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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S03E01 The Blessing Way (2)
September 22 · 46min find the promo
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Scully finds her career with the FBI in jeopardy as Mulder is still missing and the Cigarette Smoking Man is pursuing the stolen files. The Navajo elders find Mulder's body in a cave and perform an ancient ceremony to call the spirit back to the empty vessel.
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S03E02 Paper Clip (3)
September 29 · 46min find the promo
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A.D. Skinner and Scully are at a standoff when Mulder bursts in and discovers that Skinner has the digital tape. Reunited, Mulder and Scully travel to a secret vault inside a mine and find an elaborate filing system of medical records which reveals that Mulder's sister may not have been the first choice for abduction. Meanwhile, Skinner deals with the Cigarette-Smoking Man for their safety.
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S03E03 D.P.O.
October 6 · 45min find the promo
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Mulder and Scully investigate a series of human and cattle deaths by lightning and are led to a teenage boy who is the only survivor out of five people recently hit by lightning strikes.
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S03E04 Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose
October 13 · 46min find the promo
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In the midst of a psychic sideshow while on a murder case, Mulder and Scully enlist the help of a man who may have a true psychic ability to foresee how people will die to help the agents catch a man killing fortune tellers.
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S03E05 The List
October 20 · 46min find the promo
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Nobody takes much notice when a death row inmate vows on the electric chair to come back from the dead and kill five men who have wronged him during his time in prison, until a guard is mysteriously murdered in the former inmate's cell.
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S03E06 2Shy
November 3 · 46min find the promo
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A man with a genetic abnormality, who must prey on overweight women in order to suck the fatty tissue from their bodies, begins to meet his victims through internet chat rooms.
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S03E07 The Walk
November 10 · 46min find the promo
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After a suicide attempt and multiple murders at a military hospital, Mulder and Scully meet a quadruple amputee who has gained the power of astral projection and is taking out his personal frustrations on his commanding officers.
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S03E08 Oubliette
November 17 · 46min find the promo
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Mulder seeks the help of a woman who he believes has a special connection with a young girl who has recently been kidnapped by the same man who held her captive many years earlier.
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S03E09 Nisei (1)
November 24 · 45min find the promo
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An investigation into a video of an alien autopsy puts Mulder and Scully in the middle of a conspiracy involving WWII Japanese scientists brought to America to continue their experiments which may shed light on Scully's abduction.
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S03E10 731 (2)
December 1 · 46min find the promo
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Mulder is trapped inside a train car which contains a suspected alien-human hybrid and also a bomb, while Scully pursues the truth about her abduction and the mystery behind the implant in her neck.
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S03E11 Revelations
December 15 · 45min find the promo
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Mulder and Scully swap roles as they pursue a man killing priests that claim to have the wounds of Christ. The agents find and must protect a young boy who may be a real stigmatic. While Scully's faith draws her close to the boy, Mulder is convinced of another explanation.
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S03E12 War of the Coprophages
January 5 · 45min find the promo
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Widespread panic is caused in a small community after numerous deaths are linked to killer cockroaches, and a government agricultural agency is discovered to have set up a secret experiment involving insects.
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S03E13 Syzygy
January 26 · 45min find the promo
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A rare planetary alignment causes strange behavior in the residents of a small town, but particularly in two teenage girls who were born at the exact same moment on that date. While investigating the strange occurrences Mulder's interest in the local female detective makes Scully jealous.
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S03E14 Grotesque
February 2 · 45min find the promo
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A serial killer is captured after a three year manhunt, and he claims an evil spirit is responsible for the crimes. When the killings continue as he sits in jail, Mulder's battle with a former colleague gets more heated when he suggests that something more paranormal may be involved.
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S03E15 Piper Maru (1)
February 9 · 45min find the promo
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A French salvage ship searching for a lost WWII fighter plane unknowingly surfaces an alien which appears in the form of black oil and has the ability to jump hosts. Mulder heads to Hong Kong to investigate the salvage broker who sold the information to the French and he encounters Krycek, who has been selling information from the MJ documents. As Mulder prepares to take Krycek back to the US, the alien makes its way to Hong Kong and takes control of Krycek.
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S03E16 Apocrypha (2)
February 16 · 45min find the promo
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Mulder pursues Krycek (unaware of the alien that has taken over his body) to get back the DAT tape containing the MJ documents. Meanwhile, the shooting of A.D. Skinner uncovers evidence that could lead Scully to her sister's murderer.
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S03E17 Pusher
February 23 · 45min find the promo
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Mulder and Scully are asked to help in a case involving Robert Patrick Modell, a murderer possessing the psychic ability to force his will onto people. Due to a brain tumor that is slowly killing him, he is searching for a "worthy adversary" and forces Mulder into a battle of mind over matter.
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S03E18 Teso Dos Bichos
March 8 · 44min find the promo
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The unearthing of an ancient Ecuadorian Amaru urn and its removal to America despite protests leads to a series of deaths linked to a shaman spirit released by the urn.
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S03E19 Hell Money
March 29 · 45min find the promo
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Mulder, Scully and a local Chinese American cop investigate deaths of several Chinese men found to be missing vital internal organs. The clues lead them to a deadly secret lottery run by the Triads in San Francisco's Chinatown district. The game is free to play but losing will cost you more than an arm and a leg.
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S03E20 Jose Chung's "From Outer Space"
April 12 · 45min find the promo
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An alien abduction of two teenagers with endless versions of the same story prompts a science-fiction novelist to write a book about the incident; however, nobody involved with the investigation can tell him the full story with any accuracy.
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S03E21 Avatar
April 26 · 45min find the promo
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During a one-night-stand in the midst of his divorce, A.D. Skinner becomes a murder suspect, and Mulder and Scully return the many favors that he has done for them by analyzing evidence that someone doesn't want uncovered to prove his innocence.
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S03E22 Quagmire
May 3 · 43min find the promo
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Mulder and Scully investigate a series of disappearances and attacks around a lake where Mulder believes that the local legend about a lake monster may be all too real. Frustrated Scully insightfully confronts Mulder about the futility of their work on the X-Files.
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S03E23 Wetwired
May 10 · 45min find the promo
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Mulder and Scully investigate a series of murders linked to a mysterious device that alters television signals causing paranoid hallucinations. One of them falls victim to it.
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S03E24 Talitha Cumi (1)
May 17 · 45min find the promo
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After his mother suffers a stroke under strange circumstances, Mulder searches for a strange, benevolent alien man that possesses miraculous healing powers. With the help from Mr. X, he learns about the involvement of the Cigarette-Smoking Man and uncovers some secrets kept by his parents.