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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S09E01 Nothing Important Happened Today (1)
November 11 · 45min find the promo
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Agent Doggett investigates the death of an EPA official after his car is forced off a bridge by a woman he picked up. He asks for assistance on the case from Scully, who has returned to her teaching position at the FBI Academy in Quantico.
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S09E02 Nothing Important Happened Today II (2)
November 18 · 45min find the promo
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Doggett catches up with Shannon McMahon, the woman who the EPA official picked up. She claims to be a super soldier and that the people she has killed were poisoning the water supply, and she wants Doggett to expose the truth.
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S09E03 Dæmonicus
December 2 · 45min find the promo
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Doggett and Reyes investigate the murder of a couple in West Virginia that has all the signs of a satanic ritual killing. They link the murder to a doctor who is incarcerated in a mental institute, and Doggett becomes convinced that the doctor is orchestrating the crimes from within the hospital.
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S09E04 4-D
December 9 · 45min find the promo
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During a stakeout of murderer Irwin Lukesh, Doggett sees Reyes attacked by Lukesh, but then we see Reyes and Doggett in her apartment, apparently both fine. Elsewhere at the same time, Doggett is shot and Lukesh identifies Reyes as the shooter. While Reyes is asked for her badge and gun by A.D. Follmer, and Doggett lies in hospital near death, the conflicting circumstances of the stakeout and Doggett's shooting do not add up and it becomes clear that Lukesh possesses the power to switch between parallel universes and alter the events in each.
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S09E05 Lord of the Flies
December 16 · 45min find the promo
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When a stunt on a local cable reality show goes horribly wrong resulting in a man's death, Doggett and Reyes investigate. But when flies pour out of the victims eye sockets, they find themselves relying on Scully's expertise and ask her to join the investigation.
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S09E06 Trust No 1
January 6 · 45min find the promo
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Scully is approached by a couple who claim their baby has the same abilities as William and have information about the super soldier program; however, they will only talk to Mulder, believing him the only person who can make the connections and uncover the truth. Scully is forced into an awkward situation when she has to decide whether to put Mulder's life in more danger even though she desperately wants to see him.
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S09E07 John Doe
January 13 · 45min find the promo
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Scully and Reyes join forces to try and find Doggett when he goes missing. Doggett has his own problems, having woken up in jail in Mexico suffering from amnesia. With no knowledge of who he is, Doggett is befriended by a local who soon has him working smuggling illegal immigrants across the border.
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S09E08 Hellbound
January 27 · 45min find the promo
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Agent Reyes takes the lead while investigating an X-file case, surrounding a man found skinned alive after having visions of seeing other people appearing skinned alive. Reyes calls on Scully's expertise to help on the investigation, which pays off when Scully finds a link to a case from 1960.
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S09E09 Provenance (1)
March 3 · 45min find the promo
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When pieces of the spaceship beached in Africa resurface, the conspiracy within the FBI attempts to hide the information from the X-Files, especially the one person for whom the pieces have a special significance - Scully. When Doggett and Reyes discover that Scully and her child have been put in great danger, they race to protect her and William from the evil forces pursuing him, and Scully is forced to take drastic measures to protect her child.
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S09E10 Providence (2)
March 10 · 44min find the promo
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Scully is anxious to recover William from his kidnappers and takes matters into her own hands when the FBI's attempts to assist in the investigation are less than helpful. With the help of the Lone Gunmen, Scully discovers terrifying information about her child's captors, and is once again forced to confront the mystery regarding the sinister interest in her son.
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S09E11 Audrey Pauley
March 17 · 45min find the promo
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After a car accident, Reyes finds herself in a very gray area, while Doggett desperately denies doctors' diagnoses about his partner, who witnesses a strange disappearance.
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S09E12 Underneath
March 31 · 45min find the promo
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Scully, Doggett and Reyes investigate an old case that Doggett worked on as a cop in Brooklyn, dubbed "The Screwdriver Killer". They try to determine whether the man who was convicted and has just been released from prison was actually the man responsible for the murders.
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S09E13 Improbable
April 7 · 45min find the promo
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When Reyes uses numerology to connect the murders of several women to an obsessed serial killer, she and Scully become trapped with a mysterious checker-playing man who may or may not be the killer.
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S09E14 Scary Monsters
April 14 · 43min find the promo
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Agent Harrison talks Doggett and Reyes into investigating a boy's claim that monsters killed his mother, who was officially determined to have stabbed herself repeatedly.
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S09E15 Jump the Shark
April 21 · 45min find the promo
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The agents ask the Lone Gunmen to help find their friendly foe Yves Adele Harlow after former Area 51 Man-In-Black Morris Fletcher claims she is one of the super-soldiers.
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S09E16 William
April 28 · 45min find the promo
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Doggett catches someone in the X-files office trying to steal documents pertaining to Mulder's sister. The intruder is a severely scarred man who blames his disfigurement on Government conspirators. He claims the source of that information - and, in fact, the one who helped him gain entry - is Mulder. Although he refuses to divulge the missing agent's whereabouts, the mystery man has enough knowledge of the X-files and its history to lead Doggett to suspect that he just might be Mulder himself. Scully's fears for the safety of her son are elevated when he is injected with an unknown substance. With the mystery surrounding William becoming even darker, Scully must allow herself to send him away for his own safety.
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S09E17 Release
May 5 · 45min find the promo
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When an FBI cadet with amazing profiling skills approaches Doggett, Reyes, and Scully with a lead on a suspect in a series of recent murders, he claims the same killer is responsible for the death of Doggett's son. The agents find themselves wondering if his knowledge of the deaths is because of his obsession with the cases he has studied at Quantico, or if he is in some way involved in the murders.
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S09E18 Sunshine Days
May 12 · 45min find the promo
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Doggett and Reyes investigate a murder outside the house that the original Brady Bunch series was filmed in. The house is owned by a man named Oliver who is obsessed with the show and has rigged the house into a series of traps and changing appearances to look like the Brady house.
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S09E19 The Truth (1)
May 19 · 45min find the promo
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After not knowing Fox Mulder's whereabouts for the last year, A.D. Skinner and Agent Scully learn he's being held for the murder of a military man he couldn't possibly have killed: Knowle Rohrer, one of the government's secret super-soldiers. With Skinner acting as Mulder's defense, people who Mulder has dealt with during his last nine years as an FBI agent testify on his behalf. But the military tribunal isn't interested in the truth.
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S09E20 The Truth (2)
May 19 · 45min find the promo
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When an unexpected person comes to Mulder's rescue, Mulder refuses to slip north over the border to safety. Instead, he heads southwest to the Anasazi ruins of New Mexico seeking a mysterious wise man who the Indians call "The Keeper of the Truth".