Season 3
🎬 24 Episodes 📅 1995 ⏱ 44 min
A vanished research facility and inexplicable biological specimens point toward something The X-Files have warned about for years: extraterrestrial involvement in classified government programs. As Mulder and Scully navigate layers of bureaucratic deception, they discover that the conspiracy runs deeper than either anticipated, forcing a skeptic to confront the impossible. Trust becomes their only weapon against forces determined to silence them forever.
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📊 Season Stats
24
Episodes
1995
Year
44
min / ep
17.6
Watch Hours
3/11
Season No.
⭐ 8.5
Best Episode
Ep. 4 · Clyde Bruckman's Final…
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🎬 Episodes 24 episodes
1
⭐ 8.0
The Blessing Way (2)
Scully finds her career with the FBI in jeopardy as Mulder is still missing and the Cigarette Smoking Man is pursuing the stolen files. The Navajo elders find Mulder's body in a cave and perform an ancient ceremony to call the spirit back to the empty vessel.
🎬 R. W. Goodwin ✍️ Chris Carter
2
⭐ 8.3
Paper Clip (3)
A.D. Skinner and Scully are at a standoff when Mulder bursts in and discovers that Skinner has the digital tape. Reunited, Mulder and Scully travel to a secret vault inside a mine and find an elaborate filing system of medical records which reveals that Mulder's sister may not have been the first ch…
🎬 Rob Bowman ✍️ Chris Carter
3
⭐ 7.6
D.P.O.
Mulder and Scully investigate a series of human and cattle deaths by lightning and are led to a teenage boy who is the only survivor out of five people recently hit by lightning strikes.
🎬 Kim Manners ✍️ Howard Gordon
4
⭐ 8.5
Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose
In the midst of a psychic sideshow while on a murder case, Mulder and Scully enlist the help of a man who may have a true psychic ability to foresee how people will die to help the agents catch a man killing fortune tellers.
🎬 David Nutter ✍️ Darin Morgan
5
⭐ 7.0
The List
Nobody takes much notice when a death row inmate vows on the electric chair to come back from the dead and kill five men who have wronged him during his time in prison, until a guard is mysteriously murdered in the former inmate's cell.
🎬 Chris Carter ✍️ Chris Carter
6
⭐ 7.2
2Shy
A man with a genetic abnormality, who must prey on overweight women in order to suck the fatty tissue from their bodies, begins to meet his victims through internet chat rooms.
🎬 David Nutter ✍️ Jeff Vlaming
7
⭐ 7.1
The Walk
After a suicide attempt and multiple murders at a military hospital, Mulder and Scully meet a quadruple amputee who has gained the power of astral projection and is taking out his personal frustrations on his commanding officers.
🎬 Rob Bowman ✍️ John Shiban
8
⭐ 7.4
Oubliette
Mulder seeks the help of a woman who he believes has a special connection with a young girl who has recently been kidnapped by the same man who held her captive many years earlier.
🎬 Kim Manners ✍️ Charles Grant Craig
9
⭐ 8.2
Nisei (1)
An investigation into a video of an alien autopsy puts Mulder and Scully in the middle of a conspiracy involving WWII Japanese scientists brought to America to continue their experiments which may shed light on Scully's abduction.
🎬 David Nutter ✍️ Howard Gordon
10
⭐ 8.3
731 (2)
Mulder is trapped inside a train car which contains a suspected alien-human hybrid and also a bomb, while Scully pursues the truth about her abduction and the mystery behind the implant in her neck.
🎬 Rob Bowman ✍️ Frank Spotnitz
11
⭐ 6.9
Revelations
Mulder and Scully swap roles as they pursue a man killing priests that claim to have the wounds of Christ. The agents find and must protect a young boy who may be a real stigmatic. While Scully's faith draws her close to the boy, Mulder is convinced of another explanation.
🎬 David Nutter ✍️ Kim Newton
12
⭐ 8.3
War of the Coprophages
Widespread panic is caused in a small community after numerous deaths are linked to killer cockroaches, and a government agricultural agency is discovered to have set up a secret experiment involving insects.
