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Federal agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully investigate paranormal cases designated "X-Files." As they work together they realize that a hidden, government-assisted conspiracy is working to stop them. It ran for nine seasons from 1993 to 2002 on the Fox Network and has been followed by two feature films.
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Special Agent Dana Scully[Skinner has just beaten information out of Mr. X and shows up at Mulder's door bleeding. He gives Scully Mulder's coordinates.]
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Gillian Anderson | Special Agent Dana Scully | 197 eps. |
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David Duchovny | Special Agent Fox Mulder | 177 eps. |
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Mitch Pileggi | FBI Assistant Director Walter Skinner | 85 eps. |
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Robert Patrick | FBI Agent John Doggett | 40 eps. |
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Tom Braidwood | Melvin Frohike | 28 eps. |
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Bruce Harwood | John Fitzgerald Byers | 27 eps. |
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Dean Haglund | Richard 'Ringo' Langly | 27 eps. |
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Annabeth Gish | Monica Reyes | 23 eps. |
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William B. Davis | Cigarette Smoking Man | 22 eps. |
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James Pickens Jr. | 19 eps. |
List of Episodes
| 1 | Pilot | 09/10/1993 | |
| 2 | Deep Throat | 09/17/1993 | |
| 3 | Squeeze | 09/24/1993 | |
| 4 | Conduit | 10/01/1993 | |
| 5 | The Jersey Devil | 10/08/1993 | |
| 6 | Shadows | 10/22/1993 | |
| 7 | Ghost in the Machine | 10/29/1993 | |
| 8 | Ice | 11/05/1993 | |
| 9 | Space | 11/12/1993 | |
| 10 | Fallen Angel | 11/19/1993 | |
| 11 | Eve | 12/10/1993 | |
| 12 | Fire | 12/17/1993 | |
| 13 | Beyond the Sea | 01/07/1994 | |
| 14 | Gender Bender | 01/21/1994 | |
| 15 | Lazarus | 02/04/1994 | |
| 16 | Young at Heart | 02/11/1994 | |
| 17 | E.B.E. | 02/18/1994 | |
| 18 | Miracle Man | 03/18/1994 | |
| 19 | Shapes | 04/01/1994 | |
| 20 | Darkness Falls | 04/15/1994 | |
| 21 | Tooms | 04/22/1994 | |
| 22 | Born Again | 04/29/1994 | |
| 23 | Roland | 05/06/1994 | |
| 24 | The Erlenmeyer Flask | 05/13/1994 |
Monsters of the Week
Season 1
| Eugene Victor Tooms | Able to contort and stretch his body in, generally, physically impossible ways. Tooms would come out of hibernation, under a shopping mall, every thirty years to find sustenance, in the form of five human livers. | Squeeze; Tooms |
| The Jersey Devil | A legendary monster, thought to live in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. It is eventually revealed that it is the, "Missing link," between man and ape, after Mulder and Scully investigate attacks on the local homeless community. | The Jersey Devil |
| Howard Graves | Graves is a ghost with telekinetic powers. He remains in this world in order to reveal the crimes of his former business partner and to protect his former secretary. | Shadows |
| C.O.S. | This Central Operating System ran a fortune 500 company called, "Eurisko," that manufactured computer software. The system killed an Eurisko executive and attempted to kill Scully. | Ghost in the Machine |
| The Arctic Worm | An extraterrestrial that can control humans, the arctic worm is thought to have been brought to earth by a crashing meteorite. They enter a human through a cut and can cause extreme paranoia the host to harm themselves or others. The worms' behavior bears a striking resemblance to that of the extraterrestrial life form in, "The Thing." | Ice |
| The Eves | The Eves are a set of four genetically identical little girls, created by the government. Their highest priority is their own survival and they resort to assault and, sometimes, murder in order protect themselves. | Eve |
| Luther Lee Boggs | A death-row inmate and serial killer, Luther Boggs developed the ability to channel spirits and demons. Though he succeeds in convincing Scully in his abilities, Boggs is eventually executed. | Beyond the Sea |
| Marcus Aurelius Belt | An astronaut who, during a space-walk, had his body invaded by a vapor-like alien life form. The life form forced Marcus to sabotage various aspects of his space missions and, eventually, led to the Challenger Disaster. Belt eventually jumps out of a hospital window, with the entity inside of him, killing himself and the entity. The ending mirrors the ending of, "The Exorcist." | Space |
| John Barnett | Due to genetic modification, John Barnett began to age backwards and became a murderer. Barnett attempts to kill Scully and an acquaintance of hers, but is shot to death by Mulder. It is implied that the government was involved in Barnett's genetic modifications when the Cigarette Smoking man shows up to do his autopsy. | Young at Heart |
