Dr. Scully is given the assignment to watch over the activities of
a certain Agent Mulder and decide if his work is worthwhile to the
FBI. He takes her to investigate the murder of several high school
classmates in Oregon whom he believes have been experimented on by
aliens.
Mulder and Scully head out to Ellens Air Force Base in Idaho,
against the wishes of some very mysterious and powerful people. The
investigation begins with the disappearance of one of the test pilots
and leads to the implication of possible experimentation on UFOs by
the military.
A gruesome murder without motive, clear M.O., or point of entry
bears resemblance to an X-File killer. However, the X-File cases took
place in 1933 and 1963. Mulder and Scully attempt to track down and
stop this century old killer.
A woman who claims to have seen a UFO as a child has her teenage
daughter disappear while on a camping trip. The signs seem to indicate
alien involvement. But the key to solving the mystery may be the
woman's young son instead of the missing daughter.
The discovery of a cannibalized human body in New Jersey State Park
sends Mulder and Scully to Atlantic City. Despite obvious police
cover-ups, Mulder continues his investigation of what may be a missing
link in human evolution. Meanwhile, Scully attends her god-son's
birthday party, which leads to some reflection on her future social
plans.
When two very odd corpses appear in Philadelphia, Mulder and Scully
are requested to take a look at them. The investigation turns up a
secretary whose employer recently committed suicide and a strange force
which seems to protect her.
Following the electrocution of a computer company's CEO, Mulder's
old partner asks for help with the case. With the advice of Deep
Throat, Mulder and Scully must stop the murderer, all the while
fighting off the defense department and the building itself.
When the Arctic Ice Core project's final transmission is a crazed
scientist saying "We are not who we are," Mulder and Scully become part
of an investigative team sent to the Alaskan site. Upon arrival, they
discover that the unearthing of an unearthly parasite could spell
trouble for them as well.
After a space shuttle launch is aborted and evidence of some bizarre
sabotage is found, a NASA worker asks Mulder and Scully to take a look
around. Meanwhile, the former astronaut who is in charge of the
mission is apparently haunted by something he encountered during a
spacewalk on a previous mission.
Mulder is tipped off by Deep Throat about a government cover-up of a
UFO crash site. He is not the only one interested, as he discovers a
fellow UFO enthusiast whose appearance seems rather coincidental. So
the military tries to keep Mulder away while trying to bring a certain
other being in. But when he is discovered, Mulder's position in the
FBI is jeopardized.
Mulder and Scully check out the curious murder of a man in
Connecticut. When they discover that another man in California was
killed simultaneously in the same manner, the uncanny resemblance of
the two men's daughters seems more than coincidental. So, when the
first child disappears, the two decide to keep an eye on the remaining
child. What they find isn't alien, but rather something much more
familiar.
An old flame of Mulder's tries to enlist his aid to protect a
visiting Parliament member and lights a small spark of jealousy in
Scully. Mulder must overcome his fear of fire to take on the hot-headed
pyrokinetic serial killer.
After Scully's father passes away, her skepticism is tested by a
prisoner on death row who claims that by using recently gained psychic
powers, he can help catch a kidnapper. Without Mulder's guidance, she
must decide for herself whether or not the man's visions are truth or a
by-product of her grief.
A series of sexually related killings confound the two agents who
aren't certain if the murderer is male or female. The clues lead them
to a small Amish-like community called the Kindred in Massachusetts who
are more puzzling than the serial killer.
During a trap set for a bank robber, a fellow agent and friend of
Scully's is shot by the criminal, whom Scully shoots in turn. While
the agent is brought back from apparent death, he takes on the persona
of the dead criminal whom he has chased for nearly a year. Scully
sticks with him during his "trauma," but Mulder believes that he is not
who he is.
A criminal captured by a younger, fresh-from-the-academy Fox Mulder
seems to be making good on his promise of vengeance against the agent.
Now an older, wiser Mulder must attempt to find this elusive stalker
who may not be wiser...or older.
After a downed UFO crashes near Iraqi airspace, an unmarked truck
carrying its occupant is assailed in Tennessee, causing multiple UFO
sightings. Drawn by the event, Mulder and Scully find themselves
tracking the trailer, with the help and hindrance of Deep Throat.
The inexplicable deaths of several people at the hands of a faith
healer send Mulder and Scully into the Bible belt. The deaths have
shaken the miracle worker's faith in his gift, but not before Mulder
experiences some of the boy's power.
The shooting of a Native American draws Mulder's attention as the
murderer believed he had shot an animal of some sort. But an Indian
myth and some strange evidence seem to indicate the possibility of
lycanthropy, the very phenomenon which opened the very first X-File.
Mulder pulls some strings to be assigned to a case involving the
disappearance of 30 loggers in Washington state. They discover that
the loggers, in illegally cutting down a tree, faced a punishment far
worse than what the judicial system would have done. Now the two
agents must try to avoid the same dark fate.
Eugene Tooms, a mutant killer brought in by Mulder and Scully, is
released based on psychiatric re-evaluation and lack of evidence. So
Mulder sets out to prevent Tooms from killing for the fifth and final
liver he needs, while Scully attempts to locate more definitive
evidence. Both tasks made more difficult by their superiors insistence
that they work by the book.
A little girl is tied to the deaths of two Buffalo policemen, but
the possibility that she is the murderer is ludicrous. So Mulder and
Scully begin an investigation of the eight year old, turning up
evidence that may help to solve a nine year old murder case. A case
Mulder believes was the death of the girl's past life.
A mentally handicapped janitor seems to be the only suspect in the
murders of two members of a propulsion research team. Yet the evidence
of advanced theoretical work seems to eliminate the possibility, until
Mulder and Scully uncover his relationship to a scientist whose brain
has been cryogenically preserved.
When Deep Throat points out a news story about a fugitive who
apparently drowned, Mulder and Scully cannot see what makes it special.
But with his insistence, they discover evidence of secret government
experimentation with extraterrestrial DNA. However, the evidence and
everyone who has seen it is quickly being eliminated.