'X-Files': The Mulder-Scully hookup

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FBI Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully were two sides of the same coin in the long-running Fox TV series “The X-Files”: He believed in UFOs and the paranormal; she was a skeptical scientist and doctor. But in the end, what the characters—played mostly as dispassionate professionals by David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson—really wanted was each other.

Finding true love was only slightly less difficult than uncovering the truth about aliens, and their relationship proved to be as convoluted, strange and even creepy as the cases they investigated. Here's a season-by-season breakdown. —Thomas J. McLean, Special to Metromix