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| The X-Files Character
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| John Jay Doggett
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| Status
| Alive
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| Gender
| Male
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| Species
| Human
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| Origin
| Atlanta, Georgia
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| Portrayed by
| Robert Patrick
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| First Appearance
| Within
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| Profession
| FBI Agent
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| Relatives
| Luke (son, deceased)
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| Special Features
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Special Agent John Jay Doggett is a fictional character on the long-running series The X-Files.
Personal History
Special Agent John Jay Doggett Service #A6-27109 was born in Atlanta, Georgia. During his time with the NYPD, Doggett’s son Luke was murdered and the case was, for eight or nine years, never solved. Doggett did meet Special Agent Monica Reyes during the initial investigation and their friendship would prove productive in future meetings.
During his time with the FBI, Doggett lived in Falls Church, Virginia.
Career History
His road to the infamous X-Files was a long one. In 1977, Doggett joined the United States Marine Corps, 24th Marine Amphibious Unit, 2nd Marine Division. He eventually earned the rank of Sergeant E-5. A notable friend in his company was Knowle Rohrer. Doggett remained in the service until 1983, the last year and month of his service taking place in Lebanon as part of a Multi-National Peacekeeping Force.
Doggett began the next leg of his journey in 1987 as a member of the NYPD. Working as a detective in the fugitive division, warrant section Doggett earned the street smarts that would help him when he applied for the FBI in 1995. In 1995, Doggett graduated from FBI National Academy in Quantico and was made a Special Agent in the Criminal Investigative Division. He remained in this position until roughly 2000 when a manhunt for Fox Mulder led him to be demoted, in a sense, to the X-Files. Doggett served in the X-Files until it was finally shut down in 2002.
X-Files: Individual Cases
Doggett was involved in many isolated X-Files cases throughout his stint. His first notable case was investigating a double murder in Burley, Idaho where an elder couple was viciously butchered. The suspect could not have been identified as either human or animal. Doggett and Agent Dana Scully eventually discovered it was a human-bat and even the skeptical Doggett could not deny it. The human-bat possibly escaped even after attacking the pair and suffering multiple gunshots.
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Doggett became very familiar with every X-File in Mulder’s files and this knowledge was drastically needed when Scully went off without Doggett to Jaub County, Utah, to investigate the murder of a man in the desert. Scully eventually was captured by a cult who believed a worm like creature was the second coming of Jesus Christ. Doggett’s instincts led him to Scully and not only did he save her but he killed the ‘savior’. Doggett chastised Scully for leaving without him and since then a trust was formed between the two.
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Later, Doggett and Scully were drawn to Dexter, Oklahoma where a boy had appeared after being missing for ten years. The only problem was the boy had not aged ten years and was still the age he was when he went missing: seven. Testing Doggett’s limits of the supernatural it turned out the boy was in fact an apparition leading authorities to the site of the dead boy’s body. Doggett was shaken by this and by the fact that it brought back memories of his deceased son Luke.
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Doggett also helped his friend Martin Wells, a prosecutor, stop a killer from murdering his wife. Unknown to Doggett was that Wells had been traveling backward in time where he had been serving a sentence for the murder of his wife. Determined to stop the real killer, Wells had gathered enough evidence to stop the murder before it even happened.
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Doggett had to fly solo during one case when Agent Scully went to the hospital to monitor her secret pregnancy. Doggett, followed by AD Walter Skinner, investigated a cult leader named Anthony Tipet who was possibly involved in the greusome death of twenty-two of his followers. However the wounds were caused by a thousand year old axe that was only in existence in a musuem and no prints were left. Doggett eventually discovered, with help from the Lone Gunmen, that Tipet had found a way to open a 'third eye' either from a paranormal force or through drugs. Either way, Tipet was existing as a psychic assassin, which, for a fact-seeking Doggett, was a shelved CIA project involving LSD. Later, Tipet tried to kill himself by slicing open his 'third eye' with a saw blade. While in a coma, he infected Doggett's dreams and Doggett nearly died inside these dreams just like Tipet's followers. Agent Scully woke him before his own death to the aged axe and Doggett discovered Tipet had died, thus lifting the psychic spell.
