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 8 episodes
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Newly appointed Deputy Director Kersh organizes a manhunt for Mulder and assigns Agent John Doggett to head the team. Scully and Skinner go along with the investigation but are warned by Kersh that they will be fired if anything is said about aliens. Scully, along with the Lone Gunmen, surmise that the Bounty Hunter is trying to erase all evidence of abductions, and they realize that he may be going after Gibson Praise, who is now living at a school in Arizona. Agent Doggett comes to the same conclusion and his team race Scully and Skinner to the school where they find Mulder trying to kidnap Gibson.
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Directed by Kim MannersWritten by Chris CarterGuest stars Mitch Pileggi, Kirk B.R. Woller, Dondré Whitfield, Christine Firkins, Jeff Gulka, Marc Gomes, Jonathan Palmer, Jo-Ann Dean
As the search for Mulder intensifies in the Arizona desert, Gibson Praise leads Scully to believe that she is truly closer to her target. Meanwhile, A.D. Kersh informs Agent Doggett that he has been assigned as Mulder's successor on the X-Files.
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Directed by Kim MannersWritten by Chris CarterGuest stars Mitch Pileggi, Brian Thompson, Sal Landi, Kirk B.R. Woller, Christine Firkins, Jeff Gulka, Marc Gomes, Jonathan Palmer
While tackling his first X-File case about a series of gruesome murders surrounding a bat-like creature, Doggett quickly learns that his investigative techniques are somewhat dissimilar to Scully's.
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Directed by Chris CarterWritten by Chris CarterGuest stars Gene Dynarski, Jay Caputo, Dan Leegant, Bradford English, Eve Brenner, Annie O'Donnell, Brent Sexton, Gary Bullock
Scully evades Doggett's help in investigating a vicious murder in a remote area of Utah, and she is trapped in the small town by a religious cult that believe a slug-like creature is the second coming of God who needs a human host to survive.
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Directed by Rod HardyWritten by Vince GilliganGuest stars Lawrence Pressman, William O'Leary, Rusty Schwimmer, Conor O'Farrell, David Barry Gray, Todd Jeffries, Bryan Dilbeck
In 1990 a little boy inexplicably disappeared from his crowded school playground and was never seen again until now, ten years later, and he hasn't aged a day.
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Directed by Richard ComptonWritten by David AmannGuest stars Colton James, Kim Greist, Maggie Baird, Rodney Eastman, Erich Anderson, Jim Cody Williams, Sheila Shaw, Leslie Sachs
A prominent lawyer wakes to find himself in jail and about to be prosecuted for the murder of his wife. He has no memory of this event however, and when the days begin to regress backward towards the murder, he realizes that he has been given a second chance.
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Directed by Peter MarkleWritten by Steven MaedaGuest stars Guy Torry, Cynthia Martells, Bellamy Young, Danny Trejo, Joe Morton, Joanna Sanchez, Jack Shearer, Lee Duncan
Working without Scully's input, Doggett and Skinner try to stop the mysterious murder spree of a drug-induced religious cult leader, and it becomes clear that the man can enter the dreams of the people he knows and can kill them in their sleep.
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Directed by Tony WharmbyWritten by Frank SpotnitzGuest stars Mitch Pileggi, Keith Szarabajka, Kirk B.R. Woller, Grant Heslov, Chris Jacobs, Wayne A. King, Mary Ostrow, James Pickens Jr.
When a real estate agent is shot inside a prison cell by someone who apparently fired from the roof, Scully and Doggett track him to two exterminators, one of whom has x-ray vision.
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Directed by Terrence O'HaraWritten by Greg WalkerGuest stars Noel Gugliemi, James Franco, Kellie Waymire, Michael Bowen, Patrick Kilpatrick, Ty Upshaw, Joe Sabatino, Greg Boniface
A man whose blood is rapidly changing into metal alloy enacts revenge on those who caused his condition.
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Directed by Rod HardyWritten by Jeffrey BellGuest stars Arye Gross, Dan Desmond, Wade Williams, Jennifer Parsons, Tamara Clatterbuck, Kenneth Meseroll, Scott MacDonald, Randy Walker
An Indian mystic whose son died in a chemical plant accident smuggles himself into the United States and takes his revenge on two families in suburban Washington, D.C.
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Directed by Tony WharmbyWritten by John ShibanGuest stars Michael Welch, Jordan Warkol, Maura Soden, Deep Roy, Andy Hubbell, Christopher Hutson, Bill Dow, Calvin Remsberg
Doggett comes upon an old case that Mulder kept secret from Scully and he follows up the investigation, hoping to find a possible connection to Mulder's disappearance.
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Directed by Kim MannersWritten by Frank SpotnitzGuest stars Mitch Pileggi, Natalie Radford, Caroline Lagerfelt, Jordan Marder, Justin Williams, Michael McGrady, Bruce Harwood, Dean Haglund
Scully and Doggett must race against the clock to investigate and fight off a contagion lurking in the subway tunnels of Boston.
