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Pilot
episode
A young woman is found dead
in a forest near Oregon, the fourth member of her HighschoolClass
to die this way. Agent Dana Scully is assigned to assist Fox Mulder in
his investigation. |
Scully believes in nothing
that's not upheld by science and scoffs at Mulder's theory that thedead
girl and her friends may have been involved in an alien abduction. She
is surprised, then,when
the coffin of an earlier victim turns out to hold a bizzarely deformed,
non-human body.As Mulder
opens up to her, revealing that his younger sister was abducted when they
werechildren, she begins
to understand his pressing need to find the truth. A suspicious fire,
the disappearance of
the exhumed body and a desperate plea for help from the uncooperativecoroner's
daughter convinces Scully that local Law enforcement is hiding some dangerous
secret. |
Episode
1 : "Deep Throat".
Six top notch Air Force test
pilots have disappeared after flying an ultra secret aircraft at Ellens
AFB. |
When the wife of the latest
victim files a missing persons report with the FBI, Mulder jumps atthe
chance to confirm his theory that the government is building aircrafts
with captured UFOtechnology.
A mysterious informant, "known only as Deep Throat", appears
and warns Muldernot to
get involved in the case, but Mulder plunges in anyway. He and Scully
witness an aerial display
that defies knowledge of current technology, and find two unlikely allies
in a pair of zoned-out
teens who show Mulder a way onto the base. But when Mulder is captured
and drugged to erase
his memory, Scully must break more than one rule to get him back. |
Episode
2 : Squeeze / Tooms.
Scully is called in on a
locked-room murder mystery by an old FBI academy classmate who resents
Mulder's intrusion into his case, but Mulder's discovery of a strangely
distorted fingerprint
links the case to other similar cases dating back generations. |
Scully, working from a psychological
profile of the killer, stakes out the crime scene and catches
Eugene Victor Tooms crawling out of an airduct. A lie detector test seems
to clear him, however,
and Tooms is released (despite Mulder's insistence that Tooms is a 100-year-old
serial killer, a cannibal
who can hibernate for 30 years at a time and distort his body to crawl
through tiny spaces.
Another murder is commited, again inside a locked and shuttered house,
and this time Scully
and Mulder go hunting Tooms. They find a deserted appartement building,
but no Tooms. Scully,
half convinced, returns home unaware that Tooms has targetted her for
his final victim, and
Mulder must race to save his partner from being eaten alive. |
Episode
3 : Conduit.
When teenager Ruby Morris
disappears, noone but her mother seems to care. |
Mulder suspects she was abducted
by extraterrestrials and searches for signes of alien involvement,
while Scully maintains that the girl ran away. Meanwhile, Mulder's own
painful memories of his
Sister's abduction may be clouding his judgement. The agents struggle
against official indifference
and active interference from other agents as they persue the case into
biker bars, deep woods and a glade that holds a shallow grave garded by
white wolves. When they
solve a local murder, Scully is ready to close the file, but Mulder is
convinced that there
is more to the case. Ruby Morris's brother provides the clue to an otherworldly
explanation of the girls
absence, and leads the agents into an uncanny encounter with a mysterious
light. |
Episode
4 : The Jersey Devil.
When a partially eaten body
is found in the New Jersey woods outside Atlantic City, Mulder links
it to "The Jersey Devil", a monster whose legends go back to
the 18th century. |
Mulder suspects the recent
deaths of several homeless men are the work of "The Devil",
but Scully believes they
were killed by a wild animal. Local law enforcement officials are surpressing
the truth to preserve
the town's tourist image, even to the extend of jailing Mulder to halt
his investigation. Undaunted, Mulder tells Scully that a shadowy figure
he saw in an alley is
a humanoid that has come out of the woods in search for food. Scully cunsults
her former anthropology
professor, who warns her that such a creature would be higher than us
in the food chain. After
the body of a "man-beast" is found by a forest ranger, Mulder
suspects that the "Devil"
they are chasing is a female. Mulder, Scully and the professor track the
creature through the
gritty warehouse district of Atlantic City. |
Episode
5 : Shadows.
After the apparent suicide
of her father-figure boss, Lauren Kyte hardly has time to mourn before
she is caught in a web of political intrigue and black market weapons
trading left behind by
his death. |
When a strange
force comes to her rescue after a seemingly random assault, Mulder and
Scully investigate
the possibility that she may have a powerful but supernatural protector.
Scully and Mulder themselves
experience the power of this otherworldly force when they question
the distraught Lauren, and their car is hurled down a street like a
toy. At the same time
Lauren is beginning to suspect that her boss' death was anything but
suicide. Her fears are
born out when she herselve becomes the target of a terrorist attack,
and Mulder witnesses a
ghost coming to her defence. To forestall the anger of the dead, Mulder
and Lauren must uncover
the secret that lead to her boss' untimely death.
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Episode
6 : Ghost in the Machine.
