The X-Files - The FBI's Creepy Cases / Season 4
| Season 4 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 | Oct. 4, 1996 - May 18, 1997 on FOX | ||
| German-language first broadcast |
Sep 14 1997 - March 1, 1998 on ProSieben | ||
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The fourth season of the US mystery television series The X-Files - The FBI's Scary Cases comprises 24 episodes and was first broadcast in the United States in 1996/97 and in Germany in 1997/98.
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| 74 | 1 | Herrenvolk - Part 2 | Lord Folk (2) | Oct. 4, 1996 | Sep 14 1997 | RW Goodwin | Chris Carter |
| In Alberta ( Canada ) is an electrician by a bee stung when he on a telephone pole works. He suffers an allergic reaction and dies, while five identical-looking boys watch him. Scully, Mulder, and Smith see the Bounty Hunter approach and Mulder and Smith flee while Scully tries to stop him. Mulder can stab the Bounty Hunter with the stiletto and then escape on a boat with Smith . The Bounty Hunter is not dead, however, but seizes Scully to find out where Mulder and Smith are going. Only when he realizes that she doesn't know anything does he let go of her. Mulder wants Smith to cure Teena, but he also knows that going to the hospital is too dangerous right now. Instead, they're going to Canada, where Smith says Mulder will see his sister again. In the meantime, the First Elder meets the cancer candidate in the hospital and confronts him with the photos of him with Teena. They realize there is a leak in their ranks and decide to divulge the false information that Teena is in danger to find out who the traitor is. The Bounty Hunter knows where Smith and Mulder are after overhearing a call from Scully to Mulder and is now trying to track them. Scully informs Skinner, who tells her that all of the other Smiths are gone. Scully and Agent Pendrell examine the files the Smiths were putting together and attempt to decrypt them. Scully meets with X , who tells her that the files are related to the government's smallpox eradication program and warns her that Teena is in danger. In Canada, Mulder and Smith find the electrician's body, which is already badly decayed, and Smith leads Mulder to a field where a group of identical children work. The girls all look like Samantha when she was kidnapped. Smith explains that the children are mindless workers and cannot speak. Mulder takes one of the female clones with him. Then the Bounty Hunter appears. He pushes the trio into a large beehive , where the bounty hunter is struck down by a trap of the trio and stabbed several times. Scully and Pendrell inform Skinner and a panel of the Smiths' files, which are a catalog of people. Again the bounty hunter reaches Mulder, Smith and the clone and knocks Mulder down, causing him to lose consciousness. The bounty hunter then pursues the fleeing Smith. Mulder returns to his mother's bedside. The consortium lures X into Mulder's apartment, where he is shot by the gray-haired man. X drags himself to Mulder's apartment, where he writes SRSG on the floor with his blood and then dies. The news leads Mulder to Marita Covarrubias, Assistant to the Special Representative to the Secretary-General of the United Nations . She tells Mulder that the fields in Canada have been abandoned, but shows him pictures of the drone kids at work. In the hospital, the cancer candidate instructs the bounty hunter to cure Mulder's mother so as not to make Mulder unpredictable. | |||||||
| 75 | 2 | Incest | Home | Oct 11, 1996 | Dec 29, 1997 | Kim Manners | Glen Morgan , James Wong |
| A woman gives birth to a disfigured child in the small town of Home , Pennsylvania . Three similarly disfigured men buried it near the house. Scully and Mulder investigate after some children find the baby's body while playing. Mulder asks Sheriff Andy Taylor if the Peacocks, whose house is near where they were found, were interviewed. Taylor denies and points out that the family is not integrated into the community, the house has neither electricity nor water and the family is inbreeding . The three Peacock brothers watch the agents from the veranda . The autopsy reveals that the baby was buried alive, and Scully suspects that the child's disfigurement may be due to inbreeding. Mulder notes that there are only three men in the Peacock household. Mulder and Scully go to the house, suspecting that the Peacocks may have kidnapped and raped a woman. In the house they find traces of blood, a pair of scissors and a shovel. An arrest warrant is issued for the brothers. In retaliation, the Peacocks break into Sheriff Taylor's and kill him and his wife. Lab tests show the child's parents must be members of the Peacock family. Forensic evidence points to the Peacocks as the perpetrators in the sheriff's murder, and so Scully Mulder and Deputy Barney Paster rush to the Peacock house to arrest the brothers. Upon entering the house, Paster is killed by a booby trap . Scully and Mulder let the Peacock pigs out of their stables to lure the brothers out of the house. The agents go into the house and find a woman there who no longer has arms or legs. It is Mrs. Peacock, the mother of the men, who has been inbreeding them for years. When the men notice that the agents are in, they rush into the house. Two of the men die, Mrs. Peacock escapes with her eldest son and plans to start a new family with him elsewhere. | |||||||
| 76 | 3 | Teliko | Teliko | Oct 18, 1996 | 21 Sep 1997 | James Charleston | Howard Gordon |
| An African man is attacked in the toilet of an airplane by a man with traits of albinism . The albino leaves the toilet with a normal black skin tone. After the plane landed in the United States, the other man's corpse is found, which no longer has any skin color. Three months later, Skinner informs Scully that four African American men had been kidnapped in Philadelphia , one of whom was found - he was also no longer skin color. An expert from the CDC believes there is an epidemic , which is why Scully should investigate. Mulder arrives and sends some samples from the man's autopsy to Agent Pendrell, who finds the seeds of a rare West African passion flower . Mulder brings the seed to his informant Marita Covarrubias and asks for help, whereupon she informs him about the dead person on the plane. Samuel Aboah, an immigrant from Africa seeking US citizenship, kidnaps a young African American at a bus stop. Mulder finds a seed of the flower there too. The agents question the social worker Marcus Duff, who also looks after Aboah, and ask him to compare the passenger list with his care cases, so they track Aboah. They arrest Aboah and examine him. Mulder visits a diplomat from Burkina Faso , who tells Mulder about a story of the Bambara people , called Teliko , "spirits of the air". Scully does positron emission tomography at Aboah , which shows that he does not have a pituitary gland . Aboah flees and meets Duff, whom he also kills. Mulder thinks Aboah is a Teliko. They find the bodies of other men on a construction site. Mulder is attacked by Aboah, but Scully shoots Aboah. It remains unclear whether Aboah will survive and what illness he is suffering from. | |||||||
