In 2000, after Special Agent John Doggett commented to local Detective Yale Abbott that he himself was somewhat baffled by what he had seen on a case that Detective Abbott was investigating, Special Agent Dana Scully, Doggett's partner, assured the detective that they had seen cases like his regularly on their unit but that Agent Doggett had only just been assigned to the X-files. (TXF: "Patience") In 2002, Agent Leyla Harrison remarked to Agent Scully that she had relished her temporary assignment to the X-files unit in the previous year. (TXF: "Scary Monsters")