Episodes
See also: List of The X-Files episodesEpisodes marked with a 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 140 | 1 | "The Sixth Extinction" | Kim Manners | Chris Carter | November 7, 1999 (1999-11-07) | 7ABX03 | 17.82 |
| Walter Skinner (Mitch Pileggi) and Michael Kritschgau (John Finn) work desperately to attempt to discover what is wrong with Fox Mulder (David Duchovny), who is imprisoned by his own frenetic brain activity, but they are unaware of Agent Diana Fowley’s (Mimi Rogers) duplicity. In the meanwhile, Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) is hunting for an ancient artifact in Africa. | |||||||
| 141 | 2 | "The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati" | Michael Watkins | David Duchovny & Chris Carter | November 14, 1999 (1999-11-14) | 7ABX04 | 16.15 |
| Returning to Washington to find Mulder gone, Scully joins Kritschgau and Skinner—who is still being forced into betrayal by Alex Krycek (Nicholas Lea)—to find her partner. However, the Cigarette Smoking Man (William B. Davis) has taken Mulder to a place where all his problems are gone and Fowley is forced to make a choice about her loyalties. | |||||||
| 142 | 3 | "Hungry" | Kim Manners | Vince Gilligan | November 21, 1999 (1999-11-21) | 7ABX01 | 16.17 |
| In an episode told from the point-of-view of the “monster”, a fast-food employee with unusual cravings becomes the focus of an FBI investigation. The victims appear with no brain and a suction hole in the forehead. | |||||||
| 143 | 4 | "Millennium" | Thomas J. Wright | Vince Gilligan & Frank Spotnitz | November 28, 1999 (1999-11-28) | 7ABX05 | 15.09 |
| An associate of the Millennium Group, which believes the apocalypse will happen on the new year of 2000, resurrects the dead for use in the bringing about of the apocalypse, and Mulder and Scully have to ask the help of criminal profiler Frank Black (Lance Henriksen), a man who has former experience with the shadowy group. | |||||||
| 144 | 5 | "Rush" | Robert Lieberman | David Amann | December 5, 1999 (1999-12-05) | 7ABX06 | 12.71 |
| When a school student becomes the prime suspect in the bizarre murder of a police officer, Mulder and Scully are sent to investigate. They discover that the boy and a couple of friends have been playing with the ability to accelerate their movements to a frequency the human eye can’t perceive. | |||||||
| 145 | 6 | "The Goldberg Variation" | Thomas J. Wright | Jeffrey Bell | December 12, 1999 (1999-12-12) | 7ABX02 | 14.49 |
| After being thrown off a building and surviving, Henry Weems, who appears to be the luckiest man in the world, attracts the attention of Mulder and Scully. But, if he is so lucky, why is he on the run from the mob, and why is everyone around him so unlucky? | |||||||
| 146 | 7 | "Orison" | Rob Bowman | Chip Johannessen | January 9, 2000 (2000-01-09) | 7ABX07 | 15.63 |
| Reverend Orison releases Donnie Pfaster, Scully’s former kidnapper, as seen in the second season episode "Irresistible", from jail in the hopes of passing judgment on him. What he discovers instead is that he has released pure evil, and it’s headed for Scully. | |||||||
| 147 | 8 | "The Amazing Maleeni" | Thomas J. Wright | Vince Gilligan & John Shiban & Frank Spotnitz | January 16, 2000 (2000-01-16) | 7ABX08 | 16.18 |
| The Amazing Maleeni, a small-time magician, performs an amazing feat to impress a heckler—he turns his head 360 degrees. So when he is later found without a head at all, Mulder and Scully arrive on the case and discover an angry ex-con, an unimpressed rival, and Maleeni’s twin brother all seem to have something to do with the plan to rob a major bank. | |||||||
| 148 | 9 | "Signs and Wonders" | Kim Manners | Jeffrey Bell | January 23, 2000 (2000-01-23) | 7ABX09 | 13.86 |
| When a small town church is the site of a number of ritualistic-like murders, fingers are pointed to the Church of God with Signs and Wonders, a church where the Bible is read literally, and punishment is dealt deftly. But soon the agents realize that the difference between the peaceful religious and the fanatics may not be very much at all. | |||||||
| 149 | 10 | "Sein und Zeit" | Michael Watkins | Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz | February 6, 2000 (2000-02-06) | 7ABX10 | 13.95 |
| While investigating the bizarre disappearance of a young girl from her home, Mulder becomes obsessed with a number of children who have vanished in similar ways. Scully's fears that he is emotionally involved due to his sister's disappearance 27 years earlier are heightened when Mulder's mother dies, apparently of suicide. | |||||||
