Season 3 Episodes

3x01 The Blessing Way (part 2 of 3) 9/22/95
With the Cigarette Smoking Man pursuing the secret files that prove the existence of alien visitation and experimentation, and Mulder still missing, Scully finds her own life and career in jeopardy.
Written by Chris Carter
Directed by R.W. Goodwin

3x02 Paper Clip (part 3 of 3) 9/29/95
Mulder and Scully seek evidence of alien experimentation by Nazi war criminals while Skinner tries to bargain with the Cigarette Smoking Man for their lives.
Written by Chris Carter
Directed by Rob Bowman

3x03 D.P.O. 10/6/95
Mulder and Scully investigate a series of deaths related to a teenage boy who can control lightening.
Written by Howard Gordon
Directed by Kim Manners

3x04 Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose 10/13/95
Mulder and Scully enlist the help of a man who can see when people will die while searching for a serial killer who preys upon fortunetellers.
Written by Darin Morgan
Directed by David Nutter

3x05 The List 10/20/95
A death row inmate makes good on his promise to return from the dead and kill five people who wronged him.
Written by Chris Carter
Directed by Chris Carter

3x06 2Shy 11/3/95
Mulder and Scully track a serial killer who preys on lonely overweight women via the Internet.
Written by Jeffrey Vlaming
Directed by David Nutter

3x07 The Walk 11/10/95
A suicide attempt and subsequent murders at a military hospital bring Mulder and Scully into contact with a quadruple amputee veteran who may have the power of astral projection.
Written by John Shiban
Directed by Rob Bowman

3x08 Oubliette 11/17/95
The abduction of a young girl prompts Mulder to seek the help of a woman who was kidnapped by the same man years earlier and who has the ability to feel what the victim feels.
Written by Charles Grant Craig
Directed by Kim Manners

3x09 Nisei (part 1 of 2) 11/24/95
A video of an alien autopsy puts Mulder and Scully on the trail of a conspiracy involving Japanese scientists that may shed light on Scully’s abduction.
Written by Chris Carter, Howard Gordon, and Frank Spotnitz
Directed by David Nutter

3x10 731 (part 2 of 2) 12/1/95
Mulder is caught on board a speeding train with what might be alien cargo and a government killer while Scully seeks her own solution to the conspiracy.
Written by Frank Spotnitz
Directed by Rob Bowman

3x11 Revelations 12/15/95
Mulder and Scully seek to protect a young boy who displays wounds of religious significance from a killer, causing Scully to question her own faith while being cast in the role of the boy’s protector.
Written by Kim Newton
Directed by David Nutter

3x12 War of the Coprophages 1/5/96
A number of deaths seemingly linked to cockroaches cause widespread panic in a small town.
Written by Darin Morgan
Directed by Kim Manners

3x13 Syzygy 1/26/96
Two high school girls born on the same day are involved in a series of deaths thanks to an odd alignment of planets that cause strange behavior in all the townspeople, including Mulder and Scully.
Written by Chris Carter
Directed by Rob Bowman

3x14 Grotesque 2/2/96
A serial killer maintains that an evil spirit was responsible for his actions, as Mulder’s own sanity comes into question when the murders persist.
Written by Howard Gordon
Directed by Kim Manners

3x15 Piper Maru (part 1 of 2) 2/9/96
A French salvage ship finds mysterious wreckage from World War II that unleashes a strange force causing radiation sickness and leading Mulder into a web of intrigue.
Written by Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz
Directed by Rob Bowman

3x16 Apocrypha (part 2 of 2) 2/16/96
Mulder pursues Krycek and the mystery of the sunken World War II wreckage, while the shooting of Skinner brings Scully new clues to her sister’s murder.
Written by Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz
Directed by Kim Manners

3x17 Pusher 2/23/96
Mulder and Scully investigate a man possessing the power to bend people to his will, who engages Mulder in a scary battle of wits.
Written by Vince Gilligan
Directed by Rob Bowman

3x18 Teso dos Bichos 3/8/96
The unearthing of an ancient Ecuadorian artifact results in a series of deaths potentially linked to a shaman spirit.
Written by Josh Shiban
Directed by Kim Manners

3x19 Hell Money 3/29/96
The deaths of several Chinese immigrants missing internal organs leads Mulder and Scully to a mysterious game with potentially fatal consequences.
Written by Jeffrey Vlaming
Directed by Tucker Gates

3x20 Jose Chung’s From Outer Space 4/12/96
A novelist interviews Scully about a rumored UFO abduction of two teenagers that seems open to a number of different interpretations.
Written by Darin Morgan
Directed by Rob Bowman

3x21 Avatar 4/26/96
In the midst of a marital breakup, Skinner becomes a murder suspect, while a clue to the case may lie in the form of a strange woman who appears to him in dreams.
Written by Howard Gordon: story by David Duchovny and Howard Gordon
Directed by James Charleston

3x22 Quagmire 5/3/96
Mulder and Scully investigate a series of deaths that may be linked to a lake monster known by the locals as Big Blue.
Written by Kim Newton
Directed by Kim Manners

3x23 Wetwired 5/10/96
Mulder and Scully discover a conspiracy involving mind control through television signals that’s responsible for a series of murders in a small town and begins to cause Scully herself to behave strangely.
Written by Mat Beck
Directed by Rob Bowman

3x24 Talita Cumi (part 1 of 2) 5/17/96
Mulder and Scully search for a mysterious man with the power to heal, whose existence risks exposing a conspiracy involving the presence of aliens on Earth, while various forces seek a strange weapon that comes into Mulder’s possession.
Written by Chris Carter: story by Chris Carter and David Duchovny
Directed by R.W. Goodwin

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