Monica Reyes/Career

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===Assignment===
Following her role in the delivery of Scully's son, William, Monica Reyes was assigned to the X-Files by Agent Doggett, who assumed that right as he was investigating his superior in the FBI, Deputy Director , for his dealings with the alien super-soldiers Reyes was highly excited to be appointed an office in Washington, D.C. and to begin investigating the X-Files - her dream assignment She consequently planned to do her best work on the cases Prior to her new assignment, she had previously visited Gdansk, Poland, and had learned some Latin She had also watched episodes of The Brady Bunch, and had previously visited a split-level house in Studio City that had been used for exterior shots in the filming of that series, photographing the house upon her visit. 
:It is unclear when Monica visited Gdansk, learned Latin, watched The Brady Bunch or visited the house used to shoot that television show. It is also not specified whether she learned more Latin words than just "daemonicus" and "medicus" - words that, in the episode "Dæmonicus", she translates as "Satan" or "demon possession", and "physician".
Two days after being assigned to the X-Files, Monica visited an office in the FBI's headquarters that belonged to Brad Follmer, who she hadn't seen since 1999 and who was now an Assistant Director. AD Follmer provided her with proof that all evidence of Doggett's claim of a chase, crash and fire that had reportedly occurred in the parking garage of the FBI's headquarters had apparently been removed during the weekend, the previous two days in which Reyes and Doggett had not been at work. Reyes later discovered that Mulder, who had also witnessed the chase, crash and fire, was missing without explanation.
When AD Skinner warned that he would not continue to support Doggett if he did not drop his investigation of Deputy Director Kersh, Reyes feared that, if Doggett complied with Skinner's wishes, the FBI might close the X-Files and that she could be reassigned to the New Orleans Bureau office. Additionally, she later first met .
While investigating the death of Carl Wormus, Reyes and her colleagues encountered a super-soldier named Shannon McMahon, who had killed Carl Wormus and revealed information about a conspiracy within the US government to hide and develop a secret programme. Apparently, the programme would prime America's population to breed a generation of super-soldiers by adding a chemical called chloramine to the nation's water supply. Reyes alone was suspicious of Shannon McMahon and discovered that she herself was part of the conspiracy. Reyes and her colleagues also discovered a Navy ship, the USS Valor Victory, where the ova of female abductees had been secretly being manipulated for transplantation. Ultimately, however, Shannon McMahon was apparently killed by super-soldier Knowle Rohrer and the Valor Victory was destroyed by a bomb on board the craft that exploded moments after the agents managed to escape. 
Monica's fear that the X-Files might be closed and that she might be reassigned to the FBI's New Orleans field office was put to rest exactly two days after the destruction of the Valor Victory, when Doggett handed in a report that mentioned the ship, super-soldiers and Shannon McMahon but did not include any reference to Kersh. 
Reyes subsequently used her expertise regarding claims of demon possession during a murder case she investigated with Doggett and Scully. Shortly after they became involved in the case, Reyes reportedly experienced a strong sense of evil that she couldn't explain and had never felt before. At a mental hospital where the murderer had been employed, Reyes and the other two agents encountered a patient who seemed to know about the murders. Reyes suspected that the patient was in telepathic contact with the killer and she attempted to prove her suspicion. However, the murderer later shot himself to death before Reyes and her colleagues could intervene and the mental patient, who was actually a master manipulator, managed to escape by tricking the agents into believing he had been shot and killed. 
Reyes soon moved into an apartment at 67 Bennett Avenue, in a quiet neighborhood of uptown Washington, D.C..
While Doggett was visiting her, Reyes received confusing news that he had been found unconscious after having been shot in an alley fourteen miles away. After discovering that Doggett was no longer in her apartment and that he had indeed been shot, Reyes became extremely puzzled by the incident but was suspected by AD Follmer of having shot Doggett herself. She alone came to the unlikely conclusion that Doggett had been replaced by a nearly identical Doggett, who had been shot and consequently paralyzed moments after having come from a parallel universe. She discovered that the man who had shot Doggett, Erwin Timothy Lukesh, was capable of traveling between universes and had killed her double in the parallel universe. Although she was attacked by Lukesh, who threatened to murder her again, Reyes was saved by AD Follmer, who shot and killed Lukesh. After she turned off Doggett's life-support machine, believing that act would allow the Doggett of her universe to return, Reyes found herself back in her apartment at the time Doggett had been visiting her there. Only Reyes was aware of the events that had since transpired. 
