The X-Files
Two FBI agents, Fox Mulder and Dana Scully work in an unassigned detail of the bureau called the X-Files investigating cases dealing with unexplained paranormal phenomena. Mulder, a true believer, and Scully, a skeptic, perceive their cases from stand points of science and the paranormal.
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- 1993-2018
- 11 seasons
- Fox Network
- Action & Adventure, Suspense, Drama, Science Fiction
- TV-14
Two FBI agents, Fox Mulder and Dana Scully work in an unassigned detail of the bureau called the X-Files investigating cases dealing with unexplained paranormal phenomena. Mulder, a true believer, and Scully, a skeptic, perceive their cases from stand points of science and the paranormal.
Season 8 Episode Guide
21 Episodes 2000 - 2001
Episode 1
Within
Sun, Nov 5, 2000 45 mins
New Deputy Director Kersh has Agent John Doggett investigate the missing Mulder case. Doggett's skeptical treatment of Mulder's disappearance puts a thorn in Scully and Skinner's sides.
Episode 2
Without
Sun, Nov 12, 2000 45 mins
Scully leads Skinner and an unhappy Doggett to Arizona to protect child prodigy Gibson Praise from an alien bounty hunter disguised as the missing Mulder.
Episode 3
Patience
Sun, Nov 19, 2000 45 mins
Scully isn't exactly warm to Doggett on their first X-File together in which they investigate a human bat.
Episode 4
Roadrunners
Sun, Nov 26, 2000 45 mins
Agent Scully is investigating a murder in a backwards town somewhere in Utah without the help of agent Doggett. This mistake would prove near fatal for Scully because the people in the town implant a deadly parasite into her back. It turns out that this parasite has been controlling everyone in the town and forcing them to do its bidding.
Episode 5
Invocation
Sun, Dec 3, 2000 45 mins
Doggett and Scully once again butt heads on their latest X-File which involves a boy who has returned after being missing for ten years but still appears to be seven years old, the age he was the day he was abducted.
Episode 6
Redrum
Sun, Dec 10, 2000 45 mins
A man lives the most recent 5 days of his life backwards and finds out that he is the main suspect in the murder of his wife.
Episode 7
Via Negativa
Sun, Dec 17, 2000 45 mins
While Scully tends to her secret, Doggett and Skinner team up to find and somehow stop a cult leader who can kill people in their dreams.
Episode 8
Surekill
Sun, Jan 7, 2001 45 mins
Doggett and Scully investigate two shady brothers who run a rat extermination business, one of whom may be a killer with X-Ray vision.
Episode 9
Salvage
Sun, Jan 14, 2001 44 mins
A man believed to be dead from Gulf War Syndrome comes back to life and slowly turns into metal while taking revenge on those who made him that way.
Episode 10
Badlaa
Sun, Jan 21, 2001 45 mins
A small Indian man on a creaky cart with powers of illusion is believed to have the ability to take over people's bodies and kill them by leaping into their anal cavity. Doggett and Scully try to stop his gruesome killing spree.
Episode 11
The Gift
Sun, Feb 4, 2001 45 mins
Skinner and Doggett investigate a case Mulder was working on before he disappeared involving a family and a monster straight from Native American lore.
Episode 12
Medusa
Sun, Feb 11, 2001 45 mins
Doggett takes to the Boston subways to try to figure out where a deadly agent that is killing citizens is coming from.
Episode 13
Per Manum
Sun, Feb 18, 2001 45 mins
Scully stumbles upon a woman whose abductee experience and symptoms are amazingly similar. The fear now is that both their upcoming births will be to non-human offspring.
Episode 14
This Is Not Happening
Sun, Feb 25, 2001 45 mins
Jeremiah Smith appears out of nowhere and formerly dead abductees are coming back to life, giving Scully and Skinner the idea that Mulder may have a shot at still being alive.
Episode 15
Deadalive
Sun, Apr 1, 2001 45 mins
Billy Miles, thought dead, is found alive and Scully still thinks the still-dead Mulder can come back to life; meanwhile Skinner comes in contact with Krycek who may have a clue as to what exactly is happening with these dead-alive abductees.
Episode 16
Three Words
Sun, Apr 8, 2001 45 mins
A man is shot on the White House lawn with a disk titled "Fight the Future"; Mulder, on the brink of expulsion from the X-Files, investigates while Doggett uses an old friend from the military, Knowle Rohrer, as an insider to the possibility of a conspiracy.
Episode 17
Empedocles
Sun, Apr 22, 2001 45 mins
Upon being fired, an office worker murders his employers, believed to be under the influence of pure evil. Agent Reyes believes this evil may be linked to the death of Doggett's son.
Episode 18
Vienen
Sun, Apr 29, 2001 45 mins
Doggett and Mulder unwillingly team up investigating an oil rig where some mysterious murders have happened and the possibility of the Black Oil being involved is a haunting reality.
Episode 19
Alone
Sun, May 6, 2001 45 mins
A bizarre reptilian creature captures Doggett and his new Mulder-obsessed partner underground and only an X-Files deposed Mulder can help them.
Episode 20
Essence
Sun, May 13, 2001 45 mins
The X-Files team must protect Agent Scully and her unborn child as groups of Super Soldiers try to stop her pregnancy.
Episode 21
Existence
Sun, May 20, 2001 45 mins
Agents Mulder, Doggett and Skinner investigate (along with Alex Krycek) the Super Soldier conspiracy, while Scully goes into hiding to have her child.
