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The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.
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The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.
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Episode 1
Agent Dana Scully is assigned to work with Agent Fox Mulder on the X-Files in an attempt to debunk his work on the paranormal. Their first case takes them to Oregon to investigate the unsolved murders of several high-school classmates.
Directed by Robert MandelWritten by Chris CarterGuest stars William B. Davis, Cliff DeYoung, Sarah Koskoff, Leon Russom, Zachary Ansley, Stephen E. Miller, Malcolm Stewart, Alexandra Berlin
Episode 2
Mulder and Scully investigate the mysterious case of a military test pilot who disappeared after experiencing strange psychotic behavior. While on the case, Mulder meets a mysterious man who claims to have classified information about investigations into the paranormal.
Directed by Daniel SackheimWritten by Chris CarterGuest stars Michael Bryan French, Seth Green, Johnny Cuthbert, Andrew Johnston, Gabrielle Rose, Monica Parker, Sheila Moore, Lalainia Lindbjerg
Episode 3
Mulder and Scully search for a killer whose savage murder spree reoccurs every thirty years, where there appears to be no tangible method for the murderer's entrance and escape.
Directed by Harry LongstreetWritten by James Wong, Glen MorganGuest stars Doug Hutchison, Donal Logue, Henry Beckman, Kevin McNulty, Terence Kelly, Colleen Winton, Gary Hetherington, Rob Morton
Episode 4
As Section Chief Blevins expresses his concern with the direction of the X-Files, Mulder becomes obsessed with solving a case that closely parallels an encounter he experienced as a child: the abduction of his kid sister, Samantha.
Directed by Daniel SackheimWritten by Howard Gordon, Alex GansaGuest stars Carrie Snodgress, Michael Cavanaugh, Donald Gibb, Joel Palmer, Shelley Owens, Don Thompson, Akiko Morison, Taunya Dee
Episode 5
Mulder and Scully track a legendary creature that has roamed the New Jersey countryside for over forty years..
Directed by Joe NapolitanoWritten by Chris CarterGuest stars Claire Stansfield, Wayne Tippit, Gregory Sierra, Michael MacRae, Jill Teed, Tamsin Kelsey, Andrew Airlie, Bill Dow
Episode 6
Mulder and Scully investigate the deaths of two men believed to have been killed by a powerful psychokinetic force.
Directed by Michael KatlemanWritten by James Wong, Glen MorganGuest stars Barry Primus, Lisa Waltz, Lorena Gale, Veena Sood, Deryl Hayes, Kelli Fox, Tom Pickett, Tom Heaton
Episode 7
It's Halloween, and Mulder and Scully are investigating the strange death of a corporate executive in a sophisticated high-tech building.
Directed by Jerrold FreedmanWritten by Howard Gordon, Alex GansaGuest stars Rob LaBelle, Wayne Duvall, Blu Mankuma, Tom Butler, Gillian Barber, Marc Baur, Bill Finck, Ted Thomas
Episode 8
In the claustrophobic isolation of a remote outpost in Alaska, Mulder and Scully investigate the horrifying deaths of scientists.
Directed by David NutterWritten by James Wong, Glen MorganGuest stars Xander Berkeley, Felicity Huffman, Steve Hytner, Jeff Kober, Ken Kirzinger, Sonny Surwiec
Episode 9
Mulder and Scully are contacted by a communications specialist from NASA who shows them evidence of sabotage in the space programme.
Directed by William A. GrahamWritten by Chris CarterGuest stars Ed Lauter, Susanna Thompson, Tom McBeath, Terry David Mulligan, Tyronne L'Hirondelle, Alf Humphreys, David S. Cameron, French Tickner
Episode 10
Mulder puts the future of the X-Files in jeopardy when he heads to a UFO crash site being rapidly covered up by the military. He is arrested, and while in jail he meets Max Fenig, a UFO nut whose NICAP group has followed Mulder's work on the X-Files. When Mulder is released, Scully urges him to return to Washington to face his superiors and try to save his job, but Mulder finds out that Max is more than meets the eye and ignores Scully to try and save him instead.
Directed by Larry ShawWritten by Howard Gordon, Alex GansaGuest stars Frederick Coffin, Marshall Bell, Scott Bellis, Alvin Sanders, Sheila Paterson, Tony Pantages, Jane MacDougall, Brent Stait
Episode 11
When two fathers on opposite sides of the country are inexplicably murdered at the exact same time in the exact same way, Mulder and Scully are called in to investigate. When they discover that the two fathers' eight-year-old daughters are identical twins, they realize that something even stranger is going on.
Directed by Fred GerberWritten by Chris Brancato, Kenneth BillerGuest stars Harriet Sansom Harris, Erika Krievins, Sabrina Krievins, George Touliatos, Janet Hodgkinson, Tasha Simms, Tina Gilbertson, David Kirby
Episode 12
An old Oxford girlfriend of Mulder's asks for his help on an international case concerning the unexplainable execution of several British dignitaries, and they encounter an assassin who can produce fire from his bare hands.
Directed by Larry ShawWritten by Chris CarterGuest stars Amanda Pays, Dan Lett, Duncan Fraser, Lynda Boyd, Laurie Paton, Christopher Gray, Alan Robertson, Keegan MacIntosh
Episode 13
When death row inmate Luther Lee Boggs claims to be psychic and can lead Mulder to a serial killer in return for a lesser sentence of life in prison, Scully becomes an unwilling believer when Boggs tells her that she can communicate through him with her recently deceased father.
