The X-Files Episodes

A staunch believer in the paranormal, FBI Special Agent Fox "Spooky" Mulder teams up with an unlikely partner, fellow Special Agent and skeptic Dana Scully to investigate a strange kidnapping. This episode is the first appearance of both main characters, as well as the supporting character of Assistant Director Walter Skinner, and recurring character Billy Miles.

This episode introduces Deep Throat, seemingly the only person privy to what is going on behind the scenes of the shady conspiracy to obfuscate the truth. Also, Mulder finally sees a glimmer of hope about the truth of his sister's disappearance.

Squeeze is the first episode to introduce a recurring "monster of the week" character, Eugene Tooms. A man who hungers for life...

Mulder and Scully investigate the disappearance of Ruby Morris, in Sioux City, Iowa. Her mother claims she was abducted by aliens, however, Scully and Mulder stumble across her younger brother Kevin, who is fascinated with scrawling things in binary code and can "see" images in televisional "white noise".

Scully and Mulder arrive in New Jersey following reports of people disappearing into the woods. Mulder immediately suggests the cryptozoological legend, the Jersey Devil is responsible, and he may not be too far off. This is the first episode to introduce the long running gag of how the local law enforcement exists almost entirely to be killed by the various supernatural beings that the agents will encounter.

Mulder and Scully investigate the deaths of two men believed to have been killed by a powerful pyschokinetic force

Mulder and Scully arrive to investigate a mysterious death after a genius scientist develops an unbelievable break through in an AI that has become self-aware.

An homage to the classic John Carpenter film, The Thing. Mulder and Scully find themselves in a situation where they truly can "trust no one".

Easily one of the most haunting episodes of the series, this case finds Scully and Mulder assisting NASA's efforts to explain some paranormal activity surrounding their astronauts. This episode references the "face of mars", and the theory of Cydonia being a long forgotten cradle of civilization.

Based on information from "Deep Throat", Mulder rushes to the scene of a crashed UFO in Wisconsin. After being apprehended by the military commander sent by the government to retrieve the "Fallen Angel", Mulder meets another UFO seeker named Max Fenig in the brig. Max mysteriously disappears and Mulder sets out to discover Max's whereabouts.

When two unrelated men die from exsanguination, Mulder suspects alien involvement, but is surprised to find two identical twin girls and a secret government project to be behind the deaths.

Mulder and Scully investigate the deaths of British dignitaries whose deaths may be caused by a pyrokinetic.

Scully believes that the psychic predictions of a death row inmate are the only hope in apprehending a vicious murderer.

Scully and Mulder investigate five mysterious deaths committed by an assailant who can change genders at will.

The consciousness of a dangerous criminal possesses an FBI agent who is also Scully's ex-boyfriend.

John Barnett, Mulder's first Bureau case and seemingly dead killer, is back in action. Reclaiming his affection for cryptic messages as well as his taunting personality, he leads Mulder and Scully on a chase involving heart, mystery, and science.

Mulder and Scully become the focus of a misinformation campaign when they attempt to trace the government's secret transport of an alien life form.

Scully and Mulder investigate reports of a stygmatized faith healer who can actually heal people.

Scully and Mulder track a legendary creature linked to Native American lore.

Mulder and Scully set out to a forest where a group of loggers has mysteriously gone missing.

Eugene Tooms makes a horrifying re-appearance with a thirst for more livers.

A disturbed young girl is implicated in a set of grisly murders.

A brilliant scientist working on a top-secret project dies suddenly, but his work seems inexplicably to be carried on by someone else.

A tip from Deep Throat sends Mulder and Scully searching for an escaped test subject; a man who may be more than human.

With the X-files shut down, Mulder finds his faith beginning to dwindle, until a tip sends him off to a remote satellite observatory station in search for answers.

When a man’s decomposed body is found in the sewers of Newark, Mulder is given the supposed “grunt” work. But after Scully’s autopsy turns up a parasite living inside the body and a sewer worker is attacked and bitten by something, it opens up a whole new can of worms.

Apparently prompted by messages from digital appliances with instructions to kill, several residents of a small farming community suddenly turn violent and dangerous.

An audio cassette hidden in his morning paper brings Mulder to request the case of a scientist's death consistent with burning, despite the lack of any evidence of any flames or burns. He is given his request ... along with a new partner, Agent Alex Krycek.

An ex-FBI agent escapes from a mental hospital and holds several people hostage in a travel agency. Mulder and Krycek are sent in to help with the negotiations since the man claims to have been a UFO abductee.

Mulder races to Scully's house after listening to the recording of her attack on his answering machine. Duane Barry has kidnapped Scully, determined to offer her to the aliens in his place.

