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- DirectorRobert MandelStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonCharles CioffiAgent Dana Scully is instructed to debunk an FBI project dubbed "The X-Files," paranormal cases that have been reopened by Agent Fox Mulder.
- DirectorDaniel SackheimStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonJerry HardinMulder and Scully investigate the mysterious case of a military test pilot who disappeared after experiencing strange psychotic behaviour.
- DirectorHarry LongstreetStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonDoug HutchisonMulder and Scully search for a humanoid killer whose savage murder spree reoccurs every 30 years.
- 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.
- DirectorWilliam A. GrahamStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonJerry HardinMulder and Scully become the focus of a disinformation campaign when they attempt to trace the government's secret transport of an alien life form.
- DirectorDavid NutterStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonDoug HutchisonEugene Tooms, a supernatural killer whom Mulder helped incarcerate, is released on parole.
- DirectorR.W. GoodwinStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonLindsey GinterDeep Throat tips Mulder to a critically important case involving a missing fugitive and the cloning of extraterrestrial viruses.
- DirectorDaniel SackheimStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonMitch PileggiMulder pursues a humanoid, parasitic organism that uses sewage systems as its home.
- DirectorRob BowmanStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonMitch PileggiMulder is on the manhunt for a Vietnam veteran who can project his consciousness into other people's minds to kill them. Mulder and Agent Krycek try to uncover the conspiracy behind the killer's powers.
- DirectorChris CarterStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonSteve RailsbackA former FBI agent who claims he was abducted by aliens takes several people hostage. Mulder agrees to be the negotiator.
- DirectorMichael LangeStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonSteve RailsbackMulder and Agent Krycek are in a race against time to find and rescue abducted Scully before crazed Duane Barry can take her to what he believes to be his alien puppet masters.
- DirectorR.W. GoodwinStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonSheila LarkenScully's comatose body is discovered at a local hospital and her life is hanging in the balance. When Mr. X shows Mulder the high price he'd have to pay if he truly wants justice for Scully, Mulder must choose between hope and revenge.
- DirectorDavid NutterStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonBruce WeitzScully and Mulder hunt down a fetishist who collects pieces of the dead.
- DirectorKim MannersStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonDan ButlerThe agents investigate a murder in a small town populated by devil worshippers.
- DirectorRob BowmanStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonSteven WilliamsMulder is forced to make an impossible choice, when the alien bounty hunter gives him an ultimatum - Scully's life for Samantha's.
- DirectorNick MarckStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonPeter DonatWhen someone sends Mulder and Scully obituaries showing three separate but identical men apparently having died, the agents investigate, but things take an unexpected turn when Mulder receives a call from his father.
- DirectorKim MannersStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonJim RoseThe agents search for a killer in a Florida town inhabited by sideshow performers.
- DirectorR.W. GoodwinStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonPeter DonatMulder receives an encrypted computer tape containing the defense department's top secret files on extraterrestrial life and becomes a target. Scully takes him to a Navajo family that unearthed a buried secret to decipher the files.
- DirectorR.W. GoodwinStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonMitch PileggiA 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.
- DirectorRob BowmanStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonMitch PileggiAs a government hit squad closes in on the agents, Mulder searches for clues about his father's involvement in a top secret project.
- DirectorDavid NutterStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonMitch PileggiAn "alien autopsy" videotape and a murder spark Mulder's search for a strange creature. Scully looks for information about her disappearance.
- DirectorRob BowmanStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonStephen McHattieMulder becomes trapped aboard a train rigged with an explosive device. Scully searches for the truth behind the government's secret experiments.
- 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 AndersonBobbie PhillipsWhile looking for signs of alien ships in the sky above a small town, Mulder learns of a series of deaths supposedly caused by metallic cockroaches. He turns to sexy entomologist Bambi for help, which makes Scully angrily rush to his aid.
- DirectorRob BowmanStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonDana Wheeler-NicholsonA rare alignment of the planets gives two homicidal teenage girls dangerous telekinetic powers while simultaneously driving their small town insane with satanic panic. Mulder's interest in the local female detective makes Scully jealous.
- DirectorRob BowmanStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonMitch PileggiThe agents investigate the mystery surrounding a sunken World War II aircraft.
- DirectorKim MannersStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonMitch PileggiMulder uncovers clues about a cover-up involving an alien entity and a sunken World War II aircraft. Scully pursues the man who murdered her sister.
