The Fox Mulder Tie Index

The fashion tracker of everyone's favorite fictional FBI agent (which you never realized you always needed).

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Talitha Cumi (3x24) — Neck Tie #2

As Mulder ventures out on his own to determine the connection between his mother and Jeremiah Smith, he is wearing an olive grey suit, white dress shirt with pointed collar, and the ‘Jacks’ necktie, an olive-grey design with beige square pattern that resemble the game, which was last seen in ‘Apocrypha.’

Fox Mulder Tie Index Rating: 8/10

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Talitha Cumi (3x24) — Neck Tie #1

Season Finale/New Tie Alert! In the episode that features alien faith healers, bounty hunters, retractable ice picks, and philosophical detours about the nature of free will and justice, Mulder starts the episode wearing a navy houndstooth suit, trademark white dress shirt with pointed collar, and an indigo necktie with fire engine red polka dots, which give the appearance of it looking like a cotton voile fabric.

Fox Mulder Tie Index Rating: 8/10

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Wetwired (3x23) — Neck Tie #5

In the episode wrap-up in AD Skinner’s Office, where like so many MOTW stories, Mulder and Scully have proof that ultimately winds up proving nothing, he’s wearing a charcoal suit, grey dress shirt with pointed collar, and the grey necktie with the woven argyle pattern, last seen in ‘Jose Chung’s From Outer Space.’

Fox Mulder Tie Index Rating: 8/10

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Wetwired (3x23) — Neck Tie #4

When Mulder goes to visit a recuperating Scully, he’s wearing a charcoal suit, white dress shirt with a point collar, and the weird, elaborate maroon checkered pattern necktie (which will continue to mystify any attempt of mine to describe it) from ‘Hell Money.’

Fox Mulder Tie Index Rating: 7/10

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Wetwired (3x23) — Neck Tie #3

When Mulder searches for a missing Scully and determines how his own red-colorblindness attributed to him not being affected by the VHS tapes (which is cleverly conveyed by the costume designer Jenni Gullett using a previously used tie, which was last seen in ‘Pusher’), he’s wearing a navy suit, sky blue dress shirt with a semi-spread collar, and navy necktie with turquoise in the herringbone pattern.

Fox Mulder Tie Index Rating: 8/10

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Wetwired (3x23) — Neck Tie #2

As Scully begins to slip into psychosis from watching the recorded tapes (a journey we witness begin but it is unfortunately not the episode’s focus, which would be an inversion of the show’s unchanging Skeptic/Believer dynamic), Mulder’s wearing a navy suit, white dress shirt with a point collar, and a black necktie with white square patterning, last seen in “Grotesque.’

Fox Mulder Tie Index Rating: 8/10

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Wetwired (3x23) — Neck Tie #1

When one of Mulder’s sources (who is not X) directs him and Scully to a crime where a suburban man murders multiple people, thinking they’re all a Serbian warlord, he’s wearing a charcoal suit, white dress shirt with a point collar, and the gold and maroon necktie with thin diagonal striping, last seen in “Jose Chung’s From Outer Space.’

Fox Mulder Tie Index Rating: 7/10    

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Quagmire (3x22) — Neck Tie #1

“I just realised something, how much you're like Ahab. You're so consumed by your personal vengeance against life, whether it be its inherent cruelties or its mysteries, that everything takes on a warped significance to fit your megalomaniacal cosmology.“ - Dana Scully

For a early morning trip to investigate animal attacks that Mulder attributes to the lake’s mythical Big Blue creature – which also doubles as another indictment of the madness of the lead character — he’s wearing a charcoal suit, grey dress shirt with a point collar, and the ‘Alligator Panels’ necktie.

Fox Mulder Tie Index Rating: 7/10     

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Fox Mulder Tie Index — Season 2

Welcome back to my master tie index for Fox Mulder in Season 2 This is my attempt at creating a post for the master tie index for him in each season of the X-Files. As with before, the above graphic is a sampling of the noteworthy ties in the second season. Each number on the tie screenshot represents its corollary on the list below, which is a complete rundown.

