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.
Season 2 episodes
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With the X-Files closed, Scully has been assigned as an instructor at the FBI Academy while Mulder is doing menial surveillance work. After meeting with Senator Matheson, one of his supporters in regards to the X-Files, Mulder disobeys orders and heads to an abandoned SETI site in Puerto Rico which has inexplicably reactivated itself and could provide proof of contact with extra-terrestrial life.
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Directed by David NutterWritten by James Wong, Glen MorganGuest stars Mitch Pileggi, William B. Davis, Mike Gomez, Dwight McFee, Fulvio Cecere, Deryl Hayes, Vanessa Morley, Gary Hetherington
A.D. Skinner sends Mulder to investigate a body which washed into the New Jersey sewer from the ocean. Mulder believes that the basic blue-collar assignment is punishment, but by Skinner's own admission, what he discovers is a true X-File.
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Directed by Daniel SackheimWritten by Chris CarterGuest stars Mitch Pileggi, Matthew Bennett, Marc Baur, Don MacKay, Gabrielle Rose, Hrothgar Mathews, Dmitri S. Boudrine, Freddy Andreiuci
When several violent deaths in a small farming community are connected by the destruction of digital devices, Mulder believes that people are being driven to kill by the use of subliminal messages in the digital readouts.
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Directed by David NutterWritten by James Wong, Glen Morgan, Darin MorganGuest stars William Sanderson, John Cygan, Ashlyn Gere, David Fredericks, Diana Stevan, Kathleen Duborg, William Mackenzie, Gerry Rousseau
Mulder reluctantly accepts a new partner, Agent Alex Krycek, and they investigate the deaths of several Green Beret soldiers who participated in a sleep deprivation experiment during the Vietnam war.
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Directed by Rob BowmanWritten by Howard GordonGuest stars Mitch Pileggi, William B. Davis, Mitchell Kosterman, Dave Adams, Anthony Harrison, Jon Gries, Tony Todd, Don Thompson
Mulder is called to a hostage situation involving Duane Barry, a former FBI Agent who claims to be an alien abductee and wants to get back to the abduction site with someone who will be taken instead of him. Unfortunately, the someone he eventually chooses is Scully.
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Directed by Chris CarterWritten by Chris CarterGuest stars Steve Railsback, Michael Dobson, CCH Pounder, Stephen E. Miller, Robert Lewis, John Sampson, Fred Henderson, Frank C. Turner
When Mulder finds out that Scully was kidnapped by Duane Barry, he risks the wrath of his superiors and the annoyance of Agent Krycek in order to do whatever it takes to find her. Meanwhile, Krycek is found to be reporting Mulder's activities to the Cigarette-Smoking Man.
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Directed by Michael LangeWritten by Paul BrownGuest stars Mitch Pileggi, William B. Davis, Steve Railsback, Bobby Stewart, Meredith Bain Woodward, Michael David Simms, Peter LaCroix, Steve Makaj
Mulder, back on the X-Files but alone for the first time, investigates a series of vampire-like murders in Los Angeles and finds himself falling for the one woman that may be the prime suspect.
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Directed by David NutterWritten by James Wong, Glen Morgan, Chris RuppenthalGuest stars Perrey Reeves, Justina Vail Evans, Frank Military, Tom McBeath, Malcolm Stewart, Frank Ferrucci, Ken Kramer, Roger Allford
Scully mysteriously appears in a Washington hospital, alive but in a coma, and Mulder must fight to keep her alive in order to find out what happened to her and who did it to her. Meanwhile, Scully fights her own personal battle as she decides whether to stay or go on to the next world.
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Directed by R. W. GoodwinWritten by James Wong, Glen MorganGuest stars Mitch Pileggi, Don S. Davis, Jay Brazeau, Nicola Cavendish, Lorena Gale, Michael Ryan, Melinda McGraw, Sheila Larken
Mulder and Scully, reunited at last, head for an active volcano under a geological study and find a deadly life form that can survive in the searing heat of the crater and is killing the scientists to avoid being discovered.
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Directed by David NutterWritten by Howard GordonGuest stars Bradley Whitford, David Kaye, Leland Orser, Hiro Kanagawa, Shawnee Smith, Tuck Milligan, David James Lewis
While investigating the connection between the abduction of several teenagers and a rural religious cult, Mulder and Scully discover a secret test being performed on the children using the "Purity Control" alien DNA from 'The Erlenmeyer Flask' which leads Mulder to "the crew-cut man", Deep Throat's murderer.
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Directed by Win PhelpsWritten by Chris CarterGuest stars Mark Rolston, Gillian Barber, Paul Sand, Steve Eastin, Bob Frazer, Elisabeth Rosen, Lindsey Ginter, Robert Clothier
Mulder and Scully uncover strange occurrences in an elderly care home when one of the nurses is attacked by an unseen force she claims to be one of the 90 year old residents.
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Directed by Stephen SurjikWritten by Paul BrownGuest stars Teryl Rothery, Ernie Prentice, Eric Christmas, Frances Bay, Sab Shimono, David Fresco, Sheila Moore, Jerry Wasserman
When a detective mysteriously uncovers the remains of an FBI agent who disappeared in the 1940s while investigating a similar murder case to one she is now on, Mulder and Scully believe that the original killer had passed his genetic trait of violence to his grandchild.
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Directed by Rob BowmanWritten by Sara B. CooperGuest stars Terry O'Quinn, Morgan Woodward, Sarah-Jane Redmond, Joy Coghill, Deborah Strang, Emanuel Hajek, Robyn Driscoll, Peter Flemming
A mortuary worker who gets his thrills from collecting hair and fingernails from the dead begins killing his soon-to-be collectibles himself and sets his seriously disturbed sights on Scully.
