Season 8
🎬 21 Episodes 📅 2000 ⏱ 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
21
Episodes
2000
Year
44
min / ep
15.4
Watch Hours
8/11
Season No.
⭐ 7.8
Best Episode
Ep. 21 · Existence (2)
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🎬 Episodes 21 episodes
1
⭐ 7.4
Within (1)
Newly appointed Deputy Director Kersh organizes a manhunt for Mulder and assigns Agent John Doggett to head the team. Scully and Skinner go along with the investigation but are warned by Kersh that they will be fired if anything is said about aliens. Scully, along with the Lone Gunmen, surmise that …
🎬 Kim Manners ✍️ Chris Carter
2
⭐ 7.4
Without (2)
As the search for Mulder intensifies in the Arizona desert, Gibson Praise leads Scully to believe that she is truly closer to her target. Meanwhile, A.D. Kersh informs Agent Doggett that he has been assigned as Mulder's successor on the X-Files.
🎬 Kim Manners ✍️ Chris Carter
3
⭐ 7.2
Patience
While tackling his first X-File case about a series of gruesome murders surrounding a bat-like creature, Doggett quickly learns that his investigative techniques are somewhat dissimilar to Scully's.
🎬 Chris Carter ✍️ Chris Carter
4
⭐ 7.5
Roadrunners
Scully evades Doggett's help in investigating a vicious murder in a remote area of Utah, and she is trapped in the small town by a religious cult that believe a slug-like creature is the second coming of God who needs a human host to survive.
🎬 Rod Hardy ✍️ Vince Gilligan
5
⭐ 7.0
Invocation
In 1990 a little boy inexplicably disappeared from his crowded school playground and was never seen again until now, ten years later, and he hasn't aged a day.
🎬 Richard Compton ✍️ David Amann
6
⭐ 7.4
Redrum
A prominent lawyer wakes to find himself in jail and about to be prosecuted for the murder of his wife. He has no memory of this event however, and when the days begin to regress backward towards the murder, he realizes that he has been given a second chance.
🎬 Peter Markle ✍️ Steven Maeda
7
⭐ 6.9
Via Negativa
Working without Scully's input, Doggett and Skinner try to stop the mysterious murder spree of a drug-induced religious cult leader, and it becomes clear that the man can enter the dreams of the people he knows and can kill them in their sleep.
🎬 Tony Wharmby ✍️ Frank Spotnitz
8
⭐ 6.7
Surekill
When a real estate agent is shot inside a prison cell by someone who apparently fired from the roof, Scully and Doggett track him to two exterminators, one of whom has x-ray vision.
🎬 Terrence O'Hara ✍️ Greg Walker
9
⭐ 6.6
Salvage
A man whose blood is rapidly changing into metal alloy enacts revenge on those who caused his condition.
🎬 Rod Hardy ✍️ Jeffrey Bell
10
⭐ 6.5
Badlaa
An Indian mystic whose son died in a chemical plant accident smuggles himself into the United States and takes his revenge on two families in suburban Washington, D.C.
🎬 Tony Wharmby ✍️ John Shiban
11
⭐ 7.0
The Gift
Doggett comes upon an old case that Mulder kept secret from Scully and he follows up the investigation, hoping to find a possible connection to Mulder's disappearance.
🎬 Kim Manners ✍️ Frank Spotnitz
12
⭐ 7.0
Medusa
Scully and Doggett must race against the clock to investigate and fight off a contagion lurking in the subway tunnels of Boston.
🎬 Richard Compton ✍️ Frank Spotnitz
13
⭐ 6.9
Per Manum
When Scully and Doggett are contacted by a man who claims his wife was murdered shortly after giving birth to an alien baby, Scully digs deeper into reports of alien fertilization on humans, and she begins to question her own pregnancy and its conception.
🎬 Kim Manners ✍️ Chris Carter
14
⭐ 7.5
This Is Not Happening (1)
When Teresa Hoese (the woman Scully and Mulder met the previous spring in Oregon just before Mulder was abducted) is found in a desert after enduring alien testing, Doggett alerts Scully that this could have something to do with Mulder and his whereabouts. Skinner joins them and they travel to the h…
🎬 Kim Manners ✍️ Chris Carter
15
⭐ 7.3
Deadalive (2)
Shortly after Mulder is buried, Billy Miles is found very dead, but he somehow comes back to life. Skinner and Scully put all their hopes into digging up Mulder and discovering that he too, is still alive. As Mulder lies in the hospital without indication that he is going to fully recover, Krycek co…
🎬 Tony Wharmby ✍️ Chris Carter
16
⭐ 7.4
Three Words
Mulder's request for reassignment to the X-Files is denied by Kersh, who hopes that Mulder will simply quit the FBI. When a census worker is killed on the White House lawn trying to get information to the President, Mulder gets in over his head trying to discover what the man knew.
🎬 Tony Wharmby ✍️ Chris Carter
17
⭐ 6.6
Empedocles
Special Agent Reyes enlists Mulder's help in investigating a supernatural killer's connection to the unsolved murder of Agent Doggett's son, Luke.
🎬 Barry K. Thomas ✍️ Greg Walker
18
⭐ 7.1
Vienen
Mulder and Doggett are reluctantly thrown together to investigate several deaths aboard an oil rig, and Mulder becomes convinced that the rig is really carrying the black oil alien.
🎬 Rod Hardy ✍️ Steven Maeda
19
⭐ 7.2
Alone
While Scully takes maternity leave, Doggett is partnered with a young agent who is fascinated with the X-Files and has followed Mulder and Scully's careers. She and Doggett investigate the death of an old man and the disappearance of his son, but when they disappear as well Mulder heads out to searc…
🎬 Frank Spotnitz ✍️ Frank Spotnitz
20
⭐ 7.4
Essence (1)
Mulder and Doggett join forces to investigate the arson attack on a genetics lab where one of the doctors suspected of experimenting with alien impregnation is killed. They encounter Billy Miles, who has been changed into an alien replicant after his recent abduction and is attempting to erase evide…
🎬 Kim Manners ✍️ Chris Carter
21
⭐ 7.8
Existence (2)
Mulder, Doggett and Skinner attempt to fight off the alien replicants, and they find a connection to the conspiracy that leads into the FBI while Reyes and Scully head to a remote farm to safeguard the birth of Scully's child.
🎬 Kim Manners ✍️ Chris Carter