Dana Scully
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She is dedicated to objectivity and common sense, but open to extreme possibilities. Special Agent Dana Scully is not only a medical doctor with a specialty in forensics, but a firm believer in reason who thinks there is a scientific explanation behind every X-file. Against her parent's wishes, Scully went from medical school to Quantico, where she taught for two years at the FBI's training academy. From there she was assigned to work with Fox Mulder and the X-Files, with the strong implication that she was to debunk them. |
Over the years that they have worked together, her trust in his instincts and her respect for his integrity have eroded her skepticism. She finds her faith in a scientific and orderly universe constantly challenged by the cases she pursues with Mulder.
Far from being a spy for the bureaucrats who hinder their work, Scully is a full partner in the X-Files, focusing on assembling the hard evidence that will prove the truth is out there.
| Full Name | Dana Katherine Scully |
| Date of Birth | 23rd Feb 1964 |
| Phone Number (Home) | (202) 555-6431 (Ghost in the Machine) |
| Phone Number (Cell) | 555 3564 (Blood) |
| Badge Number | 2317-616 (Ghost in the Machine) JTT0331613 (Teliko) |
| Email Address | d_scully@fbi.gov (End Game) |
| Dog | Queequeg (named after Moby Dick) Acquired Sep 22 1995, Eaten Mar, Apr 1996 |
| Eye Colour | Blue |
| Height | 5 ft 3 in. |
| Weight | 118 Pounds |
| Hair Colour | Red |
| Address | Georgetown (since 1993) |
| Features | Tattoo of snake on lower back |
| Rank | Special Agent |
| Weapon | Smith and Wesson 1056 (9mm rounds) |
| Nickname | Starbuck |
| Father | William Bill Scully |
| Mother | Margaret Maggie Scully |
| Sister | Melissa Scully |
| Elder Brother | William Scully Jr. |
| Youngest Brother | Charles Scully |
| Daughter? | Emily Sim |
Scully was a tomboy as a child, preferring to prove to her father that she was the equal of her brothers. For example, she went with them when shooting in the woods, and joined them in shooting at a snake. When she realized that she'd killed it, she cried, holding it in her hands even though deathly afraid of snakes.
Once she crept down at night and smoked one of her mother's cigarettes, feeling very scared and excited. ("Beyond the Sea"), half hoping her father would find her and be angry. ("Never Again")
She had a gray pet rabbit, which she accidentally killed when she hid it in a lunch box to save it from her brother's threats to stew it.
Her childhood ambitions did not include wanting to be an astronaut, but she did want a pony and to learn how to braid her own hair. ("Space")
She was given a gold cross by her mother, either at Christmas or on her 15th birthday, depending on what episode you believe ("Christmas Carol" or "Ascension.")
According to Scully, in "Small Potatoes", the "12th grade love of my life" was called Marcus. They went to their senior prom together, she wearing moiré taffeta, he wearing a tux with a kelly green cummerbund. At 2 am, they were off together, likely making out, because Scully said it was the "now or never" moment for Marcus. Then, they heard a siren. The friends they were with (Sylvia and Burwood) apparently let their campfire get out of control. The fire department arrived, and everyone rode back on the pump truck.
Scully studied physics at the University of Maryland. Her senior thesis is, rather implausibly, "Einstein's Twin Paradox: A New Interpretation", published by the University of Maryland on May 15, 1986 ("Musings....", in which her thesis seems to include references to MJ-12 and the establishment of a "super-secret" operation during the Eisenhower administration). In "Jersey Devil" we see Dr Diamond, one of her professors. His specialty is anthropology.
On the subject of her thesis, the twin paradox is a fairly simple explanation of what happens in time travel, if one twin goes a-traveling in time and comes back younger than the one who stayed. She could hardly have reinterpreted this, without challenging the whole of the theory of relativity. However, it is a nice allusion to all the time stuff we see in the X-Files, such as Mulder's two stop-watch trick ("EBE") and the fact that Samantha could well still be a little girl. Mulder keeps citing Scully's thesis in "Synchrony".
After that she went to medical school, though we don't know where. She decided not to practice it, but joined the FBI instead, saying that she thought she could "make a difference" there. Her father disapproved of this decision, and her stubborn determination to succeed could well be an attempt to prove to him that she made the right choice. Maybe to prove to herself, too, for in "Christmas Carol", we see her struck with doubts. Despite the fact that Melissa urges her to remember that it is not her father's life she is living, Dana says that she fears she'll regret it. When she started medical school, she says, she thought it was what she wanted to do, but later realized it wasn't.
By the end of the movie, though, she seems reconciled. She will be a doctor within the FBI, and the X-Files, she says. She has found viruses and vaccines to study, and lives to save.
Just two years teaching at the Academy - a position she went back to in the summer of 1994 when the X-Files were closed down. She lectured on pathology to new agents, teaching them what to look out for on dead bodies and such like.
She was assigned to The X-Files in March 1992.
Gillian Has appeared in the following Movies and TV shows:
Home Fires Burning 1992
Class of '96 (8th episode) 1993
The X-Files 1993 - Present
Exit to Eden (AudioTape) 1993
Ground Zero (AudioTape) 1995
Reboot 1995
The Simpsons 1997
Hellcab 1997
The Mighty 1998
