The X-Files: Resist or Serve

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The X-Files: Resist or Serve is a survival horror game for the PlayStation 2 video game console (the game was also supposed to be released for the Xbox video game console, but this version was cancelled) and is based on the television series The X-Files. This is the second game based on the series, after The X-Files Game.

Plot summary

Serving as three new episodes set during the show's 7th season, the game follows FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder (voiced by David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (voiced by Gillian Anderson) as they travel to a small town in the Rocky Mountains to dig into the source of some strange and unexplained murders. Sightings of ghostly apparitions, zombies and hints of alien presence lead them on a chase for an "inhuman" killer. During the course of the story, Mulder and Scully follow leads to a remote location in Russia and then discover, and search, a mysterious half-buried alien space ship. Players can play as Mulder or Scully as they desperately attempt to prevent alien colonization of our planet.

The game features the famous theme music from The X-Files series by Mark Snow, as well as voice acting by the show's actors. Additionally, bonuses with the game include "behind the scenes" footage (humorously featuring several of the male actors recording their lines while wearing bright red lipstick, a common practice used to get better enunciation and crisper sound) and commentaries from the series. The game follows the The X-Files series' established canon, including the themes of alien colonization and the "black oil". Players also investigate various sets from the series, including the FBI office, Mulder's apartment building, and the Russian camp where Mulder and Alex Krycek were subjected to the black oil. Many of the major and minor characters from the show make appearances, including Skinner, Kersh, the Lone Gunmen, Krycek and the Cigarette Smoking Man.

The X-Files Game

The X-Files Game is an adventure game for the PlayStation video game console, PC, and Macintosh and is based on the television series The X-Files. The series would inspire a second game, The X-Files: Resist or Serve.

Plot summary

The game takes place somewhere within the timeline of the third season of The X-Files series. The story follows a young Seattle-based FBI agent named Craig Willmore (played by Jordan Lee Williams) who is assigned by Assistant Director Walter Skinner to investigate the disappearance of agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, who were last seen in the Everett, Washington area. Agent Willmore must use his state-of-the-art spy tools: night vision goggles, a digital camera, PDA (an Apple Newton), lock picks, evidence kit, a standard issue revolver, handcuffs and badge, to follow their trail. Along the way, he is partnered with a Seattle Police Department detective named Mary Astadourian (played by Paige Witte) and a minor subplot involves a relationship developing between the two.

Several of the actors from the TV series reprise their roles in the game, including David Duchovny (Mulder), Gillian Anderson (Scully), Mitch Pileggi (Skinner), Steven Williams (X) and - very briefly and depending upon the outcome of the game, William B. Davis (Cigarette Smoking Man). The game is set around Seattle and was filmed in that city. The TV series actors filmed their relatively brief appearances in the game just before entering production on the feature film. The game's plotline involves aliens taking over the bodies of humans and contains many references to the show's mytharc, during the course of the game the "present day" date of April 1996 is displayed alongside certain locations, placing this "episode" before the season three episode "Wetwired" and after "Avatar", which take place April 27th and March 7th respectively. This is also after the first incident with the alien black oil in the 'Piper Maru' episode of Season Three. The screenplay for X-Files The Game was written by Richard Dowdy, from a story by Chris Carter.

Game play

The game uses a point-and-click interface, uses full motion video technology called Virtual Cinema, and includes a large number of cut scenes. Included in the gameplay are numerous occasions in which the player can alter other character's attitudes and reactions depending upon responses and actions (or inactions). Dubbed "UberVariables", certain decisions made by the player can set them along one of three tracks: Paranoia (Willmore will start seeing things like twitching corpses and shadowy figures), Loss (messages from his ex-wife are kinder), and "The X-Track" (more details are revealed about mytharc-related conspiracies). The player can also affect Willmore's relationship with Astadourian positively and negatively based upon how he responds to her suggestions and ideas.

Production

The games developer, HyperBole Studios, had initially rejected the project when Fox approached them. They later became interested when they started to watch the show for themselves.

  • The title's design document/DB was over 1000 pages, while the shooting script was 250+ pages.
  • It was filmed between seasons of The X-Files and just before the feature film, Anderson and Duchovny were of course very busy, thus requiring the disappearance of Mulder and Scully and the introduction of the Willmore character.
  • Around 6 hours of footage was filmed for the game.
  • A former U.S. naval base, Sand Point, was used as the setting for the NSA facility at the end of the game.
  • The boat used as the Tarakan is a training ocean going tug, which had previously been used in a drug smuggling plot.
  • The 'melted blast effects' on the Tarakan were made using water-soluble paint, which caused havoc when it began to rain during filming."Tarakan" is Russian for cockroach.
  • The game was filmed on Digital Betacam tape with Sony cameras and captured using Power Macintoshes running Adobe Premiere and Media 100.

Response

Reviews of the game were mixed, with many critics complaining about the large number of discs required to load the game (7). For the follow-up game, The X-Files: Resist or Serve, a more conventional videogame playing style was employed, similar to the Resident Evil games.

The response from the mainstream and non-computer game press was quite positive, while many hard-core computer publications took the design to task for not allowing the player to control Mulder or Scully or for allowing a "more gameplay." Note the difference in these review scores:

  • Science Fiction Weekly • Windows • Aug 26, 2002 • A out of A+ • 100
  • Adventure Gamers • Windows • Mar 19, 2004 • 80
  • PC Player (Denmark) • Windows • 1998 • 8 out of 10 • 80
  • WomenGamers.com • Windows • Jul 02, 1999 • 5 out of 10 • 50
  • GameSpot • PlayStation • Jun 19, 1998 • 5.1 out of 10 • 46

The X-Files Season 9 Episodes Description

Season 9


Season 9, Episode 1: Nothing Important Happened Today

Original Air Date: 11 November 2001
Doggett's investigation of Kersh and the FBI isn't making him any friends, especially Brad Follmer, a new Assistant Director who has a romantic past with Reyes. Meanwhile Scully denies to tell anyone where Mulder has gone while a female super soldier is on the loose and may give Doggett the clues he needs to make his point known.

Season 9, Episode 2: Nothing Important Happened Today II

Original Air Date: 18 November 2001
While Reyes and Skinner try to convince him otherwise, Doggett practically goes rogue for his own pursuit of the Truth. His findings, and help from the female super soldier Shannon McMahon, may lead to answers critical to the status and health of William Scully. But Knowle Rohrer is back from 'the dead' and stands in their way.

Season 9, Episode 3: Dæmonicus

Original Air Date: 2 December 2001
A professor/inmate in a psychiatric ward may be influencing other men to kill ritualistically. Though Doggett sees it as pure manipulation, Reyes can't help but suspect none else but the devil himself possessing the professor's body.

Season 9, Episode 4: 4-D

Original Air Date: 9 December 2001
A killer murders Reyes and mortally wounds Doggett...in another dimension. Reyes, under investigation for a nearly killed Doggett realizes the killer can shift dimensions to fill out his disgusting fantasies.

Season 9, Episode 5: Lord of the Flies

Original Air Date: 16 December 2001
Doggett and Reyes are unsure whether a boy intentionally or unintentionally can control the habits of flies; during the investigation Scully acquires a new 'partner'.