| 77 | 4th | Restlessness | Restlessness | Oct 27, 1996 | 28 Sep 1997 | Rob Bowman | Vince Gilligan |
| In Traverse City ( Michigan ) Mary Lefante going to let go to a pharmacy to passport photos. Because she forgot her wallet, she rushes back to the car and finds her boyfriend there dead. The killer drugged Mary with a cannula and kidnapped her. The pharmacist looks at the picture he took of Mary and sees a screaming Mary against a blurry background. Mulder and Scully are investigating the case. Mulder tells Scully about Ted Serios, who was able to take mind photos, and suspects the killer may have a similar gift. In Lefante's apartment they find a camera that produces the same photo. Lefante is found in a forest and appears to have had a lobotomy . Later Alice Brand is kidnapped, she is handcuffed to a treatment chair and the kidnapper stands across from her with an ice ax in his hand. In Washington, DC , Mulder discovers that Lefante's photo has been tampered with and has it examined more closely, revealing the face of an older man and the shadow of the murderer, who appears to have extremely long legs. Scully is surveying a construction site maintained by a company that also had construction sites near the crime scene. There she meets the foreman Gerry Schnauz, who walks on stilts and tries to flee from her. Schnauz is arrested and questioned, he is already known to the police because he seriously injured his father because he abused his sister. When they question him about the fire, he says that she is now safe from the howlers. She was found soon after, and a lobotomy was performed on her too. Mulder believes that Schauz is trying to protect his victims from the Howlers and that the photos reflect his nightmares. Schnauz escapes from custody and robs the pharmacy. Scully is there and is kidnapped by Schnauz. Mulder looks at Gerry's father's former dental office and notices that the dental chair is missing. Scully wakes up from the anesthetic and is tied to the chair, Schnauz tells her that he wants to kill the howlers in her head and lobotomy her. But Mulder finds her in time and kills Schnauz. | |||||||
| 78 | 5 | Return of souls | The Field Where I Died | Nov 3, 1996 | Oct 5, 1997 | Rob Bowman | Glen Morgan, James Wong |
| In Apison, Tennessee , the authorities get a call from a caller called Sidney. He informs that the sect "Temple of the Seven Stars" perpetrates child abuse and illegally possesses weapons. FBI and BATF investigate the sect's estate, but cannot find sect leader Vernon Ephesian. Mulder is in a déjà vu and rushes to a field, where he finds Ephesian and his six wives under a trapdoor who are about to poison themselves. Ephesian is arrested, and Mulder feels an odd connection with Melissa Riedal-Ephesian, one of the cult leader's wives. Skinner points out that Ephesian and his wives will be released quickly if investigators fail to find Sidney or the guns. Ephesian denies knowing anyone by the name of Sidney. When Melissa is interrogated, she suddenly begins to speak like Sidney and says that Harry Truman is the incumbent president. Scully suspects dissociative identity disorder , but Mulder believes she remembers a previous life. They bring her back to the temple and there she takes on the personality of a woman from the American Civil War and says the guns are hidden in a bunker in the field. She also says that Mulder was in the field with her in a previous life and that she saw him die there. Melissa goes into regression hypnosis and says that she has met Mulder several times in previous lives. Mulder also lets himself be hypnotized and remembers a life in the Third Reich and during the American Civil War. At that time his name was Sullivan Biddle and Melissa's name was Sarah Kavanaugh. Scully finds pictures of Biddle and Kavenaugh in the city archives and gives them to Mulder. FBI and BATF search the Ephesian property again and the latter realizes that he will not get out of the matter alive. He distributes poison cocktails to his sect members and everyone dies. Mulder can only hold dead Melissa in his arms. | |||||||
| 79 | 6th | Witches' Sabbath | Sanguinarium | Nov 10, 1996 | Oct 12, 1997 | Kim Manners | Valerie Mayhew, Vivian Mayhew |
| While undergoing liposuction in Chicago , Dr. Harrison Lloyd suddenly forcibly suctioned large amounts of fat, causing the patient to die. Lloyd tells Mulder he felt mentally possessed. Scully is skeptical and suspects that this is an excuse. Mulder discovers pentagrams burned into the floor of the operating room and suspects witchcraft behind what happened. Mulder wants to check the medication Lloyd is taking. Dr. Ilaqua, another surgeon at the clinic, kills a patient under mysterious circumstances and cannot remember what happened. Scully suspects that both doctors are on the same medication. On the video of the second death, Mulder realizes that a pentagram can be seen on the victim's stomach. Similar deaths had occurred in the clinic ten years earlier. The nurse Rebecca Waite, who was present at all of the deaths, is suspected. The agents found evidence that she practices witchcraft at her home, but the evidence was placed there by other clinic employees. Dr. Franklin is attacked by Waite at his home. However, Waite cannot be questioned as she mysteriously dies. Mulder notices that all of the victims have their birthdays on the Witches' Sabbath and fears more deaths. Another patient dies in the clinic when acid eats away at his face. There are no suspects, so Mulder looks at himself using software like Dr. Franklin would look like after plastic surgery. It turns out that Franklin was actually Dr. Clifford Cox is believed to have been dead since the first deaths ten years ago. Cox tries to kill another victim because he wants to achieve eternal youth. Cox removes his skin to look younger and is not caught, even getting to another hospital ... | |||||||
| 80 | 7th | Thoughts of the mysterious smoker | Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man | Nov 17, 1996 | Oct 19, 1997 | James Wong | Glen Morgan |
