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…eat his own desk” if the The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. co-star Bruce Campbell will not become a television star of the first magnitude. It was not stated whether consumption took place, but it was The X-Files, not The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., that turned out to be the biggest hit in the history of the studio.
Season 6
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1. THE BEGINNING
Mythological episode – click to read
2. DRIVE
One of the TV stations is reporting live the pursuit of a car that is driving west at high speed. Stopped by a police roadblock, the driver becomes hysterical, and his wife, believed to be a hostage, dies in a matter of minutes when her middle ear literally explodes. Driving at a furious pace westward is the only way to stabilize the increasing pressure in the ear canal and the accompanying unbearable headache.
3. TRIANGLES
Tagline: Die Wahrheit ist irgendwo da draußen (The Truth Is Out There Somewhere)
Episode also known as Ghost Ship. There was no way that the Bermuda Triangle wouldn’t also appear in a series with such a theme. And indeed it appears, and specifically in its area is Mulder, transferred in the whirl of space-time to the ship “Queen Ann”, lost in 1939. Mulder is astonished to see that there are a lot of familiar faces among the ship’s passengers: Skinner, Kersh, Smoker, Spender, and even Scully. Moreover, the fate of the world is at stake. If the German-captured ship doesn’t turn off course, Hitler will win the war. Meanwhile, Scully and the Lone Gunmen try to find Mulder. When they succeed and the conspiracy and mystery seeker finally ends up in the hospital, no one wants to believe his stories from the past. Even Scully takes a disarming declaration of love as a sign of Mulder’s mental confusion…
4. DREAMLAND
Mulder drags Scully to the Area 51, where he has arranged to meet an informant belonging to the Majestic group. The informant fails to appear, the agents are apprehended by several local employees and Morris Fletcher, also a member of Majestic. At the same moment, a huge luminous object arrives and a shockwave appears, resulting in a body swap between Mulder and Fletcher. And so Mulder suddenly becomes an employee of a super-secret government cell, in the middle of a marital crisis, unsure of the names of his children, and Fletcher enjoys the freedoms and freedoms of a bachelor life. Scully is a little amazed at her partner’s transformation, but she doesn’t believe what Mulder-Fletcher is trying to explain to her. On top of that, Fletcher’s wife is wildly jealous of the mysterious Dana.
5. DREAMLAND II
Fletcher-Mulder’s heady date with Scully ends with the unlucky suitor being bedridden. Scully is no longer in any doubt that a switch has indeed taken place. Now the only question is how to reverse this process?
6. TERMS OF ENDEARMENT
The demon also wants a family. He would like to father a son, and even a daughter, if only without horns and a tail. Unfortunately, subsequent attempts still end in fiasco and the unlucky demon is forced, with a heartache, to kill his offspring. Until a determined woman appears on his way, ready to even face the forces of hell to achieve her goal. In the role of a demon with a paternal instinct – Bruce Campbell. Episode inspired by Rosemary’s Baby.
7. RAIN KING
Strange meteorological variations all concentrated in one place bring Mulder and Scully to a town where a man known for his supposed ability to make rain operates. It turns out that it is actually about influencing the weather, but in a completely different way. Everything is accompanied by emotional perturbations of the characters. A very nice and cheerful episode, although I realize that it is not one of the most liked ones.
8. HOW THE GHOSTS STOLE CHRISTMAS
On Christmas Eve, Mulder stands watch in a gloomy mansion where, according to tradition, a pair of lovers haunts. During the Great War, this couple committed suicide, swearing eternal fidelity to each other and that they would meet in this house every Christmas. Scully, in spite of herself, resigns from the family Christmas feast and joins her partner in his ghost hunt. Which actually manifest themselves, although in a somewhat surprising form. Contact with the apparitions of lovers from years ago (Ed Asner, Lily Tomlin) becomes a real lesson for the pair of agents about the meaning and content of Christmas. A warm, wise, Dickensian episode.
