Episode guide
The X-Files: Season 5
20 episodes · premiered Nov 2, 1997
Even as Scully’s genetically altered DNA brings her closer to the brink of death, government agent Michael Kritschgau helps Mulder in the search for a cure, partly to atone for his own involvement with perpetrating the alien hoax. Scully’s DNA comes into play once again when she discovers she is the mother of a little girl named Emily, an incident that could only be related to her abduction years earlier. But in the end it is a young boy named Gibson Praise whose body may contain genetic proof of man’s relationship to an alien race — and who may hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of the X-Files.
- Episode 1: Redux (2) Nov 2, 1997 · 45m · TMDB 7.8 Scully helps Mulder fake his own death in order for him to go undetected through the Department of Defence and find out the answers to his new questions about the government hoax…
- Episode 2: Redux II (3) Nov 9, 1997 · 47m · TMDB 8.1 The Cigarette-Smoking Man helps Mulder to obtain Scully's cure and also lets him see his real sister who doesn't turn out to be as happy to see Mulder as he would've liked. In return for…
- Episode 3: Unusual Suspects Nov 16, 1997 · 45m · TMDB 7.9 Set in 1989, the story of the founding of The Lone Gunmen is finally told as we see how a straight-laced federal employee, a sex mad AV expert, and a nerdy computer hacker meet Susanne…
- Episode 4: Detour Nov 23, 1997 · 45m · TMDB 7.6 While on their way to an FBI group communication seminar, Mulder and Scully manage to escape when they come across a situation in the Florida forest area where three men have recently…
- Episode 5: The Post-Modern Prometheus Nov 30, 1997 · 47m · TMDB 7.3 Filmed in glorious black and white with a comic book feel to it, this is a modern retelling of Frankenstein as Mulder and Scully get caught up in a town where the residents live on Jerry…
- Episode 6: Christmas Carol (1) Dec 7, 1997 · 46m · TMDB 7.1 On her Christmas vacation with her brother's family, Scully receives a mysterious phone call from a familiar voice who says, "She needs your help. Go to her." The phone call leads Scully…
- Episode 7: Emily (2) Dec 14, 1997 · 46m · TMDB 7.2 DNA testing on Emily reveals that she is actually Scully's daughter and Mulder comes to assist her. While Mulder is looking for any information about where and how the girl was born…
- Episode 8: Kitsunegari Jan 4, 1998 · 46m · TMDB 7.5 Pusher returns as Robert Patrick Modell escapes from the mental hospital and the FBI promptly organizes a manhunt, assuming that he will continue where he left off. But is he really trying…
- Episode 9: Schizogeny Jan 11, 1998 · 46m · TMDB 7.0 A therapist working with children from abusive families is found to be implanting them with the memories of her own abuse suffered at the hands of her late father, when one of her patients…
- Episode 10: Chinga Feb 8, 1998 · 45m · TMDB 7.1 Master of Horror Stephen King's first effort at an X-File sees Scully's well deserved vacation going terribly wrong and landing her in a small Maine town where one of the residents is…
- Episode 11: Kill Switch Feb 15, 1998 · 46m · TMDB 7.5 A super-intelligent virus program is let loose on the internet and begins to grow and expand by itself, eventually killing its creator when he tries to eradicate it.
- Episode 12: Bad Blood Feb 22, 1998 · 46m · TMDB 8.5 After Mulder chases down and kills a young man who he believes to be a vampire, the agents return to DC aware of the mistake they just made. Faced with a lawsuit from the family of the…
- Episode 13: Patient X (1) Mar 1, 1998 · 46m · TMDB 7.5 Mulder and Scully meet Cassandra Spender, a woman who claims to be a multiple abductee and wants to deliver a positive message about the aliens. Mulder's new found disbelief in…
- Episode 14: The Red and the Black (2) Mar 8, 1998 · 46m · TMDB 7.9 After the gathering at the abduction site where everyone is killed by the rebel bounty hunters, Cassandra Spender disappears and Mulder is blamed by her son, Jeffrey, who is an…
- Episode 15: Travelers Mar 29, 1998 · 46m · TMDB 7.4 In 1990 Agent Fox Mulder visits an aging FBI Agent named Arthur Dales. He listens to a story of the agents assigned to a would-be X-File in the Cold War era of the 1950's and how Mulder's…
- Episode 16: Mind’s Eye Apr 19, 1998 · 46m · TMDB 7.5 Mulder and Scully try to get answers out of a stubborn blind woman found at a murder scene who may have the ability to look through the killer's eyes in her mind.
- Episode 17: All Souls Apr 26, 1998 · 46m · TMDB 6.7 Scully faces her Catholic faith and the loss of her daughter Emily when she is asked to help a family whose adopted daughter was found dead in a position that looked like she was struck…
- Episode 18: The Pine Bluff Variant May 3, 1998 · 46m · TMDB 7.6 Scully fears that Mulder has gone to the other side when she sees him assisting a federal suspect escape custody. In truth he has infiltrated a terrorist group testing a deadly biological…
- Episode 19: Folie à Deux May 10, 1998 · 46m · TMDB 7.9 Mulder is held hostage inside an office where a man claims his boss is a monster and has clouded all their minds while he turns them into zombies one by one, which is disbelieved until…
- Episode 20: The End May 17, 1998 · 47m · TMDB 8.3 The Cigarette-Smoking Man returns as Mulder investigates the attempted assassination of a young boy with psychic powers who may be the proof that he has looked for all his life.