The X-Files - The FBI's Creepy Cases / Season 1
| Season 1 of the X-Files: The FBI's Creepy Cases | |||
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| German logo of the television series | |||
| Episodes | 24 | ||
| Country of production | United States , Canada | ||
| First broadcast | Sep 10 1993 - May 13, 1994 on FOX | ||
| German-language first broadcast |
5th Sep 1994 - March 3, 1995 on ProSieben | ||
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The first season of the US mystery television series X-Files - The FBI's Weird Cases comprises 24 episodes and was first broadcast in the United States in 1993/94 and in Germany in 1994/95.
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| 1 | 1 | Drawn | pilot | Sep 10 1993 | 5th Sep 1994 | Robert Mandel | Chris Carter |
| 2 | 2 | The warning | Deep throat | 17 Sep 1993 | Sep 12 1994 | Daniel Sackheim | Chris Carter |
| Scully and Mulder investigate the abduction of fighter pilot Robert Budahas, who developed a strange rash. An informant (later called Deep Throat ) warns Mulder not to investigate the military base , where several people claim to have sighted UFOs . A few days later, Budahas is back with his family, but seems to be suffering from partial memory loss. Mulder enters the military base and watches an unidentified flying object, but is discovered and arrested. As he is driven through the military base, he sees further evidence of UFOs and can even see a pyramid-shaped flying object. After his release, he too initially appears confused and can no longer remember his observations in the base. Scully closes the X-Files with no result. Mulder meets Deep Throat again , who makes hints of knowing more about aliens. | |||||||
| 3 | 3 | The nest | Squeeze | Sep 24 1993 | 19 Sep 1994 | Harry Longstreet | Glen Morgan , James Wong |
| A man is killed in his office and the perpetrator escapes through the ventilation shaft through which he got into the office. Tom Colton, an old college colleague from the Academy, informs Scully of the case and asks her for help. A fingerprint from the crime scene leads to other X-files that go back to 1903. The liver was torn out of all the victims. Scully and Mulder monitor the office building and arrest a man they find in a ventilation shaft. The man's name is Eugene Victor Tooms. He passes a polygraph test and is released, but his fingerprints match those from the crime scene and the old X-files. Tooms kills another man, this time entering the house through the fireplace. Tooms' body can deform and stretch at will, which makes it able to walk such narrow paths. Scully and Mulder visit retired cop Frank Briggs, who tells them about the previous murders and shows a photo of the suspect at the time - it's Tooms. Scully and Mulder drive to Tooms' former home. There they find numerous trophies that Tooms took from his murders, as well as a place that Mulder thinks is a nest where Tooms hibernates. Tooms need the livers of their victims for nourishment during this hibernation. In her apartment, Scully is attacked by Tooms, but Mulder saves her at the last minute - Tooms is arrested. Tooms is taken to a mental institution for further investigation, but Tooms seems to have found an escape route there too ... | |||||||
| 4th | 4th | Signals | Conduit | Oct 1, 1993 | 26 Sep 1994 | Daniel Sackheim | Alex Gansa , Howard Gordon |
| Ruby Morris, the daughter of the Morris family, disappears on a camping trip. The mother, Darlene Morris, notices a bright light and a brief earthquake before her daughter disappears . Mulder wants to investigate the case because it has parallels to the disappearance of his sister Samantha. Darlene Morris herself witnessed a UFO sighting as a child. Kevin, Darlene's son, writes binary codes that he wants to see on TV. Scully and Mulder learn from Ruby's friend Tessa that Ruby wanted to run away with their boyfriend and is expecting a child from him. The NSA finds out that Kevin's binary codes are from a spy satellite and interferes in the investigation. Scully and Mulder drive to the lake where Ruby disappeared and find Ruby's friend's body near the campsite. Tessa is interrogated again and admits she was pregnant by Ruby's boyfriend, not Ruby. Scully and Mulder meet Darlene and Kevin at the lake and later find Ruby, who is in a comatose state, in the adjacent forest . Ruby is examined, her values indicate a stay in weightlessness . Mulder suspects, like his sister Samantha, an alien abduction. | |||||||
| 5 | 5 | Jersey Devil | The Jersey Devil | Oct 8, 1993 | Oct 10, 1994 | Joe Napolitano | Chris Carter |
