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The X-Files: The Truth  Rewatch   Season 9, Ep 19

Super soldier Knowle Rohrer catches Mulder accessing classified government documents about the upcoming alien invasion. In the ensuing fight, Rohrer sustains an injury that would have killed a normal human. Mulder is charged with murder and brought before a military tribunal, where he seeks to prove the existence of an alien conspiracy and to justify all his work on the X-Files.
posted by orange swan on Sep 15, 2020 - 13 comments

The X-Files: William  Rewatch   Season 9, Ep 16

A mysterious and hideously scarred man attacks Doggett in the X-Files office one night when Doggett surprises him in the act of going through the files, but when Doggett pulls his gun on him, the man claims to have seen Mulder, and to know things about the conspiracy, and about William.
posted by orange swan on Sep 12, 2020 - 3 comments

The X-Files: Jump the Shark  Rewatch   Season 9, Ep 15

When former Area 51 "man in black" Morris Fletcher appears, claiming that a Yves Adele Harlow, a colleague of the Lone Gunmen, is actually a super soldier, Doggett, Reyes, and the Lone Gunmen attempt to locate her and find that Yves is embroiled in a situation that is graver than they first expected.
posted by orange swan on Sep 11, 2020 - 6 comments

The X-Files: Providence (Part 2/2)  Rewatch   Season 9, Ep 10

Doggett is in a coma, William is in the hands of the UFO cultists, A.D. Follmer is leading the FBI task force to find the baby's abductors, and Scully, who has no faith in Follmer, recruits Reyes and the Lone Gunmen to help her find William.
posted by orange swan on Sep 6, 2020 - 7 comments

The X-Files: Provenance (Part 1/2)  Rewatch   Season 9, Ep 9

A man on a motorbike attempts an illegal crossing of the Canada-U.S border, and it is discovered that he was an undercover FBI agent who had infiltrated a UFO cult and was carrying alien craft tracings similar to those seen in "Biogenesis". Scully, Reyes, and Doggett investigate in an effort to discover the meaning of the rubbings and the reason for the cult's alarming interest in William.
posted by orange swan on Sep 5, 2020 - 6 comments

The X-Files: Trust No 1  Rewatch   Season 9, Ep 6

Scully, Doggett, and Reyes are circuitously approached by a man who claims to have information about the super soldiers that he will only reveal to Mulder, and Scully arranges for Mulder's return.
posted by orange swan on Sep 2, 2020 - 2 comments

The X-Files: Nothing Important Happened Today II (Part 2/2)  Rewatch   Season 9, Ep 2

Scully, Doggett, and Reyes are led to a ship where they find evidence of experimentation on human embryos.
posted by orange swan on Aug 29, 2020 - 3 comments

The X-Files: Nothing Important Happened Today (Part 1/2)  Rewatch   Season 9, Ep 1

Mulder vanishes, and Scully is on maternity leave with Baby William to care for, but Doggett asks for her help as he and Reyes investigate the death of an EPA official who drowned after his car was forced off a bridge by a woman he picked up in a bar.
posted by orange swan on Aug 28, 2020 - 2 comments

The X-Files: Existence (Part 2/2)  Rewatch   Season 8, Ep 21

Alien super soldiers pursue Scully and Reyes to their hiding place in northern Georgia as Scully prepares to give birth, while at FBI headquarters Mulder, Doggett, and Skinner try to figure out how high up in the FBI hierarchy the conspiracy goes.
posted by orange swan on Aug 27, 2020 - 7 comments

The X-Files: Essence (Part 1/2)  Rewatch   Season 8, Ep 20

A seemingly unstoppable Billy Miles begins killing scientists performing genetic research on alien human hybrid babies, and then targets Scully.
posted by orange swan on Aug 26, 2020 - 2 comments

The X-Files: Vienen  Rewatch   Season 8, Ep 18

When the body of a crew member from the Galpex-Orpheus Platform oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico is found horribly burned with charring consistent with exposure to high levels of radiation, Kersh sends Doggett to the oil rig to investigate, and Mulder goes too, on his own initiative.
posted by orange swan on Aug 24, 2020 - 2 comments

The X-Files: Three Words  Rewatch   Season 8, Ep 16

A man makes an attempt to burst into the White House, screaming about how he has to speak to the President about an alien invasion, and is shot, and Mulder, who has been denied reinstatement to the X-files, investigates in an effort to find out what the man had to say.
posted by orange swan on Aug 22, 2020 - 5 comments

