing his methods, like many who disapproved of his work with alien abductees, and apologized. Mulder clarified that he did not mean to judge the doctor's work, but simply believed that he, himself, had been fooled by an eleborate staging of events into thinking his sister had been abducted. When Dr. Werber questioned that theory, Mulder asked whether Cassandra Spender's claims of abductions were any more plausible. Dr. Werber then confessed that he was her doctor and arranged a meeting between Mulder and the woman, believing that she could change his mind regarding his new theory.