My apologies for the slowdown of content recently —but due to a confluence of recent events, like moving into a new place, wrapping up my current job and starting a new one soon, and minor things like my ripping software working inconsistently, and briefly pausing my rewatch to catch up here, progress on this experiment has been slow-going! But, I have not forgotten about y’ll!   -T

7 Appearances:

1) Golden Nugget (The Host, Sleepless, Red Museum, Die Hand Die Verletzt, Fearful Symmetry, Humbug, Soft Light)

6 Appearances:

2) Animated Cells (The Host, Blood, Aubrey, Colony, End Game, Soft Light)

3) Chex (Blood, Red Museum, Fresh Bones, Fearful Symmetry, The Calusari, F. Emasculata)

5 Appearances:

4) Half Salmon (Blood, Firewalker, Aubrey, Fearful Symmetry, F. Emasculata)

5) Alien Airspace (The Host, One Breath, Irresistible, Die Hand Die Verletzt, Humbug)

4 Appearances:

6) Coral Reef (One Breath, Red Museum, Aubrey, Fearful Symmetry)

8) White Swirls (Little Green Men, Fresh Bones, Fearful Symmetry, The Calusari)

3 Appearances:

7) Red Blood Cells (Little Green Men, Sleepless, 3)

9) Colored Coffee (Duane Barry, One Breath, Red Museum)

10) Three Column Red* (Aubrey, Colony, End Game)

11) Oscilloscope (Die Hand Die Verletzt, Fearful Symmetry, The Calusari)

12) Red Leaf* (Blood, Duane Barry, Irresistible)

2 Appearances:

13) Red Argyle (Sleepless & Ascension)

14) Jacks* (Død Kalm, The Calusari)

15) Alligator Panels (Soft Light, Our Town)

16) Indigo Flowers* (Our Town, Anasazi)

17) Douglas Firs (Excelsis Dei, Colony)

Single-Use Ties:

Main Titles (Little Green Men, Anasazi**)

18) Lonely Tree (Fresh Bones)

19) Aqua Herringbone* (Fresh Bones)

20) Toffee Paisley (Humbug) 

21) Maroon Check* (Soft Light)

Birdseye* (Excelsis Dei)

22) Bullseye Tie* (3)

Lavender* (The Host)

* — Limited use in this particular season but re/used by Mulder in a prior or upcoming season

** — Worn by Mulder an X number of times before being repurposed by guest actors or extras

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Fox Mulder Tie Index — Season 1

Hello, Y’ll! This is my attempt at creating a post for the master tie index for Fox Mulder in each season of the X-Files. Before anyone mentions, yes, I know I’m retreading the same territory as  @fox-mulders-ties​, but I am justifying this experiment by being more methodical (and hopefully complete this experiment).

The above graphic is a sampling of the noteworthy ties Mulder wore throughout the first season. Each number on the tie screenshot represents its corollary on the list below, which is a complete rundown. 

And yes, a few names on the below list are ones that FMT Tumblr originated because I lacked the creativity to imagine a better name.  -T

9 Appearances:

1) Main Titles Necktie (Squeeze, Space, Fallen Angel, Fire, Miracle Man, Lazarus, Darkness Falls, Roland, The Erlenmeyer Flask)

5+ Appearances:

2) Oscilloscope Necktie (The Jersey Devil, Space, Fire, Gender Bender, Lazarus & Born Again)

3) Coral Reef (Conduit, Eve, Young at Heart, Miracle Man, Tooms & Roland)

4) Alien Airspace (Beyond the Sea, Lazarus, E.B.E., Shapes, Born Again, The Erlenmeyer Flask)

5) Indian Paisley (Pilot, Conduit, Shadows, Ice, Lazarus, Tooms)

4+ Appearances:

6) Arrowhead (Shadows, Ghost in the Machine, Fire, E.B.E. & Born Again)

7) Red Leaf (Squeeze, Conduit, Fire, Young at Heart & Shapes)

8) Olive Swirls (Squeeze, Ghost in the Machine, Fallen Angel, Shapes & Born Again)

9) Animated Cells (Ghost in the Machine, Beyond the Sea, E.B.E. & Tooms)

12) Birdseye (Deep Throat, Squeeze, Space & Eve)

2+ Appearances:

10) Chris Carter Tie (The Jersey Devil & Young at Heart)

13) Grey Swimmers (Deep Throat, Ghost in the Machine & Space)

14) Radioactive Seed** (The Jersey Devil, Young at Heart & Miracle Man)

15) Mustard Weave (Shadows, Eve & Lazarus)

16) Patchwork (Conduit, Space & Shadows)

17) Jelly Beans (Fire & Young at Heart)

