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A message from your Re-archivist

As with most of my site restorations, I can't leave well enough alone and have to add some extra backgrounds and stuff. It's the price you have to pay. It's been brought back from the dead and updated for different screen sizes, but like all good revived-from-the-dead monsters, something extra may come back... I may have snuck in a page border, put a background on some story pages, and gone a bit wild with adding a ridiculous glow to some text... but I have ADHD and I'm compelled to amuse myself from time to time when nobody's watching.

I have a fondness for Pendrell, agent in the Sci-Crime Laboratory, and was sad to see his alleged passing*. This extra page is to provide some background on Agent Pendrell, and a little info on this restoration.

Agent Scully lamented in Max that she didn't even know his first name. She's not the only one. As with many X-Files characters, a first name seemed unnecessary to the heartless writers. Pendrell even had two (or more) surnames. Perhaps when he was in Nisei as "Agent Comox" it implied that Comox was his first name? Apparently no. Actor, Brendan Beiser, who also didn't know Pendrell's name but decided to call himself "Pete", was also credited as "Dr Rick Newton" in Avatar. Could this be a clue? No. Further clues as to his first name were only given in canon-adjacent material, but these are also murky.

Pendrell's first name has been narrowed down to Sean or Daniel. I believed it was Sean, as given in The Official Companion 3, but I've since discovered that the reason given, a misquote of Skinner, is wrong. But then Sean gets another vote in Prima's Official Strategy Guide to the X-Files CD-ROM Game, where it's clearly shown as Sean. This is contradicted in the X-Files Collectible Card Game which gives his name as Danny. I prefer Sean. There are plenty of other lab/tech guys called Danny that Mulder refers to, and he deserves a distinctive name.

Evidence. Thanks to EnCat:

All those names, and only 10 episodes in which Brendan Beiser appeared or Pendrell was mentioned.

Let's not think about the tragedy that although Pendrell had a massive crush on Scully, she didn't even know his first name. I want to cry a little bit.

Apart from that, the same stuff applies as in my other site restorations. I do this because I love these characters, and enjoy the work people put into their tributes to them, whether it be by way of fanfic, fanart, a website, or other creative endeavours (because CC made such a mess of everything). I make no money out of any of this.

Where author names have been disguised it's to prevent authors whose uncommon real names were used from being linked to their youthful indiscretions decades later. I'm not trying to steal anything - their real name will be somewhere or replaced with a known pseudonym. At the moment I'm using a trick that hides certain information from search engine robots so a name may be shown on the site that's not shown on google or in the txt version of the story. Unfortunately it only works with html files, so I can either make the surname less obvious in a txt file, or hide the story file completely (or convert the txt files to html - and to use the hidey trick it can't just be the cheaty preformat way so it's rather tedious and time-consuming).

I do hope others enjoy this little site, a tribute to Pendrell originally created and maintained by Abree.

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* Pendrell didn't die. If cancerman couldn't be taken out by a fiery inferno following a missile to the face, that little bullet graze wasn't going to kill a strong, healthy, virile young man like Pendrell. :) And while we're at it, the Lone Gunmen didn't die either. They're hiding in a bunker in Idaho preparing for the alien invasion. Rest assured that Fowley did in fact meet her ultimate demise though.

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