X files summaries

Daniel Sackheim. While continuing work not related to the X-files, Mulder apparently finds evidence of a giant worm-like monster in the New Jersey sewage system.

Apparently prompted by messages from digital appliances with instructions to kill, several residents of a small farming community suddenly turn violent and dangerous. A new partner joins Mulder as he investigates the deaths of several victims who were killed by apparently nonexistent forces.

Mulder becomes involved in a hostage situation with an escaped psychiatric patient who claims to be terrified of frequent alien abductions. Part 1 of 2. Michael Lange.

Mulder attempts to search for Scully when she is abducted by Duane Barry, the escaped mental patient who recently held Mulder hostage. Part 2 of 2. With Scully missing, Mulder closes in on an "Unholy Trinity" of vampiresque killers and finds himself falling for a mysterious woman who is the prime suspect. Scully miraculously appears in a Washington DC hospital, unknowingly supervised by a nurse who may never have existed. When a moving shadow appears on a video transmission from a volcano, a volcanologist asks Mulder and Scully to investigate the incident.

The agents investigate a suggested link between a religious cult of vegetarians and the abduction of several teenagers, although they find that the disappearances are actually connected to a deadly event in their own past. Mulder and Scully uncover strange occurrences in an old-age care home when one of the nurses is attacked by an unseen force she claims to be one of the residents, a 74 year old man.

When a detective mysteriously uncovers the remains of an FBI agent who disappeared in the s while investigating a murder case similar to a modern-day one she is investigating, Mulder and Scully believe that the original killer had passed his genetic trait of violence to his grandchild.

A mortuary worker who collects hair and fingernails from dead bodies begins to kill people to expand his collection, and he sets his sights on Scully.

Kim Manners. After a teenager is ritualistically murdered in a small town, Mulder and Scully are caught up in a secret occult practice within the local PTA and a substitute teacher with odd powers.

After several murders occur within a Haitian refugee camp, Mulder and Scully are caught in the middle of a secret battle involving a Voodoo priest and the camp commander. After four identical men are killed and their obituaries are e-mailed to Mulder, a mysterious CIA agent informs him and Scully that the killer is a bounty hunter sent to destroy the start of a colony of clones.

Meanwhile, Mulder is distracted when his sister, Samantha, suddenly returns. Frank Spotnitz. Mulder and his sister race to evade the alien bounty hunter and uncover more of the insidious conspiracy. James Whitmore, Jr. Strange things happen in a zoo that result in several deaths, including a government employee and apparently an invisible elephant. The agents locate the ship but, like the vessel's crew before them, Mulder and Scully also suffer from rapid aging.

This is one of the first indications that the conspiracy is far-reaching, with every part of the government involved. But when it focuses on what the season should be about — the new agents — it can actually be fantastic. This time, he wakes up in Mexico without his memory while his partners try to find out where he is.

It breaks Mulder, as his strong connection to kidnapping cases drives his very being. This episode was originally set to be directed by Quentin Tarantino, but a DGA dispute kept him from being able to. A stranded Scully trying to escape the cult while Doggett hunts for her cements these two as partners you want to keep watching, which contributes to my theory that season eight is a lot better than people want to give it credit for.

And to be honest, Jesse L. The series only promises to get better from here, and it definitely does. Skinner sure does. Gillian Anderson is fantastic as a woman determined to protect her child, find her partner, and also save another pregnant woman who might be killed by shadowy doctors. The bond between Scully and Doggett is finally solidified when he learns the truth about her pregnancy and does everything he can to save her in an intense final-act showdown.

Eugene Tooms is a creepy, horrifying villain, and his nesting — along with his elongating himself through an air vent — still haunts nightmares more than two decades later.

Bonus points for being the episode that introduces Special Agent Monica Reyes, because I am probably the only fan of this character that exists. Even the ending, which you can see coming from a mile away, manages to be satisfying.

This is an episode that deserves more recognition among the classic X-Files episodes that step outside the procedural box and try something different. Scully is mysteriously pregnant! Krycek is back — and he shoves Cigarette Smoking Man down a flight of stairs! The cliff-hangers in this episode are fantastic, and so is the rest of the spooky, chock-full-of-aliens hour.

Unfortunately, Duchovny split as a main character after this episode and forever upended the dynamic of the show. This is a heartfelt episode that continues to build the emotional bond between Doggett and Reyes. Shipping fantasies aside, the mystery is obvious from the cold open and never really goes anywhere unexpected.

But years before Desperate Housewives hit the air, this satire on the insidious nature of the suburbs played pretty well. Mulder tries to figure out what happened to her, believing the Cigarette Smoking Man to somehow be behind it. The mysticism in this episode all hangs on the relentless lengths Mulder goes to to find out what happened to his partner. But this creepy installment about clones committing grisly murders is a really well-done monster-of-the-week ep, too.

The man is killed, but Mulder believes the boss is a monster, too, and gets locked up in a psych ward. It sets the tone for the entire series well, even despite all the twists and turns it would take throughout the years.

It battles for the top spot, obviously, with the glorious three-way split-screen bubble bath between Scully, Mulder, and Skinner. Dripping with atmosphere and dominated by Doggett, this monster of the week is further proof that season eight is better than people give it credit for.

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Elsewhere, the arc plot continues to be extremely personal for Scully and traumatic for both leads. Add Leonard Betts for a reveal connected to the ongoing arc plot. The arc plot was scaled back a little in Season Five, to make way for major developments in the movie that comes between Seasons Five and Six, but it ramped up in scale and drama towards the end of the season.

Like Season Five, Season Six focused mainly on Monster of the Week episodes rather than the increasingly unwieldy arc plot, but continued to return to the overall story for premieres, finales and sweeps episodes. Closure and its Part 1, Sein Und Zeit , are especially moving and Closure does what it says on the tin, closing a chapter of the arc plot in an emotionally satisfying if slightly cheesy way.

Everyone was very excited about the concept of a millennium back in the late s. With changes in the main cast to accommodate for the first time, Season Eight returned to the arc plot in a big way, working around actor commitments as well as the demands of the story. Add Jump The Shark for the finale to cancelled spin-off series The Lone Gunmen and for the last appearance of these significant characters on the show.

This is, inevitably, a highly subjective list of those we think were among the best. It also features a wonderful, discombobulating-as-ever performance from the fabulous Brad Dourif, cornering the market in creepy genre serial killers.

Humbug is notable chiefly as the first episode written by Darin Morgan, a member of the writing team who played a small part covered in make-up in The Host , is credited as the main writer on four episodes of the show, and has been praised to the skies by fans ever since, largely because two of his four episodes in Season Three were all-time classics.

Add Grotesque for a strong and spooky Mulder episode. Add Syzygy if you were a teenage girl in the s trust us. If you enjoy spooky ghost stories, add Elegy , which similarly refers to the arc plot but focuses on a Monster of the Week.

Others yours truly included thought it was horrible and never want to watch it again. It was apparently the first episode to get a viewer discretion warning and Fox refused to re-run it for years. So — watch at your own risk! In Season Five, the show really started playing around with its format, often highly successfully — as the extent of overlap between this list and Route 5 shows.

Drive , written by Vince Gilligan and starring Bryan Cranston, will be of particular interest to fans of Breaking Bad.

How The Ghosts Stole Christmas is a fun romp, while Monday goes a more serious route with the ever reliable time loop concept. Add Tithonus for a strong Scully episode with relatively little Mulder.

X-Cops sounds like it should be terrible but is really rather good, whether or not you enjoy Cops or its ilk.