During her next investigation, Reyes became panicked when she and Doggett were surrounded by a swarm of flies. Later, she temporarily became trapped in a large webbed sac after unsuccessfully attempting to arrest a boy who represented a biological anomaly as he was neither human nor insect but something between those two. 
In early 2002, Reyes and Doggett were contacted by a source claiming to have classified military files on the supersoldiers, including the names of each one, but the source was only willing to exclusively provide the information to Mulder, who had been forced into hiding to escape the threat of the supersoldiers. Reyes and both her colleagues came to learn that the National Security Agency had been conducting intense video and audio surveillance on them without their knowledge. Reyes also learned that an NSA agent's baby and Scully's young son, William, had both exhibited seemingly telekinetic abilities. Reyes looked after William while Scully continued to investigate the anonymous source, who was actually a supersoldier acting as the NSA agent's superior. However, when Scully's life was later endangered by the supersoldier, Reyes rescued Scully from being shot. 
After Doggett went missing in Mexico while investigating the disappearance of Texan banker Hollis Rice, Reyes and a large task force searched for him. Reyes attempted to track Doggett down from the FBI's field office in San Antonio, Texas but, on the twelfth day of Doggett's disappearance, the search was limited by Kersh, who disbanded the task force and confined Reyes to the San Antonio field office. She alone was tasked with locating her FBI partner, though she was later helped by Scully and Skinner without authorization. Reyes' familiarity with the Spanish language proved useful in both San Antonio and after she unofficially ventured into Mexico, where she eventually found Doggett on the thirteenth day of his disappearance. As all memory of his identity had been taken from him, Reyes helped him remember who he was, including the painful recollection of his son's murder. She, along with Doggett, managed to escape from police officers who shot at the agents as they were under the supervision of a cartel that had been responsible for the disappearances of Doggett and Hollis Rice. 
After she and Doggett returned to the FBI's headquarters, Reyes took a special interest in a series of murders in which each victim had been skinned alive in Novi, Virginia. While she investigated the murders with Doggett and Scully, Reyes provided an unparalleled insight into the case. She was captured by the murderer, a local detective named Van Allen, but was soon released and ultimately discovered that her interest and insightful intuition regarding the case was apparently due to her investigation of similar, unsolved murders in several past lives. Each time, the murderer, who was now Van Allen, had killed four victims. However, Reyes managed to stop Allen from killing his fourth victim, a Doctor Lisa Holland, and finally shot the murderer, who later died in hospital. 
:The end of "Hellbound" suggests that the murderer was reborn, without Reyes' knowledge. For more information about Monica's discovery of her past lives, see the Other Lives section below.
Also in 2002, Reyes learned that Robert Comer, who she had worked with in her early career, had been undercover in Canada as a member of a religious UFO cult but had recently crashed his motorcycle while attempting to cross the North Dakota border from Canada. 
:Robert Comer is seen crashing his motorcycle in "Provenance", but Reyes only discovers that he did so in the following episode, "Providence".
Reyes also determined that the cult Robert Comer had been investigating had found a spacecraft that was similar to a craft Scully had seen in Africa two years before, and that the surface structure of both spacecraft were designed with symbols that Scully had interpreted as being from various religious scriptures as well as from science. Reyes was shocked by the possibility that the text might be the word of God.
After Robert Comer tried to kill Scully's son, Reyes ensured that no harm would come to the baby or to Scully's mother, Margaret. However, Reyes was soon able to return baby William to his mother. With Scully, Reyes later witnessed a metal piece of the spacecraft in Canada, an artifact that Robert Comer had been carrying, fly out of a drawer and across a room until finally coming to a stop just above William, hovering over the child's face. The incident influenced Reyes to suspect there was some connection between William and the spacecraft in Canada - a belief shared by the UFO cult there After a female member of the cult kidnapped William and injured Doggett, Reyes assisted in attempting to track her down and prayed for Doggett in a chapel, an activity that AD Follmer remarked seemed somewhat "traditional" for her. 
