Best X-Files episodes
Have been watching all seasons in 2020 and truly found so much inspirational ideas. Some seasons considered declining has some of the best episodes I've seen. It is gripping.
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- DirectorBrett DowlerStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonColleen FlynnIn the unexplored woods of Florida's Apalachicola National Forest, Mulder and Scully investigate the disappearances of two land surveyors and a boy's claims that he and his father were attacked by an invisible creature.
- DirectorCliff BoleStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonMitch PileggiScully and Mulder each recount their version of events that led Mulder to drive a stake through the heart of a Texas teenager he claims was a vampire.
- DirectorRob BowmanStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonMitch PileggiMulder goes undercover to infiltrate a militia group armed with a deadly pathogen and wanted for domestic terrorism. Scully becomes suspicious when Mulder lets a suspect escape but she learns that his assignment may be a suicide mission.
- DirectorKim MannersStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonMitch PileggiParanoid telemarketer takes his coworkers and Mulder hostage claiming that their boss is a disguised insectoid monster that's literally turning the workers one by one into his zombie drones.
- DirectorKim MannersStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonTucker SmallwoodThe remains of a murdered deformed infant lead the agents to a family of murderous, inbred, animal-like brothers living on a secluded farm in a remote section of Pennsylvania.
- 1993–201845mTV-149.0 (5.7K)TV EpisodeDirectorJames WongStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonWilliam B. DavisThe Lone Gunmen reveal the (possibly fake) secret history of the Smoking Man to Mulder with focus on three episodes from his life - the assassination of JFK, his attempts at becoming a novelist and one of his UFO cover ups.
- DirectorRob BowmanStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonJoe SpanoWhile investigating the unexplained crash of a commercial airliner the agents' search for answers leads to the bottom of a desolate lake and a startling discovery involving Mulder's alien abductee friend Max Fenig.
- DirectorCliff BoleStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonMitch PileggiFive 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.
- DirectorDavid NutterStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonPeter BoyleA grumpy old man with psychic powers that show him how someone will die assists the agents with the hunt for a crazed killer who targets psychics. He also cryptically reveals to Mulder and Scully their own ultimate fates.
- DirectorKim MannersStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonMitch PileggiAfter 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.
- DirectorKim MannersStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonChris EllisMulder suspects that a beast similar to the Loch Ness Monster is responsible for the deaths of several people who reside near a large lake. Frustrated Scully insightfully confronts Mulder about the futility of their work on X-Files.
- DirectorDavid NutterStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonXander BerkeleyMulder and Scully are sent to investigate when a team of geophysicists stationed at a remote Alaskan outpost are killed by a parasitic alien life form.
- DirectorDavid NutterStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonBrad DourifScully believes that the psychic predictions of a death row inmate are the only hope in the kidnapping of two college students.
- DirectorJoe NapolitanoStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonJason BegheA group of loggers working in a remote forest unearths thousands of deadly insectlike creatures that paralyze and cocoon their victims. Scully, Mulder and a few others end up trapped there.
- DirectorWilliam A. GrahamStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonEd LauterWhen a space shuttle mission is sabotaged, Mulder suspects it may be the work of an alien spirit that inhabits the body of a former Gemini astronaut.
- DirectorChris CarterStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonWilliam B. DavisMulder boards the wreck of a legendary missing WWII ship that suddenly appeared in the Bermuda Triangle. The ship turns out to be a time portal. Now Scully must use all of her wits to try and get the unwilling FBI to help her save him.
- DirectorKim MannersStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonChad DonellaRob 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.
- DirectorThomas J. WrightStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonWillie GarsonA 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.
- DirectorThomas J. WrightStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonRicky JayMulder 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.
- DirectorMichael W. WatkinsStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonJudson MillsThe investigation of a neighborhood monster isn't too weird for the crew of Cops (1989) to follow around Mulder and Scully.
- DirectorDavid DuchovnyStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonMitch PileggiA screenwriter tags along with Mulder and Scully as they investigate a church bombing. The case becomes the plot of a Hollywood movie, but the agents find their case, and themselves, distorted on the big screen.
- DirectorVince GilliganStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonMitch PileggiTwo 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.
- DirectorPaul ShapiroStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonRandall 'Tex' CobbTwo 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.
- DirectorRob BowmanStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonBrent HinkleyA religious sect becomes the prime suspect in a murder spree.