| In 1947 a man is abducted, mutilated and killed by an unknown being in a forest in New Jersey . Scully and Mulder come across a murder case in which a homeless person was killed and parts of his body were eaten away by a human. Mulder makes the connection to what was then known as the "Devil of Jersey" in 1947. The chief investigator of the local police, however, refuses to cooperate with the FBI . Scully flies back to Washington, DC while Mulder talks to a park attendant about a strange figure in the woods. Another homeless person tells Mulder about a creepy, human-like being. Mulder observed the figure himself that night, but was arrested by police the day after. It seems like the police are hiding something. When the park attendant finds a body that fits the description of the homeless and Mulder, Scully and Mulder reopen the investigation. But the corpse disappears. In an old factory site, Mulder and Scully go after a wild-looking woman who is eventually shot by police in the woods. The riddle seems to be solved. The unknown man and woman were apparently people who lived in the forest without contact with civilization, but a descendant of them still lives there. | |||||||
| 6th | 6th | shadow | Shadows | Oct 22, 1993 | Oct 17, 1994 | Michael Katleman | Glen Morgan, James Wong |
| Lauren Kyte admits the office empty her boss Howard Graves, the suicide committed. On the way home she is ambushed while withdrawing money, but the attackers are found dead a short time later. Scully and Mulder examine the bodies. It seems as if their throats have been closed from the inside. Mulder believes in a case of psychokinesis . They find Lauren through the surveillance video of the ATM , but she denies knowing the perpetrators and also denies the robbery. When Scully and Mulder leave Lauren's house, their car seems to get out of control - it seems remote controlled. It seems like the psychokinesis came from Lauren, but she doesn't seem to be able to control it. Scully and Mulder investigate and investigate Lauren's past and personal life, and can also make connections with Graves. While Lauren is haunted by hallucinations in which Graves speaks to her and she sees his body, Scully and Mulder doubt Graves death. Further investigations reveal that Graves is indeed dead and that Lauren was threatened by his former business partners. At home, Lauren is attacked by two hit men, but an invisible force seems to strangle the attackers. Mulder and Scully watch this with their own eyes as they rush to help Lauren. The FBI investigation shows that Graves' company had ties to the Isfahan group and that he wanted to get out. For this reason he was killed. During the search of the company building, Graves Geist points out incriminating evidence. Lauren leaves the company and moves to Nebraska to live in peace and quiet without the spirit of Graves. | |||||||
| 7th | 7th | The machine | Ghost in the Machine | Oct 29, 1993 | Oct. 24, 1994 | Jerrold Freedman | Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon |
| Mulder's old partner Jerry Lamana informs Scully and Mulder of the investigation into the death of Benjamin Drake, CEO of Eurisko. A specialty of the company is the security system COS (Central Operating System), which records and controls everything. The investigation leads to Brad Wilczek, the founder of Eurisko and inventor of COS, but who rejects any suspicion. The COS hacks into Scully's PC and manipulates her report. Investigations reveal that Wilczek was the last person to call Drake. Wilczek tries to hack into the COS in order to bring it under control, but the system has developed a life of its own that Wilczek can no longer control. Agent Lamana dies in an elevator crash caused by COS. Wilczek confesses to Drake's murder, but Mulder doesn't believe him and meets the informant Deep Throat , who has new information on COS. Mulder tells Wilczek to program a virus to destroy COS. Scully and Mulder then go to the company building. Mulder manages to get a virus that Wilczek programmed into the system, but is then threatened with a weapon by the security chief. Scully overwhelms the security chief and the virus destroys COS. Wilczek is no longer found and COS does not seem to have been completely destroyed either ... | |||||||
| 8th | 8th | ice | Ice | Nov 5, 1993 | Oct 31, 1994 | David Nutter | Glen Morgan, James Wong |
| In a research station in Alaska , two scientists commit suicide, the rest of the research group is already dead. Scully and Mulder go with the medic Dr. Hodge, the toxicologist Dr. DaSilva, the geologist Dr. Murphy and the pilot Bear to Alaska. At the station, Mulder and Bear are attacked by a dog. Bear is bitten and the dog is drugged. During an examination of the dog, Scully found that something was moving under the dog's skin, and the animal was also showing signs of bubonic plague . The team examines the ice samples that the dead scientists took from deep drilling in a meteor crater and discovered single-cell organisms in them. Mulder believes the worm-like protozoa could be of extraterrestrial origin. Bear seems increasingly irritable and does not want to be