The X-Files: DeadAlive (Part 2/2)  Rewatch   Season 8, Ep 15

Three months after Mulder's funeral, Billy Myers' deceased and decaying body is found floating in the sea, and is miraculously resurrected, leading Skinner to decide to exhume Mulder's grave.
posted by orange swan on Aug 21, 2020 - 3 comments

The X-Files: This Is Not Happening (Part 1/2)  Rewatch   Season 8, Ep 14

When Theresa Hoese, who was abducted around the same time as Mulder, is found alive though in grave condition in Montana, Scully, Skinner, and Doggett go the scene in the hope that it may lead them to Mulder, and Doggett calls in a specialist in ritualistic crime, Agent Monica Reyes.
posted by orange swan on Aug 20, 2020 - 3 comments

The X-Files: Per Manum  Rewatch   Season 8, Ep 13

A man comes to Scully and Doggett claiming that his pregnant wife gave birth to an alien baby, and that her doctors stole the infant and murdered his wife. Far-fetched as his story is, it has uncomfortable parallels with Scully's own history.
posted by orange swan on Aug 19, 2020 - 6 comments

The X-Files: Without (Part 2/2)  Rewatch   Season 8, Ep 2

While searching for Gibson Praise, Scully, Skinner, and Doggett encounter the Alien Bounty Hunter.
posted by orange swan on Aug 8, 2020 - 8 comments

The X-Files: Within (Part 1/2)  Rewatch   Season 8, Ep 1

Newly promoted Deputy Director Alvin Kersh organizes a taskforce to hunt for the missing Mulder, and assigns Special Agent John Doggett to lead it, but Scully, who is haunted by visions of what might be happening to Mulder, searches for him with Skinner's help.
posted by orange swan on Aug 7, 2020 - 2 comments

The X-Files: Requiem  Rewatch   Season 7, Ep 22

Mulder and Scully investigate an abduction in Bellefleur, Oregon, the site of the first investigation of their partnership.
posted by orange swan on Aug 6, 2020 - 4 comments

The X-Files: En Ami  Rewatch   Season 7, Ep 15

After a young boy who had cancer, and was denied medical treatment by his religious parents, is miraculously cured by what he says was a visitation of angels, the Cigarette Smoking Man tells Scully he is the one who cured the boy, and promises her that he will give her the cure for all human illness if she will take a road trip with him.
posted by orange swan on Jul 30, 2020 - 3 comments

The X-Files: The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati (Part 3/3)  Rewatch   Season 7, Ep 2

Mulder is taken from the hospital by the Cigarette Smoking Man, who offers him a new life free from the pressures of his quest for the truth, while Scully continues to search for an explanation for Mulder's neurological condition.
posted by orange swan on Jul 17, 2020 - 4 comments

The X-Files: The Sixth Extinction (Part 2/3)  Rewatch   Season 7, Ep 1

While Scully tries to piece together the meaning of the symbols engraved on the spaceship beached in West Africa, Skinner and Kritschgau endeavour to assuage Mulder's frenetic brain activity.
posted by orange swan on Jul 16, 2020 - 4 comments

The X-Files: Biogenesis (Part 1/3)  Rewatch   Season 6, Ep 22

The discovery of fragments of an artifact in West Africa leads to several murders. As Mulder and Scully investigate, Scully's findings imply that aliens have engineered human evolution and history, and the artifacts have an unexpected effect on Mulder's mind.
posted by orange swan on Jul 15, 2020 - 3 comments

The X-Files: Three of a Kind  Rewatch   Season 6, Ep 20

In a sequel to "Unusual Suspects", the Lone Gunmen once again encounter Susanne Modeski while infiltrating a defense contractors' conference in Las Vegas.
posted by orange swan on Jul 13, 2020 - 7 comments

The X-Files: One Son (Part 2/2)  Rewatch   Season 6, Ep 12

Mulder learns the truth about the Syndicate's extraterrestrial collaborations, just as the time has arrived for the Syndicate to give up the hybrid Cassandra to the alien colonists.
posted by orange swan on Jul 5, 2020 - 5 comments

