The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.
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- Seasons
- 11
- Episodes aired
- 218
- Latest aired
- S11E10
- Total runtime
- 6d 20h
Timeline when each season aired
- Season 1 September 1993 – May 1994 24 episodes
- Season 2 September 1994 – May 1995 25 episodes
- Season 3 September 1995 – May 1996 24 episodes
- Season 4 October 1996 – May 1997 24 episodes
- Season 5 November 1997 – May 1998 20 episodes
- Season 6 November 1998 – May 1999 22 episodes
- Season 7 November 1999 – May 2000 22 episodes
- Season 8 November 2000 – May 2001 21 episodes
- Season 9 November 2001 – May 2002 20 episodes
- the show was away for 13 years and 8 months
- Season 10 January 2016 – February 2016 6 episodes
- the show was away for 1 year and 10 months
- Season 11 January 2018 – March 2018 10 episodes
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S02E01 Little Green Men
September 16 · 46min find the promo
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With the X-Files closed, Scully has been assigned as an instructor at the FBI Academy while Mulder is doing menial surveillance work. After meeting with Senator Matheson, one of his supporters in regards to the X-Files, Mulder disobeys orders and heads to an abandoned SETI site in Puerto Rico which has inexplicably reactivated itself and could provide proof of contact with extra-terrestrial life.
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S02E02 The Host
September 23 · 46min find the promo
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A.D. Skinner sends Mulder to investigate a body which washed into the New Jersey sewer from the ocean. Mulder believes that the basic blue-collar assignment is punishment, but by Skinner's own admission, what he discovers is a true X-File.
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S02E03 Blood
September 30 · 46min find the promo
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When several violent deaths in a small farming community are connected by the destruction of digital devices, Mulder believes that people are being driven to kill by the use of subliminal messages in the digital readouts.
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S02E04 Sleepless
October 7 · 45min find the promo
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Mulder reluctantly accepts a new partner, Agent Alex Krycek, and they investigate the deaths of several Green Beret soldiers who participated in a sleep deprivation experiment during the Vietnam war.
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S02E05 Duane Barry (1)
October 14 · 46min find the promo
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Mulder is called to a hostage situation involving Duane Barry, a former FBI Agent who claims to be an alien abductee and wants to get back to the abduction site with someone who will be taken instead of him. Unfortunately, the someone he eventually chooses is Scully.
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S02E06 Ascension (2)
October 21 · 46min find the promo
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When Mulder finds out that Scully was kidnapped by Duane Barry, he risks the wrath of his superiors and the annoyance of Agent Krycek in order to do whatever it takes to find her. Meanwhile, Krycek is found to be reporting Mulder's activities to the Cigarette-Smoking Man.
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S02E07 3
November 4 · 46min find the promo
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Mulder, back on the X-Files but alone for the first time, investigates a series of vampire-like murders in Los Angeles and finds himself falling for the one woman that may be the prime suspect.
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S02E08 One Breath
November 11 · 46min find the promo
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Scully mysteriously appears in a Washington hospital, alive but in a coma, and Mulder must fight to keep her alive in order to find out what happened to her and who did it to her. Meanwhile, Scully fights her own personal battle as she decides whether to stay or go on to the next world.
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S02E09 Firewalker
November 18 · 46min find the promo
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Mulder and Scully, reunited at last, head for an active volcano under a geological study and find a deadly life form that can survive in the searing heat of the crater and is killing the scientists to avoid being discovered.
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S02E10 Red Museum
December 9 · 46min find the promo
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While investigating the connection between the abduction of several teenagers and a rural religious cult, Mulder and Scully discover a secret test being performed on the children using the "Purity Control" alien DNA from 'The Erlenmeyer Flask' which leads Mulder to "the crew-cut man", Deep Throat's murderer.
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S02E11 Excelsis Dei
December 16 · 45min find the promo
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Mulder and Scully uncover strange occurrences in an elderly care home when one of the nurses is attacked by an unseen force she claims to be one of the 90 year old residents.
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S02E12 Aubrey
January 6 · 46min find the promo
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When a detective mysteriously uncovers the remains of an FBI agent who disappeared in the 1940s while investigating a similar murder case to one she is now on, Mulder and Scully believe that the original killer had passed his genetic trait of violence to his grandchild.
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S02E13 Irresistible
January 13 · 46min find the promo
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A mortuary worker who gets his thrills from collecting hair and fingernails from the dead begins killing his soon-to-be collectibles himself and sets his seriously disturbed sights on Scully.
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S02E14 Die Hand Die Verletzt
January 27 · 46min find the promo
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The ritualistic murder of a teenager in a small town gets Mulder and Scully caught up in a secret occult practice within the local school's PTA and a substitute teacher with strange powers.
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S02E15 Fresh Bones
February 3 · 46min find the promo
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While investigating several deaths and murders within a Haitian refugee camp, Mulder and Scully get caught in the middle of a secret war between the camp commander and a Voodoo priest.
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S02E16 Colony (1)
February 10 · 45min find the promo
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After the obituaries of four identical men are e-mailed to Mulder, the agents are contacted by a shadowy CIA agent who tells them about a bounty hunter sent to wipe out the beginning of a colony of clones. Meanwhile Mulder is distracted by the sudden reappearance of his sister Samantha.
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S02E17 End Game (2)
February 17 · 46min find the promo
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The alien bounty hunter kidnaps Scully and wants to trade her for Mulder's sister, who is revealed to be a clone herself. After the trade goes badly and Mulder discovers the truth about Samantha, he tracks the bounty hunter to his ship buried in the arctic ice and demands the whereabouts of his real sister.
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S02E18 Fearful Symmetry
February 24 · 45min find the promo
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In a small town in Idaho, a man is killed by what seems to be an invisible elephant. Mulder's investigation into the local zoo, its owners and a local animal rights group uncovers evidence of insidious alien experiments.
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S02E19 Død Kalm
March 10 · 46min find the promo
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When half the crew of a Navy ship abandon their boat in a life raft and are rescued 18 hours later looking about 60 years older than they should be, Mulder suggests that the ship is caught in a time field which is speeding up their aging.
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S02E20 Humbug
March 31 · 46min find the promo
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Mulder and Scully travel to Gibsonton, Florida, a town built and populated by circus and sideshow performers to investigate the death of Jerald Glazebrook, The Alligator Man. While searching for leads on the killer, the agents come across many bizarre characters including the local sheriff who was once known as Jim Jim, the Dog-Faced Boy.
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S02E21 The Calusari
April 14 · 45min find the promo
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The agents investigate when a young boy's family is plagued by a series of tragic accidents.
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S02E22 F. Emasculata
April 28 · 46min find the promo
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When a plague-like illness kills ten men inside a maximum security prison, Scully tries to get into the quarantine site and discover the cause and origin of the contagion, while Mulder and a group of US Marshals track two escapees who may be infected.
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S02E23 Soft Light
May 5 · 45min find the promo
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An experiment in dark matter accidentally turns a scientist's shadow into a deadly weapon that can unzip a person's molecules if they are touched by it.
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S02E24 Our Town
May 12 · 45min find the promo
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After several disappearances in a small town, Mulder and Scully investigate and find hundreds of human bones in the river. They discover that the man behind the town's main source of wealth, a chicken processing plant, has found a way to prolong his life through cannibalism.
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S02E25 Anasazi (1)
May 19 · 46min find the promo
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Mulder receives an encrypted computer disk containing the defense department's top secret files on extraterrestrial life and becomes a target. Scully takes him to a Navajo family that unearthed a buried secret to decipher the disk.