X-Files Episode Guide
Season 5 (1997/1998)
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Season1 1993/94 Cast Members David Duchovny David and Gillian Mulder & Scully
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A flash-back to 1989, in which Agent Mulder is found, paranoid in a blood spattered warehouse by Detective John Munch and the Lone Gunmen, (Langly, Frohike and Byers). Byers tries to explain what had happened earlier, when he met a woman called Holly at a computer convention. The women had claimed her daughter had been kidnapped by her ex-boyfriend. She then gave an Internet address to Byers in anattempt to locate her daughter. Byers then hacked into a government computer but found the relevant file had been encrypted. Frohike working in the next booth agreed to help decrypt the file. Holly then identified Mulder as her ex-boyfriend. Byers and Frohike approach Mulder only to discover he he is an FBI agent. With the help of Langly they again hacked into the FBI computer to get information on Mulder. Instead they discover that Holly's real name was Modeski and she was wanted for the bombing of an FBI lab. Modeski admitted her story was fabricated, she was infact trying to prevent the government from testing a paranoia-inducing gas, she had helped develop, on an unsuspecting public. Mulder attempting to arrest Modeski had a shoot-out with government officials, which had left him in a psychotic state caused by the gas and allowed Modeski to escaped. Detective Munch is skeptical until Mulder verifies the story.
Twenty-four hours earlier, Scully had identified a body in Mulder's apartment as Mulder, Mulder, still very much alive receives a tip from Kritchgau that he (Mulder)is being watched. He discovers a pinhole in the ceiling of his apartment, he encounters Scott Ostelhoff spying on him from the apartment above. During a brief scuffle a shot is fired, Mulder tells Scully that he killed Ostelhoff when he has trying to destroy a record of phone calls he (Mulder)had made to the Bureau. They conclude that their own agency is behind a cover-up and that they are unwitting pawns in the conspiracy. Mulder had persuaded Scully to help him fake his own death in an attempt to uncover the truth. After Scully goes to Mulder's apartment to identify 'his' body, tests reveal a new life form in the recovered ice core. Scully compares this new organism with her own DNA, they match, she concludes that her cancer is a result of her exposure to the organism. Meanwhile Mulder uses Ostelhoff's ID card to break in to the DARPA Research Facility to retrieve a metallic vial that might contain a cure for Scully's cancer, only to have the Lone Gunmen discover it is merely de-ionized water. All seems in vain as Scully collapses while presenting evidence to an FBI inquiry panel.
Mulder rushes to the hospital to find Scully unconscious and on a respirator. Skinner tells him that Scully is close to death. Mulder refuses to co-operate with Skinner or the FBI inquiry team. The Cigarette Smoking Man has his own trouble, other members of the shadowy syndicate he is part of are angry with him for allowing Mulder to escape from the DARPA research facility. CSM argues that Mulder is far more valuable to them alive. Scully regains consciousness and informs Mulder of her suspicion about Skinner, but Mulder is not convinced. The Cigarette Smoking Man contacts Mulder and explains to him that the vial stolen from DARPA contains a microchip that will cure Scully's illness. Scully agrees to give it a try. The Cigarette Smoking Man arranges for Mulder to meet his sister Samantha, who explains that some time after her abduction she was told that the Cigarette Smoking Man was her father. Later the Cigarette Smoking Man asks Mulder to quit the FBI and work for him instead, but Mulder refuses. Brought before the inquiry panel, Mulder informs them that Section Chief Blevins is the mole within the FBI, shortly thereafter both Blevins and the Cigarette Smoking Man are gunned down. Mulder informs Skinner that Scully's cancer has gone into remission.
Mulder and Scully are stopped at road-block by State Troopers, when en-route to an FBI Creative Team seminar being held in Florida. Mulder thinks it is a complete waste of time. He takes the chance to use his detective skills more productively. He is even more interested after the Search and Rescue Leader Michele Fazekas explains that several people are missing in the local woods, and strange tracks have been discovered that can not be identified as man or animal. Mulder arranges for himself and Scully to book into a motel for one night, a move which is soon rewarded when Louis Asekoff, the son of one of the missing men, claims that a creature with red eyes chased him from his home. Mulder finds the tracks at Louis' house and links the current case to an old X-file from the 1950's when a town in West Virginia was terrorized by primitive looking men with red eyes. Mulder theorizes that these attacks on humans could be in response to local building developments encroaching on the woods. Mulder and Scully join the search for the strange creature in the hope of catching it before it hurts anyone else. It is difficult to tell who is the hunter and who is the hunted.
