Episode Data

The X-Files

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Season 0

• 9: The Truth About Season 3

• 10: The Truth About Season 4

• 11: The Truth About Season 5

• 12: The Truth About Season 6

• 13: The Truth About Season 7

• 14: The Truth About Season 8

• 15: The Truth About Season 9

• 16: Fox Behind The Scenes: The X-Files Season 5

• _{Friday, May 10th, 1996}

  4: More Secrets of the X-Files

  The episode shows the past highlights including Scully's abduction and Mulder's sister, and new ones from Season 3. There's a brief segment of clips from Season 3.

• _{Sunday, May 19th, 1996}

  3: Secrets of the X-Files

  This episode shows various clips from previous episodes (up to "Our Town"), explains the history of Mulder and Scully including how/before they met, then explains the other important characters (like Skinner, X, Deep Throat, CSM) and then summarizes/explains highlights (like Scully's abduction and the alien clones).

• _{Sunday, February 1st, 1998}

  5: Inside the X-Files

  A short documentary about the first 5 seasons of the X-Files. Behind the scences and story ideas including interviews of the cast.

• _{Friday, June 19th, 1998}

  1: The X-Files: Fight the Future

  Blackwood, Texas: After falling through a hole in the ground, a young boy is infected by the alien Black Oil. One week later, in Dallas, a federal building is bombed by terrorists, killing five people, including the Blackwood boy. Mulder and Scully, now part of an FBI anti-terrorism unit, learn that the boy as well as three other victims were dead even before the bombing, cause of death: an alien virus. In the Texas desert, the agents find an agricultural complex that may hold the key to unlocking the government conspiracy surrounding the extraterrestrials and their lethal virus.

• _{Friday, June 19th, 1998}

  8: The X-Files: Fight the Future

  Blackwood, Texas: After falling through a hole in the ground, a young boy is infected by the alien Black Oil. One week later, in Dallas, a federal building is bombed by terrorists, killing five people, including the Blackwood boy. Mulder and Scully, now part of an FBI anti-terrorism unit, learn that the boy as well as three other victims were dead even before the bombing, cause of death: an alien virus. In the Texas desert, the agents find an agricultural complex that may hold the key to unlocking the government conspiracy surrounding the extraterrestrials and their lethal virus.

• _{Thursday, July 24th, 2008}

  2: The X-Files: I Want to Believe

  Six years after the events of The X-Files series finale, former FBI agent Doctor Dana Scully is now a staff physician at Our Lady of Sorrows, a Catholic hospital, and treating a boy named Christian who has Sandhoff disease, a terminal brain condition. FBI agent Drummy arrives to ask Scully’s help in locating Fox Mulder, the fugitive former head of the X-Files division, and says they will call off its manhunt for him if he will help investigate the disappearances of several women, including young FBI agent Monica Banan.

• _{Tuesday, December 8th, 2015}

  6: Reflections on the X-Files

  This is a look back over the full tv series that is called the x-files, including funny clips and rememberable points.

• _{Monday, December 28th, 2015}

  7: Re-Opened

  Behind the Scenes of the new season of The X-Files, 13 years after the end of the original run of the series.

Season 1

• _{Friday, September 10th, 1993}

  1: Pilot

  Special Agent Dana Scully is partnered with Special Agent Fox Mulder to validate his work on a special project called the X-Files. While he is a believer in the paranormal fueled by a lost memory of his sister's abduction, she is a scientist and prefers to look for rational, logical explanations. Their first case takes them to Oregon to investigate the unsolved murders of several High School classmates who "Spooky" Mulder believes have been experimented on by aliens.

• _{Friday, September 17th, 1993}

  2: Deep Throat

  Mulder and Scully head to Ellens Air Force Base to investigate the mysterious case of a military test pilot who disappeared after experiencing strange psychotic behavior. While on the case, Mulder meets a mysterious man dubbed "Deep Throat" who claims to have classified information about his investigations into the paranormal.

• _{Friday, September 24th, 1993}

  3: Squeeze

  One of Scully's friends from the FBI academy, now working in the Violent Crimes Unit, asks her to assist him on a homicide investigation involving no clear point of entry. Mulder realizes that this is similar to a series of X-Files cases that have occurred every thirty years and joins in the investigation to stop the latest cycle.

• _{Friday, October 1st, 1993}

  4: Conduit

  As Section Chief Blevins expresses his concern with the direction of the X-Files, Mulder becomes obsessed with solving a case that closely parallels an encounter he experienced as a child - the abduction of his kid sister, Samantha.

• _{Friday, October 8th, 1993}

  5: The Jersey Devil

  The murder of a homeless man that is very similar in detail to a murder committed in 1947 leads Mulder and Scully to a legendary man-beast roaming in the forest near Atlantic City.

• _{Friday, October 22nd, 1993}

  6: Shadows

  When an unseen force commits several murders where a young woman is present, Mulder suspects that it is the spirit of the woman's former boss protecting her, while Scully believes the boss merely faked his own death.

• _{Friday, October 29th, 1993}

  7: Ghost in the Machine

  A computer with highly advanced Artificial Intelligence begins to kill in order to preserve its existence when it is deemed inefficient to continue controlling the workings of an office building.

• _{Friday, November 5th, 1993}

  8: Ice

  When members of an Arctic research team mysteriously kill each other and themselves only days after drilling deeper into the ice than ever before, Mulder and Scully accompany a team of doctors and scientists to investigate. They discover an organism that infects living creatures and accelerates the hosts' feelings of anger and paranoia, and the agents' colleagues on the expedition begin to question their government knowledge.

• _{Friday, November 12th, 1993}

  9: Space

  A mysterious force is sabotaging a space launch program, which leads directly back to the commander of the team who once led a mission to Mars and claimed to have seen an alien in space.

• _{Friday, November 19th, 1993}

  10: Fallen Angel

  Mulder puts the future of the X-Files in jeopardy when he heads to a UFO crash site being rapidly covered up by the military. He is arrested, and while in jail he meets Max Fenig, a UFO nut whose NICAP group has followed Mulder's work on the X-Files. When Mulder is released, Scully urges him to return to Washington to face his superiors and try to save his job, but Mulder finds out that Max is more than meets the eye and ignores Scully to try and save him instead.

• _{Friday, December 10th, 1993}

  11: Eve

  When two fathers on opposite sides of the country are inexplicably murdered at the exact same time in the exact same way, Mulder and Scully are called in to investigate. When they discover that the two fathers' eight-year-old daughters are identical twins, they realize that something even stranger is going on.

• _{Friday, December 17th, 1993}

  12: Fire

  An old Oxford girlfriend of Mulder's asks for his help on an international case concerning the unexplainable execution of several British dignitaries, and they encounter an assassin who can produce fire from his bare hands.

• _{Friday, January 7th, 1994}

  13: Beyond the Sea

  When death row inmate Luther Lee Boggs claims to be psychic and can lead Mulder to a serial killer in return for a lesser sentence of life in prison, Scully becomes an unwilling believer when Boggs tells her that she can communicate through him with her recently deceased father.

• _{Friday, January 21st, 1994}

  14: Gender Bender

  A series of sexually-oriented murders, which are identical except that the killer appears to be both male and female, draws Scully and Mulder to an Amish-type community of people called the Kindred.

• _{Friday, February 4th, 1994}

  15: Lazarus

  When FBI Agent Jack Willis and bank robber Warren Dupre are both shot at the same time during a robbery attempt, Dupre dies when Willis is brought back to life. When Willis rushes out of the hospital and begins acting strangely, Mulder concludes that Dupre has come back to life in Willis' body.

• _{Friday, February 11th, 1994}

  16: Young at Heart

  Mulder becomes the target of someone from his past named John Barnett. He was a jewelry store robber with an itchy trigger finger that Mulder sent to prison when he first joined the Bureau. The only problem is that Barnett died four years ago.

• _{Friday, February 18th, 1994}

  17: E.B.E.

  Mulder and Scully receive information from Deep Throat about a UFO that was shot down over Iraq and has been secretly transported to the US. However, Deep Throat then intentionally misleads the agents to prevent them from discovering the truth.

• _{Friday, March 18th, 1994}

  18: Miracle Man

  A young man who has the power to heal people with his touch begins to question his gift when people start dying after he has supposedly healed them.

• _{Friday, April 1st, 1994}

  19: Shapes

  Mulder and Scully travel to a Native American reservation to investigate the death of a man who was mistaken for a wild animal and may have been the legendary Manitou, a man who can shape-shift into a beast.

