The X-Files

1. S01E01PilotSeptember 10, 1993 8.1Special Agent Dana Scully is partnered with Special Agent Fox Mulder to validate his work on a special project called The X-Files. While he
2. S01E02Deep ThroatSeptember 17, 1993 7.8Mulder and Scully head to Ellens Air Force Base to investigate the mysterious case of a military test pilot who disappeared after experienci
3. S01E03SqueezeSeptember 24, 1993 8.1One of Scully's friends from the FBI academy, now working in the Violent Crimes Unit, asks her to assist him on a homicide investigation inv
4. S01E04ConduitOctober 1, 1993 7.3As Section Chief Blevins expresses his concern with the direction of the X-Files department, Mulder becomes obsessed with solving a case tha
5. S01E05The Jersey DevilOctober 8, 1993 7.1Mulder's trip to Atlantic City doesn't take him to the glittering casinos or luxury hotels. Instead, he plays a dangerous game of hunter-and
6. S01E06ShadowsOctober 22, 1993 7.3When an unseen force commits several murders where a young woman is present, Mulder suspects that it is the spirit of the woman's former bos
7. S01E07Ghost in the MachineOctober 29, 1993 7.2A new intelligence gropes its way to life in the depths of wires and circuit boards - only to find itself perched on the edge of immediate e
8. S01E08IceNovember 5, 1993 8.6When an Arctic research team mysteriously kills each other and themselves only days after drilling deeper into the ice than ever before, Mul
9. S01E09SpaceNovember 12, 1993 7.0Mulder and Scully are contacted by a communications specialist from NASA who shows them evidence of sabotage in the space programme. Mulder'
10. S01E10Fallen AngelNovember 19, 1993 7.9When a tract of lonely woodland is cordoned off between laser fences, and rapidly changing explanations are rampant, Mulder's curiosity carr
11. S01E11EveDecember 10, 1993 8.1When two fathers on opposite sides of the country are unexplainably murdered at the exact same time in the exact same way, Mulder and Scully
12. S01E12FireDecember 17, 1993 7.6When an old Oxford girlfriend of Mulder's asks for his help in an international case concerning the unexplainable execution of several Briti
13. S01E13Beyond the SeaJanuary 7, 1994 8.1Scully has a brush with the paranormal when her recently deceased father appears to her in a vision. Meanwhile, Mulder becomes a skeptic whe
14. S01E14GenderbenderJanuary 21, 1994 7.6Mulder and Scully investigate a series of murders where the suspect seems to be both male and female. Their investigation leads them to the
15. S01E15LazarusFebruary 4, 1994 7.4When FBI Agent Jack Willis is shot during a bank robbery, Agent Scully takes drastic steps to resuscitate him while the bank robber, Warren
16. S01E16Young at HeartFebruary 11, 1994 7.7Mulder becomes the target of someone from his past, John Barnett, a jewelry store robber with an itchy trigger finger that Mulder sent to pr
17. S01E17E.B.E.February 18, 1994 8.2A dramatic increase in UFO sightings and a bizarre attack on a transport truck convince Mulder that he's on the trail of a live alien being
18. S01E18Miracle ManMarch 18, 1994 7.6A rash of deaths under the Miracle Ministry's traveling tent brings Scully and Mulder into the realm of miracles and shysters. When Samuel,
19. S01E19ShapesApril 1, 1994 7.4Mulder and Scully travel to an American Indian reservation to investigate the death of an Indian man who was mistaken for a wild animal and
20. S01E20Darkness FallsApril 15, 1994 8.1When a group of loggers in the Washington State National Forest disappear in the same way that another group disappeared 50 years ago, Mulde
21. S01E21ToomsApril 22, 1994 7.9Eugene Tooms, the genetic mutant, is released from the sanitarium and Mulder becomes personally involved to ensure that he is caught in the
22. S01E22Born AgainApril 29, 1994 7.6After a detective and his former partner die in unexplained circumstances, the accidents are linked to a little girl who witnessed both deat
23. S01E23RolandMay 6, 1994 7.4When a series of murders occur among a group of scientists working on advanced propulsion technology, Mulder and Scully are called in to inv
24. S01E24Season's bestThe Erlenmeyer FlaskMay 13, 1994 8.8When Deep Throat points out a news story about a fugitive who apparently drowned, Mulder and Scully cannot see what makes the case special b