The X-Files: Two Fathers (Part 1/2)  Rewatch   Season 6, Ep 11

Cassandra Spender is found at a railyard in Arlington, Virginia, the only survivor among a number of people who have been burned alive, and she asks to speak to Agent Fox Mulder.
posted by orange swan on Jul 4, 2020 - 2 comments

The X-Files: S.R. 819  Rewatch   Season 6, Ep 9

Skinner becomes infected with a disease that confounds his doctors, keeps catching glimpses of a unkempt man lurking near him, and receives phone calls telling him that he will die.
posted by orange swan on Jul 2, 2020 - 4 comments

The X-Files: The Beginning  Rewatch   Season 6, Ep 1

Following the events in Fight the Future, the X-files are reopened, but Diana Fowley and Jeffrey Spender are the agents assigned to it. Undeterred by their orders to cease all involvement in the X-files, Mulder and Scully unofficially investigate a case in Arizona involving the death of two Roush Technologies employees from an uncommonly virulent virus.
posted by orange swan on Jun 24, 2020 - 3 comments

The X-Files: The End  Rewatch   Season 5, Ep 20

After an ex-National Security Agency assassin kills one of the two players at a chess match between a Russian chess master and an American child prodigy named Gibson Praise, Jeffrey Spender is given the case, and though he explicitly asked that Mulder be excluded from his investigation, Skinner asks Mulder to join the team.
posted by orange swan on Jun 22, 2020 - 5 comments

The X-Files: The Red and the Black (Part 2/2)  Rewatch   Season 5, Ep 14

Many of the abductees who gathered on the Ruskin Dam bridge are found dead, Cassandra Spender is missing, and Scully is found in a state of shock in the nearby woods with some other survivors. Scully undergoes hypnosis to recover her memories of what happened on the bridge, while the Syndicate experiments with a possible vaccine and chooses sides between the alien and the alien rebel forces, and Jeffrey Spender receives a letter from Quebec.
posted by orange swan on Jun 16, 2020 - 4 comments

The X-Files: Patient X (Part 1/2)  Rewatch   Season 5, Ep 13

Groups of former alien abductees feel strangely compelled to gather and are burned alive by faceless men when they do, and Mulder and Scully meet Cassandra Spender, multiple abductee, who says she is certain she is about to be summoned.
posted by orange swan on Jun 15, 2020 - 5 comments

The X-Files: Emily (Part 2/2)  Rewatch   Season 5, Ep 7

Scully tries to move forward with the adoption of Emily Sim, while Mulder investigates Emily's medical history.
posted by orange swan on Jun 9, 2020 - 6 comments

The X-Files: Christmas Carol (Part 1/2)  Rewatch   Season 5, Ep 6

While visiting her brother and sister-in-law's home in San Diego for Christmas, Scully receives a mysterious phone call that leads her to a three-year-old girl with a remarkable resemblance to her dead sister Melissa.
posted by orange swan on Jun 8, 2020 - 7 comments

The X-Files: Redux II (Part 3/3)  Rewatch   Season 5, Ep 2

Scully is hospitalized as her condition worsens. Mulder attempts to identify the conspiracy's mole within the FBI. The Cigarette Smoking Man offers to solve all of Mulder's problems if he will leave the FBI and work for him in return.
posted by orange swan on Jun 4, 2020 - 2 comments

The X-Files: Redux (Part 2/3)  Rewatch   Season 5, Ep 1

Scully helps Mulder to fake his own death in an effort to discover which members of the FBI they can trust, while the agents individually search for an answer to Scully's cancer.
posted by orange swan on Jun 3, 2020 - 9 comments

The X-Files: Gethsemane (Part 1/3)  Rewatch   Season 4, Ep 24

An expedition in Northwestern Canada finds an alien body frozen in the ice, but while Mulder travels to the Yukon to see it for himself, Scully meets a man who claims that all the evidence of alien life Mulder has ever encountered has been faked as part of a conspiracy.
posted by orange swan on Jun 2, 2020 - 6 comments

The X-Files: Demons  Rewatch   Season 4, Ep 23

Mulder wakes up in a Providence motel room alone, in a shirt stained with blood that is not his, and with two rounds gone from his gun, at 4:50 a.m. on a Sunday morning, and he cannot remember anything from the last 48 hours.
posted by orange swan on Jun 1, 2020 - 4 comments