• _{Friday, April 15th, 1994}

  20: Darkness Falls

  When a group of loggers in the Washington State National Forest disappear in the same way that another group disappeared 50 years ago, Mulder and Scully go along to investigate and find themselves trapped in a cabin surrounded by flesh eating insects that only attack at night.

• _{Friday, April 22nd, 1994}

  21: Tooms

  Eugene Tooms is released from the sanitarium, and Mulder becomes personally involved to ensure that he is caught in the act of getting the last human liver he needs to go into hibernation for another 30 years.

• _{Friday, April 29th, 1994}

  22: Born Again

  After a detective and his former partner die in unexplained circumstances, the accidents are linked to a little girl who witnessed both deaths. Mulder believes that she may be the reincarnation of a policeman murdered by his colleagues.

• _{Friday, May 6th, 1994}

  23: Roland

  Mulder and Scully investigate the death of a scientist working on advanced propulsion technology. The mentally challenged janitor Roland, who has secretly been completing the scientist's work, is the prime suspect.

• _{Friday, May 13th, 1994}

  24: The Erlenmeyer Flask

  When Deep Throat points out a news story about a fugitive who apparently drowned, Mulder and Scully cannot see what makes the case special but follow it up anyway. With Deep Throat's insistence, they discover evidence of a secret government project code-named Purity Control, which uses human test subjects and infects them with extraterrestrial DNA. However, the evidence and everyone who has seen it is quickly being eliminated.

Season 2

• _{Friday, September 16th, 1994}

  1: Little Green Men

  With the X-Files closed, Scully has been assigned as an instructor at the FBI Academy while Mulder is doing menial surveillance work. After meeting with Senator Matheson, one of his supporters in regards to the X-Files, Mulder disobeys orders and heads to an abandoned SETI site in Puerto Rico which has inexplicably reactivated itself and could provide proof of contact with extra-terrestrial life.

• _{Friday, September 23rd, 1994}

  2: The Host

  A.D. Skinner sends Mulder to investigate a body which washed into the New Jersey sewer from the ocean. Mulder believes that the basic blue-collar assignment is punishment, but by Skinner's own admission, what he discovers is a true X-File.

• _{Friday, September 30th, 1994}

  3: Blood

  When several violent deaths in a small farming community are connected by the destruction of digital devices, Mulder believes that people are being driven to kill by the use of subliminal messages in the digital readouts.

• _{Friday, October 7th, 1994}

  4: Sleepless

  Mulder reluctantly accepts a new partner, Agent Alex Krycek, and they investigate the deaths of several Green Beret soldiers who participated in a sleep deprivation experiment during the Vietnam war.

• _{Friday, October 14th, 1994}

  5: Duane Barry (1)

  Mulder is called to a hostage situation involving Duane Barry, a former FBI Agent who claims to be an alien abductee and wants to get back to the abduction site with someone who will be taken instead of him. Unfortunately, the someone he eventually chooses is Scully.

• _{Friday, October 21st, 1994}

  6: Ascension (2)

  When Mulder finds out that Scully was kidnapped by Duane Barry, he risks the wrath of his superiors and the annoyance of Agent Krycek in order to do whatever it takes to find her. Meanwhile, Krycek is found to be reporting Mulder's activities to the Cigarette-Smoking Man.

• _{Friday, November 4th, 1994}

  7: 3

  Mulder, back on the X-Files but alone for the first time, investigates a series of vampire-like murders in Los Angeles and finds himself falling for the one woman that may be the prime suspect.

• _{Friday, November 11th, 1994}

  8: One Breath

  Scully mysteriously appears in a Washington hospital, alive but in a coma, and Mulder must fight to keep her alive in order to find out what happened to her and who did it to her. Meanwhile, Scully fights her own personal battle as she decides whether to stay or go on to the next world.

• _{Friday, November 18th, 1994}

  9: Firewalker

  Mulder and Scully, reunited at last, head for an active volcano under a geological study and find a deadly life form that can survive in the searing heat of the crater and is killing the scientists to avoid being discovered.

• _{Friday, December 9th, 1994}

  10: Red Museum

  While investigating the connection between the abduction of several teenagers and a rural religious cult, Mulder and Scully discover a secret test being performed on the children using the "Purity Control" alien DNA from 'The Erlenmeyer Flask' which leads Mulder to "the crew-cut man", Deep Throat's murderer.

• _{Friday, December 16th, 1994}

  11: Excelsis Dei

  Mulder and Scully uncover strange occurrences in an elderly care home when one of the nurses is attacked by an unseen force she claims to be one of the 90 year old residents.

• _{Friday, January 6th, 1995}

  12: Aubrey

  When a detective mysteriously uncovers the remains of an FBI agent who disappeared in the 1940s while investigating a similar murder case to one she is now on, Mulder and Scully believe that the original killer had passed his genetic trait of violence to his grandchild.

• _{Friday, January 13th, 1995}

  13: Irresistible

  A mortuary worker who gets his thrills from collecting hair and fingernails from the dead begins killing his soon-to-be collectibles himself and sets his seriously disturbed sights on Scully.

• _{Friday, January 27th, 1995}

  14: Die Hand Die Verletzt

  The ritualistic murder of a teenager in a small town gets Mulder and Scully caught up in a secret occult practice within the local school's PTA and a substitute teacher with strange powers.

• _{Friday, February 3rd, 1995}

  15: Fresh Bones

  While investigating several deaths and murders within a Haitian refugee camp, Mulder and Scully get caught in the middle of a secret war between the camp commander and a Voodoo priest.

• _{Friday, February 10th, 1995}

  16: Colony (1)

  After the obituaries of four identical men are e-mailed to Mulder, the agents are contacted by a shadowy CIA agent who tells them about a bounty hunter sent to wipe out the beginning of a colony of clones. Meanwhile Mulder is distracted by the sudden reappearance of his sister Samantha.

• _{Friday, February 17th, 1995}

  17: End Game (2)

  The alien bounty hunter kidnaps Scully and wants to trade her for Mulder's sister, who is revealed to be a clone herself. After the trade goes badly and Mulder discovers the truth about Samantha, he tracks the bounty hunter to his ship buried in the arctic ice and demands the whereabouts of his real sister.

• _{Friday, February 24th, 1995}

  18: Fearful Symmetry

  Mulder and Scully investigate strange attacks from invisible animals inside a zoo which is near a known UFO hot spot.

• _{Friday, March 10th, 1995}

  19: Død Kalm

  When half the crew of a Navy ship abandon their boat in a life raft and are rescued 18 hours later looking about 60 years older than they should be, Mulder suggests that the ship is caught in a time field which is speeding up their aging.

• _{Friday, March 31st, 1995}

  20: Humbug

  Mulder and Scully travel to Gibsonton, Florida, a town built and populated by circus and sideshow performers to investigate the death of Jerald Glazebrook, The Alligator Man. While searching for leads on the killer, the agents come across many bizarre characters including the local sheriff who was once known as Jim Jim, the Dog-Faced Boy.

• _{Friday, April 14th, 1995}

  21: The Calusari

  The suspicious circumstances of a toddler's death leads Mulder and Scully into a Romanian exorcism ritual involving a young boy possessed by his stillborn twin.

• _{Friday, April 28th, 1995}

  22: F. Emasculata

  When a plague-like illness kills ten men inside a maximum security prison, Scully tries to get into the quarantine site and discover the cause and origin of the contagion, while Mulder and a group of US Marshals track two escapees who may be infected.

• _{Friday, May 5th, 1995}

  23: Soft Light

  An experiment in dark matter accidentally turns a scientist's shadow into a deadly weapon that can unzip a person's molecules if they are touched by it.

• _{Friday, May 12th, 1995}

  24: Our Town

  After several disappearances in a small town, Mulder and Scully investigate and find hundreds of human bones in the river. They discover that the man behind the town's main source of wealth, a chicken processing plant, has found a way to prolong his life through cannibalism.

• _{Friday, May 19th, 1995}

  25: Anasazi (1)

  When Mulder obtains what could be the original and uncut MJ documents containing information about the government's knowledge of extraterrestrial life; his shadowy enemies step up their harassment of him, eventually leading to his apparent murder.

Season 3

• _{Friday, September 22nd, 1995}

  1: The Blessing Way (2)

  Scully finds her career with the FBI in jeopardy as Mulder is still missing and the Cigarette-Smoking Man is pursuing the stolen files. The Navajo elders find Mulder's body in a cave and perform an ancient ceremony to call the spirit back to the empty vessel.

