Phoebe Green
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Phoebe Green was a Scotland Yard agent in England. She was portrayed by Amanda Pays.
Mulder and Phoebe were students together at Oxford University. He described her to Scully as brilliant. She also cheated on him, leaving him deeply hurt. The relationship ended, and Mulder returned to the United States following the completion of his studies.
They were reunited ten years later when Phoebe came to America with an aristocratic British family who were being targeted by an arsonist. She reacquainted herself with her former lover by leaving a cassette tape in his car, which when played left a message that he had just activated a car bomb. She then threw open the car door, startling both Mulder and Scully, neither of whom seemed particularly amused by the joke. Though surprised at her appearance, Mulder did not seem especially pleased to see her. Scully took an immediate dislike to her, showing slight signs of jealousy after having deduced that Mulder and Phoebe had a sexual relationship in the past (though she would not admit this jealousy to anyone). Phoebe then requested Mulder's assistance with her case, explaining that several prominent British men had been killed in mysterious fire-related murders. Mulder said that he would put in a request for the FBI's arson team to help her, but gave the impression that he would not personally investigate the matter; Scully seemed sure that Mulder would look into the case himself, however. During the course of the investigation Phoebe tried to reignite some of the spark between the two. She expressed regret at some of her past actions, referring to them as "youthful indiscretions", but also reminded Mulder of an encounter they shared on top of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's grave. The family she was watching over attended a banquet in Baltimore, and Phoebe pointedly told Mulder that she had taken a room in the hotel that the event was scheduled in, implying that she wished for the two of them to use it together. Mulder similarly decided to attend the banquet. While there he and Phoebe engaged in a slow dance and then shared a gentle kiss, which was witnessed by an annoyed Scully, who had come to the hotel to advise them that she thought she had discovered who the culprit was, a young British man named Cecil L'Ively. L'Ively started a fire on the fourteenth floor of the hotel, which was where the children of Phoebe's charge were located. Mulder attempted to rescue them, but was unable to do so because of his pyrophobia. The children were rescued by none other than L'Ively, who was posing as the family's handyman and assistant driver. While Mulder recovered in his hotel room Scully told him of her theory, and he went to the family estate to help in speeding up their return to England. Upon his arrival at the house he interrupted Phoebe and the husband from a romantic interlude, and this destroyed any further feelings he had left for her. Scully then realized that L'Ively was in fact a man she had seen at the hotel, and she went to the house to tell Mulder who he was. Mulder discovered that L'Ively possessed pyrokinetic abilities, which was how he had caused the burning deaths of the previous men. L'Ively used his powers to trap Mulder in a burning hallway and then attempted to make his escape, but he was incapacitated when Phoebe tossed a flammable liquid into his face. Mulder was able to rescue the children, and they all watched as L'Ively was immolated (but not killed) on the house's front lawn. Following these events Phoebe returned to England with the family without bothering to confront Mulder, apparently ashamed of her actions. She did leave another pre-recorded cassette for him, but he did not to listen to it, deciding to put his past with her behind him.
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- "Fire"
