The X-Files - Season 4

The X-Files - Season 4

Season 4

When the Syndicate suspect that one of their members is passing information to Mulder and Scully, they organize a canary trap to find the leak, using information about the safety of Mulder's mother as bait. X's role as an informant is discovered, and he is shot dead, although he is able to pass along the name of another informant who can be of use to Mulder—Marita Covarrubias, the Special Representative to the Secretary-General of the United Nations. Covarrubias' aid is sought when Mulder attempts to reach Tunguska in Russia to investigate the source of a further black oil contamination. Whilst there, Mulder is held in a gulag and used as a successful test subject for a black oil vaccine. He escapes and is able to return to America, having found that Alex Krycek is working with the Russians.

Having been diagnosed with cancer, Scully is unsure of her future with the FBI. Mulder is convinced that her condition is a result of her earlier abduction, and is prepared to make a deal with the Syndicate to find a cure. He is dissuaded by Walter Skinner, who secretly makes such a deal instead. While being pursued by an assassin responsible for a hoax alien corpse discovered on a mountaintop, Mulder fakes his own suicide, mutilating the assassin's face to provide a decoy body. He uses the distraction this offers to infiltrate The Pentagon to find a cure for Scully's cancer, while Scully is able to uncover and reveal a Syndicate connection within the FBI.

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Episodes24
DatesOkt. 4, 1996 - Mai 18, 1997
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Episodes

Herrenvolk
Season 4Episode 160 min

Herrenvolk

Mulder finds himself with Jeremiah Smith, who will meet his end on a small farm tended to by clones bearing resemblance to Samantha. Meanwhile, the Syndicate suspects a traitor is in their midst and plan a trap. Mrs Mulder survives, in spite of Mulder's failure.

Okt. 4, 1996
Home
Season 4Episode 260 min

Home

A baby is found buried alive in shallow ground and appears to have birth defects resulting from generations of inbreeding, leading Mulder and Scully to a reclusive family who have a history of inbred children.

Okt. 11, 1996
Teliko
Season 4Episode 360 min

Teliko

After several African-American men are killed and the color is drained from their skin, Mulder learns about the Teliko, an African folktale about a creature who must suck the pigmentation from a person's body in order to survive.

Okt. 18, 1996
Unruhe
Season 4Episode 460 min

Unruhe

Several kidnappings of young women linked by distorted photographs lead Mulder and Scully to a man who can imprint his darkest fantasies onto undeveloped film and is trying to save the women from the 'Howlers'.

Okt. 27, 1996
The Field Where I Died
Season 4Episode 560 min

The Field Where I Died

After an FBI raid on a doomsday cult called the "Temple of the Seven Stars." Mulder meets Melissa, a cultist who claims to have known him in a previous life during the American Civil War. Scully believes the woman is a delusional schizophrenic but Mulder allows himself to be drawn into her fantasies.

Nov. 3, 1996
Sanguinarium
Season 4Episode 660 min

Sanguinarium

When a series of bizarre murders take place in a hospital's plastic surgery unit, Mulder finds a link to the four witches Sabbaths. This leads Mulder and Scully to question if supernatural forces maybe responsible when they begin to suspect a nurse of practicing witchcraft and causing the deaths of the patients.

Nov. 10, 1996
Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man
Season 4Episode 760 min

Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man

Frohike pieces together and recites to Mulder and Scully what could be the possible life story of the Cigarette Smoking Man; from a young captain in the US Army recruited to assassinate President Kennedy, to becoming the mysterious man in the shadows at the height of a global conspiracy. What measures will the CSM take to ensure that he remains a mystery forever?

Nov. 17, 1996
Tunguska
Season 4Episode 860 min

Tunguska

A rock sample taken from Mars is intercepted at an airport and infects a security officer with the Black Cancer, while Mulder is given a tip about potentially dangerous paramilitary operations but is doubtful when the informant turns out to be Alex Krycek. Reluctantly, Mulder accepts Krycek's help and tracks the rock to Russia where he discovers an elaborate test being performed by Russian scientists.

Nov. 24, 1996
Terma
Season 4Episode 960 min

Terma

While imprisoned in Russia and infected with the Black Cancer, Mulder learns that Krycek is working with the men responsible and everything has been a setup from the start, while Scully and Skinner are called to a suspicious Senate hearing where the only question is the whereabouts of Agent Mulder.

Dez. 1, 1996
Paper Hearts
Season 4Episode 1060 min

Paper Hearts

Mulder's dreams help him in finding the body of a little girl which re-opens one of his old cases in the Violent Crimes Unit and leads him to believe the killer he captured had more victims and may have taken his sister many years before.