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Directed by David NutterWritten by Chris CarterGuest stars Nick Chinlund, Bruce Weitz, Christine Willes, Deanna Milligan, Tim Progosh, Robert Thurston, Kiara Hunter, Dwight McFee
The ritualistic murder of a teenager in a small town gets Mulder and Scully caught up in a secret occult practice within the local school's PTA and a substitute teacher with strange powers.
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Directed by Kim MannersWritten by James Wong, Glen MorganGuest stars Dan Butler, Susan Blommaert, Heather McComb, Shaun Johnston, P. Lynn Johnson, Travis MacDonald, Michèle Goodger, Larry Musser
While investigating several deaths and murders within a Haitian refugee camp, Mulder and Scully get caught in the middle of a secret war between the camp commander and a Voodoo priest.
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Directed by Rob BowmanWritten by Howard GordonGuest stars Daniel Benzali, Bruce A. Young, Jamil Walker Smith, Matt Hill, Callum Keith Rennie, Kevin Conway, Katya Gardner, Roger Cross
After the obituaries of four identical men are e-mailed to Mulder, the agents are contacted by a shadowy CIA agent who tells them about a bounty hunter sent to wipe out the beginning of a colony of clones. Meanwhile Mulder is distracted by the sudden reappearance of his sister Samantha.
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Directed by Nick MarckWritten by David Duchovny, Chris CarterGuest stars Mitch Pileggi, Megan Leitch, Andrew Johnston, Brian Thompson, Ken Roberts, Tom Butler, Bonnie Hay, David L. Gordon
The alien bounty hunter kidnaps Scully and wants to trade her for Mulder's sister, who is revealed to be a clone herself. After the trade goes badly and Mulder discovers the truth about Samantha, he tracks the bounty hunter to his ship buried in the arctic ice and demands the whereabouts of his real sister.
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Directed by Rob BowmanWritten by Frank SpotnitzGuest stars Mitch Pileggi, Colin Cunningham, Megan Leitch, Andrew Johnston, Brian Thompson, Bonnie Hay, Oliver Becker, J. B. Bivens
In a small town in Idaho, a man is killed by what seems to be an invisible elephant. Mulder's investigation into the local zoo, its owners and a local animal rights group uncovers evidence of insidious alien experiments.
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Directed by James Whitmore Jr.Written by Steve De JarnattGuest stars Jayne Atkinson, Lance Guest, Jack Rader, Jody St. Michael, Charles Andre, Garvin Cross, Tom Glass, Lenno Britos
When half the crew of a Navy ship abandon their boat in a life raft and are rescued 18 hours later looking about 60 years older than they should be, Mulder suggests that the ship is caught in a time field which is speeding up their aging.
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Directed by Rob BowmanWritten by Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon, Howard GordonGuest stars John Savage, David Cubitt, Vladimir Kulich, Stephen Dimopoulos, Claire Riley, Robert Metcalfe, Dmitry Chepovetsky, Mar Andersons
Mulder and Scully travel to Gibsonton, Florida, a town built and populated by circus and sideshow performers to investigate the death of Jerald Glazebrook, The Alligator Man. While searching for leads on the killer, the agents come across many bizarre characters including the local sheriff who was once known as Jim Jim, the Dog-Faced Boy.
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Directed by Kim MannersWritten by Darin MorganGuest stars Jim Rose, Wayne Grace, Michael J. Anderson, The Enigma, Vincent Schiavelli, Alex Diakun, John Payne, Gordon Tipple
The agents investigate when a young boy's family is plagued by a series of tragic accidents.
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Directed by Michael VejarWritten by Sara B. CooperGuest stars Helene Clarkson, Joel Palmer, Lilyan Chauvin, Kay E. Kuter, Ric Reid, Bill Dow, Jacqueline Dandeneau, Bill Croft
When a plague-like illness kills ten men inside a maximum security prison, Scully tries to get into the quarantine site and discover the cause and origin of the contagion, while Mulder and a group of US Marshals track two escapees who may be infected.
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Directed by Rob BowmanWritten by Howard Gordon, Chris CarterGuest stars Mitch Pileggi, William B. Davis, Charles Martin Smith, Dean Norris, John Pyper-Ferguson, Angelo Vacco, Morris Panych, Lynda Boyd
An experiment in dark matter accidentally turns a scientist's shadow into a deadly weapon that can unzip a person's molecules if they are touched by it.
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Directed by James A. ContnerWritten by Vince GilliganGuest stars Tony Shalhoub, Kate Twa, Kevin McNulty, Nathaniel DeVeaux, Robert Rozen, Donna Yamamoto, Forbes Angus, Guyle Fraizer
After several disappearances in a small town, Mulder and Scully investigate and find hundreds of human bones in the river. They discover that the man behind the town's main source of wealth, a chicken processing plant, has found a way to prolong his life through cannibalism.
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Directed by Rob BowmanWritten by Frank SpotnitzGuest stars Caroline Kava, John Milford, Gary Grubbs, Timothy Webber, John Maclaren, Robin Mossley, Gabrielle Miller, Hrothgar Mathews
Mulder receives an encrypted computer disk 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 disk.
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Directed by R. W. GoodwinWritten by David Duchovny, Chris Carter, Chris CarterGuest stars Mitch Pileggi, William B. Davis, Renae Morriseau, Ken Camroux-Taylor, Bernie Coulson, Mitchell Davies, Chris Carter, Byron Chief-Moon