Season 9, Episode 6: Trust No 1

Original Air Date: 6 January 2002
Mulder contacts Scully which sets off a chain of events involving an NSA man obsessed with speaking and giving information to Mulder.

Season 9, Episode 7: John Doe

Original Air Date: 13 January 2002
Doggett wakes up in Mexico and can't remember his name or what he is doing there. His only clues are small flashbacks of a child (his son) and two mysterious marks on his head.

Season 9, Episode 8: Hellbound

Original Air Date: 27 January 2002
Reyes finds herself inexplicably connected to a case involving ex-cons who are being skinned.

Season 9, Episode 9: Provenance

Original Air Date: 3 March 2002
A man is chased from the Canada/US border and reportedly burned alive though his body is not found. Meanwhile, in the burned remains the FBI finds papers with the same UFO markings Scully found in Africa.

Season 9, Episode 10: Providence

Original Air Date: 10 March 2002
Scully's baby becomes a bargaining chip for a psychotic UFO cult that feels the baby is ultimately connected to a UFO they have uncovered.

Season 9, Episode 11: Audrey Pauley

Original Air Date: 17 March 2002
Reyes is seriously injured in a car accident and finds herself in a hospital similar to purgatory with other hospital patients suffering from serious traumas. Slowly they all begin to disappear. Meanwhile, in the real world, Doggett refuses to accept his friend's 'mortal' wounds and uses a bizarre hospital employee to both connect with Reyes in the other-world and capture a 'Dr. Death.'

Season 9, Episode 12: Underneath

Original Air Date: 31 March 2002
After thirteen years in prison, a man named Fassl is released and cleared of murder charges when DNA evidence proves he had nothing to do with the murder of an entire family though he was present on the scene. Doggett, who made the arrest, refuses to accept Fassl's innocence and pursues the case again.

Season 9, Episode 13: Improbable

Original Air Date: 7 April 2002
Reyes, Doggett, and Scully are pulled into a bizarre serial murder case involving the number '3', numerology on a whole, and an eccentric man who likes to play checkers.

Season 9, Episode 14: Scary Monsters

Original Air Date: 14 April 2002
Reyes and Doggett, with the aid of a young Mulder-worshiping FBI agent, investigate a father who is exhibiting bizarre behavior regarding his son who he has kept hidden from the outside world.

Season 9, Episode 15: Jump the Shark

Original Air Date: 21 April 2002
The Lone Gunmen, with the (unwanted) aide of Morris Fletcher, must stop a destructive virus from entering the populace.

Season 9, Episode 16: William

Original Air Date: 28 April 2002
A disfigured man attacks Doggett trying to retrieve X-Files for Mulder...but he might be Mulder himself.

Season 9, Episode 17: Release

Original Air Date: 5 May 2002
A Frank Black-esque cadet in Scully's class directs Doggett to a current murder case that may have something to do with a case that went unsolved 9 years prior...the murder of his young son.

Season 9, Episode 18: Sunshine Days

Original Air Date: 12 May 2002
Reyes and Doggett investigate two murders revolving around a house that is, at some points in time, identical to the Brady Bunch house.

Season 9, Episode 19: The Truth: Parts 1 & 2

Original Air Date: 19 May 2002
Mulder's return leads to his being tried before a military tribunal that seeks to justify and prove the very existence of an alien conspiracy -- and the X-Files.

The X-Files Season 8 Episodes Description

Season 8


Season 8, Episode 1: Within

Original Air Date: 5 November 2000
New Deputy Director Kersh has Agent John Doggett investigate the missing Mulder case. Doggett's skeptical treatment of Mulder's disappearance puts a thorn in Scully and Skinner's sides.

Season 8, Episode 2: Without

Original Air Date: 12 November 2000
Scully leads Skinner and an unhappy Doggett to Arizona to protect Gibson Praise from an Alien Bounty Hunter disguised as the missing Mulder.

Season 8, Episode 3: Patience

Original Air Date: 19 November 2000
Scully isn't exactly warm to Doggett on their first X-File together in which they investigate a human bat.

Season 8, Episode 4: Roadrunners

Original Air Date: 26 November 2000
Doggett is a little dismayed when Scully investigates a murder in a barely inhabited town in Utah without him. When Scully's car breaks down and she finds the town people aren't as sweet as they seem she struggles to find a way out of the demented town.

Season 8, Episode 5: Invocation

Original Air Date: 3 December 2000
Doggett and Scully once again butt heads on their latest X-File which involves a boy who has returned after being missing for ten years but still appears to be seven years old, the age he was the day he was abducted.

Season 8, Episode 6: Redrum

Original Air Date: 10 December 2000
A man lives the most recent 5 days of his life backwards and finds out that he is the main suspect in the murder of his wife.

Season 8, Episode 7: Via Negativa

Original Air Date: 17 December 2000
While Scully tends to her secret, Doggett and Skinner team up to track a cult leader who may be a psychic assassin.

Season 8, Episode 8: Surekill

Original Air Date: 7 January 2001
Doggett and Scully deal with a killer who may have X-Ray vision.

Season 8, Episode 9: Salvage

Original Air Date: 14 January 2001
A man believed to be dead from Gulf War Syndrome comes back to life and slowly turns into metal.

Season 8, Episode 10: Badlaa

Original Air Date: 21 January 2001
A small Indian man on a creaky cart is believed to have the ability to leap into people's bodies.

Season 8, Episode 11: The Gift

Original Air Date: 4 February 2001
Scully and Doggett investigate a case Mulder was working on before he disappeared involving a family and a monster straight from Native American lore.

Season 8, Episode 12: Medusa

Original Air Date: 11 February 2001
Doggett takes to the Boston subways to try to figure out where a deadly virus that is killing citizens is coming from.

Season 8, Episode 13: Per Manum

Original Air Date: 18 February 2001
Scully stumbles upon a woman whose abductee experience and symptoms are amazingly similar. The fear now is that both their upcoming births will be to non-human offspring.

Season 8, Episode 14: This Is Not Happening

Original Air Date: 25 February 2001
Jeremiah Smith appears out of nowhere and formerly dead abductees are coming back to life, giving Scully and Skinner the idea that Mulder may have a shot at still being alive.

Season 8, Episode 15: Deadalive

Original Air Date: 1 April 2001
Billy Miles, thought dead, is found alive and Scully still thinks the still-dead Mulder can come back to life; meanwhile Skinner comes in contact with Krycek who may have a clue as to what exactly is happening with these dead-alive abductees.

Season 8, Episode 16: Three Words

Original Air Date: 8 April 2001
A man is shot on the White House lawn with a disk titled "Fight the Future"; Mulder, on the brink of expulsion from the X-Files, investigates while Doggett uses an old friend from the military, Knowle Rohrer, as an insider to the possibility of a conspiracy.

Season 8, Episode 17: Empedocles

Original Air Date: 22 April 2001
When some of us are vulnerable we can let pure evil come inside us, like in the case of a recently fired worker. But does the evil inside him have a connection to the murder of Doggett's son Luke?

Season 8, Episode 18: Vienen

Original Air Date: 29 April 2001
Doggett and Mulder unwillingly team up investigating an oil rig where some mysterious murders have happened and the possibility of the Black Cancer being involved is a haunting reality.

