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"Hello, Starbuck. It's Ahab. People would say to me, "Life is short. Kids, they grow up fast, before you know it, it's over." I never listened. For me, life went at a proper pace. There were many rewards... until the moment that I knew, I... understood that... that I would never see you again... my little girl. Then my life felt as if it had been the length of one breath, one heartbeat. I never knew how much I loved my daughter until I could never tell her. At that moment, I would have traded every medal, every commendation, every promotion for... one more second with you. We'll be together again, Starbuck. But not now. Soon." - William Scully, Sr. (One Breath)

William Scully, Sr.

He walked off his ship after the Bay of Pigs and right up to a young, dark-haired girl named Margaret, proposing to her then and there. Captain William Scully, late of the U.S. Navy, was a strong, uncompromising but loving father to Dana Scully and her three siblings. Perhaps he disapproved of her tomboy attitude and her unconventional aspirations, but his quiet pride in her was evident. It was clear Dana looked up to him. Their teasing relationship was accented by a private joke between them, based on Herman Melville's Moby Dick. She called her seafaring father "Ahab" after the stern captain of the doomed Pequod; in turn, he called her "Starbuck" after Ahab's upright and trusted lieutenant. Her fear that her father never quite approved of her line of work caused Scully no little anxiety, and she clearly set out to win his praise by "distinguishing herself" at the FBI. His sudden death in "Beyond the Sea" opened a deep wound in his "baby girl," who found her skepticism severely challenged by visions of him after his death. It is apparent that Scully got more than her stubbornness, her sense of ethics and her red hair from the late Captain Scully. (Mulder says she also inherited his sea legs.) In "One Breath," her father appeared in a vision as she lay dying, and played a pivotal part in strengthening her will to live.

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