examined, knowing that he has the characteristics of the disease. Bear can be overwhelmed and a protozoan is removed from its body, but it dies afterwards. All dead researchers also carried the same worm, which causes aggression in its host and ultimately kills it. When Mulder wakes up at night, he finds Dr. Murphy dead up. Hodge, DaSilva and Scully believed that Mulder killed Murphy and was infected with a worm himself. Mulder is then locked up. Through investigation, Scully finds out that two worms fight and kill each other. The infected dog is cured by inserting a second worm. Mulder is released and at the same time it turns out that DaSilva is infected, but she too is cured by inserting a second worm. Hodge, DaSilva, Scully and Mulder are brought back from the station, the laboratory is destroyed. | |||||||
| 9 | 9 | Obsessed | Space | Nov 12, 1993 | Nov 7, 1994 | William Graham | Chris Carter |
| The episode begins with a report from 1977 in which the discovery of ice deposits on Mars and the face of Mars is reported. The then head of the mission, Lieutenant Colonel Belt, and the current head of the shuttle program, is plagued by nightmares that a ghost drove into him during the mission in space. Michelle Generoo, an employee at NASA's control center , contacts Scully and Mulder after a shuttle launch is aborted, as she fears that the shuttle has been tampered with. Scully and Mulder meet Belt, who rules out sabotage and is determined to keep to the next scheduled start of the shuttle. The shuttle starts successfully, but radio contact is broken shortly after it has started. Generoo informs Scully and Mulder. Generoo had a car accident on the way to the control center, but she was only slightly injured. It turns out that the contact to the shuttle is manipulated from the control center. The shuttle should maneuver itself on instructions from Belt, otherwise it will heat up too much. The risky maneuver succeeds. During the night, the spirit that had entered it in space leaves the body of Belts and rams the shuttle. This then reports an oxygen leak in the tank. Despite this defect and the danger to the crew, Belt insists that the cargo be delivered by the shuttle. The shuttle crew noticed a ghost outside the shuttle while the cargo was being released. Belt has a nervous breakdown . Scully and Mulder search the files for and find evidence of tampering with the shuttle. Belt admits that he knew about the sabotage and points out that the shuttle also has defective heat protection tiles and will therefore probably not survive a re-entry into the earth's atmosphere . The manipulations are probably based on the ghost that drove into Belt. The control center manages to bring the shuttle back safely to earth. Triggered by the ghost, Belt has another seizure, he falls out of the window of his apartment and is killed in the process. | |||||||
| 10 | 10 | Fallen Angel | Fallen Angel | Nov 19, 1993 | Nov 14, 1994 | Larry Shaw | Howard Gordon , Alex Gansa |
| In a forest in Wisconsin , a police officer observes a forest fire , at the same time the US military air surveillance is based on an airplane that has crashed. A high-ranking man in the military says in the official report that it was a matter of a meteorite crash. Deep Throat informs Mulder about "Operation Falcon" and sees a connection to the incidents in Wisconsin. Mulder enters the restricted military area and watches men in protective suits working on an airplane-like object, but he is discovered and arrested. The military officially speaks of an environmental disaster , but Mulder and his cellmate Max Fenig, a UFO fanatic, do not believe it. Scully gets Mulder out of custody and tells him that the crashed machine is a Libyan fighter jet that was loaded with nuclear warheads. Meanwhile, an invisible being roams the Wisconsin forests. Several soldiers are injured by the invisible being, the injuries resemble severe burns from radioactive radiation . Mulder finds clues that Max Fenig may have been abducted by aliens, and Max disappears. Eventually, both the military and Scully and Mulder can track down Max. Mulder finds Max in a warehouse, but he is attacked by the invisible being. Max appears to be teleported. Mulder sees this as evidence of his kidnapping thesis. | |||||||
| 11 | 11 | Eve | Eve | Dec 10, 1993 | Nov 21, 1994 | Fred Gerber | Kenneth Biller, Chris Brancato |