Season 8, Episode 19: Alone

Original Air Date: 6 May 2001
A bizarre reptilian creature captures Doggett and his new Mulder-obsessed partner underground and only a X-Files deposed Mulder can help them.

Season 8, Episode 20: Essence

Original Air Date: 13 May 2001
The X-Files team must protect Agent Scully and her unborn child as groups of Super Soldiers try to stop her pregnancy.

Season 8, Episode 21: Existence

Original Air Date: 20 May 2001
Agents Mulder, Doggett and Skinner investigate (along with Alex Krycek) the Super Soldier conspiracy, while Scully goes into hiding to have her child.


The X-Files Season 7 Episodes Description

Season 7


Season 7, Episode 1: The Sixth Extinction

Original Air Date: 7 November 1999
In Africa, Scully searches for answers for Mulder's condition by studying rubbings taken from the fallen spacecraft. Back in D.C., Skinner tries to help Mulder by finding Michael Kritschgau at Mulder's request, who may know what is causing Mulder's accelerated brain activity.

Season 7, Episode 2: The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati

Original Air Date: 14 November 1999
Mulder's condition continues to deteriorate. He is kidnapped from the hospital by the Cigarette Smoking Man for insidious purposes. Mulder experiences dreams of another life, away from the x-files. Scully searches frantically for Mulder before it's too late.

Season 7, Episode 3: Hungry

Original Air Date: 21 November 1999
Rob Roberts has an addiction to human brains. As he tries to control this overpowering hunger and turn his life around, Mulder and Scully try to find out who the brain-eating monster is.

Season 7, Episode 4: Millennium

Original Air Date: 28 November 1999
At the turn of the 21st century, a religious fanatic enlisted by the Millennium Group resurrects four members of the group as zombies to bring about the end of the world. Mulder and Scully enlist the help of Frank Black to help stop the apocalyptic designs of the Millennium Group.

Season 7, Episode 5: Rush

Original Air Date: 5 December 1999
A high school boy is accused of the violent murder of a sheriff's deputy. Mulder believes he is innocent. The agents find that someone with super-human speed may be the culprit.

Season 7, Episode 6: The Goldberg Variation

Original Air Date: 12 December 1999
A man is tossed off the top of a 29 story building by gangsters. Amazingly, he gets up and walks away unscathed. Mulder and Scully investigate when Mulder suspects this man may have paranormal abilities. The man in question may just be the luckiest man on Earth.

Season 7, Episode 7: Orison

Original Air Date: 9 January 2000
Five years have passed since Scully escaped from Donnie Pfaster, an obsessed death fetishist. When Reverend Orison helps the madman get away from prison he immediately turns to the 'one' that got away...Scully.

Season 7, Episode 8: The Amazing Maleeni

Original Air Date: 16 January 2000
Mulder and Scully investigate the apparent murder of a magician who was decapitated just minutes after he was able to perform the trick of turning his head around 360 degrees. The agents are perplexed when Scully discovers during the autopsy that the deceased died well before he performed his final trick.

Season 7, Episode 9: Signs & Wonders

Original Air Date: 23 January 2000
A man is found dead in his locked car, killed from over a hundred snake bites. However, no evidence of snakes being present is found. The man was a former member of a religious cult that believes in snake handling. Mulder and Scully believe that this snake death was no accident, and that it may have been a murder involving this snake handling cult.

Season 7, Episode 10: Sein und Zeit

Original Air Date: 6 February 2000
Mulder requests to be put on the case of a seemingly routine child abduction case of a missing little girl. Mulder finds a connection between this case and old x-files involving missing children. Scully believes that Mulder is personalizing the case, relating it to the abduction of his sister Samantha.

Season 7, Episode 11: Closure

Original Air Date: 13 February 2000
Mulder enlists the help of Harold Piller, a police psychic, to search for the missing girl, Amber Lynn LaPierre. Meanwhile, Scully searches for answers about Samantha's abduction, leading her to the Cigarette Smoking Man. Both of their investigations lead to Mulder finally learning the truth about his sister's disappearance.

Season 7, Episode 12: X-Cops

Original Air Date: 20 February 2000
The investigation of a neighborhood monster isn't too weird for the crew of Cops to follow around Mulder and Scully.

Season 7, Episode 13: First Person Shooter

Original Air Date: 27 February 2000
The Lone Gunmen request Mulder and Scully's assistance in a murder case at a video game company. A virtual reality game has gone haywire, and players are dying for real at the hands of Maitreya, the central character in this game. Mulder and Scully enter the game in an attempt to find and stop the killer.

Season 7, Episode 14: Theef

Original Air Date: 12 March 2000
Voodoo appears to be involved in the murder of a prominent doctor's father-in-law. Mulder and Scully work to stop the killer who uses hex-craft to exact his revenge on the doctor's family.

Season 7, Episode 15: En Ami

Original Air Date: 19 March 2000
A boy is miraculously cured of his cancer, without medical treatment. After Scully visits the boy and his family, she is met by the Cigarette Smoking Man. He offers Scully the chance to obtain the cure for all cancer in exchange for going on a trip with him to get the cure and keeping the trip a secret from Mulder.

Season 7, Episode 16: Chimera

Original Air Date: 2 April 2000
Mulder and Scully are on a stakeout of a female serial-killer of prostitutes. Mulder gets called away from the stakeout by Skinner to investigate the disappearance of federal judge's daughter. The strange appearance of a raven shortly before she went missing leads Mulder to believe this case may have paranormal significance.

Season 7, Episode 17: All Things

Original Air Date: 9 April 2000
Scully is finishing up the autopsy of a person at a hospital. A file mix-up involving the autopsy folder and another patient's x-ray leads Scully to discover a former lover of hers has been admitted at the hospital. Meeting with him again causes Scully to re-examine the decisions she has made in her life, leading to her where she is to today.

Season 7, Episode 18: Brand X

Original Air Date: 16 April 2000
A potential witness in a high-profile tobacco case under Skinner's supervision, is found dead in his bathroom from mysterious circumstances. Skinner asks Mulder and Scully to assist him in the investigation. They find a man who smokes a unique kind of cigarettes, the second-hand smoke of which, has deadly results for the inhaler.

Season 7, Episode 19: Hollywood A.D.

Original Air Date: 30 April 2000
Skinner's buddy from college, Wayne Federman, trails Mulder and Scully on a case involving a pipe bombing in a church, at Skinner's insistence. Wayne is a writer/producer from Hollywood gathering material for a FBI-based movie. Mulder and Scully turn out to be the reluctant stars of this movie by Federman.

Season 7, Episode 20: Fight Club

Original Air Date: 7 May 2000
Two strikingly similar women, who do not know one another, cause people to erupt into violence upon each other, whenever these two women come in contact. Mulder and Scully set out to solve the mystery of this unexplained violence involving the two women.

Season 7, Episode 21: Je Souhaite

Original Air Date: 14 May 2000
Two brothers have a less than helpful genie who grants their wishes with disastrous consequences. Mulder comes into possession of the same genie, and his wishes garner similar results.

Season 7, Episode 22: Requiem

Original Air Date: 21 May 2000
Nearly a decade since their first case, Agents Mulder and Scully return to Oregon to investigate a strange entity in a forest, risking their partnership and lives.


