Pilot
Special Agent Dana Scully is partnered with Special Agent Fox Mulder to validate his work
on a special project called The X-Files. While he is a believer in the paranormal, fuelled by a lost memory where his sister
was abducted by aliens; she is a scientist and prefers to look for rational, logical explanations. Their first case takes
them to Oregon, to investigate the unsolved deaths of several High School classmates, which Mulder believes are linked to an alien
abduction.
Deep Throat
Mulder and Scully head to Ellens Air Force Base to investigate the mysterious case of a military
test pilot who disappeared after experiencing strange psychotic behaviour. While on the case, Mulder meets a mysterious man
dubbed 'Deep Throat', who claims to have classified information about his investigations into the paranormal.
Squeeze
One of Scully's friends from the FBI academy, now working in the Violent Crimes Unit asks
her to assist him on a homicide investigation involving no clear MO or point of entry. Scully accepts, and finally realizing
what a joke she and Mulder are considered to be. Mulder reviews the case and he notices that similar homicides occurred in
1903, 1933 and 1963. When he helps capture Eugene Tooms, Mulder mentions the other murders and his credibility is weakened.
Mulder and Scully follow the paranormal angle of the case and discover the Tooms is a genetic mutant who can fit his body
through the smallest of spaces and needs to consume 5 human livers to sustain himself for thirty years of hibernation.
Conduit
As Section Chief Blevins expresses his concern with the direction of the X-Files department,
Mulder becomes obsessed with solving a case that closely parallels an 'encounter' he experienced as a child... the abduction
of his kid sister, Samantha.
The Jersey Devil
The murder of a homeless man which is very similar in detail to a murder committed in 1947
leads Mulder and Scully to a legendary man-beast roaming in the forest near Atlantic City.
Shadows
When an unseen force commits several murders where a young woman is present, Mulder suspects
that it is the spirit of the woman's former boss who was believed to have committed suicide but was actually murdered and
he is protecting her from his business partner.
Ghost in the Machine
A computer with highly advanced Artificial Intelligence begins to kill in order to preserve
its existence when it is deemed inefficient to continue controlling the workings of an office building.
Ice
When an Arctic research team mysteriously kill each other and themselves only days after drilling
deeper into the ice than ever before, Mulder and Scully accompany a team of doctors and scientists to investigate. They discover
an organism which infects living creatures and amplifies the host's feeling of anger and paranoia, and the new team starts
to deteriorate as they wonder who among them are killers.
Space
A mysterious force is sabotaging a space launch program which leads directly back to the commander
of the team, who once claimed to have seen an alien in space while witnessing Mars from Earth orbit.
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 and save his job but Mulder finds out that Max is more than meets the eye and ignores Scully to try and save him instead.
Eve
When two fathers on opposite sides of the country are unexplainably murdered at the exact
same time in the exact same way, Mulder and Scully find that their eight-year-old daughters are perfect twins and were created
in order to continue The Litchfield Experiment, a eugenics project of the 1950's which produced several identical sets of
twin boys named Adam and girls named Eve who have heightened strength and intelligence, but are prone to psychotic behavior.
Fire
An old Oxford girlfriend of Mulder's asks for his help in an international case concerning
the unexplainable execution of several British dignitaries and they encounter an assassin who can produce fire from his bare
hands.
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.
Genderbender
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 who may be alien in origin.
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.
Young at Heart
Mulder is being stalked by someone from his past. John Barnett, a criminal whom he played
a large part in capturing has returned to get revenge. Mulder and Scully find that Barnett's escape was due to a doctor trying
to discover the secrets of aging, and the agents soon realize that Barnett has found the perfect disguise: youth.
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.
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.
Shapes
Mulder and Scully travel to an American Indian reservation to investigate the death of an
Indian man who was mistaken for a wild animal and may have been the legendary Manitou, a man who can shapeshift into a beast.
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.
Tooms
Eugene Tooms, the genetic mutant, 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.
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 and Mulder believes that she may be the reincarnation of a policeman murdered
by his colleagues.
Roland
A scientist working on advanced propulsion technology is killed by the handicapped janitor
Roland, who then corrects the man's calculations. Mulder and Scully investigate and find that another recently deceased scientist
whose head is cryogenically frozen, was Roland's twin brother and is controlling him telepathically from beyond the grave.
The Erlenmeyer Flask
Following a vague tip from Deep Throat, Mulder uncovers secret testing of alien DNA on humans
by the government but is captured and infected with an alien retrovirus. Against his own concerns, Deep Throat tries to do
too much for the agents and is discovered as Mulder's source and is executed. At the very end, Mulder informs Scully that
word has come from the top of the executive branch to close The X-Files.