| The cancer candidate, armed with a sniper rifle and surveillance gear, overhears a meeting of Mulder, Scully, and the Lone Gunmen. Frohike has some information about the cancer candidate's family background. Then the narrative changes to 1962 . The CSM is a captain in the US Army in Fort Bragg ( North Carolina ). A comrade, Bill Mulder, shows him a photo of his son Fox. The cancer candidate meets with the general and a group of men who appoint him to assassinate President John F. Kennedy . The cancer candidate is given the code name Mr. Hunt , kills Kennedy and leads the trail to Lee Harvey Oswald . Five years later he writes a novel under the pseudonym Raul Bloodworth . He meets with a group of men, including J. Edgar Hoover , and convinces the group that Martin Luther King, Jr. should be murdered. He even offers to do the job himself, and shortly afterwards a publisher rejects his novel. In 1991, the cancer candidate met with a number of subordinates and discussed the controversy surrounding Anita Hill and the Rodney King trial . He orders that the Buffalo Bills the Super Bowl not win and it turns out that he the Soviet goalkeeper with drugs put to the result of the Miracle on Ice influence. At this time he was also watching Fox Mulder. He receives a call from Deep Throat and they meet at the UFO crash site . The alien is still alive. Deep Throat and the Cancer Candidate ponder how many times they have influenced the story, Deep Throat then shoots the alien. In March 1992 the cancer candidate is present when Scully is assigned to the X-Files and in 1996 a publisher accepts his novel, but he realizes that his novel has been changed in some places, which disappoints him very much. Back to the present: The cancer candidate has the opportunity to shoot Frohike, but he doesn't, but he has the certainty that he will be able to do so at some point. | |||||||
| 81 | 8th | Tunguska - Part 1 | Tunguska (1) | Nov 24, 1996 | Nov 8, 1997 | Kim Manners | Frank Spotnitz, Chris Carter |
| Scully is before a committee of the Senate questioned about the whereabouts of Mulder. She does not want to answer the question and reads a statement in which she speaks of conspiracies within the government and Chairman Senator Sorenson threatens to prosecute her for disregarding the Senate. Ten days earlier, a courier at the airport of Honolulu , who from Georgia has entered the country, the customs controlled. One of the canisters he is carrying breaks and black oil leaks out (see also season 3, episode 15). At the same time, Scully and Mulder are taking part in an operation against domestic terrorism and Mulder's tipster within the group is Alex Krycek, who was freed from his prison (see season 3, episode 16) by the terrorists. Krycek has now turned his back on the cancer candidate and wants to work with the agents. He leads the agents to Washington Dulles International Airport , where they try to catch another courier with diplomatic baggage from Russia . There is a chase at the airport and the courier leaves the bag behind. There is a piece of rock in the pocket. Mulder takes Krycek to Skinner's apartment and ties him up on the balcony. The stone will be examined at the Goddard Space Flight Center and Dr. Sacks, a NASA scientist, tells Scully that the stone is a prehistoric meteorite that may contain fossils of extraterrestrial bacteria. Skinner is intercepted by the cancer candidate who demands the surrender of the bag. The courier breaks into Skinner's apartment, searches for the bag, and is then tossed over the balcony by Krycek. Dr. Sacks cuts open the stone, releasing the black oil that was inside the stone. The liquid penetrates the chemical protective suit and puts it in a comatose state. Mulder meets Marita Covarrubias in New York , who tells him that the rock comes from the Krasnoyarsk region of Russia and provides him with the documents and papers he needs for a trip there. Mulder takes Krycek because he speaks fluent Russian. In Charlottesville ( Virginia ), CSM from the "well-groomed man" is admonished when he finds out about Mulder's trip. The agents and Skinner are summoned to the Senate Committee because Sorenson wants to be informed of the whereabouts of the bag. Skinner therefore asks Scully about Mulder's whereabouts, but she keeps a low profile. Mulder and Krycek are hiking through the forests of Krasnoyarsk and Mulder thinks the stone is related to the Tunguska event . The two men observe a forced labor camp , are discovered and taken to a gulag . Skinner and Scully meet with Sorenson, who questions them about the death of the courier and Mulder's whereabouts. Mulder talks to a fellow prisoner who tells him that experiments are being carried out on prisoners in the gulag. Then guards come into the cell and numb Mulder, when he wakes up he is in a large room with other inmates. He is fixed on a table with chain link fence . Black substance is injected onto his face, which infects him with the black oil. | |||||||
| 82 | 9 | Tunguska - part 2 | Terma (2) | Dec. 1, 1996 | Nov 8, 1997 | Rob Bowman | Frank Spotnitz, Chris Carter |
| Mulder realizes in the Gulag that Krycek is a double agent working for the Russian guards. Mulder manages to escape from the camp and take Krycek hostage, but loses him on the run. Krycek is found by a group of men who have all amputated their left arm. They force Krycek to amputate his left arm so that he is no longer suitable for the experiments with the black oil vaccination. In the meantime, the former KGB agent Vasily Peskow travels to the USA, kills Dr. Bonita Charne-Sayre, who made the black oil vaccine for the consortium. He looks for their test subjects and tests a Russian vaccine on them, then he kills them to cover his tracks. Mulder returns to the US and assists Scully and Skinner before the Senate committee. The agents follow the trail of Peskow and follow him to Boca Raton ( Florida ). Peskow manages to outsmart the agents and destroy the last stones that contain the black oil. He returns to Russia, where you can see that Krycek had hired him. | |||||||
| 83 | 10 | The collection | Paper Hearts | Dec 15, 1996 | Nov 9, 1997 | Rob Bowman | Vince Gilligan |