• _{Friday, September 29th, 1995}

  2: Paper Clip (3)

  A.D. Skinner and Scully are at a standoff when Mulder bursts in and discovers that Skinner has the digital tape. Reunited, Mulder and Scully travel to a secret vault inside a mine and find an elaborate filing system of medical records which reveals that Mulder's sister may not have been the first choice for abduction. Meanwhile, Skinner deals with the Cigarette-Smoking Man for their safety.

• _{Friday, October 6th, 1995}

  3: D.P.O.

  Mulder and Scully investigate a series of human and cattle deaths by lightning and are led to a teenage boy who is the only survivor out of five people recently hit by lightning strikes.

• _{Friday, October 13th, 1995}

  4: Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose

  In the midst of a psychic sideshow while on a murder case, Mulder and Scully enlist the help of a man who may have a true psychic ability to foresee how people will die to help the agents catch a man killing fortune tellers.

• _{Friday, October 20th, 1995}

  5: The List

  Nobody takes much notice when a death row inmate vows on the electric chair to come back from the dead and kill five men who have wronged him during his time in prison, until a guard is mysteriously murdered in the former inmate's cell.

• _{Friday, November 3rd, 1995}

  6: 2Shy

  A man with a genetic abnormality who must prey on overweight women in order to suck the fatty tissue from their bodies, begins to meet his victims through internet chat rooms.

• _{Friday, November 10th, 1995}

  7: The Walk

  After a suicide attempt and multiple murders at a military hospital, Mulder and Scully meet a quadruple amputee who has gained the power of astral projection and is taking out his personal frustrations on his commanding officers.

• _{Friday, November 17th, 1995}

  8: Oubliette

  Mulder seeks the help of a woman who he believes has a special connection with a young girl who has recently been kidnapped by the same man who held her captive many years earlier.

• _{Friday, November 24th, 1995}

  9: Nisei (1)

  An investigation into a video of an alien autopsy puts Mulder and Scully in the middle of a conspiracy involving WWII Japanese scientists brought to America to continue their experiments which may shed light on Scully's abduction.

• _{Friday, December 1st, 1995}

  10: 731 (2)

  Mulder is trapped inside a train car which contains a suspected alien-human hybrid and also a bomb, while Scully pursues the truth about her abduction and the mystery behind the implant in her neck.

• _{Friday, December 15th, 1995}

  11: Revelations

  Mulder and Scully swap roles as they pursue a man killing priests that claim to have the wounds of Christ. The agents find and must protect a young boy who may be a real stigmatic. While Scully's faith draws her close to the boy, Mulder is convinced of another explanation.

• _{Friday, January 5th, 1996}

  12: War of the Coprophages

  Widespread panic is caused in a small community after numerous deaths are linked to killer cockroaches, and a government agricultural agency is discovered to have set up a secret experiment involving insects.

• _{Friday, January 26th, 1996}

  13: Syzygy

  A rare planetary alignment causes strange behavior in the residents of a small town, but particularly in two teenage girls who were born at the exact same moment on that date.

• _{Friday, February 2nd, 1996}

  14: Grotesque

  A serial killer is captured after a three year manhunt, and he claims an evil spirit is responsible for the crimes. When the killings continue as he sits in jail, Mulder's battle with a former colleague gets more heated when he suggests that something more paranormal may be involved.

• _{Friday, February 9th, 1996}

  15: Piper Maru (1)

  A French salvage ship searching for a lost WWII fighter plane unknowingly surfaces an alien which appears in the form of black oil and has the ability to jump hosts. Mulder heads to Hong Kong to investigate the salvage broker who sold the information to the French and he encounters Krycek, who has been selling information from the MJ documents. As Mulder prepares to take Krycek back to the US, the alien makes its way to Hong Kong and takes control of Krycek.

• _{Friday, February 16th, 1996}

  16: Apocrypha (2)

  Mulder pursues Krycek (unaware of the alien that has taken over his body) to get back the DAT tape containing the MJ documents. Meanwhile, the shooting of A.D. Skinner uncovers evidence that could lead Scully to her sister's murderer.

• _{Friday, February 23rd, 1996}

  17: Pusher

  Mulder and Scully are asked to help in a case involving Robert Patrick Modell, a murderer possessing the psychic ability to force his will onto people. Due to a brain tumor that is slowly killing him, he is searching for a "worthy adversary" and forces Mulder into a battle of mind over matter.

• _{Friday, March 8th, 1996}

  18: Teso Dos Bichos

  The unearthing of an ancient Ecuadorian Amaru urn and its removal to America despite protests leads to a series of deaths linked to a shaman spirit released by the urn.

• _{Friday, March 29th, 1996}

  19: Hell Money

  The deaths of several Chinese men found to be missing vital internal organs that were removed prior to death leads Mulder and Scully to a deadly Chinatown lottery where men wager their body parts for a chance to win a cash jackpot.

• _{Friday, April 12th, 1996}

  20: Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space'

  A alien abduction of two teenagers with endless versions of the same story prompts a science-fiction novelist to to write a book about the incident; however, nobody involved with the investigation can tell him the full story with any accuracy.

• _{Friday, April 26th, 1996}

  21: Avatar

  During a one-night-stand in the midst of his divorce, A.D. Skinner becomes a murder suspect, and Mulder and Scully return the many favors that he has done for them by analyzing evidence that someone doesn't want uncovered to prove his innocence.

• _{Friday, May 3rd, 1996}

  22: Quagmire

  Mulder and Scully investigate a series of disappearances and attacks around a lake where Mulder believes that the local legend about a lake monster may be all too real.

• _{Friday, May 10th, 1996}

  23: Wetwired

  After a man kills three people and his wife because he mistook them for a ruthless middle eastern dictator, Mulder and Scully discover a test involving mind control using television signals that make people's worst fears become real in any form.

• _{Friday, May 17th, 1996}

  24: Talitha Cumi (1)

  Mulder and Scully search for a mysterious man with the power to heal. His actions risk exposing the existence of aliens on Earth, while a confrontation between Mrs. Mulder and the Cigarette-Smoking Man leads Mulder to the discovery of the only weapon which can kill the aliens.

Season 4

• _{Friday, October 4th, 1996}

  1: Herrenvolk (2)

  Jeremiah Smith and Mulder are on the run from the alien bounty hunter, and Smith takes Mulder to a small farm tended to by identical sets of children, and all the girls are clones of his sister when she was still a child. Mulder prepares to take Jeremiah and one of the clones to see his mother in the hospital, but the bounty hunter catches up with them. Meanwhile, the Syndicate suspects that they have a traitor in their midst and plan a trap which results in X being executed by the Cigarette-Smoking Man.

• _{Friday, October 11th, 1996}

  2: Home

  A baby is found buried alive in shallow ground and appears to have birth defects resulting from generations of inbreeding, leading Mulder and Scully to a reclusive family who have a history of inbred children.

• _{Friday, October 18th, 1996}

  3: Teliko

  After several African-American men are killed and the color is drained from their skin, Mulder learns about the Teliko, an African folktale about a creature who must suck the pigmentation from a persons body in order to survive.

• _{Sunday, October 27th, 1996}

  4: Unruhe

  Several kidnappings of young women linked by distorted photographs lead Mulder and Scully to a man who can imprint his darkest fantasies onto undeveloped film and is trying to save the women from the "Howlers".

• _{Sunday, November 3rd, 1996}

  5: The Field Where I Died

  After an FBI raid on a doomsday cult called the "Temple of the Seven Stars", Mulder meets Melissa, a cultist who claims to have known him in a previous life during the American Civil War. Scully believes the woman is a delusional schizophrenic, but Mulder allows himself to be drawn into her fantasies.

• _{Sunday, November 10th, 1996}

  6: Sanguinarium

  A link to the four witches Sabbaths is found after a doctor loses control and kills a patient on the operating table, and Mulder suspects a nurse may be practicing witchcraft.

• _{Sunday, November 17th, 1996}

  7: Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man

  Frohike pieces together and recites to Mulder and Scully what could be the possible life story of the Cigarette Smoking Man; from a young captain in the U.S. Army recruited to assassinate President Kennedy, to becoming the mysterious man in the shadows at the height of a global conspiracy. What measures will the Cigarette Smoking Man take to ensure that he remains a mystery forever?

• _{Sunday, November 24th, 1996}

  8: Tunguska (1)

  A rock sample taken from Mars is intercepted at an airport and infects a security officer with the Black Cancer, while Mulder is given a tip about potentially dangerous paramilitary operations but is doubtful when the informant turns out to be Alex Krycek. Reluctantly, Mulder accepts Krycek's help and tracks the rock to Russia where he discovers an elaborate test being performed by Russian scientists.

