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FULL NAME: Fox William Mulder (he even asks his parents to call him Mulder). BADGE NUMBER: JTT047101111 BORN: 10/13/61 in Chilmark, Mass. PARENTS: Father, William, an ex-State Department operative; mother's name unknown. SIBLINGS: Younger, Stratego-loving sister Samantha, who was abducted on Nov. 27, 1973. DISTINGUISHING FEATURES: Red-green color-blind; strangely morphing hair. EDUCATION: Degree in psychology from Oxford. RECRUITED BY FBI: In mid-'80s, entered Quantico FBI Training Academy; a whiz at capturing mass murderers (see his 1988 monograph ''On Serial Killers and the Occult''). ASSIGNED TO X-FILES: In 1991, when he pestered the FBI into reopening them. PERSONALITY TRAITS: Belief in unexplained phenomena has earned him the nickname Spooky; zealous and conspiracy obsessed; possesses a wry wit, but apparently no bed. EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES: Porn magazines and adult videos appear to make up for a spare social life (he's had sex once in three years, though he apparently enjoyed a romp on Arthur Conan Doyle's grave while at Oxford); occasionally jogs, swims; kicks back by writing articles about UFOs for the science mag Omni under the pseudonym M. F. Luder (anagram for F. Mulder); eats a prodigious amount of sunflower seeds. ATTRACTS: Vampires, paranoiacs. FEARS: Fire, bugs. TRUSTS: No one but Scully.