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 5 episodes
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Scully helps Mulder fake his own death in order for him to go undetected through the Department of Defence and find out the answers to his new questions about the government hoax concerning the existence of extraterrestrial life. Meanwhile, at a joint FBI/DOD inquiry, Scully's attempt to drive out the Conspiracy's informant is halted as her cancer takes a bad turn.
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Directed by Kim MannersWritten by Chris CarterGuest stars Mitch Pileggi, William B. Davis, John Finn, Steve Makaj, Ken Camroux-Taylor, Barry W. Levy, Julie Arkos, Charles Cioffi
The Cigarette-Smoking Man helps Mulder to obtain Scully's cure and also lets him see his real sister who doesn't turn out to be as happy to see Mulder as he would've liked. In return for this, the Cigarette-Smoking Man asks that Mulder quit the FBI and work for him in the Syndicate where he could have power and respect which Mulder turns down, deciding to stay on the side of justice. While Scully's cure appears to have worked, the Cigarette-Smoking Man faces his own enemies and disappears, presumed dead.
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Directed by Kim MannersWritten by Chris CarterGuest stars William B. Davis, John Finn, Megan Leitch, Pat Skipper, Ken Camroux-Taylor, Brent Sheppard, Arnie Walters, Charles Cioffi
Set in 1989, the story of the founding of The Lone Gunmen is finally told as we see how a straight-laced federal employee, a sex mad AV expert, and a nerdy computer hacker meet Susanne Modeski, a strange woman with evidence of a government conspiracy. When their plan to expose the conspiracy fails and Susanne is captured by a group of men-in-black, led by none other than X, they soon become a paranoid group of government watchdogs.
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Directed by Kim MannersWritten by Vince GilliganGuest stars Richard Belzer, Signy Coleman, Eric Knight, Kenneth H. Hawryliw, Chris Nelson Norris, Stuart O'Connell, Glenn Williams, Bruce Harwood
While on their way to an FBI group communication seminar, Mulder and Scully manage to escape when they come across a situation in the Florida forest area where three men have recently disappeared.
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Directed by Brett DowlerWritten by Frank SpotnitzGuest stars Anthony Rapp, Colleen Flynn, Scott Burkholder, Simon Longmore, J.C. Wendel, Tyler Thompson, Merrilyn Gann, Alf Humphreys
Filmed in glorious black and white with a comic book feel to it, this is a modern retelling of Frankenstein as Mulder and Scully get caught up in a town where the residents live on Jerry Springer episodes and fear a two-faced monster who has been impregnating the women.
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Directed by Chris CarterWritten by Chris CarterGuest stars John O'Hurley, Chris Owens, C. Ernst Harth, Pattie Tierce, Stewart Gale, Chris Giacoletti, Tracey Bell, Vitaly Kravchenko
On her Christmas vacation with her brother's family, Scully receives a mysterious phone call from a familiar voice who says, "She needs your help. Go to her." The phone call leads Scully to a murder case where the victim's 3-year-old adopted daughter bears an uncanny likeness to her sister, Melissa, at that age. The emotional roller coaster that follows has Scully believing that her sister had a baby during a period when she traveled the country and she tries to adopt the child, knowing that caring for the little girl would change her life.
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Directed by Peter MarkleWritten by Vince Gilligan, John Shiban, Frank SpotnitzGuest stars John Pyper-Ferguson, Stephen Mendel, Pat Skipper, Lauren Diewold, Patricia Dahlquist, Dan Shea, Melinda McGraw, Sheila Larken
DNA testing on Emily reveals that she is actually Scully's daughter and Mulder comes to assist her. While Mulder is looking for any information about where and how the girl was born, Scully searches for a cure to Emily's strange illness.
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Directed by Kim MannersWritten by Vince Gilligan, John Shiban, Frank SpotnitzGuest stars John Pyper-Ferguson, Stephen Mendel, Pat Skipper, Gerard Plunkett, Patricia Dahlquist, Tanya Huse, David Abbott, Sheila Larken
Pusher returns as Robert Patrick Modell escapes from the mental hospital and the FBI promptly organizes a manhunt, assuming that he will continue where he left off. But is he really trying to get revenge on Mulder, or does he want to warn him of another evil?
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Directed by Daniel SackheimWritten by Vince Gilligan, Tim MinearGuest stars Mitch Pileggi, Diana Scarwid, Colleen Winton, Scott Oughterson, Kurt Evans, Donna Yamamoto, Stuart O'Connell, Michelle Hart
A therapist working with children from abusive families is found to be implanting them with the memories of her own abuse suffered at the hands of her late father, when one of her patients tries to kill his stepfather.
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Directed by Ralph HemeckerWritten by Jessica Scott, Mike WollaegerGuest stars Myles Ferguson, Katharine Isabelle, George Josef, Chad Lindberg, Cynde Harmon, Bob Dawson, Gardiner Millar, Christine Anton
Master of Horror Stephen King's first effort at an X-File sees Scully's well deserved vacation going terribly wrong and landing her in a small Maine town where one of the residents is believed to be a witch, and her autistic daughter's doll has frighteningly evil powers.
