Season 2
LITTLE GREEN MEN
SCULLY SEARCHES FOR HER MISSING PARTNER AS MULDER SEEKS PROOF OF ALIEN CONTACT -- AND FAITH IN HIMSELF AGAIN. Reassigned to separate jobs after the closing of The X-Files, Mulder and Scully meet clandestinely to keep in touch and try to resurrect the Files. Mulder is so shaken by Deep Throat's death and the loss of The X-Files that he begins to doubt even the foundation of his quest: the abduction of his sister, Samantha. Mulder is called in by his congressional patron to investigate the possibility of alien contact in Puerto Rico. Mulder journeys to an abandoned listening post in Arecibo, PR, while Scully strives to find him before a hostile UFO retrieval team does. Mulder must face fears stemming from his sister's abduction as a remarkable experience in the jungle tests his faith both in his quest and in himself. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
THE HOST
AN ATTACK ON A NEW JERSEY SEWER WORKER LEADS MULDER TO SUSPECT A MUTANT LIFE FORM HIDING IN THE BOWELS OF A SEWAGE PLANT. Assistant Director Walter Skinner sends Mulder to investigate a corpse found in a New Jersey sewer. Still angry about the closing of his X-Files, Mulder confronts his boss over the meaningless, make-work assignments he is being given. But Scully's autopsy of the corpse reveals the presence of a mutated parasite capable of growing to human size. When other workers are attacked by a sewer-dwelling monster, Mulder must track down a killer spawned in the belly of Chernobyl itself. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
BLOOD
MASS MURDERS COMMITTED BY SOLID CITIZENS OF FRANKLIN, PENNSYLVANIA, DRAW MULDER AND SCULLY INTO A BAFFLING CASE, WHERE THE ONLY CLUES ARE SMASHED ELECTRONIC APPLIANCES. A rash of killing sprees by otherwise tame citizens leads Mulder and Scully to a town whose off-the-scale murder rate may be the result of a toxic conspiracy. Mulder cannot fit these otherwise nondescript perpetrators into any serial killer profile he has ever known before. Meanwhile, Scully turns her attention to the bodies, discovering abnormally high levels of adrenaline. Mulder begins to suspect a massive deception when he links the murders to a string of smashed electronic appliances and a new pesticide program. A visit to the Lone Gunman conspiracy experts alerts him to the possibility of government involvement in a bizzare chemical experiment. But in tracking down the next potential mass murderer, Mulder risks his own life in a standoff with a real lone gunman. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
SLEEPLESS
MULDER AND SCULLY ANALYZE A SERIES OF MURDERS THAT LOOK AS IF THEY WERE COMMITTED BY A MAN WHO KILLS THROUGH DREAMS. A prominent doctor calls 911 to report his apartment on fire; firemen later find him dead and the apartment untouched. Mulder investigates, curious about a delusion so strong it can kill. A new informant helps Mulder and Scully uncover a government conspiracy, dating back to the Vietnam War, to create the perfect soldier -- one who never sleeps. But the side effects of this sleepless state seem to indicate a psychic ability to project waking dreams into the consciousness of others. Mulder must not only track down a murderer who never sleeps, but battle the insidious forces working against him within the Bureau -- including perhaps his new partner. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
DUANE BARRY
A FORMER FBI AGENT CLAIMS TO HAVE BEEN ABDUCTED BY ALIENS, AND THE BUREAU SENDS MULDER TO INVESTIGATE. BUT HE UNCOVERS MORE THAN THEY SUSPECTED, TO SCULLY'S DETRIMENT. In this first of a three-part story arc, a mental patient who claims voices in his head are the result of alien abduction escapes from a psychiatric institution, taking hostages, including his doctor. Mulder is called in to negotiate in the resulting standoff, where he discovers that the mental patient, Duane Barry, is a former FBI agent whose UFO abduction stories ring eerily true. Mulder exchanges himself for one of the hostages, but Scully discovers evidence in Barry's medical records that all is not as it seems. Resolution of the hostage crisis poses even more questions, as medical evidence may bear out Barry's claims. But before Mulder can investigate further, Duane Barry kidnaps Scully. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