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Directed by Richard ComptonWritten by Frank SpotnitzGuest stars Ken Jenkins, Penny Johnson Jerald, Judith Scott, Mary Kathleen Gordon, Vyto Ruginis, Bill Jacobson, Brent Sexton, Kevin Graves
When Scully and Doggett are contacted by a man who claims his wife was murdered shortly after giving birth to an alien baby, Scully digs deeper into reports of alien fertilization on humans, and she begins to question her own pregnancy and its conception.
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Directed by Kim MannersWritten by Chris Carter, Frank SpotnitzGuest stars Mitch Pileggi, Karl T. Wright, Saxon Trainor, Steven Anderson, Megan Follows, Adam Baldwin, David Purdham, Diana Castle
When Teresa Hoese (the woman Scully and Mulder met the previous spring in Oregon just before Mulder was abducted) is found in a desert after enduring alien testing, Doggett alerts Scully that this could have something to do with Mulder and his whereabouts. Skinner joins them and they travel to the hospital where Teresa is clinging to life by a thread, and Scully realizes that this is exactly what's going on with Mulder.
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Directed by Kim MannersWritten by Chris Carter, Frank SpotnitzGuest stars Annabeth Gish, Mitch Pileggi, Roy Thinnes, Sarah Koskoff, Judson Scott, Bernard White, John McGonegle, Arlene Pileggi
Shortly after Mulder is buried, Billy Miles is found very dead, but he somehow comes back to life. Skinner and Scully put all their hopes into digging up Mulder and discovering that he too, is still alive. As Mulder lies in the hospital without indication that he is going to fully recover, Krycek comes to Skinner and offers him a vaccine to the virus that has infected Mulder, but the cost of the vaccine is that Skinner has to kill Scully's unborn child.
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Directed by Tony WharmbyWritten by Chris Carter, Frank SpotnitzGuest stars Mitch Pileggi, Judson Scott, Zachary Ansley, Gibby Brand, Larry Dorf, Richard McGonagle, Nelson Mashita, David Doty
Mulder's request for reassignment to the X-Files is denied by Kersh, who hopes that Mulder will simply quit the FBI. When a census worker is killed on the White House lawn trying to get information to the President, Mulder gets in over his head trying to discover what the man knew.
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Directed by Tony WharmbyWritten by Chris Carter, Frank SpotnitzGuest stars Mitch Pileggi, Judson Scott, Adam Baldwin, Gary Bristow, Joe Basile, Ric Sarabia, Dwight Hicks, J.C. Murad
Special Agent Reyes enlists Mulder's help in investigating a supernatural killer's connection to the unsolved murder of Agent Doggett's son, Luke.
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Directed by Barry K. ThomasWritten by Greg WalkerGuest stars Annabeth Gish, Jennifer Hammon, Caitlin Fein, Jay Underwood, Bruce Wright, Dayna Beilenson, Ron Canada, Wendy Gazelle
Mulder and Doggett are reluctantly thrown together to investigate several deaths aboard an oil rig, and Mulder becomes convinced that the rig is really carrying the black oil alien.
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Directed by Rod HardyWritten by Steven MaedaGuest stars Mitch Pileggi, Lee Reherman, Casey Biggs, M.C. Gainey, Miguel Sandoval, Gregory Cruz, Luis Villalta, Kevin C. Loomis
While Scully takes maternity leave, Doggett is partnered with a young agent who is fascinated with the X-Files and has followed Mulder and Scully's careers. She and Doggett investigate the death of an old man and the disappearance of his son, but when they disappear as well Mulder heads out to search for them.
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Directed by Frank SpotnitzWritten by Frank SpotnitzGuest stars Mitch Pileggi, Zach Grenier, Jolie Jenkins, Tony Ketcham, Lisa Kaseman, James Otis, Jay Caputo
Mulder and Doggett join forces to investigate the arson attack on a genetics lab where one of the doctors suspected of experimenting with alien impregnation is killed. They encounter Billy Miles, who has been changed into an alien replicant after his recent abduction and is attempting to erase evidence of the tests. When a woman helping Scully out at home is found to be a part of the conspiracy, the agents, along with Monica Reyes and Alex Krycek, know they must protect Scully and her baby from Billy Miles and get her out of the city.
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Directed by Kim MannersWritten by Chris CarterGuest stars Annabeth Gish, Mitch Pileggi, Frances Fisher, Zachary Ansley, Kirk B.R. Woller, Steven Anderson, David Purdham, Denise Crosby
Mulder, Doggett and Skinner attempt to fight off the alien replicants, and they find a connection to the conspiracy that leads into the FBI while Reyes and Scully head to a remote farm to safeguard the birth of Scully's child.
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Directed by Kim MannersWritten by Chris CarterGuest stars Annabeth Gish, Zachary Ansley, Kirk B.R. Woller, Adam Baldwin, Dale Dickey, Austin Tichenor, Jerry Shiban, James Pickens Jr.
