Special Agent Dana Scully



For a woman who joined the FBI with plans to "distinguish" herself, assignment to the basement offices of the X-Files, and to a partner generally regarded as a bit of a nut, probably wasn't high on her list of priorites.

Since then, however, and in spite of Mulder's tendency to patronize her, she's been an active member of a difficult partnership. While she'll never abandon her insistence on working from a sound scientific premise, Scully's no straitlaced, close-minded dovotee of the 'book'. In fact quite the contrary...

While still a student at Quantico, and surrounded by the Old Boys Club, she was secure enough with herself to engage in an open relationship with an instructor-despite the comments such actions might raise.

When even Mulder scoffed at some of the cases she brought in, like the 'rape' of a convalescent home nurse, she pursued them with the tenacityh he would have shown.

In some ways, she may even be more open to extreme possibility than her partner-she's not so quick to assume that God, or miracles, can be written off as no more than folklore.

Special Agent Dana Scully, even without Mulder's greater experience, is a force to be reckoned with.