Alex Krycek

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Alex Krycek (played by Nicholas Lea) was an operative for the Syndicate and briefly a Special Agent within the FBI. (TXF: "Sleepless") He was killed by Walter Skinner in 2001. (TXF: "Existence")

Contents 1 History 1.1 Early Life 1.2 FBI 1.3 Rogue Operative 1.4 After the Syndicate 2 Relationships 2.1 Cigarette Smoking Man 2.2 Fox Mulder 2.3 Dana Scully 2.4 Marita Covarrubias 3 Appearances

[edit] History

[edit] Early Life

Alex Krycek was born to Cold War immigrants and he consequently learned to speak Russian. (TXF: "Tunguska")

It is unclear when Krycek was born but the birth date of actor Nicholas Lea is June 22, 1962. It is also not entirely clear if Krycek's claims in "Tunguska", that his parents were Cold War immigrants and that he learned Russian because of that, are accurate or untrue - due to the character's untrustworthiness - but this article assumes those statements were honest.

[edit] FBI

In 1994, Alex Krycek, secretly working for the Cigarette Smoking Man, was assigned to investigate a case with Special Agent Fox Mulder, who, along with his former partner, Dana Scully, had recently been reassigned from the X-files after the death of his informant, Deep Throat. Krycek learned that Mulder had requested permission to investigate the death of Doctor Saul Grissom, who had apparently died in a fire, although no evidence of a blaze had been found.

Claiming he had opened the file on Grissom's death two hours before Mulder had requested the case, Krycek worked with Mulder to investigate the death, eventually discovering that Augustus Cole had murdered both Dr. Grissom and Henry Willig by using an extremely powerful suggestive ability. Ultimately, Krycek helped save another of Cole's potential victims, a Dr. Gerardi, before killing Cole himself.

As he had been working on the case, Krycek had met Scully and had implied to Mulder that he had followed his work while training at the FBI Academy. He secretly reported back to the Cigarette Smoking Man that reassigning Mulder and Scully off the X-files had only strengthened their determination and that Scully seemed to be a considerate problem. (TXF: "Sleepless")

Krycek's left arm was amputated in Tunguska after he was discovered by a group of partisans who believed the procedure was a protection against the black oil and the tests that were being conducted at a Russian gulag that Krycek and Mulder had just escaped from. (TXF: "Tunguska", "Terma")

In all subsequent appearances, Krycek is seen wearing a prosthetic replacement.

[edit] Rogue Operative

[edit] After the Syndicate

In 2000, Krycek laid low for a while, not appearing to cause any concern for Mulder and Scully since the destruction of the Syndicate. The Smoking Man managed to have Krycek thrown into Forj Sidi Toui, a Tunisian penal colony. However, he sent Marita Covarrubias to retrieve him when a UFO crashed in Oregon. The Smoking Man wanted Krycek and Covarrubias to retrieve the spacecraft before Mulder could so that the Project could be restarted. Krycek traveled to Oregon in search of the spacecraft, but was unsuccessful. Returning from Oregon, Krycek met up with Covarrubias and contacted Mulder in person at the J. Edgar Hoover Building to inform him that the Smoking Man was actually dying and the conspiracy with him.

Krycek and Covarrubias returned to the Watergate Apartments, where the Smoking Man was devastated that they had failed to locate the ship. The Smoking Man suspected the possibility that she and Krycek had never meant to find it. As Krycek wheeled him out of the room, Covarrubias stopped Nurse Greta from interfering. They watched as Krycek pushed Smoking Man in his wheelchair down a flight of stairs. Marita and Krycek descended the stairs and stepped over the Smoking Man's crumpled body as they left. ("Requiem")

For nearly a year, Krycek remained out of sight and nearly out of mind. The truth, however, was that he was very much involved in investigating the conspiracy that had arisen from the ashes of the Project. Kryeck learned that the government was secretly creating supersoldiers in league with the alien forces. During this time, Mulder was abducted and John Doggett was assigned to the X-files. In early 2001, Mulder's body was found returned from the aliens near death. In fact, he was buried in a cemetery. However, other returned abductees were healed from this state of near-death by Jeremiah Smith, prompting Skinner to exhume Mulder and treat his bizarre condition. It was at this time that Krycek reappeared.

Krycek had somehow acquired a vial of the vaccine created by William Mulder to destroy the alien virus. He contacted Skinner and promised him the vaccine in return for Skinner making sure Scully's baby did not survive term. The vaccine was so important because it would save Mulder's life and keep him from becoming an alien replicate as Billy Miles had become. Appalled at Krycek's demand, Skinner chose instead to send Agent Doggett to forcibly retrieve the vial from Krycek. In their first encounter, Doggett faced off with Krycek but Krycek merely allowed the vial to fall from his hand and shatter on the ground. Resigned to defeat, Skinner thought it best to save Scully's child and pulled the plug on Mulder's life support equipment. Remarkably, in doing so, he halted the advanced of the virus and saved Mulder's life even without the vaccine. ("DeadAlive")

The involvement with Krycek was not over, however. Billy Miles began a brutal killing spree in which he murdered a number of doctors who had been working with alien DNA in fertility experiments. Mulder and Skinner were shocked to learn that Scully's own doctors were among Miles' victims. It became clear that Scully would soon be a target herself - and she was. As she and Mulder tried to escape the FBI building with Miles in pursuit, Krycek appeared out of nowhere and ran over Miles with his car. The agents reluctantly drove away with Krycek as Miles, mangled and bloody, managed to stand up and walk away. ("Essence")

In an unlikely meeting, the two agents spoke with Krycek and Skinner about what Billy Miles had become. Krycek explained to them how Miles had actually been replaced by an identical alien supersoldier, distinguishable only by protrusions at the top of his spine and seeming indestructibility. Away from Krycek, Doggett revealed to Skinner his informant was a man named Knowle Rohrer. Skinner and Doggett suspected involvement from the end of the FBI, and Doggett soon learned that Alvin Kersh and Gene Crane were both speaking with Rohrer behind his back.