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With Scully back on duty, the agents traveled to Worcester, Massachusetts where a real estate agent was shot from the roof of a police station in an enclosed cell three stories deep, a truly improbable shot. However, since the shot was with perfect marksmanship the case became peculiar. Along with this slaying, local gangs had been murdered and robbed of drugs and money on five seperate occasions with gunshot origins existing outside the rooms where the deals were going down. Paths led eventually to an exterminator business led by two twins, one legally blind and one mentally challenged. It was eventually discovered that the mentally challenged brother, Randal Cooper, had X-Ray vision, something Doggett refused to believe. Randal had also been controlled by his dominating brother and after a frustrating time, Randal ended his brothers life by the same methods he had executed in the gang robberies.
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Doggett faced perhaps his most bizarre case to date when he and Scully came across an accident in the middle of a street where a car had hit an object equal to the size and mass of a block of metal. However, footprints were found within the wrecked part of the car and fingerprints were found on the car and a murdered body was found. It appeared Ray Pearce, a man who had just died of a mysterious illness, claimed to be Gulf War Syndrome by his wife, had in fact been infected by an experimental metal called Smart Metals. Smart Metals was developed by Chamber Technologies and it was an experimental metal that was indestructable and could rebuild itself. Pearce had accidentally been infected and, throughout the murders of those involved in the accident, had begun turning into metal himself. Doggett and Scully never found the body of Pearce after he left the last player in the accident alive for no apparent reason.
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Doggett and Scully investigated a case involving a very large man who traveled from India to DC but was, by autopsy accounts, dead for the entire trip. Also, something large had exited his body. With the help of a friend of Mulders it was eventually discovered a Sidi mystic, in this case a legless, cart wielding midget Indian man with the powers of visual deception and literal physical body takeover had, with no clear motive, been attacking certain people around the city. Scully was forced to shoot the Sidi mystic though he was posing as a young boy at the time.
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Doggett was at times still trying to find Mulder since that was his original case and it was what sent him to the X-Files. His trail led to Squamash Township, Pennslyvania where Mulder had been a week before his dissapearance. In the town, Doggett discovered Mulder may have killed someone. In the end, it turned out Mulder, who was seeking healing for his deteriorating brain activity, found a creature of Native American origin who could literally eat pain and disease. He was a Soul Eater. But Mulder felt pity for the creature and tried to kill it so it wouldn’t suffer anymore but it lived. Doggett was shot and killed with a shotgun by the town’s sheriff when Doggett tried to protect the creature from being used. Doggett succeeded where Mulder failed if by accident when the Soul Eater ate Doggett’s death. The Soul Eater died and Doggett lived no closer to finding Mulder.
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Doggett again almost suffered an intense death when he and a group of various experts investigated a Boston subway tunnel system. Originally thought to be a contagion eating the skin off humans, Scully, from the sidelines, discovered a Calcium-sea creature had managed to find its way into the subway and when it encountered perspiration it activated a skin burning charge. Doggett, severly infected with the creatures, found its origin point and destroyed it before it could infect a fast moving train with hundreds of passengers.
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X-Files: The Greater Conspiracy
Doggett’s entry into the conspiracy was late in the game and only when it was beginning to rise from the ashes. His involvement began simply as a manhunt for Fox Mulder after he was abducted by aliens. Not willing to accept this answer, Deputy Director Kersh sent the no nonsense Doggett to find Mulder. Doggett, after receiving mysterious files about a boy named Gibson Praise, tracked ‘Mulder’ to Arizona. Facing ‘Mulder’ with a captured Praise at gunpoint Doggett watched ‘Mulder’ jump off a cliff to his most likely death. When Doggett went to retrieve the body ‘Mulder’ was gone. Scully and Skinner informed him that Mulder was in fact the shape-shifting Alien Bounty Hunter looking for Gibson Praise who was part alien.
Doggett refused to believe this and thus kept searching for an alive Mulder. Later that night an agent was nearly killed by Scully 50 feet from Doggett in a school . . . though Scully was standing in front of him as well. Doggett, struggling with this concept, was also informed by Skinner that Doggett’s rise to the top as a future director was being setup for a fall by Kersh by investigating the case, for reasons unknown. Doggett eventually had to give in to some sort of strange goings on when he found a mass of green chemicals lying in front of an assaulted Scully in a hospital. Scully had been trying to protect Gibson Praise and the Bounty Hunter, disguising himself as one of Doggett’s men, had found Praise. Though no proof of a body, Doggett had to admit to Kersh the case was now an X-File. Kersh, angry that the report was just as convoluted as any case involving Mulder as lead investigator would be, demoted Doggett to the X-Files as Scully’s partner.
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