Episodes
See also: List of The X-Files episodesEpisodes marked with an double dagger are episodes in the series' Alien Mythology arc.
| No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Production code |
U.S. viewers (millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 183 | 1 | "Nothing Important Happened Today" | Kim Manners | Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz | November 11, 2001 (2001-11-11) | 9ABX01 | 10.6 |
| John Doggett (Robert Patrick) begins his investigation of Deputy Director Alvin Kersh (James Pickens Jr.) and search for Fox Mulder (David Duchovny). | |||||||
| 184 | 2 | "Nothing Important Happened Today II" | Tony Wharmby | Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz | November 18, 2001 (2001-11-18) | 9ABX02 | 9.4 |
| Shannon McMahon, a former Marine associate of Doggett's, reveals to Doggett that she is a "Super Soldier". This leads them to a clandestine laboratory where secret experiments are taking place aboard a naval ship. | |||||||
| 185 | 3 | "Dæmonicus" | Frank Spotnitz | Frank Spotnitz | December 2, 2001 (2001-12-02) | 9ABX03 | 8.7 |
| With Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) reassigned to the Quantico Training Academy, Doggett and Monica Reyes (Annabeth Gish) investigate their first X-File together – a series of satanic ritual murders. | |||||||
| 186 | 4 | "4-D" | Tony Wharmby | Steven Maeda | December 9, 2001 (2001-12-09) | 9ABX05 | 8.9 |
| A vicious murderer threatens Doggett and Reyes and then vanishes. Doggett is shot and Brad Follmer (Cary Elwes) discovers that Reyes' gun was used. | |||||||
| 187 | 5 | "Lord of the Flies" | Kim Manners | Thomas Schnauz | December 16, 2001 (2001-12-16) | 9ABX06 | |
| Scully, Doggett and Reyes investigate when a teenager dies while performing a daredevil feat for a television show, but his death is soon revealed to be caused by a disturbing family secret. | |||||||
| 188 | 6 | "Trust No 1" | Tony Wharmby | Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz | January 6, 2002 (2002-01-06) | 9ABX08 | |
| Scully is hopeful about reuniting with Mulder when a complete stranger offers new information about what drove him into hiding. Yet her trust in the stranger may place Mulder in even more danger. The tagline of this episode is "They're Watching." | |||||||
| 189 | 7 | "John Doe" | Michelle MacLaren | Vince Gilligan | January 13, 2002 (2002-01-13) | 9ABX07 | 8.7 |
| With no knowledge of his identity or his past, Doggett is found wandering a dusty Mexican town. While he struggles to piece together his memory, he finds himself embroiled in a smuggling plot. Across the border Scully and Reyes attempt to find him. | |||||||
| 190 | 8 | "Hellbound" | Kim Manners | David Amann | January 27, 2002 (2002-01-27) | 9ABX04 | 7.8 |
| Reyes takes the lead while investigating an X-File case surrounding a man found skinned alive. When she discovers that he had visions of a similar thing, she calls on Scully’s expertise to help with the investigation. | |||||||
| 191 | 9 | "Provenance" | Kim Manners | Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz | March 3, 2002 (2002-03-03) | 9ABX10 | 9.7 |
| When rubbings from the spaceship resurface, the FBI hides its investigation from the X-Files. Meanwhile, Scully is forced to take drastic measures when she discovers a threat to William. | |||||||
| 192 | 10 | "Providence" | Chris Carter | Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz | March 10, 2002 (2002-03-10) | 9ABX11 | |
| Distrustful of both Skinner and Follmer, Scully circumvents the FBI's investigation into William's kidnapping and performs her own, assisted by Reyes and The Lone Gunmen. | |||||||
| 193 | 11 | "Audrey Pauley" | Kim Manners | Steven Maeda | March 17, 2002 (2002-03-17) | 9ABX13 | |
| Awakening in a surreal hospital - which a companion believes to be Death's Waiting Room - after being hit by a car, a comatose Reyes struggles to wake herself up before her organ donor card is acted upon. | |||||||
| 194 | 12 | "Underneath" | John Shiban | John Shiban | March 31, 2002 (2002-03-31) | 9ABX09 | 7.3 |
| Doggett is determined to find an error in the DNA evidence that freed the convicted "Screwdriver Killer", whom he nearly caught in the act 13 years earlier. | |||||||
| 195 | 13 | "Improbable" | Chris Carter | Chris Carter | April 7, 2002 (2002-04-07) | 9ABX14 | 9.1 |
| In the race to catch a serial killer, Scully and Reyes find themselves relying on numerology, their powers of deduction, and a mysterious, card-playing stranger. | |||||||
| 196 | 14 | "Scary Monsters" | Dwight Little | Thomas Schnauz | April 14, 2002 (2002-04-14) | 9ABX12 | |
| Special agent Leyla Harrison takes Reyes and Doggett on a drive into the mountains after a woman stabs herself repeatedly and her widowed husband refuses to let anyone see their son. | |||||||
| 197 | 15 | "Jump the Shark" | Cliff Bole | Vince Gilligan & John Shiban & Frank Spotnitz | April 21, 2002 (2002-04-21) | 9ABX15 | |
| When Morris Fletcher approaches the agents with information related to the "Super Soldiers", they turn to The Lone Gunmen. But the Gunmen are already knee-deep in a bio-terrorist's plot which has links to the mysterious Yves Adele Harlow. | |||||||
| 198 | 16 | "William" | David Duchovny | Story by: David Duchovny & Frank Spotnitz & Chris Carter Teleplay by: Chris Carter |
April 28, 2002 (2002-04-28) | 9ABX17 | 9.3 |
| Doggett finds a strange, disfigured man in the X-Files office and, on a whim of Scully's, they test his DNA. The surprising answers they find become even more surprising when William's life is put on the line. | |||||||
| 199 | 17 | "Release" | Kim Manners | Story by: John Shiban & David Amann Teleplay by: David Amann |
May 5, 2002 (2002-05-05) | 9ABX16 | 7.8 |
| When one of Scully’s students displays an inordinate ability to profile serial killers, his insights reopen the murder case of Doggett’s son, Luke. | |||||||
| 200 | 18 | "Sunshine Days" | Vince Gilligan | Vince Gilligan | May 12, 2002 (2002-05-12) | 9ABX18 | 10.4 |
| Doggett, Reyes, Scully and Skinner stumble on to a bizarre murder case where the main suspect is Oliver Martin (Michael Emerson), a man with an unusual obsession with The Brady Bunch. | |||||||
| 201 | 19 | "The Truth" | Kim Manners | Chris Carter | May 19, 2002 (2002-05-19) | 9ABX19 | 13.0 |
| After not knowing Mulder's whereabouts for the last year, Skinner and Scully learn he's being held for the murder of a military man he couldn't possibly have killed: Knowle Rohrer (Adam Baldwin), one of the government's secret "Super Soldiers". | |||||||
| 202 | 20 | "The Truth II" | Kim Manners | Chris Carter | May 19, 2002 (2002-05-19) | 9ABX20 | 13.0 |
| Mulder breaks out of prison with help of Skinner, Reyes, Doggett, Scully and Alvin Kersh. Mulder and Scully travel to New Mexico where Black helicopters destroy an Anasazi cliff dwelling ruin along with the Cigarette Smoking Man (William B. Davis). |
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