ASCENSION
MULDER BATTLES HIS OWN SUPERIORS AND ALLIES IN A DESPERATE RACE TO RESCUE SCULLY FROM A KIDNAPPER. Searching for Dana Scully, Mulder must struggle against opposition within the Bureau as he races against time. Mulder tracks her kidnapper, Duane Barry, to the site of his earlier abduction; a death-defying race on a tramway leads Mulder to Barry's car and to Scully's bloodstained necklace. But though he nabs Duane Barry, there is no trace of Scully. While he interrogates the half-crazed Duane Barry as to her whereabouts, shadowy forces within the Bureau itself -- including Mulder's new partner, Alex Krycek -- are maneuvering to thwart his efforts. In the end, Mulder is left only with questions, with no clue to Scully's whereabouts. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
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MULDER IS INTRIGUED BY A BEAUTIFUL SUSPECT AS HE DELVES INTO A SERIES OF MURDERS WITH VAMPIRE-LIKE CHARACTERISTICS. A businessman is killed in his own hot tub by a trio who drain his body of blood. Mulder, now without Scully to help him, tracks one suspect to a blood bank, where he finds the man drinking blood. Mulder arrests him but thinks his claims of vampirism are a psychotic delusion; he is astonished when his suspect dies as soon as he is touched by sunlight. Now determined to know if vampires really exist, Mulder plunges into a dark and dangerous underworld where sex, murder and blood intermingle in trendy nightclubs. His search is complicated by his involvement with an alluring suspect, who is linked to the unholy trinity of killers by ties of blood and desire. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
ONE BREATH
WHEN SCULLY SUDDENLY REAPPEARS IN A HOSPITAL, HER LIFE HANGS IN THE BALANCE AS MULDER PULLS OUT ALL THE STOPS IN AN EFFORT TO COUNTERACT THE BIZARRE EXPERIMENT THAT IS KILLING HER. Mulder is shocked when Dana Scully finally reappears -- comatose -- in a Georgetown intensive care unit with no trace of where she has been or how she got there. She lingers on the brink of death, kept alive by machines, as Mulder frantically searches for her kidnappers, for an explanation and for a cure. Evidence points to an exotic and dangerous DNA experiment whose by-products are poisoning Scully, but no one can cure her. All his efforts fail him, leaving Fox Mulder at the end of his resources, his strength and his hope. Finally, he faces a stark choice between bloody revenge and a re-affirmation of his faith in his partner. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
FIREWALKER
A RESEARCH TEAM IS BEING DECIMATED BY A KILLER WHO MAY LURKAMONG THEM -- OR COME FROM THE HEART OF A VOLCANO. Back at work after her abduction, Scully immediately joins Mulder in investigating a mysterious death at a volcanic research station. Isolated in the trashed station, they must track down a silent killer from the heart of the volcano, which is killing the research team one by one. Suspicion centers on the absent team leader, who claims to have discovered an entirely new form of life in the volcano. But this new life-form has deadly effects on the humans it encounters, and both Mulder and Scully may have been exposed. As time runs out, Mulder must find a missing genius, and Scully must find a way to halt the spread of a killer organism. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
RED MUSEUM
THE TERRIFIED TEENAGERS WHO SURVIVE A SERIES OF ABDUCTIONS ARE THE FOCUS OF AN INVESTIGATION THAT REVEALS THAT A QUIET CATTLE TOWN IS NOT WHAT IT SEEMS -- AND NEITHER ARE ITS CHILDREN. The disappearances of several teenagers in Wisconsin convince a local sheriff to call in Mulder and Scully to investigate possible UFO abductions. But once on the scene, it appears that a mysterious cult, a bioengineered hormone and even alien DNA may be involved in an ongoing experiment involving the children of the town. A series of murders warns Mulder that someone wants both the experiment and the investigation shut down. Scully is shocked to recognize the face of Deep Throat's killer, and a quiet landlord confesses to an evil secret. Mulder and Scully must discover the link between the abductions and the death of the local doctor, in order to save the lives of the town's children. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