- DirectorRob BowmanStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonCharles Nelson ReillyScully recounts the investigation of an alleged UFO encounter for the famous quirky author Jose Chung's latest novel. The case gives a whole new meaning to the term Rashomon effect. Chung later returns in Jose Chung's 'Doomsday Defense' (1997).
- DirectorJim CharlestonStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonMitch PileggiSkinner, depressed over the fact that his wife is divorcing him, has a one night stand with a stranger who's found murdered in the morning. Mulder tries to prove Skinner's innocence but Skinner refuses to cooperate for some reason.
- DirectorRob BowmanStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonPruitt Taylor VincePhotos of a hellish sight from the mind of a psychopath who abducts women makes Mulder think that the man has the ability of psychic photography.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorKim MannersStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonMitch PileggiA tip from Krycek takes Mulder to a gulag in Tunguska, Russia where prisoners are being used for experiments with the black oil alien virus. Meanwhile, Scully's colleague is infected with the same virus which lay dormant in a meteorite.
- DirectorRob BowmanStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonMitch PileggiMulder tries to stop a Russian supersoldier from destroying the site in North America where the black oil virus can be excavated. Scully is jailed after she refuses to reveal Mulder's whereabouts at a Senate subcommittee hearing.
- DirectorRob BowmanStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonMitch PileggiAn incarcerated serial killer claims Mulder's sister was one of his many victims.
- DirectorRob BowmanStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonRodney RowlandMulder takes a vacation to visit Graceland while sending disaffected Scully to Philadelphia to look into Russians with ties to UFOs. She becomes attracted to a secretly unstable young divorcee whose tattoo is telling him to kill women.
- DirectorRob BowmanStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonMitch PileggiScully attempts to come to terms with her inoperable cancer. Meanwhile Mulder and the Lone Gunmen break into a high-security research lab to find the cure that could save her life.
- 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.
- DirectorKim MannersStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonMitch PileggiA 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.
- 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.
- DirectorPeter MarkleStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonSheila LarkenWhile visiting family for Christmas, Scully receives a mysterious phone call that leads to a woman's apparent suicide and a young girl who may be her sister Melissa's daughter.
- DirectorKim MannersStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonJohn Pyper-FergusonScully and Mulder search for a cure to Emily's strange illness.
- 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.
- DirectorChris CarterStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonMitch PileggiScully undergoes hypnosis to recall her experiences on the bridge where the group of abductees was burned alive. Krycek provides the consortium with a vaccine for the black oil and tells Mulder of the planned colonization and alien rebels.
- DirectorKim MannersStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonNicholas LeaMulder and Scully search for answers when separate groups of alien abductees are burned alive. They meet a woman with an implant in her neck and symptoms similar to Scully.
- DirectorR.W. GoodwinStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonMitch PileggiA government assassin is caught trying to kill child chess prodigy Gibson Praise during an international chess tournament. Mulder's old flame Agent Diana Fowley arrives to help on the case but Scully is suspicious of her.
- 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.
- DirectorAllen CoulterStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonGlenn MorshowerWhen a girl dies a mysterious death, Scully and Mulder discover more girls' lives are at stake in a divine battle of good versus evil.
- DirectorRob BowmanStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonJohn NevilleMulder and Scully must fight the government in a conspiracy and find the truth about an alien colonization of Earth.
- DirectorRob BowmanStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonBryan CranstonA man tormented by a piercing sound that could make his head explode unless he heads west as fast as possible takes Mulder hostage to drive for him, while Scully rushes to find the cause of this affliction that also killed the man's wife.
- DirectorChris CarterStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonLily TomlinOn Christmas Eve, Mulder and Scully find themselves trapped in a haunted house with two ghosts who are determined to prove just how lonely the holiday can be.
- 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.
- DirectorRob BowmanStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonMichael McKeanAn 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 there, Mulder and one of the Men in Black, Fletcher, somehow switch bodies - and lives.
- DirectorMichael W. WatkinsStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonMichael McKeanScully 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.
- DirectorKim MannersStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonVictoria JacksonWhen Mulder and Scully investigate a man who claims he can control the rain in a small, drought-stricken Kansas town, they encounter a force more powerful than the weather.
- DirectorDaniel SackheimStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonMitch PileggiWhen Skinner is infected with an unknown disease and receives a mysterious phone call telling him he has 24 hours to live, Scully and Mulder rush to find a cure and those responsible.
