The Smoking Man works quickly to recover the stolen computer files,
but finds himself thwarted by a man whom he hope is dead. Meanwhile,
Scully finds herself at a loss for her next step and turns to her family
for support, since Mulder is otherwise engaged fighting for survival.
Part two of three.
Reunited, Mulder and Scully locate an old scientist from Nazi
Germany, pardoned through Operation Paper Clip. The information he
gives them leads to their discovery of something which could mean
their deaths. Part three of three.
Mulder is skeptical over a coroner's report regarding the fifth
person to be struck by lightning in a small Oklahoma town. Their
investigation into the latest death seems to point to the only person
to have survived a lightning strike, an emotionally-charged youth.
Skeptical of a famous psychic's predictions regarding the murder
of several prognosticators, Mulder instead finds someone who he
believes truly can predict the future. Though catching the killer
could prove difficult, particularly if the murderer can also see into
his future.
A death row inmate's promise of reincarnation for the purpose of
avenging the injustice of his execution begins to be fulfilled with the
death of one of the Florida prison's guards. The fear of his
retribution has everyone scrambling to determine if they are on the
list of his five victims, including Mulder and Scully who are trying to
determine how he has returned to execute his tormentors.
Meeting insecure women through an on-line service, a serial killer
seduces his prey with the right words. However, Mulder and Scully
determine these killings are far from ordinary by the presence of a
strange substance coating the victims, a substance which seems to
digest the fatty acids in flesh.
Another failed suicide attempt by a patient in a military hospital
interests Mulder with the talk of a "phantom soldier" which has
prevented the man's death. The general in charge is at first opposed
to the FBI's involvement until the invisible killer begins stalking
him. But none believe when the primary suspect is a quadraplegic.
When a young girl is kidnapped from her home, a fast food worker
miles away collapse on the job, apparently experiencing exactly what
the child is feeling. When Mulder learns that the woman was kidnapped
and held hostage for years as a child, he begins to believe that she
may be the key to help find the missing girl.
Writers: Chris Carter & Howard Gordon & Frank Spotnitz
Director: David Nutter
Original Broadcast: 11/24/95
Guest Cast:
Penny (Gillian Barber)
Senator Richard Matheson (Raymond J. Barry)
Agent Pendrell (Brendan Beiser)
Frohike (Tom Braidwood)
Langly (Dean Haglund)
Byers (Bruce Harwood)
Dr. Takeo Ishimaru (Robert Ito)
Lottie Holloway (Corrine Koslo)
Red-Haired Man (Stephen McHattie)
Coast Guard Officer (Paul McLean)
Kazuo Sakurai (Yasuo Sakurai)
Diane (Lori Triolo)
X (Steven Williams)
A mail order videotape of an alien autopsy blossoms into a much
more complicated investigation when Mulder and Scully find the
distributor of the tape murdered in his own home apparently by a
high-ranking Japanese diplomat. Following up individual leads, Scully
finds herself recognized by complete strangers while Mulder tries to
find out more about the origin of the video. Part one of two.
Dr. Shiro Zama aka Dr. Takeo Ishimaru (Robert Ito)
Red-Haired Man (Stephen McHattie)
Conductor (Michael Puttonen)
Elder (Don S. Williams)
X (Steven Williams)
Scully takes X's advice to heart and investigates more into
the implant she removed from her neck. Mulder, having ignored the
advice given him, finds himself trapped on the train with a Japanese
scientist and the man sent to kill him. Part two of two.
A search for stigmatics turns up a young boy in Ohio whom Mulder
and Scully immediate travel to protect. They feel that he may be the
next choice of a fanatic who has murdered eleven people claiming to be
stigmatics. But when it appears that this boy may be legitimate,
Scully starts believing she was the one who was chosen.
While waiting out the fumigation of his apartment, Mulder stumbles
into a Massachusetts town where it appears that cockroaches have been
attacking and killing several residents. Upon consulting Scully, he
is told that it's probably just a load of crap.
The murder of several high school students in the small town are
believed to be the work of a Satanic cult through the machinations of
the two girls truly at fault. The tension between Mulder and Scully
and that of the townsfolk rises because of the fear and anger, though
an astrologer insists it's because it is written in the stars.
A three year murder investigation by one of the FBI's finest
behavioral scientists comes to a close with the arrest of an artist
who claims to have been possessed by an evil force. But when the
deaths continue, it is up to Mulder to get inside the killer's head to
find this gargoyle.
The crew of the salvage ship Piper Maru return with severe
radiation burns after a visit to the same location as a previous
vessel, the Talypus; a ship in which Mulder is very interested.
Scully's thoughts return to her murdered sister as she goes to the
naval base where she grew up to question an old neighbor if he knows
anything about the undersea location. Part one of two.
Mulder returns from Hong Kong with the hopes of retrieving the lost
digital tape, only to have Krycek slip from his grasp. Meanwhile
Scully spearheads the investigation of Skinner's attacker in the hopes
that it will resolve the case of her sister's murder. Part two of
two.
A man is apprehended yet escapes after he claims to be the hired
killer of 14 people whose deaths had previously been ruled as suicides.
The man, who seems to have the ability to control others, desires a
challenge, leaving clues for Mulder and Scully to follow as he sets up
his contest of wills.
After two people associated with a sacred artifact disappear,
Mulder and Scully investigate the apparent curse caused by the
unearthing and relocation of the remains of an amaru, a female shaman.
Their lead suspect is a member of the dig which brought the amaru to
the US, though he is more preoccupied with using a native hallucinogen
to pray to the spirit.
When the night watchmen discovers a man being burned alive in a
funeral home, it brings Mulder and Scully to investigate the deaths of
many Chinese immigrants in the San Francisco bay area. With the aid
of a Cantonese speaking detective, they chance upon the clues which
lead them to a game where you truly bet your life.
Scully takes advantage of an opportunity to meet the famous writer,
Jose Chung, who wishes to interview her and Mulder for his latest book
on alien abduction. He has come to obtain her take on the apparent
abduction of two teenagers and two grey aliens by the Lord Kinbote.
Dealing with having to sign the divorce papers from his wife,
Assistant Director Skinner inadvertantly spends the night with a
prostitute and wakes the next morning to find her dead by his side.
Unable to explain the events, he half-believes he may have killed the
woman, but Mulder and Scully refuse to accept that as truth.
The disappearance of a federal wildlife official gives Mulder the
excuse he needs in order to drag Scully down to Georgia with him.
They come in search of the local legend "Big Blue," an aquatic
dinosaur reputed to inhabit the local lake.
Mulder and Scully investigate a series of murders in a Maryland
town where it isn't caused by too much violence on television--it's
simply caused by television.
