The X-Files

10 Best Episodes of The X-Files - Season 9

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 - S9E13

#15 - Improbable (Season 9 - Episode 13)

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.

The episode was rated 7.27 from 391 votes.

The X-Files - S9E14

#14 - Scary Monsters (Season 9 - Episode 14)

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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.

The episode was rated 7.29 from 370 votes.

The X-Files - S9E15

#13 - Jump the Shark (Season 9 - Episode 15)

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.

The episode was rated 7.30 from 374 votes.

The X-Files - S9E11

#12 - Audrey Pauley (Season 9 - Episode 11)

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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.

The episode was rated 7.33 from 369 votes.

The X-Files - S9E1

#11 - Nothing Important Happened Today (1) (Season 9 - Episode 1)

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.

The episode was rated 7.39 from 449 votes.

The X-Files - S9E6

#10 - Trust No 1 (Season 9 - Episode 6)

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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.

The episode was rated 7.44 from 429 votes.

The X-Files - S9E16

#9 - William (Season 9 - Episode 16)

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.

The episode was rated 7.47 from 371 votes.

The X-Files - S9E10

#8 - Providence (2) (Season 9 - Episode 10)

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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.

The episode was rated 7.49 from 398 votes.

The X-Files - S9E2

#7 - Nothing Important Happened Today II (2) (Season 9 - Episode 2)

Doggett catches up with Shannon McMahon, the woman who the EPA official picked up. She claims to be a super solider and that the people she has killed were poisoning the water supply, and she wants Doggett to expose the truth.

The episode was rated 7.49 from 420 votes.

The X-Files - S9E18

#6 - Sunshine Days (Season 9 - Episode 18)

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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.

The episode was rated 7.52 from 367 votes.

The X-Files - S9E4

#5 - 4-D (Season 9 - Episode 4)

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.

The episode was rated 7.57 from 421 votes.

The X-Files - S9E9

#4 - Provenance (1) (Season 9 - Episode 9)

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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.

The episode was rated 7.58 from 424 votes.

The X-Files - S9E17

#3 - Release (Season 9 - Episode 17)

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.

The episode was rated 7.66 from 384 votes.

The X-Files - S9E19

#2 - The Truth (1) (Season 9 - Episode 19)

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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.

The episode was rated 7.73 from 460 votes.

The X-Files - S9E20

#1 - The Truth (2) (Season 9 - Episode 20)

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".

The episode was rated 7.92 from 297 votes.

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