The X-Files: The FBI's Creepy Cases / Season 7

Season 7 of the X-Files: The FBI's Creepy Cases
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Episodes	22nd
Country of production	United States , Canada
First broadcast	November 7, 1999 - May 21, 2000 on FOX
German-language first broadcast	October 9, 2000 - March 19, 2001 on ProSieben
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The first broadcast of the seventh season was from November 7, 1999 to May 21, 2000 on the US broadcaster Fox . The German-language premiere broadcast of the German Free TV transmitter ProSieben of 9 October 2000 to 19 March 2,001th

No. ( total )	No. ( St. )	German title	Original title	First broadcast in the USA	German language first broadcast (D)	Director	script
140	1	Evil Signs - Part 1	The Sixth Extinction (1)	Nov 7, 1999	Oct 9, 2000	Kim Manners	Chris Carter
Scully is investigating the UFO found on the Ivory Coast when she sees an African native in her tent, who immediately disappears. Shortly afterwards her entire tent is populated by insects. In the US, Director Skinner visits Mulder at Georgetown Memorial Hospital. Mulder still seems out of his mind, but he secretly slips Skinner a cry for help. Scully gets support from Merkmellen's colleague Dr. Amina Ngebe, warning Scully about her appearance. Soon, mysterious things happen and then Dr. Barnes added. At Mulder's behest, Skinner contacts Michael Kritschgau and takes him to Mulder. With the help of a drug, Kritschgau succeeds in lowering Mulder's brain activities so that he can speak again. Mulder points out Fowley's connections with the cancer candidate. In Africa, Scully and Dr. Barnes deciphered parts of the inscriptions on the UFO, but Barnes grew stranger and prevented Scully and Ngebe from leaving. He then notices that the UFO brings dead fish back to life, whereupon the two women knock him down and flee. On the run, Scully has apparitions of the unknown stranger again. Kritschgau and Skinner test Mulder's brain activity and drug him again, but Fowley disturbs them and Mulder has a seizure. Barnes kills his driver in an experiment, but he rises and kills him. Scully comes back to the USA, visits Mulder, while Ngebe arrives in Africa with the police on the beach, finds the body of Barnes, but at the same time has to discover that the UFO has disappeared.
141	2	A thousand votes - part 2	The Sixth Extinction (2)	Nov 14, 1999	Oct 16, 2000	Michael Watkins	David Duchovny , Chris Carter
One after the other, Teena Mulder and cancer candidate Fox visit Mulder in the hospital, who is still paralyzed. The Cancer Candidate gives him a drug that brings Fox back to his senses, and the Cancer Candidate explains that he is his father and takes Mulder with him from the hospital. Kritschgau explains to Scully that Mulder's contact with the part of the UFO activated the black oil in him again (see season 4, episode 9) and thus Mulder is proof of extraterrestrial life. Skinner tells Scully that Teena picked her son up from the hospital, but she only signed the discharge papers. Meanwhile, Mulder is taken by the cancer candidate to a house in an unknown neighborhood, where he meets his former informant Deep Throat, who claims to have only staged his death. Fox eventually meets Fowley and the two become intimate. Scully finds out that it was not Teena but the cancer candidate that took Fox out of the hospital and then gets mailed a book about Native American beliefs. She visits Kritschgau again and finds out that he has hacked her PC, she deletes the data and leaves his apartment. Meanwhile, Mulder meets his sister Samantha, marries Fowley, and has children with her. Years go by and Fowley dies and it turns out he's only dreamed it all. He is in a government facility and is being examined by doctors while Fowley and the cancer candidate watch him. The cancer candidate finally wants to have parts of Mulder's meninges transplanted, he believes Mulder is a human-alien hybrid that will survive the coming attack by the aliens. In his dream, Mulder, the cancer candidate who is not aging, tells him that everyone else has died. When the cancer candidate looks out of the window, one sees the apocalyptic destruction of the earth by the aliens. Back in reality: Krycek kills Kritschgau and steals his laptop. Scully meets Albert Hosteen in a dream and when she wakes up again, a stranger gives her an access card to the facility where Mulder is. She goes into the facility and takes Mulder out. She meets with Mulder a week later and tells him that Fowley was found dead while telling her about the death of Albert Hosteen.