• _{Sunday, December 1st, 1996}

  9: Terma (2)

  While imprisoned in Russia and infected with the Black Cancer, Mulder learns that Krycek is working with the men responsible and everything has been a setup from the start, while Scully and Skinner are called to a suspicious Senate hearing where the only question is the whereabouts of Agent Mulder.

• _{Sunday, December 15th, 1996}

  10: Paper Hearts

  Mulder's dreams help him in finding the body of a little girl which reopens one of his old cases in the Violent Crimes Unit and leads him to believe the killer he captured had more victims and may have taken his sister many years before.

• _{Sunday, January 12th, 1997}

  11: El Mundo Gira

  A strange yellow rain kills a migrant girl, and her family believes that a mythical creature was the cause and has manifested itself inside the brother of her fiancé, who has since disappeared.

• _{Sunday, January 26th, 1997}

  12: Leonard Betts

  After the body of a decapitated EMT disappears from the morgue and an identical man starts work at the same hospital, Mulder believes that the man has the ability to regrow parts of his body, including his head. The agents soon discover that Betts' body is riddled with cancer and he is able to live in that condition but needs to feed on cancerous tumors to keep up his strength.

• _{Sunday, February 2nd, 1997}

  13: Never Again

  While Mulder is forced to take a vacation he leaves Scully with an assignment to keep her busy until he returns. However, she decides to start living and goes on a date with a man who believes that his tattoo talks to him and is telling him to stay away from other women.

• _{Sunday, February 9th, 1997}

  14: Memento Mori

  Scully's recent failing health is revealed to be inoperable brain cancer, which is common among abductees. She meets with other abductees with the same condition and forms a special bond with a dying woman, while Mulder tries to save her from a doctor who may be connected with the abductions.

• _{Sunday, February 16th, 1997}

  15: Kaddish

  Issac Luria, a Jewish man, is killed by a group of teenagers working for a racist shop owner, but one of them is soon strangled to death, and the fingerprints on his neck are from Issac. Despite other factors, Mulder becomes convinced that the man has returned from the dead to exact revenge.

• _{Sunday, February 23rd, 1997}

  16: Unrequited

  When a U.S. military general is inexplicably murdered in the back of his limousine, a paramilitary group is suspected. They believe it was a soldier who they liberated from a Vietnam POW camp and is plotting to kill certain corrupt military figures.

• _{Sunday, March 16th, 1997}

  17: Tempus Fugit (1)

  While celebrating Scully's 33rd birthday, a strange woman informs Mulder that NICAP member Max Fenig (see Fallen Angel) has recently died in a plane crash. After a visit to the crash site and finding Max's body with radiation burns on it, Mulder suggests that the plane was intercepted by a UFO and is rapidly being covered up by the military.

• _{Sunday, March 23rd, 1997}

  18: Max (2)

  Mulder is arrested for investigating the plane crash and interfering with a military operation, while Scully is caught in an attempted assassination of Corporal Frish which claims the life of Agent Pendrell. Scully bails Mulder out of prison, and they go to Max Fenig's trailer to find out why he was on the plane. Mulder finds evidence of alien technology and boards a plane with it, but the plane is intercepted mid-flight and it disappears. Mulder is again left with nothing.

• _{Sunday, April 6th, 1997}

  19: Synchrony

  A case involving a strange old man warning two scientists of events in the immediate future which come to pass (and the use of their experimental flash-freezing compound that does not exist yet) has Mulder believing that one of the scientists has come from the future to stop his own scientific breakthrough from becoming reality.

• _{Sunday, April 20th, 1997}

  20: Small Potatoes

  Five babies in the same town are all born with tails and the local OB-GYN is blamed for tampering with fertilized eggs. However, Mulder discovers the culprit to be a simple man with a genetic deformity who may have the ability to alter his appearance.

• _{Sunday, April 27th, 1997}

  21: Zero-Sum

  Skinner destroys evidence to cover up a woman's death and poses as Agent Mulder to complete the task. Mulder finds out about Skinner's deception and confronts him, and Skinner reveals that he is working for the Cigarette-Smoking Man in order to obtain a possible cure for Scully's cancer.

• _{Sunday, May 4th, 1997}

  22: Elegy

  After a man sees a woman trapped inside a bowling alley pin setter, he goes for help and finds police standing next to a body of the same woman. Mulder and Scully join the investigation and follow up this lead which the police won't bother with, and they are led to a mentally challenged man who works at the bowling alley.

• _{Sunday, May 11th, 1997}

  23: Demons

  Mulder undergoes an experimental form of hypnotherapy to recover his memories about his sister's abduction, but the treatment has side effects including psychotic behavior, and Mulder wakes up one morning in a motel room with someone else's blood all over him.

• _{Sunday, May 18th, 1997}

  24: Gethsemane (1)

  While investigating the discovery of a preserved alien body found in the mountains of Canada, Mulder is contacted by Michael Kritschgau. He tells Mulder about a government conspiracy to make people believe in aliens without question, and Mulder has been the prime target.

Season 5

• _{Sunday, November 2nd, 1997}

  1: Redux (2)

  Scully helps Mulder fake his own death in order for him to go undetected through the Department of Defence and find out the answers to his new questions about the government hoax concerning the existence of extraterrestrial life. Meanwhile, at a joint FBI/DOD inquiry, Scully's attempt to drive out the Conspiracy's informant is halted as her cancer takes a bad turn.

• _{Sunday, November 9th, 1997}

  2: Redux II (3)

  The Cigarette-Smoking Man helps Mulder to obtain Scully's cure and also lets him see his real sister who doesn't turn out to be as happy to see Mulder as he would've liked. In return for this, the Cigarette-Smoking Man asks that Mulder quit the FBI and work for him in the Syndicate where he could have power and respect which Mulder turns down, deciding to stay on the side of justice. While Scully's cure appears to have worked, the Cigarette-Smoking Man faces his own enemies and disappears, presumed dead.

• _{Sunday, November 16th, 1997}

  3: Unusual Suspects

  Set in 1989, the story of the founding of The Lone Gunmen is finally told as we see how a straight-laced federal employee, a sex mad AV expert, and a nerdy computer hacker meet Susanne Modeski, a strange woman with evidence of a government conspiracy. When their plan to expose the conspiracy fails and Susanne is captured by a group of men-in-black, led by none other than X, they soon become a paranoid group of government watchdogs.

• _{Sunday, November 23rd, 1997}

  4: Detour

  While on their way to an FBI group communication seminar, Mulder and Scully manage to escape when they come across a situation in the Florida forest area where three men have recently disappeared.

• _{Sunday, November 30th, 1997}

  5: The Post-Modern Prometheus

  Filmed in glorious black and white with a comic book feel to it, this is a modern retelling of Frankenstein as Mulder and Scully get caught up in a town where the residents live on Jerry Springer episodes and fear a two-faced monster who has been impregnating the women.

• _{Sunday, December 7th, 1997}

  6: Christmas Carol (1)

  On her Christmas vacation with her brother's family, Scully receives a mysterious phone call from a familiar voice who says, "She needs your help. Go to her." The phone call leads Scully to a murder case where the victim's 3-year-old adopted daughter bears an uncanny likeness to her sister, Melissa, at that age. The emotional roller coaster that follows has Scully believing that her sister had a baby during a period when she traveled the country and she tries to adopt the child, knowing that caring for the little girl would change her life.

• _{Sunday, December 14th, 1997}

  7: Emily (2)

  DNA testing on Emily reveals that she is actually Scully's daughter and Mulder comes to assist her and to find out where and how the girl was born while Scully tries to help Emily with her own serious illness, a rare form of anemia.

• _{Sunday, January 4th, 1998}

  8: Kitsunegari

  Pusher returns as Robert Patrick Modell escapes from the mental hospital and the FBI promptly organizes a manhunt, assuming that he will continue where he left off. But is he really trying to get revenge on Mulder, or does he want to warn him of another evil?

• _{Sunday, January 11th, 1998}

  9: Schizogeny

  A therapist working with children from abusive families is found to be implanting them with the memories of her own abuse suffered at the hands of her late father, when one of her patients tries to kill his stepfather.

• _{Sunday, February 8th, 1998}

  10: Chinga

  Master of Horror Stephen King's first effort at an X-File sees Scully's well deserved vacation going terribly wrong and landing her in a small Maine town where one of the residents is believed to be a witch, and her autistic daughter's doll has frighteningly evil powers.

