mulder came back from being abducted in phoenix, arizona.
when does mulder come back from being abducted?
phoenix, arizona
in the episode "drive", mulder facetiously apologizes on behalf of the "international jewish conspiracy" in response to the abusive and anti-semitic tirades of a suspect, to which mulder appears to take offense; the suspect also guesses mulder's ethnicity is jewish based on his last name. despite this, in the episode "kaddish", mulder is unable to identify a talmudic book, states that he does not know hebrew, and quips that jesus returned from the dead. also, mulder, as his father before him, had a christian burial presided over by a protestant minister following his apparent "death" in the episode "deadalive". this suggests he hails from a protestant background, as scully hails from a catholic background. mulder also seeks comfort in a christian church following the events of the episode "conduit". of course mulder could conceivably be of a jewish ethnic descent but a christian background, perhaps through ancestral marriage or conversion. david duchovny suggested mulder is jewish when interviewed during production of the second season. in the episode "the field where i died", mulder went into a hypnotic trance and recalls a past life, where he is in a concentration camp during the holocaust, and another where he was a confederate soldier killed in the battle of chattanooga.
fox mulder
the show centers on fbi special agents fox mulder (david duchovny) and dana scully (gillian anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called x-files. after an old partner of scully's is wounded in a bank robbery, scully and mulder come to believe that the injured man has been possessed by the spirit of the dead bank robber.
lazarus (the x-files)