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 1
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PILOT
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1. DEEP THROAT
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2. SQUEEZE
The X-Files agents pursue Eugene Tooms, a mutant killer with the ability to squeeze himself into the smallest and narrowest crevices, and who wakes up from hibernation once every thirty years to taste human liver. Doug Hutchinson, who plays Tooms, is actually a vegetarian. As thanks for his cooperation, he sent Chris Carter a frozen veal liver.
3. CONDUIT
Ruby Morris, the daughter of a woman who reported a UFO sighting in 1967, disappears from the campsite where she was sleeping with her little brother. The brother, on the other hand, begins obsessively typing out long sequences of binary numbers that, viewed from above, form a portrait of a missing girl. When Ruby is found, her physical condition indicates that she has been in weightlessness for a long time. However, her mother does not wish the investigation to continue.
4. JERSEY DEVIL
The brutal killings of people whose bodies were found half-eaten are attributed to a dangerous animal by the police. Mulder, however, suggests that it may be the work of the legendary Jersey Devil. The beast is located and killed, it turns out to be a woman – possibly miraculously surviving the missing evolutionary link.
5. SHADOWS
Lauren Kyte is recovering from the suicide of her boss and friend Howard Graves. As she leaves the office and walks down a dark street, she is ambushed by two men. However, an invisible force stands in her defense. It soon turns out that Graves did not commit suicide, but was murdered, and his accomplice Dorland is to blame. Anyone who threatens Lauren dies a miserable death. Is it Graves who looks after the subordinate who reminded him so much of his dead daughter from beyond the grave?
6. GHOST IN THE MACHINE
At the enterprise “Eurisko” work is being carried out on the creation of artificial intelligence – a computer with the ability to learn. When the project manager orders its termination, people start to die. The computer kills to defend itself.
7.ICE
Episode inspired by John Carpenter’s famous The Thing. The action takes place in Alaska, where Mulder and Scully, along with a group of scientists, are trapped in the Arctic. Contact with an unknown organism, so far resting under a layer of ice, brings a deadly threat to everyone. The larva hatches in the host’s brain, causing an uncontrollable increase in aggressive behavior. It is not known who in the group has been infected, and due to the storm, outside help cannot be called…
8. SPACE
The idea of making an episode based on the myth of the “face from Mars” came to Chris Carter in a hotel room. He imagined how he’d feel if that face suddenly descended on him from the ceiling. In Space, this is the visualization of a mysterious force sabotaging the space program. This force guides the actions of a man who has been plagued by terrifying hallucinations since his journey into space. Could he have been possessed by something he encountered in extraterrestrial space?
9. FALLEN ANGEL
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10. EVE
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11. FIRE
In this episode, we learn that Mulder even had a private life in the old days. We meet his college girlfriend, Phoebe Green. Phoebe is protecting an English lord on vacation in America. She is concerned because several Members of Parliament have just been murdered. They burned alive, so Mulder suspects that a pyrokinetic – a man with the ability to set fire from a distance – may be the culprit.
12. BEYOND THE SEA
Scully’s father dies of a heart attack. Moments before his death, he visits his daughter in a dream. Luther Lee Boggs, a serial killer sentenced to the electric chair, claims that his clairvoyant powers may be helpful in locating two kidnapped teenagers. Mulder is skeptical and thinks Boggs is just trying to gain a few more days of life. However, Scully does not share her partner’s doubts – Boggs seems to know too much about her past and promises to give her a message from her late father.
13. GENDER BENDER
The corpses of young, healthy people who died of a massive heart attack, probably during orgasm, are found in hotel rooms. The autopsy showed the presence of a huge amount of pheromones, a substance that causes uncontrollable desire, in all of them. Security tapes recorded that although a woman entered the room of one of the victims, a man came out. Mulder suspects the killer is a “walking aphrodisiac”. The trail leads to the “Family” sect that lives in seclusion and cuts itself off from the achievements of civilization. This episode stars Nicholas Lea as the would-be victim, who later returned to the series as Alex Krycek.
14. LAZARUS
During a shootout at a bank, attacker Warren Dupree and Scully’s ex-boyfriend Jack Willis are shot. Jack comes back to life after a long resuscitation. But is it really him?
15. YOUNG AT HEART
Reggie Purdue, Mulder’s former boss, calls him to a jewelry store where a theft has taken place. A note left on the spot mentioning a “fox” is a clear signal pointing to John Barnett, a criminal whom Mulder once put in prison. However, according to prison records, Barnett has been dead for four years. Dr. Ridley, who signed the death certificate, was disbarred for experimenting to reverse the aging process. Now he admits that Barnett is his last living patient, in addition to having stolen priceless medical records from the doctor, which may be the key to the secret of longevity.
16. E.B.E.
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17. MIRACLE MAN
A young boy lays hands on the terminally ill during special meetings at the evangelical Church of Miracles. Unfortunately, some of them die soon after. While neither Scully nor Mulder believes the boy to be a murderer, Mulder believes his gift has been corrupted and wants to voluntarily submit to punishment. Is Samuel just a clever trickster or a true miracle worker who has been favored by God? If he’s not the murderer, then who cares to discredit and destroy him?
18. SHAPES
On the Browning Indian Reservation, a father and son are attacked by a wolf-like beast. They kill it, but on closer inspection they find that it is not a beast, but a man. The younger Indian, Lyle Parker, is injured. In the course of the investigation, Mulder mentions the legend of Indians who could transform into wolves. Meanwhile, an elderly Parker is found torn apart.
19. DARKNESS FALLS
Something is attacking lumberjacks in Olympia National Forest Park. The forest guard believes that it is the work of eco-terrorists, until the body of one of the lumberjacks is found – wrapped in a white cocoon and deprived of body fluids. One eco-terrorist claims that the felling of centuries-old trees released ancient mites trapped in their trunks, which “woke up hungry”.
20. TOOMS
The second part of Squeeze. Tooms, a serial killer who wakes up from hibernation every thirty years and kills five people to devour their livers, is in a sanatorium for the mentally ill. A special commission interrogates him and concludes that he has been cured and can return to the bosom of society. In vain, Mulder tries to convince the respected scientists that Tooms will not give up killing because it is his life’s need. This is the first episode in which Vice Principal Skinner appears, and the enigmatic Smoker uses his vocal cords for the first time (“Of course I believe”).
21. BORN AGAIN
A little girl named Michelle ends up in the Buffalo Police Department after being found wandering around the city. The girl is interrogated by Inspector Barbala. Moments later, he is thrown out of the window with great force. Michelle describes the perpetrator as a young man with a mustache, and the sketch created from her testimony matches that of Charlie Morris, a police officer who was murdered nine years earlier, allegedly by Chinatown mobsters. Could Charlie have returned from the dead to punish the real culprits?
22. ROLAND
Scientists involved in the work on the construction of the latest generation engine are dying. Each time, a retarded servant, Roland, is mysteriously involved in their deaths. It turns out that Arthur Grable, the head of the project who died in a car accident, is Roland’s twin brother. Mulder believes that the cryogenic process – Arthur’s head is frozen in liquid nitrogen – has strengthened the natural psychic bond between the brothers and that Grable is manipulating Roland into committing murders.
23. THE ERLENMEYER MASK
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