• _{Sunday, February 15th, 1998}

  11: Kill Switch

  A super-intelligent virus program is let loose on the internet and begins to grow and expand by itself, eventually killing its creator when he tries to eradicate it.

• _{Sunday, February 22nd, 1998}

  12: Bad Blood

  After Mulder chases down and kills a young man who he believes to be a vampire, the agents return to DC aware of the mistake they just made. Faced with a lawsuit from the family of the man, they recount each of their sides to the story leading up to the event. In the extremely humorous stories that follow we see how Scully and Mulder both perceive each other.

• _{Sunday, March 1st, 1998}

  13: Patient X (1)

  Mulder and Scully meet Cassandra Spender, a woman who claims to be a multiple abductee and wants to deliver a positive message about the aliens. Mulder's new found disbelief in extraterrestrial activity is enhanced while Scully forms a special bond with the woman. A series of group attacks against abductees take place and the shadowy Syndicate believes that a rebel alien resistance is attempting to destroy all their work.

• _{Sunday, March 8th, 1998}

  14: The Red and the Black (2)

  After the gathering at the abduction site where everyone is killed by the rebel bounty hunters, Cassandra Spender disappears and Mulder is blamed by her son, Jeffrey, who is an up-and-coming FBI agent. Meanwhile, the Syndicate is continuing their tests to create a vaccine for the Black Cancer and Marita Covarrubias becomes an unwilling test subject.

• _{Sunday, March 29th, 1998}

  15: Travelers

  In 1990 Agent Fox Mulder visits an aging FBI Agent named Arthur Dales. He listens to a story of the agents assigned to a would-be X-File in the Cold War era of the 1950's and how Mulder's father was connected to a series of strange deaths.

• _{Sunday, April 19th, 1998}

  16: Mind's Eye

  Mulder and Scully try to get answers out of a stubborn blind woman found at a murder scene who may have the ability to look through the killer's eyes in her mind.

• _{Sunday, April 26th, 1998}

  17: All Souls

  Scully faces her Catholic faith and the loss of her daughter Emily when she is asked to help a family whose adopted daughter was found dead in a position that looked like she was struck down by God himself.

• _{Sunday, May 3rd, 1998}

  18: The Pine Bluff Variant

  Scully fears that Mulder has gone to the other side when she sees him assisting a federal suspect escape custody. In truth he has infiltrated a terrorist group testing a deadly biological weapon that can eat through a person's flesh.

• _{Sunday, May 10th, 1998}

  19: Folie à Deux

  Mulder is held hostage inside an office where a man claims his boss is a monster and has clouded all their minds while he turns them into zombies one by one, which is disbelieved until Mulder opens his mind and allows himself to see it too.

• _{Sunday, May 17th, 1998}

  20: The End

  The Cigarette-Smoking Man returns as Mulder investigates the attempted assassination of a young boy with psychic powers who may be the proof that he has looked for all his life.

Season 6

• _{Sunday, November 8th, 1998}

  1: The Beginning

  Mulder is less than thrilled when an Office of Professional Conduct board refuses to reassign him and Scully to The X-Files and even more so when he learns that Agent Spender and Agent Fowley have become their successors. When Gibson Praise reappears and comes to them for help, Mulder and Scully attempt to continue their quest undercover despite having fewer friends and less access and protection than ever before.

• _{Sunday, November 15th, 1998}

  2: Drive

  Mulder is trapped in a car with a man who has developed a serious ear condition which can only be suppressed by driving west at high speeds. As Scully tries to find the cause and a cure for the problem, Mulder and the man get closer and closer to the ocean.

• _{Sunday, November 22nd, 1998}

  3: Triangle

  Mulder goes to the Bermuda Triangle when he learns that the Queen Anne, a British luxury liner which disappeared during WWII, has reappeared in the middle of the Sargasso Sea. Mulder's boat is wrecked and after floating in the water, he is hauled aboard the ship which has just been hijacked by the Nazis searching for the man who will build the atom bomb. Mulder tries to convince the crew that they have traveled into the future, but evidence further suggests that it is he who is back in the past.

• _{Sunday, November 29th, 1998}

  4: Dreamland (1)

  While being detained near the famed "Dreamland" Area 51, a strange craft flies overhead and Mulder swaps bodies with an Area 51 "Man-in-Black". While the other agent has fun in Mulder's body, Mulder himself finds it difficult to fit into someone else's life, especially a shadowy one. Mulder contacts Scully about the body swap and tries to get her the flight data recorder from the UFO test flight, but his alter ego uses Mulder's FBI persona to have him arrested.

• _{Sunday, December 6th, 1998}

  5: Dreamland (2)

  Mulder is thrown in jail at the Area 51 compound but is released when it is discovered that the flight data recorder he stole was a fake. Scully comes to her senses and realizes that the Mulder she sees isn't who he really is and heads back to Nevada to help the real Mulder. Meanwhile, the mechanism that caused the body swap is rapidly snapping back, undoing everything in its wake, and Mulder and his alter ego must race to put themselves back where they belong.

• _{Sunday, December 13th, 1998}

  6: How The Ghosts Stole Christmas

  Mulder talks Scully into investigating a haunted house on Christmas Eve where several couples have met their fate on that very night. While there, they encounter endless tricks and traps set by a ghostly couple who originally made a lovers suicide pact in the house. The ghosts try to convince Mulder and Scully to kill each other.

• _{Sunday, January 3rd, 1999}

  7: Terms of Endearment

  After a scan of a couple's unborn child is found to have strange growths protruding from the head and back, the fetus is taken from inside the mother by a demon creature while she is asleep. Mulder heads to investigate after Agent Spender dismisses the claims, and discovers that the father is actually a demon who wants to have a normal child.

• _{Sunday, January 10th, 1999}

  8: The Rain King

  Strange weather phenomena in a small town leads Mulder to believe that a weatherman's deep emotions and unspoken love toward his workmate are becoming real in the form of snow and tornadoes.

• _{Sunday, January 17th, 1999}

  9: S.R. 819

  Mulder and Scully have 24 hours to save A.D. Skinner from being killed by a biologically engineered disease. The disease appears to be created by a shadowy government organization, but in order to save Skinner's life they must determine who wants him dead and why. With Skinner's condition worsening, Mulder seeks assistance from Senator Matheson, who he hopes can provide some answers and help him to find a cure.

• _{Sunday, January 24th, 1999}

  10: Tithonus

  Assistant Director Kersh tries to tear Scully and Mulder apart when he partners Scully with a New York agent investigating Alfred Fellig, a freelance police photographer who conveniently shows up to document the scene of a death as soon as it happens. While the young hotshot agent is convinced that Fellig is murdering the people, Scully has other (paranormal) theories.

• _{Sunday, February 7th, 1999}

  11: Two Fathers (1)

  While the Cigarette-Smoking Man recites to an unseen listener everything about the work of the Syndicate involving a global conspiracy in cooperation with an alien species, Cassandra Spender reappears and is pursued by the scientists who would rather kill her than keep her alive. Cassandra runs to Mulder's apartment and demands that he shoot her because she is the culmination of 50 years work - a living alien/human hybrid - and colonization will begin if the aliens find out about her.

• _{Sunday, February 14th, 1999}

  12: One Son (2)

  The Cigarette-Smoking Man reveals all the government secrets from the past 50 years in order for his son, Jeffery Spender, to join him in his work. Mulder learns that the final stage of the conspiracy will soon begin with the hybridization of the Syndicate members, and he must stop it from happening. Agent Spender deceives his father and arranges for Mulder and Scully to be reassigned to the X-Files, which doesn't sit too well with the Cigarette-Smoking Man.

• _{Sunday, February 21st, 1999}

  13: Agua Mala

  Arthur Dales summons Mulder and Scully to his holiday home in Florida where he is concerned over the disappearance of his neighbors. Despite the raging hurricane, Mulder and Scully head out to investigate and discover several strange deaths caused by an octopus-like sea creature that swam in through the overflowing sewer system.

• _{Sunday, February 28th, 1999}

  14: Monday

  A woman is forced to relive the same day over and over as she tries to prevent Mulder and Scully from being killed by her boyfriend during a bank robbery attempt. As the events restart again and again, Mulder's sense of Deja-vu grows stronger.

• _{Sunday, March 7th, 1999}

  15: Arcadia

  On their first official case back on the X-Files, Mulder and Scully go undercover as a married couple at a prestigious planned community where several residents have recently disappeared after failing to comply with the rules and regulations.