| 150 | 11 | "Closure" | Kim Manners | Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz | February 13, 2000 (2000-02-13) | 7ABX11 | 15.35 |
| As Mulder is forced to accept that his mother’s death was by her own hand, he is led by a man whose son disappeared years earlier to another truth—that his sister may be among the souls taken by ‘walk-ins’, saving the souls of children doomed to live unhappy lives. Together, they embark on a journey that will reveal to Mulder the truth about his sister’s disappearance. | |||||||
| 151 | 12 | "X-Cops" | Michael Watkins | Vince Gilligan | February 20, 2000 (2000-02-20) | 7ABX12 | 16.56 |
| A filming of an episode of COPS gets in the way of the collaborative effort between the FBI and the local police department. Mulder later finds out that the monster feeds on fear. While Mulder embraces the publicity, Scully is not so sure of it. The episode was filmed as if it was an authentic episode of the TV series COPS. | |||||||
| 152 | 13 | "First Person Shooter" | Chris Carter | William Gibson & Tom Maddox | February 27, 2000 (2000-02-27) | 7ABX13 | 15.31 |
| The Lone Gunmen summon Mulder and Scully to the headquarters of a video game design company when the new virtual-reality game, which the Gunmen helped design, is taken over by a bizarre female computer character whose power is much more than virtual. | |||||||
| 153 | 14 | "Theef" | Kim Manners | Vince Gilligan & John Shiban & Frank Spotnitz | March 12, 2000 (2000-03-12) | 7ABX14 | 11.91 |
| After a prominent doctor discovers his father-in-law dead and the word "Theef" written on the wall in blood, Mulder suspects hexcraft may be the source of threats against the doctor's family. | |||||||
| 154 | 15 | "En Ami" | Rob Bowman | William B. Davis | March 19, 2000 (2000-03-19) | 7ABX15 | 11.99 |
| After a young boy with cancer, whose parents do not believe in medical treatment because it is against God’s will, recovers miraculously, Scully is intrigued. What she soon discovers is that his cure is not miraculous, but scientific. Eager, if wary, to learn of the truth behind his secrets, Scully agrees to travel with the Cigarette Smoking Man to get the cure to all mankind’s diseases. | |||||||
| 155 | 16 | "Chimera" | Cliff Bole | David Amann | April 2, 2000 (2000-04-02) | 7ABX16 | 12.89 |
| Mulder investigates what appears to be a missing case of a woman from a small town, but soon turns out to be a murder by a spirit summoned from the underworld. Scully, meanwhile, must endure an uncomfortable stakeout. | |||||||
| 156 | 17 | "all things" | Gillian Anderson | Gillian Anderson | April 9, 2000 (2000-04-09) | 7ABX17 | 12.18 |
| While Mulder is away in England, Scully is led by coincidences, chance, fate and possibly a higher power to a married man with whom she had an affair during medical school, and a look at the life she didn’t choose, forcing her to make choices about her future. | |||||||
| 157 | 18 | "Brand X" | Kim Manners | Steven Maeda & Greg Walker | April 16, 2000 (2000-04-16) | 7ABX19 | 10.81 |
| While protecting a man due to testify against the Morley cigarette company, Skinner is horrified when the witness dies mysteriously. What the agents soon discover is that a new brand of cigarette has a dangerous secret. | |||||||
| 158 | 19 | "Hollywood A.D." | David Duchovny | David Duchovny | April 30, 2000 (2000-04-30) | 7ABX18 | 12.88 |
| An entrepreneurial Hollywood producer and college friend of Skinner picks up the idea for a film based on the X-Files division, however the agents find that the level of realism in their fictional portrayal is somewhat questionable. | |||||||
| 159 | 20 | "Fight Club" | Paul Shapiro | Chris Carter | May 7, 2000 (2000-05-07) | 7ABX20 | 11.70 |
| Mulder and Scully cross paths with a pair of doppelgangers whose close proximity yields unlimited mayhem. Splitting up in two, the agent tries to find out "why" and "what" they are doing. | |||||||
| 160 | 21 | "Je Souhaite" | Vince Gilligan | Vince Gilligan | May 14, 2000 (2000-05-14) | 7ABX21 | 12.79 |
| Mulder and Scully's encounter with a man and his handicapped brother leads them to an indifferent genie whose willingness to grant wishes belies a deeper motive. | |||||||
| 161 | 22 | "Requiem" | Kim Manners | Chris Carter | May 21, 2000 (2000-05-21) | 7ABX22 | 15.26 |
| Mulder and Scully return to the site of their first investigation together when a series of abductions take place. However, Scully's failing health, and Mulder's concern that she is in danger, cause him to take her off the case. Meanwhile, the Cigarette-Smoking Man—on his deathbed—reunites with Marita Covarrubias (Laurie Holden) and Krycek in an attempt to revive the project. |
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