The CEO of Eurisko Industries,
who planned to shut down an advanced atrificial intelligence project,
is electrocuted in a locked room. |
Mulder and Scully
are asked by Mulder's old partner, Jerry Lamana, to help find the killer.
Suspicion falls on
the brilliant but eccentric computer designer who build the computer
that controls Eurisko.
Lamana's death in a "freak" elevator accident, confirms Mulder's
suspicion that there
is more to the computer than wires and transistors. He sets out to defeat
it with the help of
its designer. Scully is trapped in a deadly tunnel as Mulder races to
shut down the computer,
and discovers treachery within his own ranks.
|
Episode
7 : Ice.
When all five members of
an arctic research team are found dead, Mulder, Scully and a team of
scientists, seek the answers at a remote Arctic Station. |
There they discover
ice samples drilled from the center of an ancient impact crater, holding
evidence of a bizarre
alien life form of over 200,000 years old. Trapped by an ice-storm in
the tiny station, the
team members turn on one another as they are killed one by one. As the
increasing fear isolates
each member of the party, even Mulder and Scully eye one another with
doubt and fear in a tense, angry standoff that tests their relationship.
Only a dog and a worm
can provide the answer to the riddle and release them from a tightening
web of paranoia and
suspicion.
|
Episode
8 : Space.
We are not alone, and noone
knows it better than Lt. Col. Marcus Aurelius Belt, former astronaut
and now Mission Director for N.A.S.A. |
On his last
space walk, he encountered a terrifying ghostly presence, one that has
haunted him ever since.
When sabbotage strands a shuttle in outer space with an oxygen leak,
Mulder and Scully are
asked to discover the saboteur in time to save the crew. But their efforts
are hampered by a mysterious
force that seems bent on re-creating the events of Col. Bent's earlier
mission --- and keeping humans out of space permanentely. Col. Belt
collapses, leaving
Mulder and Scully to convince the ground crew that their rescue efforts
may endanger the Shuttle.
Only a bold, chancy move can bring the crew home alive --- if Mulder
can convince Mission
Control to change its approach program.
|
Episode 9 : Fallen
Angel
Whatever fell to earth in
a fiery explosion in the woods is the focus for two searches : Mulder's
one man expedition, and a top-secret UFO retrieval team. |
The government team sets out
a trap for the alien on the run quickly. All they trap is Mulder though,
Scully is send to bring him home to a tribunal. Mulder however discovers
an unlikely ally in Max Fenig, a UFO true believer whose enthusiasm contrasts
with Scully's insistence that the cover story is genuine. However, she
changes her mind when she personally sees the radiation burns suffered
by the soldiers that where attacked by the being. Angry at the lies and
the coverup she helps Mulder when he discovers that Max is more than just
a simple UFO fan, with secrets even he does not know he holds. When a
mysterious force takes over Max's body, Mulder is the only witness to
a remarkable abduction. But only the intervention of his patron 'Deep
Throat' can save Mulder's career when charges are brought against him.
|
Episode 10 : Eve
Young Teena Simmons is the
only witness to her father's bizarre death : His body is found drained
of blood, when she sees 'red lightning'. |
Suspecting alien involvement
similar to the cattle mutilations plaguing the Western U.S., Mulder and
Scully check out the murders. But they are stunned when a second identical
murder on the opposite coast of the US turns up an identical witness :
The two girls appear to be twins. 'Deep Throat' provides Mulder and Scully
with access to a psychotic with inside information about a firtility clinic
and a possible experiment in genetic manipulation dating back to the 'cold
war'. When the girls are kidnapped, Mulder and Scully suspect a maverick
clinic docter who may herself be a result of genetic experiments. The
team must untangle a complicated web devised by two deranged minds to
discover the shocking truth. |
Episode 11 : Fire
A british peer burns to death
before the eyes of his very own horrified family, |
and a Scotland Yard inspector,
a former girlfriend of Mulder's, tracks the killer to the US. Enlisting
Mulder's help (and firing up some of the flames there where between them),
she seeks an arsonist who seems to be able to light fires at a distance.
Although Mulder tries to keep her out of the case, Scully tracks down
the clues to the killer's identity as well as some chilling background
information. Mulder must confront his own fear of fire as he and Scully
track down a devilishly clever killer, whose weapon may be pyrokinesis. |
Episode 12 : Beyond
the Sea
Dana Scully's father dies
suddenly after a visit, and she is shocked when he appears to her in a
vision. |
In her newly vulnerable state,
she is deeply disturbed by a North Carolina death row inmate, Luther Lee
Boggs, who claims to be able to channel the spirits of the dead, and is
willing to trade information about a kidnapping in exchange for commutation
of his sentence. Mulder thinks the whole scheme is a hoax, but Scully
is troubled by doubt. Her believe in science is further shaken when she
tracks some of Boggs 'clues' to a crime scene. Mulder thinks Boggs is
orchestrating the whole kidnapping with an outside accomplice. Yet when
Boggs accurately predicts Mulder's shooting and a chase through an abandoned
brewery, Scully must decide how far she is willing to go to test her faith
is science. |
Episode 13 : Genderbender
A rather plain looking girl
picks up a stranger in a bar; hours later, after wild sex, he collapses
and dies. |
While he struggles, the 'girl'
changes into a man and walks out of the appartment. Mulder tells Scully
that three similar deaths share similar characteristics : All victims
died of hormonal overload and the 'killer' may have been male or female.