EXCELSIUS DEI
AN ASSAULT ON A NURSE LEADS MULDER AND SCULLY INTO A RETIREMENT HOME WITH UNUSUALLY LIVELY RESIDENTS -- WHO MAY BE GETTING SUPERNATURAL HELP. The rape of a nurse in a home for the elderly turns out to have paranormal overtones when the victim claims her attacker was invisible. Mulder and Scully find some surprisingly lively old people, a sinister treatment for Alzheimer's disease, and hints of a strange and vengeful force at work among the residents. Mulder and Scully uncover a bizarre and ancient drug being secretly administered. Mulder is trapped by a malevolent unseen force seeking to stop his search in a bathroom rapidly filling with water; he's unable to escape. Scully must find a way to free him before he drowns. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
AUBREY
A WOMAN DETECTIVE'S DISTURBING DREAMS ABOUT A 50-YEAR-OLD MURDER SPREE MAY BE HERALDING THE RETURN OF THE KILLER. In the town of Aubrey, Missouri, a woman detective begins having strange, prophetic dreams about a string of 50-year-old unsolved murders. Mulder and Scully are called in when, in a fugue state, the detective uncovers the unmarked grave of a long-dead FBI agent who was investigating the murders. Matters escalate when young women in the area are murdered with the same MO as the older murders, leading Mulder and Scully to interrogate the original suspect, now 77 years old and paroled from prison. But the woman detective's terrifying nightmares continue, leading the agents into her own dark and tangled past, and an ancient evil that may have been passed down through the generations. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
IRRESISTIBLE
AN FBI AGENT ASKS MULDER AND SCULLY TO LOOK INTO A SERIES OF GRAVE DESECRATIONS HE BELIEVES COULD BE THE WORK OF ALIENS. The desecration of a woman's grave in Minneapolis leads local agents to call in Mulder and Scully, believing aliens are behind the outrage. Mulder, however, knows immediately that they are not dealing with aliens, but with a human fetishist who gets off on collecting hair and fingernails from the dead. His worst fears are confirmed when the fetishist, a zombie-like funeral home employee named Donnie Pfaster, begins committing murder to get his trophies. Scully, already deeply troubled by this case, becomes his next target, and Mulder must race against time to save her. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
DIE HAND DIE VERLETZT
A MURDER WITH RITUALISTIC TRAPPINGS BRINGS MULDER AND SCULLY INTO A SMALL TOWN WHOSE OCCULT SECRETS DATE BACK SEVEN GENERATIONS. The school board of a small New Hampshire town closes a routine meeting with an invocation to the Lords of Darkness; a teenager is killed in a ritualistic manner. Mulder and Scully check out the local sheriff's fears of a "cult" operating in the vicinity, and discover that the town and high school are the focus of rumors of witchcraft and devil-worship going back seven generations. Meanwhile, the hysterical confessions of abuse and intimidation from several students lead them to the town's most upstanding and conservative citizens. A weird substitute teacher, a troubled teenager and a basement painted the color of blood all figure in their search for a demonic killer. Mulder and Scully are taken by surprise, and are led to slaughter in the school gymnasium. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
FRESH BONES
HAITIAN REFUGEES IN AN INTERNMENT CAMP SEEM TO KNOW MORE THAN THEY ARE TELLING ABOUT A SERIES OF INEXPLICABLE MURDERS IN NORTH CAROLINA. A marine private dies mysteriously after contact with a group of Haitian refugees interned in a camp in North Carolina. Voodoo is suspected when ritual signs are found scrawled in the vicinity. Although local law enforcement dismisses them as graffiti, Mulder and Scully investigate to find a sinister plot hatching in the crowded camp. Their inquiries are complicated by the possibility of hypnotic suggestions, voodoo curses and outright poisoning. A surprising reversal reveals that not everyone at the camp is who -- or what -- he seems to be. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
