The X-Files

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Episode Guide

Series nine

  • Episode 1/19 Nothing Important Happened Today (Part 1)

    Doggett's hellbent on completing his investigation into Deputy Director Kersh, but Skinner pleads with him to throw in the towel, fearing for Mulder, Scully and William's safety. Looking into the drowning of an environmental agency employee and a worker at a water reclamation plant may just give Doggett the ammunition he needs, though. Monica's struggling to balance her loyalty to Doggett against the need to keep sweet with her jealous ex-lover, Assistant Director Brad Follmer.

  • Episode 2/19 Nothing Important Happened Today (Part 2)

    Doggett's old army colleague, Shannon, tells him she's a "super-soldier" - as is Knowle Rohrer, the CIA agent he believed to be dead. She wants Doggett to expose the government's plans to secretly prime the public to breed these bioengineered combat units. Even as she speaks, Rohrer is infiltrating a ship carrying a team of scientists doing covert research. Meanwhile, Follmer plots with Kersh to destroy Doggett's career.

  • Episode 3/19 Daemonicus

    Dr Richman, an escaped patient from a mental institution, is the prime suspect in a double murder with satanic overtones. The man in the neighbouring cell, Professor Kobold, appears to be channelling the murderer, and even leads Doggett and Reyes to the site of Richman's latest kill. Reyes believes Kobold's somehow a medium for Satan - but Doggett thinks it's much more likely Kobold's knowledge stems from planning the crimes.

  • Episode 4/19 4-D

    Reyes is astonished to get a telephone call from Skinner to inform her that Doggett's seriously injured after being shot. There must be some mistake - Doggett was standing in her apartment when Skinner called. But now he's vanished. She's not the only one to feel there's something out of place. Doggett, lying paralysed in hospital, relates a version of events prior to the shooting that can't possibly be true…can it?

  • Episode 5/19 Lord of the Flies

    A group of teenagers filming crazy stunts for cable TV series "The Dumbass Show" are horrified when their star dies during a routine. It transpires that it wasn't the fall that killed him, but the sheer weight of a conglomeration of flies inside his head that caused his skull to collapse. Entomologist Rocky Bronzino is baffled as to why the harmless insects should have swarmed to the young man. Can student Dylan Lokensgard shed any light on the case?

  • Episode 6/19 Trust No 1

    An anonymous source offers to hand over the name of every super-soldier - but will only reveal these details to Mulder. Scully's sceptical, but after she herself is contacted by the NSA agent who's been watching her every move for months, she agrees to meet him. Now it's Doggett who's suspicious, fearing a plot to lure Mulder out of hiding to kill him. But is it a risk worth taking?

  • Episode 7/19 John Doe

    Doggett finds himself in a Mexican town, suffering from amnesia. As he tries to work out who he is, he agrees to work for local man Domingo Salmeron. All he has to go on are a tattoo on his arm and memories of his son. Meanwhile, the FBI are looking for their missing agent, who was investigating a businessman's disappearance in Texas. Kersh refuses to extend the hunt to Mexico, but Doggett's friends aren't prepared to give up on the search.

  • Episode 8/19 Hellbound

    Career criminal Victor Dale Potts, who had recently been troubled by terrifying nightmares, is found skinned alive. He'd been attending an anger management class in an effort to turn his life around. Lisa Holland, who runs the courses, suspects Victor's friend Ed Kelso was involved in his death. As Doggett wonders why Reyes is so fixated on this case, Scully turns up identical murders from 1960.

  • Episode 9/19 Provenance (Part 1)

    A biker who illegally entered the US from Canada plunges into a ravine as border patrol give chase. Rubbings which resemble those Scully took from the spaceship in Africa are discovered at the scene, though the rider himself has disappeared. Scully thinks she may find answers about her son in the documents - little does she know the danger he's in. Meanwhile, Doggett challenges Skinner for blocking their efforts to investigate.

