Her first assignment in the FBI was serving on a special taskforce investigating Satanic ritual abuse. ![]() In 1990, Reyes enrolled in the Federal Bureau of Investigation at Quantico, Virginia. She studied folklore and mythology at Brown University, and has a master's degree in Religious Studies. Monica Reyes was born and raised in Mexico City, Mexico, and speaks fluent Spanish. According to the writer of the episode, David Amann, executive producer Frank Spotnitz was interested in giving Reyes "some darkness to play" and her past life was consequently written with sombre overtones. ![]() The ninth-season episode " Hellbound", in which Reyes discovers that she was apparently reincarnated, began as an effort to give Reyes or Doggett a "drive" or sense of motivation, as they were seen by the writers as the successors to Mulder and Scully. Portraying actress Annabeth Gish was pleased that the relationship between her character and Scully was similar to that of two sisters, rather than Reyes serving as an antagonist to Scully. However, Follmer's unresolved relationship with Reyes also served to heighten the conflict between Doggett and Follmer, as both men had feelings for her. The character of Brad Follmer was created in season nine to provide a love interest for Reyes, as the writers believed the audience needed to know more about her. She smiled and laughed more than the other characters, having a nature that writer Frank Spotnitz felt was lighter, sunnier, brighter, warmer and more "overtly sexy". Reyes was seen as different from both Mulder and the other main characters as she was somewhat more neurotic, scattered, and quirky. Spotnitz considered Reyes to be like Mulder in her optimism, faith and enjoyment of being open to beliefs, while still being somewhat different as she was more spiritual and subscribed to a more New Age-like view than Mulder had. Gish applied for the part, but her audition consisted of a meeting with writers Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz. When the role was being cast, actress Annabeth Gish received a call from her agent, who informed her that the producers of The X-Files were looking for a new female character. ![]() This female character was initially named Karen Miller and then Jane Jones before the name "Monica Reyes" was decided upon, named after a friend of series creator Chris Carter's acquaintance who had an art gallery in Vancouver, British Columbia. The writers were required to create a character who was unlike any of the preconceived main characters that were a part of the series. ![]() However, the writers wanted a different kind of believer character to contrast with the skeptical nature of John Doggett, who had already been established. Introduced in the series' eighth season, Reyes would become a main character throughout the entirety of its ninth season, before returning for a single-episode guest appearance in the tenth-season finale, and later in a recurring capacity during season eleven.ĭue to their decision to continue The X-Files television series and try to appeal to a new generation of viewers, the production personnel knew from the beginning of season 8 that they were going to introduce another female character who would be a believer, as departing character Fox Mulder ( David Duchovny) had been a believer. At first a Field Agent before becoming a Special Agent with the FBI, she works with her longtime friend and partner John Doggett in the X-Files office, which is concerned with the investigation of paranormal cases, dubbed "X-Files". ɛ z/ is a fictional character in the Fox science fiction- supernatural television series The X-Files.
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