"Do you believe in the existence of extraterrestrials?" FBI agent Fox "Spooky" Mulder sardonically asks his new partner Dana Scully, a trained medical doctor assigned to assist - and debunk - his work on the X-files, a graveyard for FBI cases linked to unexplained phenomena. Thus begins their complex relationship and their first investigation, which takes them to an Oregon town where several teenagers have been found dead, all showing small red wounds and nasal implants associated with victims of alien abductions. At episode's end, all the evidence has been destroyed in a fire, except one of the recovered implants. The Cigarette-Smoking Man files the item inside a massive warehouse within the Pentagon.
Following a tip from a mysterious government insider known as "Deep Throat," Mulder and Scully investigate the disappearance of a military test pilot. It appears that their pilot is part of a covert government plan that uses alien technology to build Air Force planes. Mulder spots one of these UFOs at a military base and is taken into custody by military police. Scully rescues him, but afterward Mulder is unable to recall what happened.
The agents investigate Eugene Victor Tooms, a bilious 100-year-old killer who keeps himself young by chowing on human livers every 35 years.
A young Iowa boy holds the secrets of his sister's disappearance by communicating with her alien kidnappers though TV static. Mulder, remembering his missing sister, is notably affected by the case.
Mulder and Scully go on the trail of the Jersey Devil, kind of a missing-link Bigfoot Amazon who is wreaking havoc in the Garden State. Of course, she's not really bad. She's just misunderstood by everyone but Mulder.
A secretary is possessed by a spirit of her murdered dead boss, whose death had been ruled a suicide. She - or he, however you want to look at it - thus helps uncover the truth about the manager's murder, as well as unravel a Middle East arms deal.
Years before they visit the technology-on-the-fritz terror of "Kill Switch," Mulder and Scully investigate odd goings-on at the Eurisko building, a high-tech office complex where the security supercomputer kills anyone who tries to shut it down. Their work is complicated by government powers who want to use the AI research for themselves.
Mulder and Scully head to the Great White North after a murder at a snow-encased Alaska research facility, where a wriggling parasite turns its human host into psychotic killers.
A former astronaut thinks he may have had a close encounter while floating around the cosmic vacuum. Now he believes the same space ghost might be sabotaging American space shuttle program.
Mulder has 24 hours to prove a spaceship had crashed in Wisconsin. As expected, the government is tripping over itself to cover it up, as well as the 3-D alien who seems to have survived the accident. During their investigation, Mulder and Scully encounter sweetly nerdy UFO enthusiast Max Fenig, who's convinced he's an alien abductee.
A government cloning project produces two identical 8-year-old girls whose respective fathers have been murdered. When Mulder and Scully are charged with babysitting the creepy twins, they soon find that the girls' oddly detached natures hide deadly personalities.
Scotland Yard detective Phoebe Green, an old flame of Mulder's at Oxford, swings into town and asks him to help her protect a vacationing English lord from a pyromaniac who's got members of Parliament all fired up - literally.
After her father's unexpected death, Scully finds her faith in science rocked by death-row prisoner Luther Lee Boggs, who's assisting the FBI in a kidnapping case. Boggs, who claims to by psychic, hints that he's been in contact with Scully's dad, who she's been seeing in visions. A skeptical Mulder thinks that Boggs is a phony who's manipulating the bereaved agent.
Mulder rescues Scully from the clutches of a member of the Kindred, an Amish-like religious sect whose constituents apparently are aliens who can change gender at will.
Scully's old boyfriend, FBI agent Jack Willis, is apparently killed in a shootout with criminal Warren Dupre but revives when Dupre himself dies. Mulder theorizes that Dupre's sprit has taken over the agent's body, an assertion that is supported by Willis' abduction of Scully.
Before being relegated to the FBI basement, Mulder was a brilliant bureau analyst whose first assignment put killer John Barnett in the slammer, where he supposedly died. But Barnett managed to elude death as the participant of an experiment to reverse the aging process. Now he's back looking to take vengeance on the man who put him away.
Scully and Mulder chase a truck transporting an extraterrestrial corpse found in the wreckage of a UFO crash, only to find that Deep Throat has lead them in a false direction, reportedly to protect them from the military operation that wants to dispose of the corpse. Assisting the agents in their quest, however, is a trio of geeky conspiracy theorists known as the Lone Gunmen.
A young faith healer named Samuel is charged with killing a woman when she dies after he tries to cure her. His father, the leader of a Bible-thumping evangelical crusade, while most of the miracles surrounding the boy prove to be fake.
The owner of Two Medicine Ranch in Montana is in trouble with the local Native American community after he kills a "beast" who was attacking his son. It turns out the monster was a tribe member named Joseph Goodensnake.
An ancient tree is felled in the Pacific Northwest forest, releasing swarms of killer mites in a logging camp. But the invertebrate like-suckers aren't the only bad buys - the greedy lumbermen can be just as nasty.
Tooms strikes back. The baby-faced connoisseur of human foie gras from "Squeeze" is released from a mental institution and haunts his old adversaries, Mulder and Scully.
An 8-year-old girl with a knack for disfiguring dolls is linked to two cop deaths, which are reminiscent of a dead serial killer's style. In typical X-Files fashion, Mulder suspects that the child has been possessed by the soul of another dead police officer who is out for vengeance.
A mentally handicapped janitor appears to be behind the deaths of several scientists at the propulsion lab where he works. Mulder determines that Roland, the gentle janitor, is being controlled by his dead brother, a scientist who brain is being preserved in a jar of liquid nitrogen.
Mulder and Scully uncover a government research program in which terminally ill people are being treated with what appears to be extraterrestrial DNA. Mulder's kidnapped, Scully gets up close and personal with what looks like an alien fetus, the X-files are shut down and most shockingly of all, Deep Throat is assassinated.
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