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The X-Files Screenplay

Two F.B.I. Agents, Fox Mulder the believer and Dana Scully the skeptic, investigate the strange and unexplained, while hidden forces work to impede their efforts.

The X-Files 101: Pilot

The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.

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The X-Files 201: Little Green Men

With the X-Files shut down, Mulder travels to Puerto Rico on a tip from his mentor in the Senate to uncover the reason behind the sudden reactivation of a remote long abandoned SETI-like communications station.

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The X-Files 203: Blood

Mulder and Scully investigate a series of violent killings committed by seemingly normal residents of a small town.

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The X-Files 205: Duane Barry

A former FBI agent who claims he was abducted by aliens takes several people hostage. Mulder agrees to be the negotiator.

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The X-Files 213: Irresistible

Scully and Mulder hunt down an escalating fetishist who collects pieces of the dead.

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The X-Files 220: Humbug

The agents search for a killer in a Florida town inhabited by sideshow performers.

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The X-Files 303: D.P.O.

The agents investigate the deaths of several young people who were apparently struck by lightning in the same small town.

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The X-Files 304: Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose

A grumpy old man with psychic powers that show him how someone will die assists the agents with the hunt for a crazed killer who targets psychics. He also cryptically reveals to Mulder and Scully their own ultimate fates.

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The X-Files 305: The List

Enemies of a prison inmate who was executed in the electric chair begin dying one by one.

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The X-Files 306: 2Shy

Shy, overweight women are being pursued online by a suitor who courts them with Italian poetry. The women are being found dead, their corpses stripped of flesh.

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The X-Files 307: The Walk

A quadruple amputee becomes the prime suspect in a series of bizarre deaths at an army hospital.

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The X-Files 308: Obliette

A woman experiences a psychic connection with a teenager held captive by a deranged man.

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The X-Files 313: Syzygy

A rare alignment of the planets gives two homicidal teenage girls dangerous telekinetic powers while simultaneously driving their small town insane with satanic panic. Mulder's interest in the local female detective makes Scully jealous.

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The X-Files 316: Apocrypha

Mulder uncovers clues about a cover-up involving an alien entity and a sunken World War II aircraft. Scully pursues the man who murdered her sister.

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The X-Files 320: Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space'

Scully recounts the investigation of an alleged UFO encounter for the famous quirky author Jose Chung's latest novel. The case gives a whole new meaning to the term Rashomon effect. Chung later returns in Millennium: Jose Chung's 'Doomsday Defense' (1997).

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The X-Files 408: Tunguska

A tip from Krycek takes Mulder to a gulag in Tunguska, Russia where prisoners are being used for experiments with the black oil alien virus. Meanwhile, Scully's colleague is infected with the same virus which lay dormant in a meteorite.

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The X-Files 420: Small Potatoes

Five unrelated women in a small town give birth to babies with small tails. The prime suspect is a man who can shape shift into whomever he wants.

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The X-Files 505: The Post-Modern Prometheus

In this surreal, comical take on Frankenstein, Mulder and Scully arrive in a small rural town to investigate claims of a monster obsessed with Cher that's sedating and impregnating the local women.

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The X-Files 516: Mind's Eye

The prime suspect in a murder case is a woman who has been blind since birth, leading Mulder and Scully to conclude she may possess the ability to see through a killer's eyes.

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