Scully and her mother travel to her brother Bill's house for the holidays, after arriving she receives a phone call from a woman who sounds remarkably like her dead sister Melissa, the woman tells Scully, 'she needs your help'. Scully has the FBI trace the call to the Sim residence. When Scully arrives there she discovers a police investigation in progress. It appears that Mrs. Roberta Sim committed suicide. The police question her husband Marshall, and daughter Emily. Scully feels a strange connection to the little girl. Scully becomes perplexed when she discovers that the phone was off the hook when she received the phone call. Later that night Scully has a dream of the girl and again receives a phone call telling her to go to Emily. Scully decides to investigate the case and performs an autopsy on Roberta, revealing a small puncture wound on her foot, hinting that there maybe more to this apparent suicide. Tests also reveal that Emily may be Melissa's daughter, a more accurate DNA test results are due in a few days. When Marshall Sim confesses to the murder and then hangs himself in jail, it leaves only Scully to protect Emily.
Mulder and Scully find themselves on the trail of a modern day Frankenstein when a single mother, Shaineh Berkowitz sends a letter to Mulder, after seeing him on Jerry Springer show. She asks him to investigate the appearance of a strange monster 18 years earlier when her son was conceived. The two agents travel to Bloomington to meet with Shaineh and to listen to her story. Shaineh explains that the monster is called The Great Mutato. Her son Izzy claims that other members of the local community have seen the monster also. He and his friends take the two agents to a wooded area to track the monster, they soon encounter the creature and the group gives chase but they lose track of the monster in the darkness. Mulder encounters an old man who claims the monster is his son, Dr Francis Pollidori, a renown scientist who experimented in genetic manipulation, possibly a tragic victim of his own genetic tampering. The two agents endeavor to locate the creature and find themselves wondering who the real monsters are as wild hysteria and mob mentality overcome the town.
DNA test results reveal that Emily is Scully's daughter, she goes to the San Diego County Children's Center so that she can protect Emily. Mulder, asked by Scully to be a witness on her behalf at Emily's custody hearing, introduces a file about Scully's abduction three years earlier. Mulder explains that Emily was conceived through a scientific experiment using Scully's harvested ova, the proof that Scully is Emily's biological mother. Scully once more receives a mysterious phone call which is then traced to the San Diego County Children's Center. When the two agents arrive, they discover Emily has a fibrous cyst on the back of her neck. An attempt to biopsy the cyst by a doctor, releases green fluid and he is overcome by the fumes and hospitalized. While Scully concentrates on Emily's condition and medical test to find a cure, Mulder attempts to find out who is behind Emily's illness, drawing him in to a deadly confrontation. In the end Scully's belief in science doesn't help as Emily slips into a coma and dies.
Robert Modell, aka Pusher uses his 'gift' to overcome an orderly and escape from the Lorton Penitentiary where he was being held. Mulder and Scully are called in to assist in his re-capture because they have first hand knowledge of Modell. The FBI agents and US marshals assembled are skeptical when Mulder explains that Modell is able to force his will on to others, and can make people do harm to themselves. When the prosecutor who helped in Modell's conviction is found dead, his body covered in cerulean blue paint, the walls adorned with a Japanese ideogram, Kitsunegari meaning 'fox hunt'. Mulder and Scully realise that Modell is playing a deadly game of cat and mouse once more. When Mulder confronts Modell, Modell escapes by forcing his will on Mulder, Mulder begins to doubt the extent of Modell's involvement in the prosecuter's death. Scully is concerned that Mulder may be under Modell's influence, a concern shared by Assistant Director Skinner. They attempt to re-capture Modell before he can take his revenge on Mulder.