:Monica's act of praying for Doggett in a church setting is not only an indication of the nature of their relationship but is also notable as it relates to her religious beliefs. Similarly, AD Follmer's comment that praying seems "a little traditional" for Reyes establishes that such worship is probably uncommon for her, but also relates to her relationship with Follmer.
Reyes soon discovered that the metal spacecraft component that Robert Comer had been carrying had helped him survive his motorcycle crash because it had some form of healing ability. Without FBI instruction, Reyes and Scully questioned Robert Comer, who explained that the cult he had been investigating believed that William was a miracle child, coveted by forces of good and evil, who would stop Earth from being taken over by a colonizing alien race, unless his father, Mulder, was killed. Robert Comer, however, believed that Mulder was already dead and that, unless William was killed, all of mankind would perish from Earth. After Robert Comer died, Reyes started to uncover the truth that he had been murdered by the "Toothpick Man", who had also stolen the metal spacecraft component.
Reyes later helped locate the cult and, as she arrived at their compound with Scully, the agents witnessed the spacecraft leave the ground. Moments later, they found William, who had been abandoned as the craft had ascended. 
After Doggett recovered, both he and Reyes returned to the FBI Reyes considered getting a pet, as she had heard news that people with pets were inclined to live longer. Moments later, however, a car crashed into her own car while she was driving home. Although she was wearing a seat belt and was protected by an air bag in her car, Reyes sustained severe injuries as a result of the violent collision. She remained conscious while an ambulance transported her to a hospital but later lost consciousness and was pronounced brain-dead, a prognosis that essentially equated to death. At the time of the accident, she had a living will and an organ donor card signed in her name. Though the medical staff at the hospital decided to turn off her life-support and to transplant her organs, she ultimately regained consciousness.
While she had been unconscious, she had experienced another reality created by a worker at the hospital, Audrey Pauley. The reality she visited was in a replica of the hospital, empty of people except for two other critically injured patients, Stephen Murdoch and Val Barriero. Audrey Pauley, who was exclusively able to travel between the real hospital and the building's replica, would also occasionally visit the virtually empty hospital. The hospital replica building was completely alone in a void of greenish clouds. Although the other patients disappeared as they died, Reyes escaped from the hospital by intentionally falling into the void, returning her to reality. She ultimately made a full recovery and had left the real hospital by three days after regaining consciousness. 
Reyes subsequently helped Doggett and Scully on a case that was not an X-file, searching for evidence to determine whether Bob Fassl was guilty or innocent of murder. Reyes was instrumental in leading the investigation to the conclusion that Fassl, a devout Catholic, was innocent and that a bearded man was the real killer. She later changed her theory to believe that the bearded man was a sinful manifestation of Fassl, who was forced to physically adopt another personality because he was so afraid of his own sinful side that he was incapable of admitting it to others or even to himself. While working with Doggett to track Fassl in his bearded manifestation through a sewer, Reyes was knocked to the ground by the killer but was uninjured. She later fell several feet into sewage water after an unstable walkway section collapsed under her. After Fassl took Doggett hostage, Reyes tried to reason with the killer but eventually shot Fassl, whose body resumed its unbearded appearance after death, proving her theory. 
Soon after, Reyes connected and tried to solve several unsolved, seemingly unrelated murder cases using numerology, even consulting a professional numerologist. Her impressive work connecting the murders was commended by other FBI agents, but, when it was learned that she was using numerology, her methods were criticized. After Reyes became trapped with Scully in a locked basement garage at midnight, she and her partner met a man who was fond of music and insisted on playing checkers with the agents. Reyes later came to the conclusion that the killer was also in the garage but, while searching for the murderer with Scully, she was suddenly attacked by the killer and struggled to defend herself. The killer was about to shoot her when he was shot himself by Doggett, who had been led to the garage by a pattern that Reyes had originally determined as the killer's. However, the man that Reyes and Scully had met earlier was nowhere to be found. 
