Person Type: Perpetrators/Suspects
Name: Dr. Jason Nichols
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Brown
Sex: Male
History: Dr. Nichols was arrested in 1997 for the murder of his colleague Dr. Menand who had threatened to expose the falsification of data in Dr. Nichols's research. Dr. Menand was hit by a bus. In an interview following Dr. Menand's death, Dr. Nichols claimed an old man had warned him and Dr. Menand of the accident, stating the exact place and time of Dr. Menand's death. Dr. Nichols asserted that he had been trying to save Dr. Menand.
The same night as Dr. Menand's death, a number of unexplained deaths began occurring around campus. The victims in these murders appeared to have been frozen by the injection of an unknown catalyst. An attempt to revive the second victim resulted in failure. The third victim, Dr. Nichols's girlfriend, Dr. Ianelli, was successfully revived. Dr. Nichols was killed when he was embraced by a man who spontaneously burst into flames in Dr. Nichols's lab. Agt. Mulder believed this unidentified man to have been Dr. Nichols returned from the future.
Position: Associate Professor of Biology, M.I.T.; Cryobiologist