The X-Files Season 3 Episodes Description

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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.


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