At the time of Samantha's smallpox vaccination the family lived at 62 Greer Street, Martha's Vineyard ("Paper Clip"), but at the time of Samantha's abduction the address is given as 2790 Vine Street, Chilmark, which is also on Martha's Vineyard ("Conduit"). Mulder's file in Dreamland II shows that Mulder was born in the Vineyard, too, since his place of birth is given as Chilmark.
Summer House
The Mulder had a summer place at Quonochontaug, Rhode Island. This overlooked a cliff above the sea, where Bill Mulder and his friend Cancerman used to enjoy waterskiing. This is still in the family's possession even two years after Bill Mulder's death, even though Mulder's mother swore never to go there again. In "Demons" we learn that this summer house was the scene of some heated discussions between the Mulders as to which of their children should be taken.
Home videos
In "Dreamland II", we learn that the Mulder family made home videos of their children playing - dressing up as Star Trek characters, and so on. This was before 1973 - before Samantha was taken.
Divorce
Mulder's parents are divorced ("Talitha Cumi" - though we already knew they were separated). As Mulder says that Samantha's disappearance "tore the family apart" this is presumably one of the results. Mrs Mulder tells her son she hated her husband for what happened over Samantha's disappearance. Mulder's father lives on Martha's Vineyard, at West Tisbury, in a house he bought after the divorce, while his mother lives in Connecticut.
In 1990, we learn in "Travelers", Mulder and his father "don't really speak."
e into a position in which he has to choose which child to keep. "I hated him," she says. "I hate him still."
The effect on Mulder
Despite what he says in "Oubliette" (that not everything in his life can be traced back to this one childhood incident). This subject is central to Mulder's character.
Fox Mulder's father (Peter Donat) 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.
Date of birth
Unknown. Seems to be in his early twenties in 1953 ("Apocrypha") but also in his early twenties in 1962 ("Musings...")
April 13th 1995. Shot in the head in his bathroom by Alex Krycek, probably, although Krycek claims he didn't do it. Buried in Parkway Cemetery, Boston around 22nd April. Gasping his last breath in his son's arm, his final, agonized words are a plea for forgiveness !
Address
After his divorce, he moved down the road to West Tisbury, which is where he was living at the time of his death.
Personal stuff
He drinks whisky, which he seems to cling to in moments of stress ("Anasazi"). He smokes. At the time of his death, he was taking "medication."
Like his son, he likes to crunch sunflower seeds. In "Aubrey" Mulder says how he used to wake up convinced he was the only person left alive in the world, until reassured by the sound of his father eating seeds. He wonders if he inherited his taste for the things from his father.
He is a fairly good water-skier, though not as good as his friend Cancerman ("Talitha Cumi")
The Project
As far as Mulder was concerned, his father worked for the State department. From "Anasazi" onwards, however, William Bill Mulder was involved in the same project as Cancerman.
So far, what we know is that Bill Mulder authorized the project, whatever this project is. Cancerman tells Mulder his father authorized it, and in "Musings...." it is referred to as "Bill Mulder's project."
In "Musings" he is shown as a friend of Cancerman - a Green Beret captain in 1962. He was stationed at Fort Bragg. This is of course incompatible with the scene in "Apocrypha" where a young Bill, Cancerman and Deep Throat are being very "Them-ish" even back in 1952.
Also in 1952, in "Travelers", Bill Mulder is shown as working for the State Department, involved in the experiments that graft some strange creature to the throats of humans, thus turning them into killing machines. He claims that he is only following orders. He does, however, seem to have at least some conscience about it. "The crimes these men have committed against innocent people," he says. "I can't have them on my conscience anymore. Someone needs to know the truth." Later, he lets Edward Skur, the experimental subject he was supposed to kill, go. His reason for doing this is supposed to be that "by letting him live, the truth of the crimes that were committed against him and the others might someday be exposed."
"Two Fathers / One Son" reveals that Bill Mulder disagreed with the rest of the Consortium over the approach to take to the colonists. While all the Consortium believed that the alien invasion was not a very good thing, most of them agreed that the best way forward was to ally with the aliens, to get the best possible deal they could from the alliance, while, maybe, secretly working against them. Bill Mulder however thought that it was possible to resist, though he was over-ruled.
However, his conscience was not such that he didn't get involved in the Project for, apparently, the rest of his life, and his desire for the truth was not strong enough for him to tell his son about it, when he started investigating.He was killed after Mulder got his hands on the MJ files. Cancerman said he'd protect Fox (the conversation suggests this is an ongoing agreement between the two men) but Bill Mulder decided to confess everything to his son. (Season 5's "Travelers" complicates this, by having us believe that Mulder knew at least part of his father's involvment as early as 1990, although both Bill and Fox talk as if Fox knows nothing in 1995, at the time of "Anasazi". Maybe he believed his father was involved in nasty things for this one case only, and that he let Skur go because he regretted his involvement then, and would go straight ever after. Interestingly, as soon as Bill said he wanted to tell Mulder something, Mulder guessed it was about his time at the State Department.)
Anyway, Bill was killed before he could tell Fox very much at all, although Cancerman claims it was nothing to to with "us."
