8. BILL MULDER

I'm less certain about the role Bill Mulder played in Majestic and Purity Control. What is certain is that Bill Mulder's career in the State Department was a cover for his membership in Majestic, and that he was a close associate (I'm not willing to say friend) of the Cigarette Smoking Man, the Well Manicured Man, Dr. Victor Klemper and Deep Throat. He also had something to do with the "merchandise" in ANASAZI. The "merchandise" experiments also seem to be the precursors to the Purity Control experiments.

According to the Well Manicured Man, Bill Mulder was duped into helping collect the DNA data by being told the records were to be used for identifying the dead in the event of a Nuclear war. That's not in line with what we learned in ANASAZI. Whatever Bill Mulder had to do with the "merchandise" it appears that he felt extremely guilty about his involvement. If he was duped into participating in the project, why would he feel so guilty and responsible? Perhaps he was duped at first, and upon learning the truth was in a position to shut the "merchandise" operation down, but was convinced to continue for some "greater good." Perhaps he regretted that decision to the day he died. Furthermore in APOCRYPHA we saw a flashback to 1953 where we saw a young Bill Mulder and Cigarette Smoking Man interviewing a dying sailor from the submarine Zues Faber which was infiltrated by a radioactive alien entity. Bill Mulder, during his interview refered to the "thing" possessing the submarine's captain as an "entity." I got the impression he knew the sailor was not mad and was telling the truth. I got the impression the young Bill Mulder knew the Zues Faber had been invaded by an alien "entity." And in THE MUSINGS OF A CIGARRETTE SMOKING MAN, CSM counsels against kiling a wounded Extraterrestrial Biological Entity by saying "A live E.B.E. would advance Bill Mulder's project by years." This indicates that CSM was telling the truth when he told Mulder in ANASAZI that Bill Mulder approved the project and was fully cognizant of its implications.

Undoubtedly Samantha, Mulder's sister was taken as leverage to ensure Bill Mulder kept his mouth shut. The fact that Bill Mulder chose Samantha as the hostage (and the now-obvious relationship between Mrs. Mulder and CSM) casts doubts on Samantha's parentage. Did Bill Mulder pick her to be sacrificed because Samantha was CSM's daughter, not his?

Was Bill Mulder killed on the Cigarette Smoking Man's orders? Most likley, yes. Bill Mulder was about to spill the beans to his son Fox about the merchandise." That's reason enough to have Bill Mulder killed. After all, what possible reason do we have for believing CSM when he told Mulder "We had nothing to do with it." In TALITHA CUMI, Jerimiah Smith, the renegade alien, taunts CSM by changing his shape to resemble two men, Bill Mulder and Deep Throat, both of whom were close associates of CSM. CSM reacted with discomfort to see the faces of his dead comrades accusing him from beyond the grave. CSM's reaction convinces me that he gave the order for Bill Mulder's execution.

In PIPER MARU Alex Krychek too denied being the triggerman, but what else would you expect Krychek to say with an extremely angry Fox Mulder shoving a gun in his guts. "Oh sure Fox, I popped your dad right in the head. You should have seen the Jackson Pollack his brains made on the bathroom tile." All current evidence points to Krycek having killed Bill Mulder on CSM's orders.

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