  • Episode 10/19 Providence (Part 2)

    William has been kidnapped, Doggett's in a coma and undercover agent Robert Comer lies critically ill in the same hospital. Scully is concerned that Follmer has been put in charge of the taskforce looking for William. She doesn't believe he'll try very hard to find her son, and prefers to put her trust in the Lone Gunmen instead - much to Monica's annoyance.

  • Episode 11/19 Audrey Pauley

    Monica regains consciousness after a car accident to find herself in a very strange hospital with only three other patients for company. She refuses to believe one man's assertion that they're dead, and together they try to make sense of their surroundings. Back in the real world, Doggett finds an unlikely ally in his fight to prove that Monica's life can still be saved, no matter what the medical tests show.

  • Episode 12/19 Underneath

    Thirteen years previously, while he was working for the NYPD, Doggett and his partner arrested a man called Robert Fassl for a series of bloody murders. Now DNA evidence has proven him innocent, and he is set to be released. Doggett sifts through the evidence once more, convinced that Fassl will kill again. Sure enough, as Fassl goes home with his lawyer, the words "Kill her" appear in blood on a wall…

  • Episode 13/19 Improbable

    Reyes thinks that the murders of four women over the past two years are linked by numerology. Scully's sceptical, but when she looks closely at the crime-scene photos, she notices that all four women have identical bruises on their face. Determined to follow up her theory, however outlandish it seems to everybody else, Reyes contacts numerologist Vicki Burdick for help. Unfortunately, Vicki's the next victim…

  • Episode 14/19 Scary Monsters

    Leyla Harrison tries to persuade Scully to look into an apparent suicide. When Scully refuses, Leyla turns to Doggett and Reyes instead. The three of them travel to Pennsylvania to meet Tommy Conlon, who claims his mother was attacked by a monster. Tommy's father is clearly acting suspiciously, and the agents hope to learn why when bad weather forces them to stay in the house overnight.

  • Episode 15/19 Jump the Shark

    After being targeted by killers, Morris Fletcher (introduced in series six episode Dreamland) strikes a deal with Doggett and Reyes. He'll lead them to a female super-soldier in return for FBI protection. The Lone Gunmen reluctantly agree to help out - they've met Morris before and are well aware of his duplicity. Their suspicion of him grows when they discover the alleged super-soldier is a friend of theirs.

  • Episode 16/19 William

    A severely disfigured man, Daniel Miller, is caught as he flees after breaking into the X-Files office. He claims his scars are the result of tests to turn him into an alien man - and that Mulder backs his efforts to reveal the government's plan to transform the entire population. Doggett suspects that Miller is actually Mulder, but Scully refuses to accept the possibility.

  • Episode 17/19 Release

    Cadet Rudolph Hayes shows an uncanny ability to pick up on clues during one of Scully's lectures in forensic science. His findings allow the FBI to connect two murders, and Doggett and Reyes begin the search for the killer. Doggett, though, is struck by the young man's talent for profiling murderers and asks him to reassess the investigation into the death of his son, Luke, nine years previously.

  • Episode 18/19 Sunshine Days

    Two teenagers break into a house and are to see that the interior is an exact replica of the set for children's TV show The Brady Bunch. Shortly afterwards, one of the young men is killed in bizarre circumstance. The owner, Oliver Martin, denies all knowledge of the death - and it turns out he has good reason to do so. Lost's Michael Emerson guests.

  • Episode 19/19 The Truth

    Feature-length finale to the long-running series. After breaking into a secret government facility, Mulder is charged with killing super-soldier Knowle Rohrer. He asks Skinner to defend him in court, but it's clear from the outset that the judges aren't interested in hearing any evidence that might clear him. Scully begs Mulder to reveal the key evidence he's withholding, but he refuses - even though he faces the death penalty. Meanwhile, Doggett and Reyes try to prove Mulder's innocence, with help from Gibson Praise.

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