THE X-FILES Archive. Everything there is to know about the groundbreaking science fiction series
…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 9
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1. NOTHING IMPORTANT HAPPENED TODAY
Tagline: Nothing Important Happened Today
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2. NOTHING IMPORTANT HAPPENED TODAY II
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3. DAEMONICUS
A series of ritual killings appears to be related to a Satanic cult, but Doggett’s suspicions turn to a charismatic professor incarcerated in a mental institution. There are many indications that he possessed the ability to manipulate minds at a distance and materialize ectoplasm. Reyes suggests that this may be a case of pure evil possession.
4. 4-D
Tagline: erehT tuO si hturT ehT (The Truth is Out There backwards)
Monica Reyes is dead, Doggett is shot and fights death… But in fact everything happens in an alternate reality. While Doggett barely lives under the apparatus, Monica comes up with the idea that there may have been an intersection between the real and the alternate reality and the presumed killer has the ability to move between one time dimension and another.
5. LORD OF THE FLIES
One boy seems to control the behavior of the flies and subject them to his will. Doggett and Reyes try to figure out how conscious his actions are.
6. TRUST NO 1
Tagline: They Are Watching
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7. JOHN DOE
It happened to Mulder once, why shouldn’t it happen to Doggett, his successor… Doggett wakes up somewhere in Mexico, completely forgetting who he is and where he came from. In flashes, a vision of a little boy returns to him – this is his murdered son.
8. HELLBOUND
Reyes investigates homicides where victims are skinned alive. Similar cases occurred in the 1960s and even earlier. Could it be that the current victims are reincarnations of the killers of the time? And could Reyes also have some connection to past events?
9. PROVENANCE
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10. PROVIDENCE
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11. AUDREY PAULEY
Monica Reyes is in a coma after a car accident. While Doggett frets at her bedside, she wakes up in an abandoned building that looks like a hospital. Of the two other patients present, one soon dies. Only a cleaning lady working in an intensive care unit has access to a world where the souls of people on the verge of life and death reside… and only she can send the message to Doggett that someone is illegally experimenting on the sick.
12. UNDERNEATH
A serial killer arrested thirteen years ago is released. DNA analysis showed he was innocent. Doggett, who personally captured the maniac, however, has doubts about the result of these tests. It seems that the killer can take the form of two different men, depending on the needs, thus providing himself with an ironclad alibi.
13. IMPROBABLE
Tagline: Dio Ti Ama (God Loves You)
An investigation jointly led by Reyes and Scully. Reyes, a specialist in ritual murders, suggests numerology is the key to solving serial deaths. Scully discovers that each victim’s body is branded with the 666 mark. The situation turns critical when both agents are trapped in a huge underground parking lot, where a psychopathic killer is also hiding. Burt Reynolds makes a guest appearance.
14. SCARY MONSTERS
One little boy, kept in isolation and confinement by his father, recounts with conviction that his mother was attacked by terrifying monsters. Everyone will recognize this as a manifestation of a child’s overactive imagination. And it is indeed exuberant, but in a slightly different way than you might think. The creations of the boy’s imagination become real as soon as he draws them.
15. JUMP THE SHARK
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16. WILLIAM
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17. RELEASE
The episode in which Doggett finally learns the truth about the circumstances of his son’s death and finds final peace when the guilty of this crime finally receives the punishment he deserves, even if not necessarily in the majesty of the law.
18. SUNSHINE DAYS
A man with extraordinary telekinetic abilities agrees to undergo a thorough examination in Washington. Is it finally an opportunity to obtain convincing proof of the actual existence of paranormal and extrasensory phenomena? Not necessarily: any use of telekinesis undermines a man’s health. Fearing for his life, the X-Files crew refrains from conducting further research.
19. THE TRUTH (I & II)
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Karolina Chymkowska