COLONY
MULDER AND SCULLY INVESTIGATE THE DEATHS OF THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS -- AND A MYSTERY FROM MULDER'S OWN PAST COMES BACK TO SHOCK HIM. In this first part of a two-part story, Mulder and Scully are alerted to a strange coincidence: the recent murders of three abortion clinic doctors, who have nothing in common save their identical resemblance to one another. Tracing the murders, they are caught up in a web of deception, facing off against an alien assassin who has the ability to change his appearance to resemble anyone at all. A CIA agent who shares Mulder's agenda fills them in on an old Soviet cloning project, with devastating implications. Mulder's own family is dragged into the mystery, as his father calls him home to meet a stranger who claims to be his sister. Scully is confronted by the alien assassin, who enters her room and bears a perfect resemblance to Mulder. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
END GAME
MULDER'S DESPERATE SEARCH FOR HIS SISTER TAKES ON NEW URGENCY AS HE CHASES THE ONE MAN WHO MAY KNOW HER WHEREABOUTS INTO THE ARCTIC WASTES. SCULLY ENLISTS SKINNER'S AID TO FIND HIM. Mulder faces an excruciating choice when he is forced to ransom his partner by turning over the woman he believes is his sister to the alien assassin. Guilt-ridden, he must answer to his father for losing his sister yet again, bringing more grief upon his family. But his further search turns up a surprising secret about "Samantha," leading him on a quest that takes him literally to the ends of the earth. Scully must enlist the aid of Assistant Director Skinner to rescue him before the alien assassin kills him. In the frozen desert of the Arctic ice shield, Mulder finally gets an answer about his sister -- even though the asking price is his life. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
FEARFUL SYMMETRY
ELEPHANTS AND TIGERS FALL FROM THE SKY AS MULDER AND SCULLY EXPLORE A SERIES OF ZOO ABDUCTIONS. A rampage by an invisible force leads Mulder and Scully to a zoo where strange abductions may be taking place. In a zoo where no births have taken place in decades, Mulder and Scully seek evidence for alien involvement in human conservation efforts. Their search is obstructed by old rivalries and new betrayals, while humans and animals continue to die. Only a gorilla who can use sign language can interpret events for them -- and her time is running out. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
DOD KALM
THE SAME PHENOMENON THAT AGED AN ENTIRE SHIP'S CREW IN A MATTER OF DAYS MAY CLAIM SCULLY AND MULDER UNLESS THEY CAN DISCOVER THE CAUSE. When a crew of healthy young men ages 50 years overnight, Mulder and Scully take off for the North Atlantic to probe a new version of the "Bermuda Triangle." Suspecting military experiments in wormholes and other phenomena may be responsible, they travel to a stranded, abandoned destroyer. But once on board, they find themselves not only stranded and adrift but at the mercy of the strange force that is aging the survivors overnight. A pirate, a bewildered captain and a water-recycling system hold tantalizing clues; Mulder and Scully must find the cause and counteract it before they die of old age. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
HUMBUG
THE MURDER OF A SIDESHOW PERFORMER LEADS MULDER AND SCULLY INTO THE SURREAL WORLD OF CIRCUS FREAKS, WHERE THEIR SEARCH FOR A KILLER TAKES SOME BIZARRE TURNS INTO AN ALTERNATE REALITY. The Alligator Man, a circus performer afflicted with a rare skin disease, is the latest victim in a series of inexplicable attacks that have ranged over the entire country in the past few years. When Mulder and Scully arrive to investigate, however, they find an entire town full of circus performers and carnival freaks. Unraveling the mystery takes them to the limits of the bizarre and the surrealistic, as they must chase a killer through a community of freaks. Black humor abounds as the solution to the mystery -- and the fate of the killer -- stuns even the unflappable X-Files team. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