Season 1 ranked & reviewed

1. S02E01Little Green MenSeptember 16, 1994 8.2With the X-Files closed, Scully has been assigned as an instructor at the FBI Academy while Mulder is doing menial surveillance work. After
2. S02E02The HostSeptember 23, 1994 8.3AD Skinner sends Mulder to investigate a body which washed into the New Jersey sewer from the ocean. Mulder believes that the basic blue-col
3. S02E03BloodSeptember 30, 1994 7.5When several violent deaths in a small farming community are connected by the destruction of digital devices, Mulder believes that people ar
4. S02E04SleeplessOctober 7, 1994 7.8Mulder reluctantly accepts a new partner, Agent Alex Krycek, and requests a strange case because someone put an audio tape in his morning pa
5. S02E05Duane BarryOctober 14, 1994 8.7Mulder is called to a hostage situation involving Duane Barry, a former FBI Agent who claims to be an alien abductee and wants to get back t
6. S02E06AscensionOctober 21, 1994 8.6When Mulder finds out that Scully was kidnapped by Duane Barry, he risks the wrath of his superiors and the annoyance of Agent Krycek in ord
7. S02E073November 4, 1994 7.0Truly alone for the first time since Scully found her way to the basement of the J. Edger Hoover Building, Mulder throws himself into his wo
8. S02E08One BreathNovember 11, 1994 8.3Scully mysteriously appears in a Washington hospital, alive but in a coma, and Mulder must fight to keep her alive in order to find out what
9. S02E09FirewalkerNovember 18, 1994 7.5Mulder and Scully, reunited at last, head for an active volcano under a geological study and find a deadly life form that can survive in the
10. S02E10Red MuseumDecember 9, 1994 7.9While investigating the connection between the abduction of several teenagers and a rural religious cult, Mulder & Scully discover a sec
11. S02E11Excelsis DeiDecember 16, 1994 7.3Mulder and Scully investigate when the rape and battery of a nurse takes place in a Massachusetts convalescent home. The nurse claims that s
12. S02E12AubreyJanuary 6, 1995 7.8When a detective mysteriously uncovers the remains of an FBI agent who disappeared in the 1940s while investigating a murder case similar to
13. S02E13IrresistibleJanuary 13, 1995 7.9A mortuary worker, who gets his thrills from collecting hair and fingernails from the dead, begins killing people to expand his collection a
14. S02E14Die Hand die VerletztJanuary 27, 1995 8.2The ritualistic murder of a teenager in a small town gets Mulder and Scully caught up in a secret occult practice within the local school's
15. S02E15Fresh BonesFebruary 3, 1995 7.1While investigating several deaths and murders within a Haitian refugee camp, Mulder and Scully get caught in the middle of a secret war bet
16. S02E16ColonyFebruary 10, 1995 8.6After the obituaries of three identical men are e-mailed to Mulder, the agents are contacted by a CIA agent who tells them about a Russian S
17. S02E17End GameFebruary 17, 1995 8.6The alien bounty hunter kidnaps Scully and wants to trade her for Mulder's sister, who is revealed to be a clone herself. After the trade go
18. S02E18Fearful SymmetryFebruary 24, 1995 7.1Invisible animals are rampaging through town, destroying property and trampling a federal employee. On arriving in town, the agents begin th
19. S02E19Død KalmMarch 10, 1995 7.7When half the crew of a Navy ship abandon their boat in a life raft and are rescued 18 hours later looking about 60 years older than they sh
20. S02E20HumbugMarch 31, 1995 8.2Mulder and Scully travel to Gibsonton, Florida, a town built and populated by circus and sideshow performers to investigate the death of Jer
21. S02E21The CalusariApril 14, 1995 7.7A balloon traveling into the face of the wind isn't much of a clue to launch an investigation into a toddler's death, but, on their arrival,
22. S02E22F. EmasculataApril 28, 1995 8.1When a plaguelike illness kills 10 men inside a maximum security prison, Scully tries to get into the quarantine site and discover the cause
23. S02E23Soft LightMay 5, 1995 7.9When people start disappearing, and the case is shoved in her general direction, Detective Kelly Ryan, one of Scully's former students, turn
24. S02E24Our TownMay 12, 1995 8.0After several disappearances in a small town, Mulder and Scully investigate and find hundreds of human bones in the river and discover that
25. S02E25Season's bestAnasaziMay 19, 1995 9.0Mulder obtains what could be the original and uncut MJ documents containing information about the government's knowledge of extraterrestrial

