Even though the X-files are closed and Mulder and Scully are re-assigned, the agents' search for the truth continues. Mulder, haunted by memories of his sister's abduction, receives a tip that alien visitors have made contact at a SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) research station in Puerto Rico. He travels to the station, where he finds a terrified man who appears to have encountered an alien. The same man is literally scared to death by a strange, piercing sound, just before Mulder experiences a close encounter of his own.
The body of a Russian seaman is discovered in a New Jersey sewer and Mulder and Scully are called in to investigate the rather fishy situation. Scully finds a large flatworm, known as a fluke, slithering around the body; soon after, a sanitation worker coughs up another creepy crawly. But those little worms pale in comparison to their human-scale counterpart, the man/worm hybrid Flukeman, who dwells near the sewage processing plant.
Subliminal messages from household appliances and electrical equipment prompt several people in an otherwise quite town to commit violent acts: A mild mannered real estate agents kills four people with his bare hands; a woman attacks a repairman in a similar incident. An investigation leads Mulder to believe that the citizens of the town are the unwitting subjects of experiments involving a dangerous behavior-altering pesticide, and it's up to him to expose the tests before it's too late.
Mulder is assigned a new partner, Alex Krycek, and a case involving the mysterious deaths of two men who served in Vietnam together. Ignoring the young agent, Mulder continues to work closely with Scully and X, and learns that the men were used as guinea pigs in experiments to create perfect soldiers through sleep deprivation. The agent seeks out Augustus Cole, the last surviving member of the platoon, to find the truth behind the incident and who is responsible for the murders.
Mulder is called in to handle hostage negotiations with former FBI agent/raving lunatic Duane Barry, who insists that he has been subject of tortuous experiments by extraterrestrial visitors. The madman is eventually wounded and captured, but examinations reveal strange implants and holes in his teeth that seem to validate his story. As Scully leaves a message for Mulder about the inexplicable findings, Barry crashes through her window and abducts her.
With Scully captive in the trunk of his car, Duane Barry heads to Skyland Mountain to offer a new subject to his alien tormentors. Mulder pursues them but arrives too late to save his former partner. Without warning, Krycek disappears and a frustrated Skinner reluctantly re-opens the X-files.
Mulder learns that necking with the wrong girl can get him into trouble. Investigating a series of murders highly suggestive of a blood cult, Mulder encounters a self-professed vampire, who actually dies after he is exposed to sunlight. Things become even more confusing when Mulder meets blood drinker Kristen who is both disturbed and alluring.
Scully turns up alive but comatose in a Washington D.C. hospital. Mulder seeks out the Cigarette-Smoking Man and demands answers, but the villain refuses to provide him with any explanations. Meanwhile, Scully drifts through another realm of consciousness as her family pleads with her to return to them.
Scully's determined to put her abduction behind her and get back to work. She and Mulder are sent to an isolated research station to investigate the death of one of the crew members, who apparently cracked and attempted to kill off his fellow scientists. The remaining crew members begin to suffer from paranoia spread by a pain-in-the-neck parasite.
Mulder and Scully investigate the disappearance of several teens in rural Wisconsin, some of whom later resurface with eerie phases carved into their backs. The locals believe that members of a cult are behind the incidents, but the agents stumble onto evidence suggesting that the government is the real culprit.
A nurse is raped in a convalescent home by an invisible force but accuses a 74-year-old patient of the crime. As Mulder and Scully investigate, more attacks occur, and the agents learn that many of the patients have the vigor of people half their age. The doctor in charge admits that he's treating patients with an experimental drug, which might explain why things aren't quite right.
A woman named B.J. Morrow unearths the body of an FBI agent missing since 1942. Before her disappearance, the man had been trailing a serial murderer who disfigured his female victims; after his remains are discovered, a rash of similar crimes break out. Mulder believes that a descendent of the killer may be responsible and begins to look into the distraught Morrow's family tree.
A mortuary worker who collects hair and finger nails from dead bodies soon turns to murder to satisfy his morbid fetish. A fumbled attempt to capture a coed lands him in jail, but he is soon back on the street where he begins to stalk an unsettled Agent Scully.
Mulder and Scully investigate the brutal murder of a teenage boy, which the local law enforcement claims may have been part of a satanic ritual. When a host of inexplicable events soon follows - toads fall from the sky, water fountains drain backward and substitute teachers are creepier than usual - even the skeptical Scully surmises that something unnatural might be afoot in the New England town.
The military calls it suicide when two soldiers assigned to a Haitian refugee camp die in one week, but the wife of one of the men is convinced that voodoo was somehow involved. Her suspicions are confirmed when her husband turns up walking along a road, and Mulder and Scully must solve the mystery.
An imposing man murders three identical doctors, all of who ooze noxious green fluid when stabbed in the neck. Mulder and Scully are on the trail, until Mulder is called home suddenly: his long-lost sister has returned after 22 years. the adult Samantha tells Fox that the dead men are alien clones, their killer, an alien bounty hunter who can morph into the likeness of anyone he chooses. Later, Mulder appears on Scully's doorstep, but the phone rings and Mulder's voice is on the other end of the line as well.
The alien bounty hunter takes Scully hostage and offers to trade her for Samantha. She is killed in the exchange, but Mulder finds several Samantha clones in a nearby clinic, which is then burned down by the bounty hunter. Mulder follows a tip from X and takes off for the arctic to track down to bounty hunter in the hopes of finding his sister alive.
An invisible elephant escapes from a zoo and manages to kill a man before it is found, visible, dying on the road. The Lone Gunmen tell Mulder that no animal at the zoo, which is located near a major UFO hotspot, has ever brought a pregnancy to term. Mulder becomes convinced that aliens are abducting the animals, impregnating them and stealing the embryos.
Crew members found aboard a U.S. navy destroyer missing for 42 hours age 60 years during their short absence. Based on nine similar events in the same area, Mulder believes that government is using a wrinkle in time to experiment with manipulating wormholes on Earth.
Sent to investigate the murder of a retired escape artist, Mulder and Scully find themselves in a town almost entirely populated by former freakshow performers. As more murders occur, Mulder and Scully begin to suspect everyone from the sheriff to a thrill-seeker who pounds nails into his chest.
A two-year is lured by a floating balloon to a train track, where he is killed while his eight-year-old is lured by a floating balloon to a train track, where he is killed while his eight-year-old brother watches. Mulder sees a figure he believes to be a poltergeist in a photograph of the event, and he and Scully stumble onto a dark family secret that might explain the accident.
Several prison inmates die after becoming infected with a plague-like virus that covers their bodies with grotesque legions. Two infected prisoners escape, and Mulder and Scully join the manhunt. The charge, to prevent a nationwide epidemic.
A scientist's experiment inadvertantly results in the disappearance of three people. When Mulder and Scully manage to track down the man behind the particle accelerator mishap, he reveals the accident has given his shadow a life of its own and a penchant for murder.
Some 87 people have disappeared from Dudley, Ark., during the past 60 years, nine of whom were found decapitated at the bottom of a nearby river. When Mulder visits the home of the owner of a local chicken processing plant and discovers a collection of human heads, his thoughts turn to cannibalism.
Mulder receives ill-gotten Defense Department files, written in Navajo to prevent their decoding, about the government's knowledge of extraterrestrial existence. Krycek kills Mulder's father before he can reveal information to his son. Devastated, Mulder and Scully head to the deserts of the Southwest where they attempt to learn the secrets of the files.
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