In contrast to Mulder's credulous 'believer' character, Scully is the skeptic for the first seven seasons, choosing to base her beliefs on what science can prove.
In the television series, they work out of a cramped basement office at FBI headquarters in Washington, DC to investigate unsolved cases labeled ' X-Files.' In 2002, Scully left government employment, and in 2008, she began working as a surgeon in Our Lady of Sorrows, a private Catholic hospital – where she stayed for seven years, until rejoining the FBI. Scully is a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent and a medical doctor ( MD), partnered with fellow Special Agent Fox Mulder for seasons one to seven and seasons 10 and 11, and with John Doggett in the eighth and ninth seasons. Dana Katherine Scully, MD, is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the Fox science-fiction, supernatural television series The X-Files, played by Gillian Anderson.