THE CALUSARI
WHEN A LITTLE BOY'S LIFE IS THREATENED BY HIS SUPERSTITIOUS GRANDMOTHER, MULDER MUST SOLVE AN OLD-WORLD RIDDLE TO SAVE THE BOY'S LIFE -- AND SCULLY'S. After a toddler dies on the railroad tracks at a local fair, Mulder suspects a supernatural force at work in the boy's family. To protect the surviving son, he and Scully probe a family with old-world roots and a grandmother with old-world superstitions. Scully suspects a psychological disorder, but Mulder is convinced by poltergeist-type activity that some sort of paranormal activity is taking place. When evil strikes at the family twice more, they discover a surprising family secret about the dead, a secret that threatens the living. Mulder must enlist the help of a band of old men, the Calusari, to exorcise a demon spirit. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
F. EMASCULATA
THE OUTBREAK OF A GROTESQUE PLAGUE IN A PRISON TRAPS SCULLY IN THE PATH OF AN EPIDEMIC AS MULDER CHASES ESCAPED FELONS WHO MAY BE CARRYING THE DISEASE INTO SOCIETY. When two prisoners break out of a federal penitentiary, Mulder and Scully are surprised to be assigned to the case. But when they learn that a deadly disease is infesting the inmates, they fear the contagion may be about to be loosed on the populace by the escapees. In a frantic race against time and biology, Scully must help discover the origin of the plague and ensure its containment. Her research convinces her that this outbreak was no accident, and may be part of a massive conspiracy and cover-up. Mulder's attempts to get to the bottom of the cover-up are thwarted by a sniper, The Cancer Man, and his own superiors. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
SOFT LIGHT
A PHYSICS EXPERIMENT GONE WRONG LEAVES A DISTURBED SCIENTIST WITH A SHADOW THAT CAN KILL. A former student of Dana Scully's asks for her help in solving some puzzling disappearances: people who have vanished, leaving only strange scorch marks behind. Mulder and Scully pursue a scientist whose shadow has become a terrible weapon as a result of a freak lab accident. But the X-Files team is not the only one chasing the scientist, and Mulder goes up against his own ally in an attempt to keep the secret from falling into the wrong hands. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
OUR TOWN
MULDER AND SCULLY INVESTIGATE DISAPPEARANCES IN A REMOTE ARKANSAS TOWN WHERE LEGENDS ABOUT MYSTERIOUS LIGHTS IN THE WOODS GO BACK FOR DECADES. When a federal inspector vanishes in a remote Arkansas town, Mulder and Scully look into reports of strange lights. Legends mentioning the fox fire lights, linked with strange disappearances, go back for years in the lore of the region. But the deeper they dig into the missing man's connections in the town, the stranger the town begins to look. Unusually long life spans and youthful appearances cause Mulder and Scully to suspect that there may be more to the local chicken-processing industry than meets the eye. Mulder stumbles onto the horrifying secret even as Scully's life is threatened by a masked murderer. Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
ANASAZI
MULDER'S WORLD FALLS APART AROUND HIM AS EVERY SINGLE PERSON HE TRUSTS SEEMS TO TURN AGAINST HIM IN A CONSPIRACY LEADING TO THE HEART OF THE MYSTERY HE CHASES. When a computer hacker breaks into the most secret files of the Department of Defense, he uncovers a secret going back to the end of World War II. Mulder is drawn in as he is handed what may be the ultimate proof of extraterrestrial existence, government conspiracy and the fate of his sister. But his increasingly irrational behavior alarms Scully, who must save him from himself as his actions take him farther and farther from the tenuous hold the Bureau has on him, into the realms of the most extreme possibility. The conspirators Mulder has fought against emerge with a vengeance, threatening the lives not only of Mulder's family but of Mulder himself in a season-finale cliff-hanger, the first of a three-part series. Part 1 of 3 Copyright by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