| In Connecticut, a man bleeds to death from two wounds in his throat in his garden. His daughter Teena says she can remember a red light and men from the clouds. Mulder immediately believes in an encounter with aliens. Then Teena is kidnapped. In California , the same incident happened at the same time as in Connecticut. When Scully and Mulder arrive in California, they realize that Cindy, the daughter of the Reardon family, looks exactly like Teena. It turns out that both children were born through artificial insemination in the same institute. Scully visits the institute and receives information about doctor Dr. Sally Kendrick, who treated both mothers but had to leave the institute after it was revealed that she had done eugenic experiments. After that, Kendrick disappears without a trace. Mulder meets Deep Throat , who informs him of a secret post-war project that attempted to create super soldiers and whose descendants were named "Adam" or "Eve" depending on their gender. One of these descendants, known as "Eve 6", lives in a psychiatric clinic. Scully and Mulder visit her and discover there that she looks exactly like Sally Kendrick. It turns out that Kendrick is Eve 7 and has abused the fertilization clinic for experiments, and Eve 8 is on the run. Cindy is also kidnapped, the kidnapper is Eve 7 , who also has Teena in her power. Mulder realizes that Cindy and Teena killed their fathers from psychosis, a side effect of the experiment. You're poisoning Kendrick. Scully and Mulder find both Kendrick's body and the children who testify that they were threatened by Kendrick and another person. Eventually they also try to poison Scully and Mulder, but they fail. Teena and Cindy are brought to the clinic as Eve 9 and Eve 10 . There they get a visit from Eve 8 , who disguised herself as an employee ... | |||||||
| 12 | 12 | Fire | Fire | Dec 17, 1993 | Nov 28, 1994 | Larry Shaw | Chris Carter |
| In England , a man inexplicably caught fire and his gardener Cecil L'Ively observes the incident. In Washington, DC , Scully and Mulder meet with Phoebe Green of the London Police. Green was Mulder's lover when he was a student at Oxford . She informs the duo about the cases in England. According to evidence, Sir Malcolm Marsden, an English nobleman, appears to be on the perpetrator's list. Marsden is currently safe in Cape Cod . Mulder suspects a case of pyrokinesis, and a pyro expert explains that such rapid inflammation with such intensity is only possible with rocket fuel. L'Ively works under a false identity as a janitor for the Marsdens and it turns out that it is possible for him to ignite himself in a controlled manner. He burns down a bar. A woman from the bar provides the FBI with a phantom of L'Ively. The Marsdens go to a gala in Boston , L'Ively accompanies them as a chauffeur and Scully, Mulder and Phoebe are also present to protect the Marsdens. During the gala a fire breaks out on the floor where the Marsden children live, but L'Ively saves them from the flames. Scully's investigation reveals that L'Ively is a false identity and the phantom image of the woman from the bar also fits L'Ively. To help spontaneous combustion, L'Ively secretly administers rocket fuel to his victims. An employee with severe burns is found in the Marsden's house. L'Ively sets the house on fire. Mulder tries to save the children from the house and is confronted with his fear of fire. In the garden, L'Ively ignites itself, but survives seriously injured. Research by L'Ively shows that his body regenerates quickly and a complete cure seems possible. | |||||||
| 13 | 13 | The message | Beyond the Sea | Jan. 7, 1994 | Dec 5, 1994 | David Nutter | Glen Morgan, James Wong |
| Scully says goodbye to her parents as they return home after a visit. However, her father dies of a heart attack on the way. Scully has several visions of her father, the first just before she learned of his death. She has the impression that he wants to tell her something. Scully hopes her father will tell her he was proud of her, even though she deviated from the path he intended for her. At the same time, a pair of lovers is kidnapped, tortured and supposed to be murdered within five days. A serial killer named Luther Lee Boggs on death row claims to be able to determine the location of the couple through contacts with souls. But he only wants to betray the place if his death sentence is converted into life imprisonment. In this episode, Mulder plays the skeptic who thinks Boggs is a liar and the kidnapping is a pre-arranged business. Scully wants to believe in him, especially because she hopes to get her father's message from the killer. At the same time, she is afraid of it. The lovers are saved by Boggs' clues in an old brewery. The murderer dies in a fall through a rotten wooden bridge. Warned by Boggs, Scully does not pursue him immediately and escapes falling from this bridge. In the end, Boggs is executed on the electric chair . | |||||||
| 14th | 14th | Temptations | Gender bender | Jan. 21, 1994 | Dec 12, 1994 | Rob Bowman | Larry Barber, Paul Barber |