The X-Files Season 6 Episodes Description

Season 6


Season 6, Episode 1: The Beginning

Original Air Date: 8 November 1998
Mulder and Scully's ability to pursue the X-Files and their partnership is threatened by the hunt for a deadly creature in the Arizona desert, whose capture could prove Mulder's theories about the existence of extraterrestrial life.

Season 6, Episode 2: Drive

Original Air Date: 15 November 1998
With Mulder trapped in a car by a seemingly deranged man, Scully races to determine if the man is suffering from a deadly illness and if Mulder is in danger of becoming the next victim.

Season 6, Episode 3: Triangle

Original Air Date: 22 November 1998
A trip to the Bermuda Triangle lands Mulder in the middle of a bizarre conflict on a mysterious ship, with the fate of the world in his hands.

Season 6, Episode 4: Dreamland

Original Air Date: 29 November 1998
An anonymous tip finally brings Mulder and Scully to the mecca of all UFO lore, Area 51. But when the agents witness the flight of a mysterious craft, their lives are profoundly and perhaps irrevocably altered.

Season 6, Episode 5: Dreamland II

Original Air Date: 6 December 1998
Scully begins to suspect that her partner's strange behavior is more than it appears to be, while Mulder fights to return his life to normal before it's too late.

Season 6, Episode 6: How the Ghosts Stole Christmas

Original Air Date: 13 December 1998
On Christmas Eve, Mulder and Scully stakeout a house that is supposedly haunted by the ghosts of two lovers who killed each other in a lovers' pact 81 years before. Inside, the agents find two apparitions who are more than willing to give insight into the relationship and personalities of Mulder and Scully.

Season 6, Episode 7: Terms of Endearment

Original Air Date: 3 January 1999
Mulder suspects demon fetal harvesting when a woman claims her unborn child had a horn and tail and was taken by a devil while she slept. While others conclude that the woman killed her own baby, Mulder suspects that her husband is involved and that he may be the devil in disguise.

Season 6, Episode 8: The Rain King

Original Air Date: 10 January 1999
A mayor of a small town asks Mulder and Scully to investigate Daryl Mootz, a man who apparently can make it rain at will. The mayor believes Mootz is responsible for causing a local drought so that he can charge individuals for rain on their farms.

Season 6, Episode 9: S.R. 819

Original Air Date: 17 January 1999
Skinner comes down with a mysterious condition that puts him on the verge of death. An unknown voice on the phone tells Skinner that he has 24 hours to live. Mulder and Scully rush to find a cure for his condition. His impending death is somehow linked to S.R. 819, a Senate resolution that will supply money and medical supplies to the World Health Organization.

Season 6, Episode 10: Tithonus

Original Air Date: 24 January 1999
Agent Scully gets paired up with a new partner to investigate a singular case. Alfred Fellig, a freelance crime photographer, has a knack for arriving at crime scenes shortly after the murder and long before the police arrive. Local authorities suspect Fellig may be killing the victims himself before photographing them.

Season 6, Episode 11: Two Fathers

Original Air Date: 7 February 1999
After being gone for almost a year following her abduction, Cassandra Spender reappears, in perfect physical condition as the first successful alien/human hybrid. The consortium scrambles as the faceless alien rebels seek to expose their conspiracy with the colonizing aliens. Mulder and Scully try to discover the identity of the Cigarette Smoking Man and protect Cassandra from the consortium who want her dead.

Season 6, Episode 12: One Son

Original Air Date: 14 February 1999
Agents Mulder and Scully find themselves under strict quarantine after coming into contact with Cassandra Spender. Meanwhile, the suspicious Diana Fowley increases her loyalties to the Cigarette Smoking Man.

Season 6, Episode 13: Agua Mala

Original Air Date: 21 February 1999
At Arthur Dales' request, the agents go to Florida during a hurricane to investigate the disappearance of Mr. Dales' neighbors, two marine biologists and their son. During the storm, Mulder and Scully get stranded in an apartment building where a sea monster is on the loose.

Season 6, Episode 14: Monday

Original Air Date: 28 February 1999
A bank robbery gone wrong turns into disaster for Mulder and Scully. Mulder gets shot by the bank robber, and he and Scully, along with everyone else in the bank are blown up by a bomb strapped to the bank robber's chest. However, this same day continues to repeat in an endless cycle always ending in the same result.

Season 6, Episode 15: Arcadia

Original Air Date: 7 March 1999
Scully and Mulder go undercover as husband and wife in a high-class planned community where several couples have gone missing.

Season 6, Episode 16: Alpha

Original Air Date: 28 March 1999
Mulder and Scully investigate a series of murders that may be connected to a Chinese breed of dog.

Season 6, Episode 17: Trevor

Original Air Date: 11 April 1999
An escaped convict apparently has the ability to pass through solid objects. He has $90,000 hidden somewhere from the bank robbery for which he was imprisoned. Mulder and Scully must find the deadly convict before he can get to his ex-girlfriend and the money.

Season 6, Episode 18: Milagro

Original Air Date: 18 April 1999
An introverted writer, Philip Padgett, develops an obsession with Scully and moves into Mulder's building in order to be closer to her. Inspired by her, Padgett writes his magnum opus: a story of secret love and serial murder, featuring Scully and Padgett as main characters. However, the murders in his story begin occurring exactly as written. As he struggles to finish his novel, Padgett realizes that only Scully's death can produce the perfect ending.

Season 6, Episode 19: The Unnatural

Original Air Date: 25 April 1999
Mulder uncovers a story involving a Negro baseball player in the 1940s who played for a minor league team in Roswell. When in a photograph he sees the Alien Bounty Hunter it is assumed that Josh Exley, the baseball player in question, might just be alien himself.

Season 6, Episode 20: Three of a Kind

Original Air Date: 2 May 1999
The Lone Gunmen are at a defense contractors convention in Las Vegas trying to get inside information on military secrets. When Byers spots Susanne Modeski at a casino, he convinces the other lone gunmen to trick Scully into coming to Las Vegas to help them investigate why Susanne Modeski is there and what she is up to.

Season 6, Episode 21: Field Trip

Original Air Date: 9 May 1999
A young married couple's skeletons are found together on a field in the mountains after only being reported missing for three days. The area where their skeletons were found is known for UFO activity, so Mulder and Scully go there to investigate it. Mulder finds the couple alive and all signs point to an alien abduction. But everything is not as it seems.

Season 6, Episode 22: Biogenesis

Original Air Date: 16 May 1999
An artifact with strange engravings on it is found off of the coast of Africa. When a rubbing of these engravings is shown to Mulder, confusing noises happen inside his head. The agents look to uncover the origin of this mysterious artifact and to find out why it is having a singular effect on Mulder.


The X-Files Season 5 Episodes Description

Season 5


Season 5, Episode 1: Redux

Original Air Date: 2 November 1997
Mulder kills a man in self-defense who was spying on him in his apartment. Scully tells the FBI that the dead man in Mulder's apartment is Mulder. Mulder uses the opportunity and the dead man's ID to infiltrate the Department of Defense and search for answers about Scully's cancer. Scully also continues to look for answers about her cancer and the spying done on Mulder.