• _{Sunday, March 28th, 1999}

  16: Alpha

  A mysterious dog thought to be the last of a rare Asian breed is responsible for several murders which Mulder and Scully are investigating. Now the agents have to find a way to stop the dog before it kills again.

• _{Sunday, April 11th, 1999}

  17: Trevor

  After a tornado rips through a prison camp, one of the inmates disappears from solitary confinement and the prison warden is killed. As Mulder and Scully track him, he appears to have the power to pass through solid matter while changing its composition.

• _{Sunday, April 18th, 1999}

  18: Milagro

  A writer living next to Mulder becomes obsessed with Scully and confesses to her that he is using her for a character in his novel. Scully finds herself strangely drawn to him even though he is now the prime suspect in the murder case that she and Mulder are investigating.

• _{Sunday, April 25th, 1999}

  19: The Unnatural

  Mulder meets with Agent Arthur Dales' brother (also named Arthur) and is told a tale of a talented negro baseball player from Roswell, New Mexico in the 1940's who may have been an alien that ran away from his colony because of his love for the game.

• _{Sunday, May 2nd, 1999}

  20: Three of a Kind

  While on a stakeout of a Government Defense Convention in Las Vegas, The Lone Gunmen are reunited with Susanne Modeski, the mysterious woman who disappeared ten years earlier when they first met Agent Mulder.

• _{Sunday, May 9th, 1999}

  21: Field Trip

  When the bodies of a couple who have been missing for less than a week are discovered to have been reduced to bone, Mulder suggests that recent paranormal phenomena in the area may have caused the accelerated decomposition.

• _{Sunday, May 16th, 1999}

  22: Biogenesis (1)

  Two scientists confer about each of their metal objects that were found in Africa and they theorize that the objects are pieces of a puzzle which could be undeniable proof that human, plant, and animal life did not originate on this planet. When one of the scientists is killed and the objects are stolen, the agents investigate and Mulder begins to experience severe neurological pain caused by the objects.

Season 7

• _{Sunday, November 7th, 1999}

  1: The Sixth Extinction (2)

  While Scully travels to Africa to piece together the meaning of the symbols on the spaceship beached on the Ivory Coast, Mulder is imprisoned by his own frenetic brain activity. He manages to get a message to Skinner who finds Kritschgau, and together they try to understand what is happening to Mulder before it is too late.

• _{Sunday, November 14th, 1999}

  2: The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati (3)

  Scully frantically searches for a way to help her ailing partner without having anyone to turn to for help. A catatonic Mulder's dreams lead him away from his mission and the X-Files to a place which he believes is a better life.

• _{Sunday, November 21st, 1999}

  3: Hungry

  A monster who feeds on human brain matter tries to lead a normal life, but he soon cannot control his feelings of hunger.

• _{Sunday, November 28th, 1999}

  4: Millennium

  As the year 2000 draws closer, the agents are up against a man from the Millennium Group who believes that he can bring about the end of the world on the 31st of December if he resurrects four former members from the dead. To gain more insight into the group and its practices, Mulder and Scully enlist a criminal profiler to assist them in the investigation.

• _{Sunday, December 5th, 1999}

  5: Rush

  A young man who has gained the ability to move faster than the eye can see begins to use his new power to kill his enemies, including the local sheriff who happens to be his father.

• _{Sunday, December 12th, 1999}

  6: The Goldberg Variation

  Mulder and Scully get caught in a real-life Rube Goldberg device when they meet Henry Weems, who just may be the luckiest man on Earth—except everyone around him doesn't seem to be that lucky.

• _{Sunday, January 9th, 2000}

  7: Orison

  Reverend Orison hopes to save Donnie Pfaster's soul by helping him break out of prison, but Donnie immediately plans to go after the victim that once escaped him—Scully.

• _{Sunday, January 16th, 2000}

  8: The Amazing Maleeni

  When a small-time magician performs a trick where it appears that he turns his head all the way around but is then found in his van dead with his head neatly sawed off, Mulder and Scully suspect he was murdered and get caught up in an intricate scheme planned by two magicians trying to rob a bank.

• _{Sunday, January 23rd, 2000}

  9: Signs & Wonders

  Snakes are killing the unrighteous, but Mulder and Scully doubt that this is a case of divine intervention.

• _{Sunday, February 6th, 2000}

  10: Sein Und Zeit (1)

  A young girl inexplicably disappears from her home, and Mulder requests the case even though it is a full FBI matter, not just an X-File. When Mulder takes some outrageous leaps to convince the girl's parents that she will be found, Scully fears that Mulder is becoming too personally involved with the case because of his sister's abduction.

• _{Sunday, February 13th, 2000}

  11: Closure (2)

  After arresting the murderer of Amber-Lynn LaPierre and discovering a mass grave site containing the bodies of dozens of missing children, a man comes to Mulder and claims to have had visions of other victims who aren't buried at the site. Despite Scully's objections, he takes Mulder on a journey which reveals what truly happened to his sister.

• _{Sunday, February 20th, 2000}

  12: X-COPS

  A Los Angeles police officer who is being filmed for the show COPS is attacked by a strange monster and Mulder and Scully are investigating the case. Scully is wary of having their faces put on national television but Mulder welcomes the publicity.

• _{Sunday, February 27th, 2000}

  13: First Person Shooter

  The Lone Gunmen call Mulder and Scully to a virtual reality development lab where they learn that one of the program testers was killed inside the computer generated game environment by the digital image of a woman. Needing to get his yah-yah's, Mulder enters the game to fight the woman, but Scully must step in to save him.

• _{Sunday, March 12th, 2000}

  14: Theef

  Mulder and Scully suspect that hexcraft is the source of threats against a doctor's family.

• _{Sunday, March 19th, 2000}

  15: En Ami

  The Cigarette-Smoking Man offers to show Scully the cure for all diseases if she travels with him, but on one condition—Mulder must not know about her trip.

• _{Sunday, April 2nd, 2000}

  16: Chimera

  As Mulder investigates a missing person case with a key feature being a menacing raven, he learns to enjoy the creature comforts of a well-tended home while Scully must tough it out on an uncomfortable stakeout.

• _{Sunday, April 9th, 2000}

  17: All Things

  A series of coincidences leads Scully to a married man she had an affair with during medical school but left him to protect his family.

• _{Sunday, April 16th, 2000}

  18: Brand X

  While protecting a man due to testify against the Morley cigarette company, Skinner is horrified when the witness dies mysteriously. What the agents soon discover is that a new brand of cigarette has a dangerous secret.

• _{Sunday, April 30th, 2000}

  19: Hollywood A.D.

  Mulder and Scully watch a movie with themselves as characters and are thoroughly disgusted at how they and their case are portrayed on the big screen. They recount how 18 months earlier they were followed around by a Hollywood producer while investigating a case concerning The Lazarus Bowl—a mythical piece of pottery reputed to have inscribed on it the words that Jesus Christ spoke when he raised Lazarus from the dead.

• _{Sunday, May 7th, 2000}

  20: Fight Club

  Mulder and Scully cross paths with two women who are identical and have followed each other across 17 states in the last three years, causing chaos and mayhem wherever they are.

• _{Sunday, May 14th, 2000}

  21: Je Souhaite

  Mulder and Scully discover a genie in a rug who, after 500 years of granting wishes, has come to the conclusion that people are still as greedy and self-centered as they always have been, and she begins to corrupt the wishes she grants if they are not specific enough.

• _{Sunday, May 21st, 2000}

  22: Requiem

  Mulder and Scully return to the town of their first X-Files investigation where a UFO has crashed in the forest. The Cigarette-Smoking Man arranges for Krycek to be released from prison in order for him to make contact with the aliens and begin rebuilding 'The Project'. Scully's health appears to be taking a turn.

Season 8

• _{Sunday, November 5th, 2000}

  1: Within (1)

  Newly appointed Deputy Director Kersh organizes a manhunt for Mulder and assigns Agent John Doggett to head the team. Scully and Skinner go along with the investigation but are warned by Kersh that they will be fired if anything is said about aliens.

• _{Sunday, November 12th, 2000}

  2: Without (2)

  As the search for Mulder intensifies in the Arizona desert, Gibson Praise leads Scully to believe that she is truly closer to her target. Kersh informs Doggett that he has been assigned as Mulder's successor on the X-Files.

• _{Sunday, November 19th, 2000}

  3: Patience

  While tackling his first X-File case about a series of gruesome murders surrounding a bat-like creature, Doggett quickly learns that his investigative techniques are somewhat dissimilar to Scully's.