| Mulder and Scully are called into a hotel room about a murder scene. The murdered man died of a heart attack caused by violent sexual intercourse. Recordings from the security camera show that the murderer entered the room as a woman but left as a man. It is the fourth murder of its kind in six weeks. The victims were two women and two men. Scully assumes a male / female / transvestite perpetrator profile , sexually attractive, while Mulder assumes aliens as perpetrators. Traces of white clay in the scratches of the victims lead Mulder and Scully in the woods of Massachusetts , where a religious sect with similarities to the Amish prepared from this white clay pottery. The questioning of the cult members is inconclusive. During a later secret visit, Mulder observes strange rituals. Scully is almost raped, but Mulder saves her at the last minute. When Mulder and Scully accidentally track down a stray sect member, the other sect members kidnap him and they all disappear together, leaving a crop circle behind . | |||||||
| 15th | 15th | Lazarus | Lazarus | Feb. 4, 1994 | December 19, 1994 | David Nutter | Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon |
| In a bank robbery , Scully shoots bank robber Warren Dupre, but her colleague Jack Willis is also critically injured. Dupre dies in the hospital while Willis is rescued. Dupre's spirit is transferred into Willis' body. Scully and Mulder notice that something is wrong with Willis and do research on Dupre, who had committed several robberies with his wife Lola. Dupre's forearm tattoo shows up on Willis' arm and Willis goes in search of Lola. Mulder believes in a body swap - an assumption that Scully worries a lot since Willis was her mentor at the academy and they were very close. Willis shoots Lola's brother believing he betrayed her to the FBI . When Mulder and Scully arrive at the scene, Willis is there too, trying to frame the murder on Lola. Mulder notices that Willis, who is actually right-handed, is now writing with his left hand. He tries to prove that Willis is not Willis by using a fake birthday card for Scully. Incriminating evidence (a Willis fingerprint ) disappears from Lola's brother's apartment. Together with Scully, Willis tracks down Lola and arrests her, at the same time he also forces Scully to put her handcuffs on. Lola and Scully realize that Dupre's ghost is in Willis. As Willis has diabetes , he is increasingly weakened as Dupre's mind does not think about taking insulin. Lola finally admits that she betrayed Dupre to the FBI, whereupon Willis shoots her. Eventually Willis dies of diabetes, the tattoo disappears from his arm and Mulder frees Scully. | |||||||
| 16 | 16 | Eternal youth | Young at Heart | Feb 11, 1994 | Jan. 13, 1995 | Michael Lange | Scott Kaufer, Chris Carter |
| In 1989, inmate Joe Crandall observed how doctor John Ridley amputated the right hand of his fellow inmate, John Barnett. Ridley threatens Crandall and convinces him that Barnett is dead, but Crandall sees Barnett blink. Four years later, Reggie Purdue, Mulder's supervisor, asks Scully and Mulder for help solving a jewelry store robbery, where the perpetrator leaves a note making fun of Fox Mulder. The handwriting appears to be Barnett's, but Barnett's been dead for four years. Barnett was Mulder's first case at the time, and two people were killed when Barnett was arrested because Mulder didn't shoot him because it would have violated the regulations. Mulder later receives another threatening letter, and he firmly believes it's Barnett. Scully and Mulder visit Crandall, who tells him about his experiences four years ago. A little later, Mulder receives a call and recognizes Barnett's voice. When Mulder calls Purdue, he is strangled, the killer leaves a letter in Barnett's handwriting for Mulder. Scully and Mulder do research on John Ridley, it turns out that Ridley had lost his medical license before going to prison. Before he did research on children who suffered from progeria , now he has disappeared without a trace. Mulder suspects that Ridley was trying to stop the aging process and that Barnett was a test subject and may look changed today. Ridley visits Scully surprisingly, and during a conversation with Mulder, Ridley says that Barnett is the only survivor of his experiments. Barnett's genome has been modified so that his right hand has characteristics of a salamander . While talking to Deep Throat , Mulder learns that Barnett is negotiating with the government to buy Ridley's work. Mulder receives another call from Barnett and, along with Scully and an FBI team, they set a trap for Barnett at a concert. Mulder shoots Barnett. However, he had previously safely deposited Ridley's research results in a locker ... | |||||||
| 17th | 17th | Deception | EBE | Feb. 18, 1994 | Jan. 20, 1995 | William Graham | Glen Morgan, James Wong |