Season 5, Episode 2: Redux II

Original Air Date: 9 November 1997
As Scully lies in the hospital dying of cancer, Mulder continues to search for answers. The cigarette smoking man approaches Mulder with a deal to quit the FBI and join him in exchange for curing Scully's cancer and learning the truth. Mulder testifies before an FBI sub-committee about the dead man found in his apartment and a possible mole in the FBI.

Season 5, Episode 3: Unusual Suspects

Original Air Date: 16 November 1997
The origins of the Lone Gunmen are shown. At a computer and electronics show in a convention center in 1989 Baltimore, Byers, Frohike, and Langley have separate booths. They combine forces to help a mysterious woman who uses their computer prowess to obtain confidential information about a heinous government plot. A pre-X-Files Agent Mulder appears to be investigating this woman as well.

Season 5, Episode 4: Detour

Original Air Date: 23 November 1997
Mulder and Scully travel to an FBI team seminar in Florida with two other agents. On their way to the seminar, they are stopped by a police roadblock. Mulder and Scully stay to help in the investigation of the mysterious disappearance of a hunter in the Florida Everglades. It appears to be the work of invisible predators.

Season 5, Episode 5: The Post-Modern Prometheus

Original Air Date: 30 November 1997
A letter to Mulder from a woman who has become twice pregnant through strange circumstances, brings the agents to her small town. There Mulder and Scully discover a mad scientist who has been doing experiments with humans and animals. Among these experiments they discover a modern-day Frankenstein's monster, who may possess the answers to their current investigation.

Season 5, Episode 6: Christmas Carol

Original Air Date: 7 December 1997
Agent Scully is spending Christmas with her family in San Diego. While there, she receives a mysterious phone call from a caller with the voice of her deceased sister, Melissa. Tracing the phone call leads her into the investigation of the death of a woman with a young daughter named Emily. Emily bears an uncanny resemblance to Scully's sister Melissa when she was the same age. This leads Scully to find out who Emily's natural mother is.

Season 5, Episode 7: Emily

Original Air Date: 14 December 1997
With both of her adoptive parents dead, Scully looks to adopt Emily. Mulder and Scully investigate where Emily came from and how she came to be. When they discover that Emily is not quite human, their investigations lead to a large experimentation involving old women being artificially inseminated with alien/human embryos.

Season 5, Episode 8: Kitsunegari

Original Air Date: 4 January 1998
Robert Modell (Pusher) escapes from prison. Mulder and Scully find themselves in another game of "cat and mouse" with a killer who can manipulate the minds of his victims. Mulder questions whether Modell is the one playing the game this time around.

Season 5, Episode 9: Schizogeny

Original Air Date: 11 January 1998
A 16-year-old boy is accused of burying his stepfather alive in the orchard mud. Later, a girl's father is also killed mysteriously near the orchard. It appears the orchard has murderous qualities. Mulder and Scully look into a connection with the two teenagers and their counselor who has a troubled past.

Season 5, Episode 10: Chinga

Original Air Date: 8 February 1998
Scully takes a much needed vacation in New England. When she arrives at a grocery store, Scully encounters several people who have clawed their own eyes. Scully assists the local police department in discovering the cause of this unusual occurrence. Scully's investigations lead her to a single mother with a disturbed little girl and her even more disturbing doll.

Season 5, Episode 11: Kill Switch

Original Air Date: 15 February 1998
Two U.S. marshals, several street-level criminals, and a computer software pioneer (Donald Gelman) are all casualties of a bizarre diner shoot-out in the middle of the night. The Lone Gunmen help Mulder and Scully track down Invisigoth, a computer hacker who knew Gelman. She informs them about an artificial intelligence program created by Gelman that has deadly intentions. The only way to stop it is to feed it the "kill switch", a CD containing a neutralizing virus.

Season 5, Episode 12: Bad Blood

Original Air Date: 22 February 1998
While investigating bizarre exsanguinations in Texas, Mulder kills a teenage boy whom he mistakes for a vampire. Awaiting a meeting with Skinner, Mulder and Scully attempt to get their stories "straight" by relating to each other their differing versions of what happened during their investigation.

Season 5, Episode 13: Patient X

Original Air Date: 1 March 1998
Faceless alien rebels are committing mass murders. Mulder and Scully meet a multiple alien abductee, Cassandra Spender. As the consortium tries to determine how to deal with these new alien rebels, Mulder and Scully work to figure out Cassandra Spender's connection with these mass killings. In their way is Agent Jeffrey Spender, who doesn't believe that his mother, Cassandra Spender, is an alien abductee.

Season 5, Episode 14: The Red and the Black

Original Air Date: 8 March 1998
Mulder and Scully look to retrieve Scully's memories from the incident on the bridge where the mass killings happened. The consortium pressures Krycek for the vaccine to the black oil. As Spender continues the search for his mother, Mulder and Scully go to Wiekamp Air Force Base in hopes of finding the alien rebel being held captive there.

Season 5, Episode 15: Travelers

Original Air Date: 29 March 1998
In pre-x-files 1990, Mulder goes to the home of Arthur Dales, a retired FBI agent. Mulder asks him about an unsolved case from 1952. Arthur Dales tells Mulder the story of his involvement in one of the first x-files. The case also involved Mulder's dad, Bill Mulder.

Season 5, Episode 16: Mind's Eye

Original Air Date: 19 April 1998
A blind woman sees flashes of a murder in her mind. She is later arrested at the site of the crime for the violent killing of a drug dealer. The abrasive woman, Marty, maintains her innocence, despite knowing specific details of the crime. Mulder and Scully investigate Marty's bizarre connection with the crime.

Season 5, Episode 17: All Souls

Original Air Date: 26 April 1998
A wheelchair-bound handicapped girl manages to walk out of her house and is later found dead in a praying position with her eyes burned out. Scully assists in the investigation at the bidding of her priest. She discovers two other girls with the same deformities who may be in a similar danger. The case soon comes to have deep religious and personal significance to Scully concerning her deceased daughter, Emily.

Season 5, Episode 18: The Pine Bluff Variant

Original Air Date: 3 May 1998
During an undercover sting operation on a terrorist organization, Mulder appears to help the suspect escape. Due to Mulder's strange behavior, Scully becomes suspicious of Mulder's involvement in this organization and suspects he may not be working on the side of the FBI.

Season 5, Episode 19: Folie a Deux

Original Air Date: 10 May 1998
Mulder gets sent to investigate a threat made against a telemarketing firm. While at the firm, Mulder gets caught in a hostage crisis where one of the employees claims his boss is a monster and that he is turning the other employees into zombies.

Season 5, Episode 20: The End

Original Air Date: 17 May 1998
During a chess tournament, a young boy becomes the centre of an investigation concerning the alien mythology. Meanwhile a face from Agent Mulder's past causes friction in his relationship with Agent Scully.


The X-Files Season 4 Episodes Description

Season 4


Season 4, Episode 1: Herrenvolk

Original Air Date: 4 October 1996
The continuing search for Jeremiah Smith leads Scully to uncover encrypted data files whose purpose is not yet known. Being closely hunted by an unknown assassin, Jeremiah leads Mulder to a secluded farm in rural Canada while men in suits determine Mrs. Mulder's fate.