142	3	hunger	Hungry	Nov 21, 1999	Oct 23, 2000	Kim Manners	Vince Gilligan
In Costa Mesa, California, a young man is murdered in a fast food restaurant. His brainless body is found, so Scully and Mulder are asked to help the police with the investigation. The only clue is an employee button that is found in the restaurant and the only employee who cannot show his button is Derwood Spinks, who has a criminal record. Mulder, however, believes that the victim's brain was removed from a trunk and suspects Rob Roberts, an associate. Rob is a mutant who hides his looks under a disguise and eats brains. When his landlady Sylvia is observed by a sniffer, he kills this too and devours the brain, making his desire more and more uncontrolled. Spinks blackmailed Rob with evidence of the murder in the restaurant, which is why Rob later kills too. In an interview with a psychologist, Rob speaks of an eating disorder, and she sends him to the Overeaters Anonymous. Before the meeting, Rob is put under pressure again by the agents who are on him. At the OA meeting he meets Sylvia, with whom he then goes home together, but then eats her and discards her body. In order to cover up traces, he destroys his apartment with Spinks' baseball bat and Rob tells the agents as Spinks as the perpetrator. The psychologist visits him and sees that Rob is packing his things to leave. After a heated discussion, Rob reveals who he really is, she shows understanding for him. But then the agents arrive who found Sylvia's body. Rob attacks Mulder, whereupon Mulder shoots him.
143	4th	millennium	millennium	Nov 28, 1999	Oct 30, 2000	Thomas J. Wright	Vince Gilligan, Frank Spotnitz
(Note: The episode is a crossover with the series Millennium - Fear Your Neighbor Like Yourself, which was also developed by Chris Carter) Former FBI agent Raymond Crouch was buried in Tallahassee, Florida on December 21, 1999. Mark Johnson offers condolences to the widow and tells her that he worked with her late husband. After all the mourners have left the funeral hall, Johnson goes to the open coffin, removes the suit from the corpse, which he then puts on himself, and places a cell phone in the coffin. A week later, Johnson observes the grave and suddenly the cell phone rings and he goes to the grave with a shovel. Scully and Mulder are later assigned to investigate the empty grave. You can see that the coffin has been damaged from the inside. Skinner tells agents that Crouch's grave and the graves of three other former agents have been desecrated, and that all four men committed suicide. A circle of goat blood is secured around the grave, so Mulder believes there is a necromancy. After another meeting, Skinner instructs the two agents to continue investigating v. a. Crouch's possible connections to the now disbanded Millennium Group are to be revealed. Mulder and Scully visit Frank Black (protagonist of the series Millennium ) in a psychiatric hospital in Virginia , who initially does not want to help them because he fears that ties to the Millennium group could negatively affect his custody battle. But finally he agrees and explains that the four members of the group believed that their suicide could prematurely herald the end of the world. Johnson is stopped by the police with a flat tire when the officer discovers Crouch's body in the car and tries to arrest Johnson, he is killed by a resurrected Crouch. With the help of Black's information, Mulder concentrates on finding Johnson, while Scully is attacked by the dead police officer, but is rescued by Johnson, but Johnson disappears. Then they chase Johnson together. After breaking into Johnson's house, Mulder is locked in the basement by the latter, where the corpses of the four dead FBI agents attack him. One he can kill, two more are killed by Black after he has tied up Johnson. Eventually Scully shows up and kills the last zombie as well. At the clinic, Black meets his daughter, and Scully and Mulder see the beginning of 2000 in front of a television set in the clinic and kiss.
144	5	Mass times acceleration	Rush	Dec 5, 1999	Nov 6, 2000	Robert Lieberman	David Amann
In the woods of Pittsfield, Virginia, Tony Reed meets two other teenagers at night, but they are disturbed by the deputy, who is shortly afterwards killed with his own flashlight. Scully and Mulder inspect the body and discover that the man was killed by a single, but very powerful, blow. They interrogate Reed, whose fingerprints were found on the flashlight, but he pretends to be innocent and does not seem to have such immense strength. They also interview the other two teenagers: Max Harden, the sheriff's son, and his girlfriend Chastity. The murder weapon later disappears from the evidence store without a trace. Only a quick, short shadow can be seen on the video from the surveillance camera, but it has the colors of high school. Then a high school teacher is mysteriously killed in the canteen. Max and the teacher had problems with each other, so Mulder believes Max has supernatural abilities that he uses to kill. Tony follows Chastity into a cave and comes into contact with a beam of light that gives him the same abilities as Max and Chastity. They can move faster than the human eye can see. Max collapses in the school canteen after the incident and is taken to the hospital. Scully found there based on the findings that his body is not only exhausted, but also shows signs of wear and tear, such as are typical for a football player due to high stress. Chastity brings Max from the hospital to the cave. The sheriff finds the flashlight in his son Max's closet, but then he suddenly appears and tries to kill his father. Tony prevents this with the use of his new powers. The three teenagers meet again in the cave, where Chastity finally fires a shot that first kills Max and then her. Tony arrives at the hospital and the cave is filled with concrete, which prevents anyone from finding out how the teenagers came to the extraordinary powers.
