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Monica Reyes (pronounced REY-yez) (b. Austin, Texas, USA) is a character on The X-Files, played by actress Annabeth Gish.
Monica Reyes was given up for adoption as a child, adopted by Mexican parents and raised in Mexico, having never identified her biological parents. Because of growing up in Mexico, Reyes speaks fluent Spanish.
She majored in folklore and mythology at Brown University, earning her bachelors and masters degrees in four years. In 1990, Reyes enrolled to the FBI at Quantico. Her first assignment in the FBI was serving on a special task force investigating satanic rituals.
Reyes then served in the New York City field office, where she became romantically involved with Special Agent Brad Follmer despite the FBI's strict anti-fraternization rules. Reyes was the head investigator in the kidnapping of 7 year-old Luke Doggett, son of NYPD officer John Doggett. The boy was eventually found dead, but no suspect was ever apprehended. In 1999, Monica Reyes transferred to the New Orleans field office.
During 2001, Reyes was contacted by John Doggett to assist in on a case involving the disappearances of several individuals who claimed to be alien abductees. Because of her background, Reyes considered that these believers may have simply formed something of a cult, but did not rule out the possibility of alien intervention. She stayed with the case until after Mulder was returned by his abductors, but returned to her field office soon after.
She later contacted, a now returned to health, Agent Mulder involving a case she suspected had some link to the murder of Doggett's son, who assisted her with the case. However, as before, she soon returned to her own work.
She remained there until she was called upon to protect Scully during the events of the eighth season finale, driving her out to a remote location so that the expectant Scully might deliver her child out of harm's way. Reyes helped deliver the child, and soon after made a permanent move, taking up a job on the X-Files unit as Doggett's partner.
Monica Reyes is religious and a highly spiritual person, and has little doubt about the paranormal. She is not as obsessed with it as Fox Mulder is, but she is willing to accept explanations involving the paranormal, unlike Doggett. Monica Reyes Credited to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:The_X-Files_characters
Monica Reyes is religious and a highly spiritual person, and has little doubt about the paranormal. She is not as obsessed with it as Fox Mulder is, but she is willing to accept explanations involving the paranormal, unlike Doggett.
Credited to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:The_X-Files_characters