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The X-Files

The X-Files
★ 8.4/10•1993•TV-14•Mystery•Sci-Fi & Fantasy•Crime
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The truth is out there.

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.

StatusEnded
LanguageEN
First Air DateSep 10, 1993

Episodes

Episode 1 - PilotE149m

Pilot

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.

Sep 10, 1993

Episode 2 - Deep ThroatE246m

Deep Throat

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.

Sep 17, 1993

Episode 3 - SqueezeE343m

Squeeze

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.

Sep 24, 1993

Episode 4 - ConduitE445m

Conduit

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.

Oct 1, 1993

Episode 5 - The Jersey DevilE545m

The Jersey Devil

Mulder and Scully track a legendary creature that has roamed the New Jersey countryside for over forty years.

Oct 8, 1993

Episode 6 - ShadowsE646m

Shadows

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

Oct 22, 1993

Episode 7 - Ghost in the MachineE746m

Ghost in the Machine

It's Halloween, and Mulder and Scully are investigating the strange death of a corporate executive in a sophisticated high-tech building.

Oct 29, 1993

Episode 8 - IceE846m

Ice

In the claustrophobic isolation of a remote outpost in Alaska, Mulder and Scully investigate the horrifying deaths of scientists.

Nov 5, 1993

Episode 9 - SpaceE947m

Space

Mulder and Scully are contacted by a communications specialist from NASA who shows them evidence of sabotage in the space programme.

Nov 12, 1993

Episode 10 - Fallen AngelE1046m

Fallen Angel

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.

Nov 19, 1993

Episode 11 - EveE1146m

Eve

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.

Dec 10, 1993

Episode 12 - FireE1246m

Fire

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.

Dec 17, 1993

Episode 13 - Beyond the SeaE1346m

Beyond the Sea

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.

Jan 7, 1994

Episode 14 - Gender BenderE1445m

Gender Bender

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.

Jan 21, 1994

Episode 15 - LazarusE1546m

Lazarus

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.

Feb 4, 1994

Episode 16 - Young at HeartE1646m

Young at Heart

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.

Feb 11, 1994

Episode 17 - E.B.E.E1745m

E.B.E.

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.

Feb 18, 1994

Episode 18 - Miracle ManE1846m

Miracle Man

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.

Mar 18, 1994

Episode 19 - ShapesE1946m

Shapes

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.

Apr 1, 1994

Episode 20 - Darkness FallsE2044m

Darkness Falls

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.

Apr 15, 1994

Episode 21 - ToomsE2146m

Tooms

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.

Apr 22, 1994

Episode 22 - Born AgainE2245m

Born Again

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.

Apr 29, 1994

Episode 23 - RolandE2346m

Roland

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.

May 6, 1994

Episode 24 - The Erlenmeyer FlaskE2446m

The Erlenmeyer Flask

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.

May 13, 1994

Actors

David Duchovny

David Duchovny

Fox Mulder

Gillian Anderson

Gillian Anderson

Dana Scully

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