The next X-file that Reyes helped investigate was brought to the agents by Leyla Harrison, an FBI accountant who had discovered that a woman had stabbed herself sixteen times and that the victim's eight-year-old son had claimed his mother had been killed by a monster. While investigating the boy's claims with Doggett and Leyla Harrison, Reyes and Doggett were momentarily splattered in blood and all three became stranded at the boy's house in snowy Fairhope, Pennsylvania, unable to even contact the outside world. The agents saw giant insectoids, one of which grew into two separate creatures after being shot, and were visited by a sheriff who apparently had no internal organs.
Reyes became seriously alarmed while alone with the boy, as he showed her a disturbing picture he had drawn of her wearing black, with one of the insects inside her belly. She soon experienced extreme pain after an insect apparently entered her, but she and the other agents eventually realized that the insects, which had seemingly killed the boy's mother, and the sheriff who had visited them earlier, were really only manifestations of the boy's imagination. Ultimately, Reyes was able to escape the boy's house with Doggett and Leyla Harrison, helped by Scully and the real sheriff, and the boy was placed in a psychiatric center. 
Reyes and Doggett were subsequently contacted by Morris Fletcher, who claimed that Yves Adele Harlow was a super-soldier. The agents worked with the Lone Gunmen, who were familiar with Yves, and discovered that she was not a super-soldier but was killing terrorists financed by her billionaire father, an international arms dealer who had also employed Morris Fletcher. After learning that the terrorists internally carried a safely contained virus, Reyes pursued the last surviving terrorist with Doggett, but the agents captured the wrong man. The Lone Gunmen later sacrificed their own lives to stop the terrorist. 
With Doggett, Reyes investigated the identity of a man with a deformed face who claimed to have met Mulder. After Reyes determined that the man had injected William, she called a local hospital, where she and Scully took the baby. Eventually, she and her fellow agents, as well as Skinner, discovered that the unidentified man was actually , Mulder's half-brother and the ""'s son, who had lied about having seen Mulder and whose face had been deformed after having been shot by his father. Spender admitted to having injected William with a form of magnetite in an attempt to stop the aliens from colonizing the planet, as the baby had been the one thing they needed, but he suggested that the aliens would always know William had once been part alien and that they would never accept what he had since become. Reyes discussed William's future with Scully, who ultimately chose to adopt her baby to an anonymous family in an attempt to protect him. 
Reyes and her colleagues later met Rudolph Hayes, an impressively skilled FBI cadet who helped solve a serial murder case he claimed was related to the unexplained murder of Doggett's son. At one point, Reyes and her fellow agents suspected Hayes, actually a schizophrenic mental patient named Stuart Mimms who had assumed the alias Rudolph Hayes, of having killed Doggett's son. However, information that the cadet had provided Doggett led him to determine the real killer's identity and finally solve his son's murder. 
With Doggett and Scully, Reyes subsequently investigated the death of a man whose body had seemingly been thrown through the roof of a house before landing on his friend's car. Reyes' familiarity with The Brady Bunch came in handy when the victim's friend incorrectly insisted that the house had been used in the filming of that television show. However, the victim's friend later also died and, while Reyes and Doggett investigated the second death, the agents were filmed on a televised news report concerning the incident. They were neither asked to appear nor informed that they were being filmed, except by Scully. It was Reyes who later discovered that the man who lived in the house, Oliver Martin, was a fan of The Brady Bunch. She later saw him exhibit powers such as causing others to levitate and dramatically altering his surroundings with his mind. But, because he had little control over his powers and due to the fact that using them was having a debilitating effect on him, Oliver Martin's childhood parapsychologist, John Rietz, made him vow never to use his powers again. 