Season 2 ranked & reviewed

1. S03E01The Blessing WaySeptember 22, 1995 8.3Scully finds her career with the FBI in jeopardy as Mulder is still missing and The Cigarette Smoking Man is pursuing the stolen files. The
2. S03E02Paper ClipSeptember 29, 1995 8.6Assistant Director Skinner and Scully are at a standoff when Mulder bursts in and discovers that Skinner has the digital tape. Reunited, Mul
3. S03E03D.P.O.October 6, 1995 7.8When a small town chalks up five lightning-related deaths, Mulder suspects something is amiss in rural America. Despite the apparent validit
4. S03E04Season's bestClyde Bruckman's Final ReposeOctober 13, 1995 8.9In the midst of a psychic sideshow while on a murder case, Mulder and Scully enlist the help of a man who may have a true psychic ability to
5. S03E05The ListOctober 20, 1995 7.1No-one takes much notice when a death row inmate vows on the electric chair to come back from the dead and kill 5 men who have wronged him d
6. S03E062ShyNovember 3, 1995 7.5A serial killer with unusual tastes is doing his stalking on the internet, luring women to him by capitalizing on their vulnerabilities, usi
7. S03E07The WalkNovember 10, 1995 7.7After a suicide attempt and multiple murders at a military hospital, Mulder and Scully meet a quadruple amputee who has gained the power of
8. S03E08OublietteNovember 17, 1995 8.0Mulder seeks the help of a woman whom he believes has a special connection with a young girl who has recently been kidnapped by the same man
9. S03E09Nisei (1)November 24, 1995 8.1An investigation into a video of an alien autopsy puts Mulder and Scully in the middle of a conspiracy involving WWII Japanese scientists br
10. S03E10731 (2)December 1, 1995 8.3Mulder is trapped inside a train car which contains a suspected alien-human hybrid and also a bomb, while Scully pursues the truth about her
11. S03E11RevelationsDecember 15, 1995 7.4Mulder and Scully swap roles as they pursue a man killing priests who claim to have the wounds of Christ. The agents find and must protect a
12. S03E12War of the CoprophagesJanuary 5, 1996 8.2Widespread panic is caused in a small community after numerous deaths are linked to killer cockroaches and a government agricultural agency
13. S03E13SyzygyJanuary 26, 1996 7.6A rare planetary alignment causes strange behaviour in the residents of a small town but particularly in two teenage girls who were born at
14. S03E14GrotesqueFebruary 2, 1996 7.4A serial killer is captured after a three year manhunt and he claims an evil spirit is responsible for the crimes. When the killings continu
15. S03E15Piper MaruFebruary 9, 1996 8.0A French salvage ship searching for a lost WWII fighter plane unknowingly surfaces an alien which appears in the form of black oil and has t
16. S03E16ApocryphaFebruary 16, 1996 8.2Mulder pursues Krycek, not knowing about the alien that has taken over his body, to get back the DAT tape containing the MJ Documents. Meanw
17. S03E17PusherFebruary 23, 1996 8.5Mulder and Scully are asked to help in a case involving Robert Patrick Modell, a murderer possessing a psychic ability to force his will ont
18. S03E18Teso dos BichosMarch 8, 1996 6.7When a series of deaths occur immediately after an ancient artefact is brought to Boston from an excavation site in South America, Scully be
19. S03E19Hell MoneyMarch 29, 1996 7.6The deaths of several Chinese men found to be missing vital internal organs that were removed prior to death leads Mulder and Scully to a de
20. S03E20Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space'April 12, 1996 8.5An alien abduction of two teenagers with different versions of the same facts prompts a science-fiction novelist to write a book about the i
21. S03E21AvatarApril 26, 1996 8.0During a one-night stand in the midst of his divorce, AD Skinner becomes a murder suspect, and Mulder and Scully return the many favors that
22. S03E22QuagmireMay 3, 1996 7.8When a series of mysterious deaths and disappearances are reported near a lake in a small town, Agents Mulder and Scully are called in to in
23. S03E23WetwiredMay 10, 1996 8.1After a man kills three people and his wife because he mistook them for a ruthless Bosnian dictator, Mulder and Scully discover a test invol
24. S03E24Talitha CumiMay 17, 1996 8.3Mulder and Scully search for a mysterious man with the power to heal, whose actions risk exposing the existence of aliens on Earth. Meanwhil

