The X-Files_
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"The truth is out there."
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.
Created By
Chris Carter
Network
FOX
Episodes
218
Updated Feb 16, 2026
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Overview
The X-Files has 11 seasons with 218 episodes spanning 1993-2018.
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Rating
With a 8.4/10 rating from 3,441 votes, The X-Files is considered highly rated.
Year context
The X-Files first aired 33 years ago in 1993.
SEASONS (11 seasons, 218 episodes)
SEASON 1
01
Pilot
Agent Dana Scully is assigned to work with Agent Fox Mulder on the X-Files in an attempt to debunk his work on the paranormal. Their…
02
Deep Throat
Mulder and Scully investigate the mysterious case of a military test pilot who disappeared after experiencing strange psychotic behavior. While on the case, Mulder meets…
03
Squeeze
Mulder and Scully search for a killer whose savage murder spree reoccurs every thirty years, where there appears to be no tangible method for the…
04
Conduit
As Section Chief Blevins expresses his concern with the direction of the X-Files, Mulder becomes obsessed with solving a case that closely parallels an encounter…
05
The Jersey Devil
Mulder and Scully track a legendary creature that has roamed the New Jersey countryside for over forty years..
06
Shadows
Mulder and Scully investigate the deaths of two men believed to have been killed by a powerful psychokinetic force.
07
Ghost in the Machine
It's Halloween, and Mulder and Scully are investigating the strange death of a corporate executive in a sophisticated high-tech building.
08
Ice
In the claustrophobic isolation of a remote outpost in Alaska, Mulder and Scully investigate the horrifying deaths of scientists.
09
Space
Mulder and Scully are contacted by a communications specialist from NASA who shows them evidence of sabotage in the space programme.
10
Fallen Angel
Mulder puts the future of the X-Files in jeopardy when he heads to a UFO crash site being rapidly covered up by the military. He…
11
Eve
When two fathers on opposite sides of the country are inexplicably murdered at the exact same time in the exact same way, Mulder and Scully…
12
Fire
An old Oxford girlfriend of Mulder's asks for his help on an international case concerning the unexplainable execution of several British dignitaries, and they encounter…
13
Beyond the Sea
When death row inmate Luther Lee Boggs claims to be psychic and can lead Mulder to a serial killer in return for a lesser sentence…
14
Gender Bender
A series of sexually-oriented murders, which are identical except that the killer appears to be both male and female, draws Scully and Mulder to an…
15
Lazarus
When FBI Agent Jack Willis and bank robber Warren Dupre are both shot at the same time during a robbery attempt, Dupre dies when Willis…
16
Young at Heart
Mulder becomes the target of someone from his past named John Barnett. He was a jewelry store robber with an itchy trigger finger that Mulder…
17
E.B.E.
Mulder and Scully receive information from Deep Throat about a UFO that was shot down over Iraq and has been secretly transported to the US.…
18
Miracle Man
A young man who has the power to heal people with his touch begins to question his gift when people start dying after he has…
19
Shapes
Mulder and Scully travel to a Native American reservation to investigate the death of a man who was mistaken for a wild animal and may…
20
Darkness Falls
When a group of loggers in the Washington State National Forest disappear in the same way that another group disappeared 50 years ago, Mulder and…
21
Tooms
Eugene Tooms is released from the sanitarium, and Mulder becomes personally involved to ensure that he is caught in the act of getting the last…
22
Born Again
After a detective and his former partner die in unexplained circumstances, the accidents are linked to a little girl who witnessed both deaths. Mulder believes…
23
Roland
Mulder and Scully investigate the death of a scientist working on advanced propulsion technology. The mentally challenged janitor Roland, who has secretly been completing the…
24
The Erlenmeyer Flask
When Deep Throat points out a news story about a fugitive who apparently drowned, Mulder and Scully cannot see what makes the case special but…