| In a dream, Fox Mulder is taken to a place where he finds the body of a girl. He wakes up and rushes in the Park in Manassas ( Virginia ), whom he saw in his dream, and finds the skeleton of a girl. Apparently the girl was killed by John Lee Roche. Roche is a serial killer who murdered 13 girls in the 1980s, his trademark being cutting hearts from the clothes of his victims and keeping them as trophies. He was arrested by Mulder's psychogram at the time, at that time Roche was working as a sales representative for vacuum cleaners . The hearts were never found. The autopsy reveals the girl was murdered in 1975, suggesting that Roche began killing earlier than previously thought. The agents find the hearts in Roche's old car, there are 16 and the agents visit Roche to find out who the other two girls are. Roche tries to play with Mulder, whereupon Mulder dreams the following night that Samantha was kidnapped not by aliens but by Roche. The next day, Mulder asks Roche where he was when Samantha was kidnapped. Roche says he was in Martha's Vineyard and Mulder's father sold a vacuum cleaner. Mulder finds the old vacuum cleaner in his mother's house and manages to convince Skinner that they can question Roche again. This tells them the place where a corpse should lie. An autopsy on the body reveals that it is not Samantha. Roche only wants to reveal the location of Samantha's body if Mulder takes him to the house where he kidnapped her. Mulder secretly takes Roche out of jail and takes him to Martha's Vineyard. Mulder takes him to his father's summer house, which only came into his possession after Samantha's disappearance, and so Mulder convicts Roche of the lie. Mulder wants to bring Roche back to prison the next day , but when he wakes up after a dream about Samantha, Roche has disappeared with Mulder's badge , gun and cell phone. In Swampscott, Massachusetts , Roche kidnaps a girl with the help of Mulder's legitimation. Skinner and Scully arrive and they search Roche's apartment in Boston and find him on a disused bus with the girl. Roche threatens the child with the gun and tells Mulder that he will never find out where Samantha is without his help. Mulder shoots Roche when he tries to shoot the child. In his office, Mulder puts the last heart in his desk drawer, unsure whether it belonged to Samantha or not. | |||||||
| 84 | 11 | The chupacabra | El Mundo Gira | Jan. 12, 1997 | Oct 26, 1997 | Tucker Gates | John Shiban |
| Scully and Mulder are investigating the death of Maria Dorantes, an illegal immigrant from Mexico found in the San Joaquin Valley near Fresno . Her face is partially eaten away and it rained yellow rain during her murder. The two brothers Eladio and Soledad Buente were both in love with Maria and Soledad blames his brother for Maria's death. The migrants believe that the chupacabra was responsible for Maria's death. Mulder receives assistance from Mexican-American INS agent Conrad Lozano. Together they find Eladio, who terrifies the other inmates. Scully finds out that Maria was killed by the fungus growing from the watering can mold . Eladio flees when he is about to be taken to court and kills the driver of the van. The driver's death was killed by rapid growth of Trichophyton ( athlete's foot ). Scully has a mycologist examine the mushrooms . The rapid growth of the mushrooms is attributed to a previously unknown enzyme and Scully believes Eladio is the carrier of this enzyme. Eladio tries to come to Mexico again, but needs money for this, which he wants to borrow from his cousin Gabrielle. After all, he works on a construction site in order to make money. Soledad comes to the construction site because he wants to kill his brother, but only finds the dead foreman . Eladio escapes in the foreman's truck and drives to the supermarket where Gabrielle works, spreading the fungus even further. The agents pose in the supermarket and find a dead employee of the market. Eladio visits Gabrielle in her apartment, his head is now disfigured by the fungus growth. Out of fear, she gives him money and later lies to the agents about Eladio's whereabouts. Eladio returns to the camp where Maria died and meets Lozano, who asks Soledad to kill Eladio. Since Soledad fails to shoot his brother, a scuffle ensues between Lozano and Soledad, with Lozano being killed by an accidentally triggered shot. Soledad is himself a carrier of the mushroom growth and flees to Mexico with Eladio. | |||||||
| 85 | 12 | Leonard Betts | Leonard Betts | Jan. 26, 1997 | Nov 16, 1997 | Kim Manners | Vince Gilligan, John Shiban, Frank Spotnitz |
| In Pittsburgh the paramedic Leonard Betts is beheaded in an accident of his ambulance . Later, his headless body leaves the morgue . Scully and Mulder visit the morgue and find Betts' head in the medical waste. Scully wants to examine the head more closely, but when she tries to begin, the eyes and mouth of the head open. Meanwhile, Mulder looks around Betts' apartment and after Mulder has left the apartment, Betts gets out of his iodine- filled bathtub, his head has already grown back. Mulder interrogates Michelle Wilkes, Betts' former partner at the ambulance who was v. a. reminds of Betts' gift of diagnosing cancer . When a polymerized section of Betts' head is examined, the agents discover that his frontal lobe shows signs of advanced cancer. In addition, an aura photograph is taken, the picture shows a corona discharge on which the beginnings of a human shoulder can be seen. Scully finds out through fingerprints that Betts has an alter ego named Albert Tanner. Albert Tanner's mother, Elaine Tanner, testifies that her son died in a car accident six years ago . Wilckes meets and speaks to Betts at another hospital , but he injects her with potassium chloride , but is prevented from escaping by a security guard and handcuffed to his car. Betts manages to escape, losing his thumb in the process. The agents found discarded cancer tumors in Bett's car . Mulder believes Betts needs the tumors and that it represents a radical leap in evolution. The car is registered to Elaine Tanner, but she takes her son under protection. Betts kills a man who has lung cancer . In a warehouse , Betts seems to split his body, creating a duplicate . When the agents arrive at the warehouse, the duplicate flees in a car, which explodes shortly afterwards. Scully believes that Albert Tanner was faked, but an exhumation reveals his body in the coffin . Mulder believes that Betts can regenerate his entire body and that he is still on the run as a result. Betts removes a cancerous tumor from his mother and then calls the ambulance. The agents are already shading the house and enter it with the paramedics. Mulder searches the neighborhood for Betts, at the hospital Scully realizes that Betts rode on the roof of the car. Betts attacks her and tells her she has something he needs, and Scully realizes that she, too, has cancer. Scully manages to kill Betts, but the diagnosis of cancer makes her pensive. During the night she wakes up with a nosebleed , which confirms the diagnosis. | |||||||