Season 3 ranked & reviewed

1. S04E01HerrenvolkOctober 4, 1996 8.3Mulder finds himself with Jeremiah Smith, who will meet his end on a small farm tended to by clones bearing resemblance to Samantha. Meanwhi
2. S04E02HomeOctober 11, 1996 8.2A baby is found buried alive in shallow ground and appears to have birth defects resulting from generations of inbreeding, leading Mulder an
3. S04E03TelikoOctober 18, 1996 7.2After several African-American men are killed and the color is drained from their skin, Mulder learns about the Teliko, an African folktale
4. S04E04UnruheOctober 27, 1996 7.9Several kidnappings of young women linked by distorted photographs lead Mulder and Scully to a man who can imprint his darkest fantasies ont
5. S04E05The Field Where I DiedNovember 3, 1996 7.5After an FBI raid on a doomsday cult called the "Temple of the Seven Stars." Mulder meets Melissa, a cultist who claims to have known him in
6. S04E06SanguinariumNovember 10, 1996 7.4When a series of bizarre murders take place in a hospital's plastic surgery unit, Mulder finds a link to the four witches Sabbaths. This lea
7. S04E07Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking ManNovember 17, 1996 8.3Frohike pieces together and recites to Mulder and Scully what could be the possible life story of the Cigarette Smoking Man; from a young ca
8. S04E08TunguskaNovember 24, 1996 8.1A rock sample taken from Mars is intercepted at an airport and infects a security officer with the Black Cancer, while Mulder is given a tip
9. S04E09TermaDecember 1, 1996 7.9While imprisoned in Russia and infected with the Black Cancer, Mulder learns that Krycek is working with the men responsible and everything
10. S04E10Season's bestPaper HeartsDecember 15, 1996 8.6Mulder's dreams help him in finding the body of a little girl which re-opens one of his old cases in the Violent Crimes Unit and leads him t
11. S04E11El Mundo GiraJanuary 12, 1997 7.5When a deadly yellow rain falls in a migrant workers camp and kills a young woman, Agents Mulder and Scully come to investigate what happene
12. S04E12Leonard BettsJanuary 26, 1997 8.3After the body of a decapitated EMT disappears from the morgue and an identical man starts work at the same hospital, Mulder believes that t
13. S04E13Never AgainFebruary 2, 1997 7.7While Mulder is forced to take a vacation he leaves Scully with an assignment to keep her busy until he returns. She however, decides to sta
14. S04E14Memento MoriFebruary 9, 1997 8.3Scully's recent failing health is revealed to be inoperable brain cancer which is common among abductees. She meets with other abductees wit
15. S04E15KaddishFebruary 16, 1997 7.3Issac Luria, a Jewish man, is killed by a group of teenagers working for a racist shopowner, but one of them is soon strangled to death and
16. S04E16UnrequitedFebruary 23, 1997 7.7When a US military general is unexplainably murdered in the back of his limousine, a paramilitary group is suspected and they believe it was
17. S04E17Tempus FugitMarch 16, 1997 8.1A strange woman informs Mulder that NICAP member Max Fenig (see Fallen Angel) has recently died in a plane crash. After observing Max's body
18. S04E18MaxMarch 23, 1997 8.0The investigating into a plane crash lands an FBI agent dead and its main witness in military jail. Looking further into abductee Max Fenig'
19. S04E19SynchronyApril 13, 1997 8.0A strange old man foresees events surrounding the use of an experimental flash-freezing compound. Mulder believes that one of the scientists
20. S04E20Small PotatoesApril 20, 1997 8.4Five babies in the same town are all born with tails and the local OB-GYN is blamed for tampering with fertilised eggs. However, Mulder disc
21. S04E21Zero SumApril 27, 1997 8.1Skinner destroys evidence to cover up a woman's death and poses as Agent Mulder to complete the task. Mulder finds out about Skinner's decep
22. S04E22ElegyMay 4, 1997 8.0After a man sees a woman trapped inside a bowling alley pin setter, he goes for help and finds police standing next to the body of the same
23. S04E23DemonsMay 11, 1997 7.8Mulder undergoes an experimental form of hypnotherapy to recover his memories about his sister's abduction but the treatment has side effect
24. S04E24GethsemaneMay 18, 1997 8.3While investigating the discovery of a preserved alien body found in the mountains of Canada, Mulder is contacted by Michael Kritschgau who

Season 4 ranked & reviewed

1. S05E01Redux (1)November 2, 1997 8.7Scully helps Mulder fake his own death in order for him to go undetected through the Department of Defence and find out the answers to his n
2. S05E02Redux (2)November 9, 1997 9.0Cigarette Smoking Man helps Mulder to obtain Scully's cure and also lets him see his real sister who doesn't turn out to be as happy to see
3. S05E03Unusual SuspectsNovember 16, 1997 8.5Set in 1989, the story of the founding of The Lone Gunmen is finally told as we see how a straight-laced federal employee, a sex mad AV expe
4. S05E04DetourNovember 23, 1997 8.1Stopped by a roadblock on their way to an FBI convention in Florida, Mulder and Scully find themselves stranded in the woods with a deadly p
5. S05E05The Post-Modern PrometheusNovember 30, 1997 8.0Filmed in glorious black and white with a comic book feel to it, this is a modern retelling of Frankenstein as Mulder and Scully get caught
6. S05E06Christmas CarolDecember 7, 1997 7.5On her Christmas vacation with her brother's family, Scully receives a mysterious phone call from a familiar voice who says 'She needs your
7. S05E07EmilyDecember 14, 1997 7.8DNA testing on Emily reveals that she is actually Scully's daughter and Mulder comes to assist her and to find out where and how the girl wa
8. S05E08KitsunegariJanuary 4, 1998 7.9Pusher returns as Robert Patrick Modell escapes from the mental hospital and the FBI promptly organises a manhunt assuming that he will cont
9. S05E09SchizogenyJanuary 11, 1998 7.1A therapist working with children from abusive families is found to be implanting them with the memories of her own abuse suffered at the ha
10. S05E10ChingaFebruary 8, 1998 7.5Master of Horror Stephen King's first effort at an X-File sees Scully's well deserved vacation going terribly wrong and landing her in a sma
11. S05E11Kill SwitchFebruary 15, 1998 7.9A super-intelligent virus program is let loose on the Internet and begins to grow and expand by itself, eventually killing its creator when
12. S05E12Season's bestBad BloodFebruary 22, 1998 9.1After Mulder chases down and kills a young man whom he believes to be a vampire, Scully realizes that his fangs are fake. The agents then re
13. S05E13Patient XMarch 1, 1998 8.1Mulder and Scully meet Cassandra Spender, a woman who claims to be a multiple abductee and wants to deliver a positive message about the ali
14. S05E14The Red and the BlackMarch 8, 1998 8.2After the gathering at the abduction site where everyone is killed by the rebel bounty hunters, Cassandra Spender disappears and Mulder is b
15. S05E15TravelersMarch 29, 1998 7.7In 1990 Agent Fox Mulder visits an aging FBI Agent Arthur Dales and listens to a story of the agents assigned to a would-be X-File in the Co
16. S05E16Mind's EyeApril 19, 1998 7.8Agents Mulder and Scully investigate a murder that seems to have been committed by a blind woman, but Mulder suspects that her involvement i
17. S05E17All SoulsApril 26, 1998 7.6Scully and her Catholic faith must confront the loss of her daughter Emily when she is asked to help a family whose adopted daughter was fou
18. S05E18The Pine Bluff VariantMay 3, 1998 8.3Scully fears that Mulder has gone to the other side when she sees him assisting a federal suspect escape custody. In truth he has infiltrate
19. S05E19Folie a DeuxMay 10, 1998 8.3Mulder is held hostage inside an office where a man claims his boss is a monster and has clouded all their minds while he turns them into zo
20. S05E20The EndMay 17, 1998 8.4Cigarette Smoking Man returns as Mulder investigates the attempted assassination of a young boy with psychic powers who may be the proof tha