Dez. 15, 1996
El Mundo Gira
Season 4Episode 1160 min

El Mundo Gira

When a deadly yellow rain falls in a migrant workers camp and kills a young woman, Agents Mulder and Scully come to investigate what happened. After questioning the family the agents learn that they believe a mythical creature is responsible for the death and before long Mulder and Scully are on the trail of a mythical beast known as El Chupacabra. Mulder and Scully have to work out where the beast will go next before it can kill anyone else.

Jan. 12, 1997
Leonard Betts
Season 4Episode 1260 min

Leonard Betts

After the body of a decapitated EMT disappears from the morgue and an identical man starts work at the same hospital, Mulder believes that the man has the ability to regrow parts of his body, including his head. The agents soon discover that Betts' body is riddled with cancer and he is able to live in that condition but needs to feed on cancerous tumors to keep up his strength.

Jan. 26, 1997
Never Again
Season 4Episode 1360 min

Never Again

While Mulder is forced to take a vacation he leaves Scully with an assignment to keep her busy until he returns. She however, decides to start living and goes on a date with a man who believes that his tattoo talks to him and is telling him to stay away from other women.

Feb. 2, 1997
Memento Mori
Season 4Episode 1460 min

Memento Mori

Scully's recent failing health is revealed to be inoperable brain cancer which is common among abductees. She meets with other abductees with the same condition and forms a special bond with a dying woman, while Mulder tries to save her from a doctor who may be connected with the abductions.

Feb. 9, 1997
Kaddish
Season 4Episode 1560 min

Kaddish

Issac Luria, a Jewish man, is killed by a group of teenagers working for a racist shopowner, but one of them is soon strangled to death and the fingerprints on his neck are of Issac. Despite other factors, Mulder becomes convinced that the man has returned from the dead to exact revenge.

Feb. 16, 1997
Unrequited
Season 4Episode 1660 min

Unrequited

When a US military general is unexplainably murdered in the back of his limousine, a paramilitary group is suspected and they believe it was a soldier whom they liberated from a Vietnam POW camp and is plotting to kill certain corrupt military figures.

Feb. 23, 1997
Tempus Fugit
Season 4Episode 1760 min

Tempus Fugit

A strange woman informs Mulder that NICAP member Max Fenig (see Fallen Angel) has recently died in a plane crash. After observing Max's body, Mulder suggestion that the plane was intercepted by a UFO is rapidly being covered up by the military.

März 16, 1997
Max
Season 4Episode 1860 min

Max

The investigating into a plane crash lands an FBI agent dead and its main witness in military jail. Looking further into abductee Max Fenig's prior whereabouts, Scully and Mulder find evidence of alien technology, which is intercepted before being brought to light.

März 23, 1997
Synchrony
Season 4Episode 1960 min

Synchrony

A strange old man foresees events surrounding the use of an experimental flash-freezing compound. Mulder believes that one of the scientists involved has come from the future to stop his own scientific breakthrough from becoming reality.

Apr. 13, 1997
Small Potatoes
Season 4Episode 2060 min

Small Potatoes

Five babies in the same town are all born with tails and the local OB-GYN is blamed for tampering with fertilised eggs. However, Mulder discovers the culprit to be a simple man with a genetic deformity who may have the ability to alter his appearance.

Apr. 20, 1997
Zero Sum
Season 4Episode 2160 min

Zero Sum

Skinner destroys evidence to cover up a woman's death and poses as Agent Mulder to complete the task. Mulder finds out about Skinner's deception and confronts him and Skinner reveals that he is working for the Cigarette Smoking Man in order to obtain a possible cure for Scully's cancer.

Apr. 27, 1997
Elegy
Season 4Episode 2260 min

Elegy

After a man sees a woman trapped inside a bowling alley pin setter, he goes for help and finds police standing next to the body of the same woman. Mulder and Scully join the investigation and follow up this lead which the police won't bother with and they are led to a retarded man who works at the bowling alley.

Mai 4, 1997
Demons
Season 4Episode 2360 min

Demons

Mulder undergoes an experimental form of hypnotherapy to recover his memories about his sister's abduction but the treatment has side effects including psychotic behaviour and Mulder wakes up one morning in a motel room with someone else's blood all over him.

Mai 11, 1997
Gethsemane
Season 4Episode 2460 min

Gethsemane

While investigating the discovery of a preserved alien body found in the mountains of Canada, Mulder is contacted by Michael Kritschgau who tells him about a government conspiracy not to keep alien activity a secret, but to make people believe in them without question and Mulder has been the prime target. With the idea that everything he believes is a lie, Mulder appears to take his own life.

Mai 18, 1997

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