PRODUCTION NUMBER |
EPISODE NAME |
DESCRIPTION OF EPISODE |
5X01 |
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In an important chunk of X-Files pre-history, up-and coming-FBI agent Mulder crosses paths with an unlikely trio of eccentrics; pursues a beautiful alleged terrorist; and gets a searing glimpse of his own future. |
5X02 |
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After faking his own suicide to shake off Syndicate and FBI surveillance, Mulder secretly searches for the cause of - and cure for - Scully's terminal cancer. |
5X03 |
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While Scully, dying from cancer, undergoes the desperate treatment her partner has stolen for her, Mulder penetrates the inner circle of the Syndicate-FBI conspiracy. He finds many of the truths that have long eluded him - as well as disillusionment, despair, and danger. |
5X04 |
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A primeval forest is threatened by encroaching civilisation. Its secret inhabitants - fierce predators with glowing red eyes - fight back. |
5X05 |
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While spending the Christmas holiday with her family, Scully receives a mysterious phone call. She is summoned to help a desperately ill child, whose tragic history is inextricably linked to her own. |
5X06 |
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Deep in the American heartland, Mulder and Scully encounter - then attempt to unravel - the twisted schemes of a modern-day Victor Frankenstein. |
5X07 |
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Scully's biological daughter is dying. Mulder uncovers the little girl's role in the alien conspiracy - while Scully fights to save her only child. |
5X08 |
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The serial killer known as "The Pusher" - a man with the inexplicable ability to impose his will on others - escapes from a maximum security prison. He immediately pursues the man who captured him: Mulder. |
5X09 |
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In a blight-stricken farm town, a series of murders is attributed to child abuse. The real cause, however, lies deeper. |
5X10 |
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With the help of an eerie playmate, an autistic child is able to express her innermost feelings - and terrorise an entire New England village. |
5X11 |
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A dying computer genius creates a murderous cybernetic lifeform. Mulder and Scully - aided only by the dead man's disciple - must somehow purge this predator from the Internet. |
5X12 |
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Mulder sticks his neck out - and then some - to capture a small-town serial killer. |
5X13 |
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As a disillusioned Mulder denies all evidence of extraterrestrial visitor, Scully - along with thousands of other abductees - is drawn toward a final confrontation. |
5X14 |
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The world turned upside down: Recovering from a near-death experience, Scully is convinced that her memories of alien encounters are true. For his part Mulder clings to scepticism and science and uncovers new, even more dangerous, conspiracies. |
5X15 |
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One year before reopening the X-Files, young Agent Mulder investigates a bizarre murder. The answers he seeks lie in the not-so-distant past: during the Red Scare of the 1950s. |
5X16 |
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A sadistic murder is on the loose. The only witness to his crimes: a totally blind young woman, who somehow "sees" through the killer's eyes. |
5X17 |
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After a handicapped young woman is killed in the act of prayer, Scully is pulled into the case and forced to search her own soul for answers. |
5X18 |
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Playing a dangerous double game, Mulder infiltrates a gang of domestic terrorists. |
5X19 |
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A giant buglike creature is sucking the life out of humans. Or so says one gun-toting, apparently mentally ill man, who holds a group of his co-workers, plus Mulder, hostage. |
5X20 |
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A child chess prodigy has the ability to read minds. If Mulder and Scully can protect him, he could be the answer to the mysteries they've long been exploring. If the rulers of the Syndicate capture him, he could be the key to world hegemony and the final destruction of the X-Files. |