Season 5 ranked & reviewed

1. S06E01The BeginningNovember 8, 1998 8.0Mulder 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
2. S06E02DriveNovember 15, 1998 8.0Mulder 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.
3. S06E03TriangleNovember 22, 1998 8.5Mulder goes to the Bermuda Triangle when he learns that the Queen Anne, a British luxury liner which disappeared during WWII, has re-appeare
4. S06E04Dreamland (1)November 29, 1998 8.7While being detained near the famed "Dreamland" Area 51, a strange craft flies overhead and Mulder swaps bodies with an Area 51 'Man-in-Blac
5. S06E05Dreamland (2)December 6, 1998 8.6Mulder 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. Sc
6. S06E06How the Ghosts Stole ChristmasDecember 13, 1998 8.2Mulder talks Scully into investigating a haunted house on Christmas Eve where several couples have met their fate on that very night. While
7. S06E07Terms of EndearmentJanuary 3, 1999 7.8After a scan of a couple's unborn child is found to have strange growths protruding from the head and back, the foetus is taken from inside
8. S06E08The Rain KingJanuary 10, 1999 7.7Strange weather phenomena in a small town leads Mulder to believe that a weatherman whose deep emotions and unspoken love toward his workmat
9. S06E09S.R. 819January 17, 1999 8.0Mulder and Scully have 24 hours to save Assistant Director Skinner from being killed by a biologically engineered disease. The disease appea
10. S06E10TithonusJanuary 24, 1999 8.3Assistant Director Kersh tries to tear Scully and Mulder apart when he partners Scully with a New York agent investigating Alfred Fellig, a
11. S06E11Two FathersFebruary 7, 1999 8.4While Cigarette Smoking Man recites to an unseen listener everything about the work of the Syndicate involving a global conspiracy in co-ope
12. S06E12One SonFebruary 14, 1999 8.5CSM 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
13. S06E13Agua MalaFebruary 21, 1999 7.5Arthur Dales summons Mulder and Scully to his holiday home in Florida where he is concerned over the disappearance of his neighbors. Despite
14. S06E14Season's bestMondayFebruary 28, 1999 8.9A 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
15. S06E15ArcadiaMarch 7, 1999 8.3On their first official case back on the X-Files, Mulder and Scully go undercover as a married couple at a prestigious planned community whe
16. S06E16AlphaMarch 28, 1999 7.0A mysterious dog thought to be the last of a rare Asian breed is responsible for several murders which Mulder and Scully are investigating.
17. S06E17TrevorApril 11, 1999 7.3After a tornado rips through a prison camp, one of the inmates disappears from solitary confinement and the prison warden is killed. As Muld
18. S06E18MilagroApril 18, 1999 7.9A writer living next to Mulder becomes obsessed with Scully and confesses to her that he is using her for a character in his novel. Scully f
19. S06E19The UnnaturalApril 25, 1999 8.0Mulder meets with Agent Arthur Dales' brother (also named Arthur!) and is told a tale of a talented negro baseball player from Roswell, New
20. S06E20Three of a KindMay 2, 1999 7.9While on a stakeout of a Government Defence Convention in Las Vegas, The Lone Gunmen are reunited with Susanne Modeski, the mysterious woman
21. S06E21Field TripMay 9, 1999 8.5When 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 rec
22. S06E22BiogenesisMay 16, 1999 8.1Two scientists confer about each of their metal objects that were found in Africa and they theorise that the objects are pieces of a puzzle

