Season 5
🎬 20 Episodes 📅 1997 ⏱ 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
20
Episodes
1997
Year
44
min / ep
14.7
Watch Hours
5/11
Season No.
⭐ 8.5
Best Episode
Ep. 12 · Bad Blood
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🎬 Episodes 20 episodes
1
⭐ 7.8
Redux (2)
Scully helps Mulder fake his own death in order for him to go undetected through the Department of Defence and find out the answers to his new questions about the government hoax concerning the existence of extraterrestrial life. Meanwhile, at a joint FBI/DOD inquiry, Scully's attempt to drive out t…
🎬 Kim Manners ✍️ Chris Carter
2
⭐ 8.1
Redux II (3)
The Cigarette-Smoking Man helps Mulder to obtain Scully's cure and also lets him see his real sister who doesn't turn out to be as happy to see Mulder as he would've liked. In return for this, the Cigarette-Smoking Man asks that Mulder quit the FBI and work for him in the Syndicate where he could ha…
🎬 Kim Manners ✍️ Chris Carter
3
⭐ 7.9
Unusual Suspects
Set in 1989, the story of the founding of The Lone Gunmen is finally told as we see how a straight-laced federal employee, a sex mad AV expert, and a nerdy computer hacker meet Susanne Modeski, a strange woman with evidence of a government conspiracy. When their plan to expose the conspiracy fails a…
🎬 Kim Manners ✍️ Vince Gilligan
4
⭐ 7.6
Detour
While on their way to an FBI group communication seminar, Mulder and Scully manage to escape when they come across a situation in the Florida forest area where three men have recently disappeared.
🎬 Brett Dowler ✍️ Frank Spotnitz
5
⭐ 7.3
The Post-Modern Prometheus
Filmed in glorious black and white with a comic book feel to it, this is a modern retelling of Frankenstein as Mulder and Scully get caught up in a town where the residents live on Jerry Springer episodes and fear a two-faced monster who has been impregnating the women.
🎬 Chris Carter ✍️ Chris Carter
6
⭐ 7.1
Christmas Carol (1)
On her Christmas vacation with her brother's family, Scully receives a mysterious phone call from a familiar voice who says, "She needs your help. Go to her." The phone call leads Scully to a murder case where the victim's 3-year-old adopted daughter bears an uncanny likeness to her sister, Melissa,…
🎬 Peter Markle ✍️ Vince Gilligan
7
⭐ 7.2
Emily (2)
DNA testing on Emily reveals that she is actually Scully's daughter and Mulder comes to assist her. While Mulder is looking for any information about where and how the girl was born, Scully searches for a cure to Emily's strange illness.
🎬 Kim Manners ✍️ Vince Gilligan
8
⭐ 7.4
Kitsunegari
Pusher returns as Robert Patrick Modell escapes from the mental hospital and the FBI promptly organizes a manhunt, assuming that he will continue where he left off. But is he really trying to get revenge on Mulder, or does he want to warn him of another evil?
🎬 Daniel Sackheim ✍️ Vince Gilligan
9
⭐ 7.0
Schizogeny
A therapist working with children from abusive families is found to be implanting them with the memories of her own abuse suffered at the hands of her late father, when one of her patients tries to kill his stepfather.
🎬 Ralph Hemecker ✍️ Jessica Scott
10
⭐ 7.2
Chinga
Master of Horror Stephen King's first effort at an X-File sees Scully's well deserved vacation going terribly wrong and landing her in a small Maine town where one of the residents is believed to be a witch, and her autistic daughter's doll has frighteningly evil powers.
🎬 Kim Manners ✍️ Chris Carter
11
⭐ 7.5
Kill Switch
A super-intelligent virus program is let loose on the internet and begins to grow and expand by itself, eventually killing its creator when he tries to eradicate it.
🎬 Rob Bowman ✍️ William Gibson
12
⭐ 8.5
Bad Blood
After Mulder chases down and kills a young man who he believes to be a vampire, the agents return to DC aware of the mistake they just made. Faced with a lawsuit from the family of the man, they recount each of their sides to the story leading up to the event. In the extremely humorous stories that …
🎬 Cliff Bole ✍️ Vince Gilligan
13
⭐ 7.5
Patient X (1)
Mulder and Scully meet Cassandra Spender, a woman who claims to be a multiple abductee and wants to deliver a positive message about the aliens. Mulder's new found disbelief in extraterrestrial activity is enhanced while Scully forms a special bond with the woman. A series of group attacks against a…
🎬 Kim Manners ✍️ Chris Carter
14
⭐ 7.9
The Red and the Black (2)
After the gathering at the abduction site where everyone is killed by the rebel bounty hunters, Cassandra Spender disappears and Mulder is blamed by her son, Jeffrey, who is an up-and-coming FBI agent. Meanwhile, the Syndicate is continuing their tests to create a vaccine for the Black Cancer and Ma…
🎬 Chris Carter ✍️ Chris Carter
15
⭐ 7.4
Travelers
In 1990 Agent Fox Mulder visits an aging FBI Agent named Arthur Dales. He listens to a story of the agents assigned to a would-be X-File in the Cold War era of the 1950's and how Mulder's father was connected to a series of strange deaths.
🎬 William A. Graham ✍️ John Shiban
16
⭐ 7.5
Mind’s Eye
Mulder and Scully try to get answers out of a stubborn blind woman found at a murder scene who may have the ability to look through the killer's eyes in her mind.
🎬 Kim Manners ✍️ Tim Minear
17
⭐ 6.7
All Souls
Scully faces her Catholic faith and the loss of her daughter Emily when she is asked to help a family whose adopted daughter was found dead in a position that looked like she was struck down by God himself.
🎬 Rob Bowman ✍️ John Shiban
18
⭐ 7.6
The Pine Bluff Variant
Scully fears that Mulder has gone to the other side when she sees him assisting a federal suspect escape custody. In truth he has infiltrated a terrorist group testing a deadly biological weapon that can eat through a person's flesh.
🎬 Rob Bowman ✍️ John Shiban
19
⭐ 7.9
Folie à Deux
Mulder is held hostage inside an office where a man claims his boss is a monster and has clouded all their minds while he turns them into zombies one by one, which is disbelieved until Mulder opens his mind and allows himself to see it too.
🎬 Rob Bowman ✍️ Vince Gilligan
20
⭐ 8.3
The End
The Cigarette-Smoking Man returns as Mulder investigates the attempted assassination of a young boy with psychic powers who may be the proof that he has looked for all his life.
🎬 R. W. Goodwin ✍️ Chris Carter