Walter Skinner reopens the X-Files, but Mulder is finding it difficult to work without the missing Scully. When he recognizes a Los Angeles killing as the work of the Trinity murderers, a trio of killers with a fetish for drinking blood, it gives him work in which to immerse himself.

When Scully mysteriously re-appears comatose in a hospital, Mulder drives himself crazy trying to find the people responsible. Though his quest for vengeance could make him exactly like those whom he despises.

A malfunction in a robot designed for volcanic exploration yields evidence of a lifeform living in the caves. When this lifeform seemingly causes the death of a member of the research team, Mulder and a newly recovered Scully are flown out to the site in The Cascades to investigate before anyone else dies.

Several Wisconsin teens are found wandering in the woods in their underwear with “He Is One” scrawled on their backs. Mulder and Scully travel to investigate this aberrant behavior, though the strangest thing in this meat-producing area is a cult of vegetarian “walk-ins.”

Mulder and Scully's latest case begins with the rape and battery of a nurse in a Massachusetts convalescent home. What makes it an X-File is her claim that her attacker was invisible.

When a detective mysteriously uncovers the remains of an FBI agent who disappeared in the 1940s while investigating a murder case similar to a modern-day one she is investigating, Mulder and Scully believe that the original killer had passed his genetic trait of violence to his grandchild.

Mulder and Scully arrive in Minneapolis, Minnesota to track down a fetishist who collects "trophies" from dead bodies in the local cemetery.

New Hampshire teenagers feign an occult ritual in an attempt to score and inadvertently cause the murder of one of their group. When Mulder and Scully are called to look into the matter, the town’s real worshipers attempt to hide their tracks, though they fear that the boys’ attempt to “get some” got them more than they thought.

One morning Private Jack McAlpin crashes his car into a tree after two separate hallucinatory incidents. The tree has a voodoo symbol drawn on it and this is the second death of a soldier in two weeks that has featured that symbol. The soldiers are guarding a processing centre for Haitians and suspicion falls on one of the Haitians identified by the colonel in charge.

At the beginning, a frozen Mulder is brought to a hospital. The episode flashes back to a scene two weeks before, where the crew of a research vessel find the wreckage of a UFO in the Beaufort Sea. The pilot who survives this crash walks out of the hospital and kills identical-looking doctors in various abortion clinics.

An alien bounty hunter kidnaps Scully and wants to trade her for Mulder's sister, Samantha. Mulder asks for Skinner's help in making the trade, and has the FBI Director set up a sniper to take down the bounty hunter.

Mulder and Scully investigate a zoo near a UFO hotspot. The zoo's animals keep disappearing and reappearing in random locations outside the zoo. Zookeepers have also been attacked by "invisible animals".

Mulder and Scully are trapped aboard a ship that's in a time vortex, one that appears to be rapidly aging them out of existence.

Mulder and Scully go to a trailer park in Florida to investigate a circus freak who has a still-attached deformed twin brother.

A photograph taken just before the death of a two year old boy yields evidence of some supernatural intervention which piques Mulder’s curiosity. When another death in the family occurs, the grandmother of the remaining child requests the aid of some Romanian ritualists (called "căluşari" or “horsemen”) in order to cleanse the home of evil.

After several men in a prison die of a mysterious illness, Scully tries to discover the cause while Mulder attempts to find two escapees who could potentially spread the disease.

Scully and Mulder investigate a physicist with a deadly shadow.

After discovering a mass grave on the outskirts of a small town, Mulder and Scully turn their eyes towards the town's mysteriously successful chicken processing plant.

The trust that Mulder and Scully have is sorely tested when Mulder begins acting strangely. His aberrant behavior is compounded when the Lone Gunmen direct him to a hacker who managed to break into some very closely guarded files. The files are encoded in Navajo and need to be decoded by a former Navajo code talker.

The third season begins with Mulder incapacitated from an attempt on his life. This leaves Scully on her own to deal with The Smoking Man and The Syndicate. Scully also discovers an implant in her that will have long lasting effects throughout the rest of the series.

Mulder and Scully continue to search for a digital tape that contains proof of a vast government conspiracy. This leads to revelations about Mulder's past, including information about his father's involvement in Samantha's disappearance.

Mulder and Scully travel to Oklahoma to investigate 5 recent deaths determined to be caused by lightning strikes.

The investigation of several fortune tellers is assisted by Clyde Bruckman, a man who can see how someone is going to die.

A death row inmate swears revenge (via reincarnation) on 5 people who have wronged him.

Women are going missing after meeting a man they met online. The X-Files are notified after the decomposed skeleton of one of these women is found, one day after her disappearance.

Another failed suicide attempt by a patient in a military hospital interests Mulder with the talk of a “phantom soldier” which has prevented the man’s death. The general in charge is at first opposed to the FBI’s involvement until the invisible killer begins stalking him. But none believe when the primary suspect is a quadruple amputee.