Forensic evidence leads them to a remote religious community called The
Kindred. There they witness a bizarre burial ritual, and Scully falls
prey to the sexual allure of one of the members. When the agents close
in on the sex killer, however, they find that The Kindred's secrets are
even stranger than Mulder and Scully had imagined. |
Episode 14 : Lazarus
A Bonnie-and-Clyde-style husband
and wife team of bank robbers are thwarted by Dana Scully and her old
boyfriend, Agent Jack Willis. |
In the following shootout,
the husband kills Willis and Scully kills the robber. In the emergency
room, Scully revives Willis, whose behaviour becomes very strange indeed.
Mulder suspects that the robber's personality returned in the body of
his persuer. Scully finds herself in the middle of a web of deceit, suspicion
and treachery as 'Willis' continues to persue his case. Is he 'Willis'
trying to break the case, or 'Dupre' trying to derail it? Mulder must
orchestrate a rescue mission when Scully is kidnapped. The real double-cross
is revealed as the killers prepare to execute her, and Scully must confront
evidence of the return of a soul. |
Episode 15 : Young
at heart
Is a dead man seeking revenge
from beyond the grave? |
A case from Mulder's past
comes back to haunt him as a string of murders with a familiar MO leads
him to doubt the death of a man he put away on his first Bureau case.
John Barnett swore to 'get' Mulder when Mulder's testimony put him behind
bars for life, but Barnett's death in prison put an end to that threath.
At least...that's what Mulder thought. Questions abound : Has Barnett
returned from the dead, or is someone from the Bureau perpetrating a hoax
to discredit Mulder? After Mulder's former supervisor is murdered, Mulder
discovers a strange story of illegal prison experiments and bizarre medical
research. Has a rogue scientist turned Barnett into a monster? Unless
Mulder can find him first, the vengeful Barnett may make Scully his next
victim. |
Episode 16 : E.B.E.
Betrayal lurks on every hand
as Mulder and Scully pursue a truck with a strange cargo from Virginia
to Washington state, in a chase marked by UFO sightings. |
Does the truck carry the injured
pilot of a UFO shot down over Iraq only days before? Or is it a elaborate
hoax meant to mislead and confuse the X-files team? Scully discovers that
she and Mulder are under electronic surveillance, and Mulder learns a
painfull leason when his most trusted ally deliberately lies to him. We
meet a new set of unconventional allies, however, the editorial collective
of 'The Lone Gunman' conspiracy magazine. 'Byers', 'Langly' and the sleazy
'Frohike' aid the X-files team in infiltrating a secret holding facility,
where Mulder discovers a dirty international secret more threatening than
a downed UFO. |
Episode 17 : Miracle
Man
When a faith healer's patients
suddenly collapse and die, Scully brings Mulder along to look into charges
of murder. |
They find a small-town tent
revivalist whose protege, Samuel, may have once had the actual gift of
healing. Sunk in despair after the deaths (which he thinks he caused),
Samuel believes he's been cursed by God. Enough of his gift remains however,
to let him immediately discern Mulder's own long-lived pain over Samantha's
loss. When Mulder begins seeing vision of his Sister, Scully reminds him
of the power of suggestion. But after her authopsy reveals an all too
earthly cause of the patients death, she and Mulder track down the real
killer. They are too late to save Samuel, however, murdered in his jail
cell in a murder-for-hire. When Samuel's body is reported missing from
the morgue, however, Scully and Mulder are amased to hear it walked out
on it's own. |
Episode 18 : Shapes
Deep in the Montana night,
a rancher protecting his stock from a prowling predator, shoots it when
it attacks his son, only to discover the naked body of a local Native
American man. |
Tension between ranchers and
the Native Americans rise up, ripping open old animosities and ancient
grudges as Mulder and Scully try to piece together the parts of this mystery.
Mulder reveals to Scully that they are investigating the very first (and
still unsolved) X-file, opened by J. Edgar Hoover himself. What, or who,
is raiding local stock in so savage a fashion? Can it be the creature
of the local legend? Scully suspects the local mountain lion population
is to blame, but after Mulder hears a Native American elder's eyewitness
account, he's not so sure she is right. His suspisions are confirmed by
a bloodtest taken from a victim, and Mulder races to save Scully, who
is trapped in a dark house with a powerfull killer. |