• _{Sunday, November 26th, 2000}

  4: Roadrunners

  Scully evades Doggett's help in investigating a vicious murder in a remote area of Utah, and she is trapped in the small town by a religious cult that believe a slug-like creature is the second coming of God who needs a human host to survive.

• _{Sunday, December 3rd, 2000}

  5: Invocation

  In 1990 a young boy inexplicably disappeared from his crowded school playground and was never seen again until now—ten years later—and he hasn't aged a day.

• _{Sunday, December 10th, 2000}

  6: Redrum

  A prominent lawyer wakes to find himself in jail and about to be prosecuted for the murder of his wife. However, he has no memory of the event and, when the days begin to regress towards the murder, he realizes he has been given a second chance.

• _{Sunday, December 17th, 2000}

  7: Via Negativa

  Working without Scully's input, Doggett and Skinner try to stop the mysterious murder spree of a drug-induced religious cult leader, and it becomes clear that the man can enter the dreams of the people he knows and can kill them in their sleep.

• _{Sunday, January 7th, 2001}

  8: Surekill

  When a real estate agent is shot inside a prison cell by someone who apparently fired from the roof, Scully and Doggett track him to two exterminators, one of whom has x-ray vision.

• _{Sunday, January 14th, 2001}

  9: Salvage

  A man whose blood is rapidly changing into metal alloy enacts revenge on those who caused his condition.

• _{Sunday, January 21st, 2001}

  10: Badlaa

  An Indian mystic whose son died in a chemical plant accident smuggles himself into the United States and takes his revenge on two families in suburban Washington, D.C.

• _{Sunday, February 4th, 2001}

  11: The Gift

  Doggett comes upon an old case that Mulder kept secret from Scully and he follows up the investigation, hoping to find a possible connection to Mulder's disappearance.

• _{Sunday, February 11th, 2001}

  12: Medusa

  Scully and Doggett must race against the clock to investigate and fight off a contagion lurking in the subway tunnels of Boston.

• _{Sunday, February 18th, 2001}

  13: Per Manum

  When Scully and Doggett are contacted by a man who claims his wife was murdered shortly after giving birth to an alien baby, Scully digs deeper into reports of alien fertilization on humans—and begins to question her own pregnancy and its conception.

• _{Sunday, February 25th, 2001}

  14: This is Not Happening (1)

  When Teresa Hoese (who Scully and Mulder met just before Mulder's abduction) is found in a desert after enduring alien testing, Doggett alerts Scully that this could have something to do with Mulder and his whereabouts. Skinner joins them and they travel to the hospital where Teresa is clinging to life by a thread—and Scully soon realizes this is exactly what's going on with Mulder.

• _{Sunday, April 1st, 2001}

  15: Deadalive (2)

  Shortly after Mulder is buried, Billy Miles is found very dead, but somehow comes back to life. Skinner and Scully put all their hopes into digging up Mulder.

• _{Sunday, April 8th, 2001}

  16: Three Words

  Mulder's request for reassignment to the X-Files is denied by Kersh, who hopes that he will simply quit the FBI. When a census worker is killed on the White House lawn trying to get information to the President, Mulder gets in over his head trying to discover what the man knew.

• _{Sunday, April 15th, 2001}

  17: Empedocles

  Special Agent Reyes enlists Mulder's help in investigating a supernatural killer's connection to the unsolved murder of Doggett's son.

• _{Sunday, April 22nd, 2001}

  18: Vienen

  Mulder and Doggett are reluctantly thrown together to investigate several deaths aboard an oil rig, and Mulder becomes convinced that the rig is really carrying the black oil alien.

• _{Sunday, May 6th, 2001}

  19: Alone

  While Scully takes maternity leave, Doggett is partnered with a young agent who is fascinated with the X-Files and has followed Mulder and Scully's careers. She and Doggett investigate the death of an old man and the disappearance of his son.

• _{Sunday, May 13th, 2001}

  20: Essence (1)

  Mulder and Doggett join forces to investigate the arson attack on a genetics lab where one of the doctors suspected of experimenting with alien impregnation is killed.

• _{Sunday, May 20th, 2001}

  21: Existence (2)

  Mulder, Doggett and Skinner attempt to fight off the alien replicants, and they find a connection to the conspiracy that leads into the FBI. Reyes and Scully head to a remote farm to safeguard the birth of Scully's child.

Season 9

• _{Sunday, November 11th, 2001}

  1: Nothing Important Happened Today (1)

  Agent Doggett investigates the death of an EPA official after his car is forced off a bridge by a woman he picked up. He asks for assistance on the case from Scully, who has returned to her teaching position at the FBI Academy in Quantico.

• _{Sunday, November 18th, 2001}

  2: Nothing Important Happened Today (2)

  Doggett catches up with Shannon McMahon, the woman who the EPA official picked up. She claims to be a super solider and that the people she has killed were poisoning the water supply, and she wants Doggett to expose the truth.

• _{Sunday, December 2nd, 2001}

  3: Dæmonicus

  Doggett and Reyes investigate the murder of a couple in West Virginia that has all the signs of a satanic ritual killing. They link the murder to a doctor who is incarcerated in a mental institute, and Doggett becomes convinced that the doctor is orchestrating the crimes from within the hospital.

• _{Sunday, December 9th, 2001}

  4: 4-D

  During a stakeout of murderer Irwin Lukesh, Doggett sees Reyes attacked by Lukesh, but then we see Reyes and Doggett in her apartment, apparently both fine. Elsewhere at the same time, Doggett is shot and Lukesh identifies Reyes as the shooter. While Reyes is asked for her badge and gun by A.D. Follmer, and Doggett lies in hospital near death, the conflicting circumstances of the stakeout and Doggett's shooting do not add up and it becomes clear that Lukesh possesses the power to switch between parallel universes and alter the events in each.

• _{Sunday, December 16th, 2001}

  5: Lord of the Flies

  When a stunt on a local cable reality show goes horribly wrong resulting in a man's death, Doggett and Reyes investigate. But when flies pour out of the victims eye sockets, they find themselves relying on Scully's expertise and ask her to join the investigation.

• _{Sunday, January 6th, 2002}

  6: Trust No 1

  Scully is approached by a couple who claim their baby has the same abilities as William and have information about the super soldier program; however, they will only talk to Mulder, believing him the only person who can make the connections and uncover the truth. Scully is forced into an awkward situation when she has to decide whether to put Mulder's life in more danger even though she desperately wants to see him.

• _{Sunday, January 13th, 2002}

  7: John Doe

  Scully and Reyes join forces to try and find Doggett when he goes missing. Doggett has his own problems, having woken up in jail in Mexico suffering from amnesia. With no knowledge of who he is, Doggett is befriended by a local who soon has him working smuggling illegal immigrants across the border.

• _{Sunday, January 27th, 2002}

  8: Hellbound

  Agent Reyes takes the lead while investigating an X-file case, surrounding a man found skinned alive after having visions of seeing other people appearing skinned alive. Reyes calls on Scully's expertise to help on the investigation, which pays off when Scully finds a link to a case from 1960.

• _{Sunday, March 3rd, 2002}

  9: Provenance (1)

  When pieces of the spaceship beached in Africa resurface, the conspiracy within the FBI attempts to hide the information from the X-Files, especially the one person for whom the pieces have a special significance - Scully. When Doggett and Reyes discover that Scully and her child have been put in great danger, they race to protect her and William from the evil forces pursuing him, and Scully is forced to take drastic measures to protect her child.

• _{Sunday, March 10th, 2002}

  10: Providence (2)

  Scully is anxious to recover William from his kidnappers and takes matters into her own hands when the FBI's attempts to assist in the investigation are less than helpful. With the help of the Lone Gunmen, Scully discovers terrifying information about her child's captors, and is once again forced to confront the mystery regarding the sinister interest in her son.

• _{Sunday, March 17th, 2002}

  11: Audrey Pauley

  After a car accident, Reyes finds herself in a very gray area, while Doggett desperately denies doctors' diagnoses about his partner, who witnesses a strange disappearance.

• _{Sunday, March 31st, 2002}

  12: Underneath

  Scully, Doggett and Reyes investigate an old case that Doggett worked on as a cop in Brooklyn, dubbed "The Screwdriver Killer". They try to determine whether the man who was convicted and has just been released from prison was actually the man responsible for the murders.

• _{Sunday, April 7th, 2002}

  13: Improbable

  When Reyes uses numerology to connect the murders of several women to an obsessed serial killer, she and Scully become trapped with a mysterious checker-playing man who may or may not be the killer.