SEASON 2
01
Little Green Men
With the X-Files closed, Scully has been assigned as an instructor at the FBI Academy while Mulder is doing menial surveillance work. After meeting with…
02
The Host
A.D. Skinner sends Mulder to investigate a body which washed into the New Jersey sewer from the ocean. Mulder believes that the basic blue-collar assignment…
03
Blood
When several violent deaths in a small farming community are connected by the destruction of digital devices, Mulder believes that people are being driven to…
04
Sleepless
Mulder reluctantly accepts a new partner, Agent Alex Krycek, and they investigate the deaths of several Green Beret soldiers who participated in a sleep deprivation…
05
Duane Barry (1)
Mulder is called to a hostage situation involving Duane Barry, a former FBI Agent who claims to be an alien abductee and wants to get…
06
Ascension (2)
When Mulder finds out that Scully was kidnapped by Duane Barry, he risks the wrath of his superiors and the annoyance of Agent Krycek in…
07
3
Mulder, back on the X-Files but alone for the first time, investigates a series of vampire-like murders in Los Angeles and finds himself falling for…
08
One Breath
Scully mysteriously appears in a Washington hospital, alive but in a coma, and Mulder must fight to keep her alive in order to find out…
09
Firewalker
Mulder and Scully, reunited at last, head for an active volcano under a geological study and find a deadly life form that can survive in…
10
Red Museum
While investigating the connection between the abduction of several teenagers and a rural religious cult, Mulder and Scully discover a secret test being performed on…
11
Excelsis Dei
Mulder and Scully uncover strange occurrences in an elderly care home when one of the nurses is attacked by an unseen force she claims to…
12
Aubrey
When a detective mysteriously uncovers the remains of an FBI agent who disappeared in the 1940s while investigating a similar murder case to one she…
13
Irresistible
A mortuary worker who gets his thrills from collecting hair and fingernails from the dead begins killing his soon-to-be collectibles himself and sets his seriously…
14
Die Hand Die Verletzt
The 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
Fresh Bones
While investigating several deaths and murders within a Haitian refugee camp, Mulder and Scully get caught in the middle of a secret war between the…
16
Colony (1)
After the obituaries of four identical men are e-mailed to Mulder, the agents are contacted by a shadowy CIA agent who tells them about a…
17
End Game (2)
The 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…
18
Fearful Symmetry
In a small town in Idaho, a man is killed by what seems to be an invisible elephant. Mulder's investigation into the local zoo, its…
19
Død Kalm
When half the crew of a Navy ship abandon their boat in a life raft and are rescued 18 hours later looking about 60 years…
20
Humbug
Mulder and Scully travel to Gibsonton, Florida, a town built and populated by circus and sideshow performers to investigate the death of Jerald Glazebrook, The…
21
The Calusari
The agents investigate when a young boy's family is plagued by a series of tragic accidents.
22
F. Emasculata
When a plague-like illness kills ten men inside a maximum security prison, Scully tries to get into the quarantine site and discover the cause and…
23
Soft Light
An experiment in dark matter accidentally turns a scientist's shadow into a deadly weapon that can unzip a person's molecules if they are touched by…
24
Our Town
After several disappearances in a small town, Mulder and Scully investigate and find hundreds of human bones in the river. They discover that the man…
25
Anasazi (1)
Mulder receives an encrypted computer disk containing the defense department's top secret files on extraterrestrial life and becomes a target. Scully takes him to a…
SEASON 3
01
The Blessing Way (2)
Scully finds her career with the FBI in jeopardy as Mulder is still missing and the Cigarette Smoking Man is pursuing the stolen files. The…
02
Paper Clip (3)
A.D. Skinner and Scully are at a standoff when Mulder bursts in and discovers that Skinner has the digital tape. Reunited, Mulder and Scully travel…
03
D.P.O.