| 86 | 13 | Ergot | Never again | Feb. 2, 1997 | Nov 23, 1997 | Rob Bowman | Glen Morgan, James Wong |
| In Philadelphia , Ed Jerse loses the divorce case against his wife and then gets drunk in a bar . He wanders through the city and has a pin-up girl tattooed on his arm in the style of Sailor Jerry with the slogan "Never Again". The next day at work he overhears a woman calling him a "loser" and confronts an employee about it, who pretends to be innocent. In Washington, DC , Scully and Mulder question Russian informant Pudovkin, who claims to have seen a UFO at a secret research facility. Back at headquarters, Mulder gets ready for his Graceland vacation and asks Scully to stay with Pudovkin. Scully sees no need for action in the case and argues with Mulder about the direction of her life and career. Ed has now been fired and hears the same voice in his apartment and yells at his neighbor because he thinks it is her. Eventually he kills his neighbor and burns her body in the boiler . The voice speaks to him again and he realizes it's the tattoo . Scully is in Philadelphia following Pudovkin as he walks into a tattoo parlor. In the studio, she meets Ed, who argues with the tattoo artist and demands that his tattoo be removed. Ed speaks to Scully and invites her to dinner, but she refuses. Scully informs Mulder that Pudovkin is a fraud and works for the Russian Mafia . Then she meets with Ed. She is concerned about his bleeding tattoo that he burned with a cigarette. He convinces her to get a tattoo and Scully chooses an Ouroboros on her back. She spends the night in Ed's apartment and Ed's tattoo is jealous of her. The next morning two policemen are standing in front of the door, Scully opens because Ed is not there. The police tell her about the missing neighbor and that blood containing an unusual chemical was found in her home. She researches Ed's laptop and calls Mulder, but hangs up before Mulder answers. When Ed comes back Scully tells him everything and also says that the blood is his. She believes the chemicals got into their bodies through the tattoo and wants them both to go to the hospital . Ed tells her about his talking tattoo. Scully goes into the other room to get ready, Ed's tattoo tells him to check who she's on the phone and he realizes that she called the FBI. Ed attacks Scully, eventually overpowers her and takes her to the stove. Ed can break the influence of his tattoo by burning his arm in the stove. In Washington DC, Mulder congratulates her on the case, and it turns out that the tattoo was responsible for Ed's hallucinations , but Scully did not have enough of the substances in his blood to have hallucinations. | |||||||
| 87 | 14th | Memento Mori | Memento Mori | Feb 9, 1997 | Nov. 30, 1997 | Rob Bowman | Chris Carter, Vince Gilligan, John Shiban |
| Scully learns that she a cancer tumor has, the non oparabel between their sinuses and the telencephalon sitting. She reports the diagnosis to Mulder and Skinner and wants to continue working. The agents go to Allentown ( Pennsylvania ) by Betsy Hagopian to visit a member of MUFON , were observed in the symptoms (see Season 3, Episode 9). They learn that Betsy has died and realize that someone is using her phone line to copy data from her PC over the Internet . They have it traced back to Kurt Crawford, another MUFON member. Crawford tells them that all of the MUFON members Scully met at the time died of cancer. Crawford also believes there is a government conspiracy behind Scully's illness and kidnapping. Scully visits Penny Northern, the last surviving member to be treated in a clinic. Mulder finds out that all of the abductees were childless but were being treated in a fertility clinic. After Mulder is called away by Scully, Crawford is killed with a stiletto by the gray-haired ring killer , revealing that he was a human-alien hybrid. Scully wants to start chemotherapy after talking to Penny's doctor, Dr. Scanlon, has spoken. Mulder looks around the clinic and finds a living Crawford. Together they hack into the clinic's system and find out that Scully has a file there too. Mulder asks Skinner to meet the cancer candidate to make a deal that will save Scully, but Skinner says there must be another way. Mulder breaks into a guarded research facility with the Lone Shooters and hopes to get new information. Meanwhile, Skinner tries to make a deal with the cancer candidate himself and he wants to get back to him. Mulder finds out that Dr. Scanlon collaborates with Crawford clones . The clones show Mulder Scully's harvested eggs and they tell him that they want to save the women because they see them as mothers. They also want to undermine the colonization project. Mulder takes Scully's eggs with him and is chased by the gray-haired killer, but escapes successfully. He meets Scully, who tells him that Penny has died and that she now wants to fight the disease. Mulder calls Skinner and thanks him for not letting him contact the cancer candidate. But Skinner is already secretly discussing the deal with the cancer candidate. | |||||||
| 88 | 15th | The golem | Kaddish | Feb 16, 1997 | Nov 2, 1997 | Kim Manners | Howard Gordon |
| In Brooklyn ( New York City ) is a group of Jews that the Hasidism belong together and bury Isaac Luria, of a group of three neo-Nazis was murdered. Isaac's wife Ariel and her father Jacob are the last to leave the cemetery . At night, an unknown person moves around the cemetery and creates a human figure out of mud that begins to breathe. One of Isaac's murderers is found dead and Isaac's fingerprints are found on the body , so Scully and Mulder begin an investigation. Scully believes in revenge and thinks the fingerprints are fake. Nevertheless, they ask for an exhumation of Isaac, which infuriates Jacob. Mulder and Scully interview Curt Brunjes, the racist owner of a copy shops in the neighborhood. Mulder warns Brunjes that Isaac's other two killers are in danger. The two killers dig up Isaac and find his body completely intact. One of the two is murdered while the other is bringing the tools to the car. Scully and Mulder find a book on Jewish mysticism on Isaac's body that goes up in flames in Mulder's hands. Jacob's name is on the book and the agents find him in the synagogue . There they also find the hanged body of Isaac's third murderer. Jacob confesses to both murders, but Mulder believes it was a golem . Then Brunjes is found dead and the golem in the form of Isaac can be seen on the surveillance camera film. Mulder believes that Ariel created the golem that is supposed to act as Isaac's proxy so the two can officially get married in the synagogue . In the synagogue, the agents find Ariel and the golem making their marriage vows. In a fight, Mulder and Jacob are injured and Ariel turns the golem back into mud. | |||||||