The X-Files: Zero Sum  Rewatch   Season 4, Ep 21

After a postal worker is fatally swarmed by bees in the bathroom at work, Skinner destroys the evidence at the Cigarette Smoking Man's behest in a deal to save Scully's life... only to find himself framed for murder.
posted by orange swan on May 30, 2020 - 4 comments

The X-Files: Max (Part 2/2)  Rewatch   Season 4, Ep 18

Mulder and Scully continue their investigation of Flight 549 and discover that it may have been sacrificed by the military in order to obtain alien technology.
posted by orange swan on May 27, 2020 - 4 comments

The X-Files: Tempus Fugit (Part 1/2)  Rewatch   Season 4, Ep 17

Scully's birthday celebration is interrupted by Max Fenig's sister, who approaches Mulder and Scully to tell them that Max was on a plane that crashed. No one seems to understand why the plane crashed, or why the passengers' watches have stopped at a time ten minutes past the time of the crash.
posted by orange swan on May 26, 2020 - 2 comments

The X-Files: Momento Mori  Rewatch   Season 4, Ep 14

Scully is diagnosed with an inoperable tumour, and begins treatment for it, while Mulder and Skinner both go to desperate lengths in their separate attempts to save her.
posted by orange swan on May 23, 2020 - 5 comments

The X-Files: Terma (Part 2/2)  Rewatch   Season 4, Ep 9

Mulder is held captive in a Russian gulag and used as a test subject for the black oil, while Scully is held in contempt of court for refusing to disclose what she knows about Mulder's whereabouts.
posted by orange swan on May 18, 2020 - 6 comments

The X-Files: Tunguska (Part 1/2)  Rewatch   Season 4, Ep 8

While investigating the deaths of two men in connection with the recent arrival of a diplomatic pouch, Mulder and Krycek travel to Tunguska, Russia to investigate Russian experiments with the black oil, while Scully tries to ascertain the nature of the contents of the pouch.
posted by orange swan on May 17, 2020 - 6 comments

The X-Files: Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man  Rewatch   Season 4, Ep 7

The Cigarette Smoking Man muses over the course of his life while listening to Mulder, Scully, and the Lone Gunmen speculate about his personal history.
posted by orange swan on May 16, 2020 - 7 comments

The X-Files: Herrenvolk (Part 2/2)  Rewatch   Season 4, Ep 1

Pursued by the alien bounty hunter, Jeremiah Smith takes Mulder to see a secret ginseng and bee farm in Canada that is being worked by child clones, while Scully analyzes the data being tracked by the team of Jeremiah Smiths.
posted by orange swan on May 10, 2020 - 6 comments

The X-Files: Talitha Cumi (Part 1/2)  Rewatch   Season 3, Ep 24

Mulder and Scully search for a man who miraculously healed both the shooter and his victims at a fast food restaurant hostage situation, then disappeared when being questioned by the police.
posted by orange swan on May 9, 2020 - 3 comments

The X-Files: Apocrypha (Part 2/2)  Rewatch   Season 3, Ep 16

Mulder continues his investigation of the black oil. Scully pursues the man who murdered her sister.
posted by orange swan on May 1, 2020 - 4 comments

The X-Files: Piper Maru (Part 1/2)  Rewatch   Season 3, Ep 15

Mulder and Scully investigate the case of a diver from a French salvage ship called the Piper Maru who discovered a World War II fighter plane and, upon the ship's return to San Diego, proved to be the only member of his crew not exposed to harmfully extreme levels of radiation.
posted by orange swan on Apr 30, 2020 - 2 comments

The X-Files: Revelations  Rewatch   Season 3, Ep 11

After a series of religious frauds are murdered, Scully and Mulder become concerned about the safety of a 10-year-old boy who has been exhibiting signs of stigmata.
posted by orange swan on Apr 26, 2020 - 2 comments

The X-Files: 731 (Part 2/2)  Rewatch   Season 3, Ep 10

Mulder explores a railway car used for secret experiments. Scully investigates the purpose and history of her alien implant.
posted by orange swan on Apr 25, 2020 - 3 comments

The X-Files: Nisei (Part 1/2)  Rewatch   Season 3, Ep 9

Mulder's investigation of an alien autopsy video leads to a secret project with connections to unethical experiments done by Japanese scientists during World War II. Scully learns more about what happened during her alien abduction.
posted by orange swan on Apr 24, 2020 - 2 comments

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