Season 9
🎬 20 Episodes 📅 2001 ⏱ 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
2001
Year
44
min / ep
14.7
Watch Hours
9/11
Season No.
⭐ 7.4
Best Episode
Ep. 4 · 4-D
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🎬 Episodes 20 episodes
1
⭐ 6.5
Nothing Important Happened Today (1)
Agent Doggett investigates the death of an EPA official after his car is forced off a bridge by a woman he picked up. He asks for assistance on the case from Scully, who has returned to her teaching position at the FBI Academy in Quantico.
🎬 Kim Manners ✍️ Chris Carter
2
⭐ 6.9
Nothing Important Happened Today II (2)
Doggett catches up with Shannon McMahon, the woman who the EPA official picked up. She claims to be a super soldier and that the people she has killed were poisoning the water supply, and she wants Doggett to expose the truth.
🎬 Tony Wharmby ✍️ Chris Carter
3
⭐ 6.7
Dæmonicus
Doggett and Reyes investigate the murder of a couple in West Virginia that has all the signs of a satanic ritual killing. They link the murder to a doctor who is incarcerated in a mental institute, and Doggett becomes convinced that the doctor is orchestrating the crimes from within the hospital.
🎬 Frank Spotnitz ✍️ Frank Spotnitz
4
⭐ 7.4
4-D
During a stakeout of murderer Irwin Lukesh, Doggett sees Reyes attacked by Lukesh, but then we see Reyes and Doggett in her apartment, apparently both fine. Elsewhere at the same time, Doggett is shot and Lukesh identifies Reyes as the shooter. While Reyes is asked for her badge and gun by A.D. Foll…
🎬 Tony Wharmby ✍️ Steven Maeda
5
⭐ 6.8
Lord of the Flies
When a stunt on a local cable reality show goes horribly wrong resulting in a man's death, Doggett and Reyes investigate. But when flies pour out of the victims eye sockets, they find themselves relying on Scully's expertise and ask her to join the investigation.
🎬 Kim Manners ✍️ Thomas Schnauz
6
⭐ 6.7
Trust No 1
Scully is approached by a couple who claim their baby has the same abilities as William and have information about the super soldier program; however, they will only talk to Mulder, believing him the only person who can make the connections and uncover the truth. Scully is forced into an awkward sit…
🎬 Tony Wharmby ✍️ Chris Carter
7
⭐ 6.7
John Doe
Scully and Reyes join forces to try and find Doggett when he goes missing. Doggett has his own problems, having woken up in jail in Mexico suffering from amnesia. With no knowledge of who he is, Doggett is befriended by a local who soon has him working smuggling illegal immigrants across the border.
🎬 Michelle MacLaren ✍️ Vince Gilligan
8
⭐ 6.6
Hellbound
Agent Reyes takes the lead while investigating an X-file case, surrounding a man found skinned alive after having visions of seeing other people appearing skinned alive. Reyes calls on Scully's expertise to help on the investigation, which pays off when Scully finds a link to a case from 1960.
🎬 Kim Manners ✍️ David Amann
9
⭐ 6.6
Provenance (1)
When pieces of the spaceship beached in Africa resurface, the conspiracy within the FBI attempts to hide the information from the X-Files, especially the one person for whom the pieces have a special significance - Scully. When Doggett and Reyes discover that Scully and her child have been put in …
🎬 Kim Manners ✍️ Chris Carter
10
⭐ 6.7
Providence (2)
Scully is anxious to recover William from his kidnappers and takes matters into her own hands when the FBI's attempts to assist in the investigation are less than helpful. With the help of the Lone Gunmen, Scully discovers terrifying information about her child's captors, and is once again forced to…
🎬 Chris Carter ✍️ Chris Carter
11
⭐ 6.9
Audrey Pauley
After a car accident, Reyes finds herself in a very gray area, while Doggett desperately denies doctors' diagnoses about his partner, who witnesses a strange disappearance.
🎬 Kim Manners ✍️ Steven Maeda
12
⭐ 6.6
Underneath
Scully, Doggett and Reyes investigate an old case that Doggett worked on as a cop in Brooklyn, dubbed "The Screwdriver Killer". They try to determine whether the man who was convicted and has just been released from prison was actually the man responsible for the murders.
🎬 John Shiban ✍️ John Shiban
13
⭐ 6.6
Improbable
When Reyes uses numerology to connect the murders of several women to an obsessed serial killer, she and Scully become trapped with a mysterious checker-playing man who may or may not be the killer.
🎬 Chris Carter ✍️ Chris Carter
14
⭐ 6.9
Scary Monsters
Agent Harrison talks Doggett and Reyes into investigating a boy's claim that monsters killed his mother, who was officially determined to have stabbed herself repeatedly.
🎬 Dwight H. Little ✍️ Thomas Schnauz
15
⭐ 6.6
Jump the Shark
The agents ask the Lone Gunmen to help find their friendly foe Yves Adele Harlow after former Area 51 Man-In-Black Morris Fletcher claims she is one of the super-soldiers.
🎬 Cliff Bole ✍️ Vince Gilligan
16
⭐ 6.8
William
Doggett catches someone in the X-files office trying to steal documents pertaining to Mulder's sister. The intruder is a severely scarred man who blames his disfigurement on Government conspirators. He claims the source of that information - and, in fact, the one who helped him gain entry - is Mulde…
🎬 David Duchovny ✍️ Chris Carter
17
⭐ 7.2
Release
When an FBI cadet with amazing profiling skills approaches Doggett, Reyes, and Scully with a lead on a suspect in a series of recent murders, he claims the same killer is responsible for the death of Doggett's son. The agents find themselves wondering if his knowledge of the deaths is because of his…
🎬 Kim Manners ✍️ John Shiban
18
⭐ 7.1
Sunshine Days
Doggett and Reyes investigate a murder outside the house that the original Brady Bunch series was filmed in. The house is owned by a man named Oliver who is obsessed with the show and has rigged the house into a series of traps and changing appearances to look like the Brady house.
🎬 Vince Gilligan ✍️ Vince Gilligan
19
⭐ 7.3
The Truth (1)
After not knowing Fox Mulder's whereabouts for the last year, A.D. Skinner and Agent Scully learn he's being held for the murder of a military man he couldn't possibly have killed: Knowle Rohrer, one of the government's secret super-soldiers. With Skinner acting as Mulder's defense, people who Mulde…
🎬 Kim Manners ✍️ Chris Carter
20
⭐ 6.2
The Truth (2)
When an unexpected person comes to Mulder's rescue, Mulder refuses to slip north over the border to safety. Instead, he heads southwest to the Anasazi ruins of New Mexico seeking a mysterious wise man who the Indians call "The Keeper of the Truth".
🎬 Kim Manners ✍️ Chris Carter