| 89 | 16 | Invisible | Unrequited | Feb 23, 1997 | Dec 7, 1997 | Michael Lange | Howard Gordon, Chris Carter; Idea: Howard Gordon |
| Major General Benjamin Bloch makes a speech before a group of Vietnam War - veterans on the National Mall . Scully, Mulder, and Skinner watch the crowd looking for an assassin . When the agents see the shooter, he repeatedly disappears, making tracking difficult. Mulder points his pistol at the panicked crowd after the shooter disappeared just ahead of him. Twelve hours earlier, Lieutenant General Peter MacDougal was shot dead by the shooter in his limousine at Fort Evanston, Maryland . A King of Hearts playing card is found on his corpse . US soldiers in Vietnam used these cards to mark their victims. The FBI suspects a right-wing group to be responsible for the murder. Mulder and Scully interview Danny Markham, the leader of this paramilitary group, in Virginia and find numerous weapons and ammunition on his property. There is also a picture of him and Nathaniel Teager, the shooter. Markham testifies that Teager was left to die as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. At the Vietnam Veterans Memorial , a soldier's widow meets Teager, who tells her that her husband is still alive but still in captivity. According to Skinner, Teager is officially dead, but Mulder finds out that there is no clear evidence of Teager's death. Mulder fears that General John Steffan, who issued Teager's death certificate , could be the next victim. In fact, Teager shoots the general in the Pentagon . Security hadn't noticed Teager, and Mulder suspected that Teager could disappear from people's view. Marita Covarrubias informs Mulder that Steffan, MacDougal and Bloch denied the existence of prisoners of war in Vietnam on behalf of the government. Teager tries to shoot Bloch, but only wounds Skinner. While on the run, Teager is shot by the agents. According to the Pentagon, it was not Teager but an unknown person, which Mulder thinks is a lie. | |||||||
| 90 | 17th | Tempus Fugit - Part 1 | Tempus Fugit (1) | March 16, 1997 | Dec 14, 1997 | Rob Bowman | Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz |
| Max Fenig is on a plane over New York and believes he is being followed by a man. The man assembles a pistol from components in the aircraft's toilet . Suddenly the plane begins to vibrate and a bright light comes on. The door of the emergency exit next to Fenig is opened from the outside. Scully and Mulder celebrate Scully's birthday at a bar where they meet Sharon Graffia, who poses as Fenig's sister. She says that Max wanted to bring something to Mulder, but the plane crashed. The agents go to the crash site in Northville, New York and attend an NTSB meeting. Mulder believes the plane was crashed by aliens and that Fenig was abducted by aliens. Mike Millar, the NTSB's chief investigator, rejects Mulder's suggestion. Scully and Mulder discover that there is a nine-minute difference between the time of the crash and the wristwatches of the dead passengers. Scott Garrett, a man in black, stole the improvised pistol from the body of the man who chased Fenig, disguised as an NTSB investigator. He also disfigured the corpse with acid to make identification more difficult. The passenger who was sitting next to Fenig is found alive, his injuries indicate exposure to ionizing radiation . Sharon Graffia denies that Fenig brought radioactive material on board, but does not admit to being his sister. Scully believes Fenig smuggled plutonium on the plane. Mulder still believes Fenig was kidnapped. Scully informs Mulder that Fenig's body has already been removed from the crash site. Sharon Griffan is kidnapped from her hotel room. Mulder identifies Fenig's body and finds that all dead bodies have their watches removed. He refutes the NTSB's official statement that a malfunction caused the crash and believes lack of time is key to the solution. The agents question Louis Frish, an air traffic controller for the US Air Force. Frish states that nothing unusual has happened. After the agents leave, Frish discusses the "truth" with his colleague. Millar tells Mulder that the aircraft's emergency exit was opened from the outside in flight. Frish finds his colleague dead, an armed group of men approaches, but Frish is able to hide. Frish meets with Scully and Mulder. He says the plane was intercepted and disappeared from the radar after an explosion . Mulder believes a UFO was involved. The agents and Frish are now being followed. Millar encounters a UFO at the crash site and finds Sharon, who has returned from her abduction. Scully and Frish rush to Washington, DC while Mulder tries to find the UFO. In a bar, Frish and Scully meet Agent Pendrell, Scott Garrett arrives and shoots Pendrell, while Scully and Frish escape. Mulder comes to the lake where the UFO is suspected, but a search party is already looking. Mulder dives to the bottom of the lake and finds the UFO and the lifeless body of an alien. | |||||||
| 91 | 18th | Tempus Fugit - Part 2 | Max (2) | March 23, 1997 | Dec 21, 1997 | Kim Manners | Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz |
| Mulder is placed under arrest by the military after they detain him on the beach. In Washington, DC , Scully takes care of Pendrell while Garrett escapes. Frish is placed under the supervision of the military and is under investigation for false testimony . Scully brings Mulder out of custody and tells him the official version of the crash. According to Gonzales and Frish are responsible for it, but for Mulder the UFO is the cause of the accident. Scully tells Mulder that Graffia is not Max Fenig's sister, but that they know each other from a mental hospital. The agents look around Fenig's trailer while the military retrieve the UFO and the alien bodies from the lake. Millar's investigation yielded no results. Mulder believes that Fenig had evidence of extraterrestrial life aboard the machine and that he should have been kidnapped by extraterrestrials on the flight. The attack by the military interceptor crashed the plane and the UFO. Mulder finds a pick-up slip for a bag at the airport in Fenig's trailer. Graffia tells Scully that she stole technology from her former employer that Fenig believed to be extraterrestrial. This consisted of three parts, one of which Max had on board, one part is in her possession and the third is hidden. Mulder picks up the bag at the airport in New York and finds the third part of the technology in it. On the plane back to Washington DC, Mulder meets Garrett. Garrett calls for the technology to be released. Suddenly the plane is shaken and a bright light comes on. Once in Washington DC, Garrett and the bag are gone. Mulder has no recollection of what happened, but he's nine minutes away. | |||||||