Season 4, Episode 2: Home

Original Air Date: 11 October 1996
The remains of an infant suffering from an uncharted amount of birth disabilities are uncovered in a field in rural Home, Pennsylvania. The only suspicious residents are three brothers who have lived on their family farm for twenty-some years. They live there alone. Or do they?

Season 4, Episode 3: Teliko

Original Air Date: 18 October 1996
Several African American men in Philadelphia, PA have gone missing, and one of them turned up dead under mysterious circumstances. All pigment in his skin was lost, and the cause of death may have a connection to an ancient African tribal monster who stalks the night for its prey.

Season 4, Episode 4: Unruhe

Original Air Date: 27 October 1996
An intended passport photo for a missing woman develops warped and twisted, showing her terrified and surrounded by beings. With a little investigation, Mulder develops a theory that the kidnapper of this woman has the power to psychically display his thoughts on film.

Season 4, Episode 5: The Field Where I Died

Original Air Date: 3 November 1996
Agents Mulder and Scully investigate a suspicious religious cult, which inadvertently draws Mulder into recalling a past life, in the field where he died.

Season 4, Episode 6: Sanguinarium

Original Air Date: 10 November 1996
The bizarre, perhaps ritualistic death inside Greenwood Memorial Hospital's Aesthetic Surgery Unit is cause for alarm. Though head practitioners are at first unwilling to help Mulder and Scully with their investigation, several more 'possession killings' force them to.

Season 4, Episode 7: Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man

Original Air Date: 17 November 1996
Mulder and Scully are called to meet with The Lone Gunmen. It is there that Frohike reveals an uncovered history of the infamous Cigarette-Smoking Man. The story told involves his desperate attempts to live a worthy life while continuing to conceal and change American history.

Season 4, Episode 8: Tunguska

Original Air Date: 24 November 1996
When a man carrying a sample of the mythical black oil into the US is detained and the sample is released, the hierarchy involved in its concealment must act. Led by a revived and vengeful Krycek, Mulder and Scully seek to find its origin, its purpose, and perhaps its cure.

Season 4, Episode 9: Terma

Original Air Date: 1 December 1996
Called upon to disclose Agent Mulder's current whereabouts, Scully must stall the hearings until further understanding of the mysterious "black cancer" is revealed. Mulder, in the mean time, must escape a Russian prison camp, or be subjected to the "testing" until he dies.

Season 4, Episode 10: Paper Hearts

Original Air Date: 15 December 1996
A recurring dream of Mulder's leads him to discover the 14th victim of a serial killer whom he caught years before as a detective. The murderer takes heart-shaped fabric from each of his young girl victims' clothing, and insists Mulder go on a goose-hunt to find the final two missing girls - one of which may be his sister.

Season 4, Episode 11: El Mundo Gira

Original Air Date: 12 January 1997
White flashes of lightning followed by yellow rain in southern California north of the border give new life to an old Mexican folk-tale of El Chupacabra, a gray-skinned being whose victims decompose fast. Are the stories true, or is there simply a new viral pathogen in the world?

Season 4, Episode 12: Leonard Betts

Original Air Date: 26 January 1997
After an ambulance accident leaves Pittsburgh, PA's EMT of the Year Leonard Betts without a head, and what's left of his body seems to walk right out of the morgue, Mulder and Scully investigate. They find what may be evidence of evolution from man to something... cancerous.

Season 4, Episode 13: Never Again

Original Air Date: 2 February 1997
Agent Mulder has taken a week-long vacation and it's up to Scully to track several Russian war veterans in Philadelphia, PA. She arrives, upset and disturbed, but soon is distracted by a single man with a tattoo. The tattoo, unfortunately, has a cynical mind that is eager to kill.

Season 4, Episode 14: Memento Mori

Original Air Date: 9 February 1997
The horrible truth behind Scully's illness is revealed: she has cancer and may die. Such has been the fate of a dozen other women who, last year, introduced themselves as abductees and made claims of being with Dana on an alien space ship. Mulder must find a cure, and fast.

Season 4, Episode 15: Kaddish

Original Air Date: 16 February 1997
Three teenage murder suspects involved in the death of a Jewish store clerk in Brooklyn, New York, are in danger, for it seems that the murder victim himself is vengefully claiming their lives. Mulder and Scully work to solve the case, but their suspect may not be alive enough for them to take in, or stop.

Season 4, Episode 16: Unrequited

Original Air Date: 23 February 1997
The execution of an honored military general by a seemingly invisible assailant receives the attention of Assistant Director Skinner and a special task force including Mulder and Scully. The feds have less than twelve hours to find the mysterious man before more generals are killed.

Season 4, Episode 17: Tempus Fugit

Original Air Date: 16 March 1997
Mulder and Scully investigate a plane crash in New York state. The crash appears to be UFO caused because one of the passengers was Max Fennig, an alien abductee, who Mulder and Scully know from a previous encounter. The agents work against the military which attempts to cover up what really happened to that flight.

Season 4, Episode 18: Max

Original Air Date: 23 March 1997
The investigation continues for agents Mulder and Scully of the apparent downing of Flight 549 by a UFO. They encounter deadly opposition from the military which continues to cover up the truth of incident.

Season 4, Episode 19: Synchrony

Original Air Date: 13 April 1997
A mysterious old man is killing scientists working on the development of a cryobiologic compound. He freezes them to death with this same compound that doesn't even exist yet.

Season 4, Episode 20: Small Potatoes

Original Air Date: 20 April 1997
Five unrelated women in a small town give birth to babies with small tails. The prime suspect is a man who can shape shift into whomever he wants.

Season 4, Episode 21: Zero Sum

Original Air Date: 27 April 1997
A swarm of bees mysteriously kill a postal worker in an enclosed restroom. Assistant Director Skinner covers up the evidence. Mulder investigates Skinner's apparent involvement with the crime.

Season 4, Episode 22: Elegy

Original Air Date: 4 May 1997
Several women are killed in the same manner within blocks of each other. One of the dead women's ghost is seen by the proprietor of a bowling alley attempting to communicate. The cryptic message "She is me" is found where the apparition appeared. It's also apparently the dying woman's final words.

Season 4, Episode 23: Demons

Original Air Date: 11 May 1997
Mulder wakes up in a strange motel room with blood on his shirt and not knowing how he arrived there. A double murder has been committed with Mulder's gun. Mulder and Scully attempt to clear Mulder's name while finding out what is causing Mulder's memory lapses and blackouts.

Season 4, Episode 24: Gethsemane

Original Air Date: 18 May 1997
Mulder is given an opportunity to obtain irrefutable proof of the existence of extra-terrestrial beings. At the same time, Scully deals with her cancer. Michael Kritschgau, a Department of Defense employee, later gives Mulder information that turns Mulder's beliefs about extra-terrestrial life upside down.


The X-Files Season 3 Episodes Description

Season 3


Season 3, Episode 1: The Blessing Way

Original Air Date: 22 September 1995
A furious pursuit of Agent Mulder is underway, and more importantly, the government wants the data tape he carried. Agent Scully, against all odds, searches to uncover his whereabouts, persisting that he is alive when all others deny it.

Season 3, Episode 2: Paper Clip

Original Air Date: 29 September 1995
Mulder returns to Skinner and Scully while the deadly pursuit is still at hand. Led by an old photograph of his father and a group of scientists, he and Scully discover more than they could imagine in an old West Virginia warehouse. The truth, of course, may kill everyone.