Season 6 ranked & reviewed

1. S07E01The Sixth ExtinctionNovember 7, 1999 8.2While Scully travels to Africa to piece together the meaning of the symbols on the spaceship beached on the Ivory Coast, Mulder is imprisone
2. S07E02The Sixth Extinction: Amor FatiNovember 14, 1999 8.0Scully frantically searches for a way to help her ailing partner without having anyone to turn to for help, while a catatonic Mulder's dream
3. S07E03HungryNovember 21, 1999 7.7A fast-food restaurant is linked to the discovery of a submerged car with a body in the trunk, but no brain in the body. Mulder and Scully i
4. S07E04MillenniumNovember 28, 1999 8.0As 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
5. S07E05RushDecember 5, 1999 7.0A teenage killer eludes Mulder and Scully by moving too fast for the human eye. Slowly Mulder and Scully realise his ability and try to work
6. S07E06The Goldberg VariationDecember 12, 1999 8.2Mulder and Scully are caught in a real-life Rube Goldberg device as they investigate a man cursed with extremely good luck since he survived
7. S07E07OrisonJanuary 9, 2000 7.5A series of prison breaks bring Agents Mulder and Scully face to face with Scully's former kidnapper, Donnie Pfaster, as Scully is forced to
8. S07E08The Amazing MaleeniJanuary 16, 2000 8.0When 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 wit
9. S07E09Signs and WondersJanuary 23, 2000 6.9Mulder and Scully investigate a gruesome and unexplained snake-bite death, which points to a religious group in the Deep South. Before long
10. S07E10Sein und ZeitFebruary 6, 2000 8.2A young girl unexplainably disappears from her home and Mulder requests the case even though it is a full FBI matter, not just an X-File. Wh
11. S07E11ClosureFebruary 13, 2000 8.0After arresting the murderer of Amber-Lynn LaPierre and discovering a mass gravesite containing the bodies of dozens of missing children, a
12. S07E12X-CopsFebruary 20, 2000 8.1A Los Angeles police officer who is being filmed for the show COPS is attacked by a strange monster and Mulder and Scully are investigating
13. S07E13First Person ShooterFebruary 27, 2000 6.8The Lone Gunmen call Mulder and Scully to a Virtual Reality development lab where they learn that one of the program testers was killed insi
14. S07E14TheefMarch 12, 2000 7.2Mulder and Scully are called in to investigate a series of murders where the victims are all in some way related to a wealthy, well-educated
15. S07E15En AmiMarch 19, 2000 8.0After the miraculous recovery of a young boy who had cancer, Mulder and Scully investigate what has happened but Scully is shocked when The
16. S07E16ChimeraApril 2, 2000 7.3As Mulder investigates a missing person case with a key feature being a menacing raven, he learns to enjoy the creature comforts of a well-t
17. S07E17all thingsApril 9, 2000 7.5A series of coincidences puts Scully in contact with someone from her past, a married man who she once had an affair with during medical sch
18. S07E18Brand XApril 16, 2000 7.8When an employee of Morley Tobacco Co. is apparently killed by tobacco beetles, Mulder suspects that the beetles have hatched inside his lun
19. S07E19Hollywood A.D.April 30, 2000 7.5Mulder and Scully watch a movie with themselves as characters and are thoroughly disgusted at how they and their case are portrayed on the b
20. S07E20Fight ClubMay 7, 2000 6.9The Agents cross paths with a pair of doppelgangers whose close proximity with each other leaves a trail of destruction across 17 states. Mu
21. S07E21Je SouhaiteMay 14, 2000 8.1Mulder and Scully discover a jinniah (genie) in a rug who, after 500 years of granting wishes, has come to the conclusion that people are st
22. S07E22Season's bestRequiemMay 21, 2000 8.7Mulder and Scully return to the town of their first X-Files investigation where a UFO has crashed in the forest. CSM arranges for Krycek to