| 92 | 19th | Return from the future | Synchrony | Apr 13, 1997 | Jan. 11, 1998 | James Charleston | Howard Gordon, David Greenwalt |
| In Cambridge ( Massachusetts ), the two have Kryotechniker Jason Nichols and Lucas Menand a war of words on the street. An old man arrives and warns Menand not to be run over by the bus shortly . The security service of the MIT campus takes the old man firmly, but shortly thereafter Menand is actually detected by the bus and killed. Scully and Mulder investigate and question Nichols, who has been taken into custody because the bus driver said Nichols pushed Menand in front of the bus. The security guard who took the old man away is found dead. He froze to death after being exposed to a chemical freezing agent. Jason admits to Mulder that Menand threatened to inform the public about Jason's fake research. The old man kills Dr. Yonechi by injecting him with a chemical substance. The agents speak to Nichol's friend Lisa Ianelli, who identifies the chemical compound as a fast freezing agent, something Jason has researched for years but has not yet invented. She says that if Yonechi is infected with it, he could still be alive. Lisa, Scully and a medical team succeed in resuscitating Yonechi, but his body heat rises so quickly that he goes up in flames. The agents get a tip from the police that the old man lives in a hotel room and there they find a photo of Jason, Lisa and Yeonechi. Through the picture, Mulder realizes that the old man is a time traveler who wants to change the future and that man is Jason Nichols. Lisa meets the old man and confronts him, while he also injects her with the chemical . Scully manages to save her. Jason confronts the old self in the lab's computer room when the old man tries to erase Jason research. The old man explains that Jason research will enable time travel, but it will also bring chaos. A scuffle breaks out, the old man clings to Jason and goes up in flames, killing them both. Lisa later tries to reconstruct the chemical in the laboratory. | |||||||
| 93 | 20th | An insignificant nobody | Small potatoes | Apr 20, 1997 | Jan. 18, 1998 | Cliff Bole | Vince Gilligan |
| Scully and Mulder investigate the births of five children, all of whom were born with a tail. The youngest child's mother, Amanda Nelligan, claims that Luke Skywalker is the child's father. Research shows that all children have the same father. The children's parents blame the head of a fertility clinic for doing artificial inseminations on all mothers except Nelligan . At the clinic, Mulder finds the caretaker who obviously had a dick too. It turns out that the caretaker Eddie van Blundht is the father of all children. Scully suspects Eddie was using knockout drops , but Mulder doubts it. Eddie escapes as he is able to take on the outward form of a police officer. The agents visit his father, a former circus performer, but they quickly realize that it is Eddie who is able to escape again. Eddie transforms into one of the children's fathers and when the real man shows up at home, he transforms into Mulder and leaves the house. The dead body of Eddie's father is found and Scully takes place at a post-mortem examination found that he had an extra muscle layer. Mulder believes Eddie has this layer of muscle and can change his appearance. Eddie visits Nelligan in the form of Mulder and shows her a photo of Eddie. Nelligan says she dated Eddie in high school but he was a loser. Eddie leaves disappointed and the real Mulder visits Nelligan. Mulder quickly notices that Eddie was there and looks for him. Eddie manages to surprise and knock Mulder down. In Mulder's guise, he convinces Scully to return to Washington, DC . Scully and Eddie (in the guise of Mulder) give Skinner their final report. In the evening Eddie visits Scully with a bottle of wine and tries to get her drunk. Just before they kiss, the real Mulder arrives and interrupts them. Eddie turns back again. While in custody, he is given a muscle relaxant to prevent him from transforming. He tells Mulder that he was born to be a loser, but that Mulder would choose life as a loser willingly. | |||||||
| 94 | 21st | The pact with the devil | Zero Sum | Apr 27, 1997 | Jan 25, 1998 | Kim Manners | Howard Gordon, Frank Spotnitz |
| In a mail center in Vienna ( Virginia ) a woman by a swarm is bees killed. On behalf of the cancer candidate, Walter Skinner removes the evidence at the crime scene , as well as files on Mulder's PC . He burns the woman's body and pretends to be Fox Mulder to the local police to exchange blood samples . As he tries to leave the police station, he is stopped by Detective Ray Thomas, who thinks he is Mulder. Skinner manages to shake him off and tells him the investigation is over. Back in Washington, DC , Skinner meets Mulder, who has noticed that the investigation is being tampered with. Mulder also knows that Thomas was murdered, which shocks Skinner. Skinner later meets the cancer candidate and the gray-haired man who murdered Thomas. Skinner wants to break away from the cancer candidate, but Skinner knows how to keep Skinner under control. Mulder informs Skinner of the missing and tampered evidence, but the murder weapon in Thomas' case is in ballistics . Skinner realizes that it is his weapon and that he fell into the trap of the cancer candidate. In the mail center, Skinner finds a beehive with dead bees behind a wall . He takes samples to an entomologist and learns that Mulder was there six months ago for a similar matter, whereupon Skinner also contacts Marita Covarrubias, who cannot help him ( Note: This creates a bridge to episode 1 of the fourth season, in which the killer bees also played a role. ). The entomologist is killed by the bees, and his body shows symptoms of smallpox infection . It quickly becomes clear that the bees are transmitting the disease and it appears that the bees were released by a package in the mail center. Mulder realizes from a security camera photo that it was Skinner who tampered with the evidence. The cancer candidate visits the consortium that is responsible for the bees. In South Carolina , a school is attacked by a swarm of bees and Skinner encounters Covarrubias on the spot, who he tells him that he sees the bees as carriers of disease. Skinner meets Mulder in Washington DC, but Skinner manages to get Mulder to understand that he was lured into a trap by the cancer candidate. Mulder then ensures that the murder weapon cannot be traced back to Skinner. Skinner confronts the cancer candidate in a rage. Covarrubias later calls the cancer candidate and he tells her to tell Mulder what he wants to know. At Covarrubias there is a man who overhears the conversation but cannot be recognized. | |||||||