Agents Mulder and Scully travel to Coats Grove, Michigan to investigate a teenage boy, Bobby Rich, who is accused of killing his stepfather. Bobby had had an altercation with his stepfather Phil over his incomplete lawn work. Bobby ran away from his stepfather, but Phil gave chase. Shortly afterwards Bobby's mother Patti found Phil buried up to his shoulders in mud, with Bobby kneeling next to him. Scully performs an autopsy on Phil and finds no less than twelve pounds of mud in his stomach. Scully speculates that Bobby dug the hole in order to trap Phil. But Patti claims that Bobby was trying to help Phil escape from the mud, she also tells them that Bobby has been undergoing psychological counseling for his anger. Mulder and Scully visit Bobby's therapist, Karin Matthews. She explains that Bobby is a victim of physical abuse. Mulder expresses the opinion that Bobby did not kill his stepfather. After another of Karin's patients, Lisa Baicchi's father is killed in a mysterious way, Mulder and Scully believe there is a greater evil at work in the local community.
Melissa Turner and her young daughter Polly visit their local grocery market in Amma Beach, Maine. Melissa has a vision of the one of the employees, Dave, with a knife protruding from one eye. Shortly after other customers begin to claw their eyes, Dave grabs a knife and turns it on himself. Agent Scully vacationing in the area returns to her rented car in the grocery market's parking lot as the assistance of a doctor is requested. Later she telephones Mulder about the bizarre incident, he mentions that it may be the result of witchcraft. Scully assists the local Police Chief Jack Bonsaint and his deputy in their investigation. They review video footage from the grocery market's video camera. Scully notes Melissa Turner, seemingly the only one unaffected rushing to the exit. On route to the Turner residence Bonsaint informs Scully that many of the local townsfolk believe Melissa is a witch. Her husband, a local fisherman, had died in a boating accident. And her daughter Polly was involved in a incident with a local daycare center worker Jane Froelich. She also believes that Melissa and her daughter Polly are descended from witches. Jane is later found dead of apparently self-inflicted wounds, it is up to Scully to uncover the truth before more people die.
When computer genius and co-inventor of the Internet, Donald Gelman is killed in cross fire during a shoot out between a gang of drug-dealers and two deputy marshals in a diner. Mulder recovers Gelman's lap top computer and an unmarked CDROM, which he then takes to the Lone Gunmen. They are unable to crack the disk's security code, however. Scully suggests a check of Gelman's e-mail. There they find a message containing an ID number for a shipping container from someone named Invisigoth. Mulder and Scully trace the shipping container but as they attempt to inspect it, Mulder is shot with a stun gun. Scully manages to apprehend a suspect, Esther Nairn, a young woman who knew Gelman. The shipping container is full of her computer equipment, it is destroyed shortly afterwards by a Department of Defense satellite, Esther claims. Esther informs the two agents that Gelman had succeeded in creating a Sentinel Artificial Intelligence, a self-aware computer program, which had been released on the Internet so that it could evolve. Now the AI is targeting the people who created it and killing them. Gelman was working on a virus program nicknamed 'Kill Switch' to search out and destroy the AI. Mulder and Scully must find the AI and use the 'Kill Switch' before the AI can kill anyone else.
Agents Mulder and Scully return to Washington to discuss the events that led to the bizarre death of a teenage boy, Ronnie Stickland, in Texas. During their investigation they have to report to Assistant Director Skinner. The recollections of the two agents about the event are different. Scully recounts how they went to Texas to investigate a series of cattle exsanguinations after a holiday maker, Mr Funt had met a similar fate. Scully performed an autopsy on the body that revealed that Mr Funt was drugged, and his blood was then drained by syringe. After a second victim was found under similar circumstances, Scully concludes that someone was attempting to emulate vampires as seen in movies. Mulder's version is very different, he paints himself in a good light, while Scully is suspicious of his every word. Mulder recounts how they went to Texas to investigate Mr Funt's death and discovered evidence of the involvement of vampires. Which culminated when Ronnie Stickland, a suspected vampire, attacked Mulder, who then killed Ronnie with a wooden stake. With the two agents unable to agree on the events, the situation is further muddled when word is received from Texas that Ronnie Stickland is not dead after all.
