The First Season

Pilot

A YOUNG FBI AGENT IS ASSIGNED WATCHDOG DUTY OVER AFELLOW AGENT, BUT FINDS HERSELF DRAWN INTO HIS INVESTIGATIONSOF PARANORMAL AND UNEXPLAINED PHENOMENA.
A young woman is found dead of no discernible cause in aforest in Oregon, the fourth member of her high school classto die this way. Agent Dana Scully is assigned to assistAgent Fox Mulder in his investigation of this andother unexplainable cases, labeled by the FBI as "X-Files."Although Mulder believes in extraterrestrial abductions, UFOsand the paranormal, Scully believes in nothing not upheld byscience and scoffs at his theory that the dead girl and herfriends may have been involved in an alien abduction. She is surprised, then, when the coffin of an earlier victim turnsout to hold a bizarrely deformed, nonhuman body. As Mulderopens up to her, revealing that his younger sister wasabducted when they were children, she begins to understand hispressing need to find the truth. A suspiciousfire, the disappearance of the exhumed body and a desperateplea for help from the uncooperative coroner's daughterconvinces Scully that local law enforcement is hiding somedangerous secret. Together, Mulder and Scully determine thatthe sheriff's comatose son is behind the mystery, a theorythat leads them to an armed confrontation, a headlong chasethrough deep woods and a midnight epiphany. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.


DEEP THROAT

A TEST PILOT WHO MAY HAVE BEEN FLYING AIRCRAFT MADE WITH ALIEN TECHNOLOGY DISAPPEARS, AND MULDER AND SCULLY MUST DEFY THEIR OWN GOVERNMENT TO FIND THE TRUTH. Six top notch Air Force test pilots have disappeared after flying ultra secret experimental aircraft at Ellens AFB. When the wife of the latest victim files a missing persons report with the FBI, Mulder jumps at the chance to confirm his theory that the government is building aircraft with captured UFO technology. A mysterious informant, known only as "Deep Throat" , appears and warns Mulder not 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. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.


SQUEEZE

A SERIAL KILLER WHO RIPS HIS VICTIMS' LIVERS OUT WITH HIS BARE HANDS ALERTS MULDER AND SCULLY TO A CRIME SPREE STRETCHING BACK TO THE TURN OF THE CENTURY. 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 air duct. 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. Their research, plus an interview with a retired detective, convinces Mulder that Tooms is a mutant, a cannibal who can hibernate for 30 years at a time and distort his body to crawl through tiny spaces. Another murder is committed, again inside a locked and shuttered house, and this time Scully and Mulder go hunting Tooms. They find a deserted apartment building, a strange nest in the basement and a collection of trophies, but no Tooms. Scully, only half convinced, returns home unaware that Tooms has targeted her for his final victim, and Mulder must race to save his partner from being eaten alive. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.


CONDUIT

SCULLY FEARS THAT MULDER'S JUDGMENT MAY BE SKEWED WHEN THEY INVESTIGATE THE DISAPPEARANCE OF A WAYWARD TEENAGER FROM A LAKESIDE CAMP-OUT. When teenager Ruby Morris disappears one night during a camp-out, no one but her mother seems to care. Mulder suspects she was abducted by extraterrestrials and searches for signs 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 judgment. The agents struggle against both official indifference and active interference from other agents as they pursue the case into biker bars, deep woods and a glade that holds a shallow grave guarded by white wolves. When they solve a local murder, Scully is ready to close the file, but Mulder is convinced there is more to the case. Ruby Morris's young brother provides the clue to an otherworldly explanation of the girl's absence, and leads the agents into an uncanny encounter with a mysterious light. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.


THE JERSEY DEVIL

A CANNIBALIZED BODY FOUND ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF ATLANTIC CITY LEAD SCULLY AND MULDER ON A QUEST AFTER A VERY OLD, VERY HUNGRY MYSTERY. 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 suppressing the truth to preseve the town's tourist image, even to the extent 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 of food. Scully consults 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, one step ahead of the local cops, who are bound and determined to kill the creature. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.