Season 7 ranked & reviewed

1. S08E01WithinNovember 5, 2000 7.9Newly appointed Deputy Director Kersh organizes a manhunt for Mulder and assigns Agent John Doggett to head the team. Scully and Skinner go
2. S08E02WithoutNovember 12, 2000 8.1As the search for Mulder intensifies in the Arizona desert, Gibson Praise leads Scully to believe that she is truly closer to her target. Me
3. S08E03PatienceNovember 19, 2000 7.1While tackling his first X-File case about a series of gruesome murders surrounding a bat-like creature, Doggett quickly learns that his inv
4. S08E04RoadrunnersNovember 26, 2000 7.8Scully evades Doggett's help in investigating a vicious murder in a remote area of Utah and she is trapped in the small town by a religious
5. S08E05InvocationDecember 3, 2000 7.6Having been kidnapped for ten years, a little boy mysteriously reappears in the same place as he was kidnapped but somehow has not aged one
6. S08E06RedrumDecember 10, 2000 8.2A prominent lawyer wakes to find himself in jail and about to be prosecuted for the murder of his wife. He has no memory of this event howev
7. S08E07Via NegativaDecember 17, 2000 7.5Working without Scully's input, Doggett and Skinner try to avert the mysterious murder spree of a drug-induced, religious cult leader and it
8. S08E08SurekillJanuary 7, 2001 6.7When a real estate agent is shot inside a prison cell by someone who apparently fired from the roof, Scully and Doggett track him to two ext
9. S08E09SalvageJanuary 14, 2001 6.6Doggett and Scully encounter a dead man who is still living - only somewhat changed. What they discover is a man made of metal, exacting ven
10. S08E10BadlaaJanuary 21, 2001 6.6An Indian mystic whose son died in a chemical plant accident smuggles himself into the United States and takes his revenge on two families i
11. S08E11The GiftFebruary 4, 2001 7.7Doggett comes upon an old case that Mulder kept secret from Scully, and decides to investigate it in more detail hoping to somehow find a li
12. S08E12MedusaFebruary 11, 2001 7.0Scully and Doggett race to investigate a string of bizarre deaths in the tunnels of the Boston subway system linked to a mysterious killer.
13. S08E13Per ManumFebruary 18, 2001 7.4When Scully and Doggett are contacted by a man who claims his wife was murdered shortly after giving birth to an alien baby, Scully digs dee
14. S08E14This is Not HappeningFebruary 25, 2001 7.9When Teresa Hoese, the woman Scully & Mulder met the previous spring in Oregon just before Mulder was abducted, is found in a desert, re
15. S08E15DeadAliveApril 1, 2001 8.1Shortly after Mulder is buried, Billy Miles is found very dead but somehow comes back to life. Skinner and Scully put all their hopes into d
16. S08E16Three WordsApril 8, 2001 7.8Mulder's request for reassignment to the X-Files is denied by Kersh, who hopes that Mulder will simply quit the FBI. When a census worker is
17. S08E17EmpedoclesApril 15, 2001 6.9Agent Reyes enlists Mulder's help investigating a killer's connection to the unsolved murder of Doggett's son. They investigate but find no
18. S08E18VienenApril 22, 2001 7.9After Agent Mulder goes beyond his jurisdiction to shine light on a possible X-file, Doggett is assigned to investigate the mysterious disap
19. S08E19AloneMay 6, 2001 7.6While Scully takes maternity leave, Doggett is partnered with a young agent who is fascinated with the X-Files and has followed Mulder and S
20. S08E20EssenceMay 13, 2001 8.4Mulder and Doggett join forces to investigate the arson attack on a genetics lab where one of the doctors suspected of experimenting with al
21. S08E21Season's bestExistenceMay 20, 2001 8.6With otherworldly factions in pursuit, Mulder and the agents race to safeguard the birth of Scully's child. Scully and Reyes take refuge in