In Kazakhstan, former Soviet Union, a young boy Dmitri is witness to a mass murder in the woods. The boy is picked up by Krycek and taken to Maria Covarrubias who is leading a UN investigation. Back in the US, Mulder attends a lecture about Patient 'X', who claims to be an alien abductee. He disagrees with the other delegates, arguing that the 'little green men' stories are a cover to hide the truth about the government development of biological warfare. After the lecture he is approached by Dr Werber, whose patient Cassandra is Patient 'X'. He takes Mulder to meet with Cassandra, who explains to a doubtful Mulder that aliens are on earth to deliver a message. Covarrubias back from Russia briefs the Syndicate on the incident in Russia, telling them that it was aimed at them. Scully meets Cassandra, who has an implant like Scully's in the base of her neck and believes her story. Cassandra tells Scully that some nights she wakes up with a feeling she is being drawn some where. After a similar mass murder to the one in Russia occurs in the US, Scully feels strongly that it has something to do with her own abduction. Later Scully has an experience, like Cassandra described, and finds herself on a bridge with a crowd of people, when a bright light appears overhead.
When Mulder arrives at the bridge, there is a scene of carnage, and he is directed to a provisional tent where Scully is being treated by medics. Scully has no recollection of what happen on the bridge at all. Meanwhile the Well Manicured Man believes Krycek has an vaccine against the black oil created by the Russians. He then offers Krycek his freedom in return for the vaccine. After a UFO crash-lands at Fort Wiekamp Air Force Base, photos reveal a rebel alien who the syndicate recognizes as a threat to their colonization plans. After tests reveal that the people on the bridge all had implants similar to Scully's, Mulder puts forward the theory that the government developed and implanted the chips as part of their bio-weapons project. Scully agrees to be hypnotized by Dr Werber and then can recount the events on the bridge. How a UFO appeared overhead, then aliens started to kill people on the bridge, who were then themseleves attacked by a second UFO. Assistant Director Skinner listens to tapes from Scully's session. Mulder reiterates that it is a cover for a secret military operation. Skinner, however finds Scully's UFO explanation more plausible. Krycek contacts Mulder with information about the rebel alien and the resistance to the colonization plan that draws him in to a deadly confrontation.
In a flash back to 1990, a sheriff, while assisting a landlord in the eviction of a tenant, Edward Skur, discovers a dead body with its internal organs removed. A figure springs from the shadows and the sheriff opens fire, mortally wounding an elderly man. As he lies dying he utters the words, 'Mulder... Mulder'. Special Agent Fox Mulder of the violent crimes division visits a former FBI agent, Arthur Dales, about an unsolved case from the 1950's involving Edward Skur as a suspect in a series of killings where the victims internal organs had been removed. Dales explains how back in the 1952 he and his partner had arrested Skur as a suspected communist. That night he received a call from his partner saying that Skur had hung himself in jail. Later Dales saw Skur walking down the street and gave chase but after a short scuffle, Skur escaped. Dales was then approached by Mulder's father who explained that Skur was not a communist, he indeed worked for the State Department. His arrest and subsequent faked death was a cover up by the government, who had tricked Skur in to having an operation called a xenotransplantation. Where a species is grafted into a human body. As the case is re-classified as an X-file, Mulder's father tells Dales, the government is trying to cover it up, but the truth must come out.
When Marty Glenn, a young blind woman has a vision of a killer with a switch blade advancing on another man, she is horrified. Later police officers arrive at the murder scene and find Marty hiding with a bloody sponge in her hand and they immediately arrest her. When the police find out that Marty has been blind since birth, they begin to doubt her guilt. Agents Mulder and Scully are called in to investigate to see if Marty possesses a 'sixth sense'. Mulder and Scully question Marty and soon realise that she relates details from the crime scene that only the killer would know. While Mulder continues his interrogation, Scully re-canvases the crime scene and discovers a bloody glove hidden in the bathroom. During the course of his questioning Mulder realises that Marty was a witness to the murder. The bloody glove Scully has found has Marty's finger prints on and fits her hand exactly. Scully and the local police conclude that Marty is the murderer. Scully offers a possible explanation, that Marty may not be blind, until an eye examinations prove that she is completely blind. Mulder believes that Marty is not the murderer, instead she is seeing visions in her mind's eye from the killer, but can he prove it?