| 95 | 22nd | Omen of death | Elegy | May 4, 1997 | Feb 8, 1998 | James Charleston | John Shiban |
| Angie Pintero, owner of a bowling alley , sends his autistic colleague Harold Spuller into the evening. Shortly afterwards, Pintero sees a young woman trapped in the mechanics of a bowling alley. Pintero sees the police standing in front of his shop and hurries out. The police pick up a body found outside and Pintero realizes that it is the young woman from the bowling alley. Scully and Mulder investigate and suspect that Pintero saw the ghost of the young woman. There have been three similar incidents in the area. On the track on which Pintero saw the ghost, the words She is me ( Eng . "She is me)" are written. An anonymous tip is received over the phone, according to which another victim said She is me as the last word before her death. According to the results of the autopsy , this may not have been possible because her throat was crushed. The call came from a phone booth near a mental hospital, where the agents also meet Harold Spuller. When Scully goes to the washroom because of a nosebleed, a ghost appears there, and the woman's body is found shortly afterwards. At the bowling center, Mulder discovers that Spuller is keeping all the scoresheets, including those of the victims. Spuller suddenly sees the ghost of Pintero and rushes to him. Pintero had a fatal heart attack. Spuller is brought back to the clinic, where he is tormented by nurse Innes. Mulder later finds Innes passed out, claiming that Spuller knocked her down. The patient Chuck Forsch tells Scully that Innes is trying to poison Spuller, and Scully realizes that Innes was responsible for the murders. Scully confronts Innes, whereupon Innes attacks her. Scully is overwhelmed by a shot in the shoulder. Innes admits to having influenced Spuller's behavior through drugs and to want to stop his crushes with the murders. Spuller is found dead shortly afterwards, and Scully later sees his ghost in the back seat of her car. | |||||||
| 96 | 23 | Demons | Demons | May 11, 1997 | Feb 22, 1998 | Kim Manners | RW Goodwin |
| Mulder has flashbacks in which he looks back at his childhood. He and his sister Samantha watch their parents quarrel. When Mulder awakens he finds himself in a hotel room in Providence ( Rhode Iceland ), his clothes smeared with blood. He contacts Scully, who finds him in shock . Mulder has no memory, has a severe headache, and two shots have been fired from his gun. He also has keys that belong to a couple named David and Amy Cassandra. At the Cassandra's house, the housekeeper tells them that the couple are not there. In a picture that Amy painted, Mulder recognizes a summer house that is near his parents' summer house. Once there, he suffers a severe headache again and has flashbacks in which he sees the young cancer candidate in his parents' house. In the house, the agents find the Cassandra couple lifeless, they were shot. Mulder is arrested by the police as a suspect. During the autopsy , Scully finds a scabbed scratch on Amy's forehead, the blood on Mulder's clothes belongs to the Cassandras, but Mulder refuses to admit that he has no memories. Traces of ketamine are found in Amy's and Mulder's blood . Flashbacks haunt Mulder again. Scully suspects that the Cassandras killed themselves, they were under psychiatric treatment. Mulder visited them because he wanted to find out about Amy's alleged alien abduction . The agents visit the Cassandra’s doctor, Dr. Golstein, he denies knowing Mulder, although Mulder thinks he knows him. Mulder has flashbacks again and sees his mother, Teena, who is arguing with the cancer candidate. He drives to her and asks her to find out the truth, but she is silent. Mulder believes the cancer candidate was responsible for Samantha's abduction and wants to know who his father is. Mulder rushes back to Goldstein and demands treatment from him so that he can remember everything. Again and again he has flashbacks. When Scully arrives at the office, Mulder has disappeared and Goldstein is arrested. Scully finds Mulder at his parents' summer house, who has more flashbacks there. In the end, he is acquitted of suspicion of murder. | |||||||
| 97 | 24 | gethsemane | gethsemane | May 18, 1997 | March 1, 1998 | RW Goodwin | Chris Carter |
| The episode begins in medias res . The police find a body in Mulder's apartment, Scully identifies the body and then takes part in an FBI committee chaired by FBI section chief Blevins, where she reports on her work with Mulder on the X-Files. Some time earlier, the frozen corpse of an alien was found in the Canadian St. Elias Mountains . The group leader of the expedition , Prof. Arlinsky, sends ice samples that could contain alien DNA to Mulder. Scully examines her and confirms the presence of alien DNA, but she is then attacked by a man who steals the samples. Scully finds out that her attacker, Michael Kritschgau, works for the Department of Defense , she pursues him and arrives at him, but he informs her that his life is in danger. In the meantime, Mulder and Arlinsky return to the mountains and find the expedition members shot dead. Only one man, Babcock, survived and tells them he hid the alien. The men take the alien's body to Washington, DC, where Mulder and Arlinsky perform an autopsy . When Mulder meets with Scully, the killer Scott Ostelhoff kills Arlinsky. Mulder meets Scully and Kritschgau, who says that everything Mulder thinks he knows about aliens is a lie. The kidnapping of Samanthas was bogus and the evidence of extraterrestrial life was biological anomalies. The entire alien myth is an invention of the US government to divert attention from secret military projects and Scully's cancer is also linked to it. Mulder finds Babcock and Arlinsky dead, the alien corpse has disappeared, and Mulder retreats to his apartment in desperation. The narrative jumps back to the present, where Scully testifies before the committee that Mulder died last night from a self-inflicted headshot. | |||||||
Web links
- Season 4 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Season 4 at fernsehserien.de