| An Iraqi fighter jet shoots down a UFO on the Turkish - Iraqi border . In Tennessee, the truck driver Ranheim shoots an unknown being in the forest several times while a UFO flies over him. Mulder and Scully investigate Tennessee , but the local authorities refuse to cooperate and set Ranheim free. Back in Washington, Mulder introduces Scully to The Lone Shooters, a trio of conspiracy theorists he has worked with for a long time. Mulder is later informed by Deep Throat about the shot down UFO in the border area, while Scully discovers that Ranheim's real name is Frank Druce and the truck is carrying an additional load. Mulder finds out the truck is on its way to Colorado at the moment . According to Deep Throat, the truck contains remains of the crash in Iraq , possibly even an alien. Scully and Mulder head to Las Vegas , where the truck was last seen. Eventually they find the truck, but both Ranheim and the remains of the alien that was transported in the truck have disappeared. With the help of NICAP and MUFON , Mulder finds Ranheim at a power plant in Mattawa, Washington . Scully and Mulder go into the highly secured power plant with fake identities obtained from the lonely gunmen, but they are exposed. Mulder penetrates the high security area and almost manages to track down the alien's location, but armed guards stop him. Deep Throat appears, resigns the guards, and tells Mulder that the creature is dead. Deep Throat explains to Mulder that following the Roswell incident, the government and other nations decided that if an alien was ever found, he would be killed immediately and he would be one of three people to ever execute an alien. He then releases Scully and Mulder. | |||||||
| 18th | 18th | The faith healer | Miracle Man | March 18, 1994 | Jan. 27, 1995 | Michael Lange | Chris Carter, Howard Gordon |
| In 1983, a young boy named Samuel resurrected a dead man who was burned after a serious car accident. Ten years later Scully shows Mulder a video in which the now adult Samuel heals people during church services. The church leader is Calvin Hartley, Samuel's father. However, the people healed by Samuel die a short time after the alleged healing and so Scully and Mulder set off for Clarksville ( Tennessee ). There they attend a service led by Leonard Vance, the man Samuel brought back to life ten years ago. Mulder and Scully find out that Samuel is missing. When Samuel is found again, he is shocked by the deaths. In a conversation with Mulder, Samuel speaks of the kidnapping of Mulder's sister, Samantha, and says that strange beings were involved. Mulder then keeps having visions of Samantha. During the court hearing, there is a plague of locusts in the courtroom. Despite the events, Samuel heals again during the service, but the woman dies. Scully does an autopsy and finds out that the woman was poisoned, but Mulder believes Samuel is innocent. Scully and Mulder also find out from the bait that the locust plague was deliberately planned and brought about in court by someone. Samuel is beaten to death by two men in his cell. Leonard Vance is haunted in his sleep by Samuel's ghost and tries to kill himself by poisoning. Scully and Mulder join in after they've tracked him down, but they can't save him. Shortly before his death, Vance confesses that he wanted to "disenchant" Samuel. Samuel's body disappears from the morgue and the nurse on duty says she saw Samuel run out. The local sheriff is arrested on charges of complicity in Samuel's death and closes Hartley Church. | |||||||
| 19th | 19th | Transformations | Shapes | Apr 1, 1994 | Feb 3, 1995 | David Nutter | Marilyn Osborn |
| The farmer Jim Parker shoots the Indian Joseph Goodensnake, with whom he had a dispute over his property lines. Parker claims his son Lyle was attacked by a ferocious beast that he shot. In fact, like the shot Goodensnake, Lyle has deep scratches on his shoulder. Neither of the Indians on the reservation wants to have anything to do with the two FBI agents, but Mulder manages to speak to the Indian Sheriff Charles Tskany. Connections to earlier similar cases emerged. The hope that all problems will be solved with the cremation of the shot Indian does not come true. Mulder believes that Goodensnake turned into a predator and attacked the farmers. Isch, an elderly Indian, confirms that Goodensnake was turned into an animal by Manitu , an evil Indian spirit. Scully finds Lyle passed out in the box next to the house and takes him inside. Since Lyle was bitten by Goodensnake, Mulder and Tskany rush to the house and are attacked by Lyle, who has turned into a predator. Tsykany shoots him. | |||||||
| 20th | 20th | The cocoon | Darkness Falls | Apr 15, 1994 | Feb 10, 1995 | Joe Napolitano | Chris Carter |