- DirectorKim MannersStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonMitch PileggiA woman desperately attempts to change the outcome of the events of a day she is forced to relive again and again in which her boyfriend explodes a bomb during a failed bank robbery killing everyone inside, including Mulder and Scully.
- DirectorMichael W. WatkinsStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonPeter WhiteOn their first assignment after being reinstated to the X-Files, Scully and Mulder go undercover as husband and wife in a high-class planned community where several couples have gone missing.
- 1993–201845mTV-147.7 (3.3K)TV EpisodeDirectorMichael W. WatkinsStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonWilliam B. DavisScully searches for Mulder after the Cigarette Smoking Man takes him from the hospital for unknown purposes. An unconscious Mulder dreams of a better life away from his mission and the X-Files. But perhaps he is being led astray.
- DirectorGillian AndersonStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonColleen FlynnScully 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.
- 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.
- DirectorRob BowmanStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonWilliam B. DavisAgent Scully lets sympathy cloud her better judgment when she accompanies the Cigarette Smoking Man on a road trip and wonders if he's as evil as she always thought.
- 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.
- DirectorKim MannersStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonWilliam B. DavisSeven years after their first case, Mulder and Scully return to Bellefleur, Oregon to see Billy Miles and investigate a new series of abductions in the local forest, risking their partnership and lives.
- DirectorRod HardyStarsGillian AndersonRobert PatrickDavid Barry GrayDoggett 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.
- DirectorKim MannersStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonRobert PatrickNew 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.
- DirectorKim MannersStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonRobert PatrickScully leads Skinner and an unhappy Doggett to Arizona to protect child prodigy Gibson Praise from an alien bounty hunter disguised as the missing Mulder.
- DirectorRichard ComptonStarsGillian AndersonRobert PatrickVyto RuginisDoggett takes to the Boston subways to try to figure out where a deadly agent that is killing citizens is coming from.
- DirectorRod HardyStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonRobert PatrickDoggett and Mulder unwillingly team up investigating an oil rig where some mysterious murders have happened and the possibility of the Black Oil being involved is a haunting reality.
- DirectorKim MannersStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonRobert PatrickScully 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.
- DirectorKim MannersStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonRobert PatrickJeremiah 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.
- DirectorMichelle MacLarenStarsGillian AndersonRobert PatrickAnnabeth GishDoggett 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.
- DirectorKim MannersStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonRobert PatrickThe X-Files team must protect Agent Scully and her unborn child as groups of Super Soldiers try to stop her pregnancy.
- DirectorKim MannersStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonRobert PatrickAgents Mulder, Doggett and Skinner investigate (along with Alex Krycek) the Super Soldier conspiracy, while Scully goes into hiding to have her child.
- DirectorKim MannersStarsGillian AndersonRobert PatrickAnnabeth GishAn eerily brilliant cadet from 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 Doggett's young son.
- DirectorKim MannersStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonRobert PatrickMulder's return leads to him being tried for murder before a military tribunal where he seeks to prove the very existence of an alien conspiracy and justify the maintenance of the X-Files.
- DirectorJames WongStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonMitch PileggiA scientist working for the DOD commits suicide. Mulder and Scully start an investigation only to discover a secret mutation experiment.
- 1993–201844mTV-148.0 (9.2K)TV EpisodeDirectorDarin MorganStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonRhys DarbyMulder questions his faith in the unexplained. He attempts to gather proof of the existence of the new creature he and Scully investigate before jumping to conclusions.
- DirectorKevin HooksStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonKarin KonovalMulder and Scully investigate a case involving several deaths where the victims previously reported encountering their own doppelgangers. The clues lead to a pair of fraternal twins playing a dangerous game telepathically.
- DirectorDarin MorganStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonMitch PileggiExploring 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.
- DirectorCarol BankerStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonMitch PileggiSkinner 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.
- DirectorHolly DaleStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonAlex CarterMulder and Scully suspect that darker forces are at play as they investigate a brutal animal attack on a little boy in Connecticut.
- DirectorLarry ShawStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonAmanda PaysMulder and Scully join forces with an inspector from Scotland Yard when a man with pyrokinetic powers stalks members of the British aristocracy.
- DirectorJoe NapolitanoStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonClaire StansfieldMulder and Scully track a legendary creature that has roamed the New Jersey countryside for over 40 years.