Rohrer's involvement became all too apparent when Doggett and Mulder discovered him speaking directly with Krycek. Not only had Rohrer betrayed Doggett by approaching Krycek, but Krycek's treachery - which ought to have been expected - was also upsetting in that he neglected to tell anyone else about Rohrer. Scully was sequestered to a safe place with Monica Reyes to give birth in the hope that Billy Miles would be unable to find her. Krycek had explained that Scully's child was special and presented implications that threatened the entire supersoldier conspiracy. Krycek decided it would be best to try to kill Mulder, explaining that if only Mulder would stop investigating, then everyone would supposedly survive the alien event. Mulder rightly accused Krycek of saving only himself.

In the FBI parking garage, Krycek leveled his gun at Mulder's forehead with Mulder goading him, reminding him of how Krycek had killed Mulder's father. At the last moment before Krycek could pull the trigger, Skinner arrived and shot Krycek. Krycek screamed and fell over as Skinner shot him again. Skinner was acting in revenge for Krycek's torment of him over the nanovirus in particular. Krycek tried in vain to grasp his weapon with his prosthetic arm, and upon failing, attempted to convince Skinner to shoot Mulder instead. Stating that it will "take more bullets than you can ever fire to win this game," he claimed he could give Skinner a thousand lives if he were to shoot Mulder. After a brief glance in Mulder's direction, Skinner shot Krycek one last time; this time, directly in the head, killing him. ("Existence")

[edit] Relationships

[edit] Cigarette Smoking Man

Main article: Cigarette Smoking Man

Krycek first started working for the Cigarette Smoking Man in or before 1994. In that year, the Cigarette Smoking Man sent Krycek to work on a case with FBI Agent Mulder. After the investigation, Krycek returned to the Cigarette Smoking Man and reported his findings regarding Mulder and his former partner, Agent Scully, both of whom represented a problem to Krycek and the Cigarette Smoking Man. (TXF: "Sleepless")

[edit] Fox Mulder

Main article: Fox Mulder

Krycek first met Fox Mulder in 1994. Mulder was transcribing wiretap tape at the FBI's headquarters in Washington, D.C. when Krycek alerted Mulder that he was present. Krycek had been assigned to a case Mulder had requested but agreed to work with him as an investigative partner and revealed everything he had learned about the case.

However, Mulder was at first extremely reluctant to work with him. At one point, Mulder acted as if he had accepted Krycek as his new partner but ditched him while he had been obtaining a car for their investigation.

Krycek acted as if he was interested in Mulder's unlikely beliefs and even that he believed the same things as Mulder. (TXF: "Sleepless")

[edit] Dana Scully

Main article: Dana Scully

When Krycek was sent to work with Mulder in 1994, he learned from the Cigarette Smoking Man that Mulder's former partner, Dana Scully, was a problem.

After he started working with Mulder, Krycek met Scully at her place of work - the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. She was wearing medical garb when they met, since she had been examining a victim's corpse for Mulder, and remarked that it was good to meet him. Krycek returned the comment by stating that it was also good to meet her and held out his hand, gesturing for a handshake, but Scully did not reciprocate. When she showed Mulder the corpse, Krycek acted as if he was troubled by the shocking sight of the deceased body by coughing loudly into his fist.

Krycek later reported to the Cigarette Smoking Man that Scully was a much larger problem than he had been told she was. (TXF: "Sleepless"

[edit] Marita Covarrubias

Main article: Marita Covarrubias

The two are first seen interacting in the episode "Patient X." They meet at the sight of a cosmic event in Russia and argue. During this scene Krycek spits on Marita. The two are later seen kissing. In "One Son Krycek has a chance to save Marita but he doesn't. The two later team up in "Requiem" to kill CSM.

[edit] Appearances

• "Sleepless" (Season 2) (First appearance)
• "Duane Barry"
• "Ascension"
• "Anasazi"
• "The Blessing Way" (Season 3)
• "Paper Clip"
• "Piper Maru"
• "Apocrypha"
• "Tunguska" (Season 4)
• "Terma"
• "Patient X" (Season 5)
• "The Red and the Black"
• "The End"
• "S.R. 819" (Season 6)
• "Two Fathers"
• "One Son"
• "Biogenesis"
• "The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati" (Season 7)
• "Requiem"
• "DeadAlive" (Season 8)
• "Essence"
• "Existence"
• "The Truth" (Season 9)

Hosts Infected by Black Oil
Primitive human	Kyle Sanford	WWII Pilot	Bernard Gauthier
Joan Gauthier	Alex Krycek	2nd Customs Officer	Dr. Sacks
Fox Mulder	Auntie Janet	Dmitri	Marita Covarrubias
Stevie	Danny	T.C.	Glenn
Sal	Dana Scully	Sandy	Ed Dell
Bo Taylor	Simon de la Cruz (immune)		Yuri Volkov