18) Lavender (Deep Throat & Shadows)

19) Red Dandelion** (Shadows & The Erlenmeyer Flask)

Red Oval Serving Plate (The Jersey Devil & Shapes)

20) Topographical Map (Gender Bender & Miracle Man)

Single Use Ties:

21) Navy & Red Striped**| 22) Olive & Navy** | 23) Rectangle Navy (Pilot)  

24) Pinecone Pizza** (Squeeze)

Church Tie (Conduit)

11) Mustard (Shadows)

Large Red Paisley** (Ghost in the Machine)

Olive Dots (Eve*) | 25) Aztec (Eve)

26) Young Mulder (Young at Heart)

27) Quilt Tie (E.B.E.)

28) Red (Miracle Man)

29) Half Salmon* | 30) White Swirls* | 31) Bullseye Tie* (Roland)

* — Single use in this particular season but reused by Mulder in the next

** — Worn by Mulder an X number of times before being repurposed by guest actors or extras

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The Blessing Way (3x01) — Note of curiosity

“We give them happiness, and they give us authority. The people believe in authority, they've grown tired of waiting for miracle or mystery. Science is their religion, no greater explanation exists for them.” 

—Cigarette Smoking Man, Talitha Cumi

While Mulder does not wear a necktie or any kind of clothing in this episode — owing to him being half-dead — one of his past ties makes an appearance. In a scene with Skinner, the CSM is seen wearing the necktie Mulder wore to Bellefleur, WA on his first case with Scully, in the ‘Pilot.’ 

Previously, he wore the necktie in ‘Tooms,’ ‘Little Green Men,’ ‘Ascension,’ ‘Talitha Cumi’ and multiple other episodes. The necktie becomes somewhat of a staple of the CSM which perfectly reflects the character’s banality of evil that hides behind bureaucracy.

It is obviously an amazing coincidence the costume designer Larry Wells decided to make it a look for William B. Davis to wear for those particular days on set but a full four seasons before the show made allusions to CSM being Mulder’s natural father, their choice in neckwear was the first domino set in motion. lol    

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Jose Chung’s From Outer Space (3x20) — Neck Tie #3

During the denouement when Mulder attempts to dissuade Jose Chung from  publishing his account of the case, he’s wearing a white dress shirt and the grey necktie with the woven argyle pattern, last seen in ‘Pusher.’ No good look at the suiting because Jose Chung likes to write under mood lighting...

Fox Mulder Tie Index Rating: 7/10

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Jose Chung’s From Outer Space (3x20) — Neck Tie #2

When Mulder, Scully and Detective BLEEPIN’ Manners find the staged jet crash, Mulder’s wearing a grey suit, white dress shirt, paired with a gold and maroon necktie with thin diagonal striping, last seen in ‘Apocrypha.’

Fox Mulder Tie Index Rating: 8/10

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Jose Chung’s From Outer Space (3x20) — Neck Tie #1

When Mulder and Scully travel to investigate the validity of an alien abduction of a teenager couple — which doubles as an indictment of its lead male character as a “ticking timebomb of insanity” — Mulder’s wearing a black suit, a (now staple) white dress shirt and the necktie, which has thin indigo and granite vertical striping under black diamond patterning, last seen in ‘Hell Money.’

Fox Mulder Tie Index Rating: 8/10

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Hell Money (3x19) — Neck Tie #4

In the episode postscript when has Det. Chao disappeared (and soon to be burned alive in a crematorium), Mulder is wearing a charcoal Prince of Wales check suit, off-white dress shirt and the necktie, last seen in ‘Syzygy.’

Fox Mulder Tie Index Rating: 8/10

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Hell Money (3x19) — Neck Tie #3 

When the partners confer with Det. Chao halfway through the episode, Mulder is wearing a white dress shirt and the necktie that looks like buttons on a remote, last seen in ‘Piper Maru.’

Fox Mulder Tie Index Rating: 7/10 

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Hell Money (3x19) — Neck Tie #2

Worn for a single scene during an autopsy of a poor bastard who lost the Hell Money drawing and which his body ultimately houses a frog, Mulder wears a navy suit, with the sky blue dress shirt and white striping (last seen in ‘The Walk’) and the weird, elaborate maroon checkered pattern tie, from ‘D.P.O.’

Fox Mulder Tie Index Rating: 7/10