When a young girl is kidnapped from her home, a fast food worker miles away collapses on the job, apparently experiencing exactly what the child is feeling. When Mulder learns that the woman was kidnapped and held hostage for years as a child, he begins to believe that she may be the key to help find the missing girl.

A mail order videotape of an alien autopsy blossoms into a much more complicated investigation when Mulder and Scully find the distributor of the tape murdered in his own home apparently by a high-ranking Japanese diplomat. While Mulder’s search for the video leads him to a train car, Scully investigates a Mutual UFO Network group and discovers several women who claim to know her.

Mulder is trapped on a train carriage with a ticking bomb and a killer who claims to be an NSA agent.

Mulder tracks a series of religiously motivated murders. Each of the eleven victims claims to have been stigmatic but all turned out to be frauds. When Mulder and Scully discover a little boy displaying inexplicable wounds of religious significance, they try to protect him from the killer they know will be coming.

While investigating some bizarre lights in Massachusetts, Mulder runs across a small town whose residents are apparently dying from roach attacks.

Mulder and Scully investigate strange murders in New Hampshire that may be due to a rare planetary alignment that affects people's behavior

Agents Mulder and Scully join Mulder’s former mentor, the FBI’s chief profiler, on a case involving a serial killer who claims to be possessed by a demonic force. The case gets even more mysterious when the suspect is apprehended and the murders continue. Mulder gets involved more deeply than expected and Scully as well as Skinner are deeply concerned.

When a French salvage ship sends a diving crew to recover a mysterious wreckage from World War II, the crew falls prey to a bizarre illness and Agents Mulder and Scully join the investigation. The investigation leads to the discovery of a familiar face, and to Skinner's life being threatened.

While Mulder continues to investigate a bizarre illness that originated with the discovery of a mysterious World War II wreckage buried at sea, several government figures try to thwart their efforts. And as Skinner recovers from his shooting, Scully discovers that he is still in danger, from the man who killed her sister.

Scully and Mulder investigate Robert Patrick Modell, a man who can control the actions of others by "pushing" suggestions at them with his mind.

A series of deaths occurs immediately after an ancient artifact is brought to Boston from an excavation site in Ecuador. According to Scully, the deaths appear to be the result of political terrorism, but Mulder suspects something more improbable.

A string of mysterious deaths of recent Chinese immigrants brings Agents Mulder and Scully to San Francisco’s Chinatown. The Agents team up with a Chinese-American detective to better understand the language and customs of the Chinese culture, but one thing remains frighteningly clear — all of the bodies are missing various internal organs.

Author Jose Chung (portrayed brilliantly by Charles Nelson Reilly), comes to the FBI in search of information about a reported recent alien abduction of two teenagers in Washington state. He is writing a book about the alleged event and wants Scully and Mulder's take on the events.

During a difficult time in assistant director Skinner’s life, he meets a woman in a bar and spends the night with her. The next morning, the woman is dead and he is accused of murder. Agents Mulder and Scully join the investigation to clear their supervisor’s name. As they unravel the threads of a conspiracy, they also learn more about Skinner’s personal affairs.

When a series of mysterious deaths and disappearances are reported near a lake in a small town, Agents Mulder and Scully are called in to investigate. With local folklore of a killer sea serpent running rampant amongst the locals, the agents must take their search for the truth to the water.

As the agents investigate a series of murders committed by ordinary citizens angered after seeing illusory images, Scully's trust in Mulder is put to the ultimate test.

Agents Mulder and Scully search for a man who seems to possess strange powers, which leads to the discovery of a dangerous secret from Mulder’s past. The secret could bring Mulder and Scully to the brink of exposing the truth about alien existence.

Pursued by an Alien Bounty Hunter, Jeremiah Smith takes Mulder to a farm where he finds several girls who are clones of his sister.

In what is possibly the most disgusting episode of the entire series; Mulder and Scully investigate a reclusive family with a long history of inbreeding after the corpse of an infant is found with genetic defects associated with inbreeding.

Mulder and Scully are called in to investigate the unexplained deaths of several African and African-American people whose skin color has turned white as the result of either a rare medical disorder or a bizarre curse.

Agents Mulder and Scully investigate a group of bizarre kidnappings in which the only clues are inexplicable photographs. But when Scully is the next intended victim, Mulder must get into the killer’s head.

FBI Agent Mulder’s search for an informant inside a cult compound leads Scully and him to one of the cult leader’s wives. What they soon discover is an unexpectedly close connection with the woman.

Bizarre murders in a hospital's plastic surgery unit lead Mulder and Scully to suspect a supernatural force may be responsible.

Mulder, Scully and Byers meet with Frohike, where he details what may have been Cigarette Smoking Man’s real life.