🎬 Kim Manners ✍️ Darin Morgan
13
⭐ 7.1
Syzygy
A rare planetary alignment causes strange behavior in the residents of a small town, but particularly in two teenage girls who were born at the exact same moment on that date. While investigating the strange occurrences Mulder's interest in the local female detective makes Scully jealous.
🎬 Rob Bowman ✍️ Chris Carter
14
⭐ 7.3
Grotesque
A serial killer is captured after a three year manhunt, and he claims an evil spirit is responsible for the crimes. When the killings continue as he sits in jail, Mulder's battle with a former colleague gets more heated when he suggests that something more paranormal may be involved.
🎬 Kim Manners ✍️ Howard Gordon
15
⭐ 8.1
Piper Maru (1)
A French salvage ship searching for a lost WWII fighter plane unknowingly surfaces an alien which appears in the form of black oil and has the ability to jump hosts. Mulder heads to Hong Kong to investigate the salvage broker who sold the information to the French and he encounters Krycek, who has b…
🎬 Rob Bowman ✍️ Chris Carter
16
⭐ 8.0
Apocrypha (2)
Mulder pursues Krycek (unaware of the alien that has taken over his body) to get back the DAT tape containing the MJ documents. Meanwhile, the shooting of A.D. Skinner uncovers evidence that could lead Scully to her sister's murderer.
🎬 Kim Manners ✍️ Chris Carter
17
⭐ 8.0
Pusher
Mulder and Scully are asked to help in a case involving Robert Patrick Modell, a murderer possessing the psychic ability to force his will onto people. Due to a brain tumor that is slowly killing him, he is searching for a "worthy adversary" and forces Mulder into a battle of mind over matter.
🎬 Rob Bowman ✍️ Vince Gilligan
18
⭐ 6.0
Teso Dos Bichos
The unearthing of an ancient Ecuadorian Amaru urn and its removal to America despite protests leads to a series of deaths linked to a shaman spirit released by the urn.
🎬 Kim Manners ✍️ John Shiban
19
⭐ 6.6
Hell Money
Mulder, Scully and a local Chinese American cop investigate deaths of several Chinese men found to be missing vital internal organs. The clues lead them to a deadly secret lottery run by the Triads in San Francisco's Chinatown district. The game is free to play but losing will cost you more than an …
🎬 Tucker Gates ✍️ Jeff Vlaming
20
⭐ 7.9
Jose Chung's "From Outer Space"
A alien abduction of two teenagers with endless versions of the same story prompts a science-fiction novelist to to write a book about the incident; however, nobody involved with the investigation can tell him the full story with any accuracy.
🎬 Rob Bowman ✍️ Darin Morgan
21
⭐ 7.0
Avatar
During a one-night-stand in the midst of his divorce, A.D. Skinner becomes a murder suspect, and Mulder and Scully return the many favors that he has done for them by analyzing evidence that someone doesn't want uncovered to prove his innocence.
🎬 Jim Charleston ✍️ David Duchovny
22
⭐ 7.4
Quagmire
Mulder and Scully investigate a series of disappearances and attacks around a lake where Mulder believes that the local legend about a lake monster may be all too real. Frustrated Scully insightfully confronts Mulder about the futility of their work on the X-Files.
🎬 Kim Manners ✍️ Kim Newton
23
⭐ 7.9
Wetwired
Mulder and Scully investigate a series of murders linked to a mysterious device that alters television signals causing paranoid hallucinations. One of them falls victim to it.
🎬 Rob Bowman ✍️ Mat Beck
24
⭐ 8.2
Talitha Cumi (1)
After his mother suffers a stroke under strange circumstances, Mulder searches for a strange, benevolent alien man that possesses miraculous healing powers. With the help from Mr. X, he learns about the involvement of the Cigarette-Smoking Man and uncovers some secrets kept by his parents.
🎬 David Duchovny ✍️ David Duchovny