The X-Files

10 Best Episodes of The X-Files - Season 6

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.

Written by Sophie and last updated on feb 04, 2023.

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The X-Files - S6E9

#15 - S.R. 819 (Season 6 - Episode 9)

Mulder and Scully have 24 hours to save A.D. Skinner from being killed by a biologically engineered disease. The disease appears to be created by a shadowy government organization, but in order to save Skinner's life they must determine who wants him dead and why. With Skinner's condition worsening, Mulder seeks assistance from Senator Matheson, who he hopes can provide some answers and help him to find a cure.

The episode was rated 7.63 from 488 votes.

The X-Files - S6E15

#14 - Arcadia (Season 6 - Episode 15)

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On their first official case back on the X-Files, Mulder and Scully go undercover as a married couple at a prestigious planned community where several residents have recently disappeared after failing to comply with the rules and regulations.

The episode was rated 7.73 from 494 votes.

The X-Files - S6E6

#13 - How The Ghosts Stole Christmas (Season 6 - Episode 6)

Mulder talks Scully into investigating a haunted house on Christmas Eve where several couples have met their fate on that very night. While there, they encounter endless tricks and traps set by a ghostly couple who originally made a lovers suicide pact in the house. The ghosts try to convince Mulder and Scully to kill each other.

The episode was rated 7.75 from 523 votes.

The X-Files - S6E10

#12 - Tithonus (Season 6 - Episode 10)

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Assistant Director Kersh tries to tear Scully and Mulder apart when he partners Scully with a New York agent investigating Alfred Fellig, a freelance police photographer who conveniently shows up to document the scene of a death as soon as it happens. While the young hotshot agent is convinced that Fellig is murdering the people, Scully has other (paranormal) theories.

The episode was rated 7.82 from 471 votes.

The X-Files - S6E21

#11 - Field Trip (Season 6 - Episode 21)

When the bodies of a couple who have been missing for less than a week are discovered to have been reduced to bone, Mulder suggests that recent paranormal phenomena in the area may have caused the accelerated decomposition.

The episode was rated 7.82 from 475 votes.

The X-Files - S6E2

#10 - Drive (Season 6 - Episode 2)

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Mulder is trapped in a car with a man who has developed a serious ear condition which can only be suppressed by driving west at high speeds. As Scully tries to find the cause and a cure for the problem, Mulder and the man get closer and closer to the ocean.

The episode was rated 7.86 from 538 votes.

The X-Files - S6E1

#9 - The Beginning (Season 6 - Episode 1)

Mulder is less than thrilled when an Office of Professional Conduct board refuses to reassign him and Scully to The X-Files and even more so when he learns that Agent Spender and Agent Fowley have become their successors. When Gibson Praise reappears and comes to them for help, Mulder and Scully attempt to continue their quest undercover despite having fewer friends and less access and protection than ever before.

The episode was rated 7.86 from 567 votes.

The X-Files - S6E3

#8 - Triangle (Season 6 - Episode 3)

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Mulder goes to the Bermuda Triangle when he learns that the Queen Anne, a British luxury liner which disappeared during WWII, has reappeared in the middle of the Sargasso Sea. Mulder's boat is wrecked and after floating in the water, he is hauled aboard the ship which has just been hijacked by the Nazis searching for the man who will build the atom bomb. Mulder tries to convince the crew that they have traveled into the future, but evidence further suggests that it is he who is back in the past.

The episode was rated 7.87 from 593 votes.

The X-Files - S6E19

#7 - The Unnatural (Season 6 - Episode 19)

Mulder meets with Agent Arthur Dales' brother (also named Arthur) and is told a tale of a talented negro baseball player from Roswell, New Mexico in the 1940's who may have been an alien that ran away from his colony because of his love for the game.

The episode was rated 7.88 from 496 votes.

The X-Files - S6E14

#6 - Monday (Season 6 - Episode 14)

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A woman is forced to relive the same day over and over as she tries to prevent Mulder and Scully from being killed by her boyfriend during a bank robbery attempt. As the events restart again and again, Mulder's sense of Deja-vu grows stronger.

The episode was rated 7.92 from 486 votes.

The X-Files - S6E22

#5 - Biogenesis (1) (Season 6 - Episode 22)

Two scientists confer about each of their metal objects that were found in Africa and they theorize that the objects are pieces of a puzzle which could be undeniable proof that human, plant, and animal life did not originate on this planet. When one of the scientists is killed and the objects are stolen, the agents investigate and Mulder begins to experience severe neurological pain caused by the objects.

The episode was rated 7.96 from 478 votes.

The X-Files - S6E5

#4 - Dreamland II (2) (Season 6 - Episode 5)

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Mulder is thrown in jail at the Area 51 compound but is released when it is discovered that the flight data recorder he stole was a fake. Scully comes to her senses and realizes that the Mulder she sees isn't who he really is and heads back to Nevada to help the real Mulder. Meanwhile, the mechanism that caused the body swap is rapidly snapping back, undoing everything in its wake, and Mulder and his alter ego must race to put themselves back where they belong.

The episode was rated 8.02 from 530 votes.

The X-Files - S6E4

#3 - Dreamland (1) (Season 6 - Episode 4)

While being detained near the famed "Dreamland" Area 51, a strange craft flies overhead and Mulder swaps bodies with an Area 51 "Man-in-Black". While the other agent has fun in Mulder's body, Mulder himself finds it difficult to fit into someone else's life, especially a shadowy one. Mulder contacts Scully about the body swap and tries to get her the flight data recorder from the UFO test flight, but his alter ego uses Mulder's FBI persona to have him arrested.

The episode was rated 8.07 from 556 votes.

The X-Files - S6E11

#2 - Two Fathers (1) (Season 6 - Episode 11)

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While the Cigarette-Smoking Man recites to an unseen listener everything about the work of the Syndicate involving a global conspiracy in cooperation with an alien species, Cassandra Spender reappears and is pursued by the scientists who would rather kill her than keep her alive. Cassandra runs to Mulder's apartment and demands that he shoot her because she is the culmination of 50 years work - a living alien/human hybrid - and colonization will begin if the aliens find out about her.

The episode was rated 8.09 from 512 votes.

The X-Files - S6E12

#1 - One Son (2) (Season 6 - Episode 12)

The Cigarette-Smoking Man reveals all the government secrets from the past 50 years in order for his son, Jeffery Spender, to join him in his work. Mulder learns that the final stage of the conspiracy will soon begin with the hybridization of the Syndicate members, and he must stop it from happening. Agent Spender deceives his father and arranges for Mulder and Scully to be reassigned to the X-Files, which doesn't sit too well with the Cigarette-Smoking Man.

The episode was rated 8.23 from 504 votes.

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