Mulder and Scully investigate a series of human and cattle deaths by lightning and are led to a teenage boy who is the only survivor…
04
Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose
In the midst of a psychic sideshow while on a murder case, Mulder and Scully enlist the help of a man who may have a…
05
The List
Nobody takes much notice when a death row inmate vows on the electric chair to come back from the dead and kill five men who…
06
2Shy
A man with a genetic abnormality, who must prey on overweight women in order to suck the fatty tissue from their bodies, begins to meet…
07
The Walk
After a suicide attempt and multiple murders at a military hospital, Mulder and Scully meet a quadruple amputee who has gained the power of astral…
08
Oubliette
Mulder seeks the help of a woman who he believes has a special connection with a young girl who has recently been kidnapped by the…
09
Nisei (1)
An investigation into a video of an alien autopsy puts Mulder and Scully in the middle of a conspiracy involving WWII Japanese scientists brought to…
10
731 (2)
Mulder is trapped inside a train car which contains a suspected alien-human hybrid and also a bomb, while Scully pursues the truth about her abduction…
11
Revelations
Mulder and Scully swap roles as they pursue a man killing priests that claim to have the wounds of Christ. The agents find and must…
12
War of the Coprophages
Widespread panic is caused in a small community after numerous deaths are linked to killer cockroaches, and a government agricultural agency is discovered to have…
13
Syzygy
A rare planetary alignment causes strange behavior in the residents of a small town, but particularly in two teenage girls who were born at the…
14
Grotesque
A serial killer is captured after a three year manhunt, and he claims an evil spirit is responsible for the crimes. When the killings continue…
15
Piper Maru (1)
A French salvage ship searching for a lost WWII fighter plane unknowingly surfaces an alien which appears in the form of black oil and has…
16
Apocrypha (2)
Mulder pursues Krycek (unaware of the alien that has taken over his body) to get back the DAT tape containing the MJ documents. Meanwhile, the…
17
Pusher
Mulder and Scully are asked to help in a case involving Robert Patrick Modell, a murderer possessing the psychic ability to force his will onto…
18
Teso Dos Bichos
The unearthing of an ancient Ecuadorian Amaru urn and its removal to America despite protests leads to a series of deaths linked to a shaman…
19
Hell Money
Mulder, Scully and a local Chinese American cop investigate deaths of several Chinese men found to be missing vital internal organs. The clues lead them…
20
Jose Chung's "From Outer Space"
A alien abduction of two teenagers with endless versions of the same story prompts a science-fiction novelist to to write a book about the incident;…
21
Avatar
During a one-night-stand in the midst of his divorce, A.D. Skinner becomes a murder suspect, and Mulder and Scully return the many favors that he…
22
Quagmire
Mulder and Scully investigate a series of disappearances and attacks around a lake where Mulder believes that the local legend about a lake monster may…
23
Wetwired
Mulder and Scully investigate a series of murders linked to a mysterious device that alters television signals causing paranoid hallucinations. One of them falls victim…
24
Talitha Cumi (1)
After his mother suffers a stroke under strange circumstances, Mulder searches for a strange, benevolent alien man that possesses miraculous healing powers. With the help…
SEASON 4
01
Herrenvolk (2)
With his mother on a deathbed and the alien bounty hunter in pursuit, Mulder decides to put Jeremiah Smith, the alien healer, in mortal danger…
02
Home
A baby is found buried alive in shallow ground and appears to have birth defects resulting from generations of inbreeding, leading Mulder and Scully to…
03
Teliko
After several African-American men are killed and the color is drained from their skin, Mulder learns about the Teliko, an African folktale about a creature…
04
Unruhe
Several kidnappings of young women linked by distorted photographs lead Mulder and Scully to a man who can imprint his darkest fantasies onto undeveloped film…
05
The Field Where I Died
After an FBI raid on a doomsday cult called the "Temple of the Seven Stars", Mulder meets Melissa, a cultist who claims to have known…
06
Sanguinarium
After a doctor loses control and kills a patient on the operating table, Scully hypothesizes that it's linked to work-related stress, while Mulder is convinced…
07
Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man
The Lone Gunmen reveal the (possibly fake) secret history of the Cigarette Smoking Man to Mulder and Scully; from a young captain in the U.S.…
08
Tunguska (1)
Mulder is given a tip about potentially dangerous paramilitary operations on the U.S. soil but during the sting operation is surprised to find out the…
09
Terma (2)
While imprisoned in Russia and infected with the Black Cancer, Mulder learns that Krycek is working with the men responsible and everything has been a…
10
Paper Hearts
Mulder's dreams help him in finding the body of a little girl which reopens one of his old cases in the Violent Crimes Unit. This…
11
El Mundo Gira
After a strange yellow rain kills a migrant girl, her family believes that a mythical creature el chupacabra was the cause and that it has…
12
Leonard Betts
After the body of a decapitated EMT disappears from the morgue and an identical man starts work at the same hospital, Mulder believes that the…
13
Never Again
While Mulder is forced to take a vacation he leaves Scully with an assignment to keep her busy until he returns. However, she decides to…
14
Memento Mori
Scully's recent failing health is revealed to be an inoperable cancer in her skull, which appears to be common among abductees and she attempts to…
15
Kaddish
After a Jewish man is murdered in a Jewish community, his killers are murdered, too. Mulder and Scully have to determine whether someone is exacting…
16
Unrequited
When a U.S. military general is inexplicably murdered in the back of his limousine, a paramilitary group is suspected. They believe it was a soldier…
17
Tempus Fugit (1)
While celebrating Scully's 33rd birthday, a strange woman informs Mulder that NICAP member Max Fenig (see Fallen Angel) has recently died in a plane crash.…
18
Max (2)
Mulder is arrested for investigating the plane crash and interfering with a military operation, while Scully is caught in the attempted assassination of Corporal Frish.
