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Created on 2008-10-02 21:43:20 (#16736898), last updated 2009-11-20

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Name:	John Doggett [X-Files]
Birthdate:	1960-04-04

Bio

Special Agent John Jay Doggett
John Jay Doggett is one of the FBI's best agents. He gets his job done no matter what it takes. Once on the fast track to being Director one day, he was the golden boy. He's loyal to his fellow agents and holds a commanding presence at times. He's very moralistic, and holds to the rulebook best he can. He rarely strays from it, only in special cases.

On April 4, 1960, John Doggett was born in Democrat Hot Springs, Atlanta, Georgia. He comes from a modest background, held in deep beliefs. Being a skinny kid he was picked on a lot and finally took up boxing, which he got really good at. He was offered to turn professional but turned it down. He had other plans for his life and boxing wasn't what he wanted to do with it. He always had this idea that someday he would help people.

Marines: 1977-1983

In 1977 he was recruited into the United States Marines Corps where he served with Bravo Company, whose members included Ryan Bracker, Roger Erickson and Shannon McMahon. He also met and served with Knowle Rohrer during this time. As part of his group, Doggett field-tested thermal imaging technology that could detect body heat through walls. The equipment weighed almost 90 lbs and had to be cooled with liquid nitrogen. Doggett was 19 years old and serving as a marine when he first saw a dead body. While he continued to serve as a Marine, Doggett worked in Lebanon as a member of the Multinational Peacekeeping Force from September 1, 1982 until October 30, 1983. He witnessed soldiers being shot in the war who kept on fighting, holding their own insides in their hands. In his last year as a marine, Doggett was serving in the 24th Marine Amphibious Unit during the Lebanon barracks bombing. He was later tattooed on his left shoulder in recognition of his work during the incident. Later that year, Doggett left the US Marine Corps.

College: 1983-1986

From 1983 until 1986, he attended Syracuse University's Maxwell School Of Citizenship And Public Affairs and earned a joint Juris Doctor/Master of Public Administration degree. Syracuse was where he would have his first meeting with a woman that would become a big part of his life. Stark Patrick, who was there with her brother Kevein Patrick for a baseball game between Syracuse University and The University of Maryland. Syracuse lost badly which amused John who had decided to go out to a bar. Stark walked in and sat near him and the two struck up a conversation and began flirting. John, finding some bit of courage asked her back to his place and she agreed. They shared a nice night together, and when she had to leave both forgot to leave the other with their number. John would call her almost a year later only to find she had a boyfriend, the two would lose contact after this.

NYPD: 1987-1995

In 1987, Doggett began working in the New York Police Department's Fugitive Division. During this time, he saw several bizzare things, including a man who had dropped five stories dust his head off and go back to work, as well as an old lady who had been shot point-blank in a Chinese restaurant pluck the bullet out of her egg foo yung. Doggett also saw the bodies of several victims who had been skinned alive - a method commonly used by Asian gangs. Additionally, he encountered a ring of thieves who used children for breaking and entering, such as squeezing through cracked windows. By 1989, Doggett had been partnered with Duke Tomasick. For several weeks in 1989, a series of murders committed by Robert Fassl was frequently reported in the front pages of local newspapers. One rainy night, Doggett and his partner, Duke, responded to a 911 call from neighbors hearing screaming coming from a house on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn, New York. After traveling to the house, Doggett stood outside as his partner, Duke, pounded on the front door. When there was no reply, Duke bust the door open and entered the building as Doggett remained behind him. Both officers had their guns drawn as they entered. They found Robert Fassl standing inside, making no attempt to escape. Duke instructed him not to move but, when he saw a man's body lying in a pool of blood on the floor, he ordered Fassl to face a nearby wall and told his partner, "Jonny, check the other rooms".

Doggett made his way into the kitchen, noticing the sound of blood squishing under his shoes as he walked, and saw two female bodies lying dead on the kitchen floor. In shock, he reported, "They're all dead", before exchanging a horrified glance with his partner, Duke. Doggett approached Bob Fassl, who had been handcuffed by Duke, and told the suspected killer, "Got you, got you, you bastard". Doggett was subsequently responsible for the arrest of Bob Fassl, who was suspected of killing seven people, including the mother, father and their teenage girl whose bodies had been found by Doggett and his partner, Duke. Doggett was aware of an enormous sense of relief when Fassl was finally caught. Doggett's role in the capture of Bob Fassl didn't hurt when he put in for detective, the rank he ultimately reached in the police force. However, he later left the New York Police Department in 1995.

