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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A young man who has gained the ability to move faster than the eye can see begins to use his new power to kill his enemies, including the local sheriff who happens to be his father.
The episode was rated 7.35 from 437 votes.
A monster who feeds on human brain matter tries to lead a normal life, but he soon cannot control his feelings of hunger.
The episode was rated 7.40 from 480 votes.
Reverend Orison hopes to save Donnie Pfaster's soul by helping him break out of prison, but Donnie immediately plans to go after the victim that once escaped him—Scully.
The episode was rated 7.44 from 456 votes.
While protecting a man due to testify against the Morley cigarette company, Skinner is horrified when the witness dies mysteriously. What the agents soon discover is that a new brand of cigarette has a dangerous secret.
The episode was rated 7.49 from 399 votes.
A Los Angeles police officer who is being filmed for the show COPS is attacked by a strange monster and Mulder and Scully are investigating the case. Scully is wary of having their faces put on national television but Mulder welcomes the publicity.
The episode was rated 7.61 from 483 votes.
Scully frantically searches for a way to help her ailing partner without having anyone to turn to for help. A catatonic Mulder's dreams lead him away from his mission and the X-Files to a place which he believes is a better life.
The episode was rated 7.64 from 514 votes.
The Cigarette-Smoking Man offers to show Scully the cure for all diseases if she travels with him, but on one condition—Mulder must not know about her trip.
The episode was rated 7.68 from 453 votes.
As the year 2000 draws closer, the agents are up against a man from the Millennium Group who believes that he can bring about the end of the world on the 31st of December if he resurrects four former members from the dead. To gain more insight into the group and its practices, Mulder and Scully enlist a criminal profiler to assist them in the investigation.
The episode was rated 7.68 from 493 votes.
A young girl inexplicably disappears from her home, and Mulder requests the case even though it is a full FBI matter, not just an X-File. When Mulder takes some outrageous leaps to convince the girl's parents that she will be found, Scully fears that Mulder is becoming too personally involved with the case because of his sister's abduction.
The episode was rated 7.75 from 455 votes.
When a small-time magician performs a trick where it appears that he turns his head all the way around but is then found in his van dead with his head neatly sawed off, Mulder and Scully suspect he was murdered and get caught up in an intricate scheme planned by two magicians trying to rob a bank.
The episode was rated 7.76 from 450 votes.
Mulder and Scully discover a genie in a rug who, after 500 years of granting wishes, has come to the conclusion that people are still as greedy and self-centered as they always have been, and she begins to corrupt the wishes she grants if they are not specific enough.
The episode was rated 7.79 from 440 votes.
While Scully travels to Africa to piece together the meaning of the symbols on the spaceship beached on the Ivory Coast, Mulder is imprisoned by his own frenetic brain activity. He manages to get a message to Skinner who finds Kritschgau, and together they try to understand what is happening to Mulder before it is too late.
The episode was rated 7.82 from 521 votes.
After arresting the murderer of Amber-Lynn LaPierre and discovering a mass grave site containing the bodies of dozens of missing children, a man comes to Mulder and claims to have had visions of other victims who aren't buried at the site. Despite Scully's objections, he takes Mulder on a journey which reveals what truly happened to his sister.
The episode was rated 7.85 from 460 votes.
Mulder and Scully get caught in a real-life Rube Goldberg device when they meet Henry Weems, who just may be the luckiest man on Earth—except everyone around him doesn't seem to be that lucky.
The episode was rated 7.91 from 453 votes.
Mulder and Scully return to the town of their first X-Files investigation where a UFO has crashed in the forest. The Cigarette-Smoking Man arranges for Krycek to be released from prison in order for him to make contact with the aliens and begin rebuilding 'The Project'. Scully's health appears to be taking a turn.
The episode was rated 8.00 from 463 votes.