145	6th	Henry Weem's luck	The Goldberg Variation	Dec 12, 1999	Nov 13, 2000	Thomas J. Wright	Jeffrey Bell
In Chicago, Henry Weems plays poker with a mobster named Joe Cutrona and wins $ 100,000. Cutrona thinks he's a fraud and lets him down from the 29th floor of the skyscraper. Weems ends up in a cellar entrance, where he falls on a mountain of laundry and walks home almost unharmed. Two FBI agents tracking the Mafia observe this and report it to Mulder and Scully. You find Weems, who works as a caretaker in a block of flats and doesn't want to testify against Cutrona. When the agents are about to leave the house, one of the Cutronas killers comes to kill Weems. By an apparent coincidence, the killer kills himself and Weems is unharmed. Mulder researches and finds out that Weems was the only passenger to survive a plane crash in 1989. Weems wins $ 100,000 on a scratch card, but when he learns it will take 12 months to get all the money he throws it away. When Mulder wants to interrogate him for the second time, another killer, Cutronas, comes and again Weems gets away unscathed, only Mulder suffers a grazing shot, the killer is shot by his own bullet, which ricochets off several times in the apartment. Weems tells Mulder that he wants to raise $ 100,000 to pay for expensive treatment for a resident's sick son. The boy suffers from a defective liver and is terminally ill. Then Weems is hit by a car and it seems that his lucky streak is over. Then the mother of the sick boy is kidnapped by Cutrona. Weems goes to Cutrona and wants to be exchanged for the mother, but Cutrona wants to kill him. Cutrona and his henchmen are killed by bizarre incidents, the mother and Weems remain unharmed. Coincidentally, it turns out that Cutrona is the ideal organ donor for the boy ...
146	7th	gate to hell	Orison	Jan. 9, 2000	Nov 20, 2000	Rob Bowman	Chip Johannessen
In Marion, Illinois prison, a man cuts his fingers in the workshop. While all other inmates and guards approach him in slow motion, inmate Donnie Pfaster is moving at normal speed. Pfaster kidnapped Scully five years ago (see season 2, episode 13) and already killed a few women whose fingers he then ate. Mulder and Scully investigate and discover that three men have fled three different prisons, all of whom have been in contact with Prison Pastor Orison. US marshals put Orison and Pfaster in a diner, but Pfaster uses his powers to irritate the marshals and so they both flee. Pfaster picks up Orison's car and hits him. Scully hears the song Don't Look Any Further several times in different places and sees a sign in it. The agents interrogate Orison, who is himself a murderer and was imprisoned for 22 years but found his way to God there. Mulder finds out after medical checks that Orison has a triple blood flow to the brain, this is due to a hole in his skull that he drilled himself. So he can hypnotize people. He also uses this during his watch and thus escapes from the hospital. Pfaster has meanwhile been able to lure a prostitute into Orison's apartment, but she can just escape him before he tries to kill her. Orison finds Pfaster and takes him over, digs a grave for him. Pfaster later calls the police and gives information about where to find Orison in the grave. Pfaster sneaks into Scully's apartment and attacks her. Mulder suddenly hears the song at home and thinks something is wrong. Because Scully does not answer his calls, he rushes to her, where he meets Pfaster. Scully shoots the unarmed priest. She later tells Mulder that she is scared because she doesn't know who was in control of her at that moment - God or anything else ...
147	8th	The incredible Maleeni	The Amazing Maleeni	Jan 16, 2000	Nov 27, 2000	Thomas J. Wright	Vince Gilligan, John Shiban, Frank Spotnitz
At the Santa Monica Pier, the magician Maleeni performs a trick in which he turns his head 360 degrees. Another magician, Billy LaBonge, mocks Maleeni several times. When Maleeni is about to be paid for his performance, his head falls off. Mulder and Scully investigate, during an autopsy, Scully discovers that the head was indeed severed, but the magician died of a heart attack some time before Sen's head fell off. LaBonge now finds the gangster Cissy Alvarez, to whom Maleeni owed money, LaBonge pretends to be Maleeni's murderer and wants to repay Alvarez all the money Maleeni owes him if he gets help for his magic in return. The agents get to know Maleenis' twin brother, Albert Pinchbeck, who lost both of them in a car accident and who works in a bank. Alvarez threatens Pinchbeck, he wants the money from him. In the meantime, LaBonge, disguised as Alvarez, attacks a money transporter. Mulder realizes that Pinchbeck is Maleeni and has only faked the accident, and the missing legs are just a trick. Pinchbeck admits, because he wanted to escape Alvarez and took his dead brother as a double. Pinchbeck is arrested and LaBonge is arrested too after showing up in a bar with a gun. LaBonges arrest was planned and wanted by him. Alvarez is also arrested for attacking the money transport. The Pinchbeck bank money is found in Alvarez's bar and Mulder realizes that Pinchbeck and LaBonge are working together to put Alvarez behind bars. The two magicians wanted to steal more money, but Mulder can prevent it by securing important evidence, which makes it impossible for the two magicians to steal more money via electronic money transfers.