Name
Revealed, in Kitsunegari, to be "Tena" (one of the names Chris Carter suggested for her once on the radio, though at other times he came up with other names, and Rebecca Toolan, who plays the lady, says that the name "Elizabeth" was shown on the hospital bracelets in "Talitha Cumi.") The records in Dreamland II reveal that her maiden name is "Kuipers". Like "Mulder", this is a name of Dutch origin.
Address
Lived at Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard. Now lives in Connecticut ("Paper Clip")
Health
Suffered a stroke in "Talitha Cumi." Healed by the morphing alien bounty hunter, at request of Cancerman. Seems to be fully recovered in "Paper Hearts." although she tells her son that her memory is not what it used to be before the stroke.
The Cancerman connection
The relationship between the Cigarette Smoking man/Cancerman and Mrs. Mulder has been given on the Cancerman page.
Did she know about her husband's work?
No doubt we will learn more later on this. She certainly knew about the choice her husband had to make about which child to give up ("Paper Clip"), and in "Talitha Cumi" she knew about the ice pick that was inexplicably hidden in a lamp in the summer house.
Name
Samantha Ann Mulder ("Paper Clip.") Though in "Conduit". Her middle name began with "T".
Date of birth
November 21 1965 ("Paper Clip", superceding date given in "Conduit.")
Childhood
She and Fox used to play "all-day pick-up games" of baseball , ride their bikes to the beach and eat baloney sandwiches ("Home") She once fell out of swing the summer before she w
From "Paper Clip," we learn that Bill Mulder started having doubts about his project he was involved in and wanted to expose it. It was decided that one his children would be taken as hostage to ensure his silence. He was given the choice, though he tried to make his wife choose. She says she couldn't chose - it was his decision and she hated him for it. From the files found in "Paper Clip" it seems as if Fox was originally going to be the one who was taken. Did Bill change his mind? Did they decide to take Fox, but Bill persuaded them not to. Did Bill chose to keep Samantha but they tricked him by taking her instead, reasoning the more loved child was a better hostage?
However, in "One Son" we get a different explanation, which we are now supposed to see as the truth. According to this, the Consortium has done deals with their alien allies. In 1973, the colonists demanded that their human allies each hand over a loved one or family member, who would, presumably, be held in order to ensure obedience. On a plus side, though, the abducted people would have processes done on them which would make them immune when the date came, so would survive. When colonisation itself started, all the rest of the Syndicate would also be abducted and turned into hybrids, thus allowing them too to survive. CSM handed over his wife, Cassandra; the others handed over loved ones of their own. Bill Mulder, however, who disagreed with the alliance, refused. Thus, while all the others were taken from an air force base, Samantha was taken from home.
There is also the fact that clones of Samantha appear in the Canadian bee farm place ("Herrenvolk") and that the green-blooded clones in "End Game" tell Mulder she is alive - which is the reason they know enough about him to enable them to trick him into thinking one of their number is indeed his sister. Before nearly killing him, the Bounty Hunter also tells Mulder his sister is alive.
Samantha's memories
In Redux II, "Samantha" is returned. Mulder believes it is the real Samantha, but we have no proof yet. Also, even if we do find out that it is the real Samantha, her own memories could well be false, so it still tells us nothing much about what really happened back in 1973.
Samantha tells Mulder that she was raised by foster parents who told she was an orphan. Then one night they took her to a hotel room, told her she was going to see her real father, who was Cancerman. As for the night of her abduction, she says she remembers Mulder, and then "something, then men." Mulder says, "I can help you remember. You were abducted." She begins to cry and says she doesn't want to remember. Mulder holds her hand, but she grows almost hysterical, pulling away.
While she seems to have tried half-heartedly to find Mulder - Cancerman (lying to her, of course) came to her recently and said that he had found Fox, at last, and she says she wishes she knew how to contact him - she is certainly not driven in the same way as he is. She shows no desire to see her mother, and is surprised to find out that she is still alive.
She seems to be happy in her new life, with children, and with a father who seems to be a find father - he strokes her hair as they drive away.
With Cancerman (apparently) dead, Mulder believes that he has no way of finding Samantha again, and that he has been given her only to lose her again.
The effect on the family
In the Pilot episode, Mulder says it tore the family apart and no-one would speak of what happened. As soon as he could he got out and went to England.
In "Colony" and "End Game" we begin to see how the family was torn apart. Mulder's parents are separated, and Bill Mulder is cold towards his son, refusing to hug him. Mrs Mulder talks about suffering years of sleepless nights. The very hostile attitude Bill Mulder takes when the pseudo-Samantha is lost over the bridge certainly suggests that he has blamed his son for losing Samantha the first time. Maybe as Mulder had access to a gun, he thinks he should have been able to save her.
The "Anasazi" trilogy adds to the guilt and reproach within the family. Mrs Mulder blames her husband for having got into a position in which he has to choose which child to keep. "I hated him," she says. "I hate him still."
The effect on Mulder
Despite what he says in "Oubliette" (that not everything in his life can be traced back to this one childhood incident). This subject is central to Mulder's character.