• _{Sunday, April 14th, 2002}

  14: Scary Monsters

  Agent Harrison talks Doggett and Reyes into investigating a boy's claim that monsters killed his mother, who was officially determined to have stabbed herself repeatedly.

• _{Sunday, April 21st, 2002}

  15: Jump the Shark

  The agents ask the Lone Gunmen to help find their friendly foe Yves Adele Harlow after former Area 51 Man-In-Black Morris Fletcher claims she is one of the super-soldiers.

• _{Sunday, April 28th, 2002}

  16: William

  Doggett catches someone in the X-files office trying to steal documents pertaining to Mulder's sister. The intruder is a severely scarred man who blames his disfigurement on Government conspirators. He claims the source of that information - and, in fact, the one who helped him gain entry - is Mulder. Although he refuses to divulge the missing agent's whereabouts, the mystery man has enough knowledge of the X-files and its history to lead Doggett to suspect that he just might be Mulder himself. Scully's fears for the safety of her son are elevated when he is injected with an unknown substance. With the mystery surrounding William becoming even darker, Scully must allow herself to send him away for his own safety.

• _{Sunday, May 5th, 2002}

  17: Release

  When an FBI cadet with amazing profiling skills approaches Doggett, Reyes, and Scully with a lead on a suspect in a series of recent murders, he claims the same killer is responsible for the death of Doggett's son. The agents find themselves wondering if his knowledge of the deaths is because of his obsession with the cases he has studied at Quantico, or if he is in some way involved in the murders.

• _{Sunday, May 12th, 2002}

  18: Sunshine Days

  Doggett and Reyes investigate a murder outside the house that the original Brady Bunch series was filmed in. The house is owned by a man named Oliver who is obsessed with the show and has rigged the house into a series of traps and changing appearances to look like the Brady house.

• _{Sunday, May 19th, 2002}

  19: The Truth (1)

  After not knowing Fox Mulder's whereabouts for the last year, A.D. Skinner and Agent Scully learn he's being held for the murder of a military man he couldn't possibly have killed: Knowle Rohrer, one of the government's secret super-soldiers. With Skinner acting as Mulder's defense, people who Mulder has dealt with during his last nine years as an FBI agent testify on his behalf. But the military tribunal isn't interested in the truth.

• _{Sunday, May 19th, 2002}

  20: The Truth (2)

  When an unexpected person comes to Mulder's rescue, Mulder refuses to slip north over the border to safety. Instead, he heads southwest to the Anasazi ruins of New Mexico seeking a mysterious wise man who the Indians call "The Keeper of the Truth".

Season 10

• _{Sunday, January 24th, 2016}

  7: My Struggle

  Fox Mulder and Dana Scully have been contacted by Tad O’Malley, a popular conspiracy theorist web-TV show host who believes he has uncovered a significant government conspiracy. With the assistance of FBI Asst. Dir. Walter Skinner, O’Malley seeks to enlist the help of former X-Files agents Mulder and Scully, who have since severed ties with the FBI. Through O’Malley they are introduced to Sveta, a possible alien abductee who shares shocking information with them that will challenge everything that Mulder has ever believed about the existence of aliens and the government’s role in covering them up.

• _{Sunday, January 24th, 2016}

  1: My Struggle

  Fox Mulder and Dana Scully have been contacted by Tad O’Malley, a popular conspiracy theorist web-TV show host who believes he has uncovered a significant government conspiracy. With the assistance of FBI Asst. Dir. Walter Skinner, O’Malley seeks to enlist the help of former X-Files agents Mulder and Scully, who have since severed ties with the FBI. Through O’Malley they are introduced to Sveta, a possible alien abductee who shares shocking information with them that will challenge everything that Mulder has ever believed about the existence of aliens and the government’s role in covering them up.

• _{Monday, January 25th, 2016}

  8: Founder's Mutation

  A scientist commits suicide, and Mulder and Scully investigate what unseen force may have driven him to it. They uncover a laboratory where extreme genetic experimentation has been going on for decades. The breeding subjects possess unexpected and dangerous powers, and harbor deep resentments.

• _{Monday, January 25th, 2016}

  2: Founder's Mutation

  A scientist commits suicide, and Mulder and Scully investigate what unseen force may have driven him to it. They uncover a laboratory where extreme genetic experimentation has been going on for decades. The breeding subjects possess unexpected and dangerous powers, and harbor deep resentments.

• _{Monday, February 1st, 2016}

  9: Mulder & Scully Meet the Were-Monster

  A dead body is found in the woods. Mulder and Scully try to find out whether it was an animal attack, a serial killer or just a strange creature. Meanwhile, Mulder is able to confront some of his own demons about feeling disillusioned with his life's work.

• _{Monday, February 1st, 2016}

  3: Mulder & Scully Meet the Were-Monster

  A dead body is found in the woods. Mulder and Scully try to find out whether it was an animal attack, a serial killer or just a strange creature. Meanwhile, Mulder is able to confront some of his own demons about feeling disillusioned with his life's work.

• _{Monday, February 8th, 2016}

  10: Home Again

  Mulder and Scully are sent to investigate the murder of a city official, which no human could have committed. Scully deals with a personal tragedy, which brings up old feelings about the child she gave up for adoption.

• _{Monday, February 8th, 2016}

  4: Home Again

  Mulder and Scully are sent to investigate the murder of a city official, which no human could have committed. Scully deals with a personal tragedy, which brings up old feelings about the child she gave up for adoption.

• _{Monday, February 15th, 2016}

  11: Babylon

  An art gallery that's showing potentially offensive artwork is bombed, and Mulder and Scully try to communicate with the comatose bomber to prevent a future attack. A pair of younger FBI agents on the case push Mulder and Scully to examine their own beliefs.

• _{Monday, February 15th, 2016}

  5: Babylon

  An art gallery that's showing potentially offensive artwork is bombed, and Mulder and Scully try to communicate with the comatose bomber to prevent a future attack. A pair of younger FBI agents on the case push Mulder and Scully to examine their own beliefs.

• _{Monday, February 22nd, 2016}

  12: My Struggle II

  The investigations that Mulder and Scully began with Tad O’Malley have awakened powerful enemies. A panic begins as people all over the country suddenly start falling ill, and Scully looks for a cure. Mulder confronts the man whom he believes to be behind it all, but another figure from their past may prove to be the key.

• _{Monday, February 22nd, 2016}

  6: My Struggle II

  The investigations that Mulder and Scully began with Tad O’Malley have awakened powerful enemies. A panic begins as people all over the country suddenly start falling ill, and Scully looks for a cure. Mulder confronts the man whom he believes to be behind it all, but another figure from their past may prove to be the key.

Season 11

• _{Wednesday, January 3rd, 2018}

  1: My Struggle III

  Picking up after the last event series' cliffhanger, Mulder and Scully learn that they aren't the only ones desperately searching for their long-lost son, William. The very fate of the world may depend on it.

• _{Wednesday, January 10th, 2018}

  2: This

  An old friend reaches out to Mulder and Scully in a seemingly impossible way, revealing a chilling secret.

• _{Wednesday, January 17th, 2018}

  3: Plus One

  A spate of deaths, in which the victims were plagued by their own doppelgangers, lead Mulder and Scully to a pair of twins playing a dangerous game.

• _{Wednesday, January 24th, 2018}

  4: The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat

  The idea of The Mandela Effect, in which large groups of people remember an alternate history, Mulder and Scully find out how the X-Files themselves may really have originated.

• _{Wednesday, January 31st, 2018}

  5: Ghouli

  When a pair of teenage girls attack one another, each believing the other to be a monster, Mulder and Scully find that their investigation could possibly lead back to their long-lost son, William.

• _{Wednesday, February 7th, 2018}

  6: Kitten

  Skinner goes AWOL when his past comes back to haunt him. As Mulder and Scully try to track him down, their growing mistrust of him reaches its apex.

• _{Wednesday, February 28th, 2018}

  7: Rm9sbG93ZXJz

  In a world of ever-increasing automation and artificial intelligence, Mulder and Scully find themselves targets in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse.

• _{Wednesday, March 7th, 2018}

  8: Familiar

  Mulder and Scully investigate the brutal animal attack of a little boy in Connecticut, while suspecting darker forces are at play.

• _{Wednesday, March 14th, 2018}

  9: Nothing Lasts Forever

  While investigating human organ theft, Mulder and Scully uncover a mysterious cult consumed with macabre rituals.

• _{Wednesday, March 21st, 2018}

  10: My Struggle IV

  Mulder and Scully rush to find an on-the-run William while the Cigarette Smoking Man pushes forward with his ultimate plan.