SHADOWS

AN ATTACK ON A SECRETARY WHOSE BOSS RECENTLY COMMITTED SUICIDE INTRIGUES MULDER AND SCULLY, ESPECIALLY WHEN THOSE WHO THREATEN HER BECOME TARGETS OF AN UNSEEN ATTACKER. 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 borne out when she herself becomes the target of a terrorist attack, and Mulder witnesses a ghost coming to her defense. To forestall the anger of the dead, Mulder and Lauren must uncover the secret that led to her boss's untimely death. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.


GHOST IN THE MACHINE

WHEN THE CEO OF A COMPUTER COMPANY DIES IN A LOCKED ROOM, MULDER AND SCULLY SUSPECT SABOTAGE -- FROM A NONHUMAN SOURCE. The CEO of Eurisko Industries, who planned to shut down an advanced artificial 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 built 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. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.


ICE

THE DEATHS OF AN ENTIRE RESEARCH TEAM UNDER STRANGE CIRCUMSTANCES SEND SCULLY AND MULDER TO THE TOP OF THE WORLD TO SEEK OUT A MENACE HIDDEN FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS IN GLACIAL ICE. When all five members of an Arctic research team are found dead, Mulder, Scully and a team of scientists seek the answer 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 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. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.


SPACE

A SPACE MISSION IS SABOTAGED AND MULDER AND SCULLY RACE AGAINST TIME TO UNCOVER THE SABOTEUR -- WHO MAY NOT BE FROM EARTH. We are not alone, and no one knows it better than Lt. Col. Marcus Aurelius Belt, former astronaut and now Mission Director for NASA. On his last space walk, he encountered a terrifying, ghostly presence, one that has haunted him ever since. When sabotage 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. Belt's earlier mission -- and keeping humans out of space permanently. 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. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.


FALLEN ANGEL

MULDER RACES TO GET TO THE SITE OF A DOWNED UFO BEFORE THE GOVERNMENT DOES. Whatever fell to earth in a fiery explosion in the woods is the focus for two searches: Mulder's one-man expedition, and a highly secret UFO retrieval team. The government team quickly sets up a cover story, a base camp and a trap for the fugitive alien. But the only thing they trap is Mulder, to the chagrin of both the military and the Bureau. Scully is sent to bring him home to a tribunal. But Mulder discovers an unlikely ally in Max Fenig, a UFO true believer whose enthusiasm contrasts with Scully's insistence that the cover story is genuine. She changes her mind, however, when she sees firsthand the radiation burns suffered by soldiers when the being attacks them. Angry at the lies and the coverup, she aids Mulder when he discovers that Max is more than a simple UFO fan, with secrets even he does not know he holds. When a mysterious force takes over Max's body, Mulder is sole 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. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.


EVE

IDENTICAL MURDERS COMMITTED ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE COUNTRY DRAW MULDER AND SCULLY INTO A DARK EXPERIMENT IN HUMAN GENETICS. Young Teena Simmons is the only witness to her father's bizarre death: His body is found drained of blood after she sees 'red lightning'. Suspecting alien involvement similar to the cattle mutilations plaguing the Western U.S., Mulder and Scully look into the murders. But they are stunned when a second, identical murder on the opposite coast of the U.S. 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 fertility 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 doctor who may herself be a result of bizarre genetic experiments. The team must untangle a complicated web devised by two deranged minds to discover the shocking truth about the twins. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.


FIRE

AN OLD FLAME OF MULDER'S BRINGS HIM A CASE INVOLVING A MAN WHOMAY BE SETTING FIRES AT A DISTANCE -- WITH HIS MIND. A British peer burns to death before the eyes of his horrified family, and a Scotland Yard inspector, a former girlfriend of Mulder's, tracks the killer to the U.S. Enlisting Mulder's aid (and rekindling some flames of her own), 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. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.


BEYOND THE SEA

A SELF-PROCLAIMED PSYCHIC ON DEATH ROW BARGAINS FOR A COMMUTED SENTENCE WITH THE LIVES OF TWO KIDNAP VICTIMS, WHILE DANA SCULLY STRUGGLES WITH THE SHOCK OF HER FATHER'S DEATH AND HER OWN BELIEFS. 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 belief in science is further shaken when she follows some of Boggs' channeled "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 in science. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.