148	9	snakes	Signs & Wonders	Jan. 23, 2000	Dec. 4, 2000	Kim Manners	Jeffrey Bell
In Blessing, Tennessee, Jared Chip is attacked and killed by rattlesnakes in his car after panicking out of his apartment. Scully and Mulder talk to the pastor of the ward, Reverend Mackey, and then visit the free congregation of Reverend Enoch O'Connor, who interprets the Bible literally and who also uses snakes in his sermons. O'Connor immediately appears suspicious. Iris tells Reverend Mackey that she feels guilty about not letting Jared stay with his girlfriend Gracie on the evening of his death because she was already asleep. Iris is later bitten when her staple remover turns into a snake, in the bathroom she is attacked by more snakes and dies. Gracie, a former member of O'Connor's ward, is questioned by the agents, they find out she is O'Connor's daughter and was kicked out of the ward after she became pregnant. The agents rush to O'Connor, where Scully is attacked by him and threatened with snakes. Mulder is able to overpower and arrest him. In his cell, O'Connor is attacked by snakes, but he survives the attack. Gracie visits him, but he takes control of her and escapes with her from the hospital. Mackey informs agents that O'Connor is the child's father. In his church, O'Connor baptizes Gracie, she goes into labor and gives birth to multiple strokes. O'Connor goes to Mackey's church and threatens him, but Mulder steps in and saves Mackey. In the ambulance, Gray tells Scully that Mackey is the real killer and that her child's father is too. He kills to keep the secret and to harm O'Connor. Mulder realizes this in the meantime, is then immediately attacked by Mackey, Scully comes over and protects Mulder. Mackey escapes, changes his name, and becomes a pastor in Connecticut. The episode ends with a snake coming out of Mackey's mouth, which then eats a mouse that he hands over to her.
149	10	Old souls - part 1	Being and time (1)	Feb 6, 2000	Dec 11, 2000	Michael Watkins	Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz
Mulder takes an interest in the kidnapping case of little Amber Lynn LaPierre, who was abducted from her Sacramento home. Skinner believes the case is not an X-File and refuses to be investigated. But Mulder finally succeeds in convincing his superior. The parents claim to have found a note in their daughter's room, but the opening credits show that the mother wrote the message. Santa Claus is mentioned in the note, this does not fit the case and causes great amazement. Mulder doesn't believe the parents had anything to do with the child's disappearance, and finds a similar message in the archives with a reference to Santa Claus. In the Idaho case from 1987, the mother was sentenced to 12 years in prison. She reported about visions that she had shortly before her child disappeared. Amber Lynn's father had such visions. Mulder's mother commits suicide, the reasons for this are initially unclear. Mulder visits the convicted mother, who tells him that his sister Samantha is a visitor to save children from suffering. Therefore, Mulder now believes that his mother knew more about his sister's abduction and therefore died, but Scully can report after an autopsy that his mother suffered from severe cancer. A man runs a Christmas theme park and films children with a camera. Mr. LaPierre tells Mulder of another vision in which his daughter spoke the number 74. On the way to the airport on California State Route 74, Scully notices the theme park. There they find video recordings of Amber Lynn and arrest the operator of the park, in the process they come across numerous graves.
150	11	Starlight - Part 2	Closure (2)	Feb 13, 2000	Dec 18, 2000	Kim Manners	Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz
Truelove, the theme park operator, confesses to the murders of 24 children, but says Amber Lynn did nothing. Mulder meets the clairvoyant Harold Piller, who also believes in visitor theory. Piller has visions of Samantha and leads Mulder to an Air Force Base. Scully finds evidence that the cancer candidate was involved in Samantha's disappearance and meets him at her apartment. He tells her that he stopped looking for Samantha because he knew she was dead. At the air force base, Mulder finds evidence that Samantha lived there with the cancer candidate and his son Jeffrey and had to undergo various tests. A 1979 police report reported a girl who looked like Samantha. The agents question the nurse, but she reports that the girl, like Amber Lynn, disappeared without a trace. In a forest, Mulder has visions of his sister and other children. He eventually accepts that she is dead and in a better place.
