In February, THE X-FILES will celebrate its milestone 150th episode with
"X-Cops" -- shot entirely in the unmistakable style of FOX's own
groundbreaking reality show, COPS. The series also features an emotional
two-part mystery in which Mulder finally learns the fate of his sister, and
an episode written by renowned science fiction writer William Gibson and
directed by series creator Chris Carter. THE X-FILES airs Sundays (9:00-10:00
PM ET/PT).
In the Feb. 6 episode "Sein Und Zeit," the first part of a two-episode story
arc, agents Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) investigate
the disappearance of a child, and Mulder discovers information that shakes
his beliefs and re-opens the case of his sister Samantha's abduction 25 years
earlier.
The concluding episode "Closure," airing Feb. 13, finds Mulder continuing to
search for clues to his sister's abduction and culminates in a race against
time to find the long-sought-after answers to her fate.
Marking the series' milestone 150th episode on Feb. 20, "X-Cops" was shot on
video entirely in the hand-held, "gun-and-run" style of the FOX series COPS,
and employs many of the trademark COPS devices. In the story, agents Mulder
and Scully are followed documentary-style by a COPS camera crew throughout
the course of their investigation.
The Feb. 27 episode "First Person Shooter" was written by renowned science
fiction writer William Gibson and Tom Maddox and directed by series creator
and executive producer Chris Carter. In this episode, Mulder and Scully
investigate a murder inside the high-tech world of a virtual reality game. As
the stakes of the virtual game are raised, Scully must battle with a deadly
digital character to save Mulder's life.