During this time John had gotten married and had a son named Luke.

Barbara Doggett

Barbara Doggett was John's wife, and mother of Luke. After the death of their son the two divorced, but maintain their friendship. John and Barbara were finally able to move on from their son's death, and spread his ashes into the sea.

Luke Doggett

Luke Doggett was born on January 9, 1986. He was once formally photographed wearing a brown checked shirt and smiling at the camera. Ultimately, multiple copies of this photograph were made. When Luke was 7 years old, he was riding his bike around the block, with his mother sitting on their houses' prch counting his laps, with Luke waving to her every time he goes by. After six laps, Luke doesn't come back around. Barbara goes looking for him, and finds Lukes' bike lying on the sidewalk, abandoned. Luke had been kidnapped.

There were no witnesses, no ransom demands, no clue as to who took him and why. The police search door-to-door, block-to-block for two days. Nothing was found, and John and Barbara were given no news at all. John and his partner; Monica Reyes, spent three days searching for Luke, with Reyes sensing John was afraid his son was dead. This fear was tragically justified when Luke's deceased body was found in a field, a bullet in his back. In 2000, John Doggett carried the photograph of his son in his wallet. While trying to solve the mystery of a kidnapped boy, Billy Underwood, who seemingly had been suddenly returned without having aged, Doggett looked at the photograph when he was alone in his car and contemplated the picture. After Billy Underwood started trying to subtly attack his brother, Josh, Doggett and his FBI partner, Dana Scully, contacted a psychic, Sharon Pearl, to determine what was wrong with Billy. When she met the boy, the psychic immediately sensed that there were very powerful forces working through Billy and drawing him to his brother. The psychic also claimed that the force was coming through Doggett, who she realized had lost someone just like Billy. (TXF: "Invocation")

Doggett later introduced Monica Reyes to a case he was working on with Scully involving the disappearance of Fox Mulder, Scully's former FBI partner. When he admitted to Reyes that he didn't know how Scully was managing to cope with investigating the case, Reyes reminded him that he did indeed know. Although Doggett warned her to leave the past in the past, Reyes gently replied that Scully's fear that Mulder might be dead was the same fear that Doggett had felt during the search of his son. Reyes believed that Doggett was so determined to find Mulder alive because his son had been killed before being found. Without agreeing to Reyes' theory, Doggett argued that, because their search for his son had been unsuccessful, he was now aware that he had no time to listen to Reyes' claim that she had seen a UFO and that spaceships were involved in Mulder's disappearance.

John was constantly affected by the fact that Luke's murder case was never solved and the killer never brought to justice, which put a strain on his marriage to Barbara, eventually ending it. John looked for whatever clues he could find, and only after a long time in uncertainty, was the crime solved (thanks in no small part to the crime's only witness; Stuart Mimms, under his alias of Rudolph Hayes): Bob Harvey (who was also the closest they ever had to a suspect), a pervert and associate of a dangerous New York criminal named Nicholas Regali, saw Luke riding his bike and, eventually couldn't stand it, grabbed him and took him back to his place. Regali and Harvey worked together, except Harvey didn't tell Regali what he was doing, so when Regali walked in on him with Luke, Luke saw Regali's face. Knowing their could be trouble if Luke ever told anyone about Regali's "business", Regali killed Luke. John tracked down Regali and was resolved to kill him, only for Assistant Director Brad Follmer, another of Regali's associates, shot Regali in the eye as he left the bar he was at. Afterwards, John and Barbara were finally able to move on from their son's death, and spread his ashes into the sea.

The FBI: 1995-Current

In 1995, Doggett graduated from the FBI National Academy in Quantico and began work as an FBI Special Agent assigned to the Criminal Investigations Division. In 2000, Doggett was the leader of a task force organised by FBI Deputy Director Alvin Kersh with the sole purpose of searching for Fox Mulder, who had gone missing in Bellefleur, Oregon.