19
Synchrony
A case involving a strange old man warning two scientists of events in the immediate future which come to pass (and the use of their…
20
Small Potatoes
Five babies in the same town are all born with tails and the local OB-GYN is blamed for tampering with fertilized eggs. However, Mulder discovers…
21
Zero Sum
After a swarm of bees mysteriously kill a postal worker in an enclosed restroom, Assistant Director Skinner covers it up by destroying the evidence. In…
22
Elegy
After a man sees a woman trapped inside a bowling alley pin setter, he goes for help and finds police standing next to a body…
23
Demons
Covered in blood and suffering from amnesia, Mulder pieces together the events of the last few days, but the trail leads to a double murder…
24
Gethsemane (1)
Mulder fights to prove that a discovery frozen in the mountains of Canada is an irrefutable evidence of alien life, but his quest for the…
SEASON 5
01
Redux (2)
Scully helps Mulder fake his own death in order for him to go undetected through the Department of Defence and find out the answers to…
02
Redux II (3)
The Cigarette-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…
03
Unusual Suspects
Set 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…
04
Detour
While on their way to an FBI group communication seminar, Mulder and Scully manage to escape when they come across a situation in the Florida…
05
The Post-Modern Prometheus
Filmed in glorious black and white with a comic book feel to it, this is a modern retelling of Frankenstein as Mulder and Scully get…
06
Christmas Carol (1)
On her Christmas vacation with her brother's family, Scully receives a mysterious phone call from a familiar voice who says, "She needs your help. Go…
07
Emily (2)
DNA testing on Emily reveals that she is actually Scully's daughter and Mulder comes to assist her. While Mulder is looking for any information about…
08
Kitsunegari
Pusher returns as Robert Patrick Modell escapes from the mental hospital and the FBI promptly organizes a manhunt, assuming that he will continue where he…
09
Schizogeny
A therapist working with children from abusive families is found to be implanting them with the memories of her own abuse suffered at the hands…
10
Chinga
Master 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 small Maine…
11
Kill Switch
A super-intelligent virus program is let loose on the internet and begins to grow and expand by itself, eventually killing its creator when he tries…
12
Bad Blood
After Mulder chases down and kills a young man who he believes to be a vampire, the agents return to DC aware of the mistake…
13
Patient X (1)
Mulder and Scully meet Cassandra Spender, a woman who claims to be a multiple abductee and wants to deliver a positive message about the aliens.…
14
The Red and the Black (2)
After the gathering at the abduction site where everyone is killed by the rebel bounty hunters, Cassandra Spender disappears and Mulder is blamed by her…
15
Travelers
In 1990 Agent Fox Mulder visits an aging FBI Agent named Arthur Dales. He listens to a story of the agents assigned to a would-be…
16
Mind’s Eye
Mulder and Scully try to get answers out of a stubborn blind woman found at a murder scene who may have the ability to look…
17
All Souls
Scully faces her Catholic faith and the loss of her daughter Emily when she is asked to help a family whose adopted daughter was found…
18
The Pine Bluff Variant
Scully fears that Mulder has gone to the other side when she sees him assisting a federal suspect escape custody. In truth he has infiltrated…
19
Folie à Deux
Mulder is held hostage inside an office where a man claims his boss is a monster and has clouded all their minds while he turns…
20
The End
The Cigarette-Smoking Man returns as Mulder investigates the attempted assassination of a young boy with psychic powers who may be the proof that he has…
SEASON 6
01
The Beginning
Mulder 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…
02
Drive
Mulder is trapped in a car with a man who has developed a serious ear condition which can only be suppressed by driving west at…
03
Triangle