151	12	Full moon	X-cops	Feb 20, 2000	Jan. 15, 2001	Michael Watkins	Vince Gilligan
(Note: The episode was filmed in the style of the TV series COPS ) Deputy Keith Wetzel is joined by a TV crew from the Cops series when he stops by Mrs. Guerrero, who has reported that a monster is roaming the neighborhood. Wetzel believes in a dog, but then he comes across the creature, flees and rescues himself with the TV team in his patrol car, which is then knocked over by the monster. When reinforcements arrive, he claims he has been chasing gang members and shortly afterwards the police force Scully and Mulder who are on the hunt for a werewolf. The police and agents go back to Mrs. Guerrero, who describes Ricky the artist what she saw. The finished picture looks like Freddy Krueger . A short time later, Ricky is found dead. At the scene of the crime, one finds a fingernail that belongs to the prostitute Chantara Gomez. Chantara says that her pimp attacked Ricky. Wetzel is supposed to guard them while the agents help with a drug raid. Wetzel thinks he sees the monster again and shoots several times, but then Chantara is found dead in the police car, her neck is broken. To Mulder, Wetzel describes the monster as a wasp man, a monster from horror stories that Wetzel's brother told him as a child. Mulder believes the monster always takes the form of its victims' greatest fear. Scully performs an autopsy on Chantara while Scully's assistant has a panic attack over a possible hantavirus outbreak . The monster kills them by this disease. The agents rush back to the house of the drug raid, where they find an injured Wetzel, the monster disappears when the sun rises and Wetzel is safe.
152	13	Game over	First person shooter	Feb. 27, 2000	Jan. 29, 2001	Chris Carter	William Gibson , Tom Maddox
Three men play a virtual reality game while they are monitored by the game's developers, Ivan and Phoebe. One of the players gets into the second level of the brutal game, where he meets a female character who pretends to be Maitreya and kills him with a flintlock pistol. Scully and Mulder visit the software development office and meet the Lone Gunmen who work as consultants for the company. They look at the player's corpse, which has a fatal gunshot wound. According to Ivan, it is impossible to bring a weapon onto the highly secured area and the agents watch a video of the game, which also shows the unknown woman. Daryl Musashi, a well-known computer hacker, wants to play the game and kill Maitreya, but she first cuts off both hands with a medieval sword and then beheads him. Meanwhile, the police report that they have arrested a woman who looks like Maitreya. It's about the stripper Jade Blue Afterglow, who had her body scanned in a clinic as a template for the game. Then the Lone Gunmen play the game too and end up in a trap, so Mulder rushes to help them. Mulder follows Maitreya, getting deeper and deeper into the game. Phoebe tells Scully that she created Maitreya, but for her own project, independent of the game. But somehow she got into this game and has mastered it with her strength. Scully rushes to Mulder's aid and together they fight Maitreya. When it becomes impossible for the agents to kill them, Phoebe tells the Lone Gunner that the game can be stopped, but that it will also wipe the entire program. Ivan protests the deletion, but Byers enters the code and saves the agents. At the end you can see that one of the monitors in the control room is still active, it shows Maitreya's avatar, but with the face of Scully.
153	14th	Magic dust	Theef	March 12, 2000	Jan. 8, 2001	Kim Manners	Vince Gilligan, John Shiban, Frank Spotnitz
Dr. Irvin Thalbro is staying with his daughter and her family. When he is about to go to bed, he discovers a pile of earth on the mattress, in the shape of a person. A short time later, his son-in-law Dr. Robert resurrected him lifeless. It seems as if Irvin hanged himself and wrote the word "Theef" (incorrect spelling of the word thief = thief) with his own blood. Mulder suspects a hoodoo case, while Scully suspects suicide. After the autopsy, it is revealed that Irving had kuru, but this disease has not occurred in the United States. Mulder sees his theory confirmed, and a little later Mrs. Again collapses and gets a mysterious rash. An unknown hoodoo magician, later known as Orell Peattie, holds a type of voodoo doll in his hands and speaks to her while he stands outside the house of the Wieders. Peattie visits Dr. Back at the clinic and accusing him, but leaves the exact background of his allegations in the dark. Dr. Again investigates and finds the case of an unidentified dead person who might fit Peattie. Mrs. Wieder then burns to death in the MRI, Peattie is nearby at a microwave in which he has placed a doll. The word "Theef" can be read on Mrs. Wieders burned skin. Further investigation reveals that the unknown dead was Lynette Peattie, Orell's daughter, who did not survive a serious bus accident. When she was admitted to the hospital, it was clear that she would not survive, Dr. Again she injected morphine several times, resulting in an earlier death. Peattie wants revenge on Dr. Take again and Mulder decides to exhume the remains of Lynette and send them to her family in Virginia to take Orell's strength away. But the body has disappeared. Orell's landlady finds Lynette's remains in Orell's apartment and then becomes infected with a carnivorous disease. When Mulder sees this on TV, he rushes to the apartment, but Peattie and Lynette's head are gone. Peattie is Scully and Dr. Again and his daughter followed and uses his magic to incapacitate Scully. Peattie wants Dr. Kill again, but Mulder comes in and breaks the magic so Scully can shoot Peattie. Peattie is put into a coma and Lynette's remains are taken to Virginia.
154	15th	Cobra	En Ami	March 19, 2000	Jan. 22, 2001	Rob Bowman	William B.
