Duane Barry

Duane Barry is a fictional character from the television show, The X-Files. He is what is known as a repeat abductee, and comes to serve in an important capacity to the X-Files mythology. He is portrayed by the actor Steve Railsback. He is first introduced in the second season episode "Duane Barry". Duane has escaped from a psychiatric hospital in Marion, VA, taking his doctor hostage. Agent Fox Mulder is soon called in by the FBI to help in the negotiations, as by then Duane has also taken a group of employees at a travel agency in Richmond, hostage. Mulder at first has no idea why he has been assigned to help, as he has no particularly extensive history in dealing with hostage negotiations. Soon, however, he learns that Duane is ex-FBI, and claims to be an alien abductee. Mulder eventually is sent into the building to negotiate with Duane. Duane explains to Mulder that he has taken his doctor with him in order to provide a substitute abductee, as Duane can no longer endure his own... full article at wikipedia