Mulder goes to the Bermuda Triangle when he learns that the Queen Anne, a British luxury liner which disappeared during WWII, has reappeared in the…
04
Dreamland (1)
While being detained near the famed "Dreamland" Area 51, a strange craft flies overhead and Mulder swaps bodies with an Area 51 "Man-in-Black". While the…
05
Dreamland II (2)
Mulder is thrown in jail at the Area 51 compound but is released when it is discovered that the flight data recorder he stole was…
06
How the Ghosts Stole Christmas
Mulder talks Scully into investigating a haunted house on Christmas Eve where several couples have met their fate on that very night. While there, they…
07
Terms of Endearment
After a scan of a couple's unborn child is found to have strange growths protruding from the head and back, the fetus is taken from…
08
The Rain King
Strange weather phenomena in a small town leads Mulder to believe that a weatherman's deep emotions and unspoken love toward his workmate are becoming real…
09
S.R. 819
Mulder and Scully have 24 hours to save A.D. Skinner from being killed by a biologically engineered disease. The disease appears to be created by…
10
Tithonus
Assistant Director Kersh tries to tear Scully and Mulder apart when he partners Scully with a New York agent investigating Alfred Fellig, a freelance police…
11
Two Fathers (1)
While the Cigarette-Smoking Man recites to an unseen listener everything about the work of the Syndicate involving a global conspiracy in cooperation with an alien…
12
One Son (2)
The Cigarette-Smoking Man reveals all the government secrets from the past 50 years in order for his son, Jeffery Spender, to join him in his…
13
Agua Mala
Arthur Dales summons Mulder and Scully to his holiday home in Florida where he is concerned over the disappearance of his neighbors. Despite the raging…
14
Monday
A woman is forced to relive the same day over and over as she tries to prevent Mulder and Scully from being killed by her…
15
Arcadia
On their first official case back on the X-Files, Mulder and Scully go undercover as a married couple at a prestigious planned community where several…
16
Alpha
A mysterious dog thought to be the last of a rare Asian breed is responsible for several murders which Mulder and Scully are investigating. Now…
17
Trevor
After a tornado rips through a prison camp, one of the inmates disappears from solitary confinement and the prison warden is killed. As Mulder and…
18
Milagro
A writer living next to Mulder becomes obsessed with Scully and confesses to her that he is using her for a character in his novel.…
19
The Unnatural
Mulder meets with Agent Arthur Dales' brother (also named Arthur) and is told a tale of a talented negro baseball player from Roswell, New Mexico…
20
Three of a Kind
While on a stakeout of a Government Defense Convention in Las Vegas, The Lone Gunmen are reunited with Susanne Modeski, the mysterious woman who disappeared…
21
Field Trip
When the bodies of a couple who have been missing for less than a week are discovered to have been reduced to bone, Mulder suggests…
22
Biogenesis (1)
Two scientists confer about each of their metal objects that were found in Africa and they theorize that the objects are pieces of a puzzle…
SEASON 7
01
The Sixth Extinction (2)
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…
02
The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati (3)
Scully frantically searches for a way to help her ailing partner without having anyone to turn to for help, while a catatonic Mulder's dreams lead…
03
Hungry
A monster who feeds on human brain matter tries to lead a normal life, but he soon cannot control his feelings of hunger.
04
Millennium
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…
05
Rush
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…
06
The Goldberg Variation
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…
07
Orison
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…
08
The Amazing Maleeni
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…
09
Signs and Wonders
Snakes are killing the unrighteous, but Mulder and Scully doubt that this is a case of divine intervention.