Young cancer patient Jason McPeck is brought home by his parents amid the shouts of journalists and protesters. His parents believe that only God can cure cancer. At night, Jason sees a bright light and men in black come up to him. The next morning he is cured and Mulder and Scully are investigating this unusual case. Jason describes the men as angels and Scully notices that he has an injection wound on his neck, a wound similar to the one she had when she was abducted. Scully meets the cancer candidate who claims to be responsible for healing Jason. Since he is about to die, he still wants to do good and give Scully the cure and give her his number. Scully visits him days later in his office and he wants to take her to the cure. Scully agrees to go on the outing, but wired up to get Mulder the recordings. The cancer candidate also claims to be responsible for Scully's healing. Mulder searches for her and quickly finds out that she's out with the cancer candidate. Scully and the smoker meet another patient and later Scully tries to send the first recordings to Mulder, but these are intercepted by a man who follows her. The Lone Gunmen contact Mulder, they know that Scully emailed a certain Cobra, but it turns out that Scully was hacked and never wrote with Cobra. The smoker tells Scully that the cure can cure all diseases and is of extraterrestrial origin. She receives an anonymous message to meet Cobra at Calico Cove. She meets him there, receives a disc from him, then he is shot and the sniper tries to kill Scully, but the smoker shoots the shooter. Scully leaves the smoker to have the Lone Gunner examine the disc, but it is empty. The smoker replaced the disc unnoticed. He throws the original into a lake.
155	16	Broken mirror	Chimera	Apr 2, 2000	Feb 5, 2001	Cliff Bole	David Amann
In Bethany, Vermont, ravens frighten little Michelle Crittendon, while her neighbor Jenny Uphouse is nearby. The bird is later spotted at Michelle's house and Martha Crittendon, Michelle's mother, is attacked and killed by an unknown monster. Mulder and Scully observe the Washington DC street prostitute and hope to catch a suspected murderer. Mulder is called to see Skinner, who sends Mulder to Vermont to investigate the case. Mr. Crittendon, a federal judge, tells Mulder that his wife cheated on him. Ellen Adderly, the sheriff's wife, sees Jenny and I a raven, she's scared about it. Michelle sees a raven again in the garden and when Judge Crittendon goes out, he discovers the body of his wife, which is buried in the flowerbed and shows clear traces of ravens. Ellen tells Mulder that she saw the monster that killed Martha in a mirror. Ellen also believes that Jenny had something to do with it. Later, while cleaning up, Ellen finds an old-fashioned key and a raven on her baby's chain. In the mirror she sees the monster, but the mirror breaks and nothing happens because her husband, the sheriff, comes home too. Mulder discovers the key, a similar one was found on Martha. Mulder later finds out that the sheriff is having an affair with Jenny and that he was also having an affair with Martha. The keys belong to a motel where the sheriff met with the women. Jenny is in the motel and sees a raven at the window, she is then killed by the monster. The sheriff believes he is to blame for the murders, he wanted to leave Ellen, but then she became pregnant and he stayed. Then it becomes clear that Ellen is the monster, she was scratched on the neck by Jenny when they argued and so she became the monster. She tries to drown Mulder in a bathtub, but when she sees her reflection in the water, she stops. She is taken to a clinic to be diagnosed with a personality disorder. In the meantime, Scully also solved the supposed murders in Washington, these were not murders, the suspect turned out to be a missionary who proselytized women.
156	17th	Moments	all things	Apr 9, 2000	Feb 12, 2001	Gillian Anderson	Gillian Anderson
Through a chain of coincidences, Scully meets her former professor Daniel Waterston, with whom she was having an affair, in a hospital. He has an undiagnosed heart disease. Scully wonders if leaving him to pursue her career with the FBI was the right decision. Waterston's daughter Maggie doesn't like Scully. Mulder is on his way to England to examine heart chakra-shaped crop circles. He calls Scully to visit one of his contacts, Colleen Azar, and get some information. While Scully is on the phone with him, a woman runs in front of the car, Scully can just brake and prevents a collision with a truck. Azar realizes that Scully is going through a difficult time and offers to help, but Scully refuses. Later, however, Scully comes back to her and speaks to her. Azar talks to her about Buddhism, about the collective unconscious and personal auras. After an argument with Maggie in the hospital, Scully walks through Chinatown, sees the woman who ran in front of her again and hurries after her. The woman disappears without a trace in a Buddhist temple. Scully has a vision of Waterston there and rushes to him with Azar. Azar and a healer practice alternative medicine, and Waterston gets well. He would like to get back into a relationship with Scully, but she says no. In front of the hospital she sees the unknown woman again, when she reaches each other, it is revealed that it is Mulder. In Melder's apartment, the two talk about the events of the last few days until Scully falls asleep next to him.