The family priest, Father McCue approaches Agent Scully and requests her help after a young retarded girl, Dara Kernof, whom the priest baptised, is found dead with her eyes burned out. Scully interviews her father who claims that he had witnessed Dara, who was confined to a wheel chair for all of her life, walk out in to the street in the presence of a tall dark figure, whom he describes as the Devil. After a second girl, Paula Koklos dies in similar circumstances, Scully discovers that Dara was adopted at the age of six and that Paula was her twin sister. Mulder, joining his partner's investigation discovers that Dara and Paula were two of quadruplets. Further investigation reveals that another priest Father Gregory had been trying to adopt Paula, but when interviewed, Father Gregory claims he was trying to protect Paula from harm, part of the on-going battle between good and evil for all souls. Mulder discovers the identity of the third sister, a homeless girl, but before he can track her down, is informes by Father Gregory that the third sister is dead. Mulder believes that Father Gregory is the murderer but Father Gregory insists that he is just trying to protect the girl's souls from the Devil. Scully asks Mulder to locate the remaining sister before it is too late.
Agents Mulder and Scully join Assistant Director Skinner and other FBI Agents on an undercover operation in Washington Park, where they attempt to capture Jacob Haley, a militia group member wanted on terrorism charges. While Scully and Skinner co-ordinate events from the surveillance van, Mulder joins the other agents in apprehending Haley. Shortly thereafter the Haley rendezvous, a man in the park and hands him an envelope before fleeing, closely pursued by Mulder. The man given the envelope by Haley collapses, the flesh on his hands and face eaten away. Scully leaps from the van and chases Mulder to warn him, only to discover that Haley has managed to elude Mulder and escape. Scully questions Mulder on how Haley managed to get away, but Mulder avoids the issue. In a counter-terrorism meeting held later, Scully reveals that the man whose flesh was eaten away was exposed to some sort of Bioweapon. Skinner shows them a photograph of August Bremer, a rival of Haley's vying for control of the militia group. Scully, suspicious of Mulder's behaviour, begins tailing him and soon discovers a link between Mulder and Haley.
Mulder and Scully are called in to AD Skinner's office and handed the case of a company, VinylRight, who had received an audio tape from a man threatening violence. Mulder is puzzled why they were given the case, until Skinner informs him that the man on the tape claims that a monster is preying on the company employees. Mulder unhappy with the assignment tells Scully he will look in to it himself. When Mulder arrives at the VinylRight offices, he is met by the manager, Greg Pincus, who plays him the audio tape. Mulder is struck by one phrase, 'hiding in the light'. He contacts Scully for help, asking her to search the X-files for the phrase. Scully finds it in another X-file case, that of a Florida deacon who believed one of his parishioners was an evil presence, who opened fire on them with an AK-47 one morning. On returning to the VinylRight offices, Mulder finds himself taken hostage by an armed employee, Gary Lambert, who believes Greg Pincus is a monster who is turning the other employees in to the undead. When Mulder sees Greg as a monster too, Skinner begins to doubt Mulder's sanity, while Scully believes it is a case of Folie a Deux, a shared madness brought on by tension from the hostage situation.
A 12 year old boy, Gibson Praise sits opposite a Russian man, engaged in a chess game. As the boy announces 'checkmate' he slides back in his chair a shot rings out, killing the Russian. Meanwhile two masked figures close in on the cabin where the Cigarette Smoking Man is hiding. One of the figures reveals himself as Krycek, sent to bring the Cigarette Smoking Man back. Mulder puts forth the theory that Gibson was the target of the assassin not the Russian. The boy had slid back out of harms way because he is clairvoyant. The Cigarette Smoking Man meets with the syndicate and identifies Gibson as a threat to them. A threat Mulder realises, believing that the boy could hold the key to the conspiracy against the X-files. Mulder interviews the suspected assassin, who reveals that Gibson is genetic proof of a link between man and extra-terrestrials. As the Cigarette Smoking Man executes his plan, killing the assassin and kidnapping Gibson to deliver him to the Syndicate. Mulder's case seems futile and the very existence of the X-files comes under scrutiny. A cause further damaged by a decimating fire in the X-files basement office, that threatens to put an end to the X-files for good.
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Season1 1993/94 Cast Members David Duchovny David and Gillian Mulder & Scully