10
Sein Und Zeit (1)
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.…
11
Closure (2)
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…
12
X-Cops
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…
13
First Person Shooter
The Lone Gunmen call Mulder and Scully to a virtual reality development lab where they learn that one of the program testers was killed inside…
14
Theef
Mulder and Scully suspect that hexcraft is the source of threats against a doctor's family.
15
En Ami
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…
16
Chimera
As Mulder investigates a missing person case with a key feature being a menacing raven, he learns to enjoy the creature comforts of a well-tended…
17
all things
A series of coincidences leads Scully to a married man she had an affair with during medical school but left him to protect his family.
18
Brand X
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…
19
Hollywood A.D.
Mulder and Scully watch a movie with themselves as characters and are thoroughly disgusted at how they and their case are portrayed on the big…
20
Fight Club
Mulder and Scully cross paths with two women who are identical and have followed each other across 17 states in the last three years, causing…
21
Je Souhaite
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…
22
Requiem
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…
SEASON 8
01
Within (1)
Newly appointed Deputy Director Kersh organizes a manhunt for Mulder and assigns Agent John Doggett to head the team. Scully and Skinner go along with…
02
Without (2)
As the search for Mulder intensifies in the Arizona desert, Gibson Praise leads Scully to believe that she is truly closer to her target. Meanwhile,…
03
Patience
While tackling his first X-File case about a series of gruesome murders surrounding a bat-like creature, Doggett quickly learns that his investigative techniques are somewhat…
04
Roadrunners
Scully 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…
05
Invocation
In 1990 a little boy inexplicably disappeared from his crowded school playground and was never seen again until now, ten years later, and he hasn't…
06
Redrum
A prominent lawyer wakes to find himself in jail and about to be prosecuted for the murder of his wife. He has no memory of…
07
Via Negativa
Working without Scully's input, Doggett and Skinner try to stop the mysterious murder spree of a drug-induced religious cult leader, and it becomes clear that…
08
Surekill
When a real estate agent is shot inside a prison cell by someone who apparently fired from the roof, Scully and Doggett track him to…
09
Salvage
A man whose blood is rapidly changing into metal alloy enacts revenge on those who caused his condition.
10
Badlaa
An Indian mystic whose son died in a chemical plant accident smuggles himself into the United States and takes his revenge on two families in…
11
The Gift
Doggett comes upon an old case that Mulder kept secret from Scully and he follows up the investigation, hoping to find a possible connection to…
12
Medusa
Scully and Doggett must race against the clock to investigate and fight off a contagion lurking in the subway tunnels of Boston.
13
Per Manum
When Scully and Doggett are contacted by a man who claims his wife was murdered shortly after giving birth to an alien baby, Scully digs…
14
This Is Not Happening (1)
When Teresa Hoese (the woman Scully and Mulder met the previous spring in Oregon just before Mulder was abducted) is found in a desert after…
15
Deadalive (2)
Shortly after Mulder is buried, Billy Miles is found very dead, but he somehow comes back to life. Skinner and Scully put all their hopes…
16
Three Words
Mulder'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
Empedocles
Special Agent Reyes enlists Mulder's help in investigating a supernatural killer's connection to the unsolved murder of Agent Doggett's son, Luke.
18
Vienen
Mulder and Doggett are reluctantly thrown together to investigate several deaths aboard an oil rig, and Mulder becomes convinced that the rig is really carrying…
19
Alone
While Scully takes maternity leave, Doggett is partnered with a young agent who is fascinated with the X-Files and has followed Mulder and Scully's careers.…
20
Essence (1)
Mulder and Doggett join forces to investigate the arson attack on a genetics lab where one of the doctors suspected of experimenting with alien impregnation…
21
Existence (2)
Mulder, Doggett and Skinner attempt to fight off the alien replicants, and they find a connection to the conspiracy that leads into the FBI while…
SEASON 9
01
Nothing Important Happened Today (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…
02
Nothing Important Happened Today II (2)
Doggett catches up with Shannon McMahon, the woman who the EPA official picked up. She claims to be a super soldier and that the people…
03
Dæmonicus
Doggett and Reyes investigate the murder of a couple in West Virginia that has all the signs of a satanic ritual killing. They link the…
04
4-D
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…
05
Lord of the Flies
When a stunt on a local cable reality show goes horribly wrong resulting in a man's death, Doggett and Reyes investigate. But when flies pour…
06
Trust No 1
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,…
07
John Doe
Scully and Reyes join forces to try and find Doggett when he goes missing. Doggett has his own problems, having woken up in jail in…
08
Hellbound
Agent Reyes takes the lead while investigating an X-file case, surrounding a man found skinned alive after having visions of seeing other people appearing skinned…
09
Provenance (1)
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…
10
Providence (2)
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…
11
Audrey Pauley
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…
12
Underneath
Scully, Doggett and Reyes investigate an old case that Doggett worked on as a cop in Brooklyn, dubbed "The Screwdriver Killer". They try to determine…
13
Improbable
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…
14
Scary Monsters
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.