157	18th	nicotine	Brand X	Apr 16, 2000	Feb 19, 2001	Kim Manners	Steven Maeda, Greg Walker
In Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Walter Skinner is protected by Dr. James Scobie, who is supposed to testify in a lawsuit against his former employer Morley Tobacco. Scobie has a severe cough, which he ignores, but is found dead the next morning, his face partially eaten away. Morley created a tobacco plant on which a genetically modified tobacco beetle lives, whose eggs survive being processed into cigarettes and are spread through the smoke. Scobie and his former colleague Dr. Voss led a group with test subjects. Three of the four test subjects died, only chain smoker Darryl Weaver survived. Scobie and Voss supplied Weaver with cigarettes in return, he said nothing about the tests. A number of people fall victim to the smoke, causing the eggs to enter the lungs and then develop into beetles that eat the body. Mulder is also a victim after an interrogation with Weaver. His lungs are extensively cleaned, but not all eggs could be removed. Voss gets a remorse and reveals himself to Skinner, who then looks for Weaver. In Weaver's apartment he only finds a gagged man, after he has removed the gag, countless bugs pour out of his mouth. Scully is now in a hurry to find a way to save Mulder, because the balls in his lungs are still in mortal danger. Skinner eventually finds Weaver, who threatens him with lighting a cigarette. When Weaver tries to escape, Skinner shoots him and incapacitates him. Scully believes nicotine could kill the beetles and is right because its high nicotine levels killed the eggs. Mulder survives and will get better, but he is now mildly craving nicotine, but Scully warns him not to start smoking.
158	19th	Hollywood	Hollywood AD	Apr 30, 2000	Feb 26, 2001	David Duchovny	David Duchovny
Skinner's old college friend and now Hollywood producer, Wayne Federman, is working on a film project through the FBI. For his research, he accompanies Scully and Mulder, who are investigating the attempted murder of Cardinal O'Fallon. In the catacombs of the church, Mulder finds the remains of Micah Hoffman, a counterculture of the 1960s. In Hoffman's apartment, the investigation comes across numerous forgeries that Hoffman must have made. In the catacombs you will find more bones and pottery shards. The shards fit the myth of the Lazarus pot. There are grooves on the pot that contain a sound recording. Mulder has them taken to the expert Chuck Burks. In one recording, a male voice prompts another man to rise from the dead. The second recording contains the lyrics of "I am the Walrus" by the Beatles. O'Fallon says he bought the pot from Hoffman and believed it was a real sound recording of Jesus Christ. During the autopsy, Scully believes that Hoffman has risen and is speaking to her, in church she later sees him hanging on the crucifix. When Mulder tries to arrest O'Fallon for the murder of Hoffman, Hoffman appears unharmed in the church and reports that he is the reincarnation of Jesus. Skinner puts Scully and Mulder on leave after the mess. A little later, O'Fallon kills Hoffman with an extended suicide. The X-File remains unsolved. During their leave of absence, Scully and Mulder visit the film set, Feldman films the unsolved case, Garry Shandling plays Mulder in the film, Tea Leoni plays Scully. They watch the finished film with Skinner, but are disappointed with her and the case being represented. After the movie, Scully and Mulder go hand in hand for a romantic dinner ...
159	20th	27,000,000: 1	Fight Club	May 7, 2000	March 5, 2001	Paul Shapiro	Chris Carter
In Kansas City, two missionaries visit two women in different houses who look exactly the same. The second woman yells at the missionaries and tells them to leave, and the missionaries argue in the driveway of the house. The first woman, Betty Templeton, is visited by two FBI agents who look like Scully and Mulder. Betty says she has never seen the second woman, even though they live in the same neighborhood. When the second woman drives past the three people in her car, the agents, like the missionaries, get into an argument and describe each other as possessed. The second woman, Lulu Pfeiffer, receives a rejection of her application in a copy shop, and when she gets angry, all copies go black. Betty is applying for a similar job with a similar outcome. Mulder and Scully begin investigating this case. Bert Zupanic meets Betty in a bar, when Lulu comes into the bar, there is an earthquake and all glasses break, causing Lulu to run away. Mulder finds out that Bert, the wrestler, is in a relationship with one of the women, while Scully discovers that the two women have followed each other through various states for the past twelve years. So it turns out that Bert is dating Betty but is having an affair with Lulu. The agents now want to take a closer look at the doppelgangers, Betty tells Mulder that Lulu always causes problems, while Lulu tells Scully the same about Betty. Scully finds out that the women have the same father but who is in jail where she visits him. The father looks like Bert. When Betty and Lulu meet in a stadium, all the other spectators get into an argument, but stop when the other Bert appears, but start again when they see the other Bert. The episode ends with Mulder and Scully injured in the scuffle.