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Directed by Kim MannersWritten by Chris Carter, Stephen KingGuest stars Carolyn Tweedle, Henry Beckman, Susannah Hoffmann, Dean Wray, Elizabeth McCarthy, Sean Benbow, Tracy Lively, William MacDonald
A super-intelligent virus program is let loose on the internet and begins to grow and expand by itself, eventually killing its creator when he tries to eradicate it.
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Directed by Rob BowmanWritten by William Gibson, Tom MaddoxGuest stars Kristin Lehman, Ted Cole, Peter Williams, Rob Daprocida, Daniel Weber, Kate Luyben, Steven Griffith, Patrick Keating
After Mulder chases down and kills a young man who he believes to be a vampire, the agents return to DC aware of the mistake they just made. Faced with a lawsuit from the family of the man, they recount each of their sides to the story leading up to the event. In the extremely humorous stories that follow we see how Scully and Mulder both perceive each other.
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Directed by Cliff BoleWritten by Vince GilliganGuest stars Mitch Pileggi, Luke Wilson, Brent Butt, Patrick Renna, Marion Killinger, Forbes Angus
Mulder and Scully meet Cassandra Spender, a woman who claims to be a multiple abductee and wants to deliver a positive message about the aliens. Mulder's new found disbelief in extraterrestrial activity is enhanced while Scully forms a special bond with the woman. A series of group attacks against abductees take place and the shadowy Syndicate believes that a rebel alien resistance is attempting to destroy all their work.
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Directed by Kim MannersWritten by Chris Carter, Frank SpotnitzGuest stars Veronica Cartwright, Brian Thompson, Laurie Holden, Alex Shostak, Jr., Ron Halder, Kurt Max Runte, Raoul Ganeen, Anatol Rezmeritsa
After the gathering at the abduction site where everyone is killed by the rebel bounty hunters, Cassandra Spender disappears and Mulder is blamed by her son, Jeffrey, who is an up-and-coming FBI agent. Meanwhile, the Syndicate is continuing their tests to create a vaccine for the Black Cancer and Marita Covarrubias becomes an unwilling test subject.
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Directed by Chris CarterWritten by Chris Carter, Frank SpotnitzGuest stars Mitch Pileggi, William B. Davis, Veronica Cartwright, Brian Thompson, George Murdock, Laurie Holden, Alex Shostak, Jr., Chapelle Jaffe
In 1990 Agent Fox Mulder visits an aging FBI Agent named Arthur Dales. He listens to a story of the agents assigned to a would-be X-File in the Cold War era of the 1950's and how Mulder's father was connected to a series of strange deaths.
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Directed by William A. GrahamWritten by John Shiban, Frank SpotnitzGuest stars Darren McGavin, Brian Leckner, Garret Dillahunt, Fredric Lehne, David Moreland, Jane Perry, Eric W. Gilder, Dean Aylesworth
Mulder and Scully try to get answers out of a stubborn blind woman found at a murder scene who may have the ability to look through the killer's eyes in her mind.
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Directed by Kim MannersWritten by Tim MinearGuest stars Ralph Alderman, Lili Taylor, Blu Mankuma, Richard Fitzpatrick, Henri Lubatti, Joe Pascual, Colin Lawrence, Dalias Blake
Scully faces her Catholic faith and the loss of her daughter Emily when she is asked to help a family whose adopted daughter was found dead in a position that looked like she was struck down by God himself.
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Directed by Rob Bowman, Allen CoulterWritten by John Shiban, Frank SpotnitzGuest stars Eric Keenleyside, Patti Allan, Jody Racicot, Emily Perkins, Lorraine Landry, Glenn Morshower, Tim O'Halloran, Arnie Walters
Scully fears that Mulder has gone to the other side when she sees him assisting a federal suspect escape custody. In truth he has infiltrated a terrorist group testing a deadly biological weapon that can eat through a person's flesh.
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Directed by Rob BowmanWritten by John Shiban, Frank SpotnitzGuest stars Michael MacRae, Daniel von Bargen, Sam Anderson, Armin Moattar, Kate Braidwood, Birkett Turton, Trevor Roald, Douglas Arthurs
Mulder is held hostage inside an office where a man claims his boss is a monster and has clouded all their minds while he turns them into zombies one by one, which is disbelieved until Mulder opens his mind and allows himself to see it too.
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Directed by Rob BowmanWritten by Vince GilliganGuest stars Mitch Pileggi, Cynthia Preston, John Apicella, Grant Gladish, Norma Jean Wick, Owen Walstrom, Nancy Kerr, Leslie Jones
The Cigarette-Smoking Man returns as Mulder investigates the attempted assassination of a young boy with psychic powers who may be the proof that he has looked for all his life.
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Directed by R. W. GoodwinWritten by Chris CarterGuest stars Mitch Pileggi, William B. Davis, Mimi Rogers, George Murdock, Jeff Gulka, Martin Ferrero, John Neville, Chris Owens