| Mulder invites Scully to take a walk in the woods to investigate the disappearance of a group of loggers in the Olympic National Forest , Washington state . While suspected eco-terrorists that hinder the work of loggers with violent actions. Mulder and Scully meet in the woods with a park ranger , Larry Moore, and the lumberjack security chief, Steve Humphreys, to drive together to the missing lumberjack camp. After they had driven deeper into the forest together for some time, a tire of their jeep was destroyed by a crow's foot laid out by eco-terrorists. They take their luggage and hike to the logging camp a mile away. Here they meet the leader of the eco-terrorists who is looking for food. Everywhere there are huge swarms of green fluorescent tiny mites that, as soon as darkness falls, wrap people in cocoons and suck out their body fluids. These mites slept for centuries in one of the giants of the jungle, which was illegally felled by the loggers. Since all vehicles are damaged, the group has to hold out in the lumberjack's hut. Spinny takes a petrol can and wants to return to the ecoterrorist camp to get a car and save the group. The gasoline is slowly running out. Spinny returns in a jeep and picks up the group. On the way back, the jeep is damaged again by a crow's foot and the mites swarm in. The group, already wrapped in a cocoon, is discovered, rescued and placed in quarantine . The insects are deliberately exterminated. | |||||||
| 21st | 21st | A new nest | Tooms | Apr 22, 1994 | Feb 17, 1995 | David Nutter | Glen Morgan, James Wong |
| Eugene Victor Tooms is sitting in a sanatorium in Baltimore after the events of episode 3 . He tries to escape using his physical ability, but a visit from his psychologist Dr. Aaron Monte prevents this. Scully is called to Skinner while the "Cancer Candidate" is also in the room. Skinner tells Scully that she and Mulder must adhere to the rules in their investigation. The agents attend a hearing aimed at getting Tooms free. Against Mulder's objections, Tooms was released and placed in the care of an elderly couple, as well as having to go on with Dr. Monte work together. Scully visits Frank Briggs, a police officer who was investigating the Tooms murders in 1933. Briggs points out that still no body has been found. Scully and Briggs visit a chemical plant where part of the victim's liver was found and find a skeleton that was set in concrete. Mulder visits Tooms at work when he is looking for a new victim. Mulder thwarted a break into a Tooms house that night. The skeleton is identified as the missing victim from 1933. However, it cannot be proven that Tooms was the killer. Scully relieves Mulder in front of Toom's apartment as the apartment is under surveillance. They do not notice that Tooms is in the trunk of the car. Tooms ends up in Mulder's apartment, where he deliberately injures himself and puts Mulder's shoe print on his face. Toom's trap results in Mulder being questioned by the police, and Skinner forbids Mulder to contact Tooms. Further examinations on the victim's skeleton from 1933 provide evidence that the traces found are Toom's tooth prints. Tooms kills Dr. Monte to get his liver, which he needs for his 30 years of hibernation . When the agents Dr. Find Montes body, they rush to Toom's old home, which has since been torn down and where a department store now stands. Below the escalator, Mulder finds Tooms' new nest. Tooms jumps out of his nest, but Mulder manages to escape and by activating the escalator he kills Tooms. Skinner reads Scully's final report in the presence of the cancer candidate, while Mulder is certain that things will change for the X-Files. | |||||||
| 22nd | 22nd | Reborn | Born again | Apr 29, 1994 | Feb. 24, 1995 | Jerrold Freedman | Howard Gordon, Alex Gansa |
| In Buffalo , the policewoman Sharon Lazard finds little Michelle Bishop alone in a side street. She takes them to the station, where Detective Barbala questions the girl. Meanwhile, Barbala falls to her death out of the window. Scully and Mulder investigate. Michelle testifies that a man pushed Barbala out the window, but according to Lazard, only Barballa and Michelle were in the room. Based on their testimony, a phantom image is made that is identified as the police officer Charlie Morris, but he died in a raid nine years ago . They then question Morris' old partner Tony Fiore. Fiore later meets Leon Felder, with whom he talks about money they stashed away during the raid. They are the last two men in the group still alive. Felder dies in a bus accident, Michelle is also on the bus during Felder's death. Scully and Mulder find out that Felder, Fiore, Barbala, and Morris have worked very closely together and meet Fiore's wife, Anita. She owns an origami collection from her first husband - Charlie Morris. Anita says Tony hasn't come home since last night. A psychologist conducts regression under hypnosis with Michelle . Mulder is certain that Michelle is a reincarnation of Morris. On the video footage of the session, Mulder finds a disturbance that he has investigated. The disturbance shows the image of a diver in a tank diving suit. Scully discovers in the autopsy report of Morris that he drowned in salt water before he was mutilated. Mulder and Scully based on the figure they saw in the aquarium in the Fiores house that Morris was drowned in that aquarium. You drive to Fiore's house and can save him from Michelle, who is already in the house. Fiore admits that he, Felder, and Barbala had stolen money and that Morris was about to blow them up. That was why they killed him. Michelle wants to kill Fiore, but spares him after Anita begs for mercy. The spirit of Morris seems to depart from Michelle. Michelle is then a happy, normal child, with no memories of what happened. | |||||||