Directed by David NutterWritten by James Wong, Glen MorganGuest stars Brad Dourif, Fred Henderson, Lisa Vultaggio, Chad Willett, Don MacKay, Randy Lee, Len Rose, Don S. Davis
Episode 14
A series of sexually-oriented murders, which are identical except that the killer appears to be both male and female, draws Scully and Mulder to an Amish-type community of people called the Kindred.
Directed by Rob BowmanWritten by Larry Barber, Paul BarberGuest stars Brent Hinkley, Kate Twa, Peter Stebbings, Mitchell Kosterman, Michèle Goodger, Aundrea MacDonald, John R. Taylor, Grai Carrington
Episode 15
When FBI Agent Jack Willis and bank robber Warren Dupre are both shot at the same time during a robbery attempt, Dupre dies when Willis is brought back to life. When Willis rushes out of the hospital and begins acting strangely, Mulder concludes that Dupre has come back to life in Willis' body.
Directed by David NutterWritten by Howard Gordon, Alex GansaGuest stars Christopher Allport, Jason Schombing, Cec Verrell, Callum Keith Rennie, Peter Kelamis, Jay Brazeau, Jackson Davies, Lisa Bunting
Episode 16
Mulder becomes the target of someone from his past named John Barnett. He was a jewelry store robber with an itchy trigger finger that Mulder sent to prison when he first joined the Bureau. The only problem is that Barnett died four years ago.
Directed by Michael LangeWritten by Scott Kaufer, Chris CarterGuest stars William B. Davis, Dick Anthony Williams, Alan Boyce, David Ross Paterson, Graham Jarvis, Merrilyn Gann, Robin Mossley, Courtney Arciaga
Episode 17
Mulder and Scully receive information from Deep Throat about a UFO that was shot down over Iraq and has been secretly transported to the US. However, Deep Throat then intentionally misleads the agents to prevent them from discovering the truth.
Directed by William A. GrahamWritten by James Wong, Glen MorganGuest stars Allan Lysell, Peter LaCroix, Roger Cross, Ellie Harvie, Jerry Hardin, Bruce Harwood, Dean Haglund, Tom Braidwood
Episode 18
A young man who has the power to heal people with his touch begins to question his gift when people start dying after he has supposedly healed them.
Directed by Michael LangeWritten by Howard Gordon, Chris CarterGuest stars R. D. Call, Scott Bairstow, George Gerdes, Dennis Lipscomb, Campbell Lane, Chilton Crane, Lisa Ann Beley, Alex Doduk
Episode 19
Mulder and Scully travel to a Native American reservation to investigate the death of a man who was mistaken for a wild animal and may have been the legendary Manitou, a man who can shape-shift into a beast.
Directed by David NutterWritten by Marilyn OsbornGuest stars Donnelly Rhodes, Michael Horse, Ty Miller, Dwight McFee, Jimmy Herman, Renae Morriseau, Paul Anthony McLean
Episode 20
When a group of loggers in the Washington State National Forest disappear in the same way that another group disappeared 50 years ago, Mulder and Scully go along to investigate and find themselves trapped in a cabin surrounded by flesh eating insects that only attack at night.
Directed by Joe NapolitanoWritten by Chris CarterGuest stars Titus Welliver, Jason Beghe, Barry Greene, Ken Tremblett, Tom O'Rourke, David Hay
Episode 21
Eugene Tooms is released from the sanitarium, and Mulder becomes personally involved to ensure that he is caught in the act of getting the last human liver he needs to go into hibernation for another 30 years.
Directed by David NutterWritten by James Wong, Glen MorganGuest stars Mitch Pileggi, William B. Davis, Doug Hutchison, Henry Beckman, Paul Ben-Victor, Frank C. Turner, Timothy Webber, Pat Bermel
Episode 22
After a detective and his former partner die in unexplained circumstances, the accidents are linked to a little girl who witnessed both deaths. Mulder believes that she may be the reincarnation of a policeman murdered by his colleagues.
Directed by Jerrold FreedmanWritten by Howard Gordon, Alex GansaGuest stars Maggie Wheeler, Brian Markinson, Andrea Libman, Dey Young, Peter Lapres, Richard Sali, Mimi Lieber, P. Lynn Johnson
Episode 23
Mulder and Scully investigate the death of a scientist working on advanced propulsion technology. The mentally challenged janitor Roland, who has secretly been completing the scientist's work, is the prime suspect.
Directed by David NutterWritten by Chris RuppenthalGuest stars Željko Ivanek, Micole Mercurio, Kerry Sandomirsky, Garry Davey, James Sloyan, Matthew Walker, David Hurtubise, Suleka Mathew
Episode 24
When Deep Throat points out a news story about a fugitive who apparently drowned, Mulder and Scully cannot see what makes the case special but follow it up anyway. With Deep Throat's insistence, they discover evidence of a secret government project code-named Purity Control, which uses human test subjects and infects them with extraterrestrial DNA. However, the evidence and everyone who has seen it is quickly being eliminated.
Directed by R. W. GoodwinWritten by Chris CarterGuest stars William B. Davis, John Payne, Lindsey Ginter, Simon Webb, Ken Kramer, Phillip MacKenzie, Jaylene Hamilton, Mike Mitchell
Episode information updated Jul 24, 2026
David DuchovnyFox Mulder
Gillian AndersonDana Scully
Robert PatrickJohn Doggett
Annabeth GishMonica Reyes
Mitch PileggiWalter Skinner
Cary ElwesBrad Follmer
John FinnMichael Kritschgau
William B. DavisCigarette Smoking Man
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