Background - Dana Scully
Agent Dana Katherine Scully, born February 23, 1964 is a medical doctor
with an undergraduate degree in physics from the University of Maryland.
She was recruited for the FBI right out of medical school, and had been
teaching at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Va. She was assigned by Section
Chief Scott Blevins to be Mulder's partner in order to keep an eye on him
and determine whether he is perhaps too obsessed with The X-Files.
Scully is skeptical of anything paranormal, believing that everything has
a logical, scientifically-quantified explanation. Though in most of the
cases she and Mulder have been on she has not witnessed any overt paranormal
activities, she has had four brushes with unexplainable phenomena that may
have her start questioning her beliefs. Scully has one older and one younger
brother, and an older sister. Her father died early in 1994; they were
apparently close at one time (she called him Ahab; he called her Starbuck),
but her family disapproved of her joining the Bureau. She had a yearlong
relationship with an instructor at the Academy, Jack Willis, with whom she
shared the same birthdate. She is just as much a workaholic as Mulder.
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