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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S05E01 Redux (2)
November 2 · 45min find the promo
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Scully helps Mulder fake his own death in order for him to go undetected through the Department of Defence and find out the answers to his new questions about the government hoax concerning the existence of extraterrestrial life. Meanwhile, at a joint FBI/DOD inquiry, Scully's attempt to drive out the Conspiracy's informant is halted as her cancer takes a bad turn.
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S05E02 Redux II (3)
November 9 · 47min find the promo
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The Cigarette-Smoking Man helps Mulder to obtain Scully's cure and also lets him see his real sister who doesn't turn out to be as happy to see Mulder as he would've liked. In return for this, the Cigarette-Smoking Man asks that Mulder quit the FBI and work for him in the Syndicate where he could have power and respect which Mulder turns down, deciding to stay on the side of justice. While Scully's cure appears to have worked, the Cigarette-Smoking Man faces his own enemies and disappears, presumed dead.
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S05E03 Unusual Suspects
November 16 · 45min find the promo
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Set in 1989, the story of the founding of The Lone Gunmen is finally told as we see how a straight-laced federal employee, a sex mad AV expert, and a nerdy computer hacker meet Susanne Modeski, a strange woman with evidence of a government conspiracy. When their plan to expose the conspiracy fails and Susanne is captured by a group of men-in-black, led by none other than X, they soon become a paranoid group of government watchdogs.
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S05E04 Detour
November 23 · 45min find the promo
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While on their way to an FBI group communication seminar, Mulder and Scully manage to escape when they come across a situation in the Florida forest area where three men have recently disappeared.
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S05E05 The Post-Modern Prometheus
November 30 · 47min find the promo
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Filmed in glorious black and white with a comic book feel to it, this is a modern retelling of Frankenstein as Mulder and Scully get caught up in a town where the residents live on Jerry Springer episodes and fear a two-faced monster who has been impregnating the women.
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S05E06 Christmas Carol (1)
December 7 · 46min find the promo
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On her Christmas vacation with her brother's family, Scully receives a mysterious phone call from a familiar voice who says, "She needs your help. Go to her." The phone call leads Scully to a murder case where the victim's 3-year-old adopted daughter bears an uncanny likeness to her sister, Melissa, at that age. The emotional roller coaster that follows has Scully believing that her sister had a baby during a period when she traveled the country and she tries to adopt the child, knowing that caring for the little girl would change her life.
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S05E07 Emily (2)
December 14 · 46min find the promo
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DNA testing on Emily reveals that she is actually Scully's daughter and Mulder comes to assist her. While Mulder is looking for any information about where and how the girl was born, Scully searches for a cure to Emily's strange illness.
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S05E08 Kitsunegari
January 4 · 46min find the promo
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Pusher returns as Robert Patrick Modell escapes from the mental hospital and the FBI promptly organizes a manhunt, assuming that he will continue where he left off. But is he really trying to get revenge on Mulder, or does he want to warn him of another evil?
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S05E09 Schizogeny
January 11 · 46min find the promo
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A therapist working with children from abusive families is found to be implanting them with the memories of her own abuse suffered at the hands of her late father, when one of her patients tries to kill his stepfather.
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S05E10 Chinga
February 8 · 45min find the promo
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Master of Horror Stephen King's first effort at an X-File sees Scully's well deserved vacation going terribly wrong and landing her in a small Maine town where one of the residents is believed to be a witch, and her autistic daughter's doll has frighteningly evil powers.
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S05E11 Kill Switch
February 15 · 46min find the promo
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A super-intelligent virus program is let loose on the internet and begins to grow and expand by itself, eventually killing its creator when he tries to eradicate it.
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S05E12 Bad Blood
February 22 · 46min find the promo
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After Mulder chases down and kills a young man who he believes to be a vampire, the agents return to DC aware of the mistake they just made. Faced with a lawsuit from the family of the man, they recount each of their sides to the story leading up to the event. In the extremely humorous stories that follow we see how Scully and Mulder both perceive each other.
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S05E13 Patient X (1)
March 1 · 46min find the promo
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Mulder and Scully meet Cassandra Spender, a woman who claims to be a multiple abductee and wants to deliver a positive message about the aliens. Mulder's new found disbelief in extraterrestrial activity is enhanced while Scully forms a special bond with the woman. A series of group attacks against abductees take place and the shadowy Syndicate believes that a rebel alien resistance is attempting to destroy all their work.
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S05E14 The Red and the Black (2)
March 8 · 46min find the promo
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After the gathering at the abduction site where everyone is killed by the rebel bounty hunters, Cassandra Spender disappears and Mulder is blamed by her son, Jeffrey, who is an up-and-coming FBI agent. Meanwhile, the Syndicate is continuing their tests to create a vaccine for the Black Cancer and Marita Covarrubias becomes an unwilling test subject.
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S05E15 Travelers
March 29 · 46min find the promo
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In 1990 Agent Fox Mulder visits an aging FBI Agent named Arthur Dales. He listens to a story of the agents assigned to a would-be X-File in the Cold War era of the 1950's and how Mulder's father was connected to a series of strange deaths.
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S05E16 Mind’s Eye
April 19 · 46min find the promo
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Mulder and Scully try to get answers out of a stubborn blind woman found at a murder scene who may have the ability to look through the killer's eyes in her mind.
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S05E17 All Souls
April 26 · 46min find the promo
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Scully faces her Catholic faith and the loss of her daughter Emily when she is asked to help a family whose adopted daughter was found dead in a position that looked like she was struck down by God himself.
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S05E18 The Pine Bluff Variant
May 3 · 46min find the promo
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Scully fears that Mulder has gone to the other side when she sees him assisting a federal suspect escape custody. In truth he has infiltrated a terrorist group testing a deadly biological weapon that can eat through a person's flesh.
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S05E19 Folie à Deux
May 10 · 46min find the promo
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Mulder is held hostage inside an office where a man claims his boss is a monster and has clouded all their minds while he turns them into zombies one by one, which is disbelieved until Mulder opens his mind and allows himself to see it too.
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S05E20 The End
May 17 · 47min find the promo
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The Cigarette-Smoking Man returns as Mulder investigates the attempted assassination of a young boy with psychic powers who may be the proof that he has looked for all his life.