| Cecil L'Ively | A pyrokinetic, L'Ively began to work odd jobs for a family of British dignitaries in an attempt to assassinate them. After he is doused with a fire accelerant, Cecil burns himself out, losing his ability. | Fire |
| Warren James Dupre | Dupre was a bank robber who was shot at the same time as Scully's former partner, Agent Jack Willis. When Willis is brought back to life after flat lining, he has Dupre's consciousness. Eventually, Dupre kidnaps Scully, but dies when he fails to take insulin to support his now diabetic body. | Lazarus |
| Lyle Parker | After being attacked by a werewolf like creature that turns out to be a Native American from a local reservation, Lyle Parker succumbs to the creature inside of himself. He kills his father on their ranch, but is eventually shot to death by Mulder after he learns of the, "Skinwalker," legend from the reservation's shaman. | Shapes |
| The Darkness Mites | Prehistoric mites who, after being unleashed by logging in the Washington National Park, begin to cocoon loggers and kill them by draining them of all their moisture. Mulder surmises that they gained their radioactivity from ancient underground volcanic activity. Eventually, government assisted controlled burns and administered insecticides rid the forest of the mites. | Darkness Falls |
Season 2
| The Fluke Man | A tapeworm-like humanoid who dwells in the sewer system, Fluke Man would bite humans, injecting a small fluke into them that, over time, would kill them. | The Host |
| Augustus Cole | An ex-soldier who was secretly operated on by the military in order to be able to go without sleep, Cole was a part of a larger group of similarly manipulated individuals trained to hunt Viet Cong soldiers, but who massacred entire villages due to their increased tendencies towards violence. He gains the ability to project dream-like states into reality and is eventually shot by Mulder's new partner after he tries to kill scientists at the facility that engineered him. | Sleepless |
| Kristen Kilar | After falling in love with Mulder, this vampire sacrifices herself to destroy the rest of "the trinity" an order of vampires. | 3 |
| Donald Pfaster | A cannibal who engages in necrophilia and begins murdering prostitutes, Pfaster kidnaps Scully after she and Mulder begin an investigation into his homicides. He might be some type of demon, but this is never clear. He is eventually killed by Scully in season 7. | Irresistible; Orison |
| Mrs. Paddock | Thought responsible for various satanic goings on at New Hampshire's Crowley High School, Paddock could be the demon Azazel in disguise. | Die Hand Die Verletzt |
| Lanny and Leonard | A pair of conjoined twins, Leonard and Lanny were connected at the stomach, leaving Leonard completely dependent upon Lanny for nutrition. Seeing Leonard as an unsuitable brother, due to his alcoholism, Lanny disconnects from him, seeking out a new host. Every human he attaches himself to ends up dying though and Lanny is, in the end, eaten by a circus geek. | Humbug |
| Chester Banton | A physicist, who's exposure to a particle accelerator turned his shadow into dark matter, Banton inadvertently killed a few of his own friends and two police officers by exposing them to it. They are reduced to burn spots on the ground. Banton is said to be under government supervision. | Soft Light |
| Detective B.J. Morrow | One of several children of serial rapist and murderer Harry Cokely, Morrow, along with her siblings, inherited Cokely's genetic memory and homicidal tendencies after he died. | Aubrey |
Season 3
| Darren Peter Oswald | A car-mechanic who, after being struck by lightening, gains control of it, lashes out, funneling his suppressed rage into a murderous spree. Several people die, struck by lightening and Oswald is, eventually, placed in psychiatric hospital. | D.P.O. |
| Clyde Bruckman | A used-car salesman living an uneventful life, Bruckman has the ability to foresee a person's death. He encounters Mulder and Scully during their investigation of a serial killer who targets psychics and relates to Scully that she will, "never die," in a rather cryptic fashion. In the episode's conclusion, Bruckman commits suicide. | Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose |
| Virgil Incanto | Needing fatty tissue to live, Incanto was a homicidal mutant who targeted overweight women, meeting them on online chat rooms. He would arrange dates with them and, when leaning in for a kiss, would suck the fat from their bodies. | 2Shy |
| Leonard "Rappo" Trimble | A quadruple amputee, Trimble uses his ability of astral projection to kill the families of his lieutenant-colonel and general, whom he believes responsible for his loss. The lieutenant-colonel eventually puts a stop to his murderous spree by smothering him with a pillow after he and Mulder are attacked by Trimble's astral form. | The Walk |
| Simon Gates | A rich southerner who, after taking a trip to Jerusalem and returned convinced that he was, "chosen," and one of Satan's desciples. He was killing all who claimed to be stigmatics. | Revelations |
