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Background Check[]
Samantha Mulder was portrayed as a child by Brianne Benitz, Vanessa Morley, Ashlyn Rose, and Mimi Paley, and as an adult by Megan Leitch.
In a scene from the script of The X-Files Movie but edited from the final version of the film, Fox Mulder walks away from Doctor Alvin Kurtzweil during their first meeting before Kurtzweil, who has just mentioned the Project that he and Mulder's father, William, were involved in, states, "Oh, come on. Don't pretend you don't know about the Project... Your sister was taken because of it."
In a later scene from the script of the movie, the Well-Manicured Man, after revealing to Fox Mulder that an alien virus will turn humans into extraterrestrials when an alien race colonizes the planet, explains why William Mulder chose to sacrifice his own daughter, Samantha, by revealing, "The only true survivors of the viral holocaust will be those immune to it: those vaccinated against it and human/alien hybrids. Your father arranged for your sister's abduction. He allowed her to be taken to an alien hybrid program, so that she would survive. As a clone."
These two scenes constitute an earlier explanation for Samantha's disappearance than the one given in the final version of The X-Files series.
Inconsistencies[]
- The X-File in Conduit gives Samantha's middle initial as "T," however the Syndicate's file seen in Paper Clip gives her middle name as "Ann."
- Also, Samantha's birthdate is given in Conduit as January 22, 1964, but the Syndicate file seen in Paper Clip gives her birthdate as November 21, 1965. She is often referred to as "8 years old" when she disappeared, which would place her birth between November 28, 1964 and November 27, 1965.
- The episode Closure implies that Samantha disappeared after the events of 1979, and was never seen until 2000. This is directly contradicted by Jeffrey Spender's statement in "The Truth" that she died in 1987. It was later revealed that this was a mistake on actor Chris Owens part, and the line was corrected in subsequent broadcasts.
- Despite her death, it was often stated by many people, including the Alien Bounty Hunter (in 1995, Colony) and Cassandra Spender (in 1999, Two Fathers), that Samantha was still alive, despite the fact that there was no established reason for them to lie.