Season 3, Episode 3: D.P.O.

Original Air Date: 6 October 1995
One of the best episodes of the X-files, starring a highly promising young actor (Giovanni Ribisi) beside Scully & Mulder. Additionally, a young Jack Black plays the character "Zero". A local teen discovers he has gained great electrical powers after surviving being struck by lightning. Easily a classic episode and well worth checking out.

Season 3, Episode 4: Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose

Original Air Date: 13 October 1995
Several local psychics in St. Paul, MN are found dead in their stores with no real evidence left behind. When the police department hires a famous psychic to lead their case, Mulder and Scully are quite skeptical - but Mulder's found a psychic of his own.

Season 3, Episode 5: The List

Original Air Date: 20 October 1995
Napoleon "Neech" Manley, an inmate in East Point State Penitentiary, FL, has gotten the electric chair. Before dying, Neech prophesied his own return and the death of five who were responsible. Rumors of a hit list surface, and Mulder and Scully must find it before it's too late.

Season 3, Episode 6: 2Shy

Original Air Date: 3 November 1995
The corpse of a woman, or what's left of it, is discovered in a car in Cleveland, Ohio. Mulder traces the questionable homicide to previous cases in which the victims, all female, subscribed to a newspaper column. The killer has now found his way on to the Internet.

Season 3, Episode 7: The Walk

Original Air Date: 10 November 1995
A disabled war veteran at the Army Hospital in Fort Evanston, Maryland makes claims of a phantom soldier who has killed all his loved ones and kept him alive to suffer. Mulder and Scully work to solve the rising amount of homicides, but Mulder has some theories of his own.

Season 3, Episode 8: Oubliette

Original Air Date: 17 November 1995
At the same time that a 15-year-old girl was kidnapped from her home, a previous kidnap victim, now a waitress, collapsed also. Mulder tries to prove that both victims are linked, though neither local law nor Scully will believe him, as the waitress herself is a suspect.

Season 3, Episode 9: Nisei

Original Air Date: 24 November 1995
Following a lead on a video tape of a supposed alien autopsy, Agent Mulder discovers the fate of a recovered alien ship, whose pilot may have survived. Scully, searching a list of suspects, discovers a group of women who, like her, were abducted - and learns of their fate.

Season 3, Episode 10: 731

Original Air Date: 1 December 1995
While Mulder remains on the passenger train he believes is holding an alien captive, Scully is led to a disease research facility in Perkey, West Virginia, where she is told ordinary men were subjected to tests. Amidst lies and doubts, Mulder must stop the train - or at least its bomb.

Season 3, Episode 11: Revelations

Original Air Date: 15 December 1995
Over the course of three years, eleven would-be stigmatics, or people who claim to have harnessed the power of God, have been killed. Just as Mulder proves the most recent one was a fraud, he and Scully get a call about a boy who bleeds from his hands, and may be in danger.

Season 3, Episode 12: War of the Coprophages

Original Air Date: 5 January 1996
When an exterminator in Millers Grove, Massachusetts drops dead and 2 more townspeople follow, every citizen screams "roaches!" Indeed Agent Mulder, the town's best hope for survival, is hot on the trail of the creepy crawling insects, and it's all a matter of not bugging out!

Season 3, Episode 13: Syzygy

Original Air Date: 26 January 1996
A string of several curious deaths brings the rural Caryl County to the streets, preposterously shouting "Satanists!" As Mulder persistently investigates the case alongside a highly doubtful Scully, he learns that the culprit may be, not exactly evil, but cosmic.

Season 3, Episode 14: Grotesque

Original Air Date: 2 February 1996
After a serial killer, who claims to have killed people under the influence of a demon, is arrested, the murders continue. Meanwhile Mulder, who believes that the demon might have picked someone new, goes neck-deep in the investigation.

Season 3, Episode 15: Piper Maru

Original Air Date: 9 February 1996
A French ship on a salvage mission docks in the States, and its crew all suffer strangely severe radiation burns - all but one man, who piloted the rescue suit. Old secrets resurface as Mulder searches for the truth to this newborn mystery as well as its... alien... origin.

Season 3, Episode 16: Apocrypha

Original Air Date: 16 February 1996
The search for the long lost digital tape is short-lived once Mulder is able to track down a secretive government official. While Scully cares for hospitalized Skinner, Mulder learns what Krycek has been up to, and they try to track down the salvaged UFO before it's too late.

Season 3, Episode 17: Pusher

Original Air Date: 23 February 1996
A seemingly unmotivated murderer, who can apparently talk his victims into killing themselves is on the loose and it is up to Mulder and Scully to study the clues left to them by the person and capture him.

Season 3, Episode 18: Teso dos Bichos

Original Air Date: 8 March 1996
A team of diggers who are rescuing ancient Indian artifacts from otherwise certain destruction uncover a burial urn containing the remains of a female shaman known as an Amaru. Though many protest its removal, the urn is sent to a Boston Museum, where its curse ensues.

Season 3, Episode 19: Hell Money

Original Air Date: 29 March 1996
Once a man is burned alive in Chinatown, San Francisco and several ghostly figures vanish from the scene without a trace, Mulder and Scully enlist the help of a local cop. Spirits of the dead seem to tie in with an underground organization. Losing their game can mean death.

Season 3, Episode 20: Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space'

Original Air Date: 12 April 1996
The story of two teenagers who were abducted by aliens interests popular writer Jose Chung. He seeks out Scully to retell her account of what happened, but everybody else has different views. Who are the mysterious Men in Black, and are we really alone in the universe?

Season 3, Episode 21: Avatar

Original Air Date: 26 April 1996
FBI Assistant Director Walter Skinner is the prime suspect in a homicide involving a woman he was with the night of her death. Mulder and Scully are all he has to prove his innocence, as superior officers try to shut him down and the only clue is a mysterious old woman.

Season 3, Episode 22: Quagmire

Original Air Date: 3 May 1996
The disappearances of a Boy Scout leader and a biologist within weeks of each other draw Mulder's attention to Heuvelman's Lake in Georgia. Resident officials believe the case to be a joke, but Mulder hopes to find proof of the lake's long-rumored prehistoric monster, "Big Blue".

Season 3, Episode 23: Wetwired

Original Air Date: 10 May 1996
A man who killed five people claims that all of his victims were the same war criminal he saw on TV. Investigation by Mulder and Scully turn up something unusual with the television signals in the area, and Mulder must uncover the truth before Scully becomes the next killer.

Season 3, Episode 24: Talitha Cumi

Original Air Date: 17 May 1996
When the victims of a fast food restaurant shootout are miraculously healed and the healer vanishes without a trace, Mulder and Scully investigate. At the same time, Mulder's Mother is taken ill and an old source confronts him with photos pertaining to a long-repressed past.


The X-Files Season 2 Episodes Description


Season 2


Season 2, Episode 1: Little Green Men

Original Air Date: 16 September 1994
With the X-Files shut down, Mulder is assigned to wire taps while Scully returns to teaching at Quantico. All hopes dulled of ever finding evidence to what he has seen, Mulder is about to give up hope; luckily, however, the proof he was looking for may have just presented itself.