GENDERBENDER

A SERIES OF SEX MURDERS IN WHICH THE PERPETRATOR MAY BE EITHER A MAN OR A WOMAN -- OR BOTH -- LEADS MULDER AND SCULLY TO A RECLUSIVE RELIGIOUS SECT WHOSE BELIEFS ARE LITERALLY NOT OF THIS WORLD. 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 apartment. Mulder tells Scully that three similar deaths share similar characteristics: All the 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. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.


LAZARUS

WHEN SCULLY REVIVES AN AGENT SHOT BY A BANK ROBBER, MULDER BELIEVES THE RESUSCITATED MAN IS POSSESSED BY THE BANK ROBBER'S SOUL. 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 ensuing shootout, the husband kills Willis and Scully kills the robber. In the emergency room, Scully revives Willis, whose behavior becomes very strange indeed. Mulder suspects that the robber's personality returned in the body of his pursuer. Scully finds herself in the middle of a web of deceit, suspicion and treachery as "Willis" continues to pursue 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. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.


YOUNG AT HEART

MULDER MUST FACE A FAILURE FROM HIS PAST AS AN OLD NEMESIS RETURNS FOR VENGEANCE -- AS A YOUNGER MAN. Is a dead man seeking revenge from beyond the grave? A case from Mulder's past returns to haunt him as a string of random 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 threat. Or so Mulder thought. Questions abound: Has Barnett returned from the dead, or is someone in the Bureau perpetrating a hoax to discredit Mulder? After Mulder's former supervisor is murdered, Mulder uncovers a strange story of illegal prison experiments and bizarre medical research. Has a rogue scientist turned John Barnett into a monster? Unless Mulder can find him first, the vengeful Barnett may make Scully his next victim. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.


E.B.E.

MULDER AND SCULLY CHASE A MYSTERIOUS TRUCK ACROSS THE COUNTRY IN SEARCH OF AN ALIEN BODY -- AND DISCOVER TREACHERY WHERE THEY LEAST EXPECTED IT. 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 an elaborate hoax, a ruse to mislead and confuse the X-Files team? Scully discovers that she and Mulder are under electronic surveillance, and Mulder learns a painful lesson 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. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.


MIRACLE MAN

MULDER AND SCULLY ATTEMPT TO DISCOVER IF A SPIRITUAL HEALER'S TOUCH BRINGS LIFE -- OR DEATH. 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 protégé, Samuel, may have once had the genuine gift of healing. Sunk in despair after the deaths he believes he caused, Samuel believes he has 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 visions of his sister, Scully reminds him of the power of suggestion. But after her autopsy reveals an all-too-earthly cause of the patients' deaths, 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 amazed to learn that it walked out on its own. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.


SHAPES

MULDER AND SCULLY CONFRONT AN ANCIENT INDIAN LEGEND AS THEY INVESTIGATE A SERIES OF ANIMAL ATTACKS. 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. Tensions between ranchers and Native Americans flare, 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 local legend -- stories of a demonic spirit that lives in the woods, possessing the bodies of those who stray too deeply into the forest? Scully suspects the local mountain lion population is to blame, but after Mulder hears a Native American elder's eyewitness account, he is not so sure she is right. His suspicions confirmed by a victim's blood test, he races to save Scully, who is trapped in a dark house with a powerful killer. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.


DARKNESS FALLS

THIRTY LOGGERS DISAPPEAR IN A REMOTE WILDERNESS AND MULDER AND SCULLY MUST FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED -- BEFORE THE SAME FATE FALLS ON THEM. What became of the entire crew of seasoned loggers working a Pacific Northwest cut? Even Mulder dismisses the Bigfoot theory as he and Scully are sent to find the crew. With the aid of a local forest ranger and a timber company security guard, they find a mysterious cocoon with the ghastly remains of one man. A frightened environmentalist caught at the logging camp reveals that a deadly force comes out of the forest at night, capable of lifting a grown man off his feet and sucking the life out of him. Only one thing can save them: light. Whatever it is that made away with the loggers, it shuns the light. Mulder and Scully discover the identity of this night-loving killer: swarms of microscopic green bugs released from a thousand-year slumber by the felling of the giant trees. When the environmentalist disappears with the last of the generator fuel, Mulder, Scully and the ranger face a long and terrifying night watching the last remaining light bulb flicker and flare. Will they make it through the night? Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.