9. TITHONUS
While Mulder deals with routine tests and other paperwork, Scully gets another chance from Kersh. She is assigned to assist Agent Ritter as he investigates a police photographer suspected of murder. Strangely enough, this man is always the first to arrive at the place where someone dies, and immediately takes a picture of the body from which the life is drained. Mulder, unable to accept his inaction, intercepts the case reports and thus becomes a valuable help to his partner.
10. S.R. 819
Skinner is on the verge of collapse – something inexplicably caused numerous blockages to form in his veins. Mulder and Scully race against time to save their boss – thus unraveling the conspiracy behind Bill 819, which authorizes the export of officially non-existent technology.
11. TWO FATHERS
Mythological episode – click to read
12. ONE SON
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13. ARCADIA
For the purposes of the investigation, Mulder and Scully transform into a married couple, which provokes many funny situations. They move into a house on a super-luxurious estate – its previous inhabitants disappeared without a trace in mysterious circumstances. The life of the Arcadia estate is determined by a series of strict rules and regulations to ensure order, cleanliness and order. However, it is not only the rule of law of the inhabitants and the charisma of the founder that ensure that these rules are not broken. Someone – or something – makes sure everything runs like clockwork.
14. AGUA MALA
Mulder and Scully travel to Florida to investigate the disappearance of two marine biologists and their son. A hurricane is sweeping over Florida, and a bloodthirsty sea monster moves through the sewer lines of a building.
15. MONDAY
Variation on Groundhog Day. Mulder relives the same day over and over again to finally make the right use of the chance to prevent events that shouldn’t have happened.
16. ALPHA
A dangerous animal, supposedly a representative of an officially extinct species of canine, escapes from a cage transported on a ship. He is driven by an insatiable lust to kill for no apparent reason. There are various gloomy legends about this animal, one of them says that it can suddenly disappear, as well as assume various forms. However, it has long been known that only one animal on this planet kills for the sake of killing – it’s man.
17. TREVOR
A convict in prison, due to a conflict with the manager, is placed in solitary confinement just before the arrival of a hurricane, which seems to condemn him to certain death. After passing the element, the prisoner, whether alive or dead, is not found, while the manager is found halfway. The other half is missing. It seems that the punished convict managed to get free. He roams America, destroying everyone and everything that stands in his way to “take back what belongs to him”. Is it the money from the robbery he went to jail for, or is it some other kind of property?
18. MILAGRO
Another Scully-centric episode, and probably the best episode of its kind in the entire series. Agents investigate a case of serial killings whose victims had their hearts removed. Meanwhile, a writer who is clearly romantically interested in a red-haired agent moves into Mulder’s neighborhood. The novel he creates, however, reconstructs the exact details of the murders that the agents of the X-Files are trying to solve in a disturbing way. What finale is the author planning for his main character?
19. THREE OF A KIND
During a DEF-COM conference in Las Vegas, the Lone Gunners and Mulder stumble upon Susanne Modeski, the woman who once brought them together and mysteriously disappeared soon after. Particularly interested in revealing the truth is Byers, who had very warm feelings for Susanne.
20. THE UNNATURAL
Tagline: In The Big Inning
Could the great figures of American history, such as legendary athletes, really be visitors from another dimension who tasted earthly passion and did not want to give it up? Mulder talks to an aged ex-cop who witnessed some extraordinary events years ago and learned the identity of one of the transformed aliens, moreover, he was also his friend. Episode directed by David Duchovny.
21. FIELD TRIP
An extremely twisted episode, because its content is actually one big hallucination. While investigating skeletons found near Brown Mountain, Scully and Mulder find themselves trapped in a vast subterranean mycelium that slowly digests its victims while regaling them with very real visions. But you have to be Dana Scully to come to the conclusion that a hallucination is a hallucination by scientific analysis!
22. BIOGENESIS
Mythological episode – click to read
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Karolina Chymkowska