Season 2, Episode 2: The Host

Original Air Date: 23 September 1994
A body is found in the sewers of New Jersey, and Agent Mulder is strangely assigned to the case. Soon, the killer seems more like an X-File-worthy creature than a homicidal man. Could his placement in this case be coincidence, or does somebody want the X-Files to continue?

Season 2, Episode 3: Blood

Original Air Date: 30 September 1994
A small county in Franklin, Pennsylvania has been home to a series of mass killings, where the murderer seems to have gone crazy in an unexplainable way. Mulder, with the help of Scully and his old buddies at The Lone Gunmen, tries to solve the case before it happens again.

Season 2, Episode 4: Sleepless

Original Air Date: 7 October 1994
A doctor specializing in sleep deprivation is found dead in his condo after reporting a massive fire outside the door. No fire was seen nor reported otherwise, but when Mulder asks Scully to take a closer look, she finds disturbing evidence that questions reality.

Season 2, Episode 5: Duane Barry

Original Air Date: 14 October 1994
An institutionalized man who claims to have had multiple alien encounters escapes the hospital, taking his doctor with him. Agent Mulder is brought in to help the hostage negotiations. All the FBI wants is the hostages out alive, but all he wants is to be heard...

Season 2, Episode 6: Ascension

Original Air Date: 21 October 1994
Reviewing Scully's message to him from before she was taken, Mulder tries to piece together where Duane Barry is headed. Krycek, though reluctant, agrees to help and tags along. There are forces at work all around them; some are military, some may be small and gray.

Season 2, Episode 7: 3

Original Air Date: 4 November 1994
Whilst Agent Scully is still missing, Agent Mulder embarks upon an investigation involving vampires in Los Angeles, subsequently becoming involved with a sultry female vampire who yearns to escape her lifestyle.

Season 2, Episode 8: One Breath

Original Air Date: 11 November 1994
An unconscious Scully appears in the Emergency Ward of NE Georgetown Medical Center. As her mother and sister look after her, Mulder vows to track her captors down. After a talk with Asst. Director Skinner, Mulder hunts down the Smoking Man and demands the truth - at any cost.

Season 2, Episode 9: Firewalker

Original Air Date: 18 November 1994
A distress signal is received from a volcano research team in the Cascades. The last captured image from their robot, Firewalker, shows a dead team member and something else inside the volcano. Mulder and Scully investigate, unaware of the true nature of the killer.

Season 2, Episode 10: Red Museum

Original Air Date: 9 December 1994
Agents Mulder and Scully investigate when a religious cult is accused of kidnapping, branding their victims with the words 'He is One', or 'She is One'.

Season 2, Episode 11: Excelsis Dei

Original Air Date: 16 December 1994
A nurse (Teryl Rothery) who works in a home for the elderly in Massachusetts claims to have been raped by an invisible assailant. Mulder and Scully investigate, and soon find that the patients of the home are not quite what they seem. One of them appears to be seeing what isn't there, and the continued occurrence of seemingly inexplicable events (including apparent miracle cures for Alzheimer's Disease) point toward an extraordinary explanation.

Season 2, Episode 12: Aubrey

Original Air Date: 6 January 1995
Several murders in Aubrey, Missouri which occurred in the 1940's resurface when a county police officer digs up the bones of the missing FBI agent once assigned to the case. A similar murder occurred just a few nights ago, and it is up to Mulder and Scully to bring the story to rest.

Season 2, Episode 13: Irresistible

Original Air Date: 13 January 1995
Bodies are being dug up in Minneapolis, Minnesota, nails and hair removed from the young female victims. Mulder creates a working profile of the suspect, though the case is hard for Scully to accept. The killer is starting to kill to retrieve, and she may be next.

Season 2, Episode 14: Die Hand die verletzt

Original Air Date: 27 January 1995
A group of teenagers in New Hampshire, who decide to test an old myth about satanic rituals, nearly escape a killing which leaves one of them dead. Mulder and Scully investigate the case, which leads them to suspect the town, the school, and, most importantly, its staff.

Season 2, Episode 15: Fresh Bones

Original Air Date: 3 February 1995
When a soldier stationed at a processing center for Haitian citizens crashes his car into a tree marked by voodoo, his wife refuses to believe it was suicide. Mulder and Scully search for the man responsible, but must be careful that they don't get marked next.

Season 2, Episode 16: Colony

Original Air Date: 10 February 1995
Upon receiving three obituaries of three identical-looking men via anonymous e-mail, Mulder and Scully investigate the growing number of homicides throughout New England. When a new charade of evidence is presented, neither Mulder nor Scully know what to think.

Season 2, Episode 17: End Game

Original Air Date: 17 February 1995
The search for the bodies of those in the lake continues, as a note from Mulder's father leads him to an abortion clinic in Rockville, Maryland. What he finds he can neither believe nor explain, but the doctors there need his help, before they are exterminated.

Season 2, Episode 18: Fearful Symmetry

Original Air Date: 24 February 1995
An elephant found roaming an interstate road in Boise, Idaho escaped from a locked cage in a zoo across the county. The night before, a construction worker was mauled by a seemingly invisible force. Many other forces are at work, and Mulder and Scully must see them all.

Season 2, Episode 19: Død Kalm

Original Air Date: 10 March 1995
When some people on a ship are rescued, it is discovered that they are aging and later, dying. Mulder takes it upon himself to investigate the ship, which he believes has been the target of Philadelphia Experiments.

Season 2, Episode 20: Humbug

Original Air Date: 31 March 1995
The strange death of a circus sideshow attraction in Gibsonton, Florida, leads Mulder and Scully on a bizarre whodunit adventure into the world of the performing arts. Was the killer the Fiji Mermaid, the Dog-Faced Boy, or any of the town's other inhabitants?

Season 2, Episode 21: The Calusari

Original Air Date: 14 April 1995
A two-year-old boy in a Virginia park is mysteriously killed, and a further look shows a ghostly figure luring him. Mulder and Scully investigate despite an existing official inquiry, and learn that the boy's brother is in great danger as well - for evil follows evil.

Season 2, Episode 22: F. Emasculata

Original Air Date: 28 April 1995
When a package with infected contents releases the virus on its inmate recipient, a dozen prisoners contract it and Mulder and Scully are mysteriously called in to help. What they find demands that the truth be told to the public, but that's the one thing they cannot do.

Season 2, Episode 23: Soft Light

Original Air Date: 5 May 1995
Three deaths have occurred around Richmond, Virginia. The only traces which each of the victims seem to have left behind are black scorch marks of unknown origin. Mulder and Scully are called in by an old student of hers, and the search for the truth begins in its shadows.

Season 2, Episode 24: Our Town

Original Air Date: 12 May 1995
Reports of foxfire on a field in Dudley, Arkansas lead Mulder and Scully to a bizarre situation regarding the townsfolk. Employees of the Chaco Chicken Corporation are displaying bizarre behavior, and the death rate is slowly increasing.

Season 2, Episode 25: Anasazi

Original Air Date: 19 May 1995
A man known as "The Thinker" has hacked into the U.S. Department of Defense mainframe and uncovered 50-years-worth of proof that the Gov't has been dealing with aliens. Mulder and Scully race against time to distinguish truth from lies, uncover the secrets, and survive them.

The X-Files Season 1 Episodes Description

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