160	21st	Three wishes	Je souhaite	May 14, 2000	March 12, 2001	Vince Gilligan	Vince Gilligan
Anson Stokes, a warehouse worker, is told by his angry boss to clean an old storage unit. There he finds a woman wrapped in a blanket. His boss comes up and starts screaming at him again, but suddenly his mouth disappears. Scully and Milder question the boss, Jay Gilmore, after an operation that restored his mouth. They also interrogate Stokes' brother Leslie, in their mobile living unit with a large boat in the yard. The woman from the storeroom is in the kitchen. The agents search the storage unit and find pictures of the previous owner and the woman there. The woman is a jinn. Stokes regrets his first two wishes, the disappearance of his boss's mouth and the boat in the front yard. As a third wish, the Djinn suggests that his paralyzed brother can walk again, but Stokes wishes for the ability to be invisible. Invisible, Stokes runs into a street and is run over by a truck. Scully examines the invisible corpse by covering it with powder. Mulder researches the history of the owner of the storage unit and is so certain that the woman must be a Djinn. Leslie wants the Djinn to bring Anson back to life, whichever happens. Leslie's second wish is that Anson can speak. The agents look for Anson and find him and then talk to Jenn the Djinn, she tells that she is 500 years old. She says she wanted a lot of power and a long life from another Djinn, and because Mulder had freed her, he too now had three wishes. Mulder wants world peace, whereby all humans but himself disappear from the earth. His second wish is the cancellation of his first wish. Mulder writes down his third wish to be very specific, but Scully convinces him that the Djinn's power shouldn't be used to make people good, so Mulder wishes Jenn could be free.
161	22nd	It all starts in Oregon - Part 1	Requiem (1)	May 21, 2000	March 19, 2001	Kim Manners	Chris Carter
In Bellefleur, Oregon, Det. Miller drives to the site of a plane crash. When Miller gets there, his car's electrical system fails and he has an accident. Miller manages to get out of his car and finds his deputy, Ray Hoese, who is passed out in his car. Miles meets a man who looks like Hoese, is bleeding green and can be recognized as an alien bounty hunter. In Tunisia, Marita Covarrubias obtained the release of Krycek from a prison camp. In the USA they meet the smoker who is now in a wheelchair and tells them about the crash of a UFO in Oregon. Two teenagers find the crash site in Oregon, where they meet Miles, who denies any misfortune or fire in the area. As the two boys roam the area, they witness paranormal phenomena. In Washington DC, Mulder receives a call from Billy Miles of Bellefleur. Miles was kidnapped seven years ago when Scully and Mulder were investigating there [see Season 1, Episode 1]. Billy tells of Hoee's disappearance and fears the kidnappings will start again. The agents come to Bellefleur and meet Billy, who is now also a police officer, later they meet Det. Miller, but do not notice that it is the alien bounty hunter who has assumed the form of Billy's father after he killed him . Scully finds three shell casings at the site of Hoee's disappearance, and later they talk to Hoee's wife, who, to her surprise, is Theresa Nemman, who was also kidnapped in 1993. While they are working through files, Scully suddenly falls ill. During the night they are called to Theresa's house, she has disappeared and Billy is worried because Scully is feeling bad. The agents later investigate the crash site, Scully is thrown into the air by unknown forces, and Mulder finds her almost unresponsive. At home, Billy meets the alien bounty hunter in the form of his father. He draws his weapon but then puts it down, whereupon the bounty hunter reveals his true form. At that moment Scully and Mulder arrive too, but they can't find the two men. The agents return to Washington DC, where they meet Skinner, Krycek, and Marita. Marita reports that the smoker is dying and wants to find the UFO to revitalize the project. Krycek explains that the UFO is hidden under an invisible energy field. Together with the lone shooters they find the position of the UFO. Mulder is concerned about Scully's health and doesn't want her to accompany him to Oregon. She doesn't want to let him go alone, so Skinner and Mulder travel to Oregon together. Scully and the Lone Gunner continue their research and suspect that Mulder is in great danger should he approach the UFO. Scully then becomes very sick and is taken to the hospital by the riflemen. Mulder and Skinner search for the UFO and Mulder walks through the energy field and finds a group of abductees, including Billy and Theresa, in the beam of light from a UFO. Mulder disappears with the group while a stunned skinner watches the UFO disappear. In the Watergate complex, Krycek and Marita visit the smoker, who already knows about the failed plan. Krycek then plunges the smoker down a flight of stairs, and it appears that the smoker died in the process. At the hospital, Scully tells Skinner that she is pregnant and that it must be kept a secret.

Web links

• Season 7 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Season 7 at fernsehserien.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The X-Files Season 7 Episode Guide . tv.com. Retrieved January 20, 2011.
2. ↑ The X-Files: Episode Guide of the TV Series (7th season) . fernsehserien.de. Retrieved January 20, 2011.