Season 4 Episodes

4x01 Herrenvolk (part 2 of 2) 10/4/96
As Mulder’s mother lies dying, he and Scully are given tantalizing glimpses of a plan to secretly catalog—and clone—human beings. Only by putting the pieces together can they hope to save Mrs. Mulder’s life.
Written by Chris Carter
Directed by R.W. Goodwin

4x02 Unruhe 10/27/96
Someone is abducting, mutilating, and murdering the inhabitants of a small town, the only evidence being a series of photographs depicting the killer’s psychotic fantasies.
Written by Vince Gilligan
Directed by Rob Bowman

4x03 Home 10/11/96
While investigating the death of an infant in a close-knit rural community, Mulder and Scully uncover an even darker family secret.
Written by Glen Morgan and James Wong
Directed by Kim Manners

4x04 Teliko 10/18/96
When several African-American men mysteriously turn up dead in Philadelphia with all the pigment drained from their bodies, Mulder and Scully investigate the possible involvement of a ghost creature from West African folklore who could transmorgify into any size or shape.
Written by Howard Gordon
Directed by James Charleston

4x05 The Field Where I Died 11/3/96
In an effort to prevent a mass suicide at a fanatical religious cult, Mulder and Scully interview one of the six wives of the leader, who claims that she and Mulder shared past lives together in which they were lovers.
Written by Glen Morgan and James Wong
Directed by Rob Bowman

4x06 Sanguinarium 11/11/96
At a busy—and lucrative—cosmetic surgery clinic, doctors are murdering patients with the tools of their trade. Several clues point toward demonic possession.
Written by Valerie Mayhew and Vivien Mayhew
Directed by Kim Manners

4x07 Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man 11/17/96
Frohike reveals to Mulder and Scully the secret biography of the sinister, all-powerful conspirator.
Written by Glen Morgan
Directed by James Wong

4x08 Paper Hearts 12/15/96
Prompted by a series of prophetic dreams, Mulder reopens the case of a convicted child killer, who claims to know the circumstances of Samantha Mulder’s abduction.
Written by Vince Gilligan
Directed by Rob Bowman

4x09 Tunguska (part 1 of 2) 11/24/96
When the X-Files team intercepts a diplomatic pouch containing a meteor fragment of extraterrestrial origin which crashed to Earth in Russia in 1908, Mulder becomes involved with two deadly lifeforms: one alien, the other his old nemesis Alex Krycek.
Written by Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz
Directed by Kim Manners

4x10 Terma (part 2 of 2) 12/1/96
A former KGB assassin comes out of retirement to erase all connections to American experiments involving the lethal “black cancer,” a toxic biohazard of extraterrestrial origin, and Scully is jailed for contempt of Congress when she refuses to reveal Mulder’s whereabouts to a Senate subcommittee.
Written by Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz
Directed by Rob Bowman

4x11 El Mundo Gira 1/12/97
Fear, jealousy, superstition, and prejudice converge when a young female migrant worker is killed by a mysterious yellow rain.
Written by John Shiban
Directed by Tucker Gates

4x12 Kaddish 2/16/97
Mulder and Scully delve into the ancient canons of Jewish mysticism to discover who is killing members of an anti-Semitic gang.
Written by Howard Gordon
Directed by Kim Manners

4x13 Never Again 2/2/97
On a solo assignment out of town, a lonely Scully meets Mr. Wrong—a single guy who thinks his new tattoo is talking to him.
Written by Glen Morgan and James Wong
Directed by Rob Bowman

4x14 Leonard Betts 1/26/97
When a headless corpse escapes from morgue, Mulder and Scully’s findings lead them to the jagged dividing line between life and death.
Written by Vince Gilligan, John Shiban, and Frank Spotnitz
Directed by Kim Manners

4x15 Memento Mori 2/9/97
After Scully learns that she has an inoperable brain tumor, she contacts a MUFON group of alleged female alien abductees who are dying of the same type of cancerous mass after having implants removed from the base of their necks.
Written by Chris Carter, Vince Gilligan, John Shiban, and Frank Spotnitz
Directed by Rob Bowman

4x16 Unrequited 2/23/97
A Marine Corps prisoner of war, abandoned in Vietnam by his superiors, returns to the United States with a vengeance—and a special talent for hiding in plain sight.
Written by Chris Carter and Howard Gordon
Directed by Michael Lange

4x17 Tempus Fugit (part 1 of 2) 3/16/97
When a former UFO abductee is killed in a catastrophic plane crash, Mulder suspects a conspiracy and a cover-up.
Written by Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz
Directed by Rob Bowman

4x18 Max (part 2 of 2) 3/23/97
Mulder and Scully get close to proving alien involvement in the crash of flight 549, triggering a massive military disinformation campaign—and the deaths of several friends and colleagues.
Written by Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz
Directed by Kim Manners

4x19 Synchrony 4/13/97
Mulder and Scully believe time travel is the key to solving several baffling murders in Massachusetts.
Written by Howard Gordon and David Greenwalt
Directed by James Charleston

4x20 Small Potatoes 4/20/97
Mulder and Scully investigate several not-so-blessed events in a small Southern town.
Written by Vince Gilligan
Directed by Cliff Bole

4x21 Zero Sum 4/27/97
Skinner makes a deal with the devil—the Cigarette Smoking Man—in an effort to prevent Scully from dying of cancer.
Written by Howard Gordon and Frank Spotnitz
Directed by Kim Manners

4x22 Elegy 5/4/97
Mulder and Scully suspect a mentally disturbed man in the murders of several young women whose spirits were seen elsewhere at the moments of their deaths.
Written by John Shiban
Directed by James Charleston

4x23 Demons 5/11/97
Scully fears for her partner’s well-being after he suffers a mental blackout while investigating an alien abductee case and becomes the prime suspect in a brutal double murder.
Written by R.W. Goodwin
Directed by Kim Manners

4x24 Gethsemane (part 1 of 3) 5/18/97
When a controversial scientist claims to have discovered evidence of extraterrestrials, Mulder and Scully find their lives—and belief system—in grave peril.
Written by Chris Carter
Directed by R.W. Goodwin

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