ALIAS:
C.G.B. Spender
BORN: August 20, 1940 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
PARENTS: His father was a Communist activist and Soviet spy executed
for passing information to the Nazis in W.W.II. His mother died
of lung cancer when he was a baby.
CHILDREN: Special Agent Jeffery Spender
MARITAL HISTORY: Ex-wife Cassandra Spender
HANGOUT: 46th Street, New York City
EVIL DOINGS: Killed JFK and Martin Luther King (supposedly)
NICKNAME: Cancer Man and Raul Bloodworth (when writing bad Tom
Clancy-like novels)
Description: The man who stands behind a cloud of smoke
is known as none other than the Cigarette-Smoking Man(William
B. Davis). He has been keeping a close eye on Agent Fox Mulder
and Agent Dana Scully since they were assigned to the X-Files.
The Smoking Man, as a child, was an orphan who read all the time.
When he joined the army and became a captain he only had one
friend, Bill Mulder, the father of Fox Mulder. In 1963 his superiors
decide to use his capabilities and assigned him an ultimate assignment:
the assassination of JFK. He worked with Lee Harvey Oswald, who
stood in a high-rise with a blank gun, while he hid in a nearby
storm drain and shot the president as JFK's car drove by.
In 1968, The Smoking Man then personally took charge over the operation against Martin Luther King. He shot the religious leader from a hidden location. By Christmas 1991, he had rigged various international events such as the Olympic games (including the "Miracle on Ice" victory by the Americans over the Soviets), rigged the Super Bowl, and had the Rodney King trial moved to Simi Valley. When Gorbachev resigned, he realized that the Cold War had ended and he had no more enemies. Then suddenly, he got a call from his mysterious colleague known as Deep Throat. An alien had crashed and it's only survivor had been put onto life support. Deep Throat shoots the alien dead and The Smoking Man has a new mission, to conceal the the truth about the alien.
He first appeared on the show in the Pilot episode, and he first spoke in the first-season episode "Tooms". The Smoking Man stood ominously in Assistant Director Walter Skinner's office, acting as surveillance for the dark government groups trying to debunk Mulder's investigations. The Cigarette-Smoking Man worked for a government group called The Shadowy Syndicate, from who he received his orders. The other place where he was usually found was in the large storehouse of classified evidence hidden in the Pentagon's basement. He would kill others without remorse to make sure the conspiracy went along as planned. The Smoking Man has been blamed for the murder of Mulder's father. He instructed Alex Krycek in the abduction and near death of Dana Scully in the second season episode "One Breath". Mulder came to his home and pointed a gun to his head in the same episode.
The Smoking Man also planned the attempt to murder Scully which resulted in her sister Melissa being gunned down as the result of mistaken identitiy. In 1996, he became excited when a magazine finally accepted one of his stories, and prepared to resign so that he can work as a writer. Unfortunately the magazine had ruined the ending of his story. He decides not to resign, and lights up another cigarette. Walter Skinner came to within a trigger pull of killing him in the episode "Zero Sum".
In the season 5 premiere "Redux", The Smoking Man allowed Mulder to walk into his Pentagon basement domain and take a test tube containing a metal chip. In the succeeding episode, "Redux II", he gave Mulder an offer to work for him in exchange for knowledge of the truth. He was betrayed when his own superior in The Shadowy Syndicate ordered a fellow Syndicate member who subsequently shot the Smoking Man through a window. The Smoking Man fell to the ground, clutching a photograph of Mulder and his sister Samantha. Skinner reported that no body was recovered but that the massive loss of blood on the floor gave no other conclusion. In the fifth season mythology episode "The Red and the Black", the Cigarette-Smoking Man appeared in a cabin in Canada, typing a letter to his son, Jeffrey Spender.
In the X-Files movie, the Cigarette-Smoking Man was in charge of a "black oil containment" camp in Antarctica, where the black alien was given human bodies to use as hosts. When Mulder broke into the camp, he tried to find Mulder. Unfortunately Mulder was able to put a vaccine into the pipe system that caused the black oil alien to get angry and the Smoking Man was forced to evacuate, letting Mulder save Scully from the alien oil.
In the episodes "Two Fathers" and "One Son" CSM took a leading role in the management of the Syndicate. He ordered the murder of a rebel (faceless) alien and the release of his ex-wife Cassandra Spender to the black-oil/grey aliens. While the entire Syndicate waited at an Air Force base for the grey aliens to arrive and take Cassandra, the faceless aliens arrived instead and burned everyone except the Smoking Man and Fowley, who escaped.
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