Season 2 Episodes

2x01 Little Green Men 9/16/94
With the X-Files shut down, Mulder secretly journeys to a possible alien contact site in Puerto Rico while Scully tries to help him escape detection.
Written by Glen Morgan and James Wong
Directed by David Nutter

2x02 The Host 9/23/94
Mulder stumbles upon a genetic mutation, the Flukeman, while investigating a murder in the New Jersey sewer system.
Written by Chris Carter
Directed by Daniel Sackheim

2x03 Blood 9/30/94
Several residents of a small suburban farming community suddenly turn violent and dangerous, prompted by digital readouts in appliances telling them to kill.
Written by Glen Morgan and James Wong
Directed by David Nutter

2x04 Sleepless 10/7/94
Mulder is assigned a new partner, Alex Krycek, and they investigate a secret Vietnam-era experiment on sleep deprivation that is having deadly effects on surviving participants.
Written by Howard Gordon
Directed by Rob Bowman

2x05 Duane Barry (part 1 of 2) 10/14/94
Mulder negotiates a hostage situation involving an ex-FBI agent, Duane Barry, who claims to be the victim of alien experimentation.
Written by Chris Carter
Directed by Chris Carter

2x06 Ascension (part 2 of 2) 10/21/94
Mulder pursues Duane Barry in a desperate search for Scully.
Written by Paul Brown
Directed by Michael Lange

2x07 3 11/4/94
Mulder investigates a series of vampiresque murders in Hollywood and finds himself falling for a mysterious woman who is the prime suspect.
Written by Glen Morgan, Chris Ruppenthal, and James Wong
Directed by David Nutter

2x08 One Breath 11/11/94
Scully is found alive but in a coma, and Mulder must fight to save her life.
Written by Glen Morgan and James Wong
Directed by R.W. Goodwin

2x09 Firewalker 11/18/94
Mulder and Scully stumble upon a deadly life form while investigating the death of a scientist studying an active volcano.
Written by Howard Gordon
Directed by David Nutter

2x10 Red Museum 12/9/94
Mulder and Scully investigate a possible connection between a rural religious cult and the disappearance of several teenagers.
Written by Chris Carter
Directed by Win Phelps

2x11 Excelsius Dei 12/16/94
Mulder and Scully uncover strange goings-on in a nursing home after a nurse is attacked by an unseen force.
Written by Paul Brown
Directed by Stephen Surjik

2x12 Aubrey 1/6/95
Mulder and Scully investigate the possibility of genetic transferring of personality from one generation to the next in connection with a serial killer.
Written by Sara Charno
Directed by Rob Bowman

2x13 Irresistible 1/13/95
A psycho who collects hair and fingernails from the dead steps up his obsession to killing his soon-to-be collectibles himself.
Written by Chris Carter
Directed by David Nutter

2x14 Die Hand Die Verletzt 1/27/95
Mulder and Scully journey to a small town to investigate a boy’s murder and are caught between the town’s secret occult religion and a woman with strange powers.
Written by Glen Morgan and James Wong
Directed by Kim Manners

2x15 Fresh Bones 2/3/95
Mulder and Scully journey to a Haitian refugee camp after a series of deaths, finding themselves caught in a secret war between the camp commander and a voodoo priest.
Written by Howard Gordon
Directed by Rob Bowman

2x16 Colony (part 1 of 2) 2/10/95
Mulder and Scully track an alien bounty hunter who is killing medical doctors who have something strange in common.
Written by Chris Carter: story by Chris Carter and David Duchovny
Directed by Nick Marck

2x17 End Game (part 2 of 2) 2/17/95
Mulder tracks an alien bounty hunter who has taken Scully prisoner while discovering that his sister may not be who she seems.
Written by Frank Spotnitz
Directed by Rob Bowman

2x18 Fearful Symmetry 2/24/95
Mulder and Scully investigate animal abductions for a zoo near a known UFO hot spot.
Written by Steven DeJarnatt
Directed by James Whitmore Jr.

2x19 Dod Kalm 3/10/95
Mulder and Scully fall victim to a mysterious force aboard a Navy destroyer that causes rapid aging.
Written by Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon
Directed by Rob Bowman

2x20 Humbug 3/31/95
Mulder and Scully investigate the bizarre death of a retired escape artist in a town populated by former circus and sideshow acts.
Written by Darin Morgan
Directed by Kim Manners

2x21 The Calusari 4/14/95
A young boy’s unusual death leads Mulder and Scully to a superstitious old woman and her grandson, who may be possessed by evil.
Written by Sara Charno
Directed by Michael Vejar

2x22 F. Emasculata 4/28/95
When a plague-like illness kills ten men inside a prison facility, Scully is called to the quarantine area while Mulder tracks two escapees.
Written by Chris Carter and Howard Gordon
Directed by Rob Bowman

2x23 Soft Light 5/5/95
An experiment in dark matter turns a scientist’s shadow into a form of instant death.
Written by Vince Gilligan
Directed by James Contner

2x24 Our Town 5/12/95
Mulder and Scully investigate a murder in a small Southern town and its strange secrets surrounding a chicken processing plant.
Written by Frank Spotnitz
Directed by Rob Bowman

2x25 Anasazi (part 1 of 2) 5/19/95
Mulder’s and Scully’s lives are jeopardized when an amateur computer hackers gains access to secret government files providing evidence of UFOs.
Written by Chris Carter: story by Chris Carter and David Duchonvy
Directed by R.W. Goodwin

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