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"You're going to learn of things... Fox, you're going to hear the words and they'll come to make sense to you." - Bill Mulder (Anasazi)

Bill Mulder

Fox Mulder's father first appears as a flinty, unsmiling and remote man in "Colony," when he reacts to his son's attempts to hug him by putting him off with a handshake. This emotional stiffness carries through their subsequent scenes in "End Game," where the older man's rage and pain turn outward to his son when Mulder must tell him that Samantha is "lost" again. Despite his son's obvious suffering and guilt, Bill Mulder maintains his icy reserve. We learn a little more about Bill Mulder in "Anasazi," when his conversation with The Cigarette-Smoking Man reveals him to be on first-name terms with Mulder's worst enemy. As we learn that the two worked together on a secret project whose exposure they now both fear, we glimpse a troubled, deeply guilt-ridden man who is terrified that his son will learn of his involvement in a secret cover-up. His conscience finally drives him to confess his role to his son, but as he is on the point of disclosure, Alex Krycek assassinates him, thereby framing Mulder for his own father's murder. Gasping his last breath in his son's arm, his final, agonized words are a plea for forgiveness.

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