Shortly after the search began, Doggett took statements from Mulder's partner, Special Agent Dana Scully, and his superior officer, Assistant Director Walter Skinner. Doggett reported the statements to Kersh but omitted AD Skinner's claim of having watched Mulder being abducted by a UFO, believing that alien abduction was extremely unlikely and seeing no way in which that account could help find Mulder.

While working in his office, Doggett saw a file being slipped under his door by an unseen person. The file contained information about Gibson Andrew Praise, a child prodigy who Mulder and Scully had first investigated in 1997. Believing that Mulder might be searching for Gibson Praise, Doggett sent his task force to Arizona, where the boy had last been seen, and journied there himself, by way of helicopter. Scully and Skinner also joined the search for Gibson Praise, initially without Doggett's knowledge.

At one point, Doggett saw Mulder pull Gibson Praise toward the edge of a cliff. He was able to negotiate the boy's release and tried to take Mulder into custody but witnessed Mulder back off the cliff and later found that Mulder's body had disappeared from the bottom of the cliff while he had not been looking. Doggett was unable to accept Scully's explanation that "Mulder" had actually been an alien bounty hunter who had been attempting to take Gibson Praise back to the same ship where the real Mulder was.

After watching an attacker seemingly identical to Scully crush another agent's throat before becoming unfindable, Doggett traveled with Agent Scully to MacLaren Regional Medical Center, where Skinner had taken Gibson Praise. In the hospital, Doggett found Skinner (who was lying unconscious with badly wounded eyes) and, later, Scully (lying injured in a room with Gibson Praise and a puddle of slimy green fluid).

Doggett ascertained that Scully and Skinner were hospitalized and requested special protections for Gibson Praise. At the FBI's headquarters, he submitted a report to Deputy Director Kersh that included accounts of his recent experiences.

It was also during his time in the FBI that Stark Patrick walked back into his life, assigned as his partner in 1997. Still harboring his love for her, but hampered by his by the book views as well as hers it takes him over a decade to admit his feelings to her. Years of stolen moments, and near misses of getting together, finally in 2008 he admits his feelings and kisses her. They decide to persue a relationship, and days after the two get married. They are now expecting their first child, as wel as having an psuedo adopted daughter named Natalia Borchev.

The X-Files: 2000-2002

Shortly thereafter, as punishment for not whitewashing what he learned, Doggett was assigned to work with Agent Scully on the X-files, although he remained determined to find Mulder. Prior to his new assignment, Doggett had seen some "seriously screwed up" violent crimes. He had also encountered a drugs courier and had worked a lot of homocides, arresting many killers who had almost always fit a profile. Doggett remained in the X-files office over a weekend and looked through every X-file in one of the cabinets in the office. He saw that virtually all the cases broke with a leap in logic, but he himself was resistant to taking leaps as, in his experience, they only got people killed. He suspected that his reluctance to take leaps was perhaps due to the fact he was possibly just "an old-fashioned cop".

At the start of the first X-file case that Doggett investigated with Scully, he was disturbed to see images of two gnawed victims, believing the pictures to show perhaps more extreme violence than anything he had previously seen. Although he and Scully saw indications that the killer was probably either human or animal, Doggett later discovered a newspaper article reporting that a dangerous human bat had been caught in 1956, when the report had been published, and he made the leap of believing that the bat thing was responsible for the recent murders. At night, Doggett was attacked by the human bat while in a small boat on Slade River and, after managing to fight the creature off in a frenzy of water and wings, he lost consciousness in the river. Once he had returned to land and found Scully, he was again confronted by the human bat, which flew away, screaming, as Doggett protected his new FBI partner and shot at the bat thing.

Two weeks later, Doggett had recovered from his injuries and told Scully that he was confident he had killed or at least injured the human bat. She assured him he would have a desk in Mulder's X-files office, since Doggett, before beginning his first X-file with Scully, had expected to be allocated an area of the office. He subsequently returned to studying the X-files. His assignment with the X-Files ended in 2002 with the division being shut down. He and his partner and wife went back to the cases they worked on before, but still held much interest in cases that would still be called X-Files.

DISCLAIMER
John Doggett is a character in the fandom of The X-Files, which is property of FOX and Chris Carter. He is canon for seasons 8 and 9, but not the movie, The X-Files: I Want To Believe. He is property of his creators. The author has no ties to the show or the actor Robert Patrick, who portrayed him on the show.

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