15
Jump the Shark
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…
16
William
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…
17
Release
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,…
18
Sunshine Days
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…
19
The Truth (1)
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…
20
The Truth (2)
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…
SEASON 10
01
My Struggle
Agents Mulder and Scully return after 13 years to investigate a government conspiracy at the behest of a popular web-TV-show host, who introduces them to…
02
Founder's Mutation
When Mulder and Scully try to discover what unseen force may have driven a scientist to commit suicide, they turn up a laboratory where extreme…
03
Mulder & Scully Meet the Were-Monster
Mulder and Scully investigate a dead body in the woods, and try to determine whether it was the work of a serial killer, an animal…
04
Home Again
Mulder and Scully investigate the murder of a city official, a crime that doesn't appear to have been committed by human hands. Meanwhile, Scully faces…
05
Babylon
Scully and Mulder investigate when an art gallery displaying offensive artwork is bombed, and need to discover a way to communicate with the comatose perpetrator…
06
My Struggle II
The season concludes with people all across the country falling gravely ill. A widespread panic develops and Scully looks within to find a cure. Meanwhile,…
SEASON 11
01
My Struggle III
Mulder and Scully learn that they aren't the only ones desperately searching for their long-lost son, William. The very fate of the world may depend…
02
This
A chilling secret is revealed when an old friend reaches out to Mulder and Scully in a seemingly impossible way.
03
Plus One
Mulder and Scully investigate a case where people are plagued by their own doppelgangers.
04
The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat
Exploring the idea of The Mandela Effect, in which large groups of people remember an alternate history, Mulder and Scully find out how the X-Files…
05
Ghouli
When a pair of teenage girls attack one another, each believing the other to be a monster, Mulder and Scully find that their investigation could…
06
Kitten
Skinner goes AWOL when his past comes back to haunt him. As Mulder and Scully try to track him down, their growing mistrust of him…
07
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In a world of ever-increasing automation and artificial intelligence, Mulder and Scully find themselves targets in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse.
08
Familiar
Mulder and Scully investigate the brutal animal attack of a little boy in Connecticut, while suspecting darker forces are at play.
09
Nothing Lasts Forever
While investigating human organ theft, Mulder and Scully uncover a mysterious cult consumed with macabre rituals.
10
My Struggle IV
Mulder and Scully rush to find an on-the-run William while the Cigarette Smoking Man pushes forward with his ultimate plan.
SERIES INFO
11
Seasons
218
Episodes
Ended
Status
CREW
Creator
Chris Carter
Showrunner
Michael W. Watkins
Showrunner
John Shiban
Showrunner
R. W. Goodwin
Showrunner
David Greenwalt
NETWORKS (1)
FOX
AWARDS (2)
B
Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television
1997
WON
G
Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Drama
1995
WON
DETAILS
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
What is The X-Files about?
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.
Where can I watch The X-Files?
The X-Files is available on Disney+, Prime Video, Paramount+ Amazon Channel, AMC Channels Amazon Channel, Tivify. Availability varies by region.
How many seasons does The X-Files have?
The X-Files has 11 seasons with 218 episodes total.
Who created The X-Files?
The X-Files was created by Chris Carter.
Who stars in The X-Files?
The cast of The X-Files includes David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi.
What is the rating of The X-Files?
The X-Files has a rating of 8.4 out of 10 based on 3,441 votes on TMDB.
Is The X-Files still running?
The X-Files has ended. The final episode aired on .
GENRES (3)
Mystery
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Crime