TOOMS

IGNORING MULDER'S WARNING, A PSYCHIATRIC REVIEW BOARD RELEASES EUGENE "SQUEEZE" TOOMS INTO SOCIETY, AND MULDER'S ATTEMPTS TO STOP HIM FROM KILLING AGAIN ARE THWARTED BY THE STRICTURES. OF BUREAU PROCEDURE. No one listens when Mulder tells a psychiatric hearing that Eugene Tooms is genetically programmed to kill again if he is released. Tooms is a mutant cannibal, a man who delights in stretching his body through impossible spaces to reach his victims, whose livers he devours. Mulder knows Tooms will kill once more before going into his 30-year hibernation cycle and swears to track Tooms day and night to keep this from happening. Scully is warned by Assistant Director Walter Skinner that she and Mulder have to investigate their cases using orthodox methods of investigation, a warning that puts her at odds with Mulder. Choosing to support Mulder, she lies to save him when Tooms frames Mulder on brutality charges. Despite their vigilance, however, Tooms finally kills his final victim. Knowing their next chance to catch Tooms may lie well into the next century, Mulder and Scully must discover his nest before he goes dormant. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.


BORN AGAIN

WHEN SEVERAL DETECTIVES DIE IN SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES, MULDER'S SUSPICION FALLS ON AN 8-YEAR-OLD GIRL OF STRANGE DEMEANOR. Is it more than coincidence when several police offiers die in the presence of a young girl? Or is a more sinister force at work? Mulder and Scully probe the mysterious deaths of police detectives in Buffalo, NY, who may be hiding a deadly secret. Mulder believes young Michelle may be the reincarnation of a murdered homicide detective, seeking revenge. A psychiatrist, an origami animal and a hypnotic regression session offer clues that lead the team to a supernatural showdown. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.


ROLAND

ONLY A MENTALLY RETARDED JANITOR AND A DEAD SCIENTIST CAN HELP MULDER AND SCULLY SOLVE A SERIES OF MURDERS IN A RESEARCH FACILITY. A research scientist is trapped in a wind tunnel and sucked into a giant experimental turbine, the first of two bizarre murders whose only link is either a mentally handicapped man or a dead one. Alerted by handwriting analysis and research into the victims' backgrounds, Mulder and Scully discover an old secret that links twins separated at an early age, genetic mutation and the possible survival of a mind after the death of the body. When the last surviving researcher is caught in a fatal trap, Mulder and Scully must act on their instincts to call back the mind of a dead man in his living brother. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.


THE ERLENMEYER FLASK

A TERRIFYING EXPERIMENT IN ALIEN BIOLOGY TESTS SCULLY'S SKEPTICISM AND RISKS MULDER'S LIFE, WITH FATAL CONSEQUENCES FOR MULDER'S MOST TRUSTED ALLY. A fugitive running from police is shot trying to escape but jumps into a bay; he leaves traces of green blood behind. Deep Throat, Mulder's mysterious government informant, eggs him on to investigate a case even though there seems nothing to go on. They visit a researcher connected with the fugitive and find him conducting DNA experiments; later the researcher is killed and Mulder asks Scully to analyze the contents of some of the laboratory flasks. When the fugitive resurfaces and Scully's research turns up some highly unusual viruses, Mulder and Scully begin to close in on the biggest secret they have ever uncovered. Mulder risks death to protect the fugitive, whose very blood may prove the existence of extraterrestrial life. Scully confronts evidence that shakes her fundamental beliefs, and Deep Throat puts his life on the line to save Mulder. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.