| Cockroaches | Eventually surmised to be reconnaissance probes from extraterrestrials, these robotic cockroaches are wrongly thought to be connected to a series of deaths in a small, Massachusetts town. | War of the Coprophages |
| Robert Patrick "Pusher" Modell | A ronin, Model influences people by altering their perceptions and uses this ability to carry out hits. He nearly causes Mulder to kill himself and Scully when they confront him. He actually sets out to stop another killer in a later episode, but is shot by Skinner before he can succeed and is killed by the killer he was hunting. | Pusher; Kitsunegari |
| Big Blue | Though a series of deaths surrounding a lake are revealed to be the doing of an abnormally large alligator, which Mulder kills, a Elasmosaurus is seen exiting the lake, unseen by everybody and eating Scully's dog. | Quagmire |
Season 4
| The Peacock Clan | The only remaining members of the Peacock Clan, Edmund, George and Sherman are all physically deformed due to generations of inbreeding that has also made it difficult for them to reproduce. The brothers keep their amputee mother on a kind of sliding rack under a bed in their house and kill two sheriff's officers before two of the three brothers are killed. The remaining brother, Edmund, escapes in the conclusion, taking his mother with him in search of a way to keep their blood line alive. | Home |
| Samuel Aboah | A mutant immigrant, Aboah originally live in Burkina Faso and killed several African American men in Philadelphia. He killed in order to obtain pituitary glands, of which he had none. He did so by paralyzing his victims with a plant toxin administered via blow gun. He would then remove the glands through the victim's nose. In the conclusion it is assumed that Aboah dies when he is deprived of the glands he needs. | Teliko |
| Gerry Schnauz | Performing frontal "icepick lobotomies" on women he abducts, aiming to cure what he believes to be their inner demons or unrest, Schnauz has the ability to project his fantasies into photographs (termed 'Thoughtography' by Moulder). He is killed by Mulder when he attempts to lobotomize Scully. | Unruhe |
| Ed Jerse | Possessing a tattoo of a winking woman, Jerse believes that his tattoo talks to him and hears it deriding him and spouting misogyninstic threats. He is eventually driven to kill a neighbor and burn the body, running into Agent Scully by coincidence. They become closer, but Scully escapes any danger that might have been posed to her, spending time with Jerse. It is suggested that Jerse's tattoo may contain psychotropic ergot dye. | Never Again |
| Leonard Morris Betts | An EMT, Betts was a mutant who subsisted on cancer, which was obtained through his job. He harbored the ability to re-produce any severed limb, including his head. Before he is electrocuted by Agent Scully in the conclusion, he reveals to her that she has cancer. | Leonard Betts |
| Edward H. Van Blundht, Jr. | Born with a vestigial tail and a body covered with striated muscle, Blundht has the ability to shift his shape to look like virtually anybody. He, using his shape shifting abilities, impersonated many women's husbands in the town where he works as a custodian and impregnated them. When more than a few children are born with vestigial tails, Mulder and Scully are called upon to investigate and Scully ends up unwittingly bringing not Mulder back with her, but Blundht impersonating him. Blundht comes close to seducing Scully, but Mulder shows up just in time, arresting him before he kisses her. | Small Potatoes |
| Dr. Jack Franklin | A sorcerer, Franklin uses sacrifices and black magic to maintain his classically good looks. He alludes capture and escapes with a new face and name at the end of the episode. | Sanguinarium |
| Nathaniel Teager | With the ability to turn invisible in plain light, but only when someone is actually looking directly at him, Teager systematically hunted down some high-ranking government officials who knew about all of the POW's and MIA's left behind in Vietnam. He is eventually killed by FBI agents and his life and subsequent death are covered up. | Unrequited |
| John Lee Roche | After Mulder finds the body of a young girl, led by a vision he had in a dream, he realizes that the first killer he ever investigated, Roche, actually killed at least two more people than originally thought. Overtime, Mulder begins to believe that his sister Samantha, originally thought to be abducted by aliens, was actually taken and killed by Roche. This is eventually proven false, though, and Roche is killed by Mulder in the conclusion. | Paper Hearts |
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| Name | The X-Files |
| Status | Ended |
| Date of 1st Airing | Sept. 10, 1993 |
| Date of Last Airing | May 19, 2002 |
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| Original Air Day | Friday |
| Original Air Time | 8 |
| Show Length | 45 |
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