Season 8 ranked & reviewed

1. S09E01Nothing Important Happened Today (1)November 11, 2001 7.5Agent 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
2. S09E02Nothing Important Happened Today (2)November 18, 2001 7.3Doggett 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
3. S09E03DæmonicusDecember 2, 2001 7.3Doggett and Reyes investigate the murder of a couple in West Virginia that has all the signs of a satanic ritual killing. They link the murd
4. S09E04Season's best4-DDecember 9, 2001 8.1During a stakeout of murderer Irwin Lukesh, Doggett sees Reyes attacked by Lukesh but then we see Reyes and Doggett in her apartment, appare
5. S09E05Lord of the FliesDecember 16, 2001 6.7When a stunt on a local cable reality show goes horribly wrong resulting in a man's death, Doggett and Reyes investigate. But when flies pou
6. S09E06Trust No 1January 6, 2002 7.6Scully is approached by a couple who claim their baby has the same abilities as William and have information about the super soldier program
7. S09E07John DoeJanuary 13, 2002 7.4Scully 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 s
8. S09E08HellboundJanuary 27, 2002 7.1Agent Reyes takes the lead while investigating an X-file case, surrounding a man found skinned alive after having visions of seeing other pe
9. S09E09ProvenanceMarch 3, 2002 7.6When pieces of the spaceship beached in Africa resurface, the conspiracy within the FBI attempts to hide the information from the X-Files, e
10. S09E10ProvidenceMarch 10, 2002 7.7Scully is anxious to recover William from his kidnappers and takes matters into her own hands when the FBI's attempts to assist in the inves
11. S09E11Audrey PauleyMarch 17, 2002 7.3Doggett and Scully look for answers that will save Reyes' life after she is injured in a horrible car accident. Yet Reyes is also fighting t
12. S09E12UnderneathMarch 31, 2002 7.2Scully, Doggett and Reyes investigate an old case that Doggett worked on as a cop in Brooklyn, dubbed "The Screwdriver Killer". They try to
13. S09E13ImprobableApril 7, 2002 7.7When Reyes uses numerology to connect the murders of several women to an obsessed serial killer, she and Scully become trapped with a myster
14. S09E14Scary MonstersApril 14, 2002 7.2Monsters hiding under a little boy's bed may be more than just the product of a vivid imagination when agents Harrison, Doggett and Reyes in
15. S09E15Jump the SharkApril 21, 2002 7.2When Morris Fletcher approaches agents Doggett and Reyes with information related to "Super Soldiers", they turn to the Lone Gunmen. The Gun
16. S09E16WilliamApril 28, 2002 7.5Doggett catches an intruder trying to steal documents from the office; the mystery man baffles everyone with enough knowledge of the X-files
17. S09E17ReleaseMay 5, 2002 7.8When an FBI cadet with amazing profiling skills approaches Doggett, Reyes and Scully with a lead on a suspect in a series of recent murders,
18. S09E18Sunshine DaysMay 12, 2002 7.5Doggett and Reyes investigate a murder outside the house that the original Brady Bunch series was filmed in. The house is owned by a man nam
19. S09E19The Truth (1)May 19, 2002 8.0After not knowing Fox Mulder's whereabouts for the last year, A.D. Skinner and Agent Scully learn he is being held for the murder of a milit
20. S09E20The Truth (2)May 19, 2002 7.5After not knowing Fox Mulder's whereabouts for the last year, A.D. Skinner and Agent Scully learn he is being held for the murder of a milit

Season 9 ranked & reviewed

1. S10E01My StruggleJanuary 24, 2016 7.2Thirteen years after the original series run, the next mind-bending chapter of the thrilling series THE X-FILES has arrived. Fox Mulder and
2. S10E02Founder's MutationJanuary 25, 2016 7.0When a scientist suddenly kills himself, Mulder and Scully's investigation leads to a laboratory where extreme genetic experimentation has b
3. S10E03Season's bestMulder and Scully Meet the Were-MonsterFebruary 1, 2016 7.3Witnesses claim a strange creature was responsible for killing a person in the woods; Mulder confronts some of his own demons.
4. S10E04Home AgainFebruary 8, 2016 6.5Mulder and Scully are sent to investigate the murder of a city official, which it seems no human could have committed. Meanwhile, Scully dea
5. S10E05BabylonFebruary 15, 2016 5.9When an art gallery that's showing potentially offensive artwork is bombed, Mulder and Scully seek some way to communicate with the comatose
6. S10E06My Struggle IIFebruary 22, 2016 6.5The investigations that Mulder and Scully previously began with conspiracy theorist and web-TV show host Tad O'Malley seem to have awakened

Season 10 ranked & reviewed

1. S11E01My Struggle IIIJanuary 3, 2018 5.7Picking up after the last event series' cliffhanger, Mulder and Scully learn that they aren't the only ones desperately searching for their
2. S11E02ThisJanuary 10, 2018 6.3An old friend reaches out to Mulder and Scully in a seemingly impossible way, revealing a chilling secret.
3. S11E03Plus OneJanuary 17, 2018 6.6A spate of deaths, in which the victims were plagued by their own doppelgangers, lead Mulder and Scully to a pair of twins playing a dangero
4. S11E04Season's bestThe Lost Art of Forehead SweatJanuary 24, 2018 6.9Exploring the idea of The Mandela Effect, in which large groups of people remember an alternate history, Mulder and Scully find out how the
5. S11E05GhouliJanuary 31, 2018 6.9When a pair of teenage girls attack one another, each believing the other to be a monster, Mulder and Scully find that their investigation c
6. S11E06KittenFebruary 7, 2018 6.6Skinner goes AWOL when his past comes back to haunt him. As Mulder and Scully try to track him down, their growing mistrust of him reaches i
7. S11E07Rm9sbG93ZXJzFebruary 28, 2018 6.3In a world of ever-increasing automation and artificial intelligence, Mulder and Scully find themselves targets in a deadly game of cat-and-
8. S11E08FamiliarMarch 7, 2018 6.7Mulder and Scully investigate the brutal animal attack of a little boy in Connecticut, while suspecting darker forces are at play.
9. S11E09Nothing Lasts ForeverMarch 14, 2018 5.9While investigating human organ theft, Mulder and Scully uncover a mysterious cult consumed with macabre rituals.
10. S11E10My Struggle IVMarch 21, 2018 6.3Mulder and Scully rush to find an on-the-run William, while the Cigarette Smoking Man pushes forward with his ultimate plan.

Season 11 ranked & reviewed