After Mulder was imprisoned for killing supersoldier Knowle Rohrer, Reyes reminded her colleagues that the allegation was obviously untrue as supersoldiers could not be killed. Nevertheless, she subsequently investigated the claim with Doggett, as Mulder went on trial for his supposed crime. The agents were contacted by Gibson Praise, who they presented at the trial. Reyes later acted as a witness herself, giving an account of her discoveries while working on the X-Files, but she became extremely angered at both Deputy Director Kersh and the prosecutor at the trial, Agent Kallenbrunner.
After she and Doggett obtained the incinerated corpse of a man who was reportedly Knowle Rohrer, Reyes succeeded in the difficult task of acquiring the man's medical records from the military in order to identify the badly burned corpse. She discovered that the body was that of a man who had died of a broken neck before being burned postmortem, but the evidence that Reyes had retrieved was excused at the trial.
After Mulder was sentenced to death for his supposed guilt in Knowle Rohrer's murder, Reyes helped him escape from the US Marine Corps Base Brig in Quantico, Virginia. Mulder was also aided in his escape by Doggett, Scully, Skinner and, somewhat surprisingly, Kersh. After Kersh instructed Mulder and Scully to head to Canada, Reyes wished the agents "good luck".
Upon returning to the FBI's headquarters, she and Doggett discovered that the X-Files had been removed from their office as punishment for taking Mulder's side or for helping him escape. Reyes and Doggett also discovered that Mulder and Scully had not traveled to the Canadian border and that the "Toothpick Man" knew where they were going. The agents followed Mulder and Scully to New Mexico, where Reyes was alarmed to see Knowle Rohrer and to witness his body turn metallic before being sucked into the magnetite rocks of the surrounding area. When Mulder and Scully emerged from a rock pueblo, Reyes warned them that the conspirators knew where they were before she and Doggett drove away, watching Mulder and Scully as they made a lucky escape. 
===Working for the Cigarette Smoking Man===
After he was blown up in Mexico, Reyes was called to meet the , who had been badly burned and was receiving facial reconstruction. He makes her a deal to spare her life and to work for him and reveals that he is the most powerful man in the world. Reyes accepts his offer. 
In 2016 the CSM informed Reyes that the X-Files have been reopened. She also assists him by placing a cigarette to the tracheostomy tube in his throat. 
Reyes met with Dana Scully and revealed her alliance with the CSM. Scully calls Reyes a coward, but Reyes assures Scully she will live as she is one of the "chosen elites". Reyes defends herself by saying she accepted the offer with the secret intention to sabotage the plans of CSM's deal with the aliens. She also tells Scully that the CSM loves Mulder and wants to make him a deal. 
===Career History===
* before 1990: University student
* 1990: Joins 
* 1992 1 - 1999 2 : New York Bureau Office, superior 3 Brad Follmer
* 1999 4 - 2001: FBI , New Orleans Bureau Office, one case with Robert Comer
* 2001 - 2002: FBI Special Agent, X-Files Section, partners Special Agents and , superiors Assistant Director , Assistant Director Brad Follmer and Deputy Director 
* 2002 - 2018: Caretaker for to help him through reconfiguration but with the motive to destroy his invasion plans
1 It is not exactly clear when Reyes was assigned to the New York Bureau Office, between her joining the FBI in 1990 and her assistance in the search for Luke Doggett. 
2 It is not exactly clear when Reyes left the New York Bureau Office, but her date of last contact with Brad Follmer prior to his first appearance within in the episode "Nothing Important Happened Today" is given as 1999. It is likely that this was also when Reyes left the New York Bureau Office, and the date does not clash with any others in the series' chronology.
3 It is not exactly clear what the specifics of Reyes' official relationship with Brad Follmer was while both were assigned to the New York Bureau Office. In "Nothing Important Happened Today", Follmer recounts, "You used to ask me to close the door at work back in New York." This statement gives the impression that Follmer was Reyes' superior. Furthermore, Reyes is not surprised to find that Follmer is an Assistant Director in that episode, implying that he was not promoted between the last time they saw each other and their meeting in "Nothing Important Happened Today".
4 It is not exactly clear when Reyes was assigned to the New Orleans Bureau Office, although it is likely that she was transferred there not long after she left New York.
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