| 23 | 23 | Roland | Roland | May 6, 1994 | March 3, 1995 | David Nutter | Chris Ruppenthal |
| In a laboratory in Colson, Washington , the mentally handicapped caretaker Roland Fuller is led by Dr. Keats reprimanded for using his code card incorrectly. Together with Frank Nolette and Ronald Genealogie Keats is working on a supersonic drive that should reach Mach 15. Keats and Nolette leave the laboratory, andURNOW enters the wind tunnel to make some adjustments. However, Roland starts the turbine and killshaben with it. Scully and Mulder investigate and find out that a former research team member, Arthur Grable, mysteriously died a few months ago. Mulder notices that there are four different handwritings on a blackboard with math calculations. So there must have been a fourth man present. Keats and Nolette say that only Roland was there, but he could hardly have committed a murder. Scully and Mulder visit the autistic Roland at the nursing home . Roland does not want to have seen anything and his handwriting does not match the one on the board. Roland is repeatedly plagued by visions that predict his actions. Driven by a vision, he kills Keats by dipping his head in liquid nitrogen . Then Roland works on the scientist's computer. The agents see that the computer was being used, and Mulder finds the password for the file in Roland's scribbles. The files were the ones Arthur Grable had worked out. Mulder and Scully examine Grable more closely and realize that he had hired Roland. Nolette informs the agents that Grable's head has been preserved in a laboratory and eventually the agents find out that Roland is Grable's twin brother. Nolette breaks into the laboratory where Grable's remains are stored and manipulates its storage tank. Roland is working in the laboratory again and finally reaches his goal of bringing the turbine to Mach 15 when Nolette arrives. Nolette admits to stealing Arthur's work and tries to kill Roland, but Roland knocks him down and drags him into the wind tunnel. He wants to kill Nolette, as he did previously. The agents try to stop him and save Nolette's life. Grable remains die off due to the rising temperature in his tank. Roland is taken to a psychiatric institute to be tested on him. | |||||||
| 24 | 24 | The laboratory | The Erlenmeyer Flask | May 13, 1994 | March 3, 1995 | RW Goodwin | Chris Carter |
| A man is shot in a car chase but escapes. The police find that the man's blood is green. Deep Throat points out the case to Mulder. The fugitive is called Dr. William Secare. The car that Secare used is due to the researcher Dr. Terrance Berube registered, but claims not to know about it. Shortly afterwards he is murdered, but the murder is disguised as a suicide . Berube did research on the decryption of DNA . Mulder examines Berube's house, Secare calls and Mulder poses as Berube, but he is bugged by Berube's killer. Secare is seriously injured and collapses in the phone booth, an emergency doctor is called. When the emergency doctor tries to establish an access, gas escapes from Secare's body, which numbs the doctors, while Secare escapes. Mulder goes to a warehouse whose keys he found in Berube's house. In the hall he finds tanks with living people in them. When he leaves the hall, he is followed, but he escapes. During their investigation, Scully finds out that the Erlenmeyer flask they found in Berube's laboratory contains bacteria samples that are of extraterrestrial origin. When Scully and Mulder return to the warehouse, it is empty, Deep Throat appears to announce that it was a gene transplant in which humans and aliens were crossed. Secare is therefore a hybrid and the government is also involved. Mulder finds Secare at Berube's house, but Secare is shot by Berube's killer and Mulder is captured. Scully receives help from Deep Throat in her search for Mulder . She is given access to a strictly secured research facility, where she finds an alien fetus preserved in liquid nitrogen . In an exchange, Deep Throat offers the fetus for Mulder. During the exchange, Deep Throat is shot dead by Berube's killer and Mulder is released. A few days later it was announced that the X-Files would be closed. The cancer candidate is keeping the alien fetus in a storage room for evidence at the Pentagon . | |||||||
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