The X-Files - Season 5

The X-Files - Season 5

Season 5

Scully is suffering from cancer while Mulder is doubtful that aliens exist. The agents fake Mulder's death in an effort to discover which members of the FBI they can trust before individually searching for an answer to Scully's cancer. Her condition worsens, however, and she is hospitalized before Mulder is offered an alleged cure by the Cigarette-Smoking Man. The man also brings Mulder a woman who claims to be his sister, Samantha, although she leaves with the Cigarette-Smoking Man shortly thereafter. When the man offers Mulder a deal to join him, Mulder immediately refuses. He returns to the FBI Headquarters, where he announces that Section Chief Scott Blevins is responsible for Scully's cancer. Both the Section Chief and the Cigarette-Smoking Man are shot. Scully begins to recover and eventually resumes her work on the X-files with Mulder. While staying with her family at Christmas time, she learns that the adopted daughter of a deceased woman is apparently her own child.

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Episodes20
DatesNov 2, 1997 - May 17, 1998
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Episodes

Redux (1)
Season 5Episode 160 min

Redux (1)

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 concerning the existence of extraterrestrial life. Meanwhile, at a joint FBI/DOD inquiry, Scully's attempt to drive out the Conspiracy's informant is halted as her cancer takes a bad turn.

Nov 2, 1997
Redux (2)
Season 5Episode 260 min

Redux (2)

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 this, CSM asks that Mulder quit the FBI and work for him in the Syndicate where he could have power and respect which Mulder turns down, deciding to stay on the side of justice. While Scully's cure appears to have worked, CSM faces his own enemies and disappears, presumed dead.

Nov 9, 1997
Unusual Suspects
Season 5Episode 360 min

Unusual Suspects

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 Modeski, a strange woman with evidence of a government conspiracy. When their plan to expose the conspiracy fails and Susanne is captured by a group of men-in-black, led by none other than X, they soon become a paranoid group of government watchdogs.

Nov 16, 1997
Detour
Season 5Episode 460 min

Detour

Stopped by a roadblock on their way to an FBI convention in Florida, Mulder and Scully find themselves stranded in the woods with a deadly predator, who seems to be responsible for the disappearance of three men. While investigating the case Mulder and Scully find themselves in greater danger when they run low on bullets forcing them to fear their every move because it could be their last…

Nov 23, 1997
The Post-Modern Prometheus
Season 5Episode 560 min

The Post-Modern Prometheus

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 Springer episodes and fear a two-faced monster who has been impregnating the women.

Nov 30, 1997
Christmas Carol
Season 5Episode 660 min

Christmas Carol

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 to a murder case where the victim's 3-year-old adopted daughter bears an uncanny likeness to her sister, Melissa, at that age. The emotional roller coaster that follows has Scully believing that her sister had a baby during a period when she traveled the country and she tries to adopt the child, knowing that caring for the little girl would change her life.

Dec 7, 1997
Emily
Season 5Episode 760 min

Emily

DNA testing on Emily reveals that she is actually Scully's daughter and Mulder comes to assist her and to find out where and how the girl was born while Scully tries to help Emily with her own serious illness, a rare form of anemia.

Dec 14, 1997
Kitsunegari
Season 5Episode 860 min

Kitsunegari

Pusher returns as Robert Patrick Modell escapes from the mental hospital and the FBI promptly organises a manhunt assuming that he will continue where he left off; but is he really trying to get revenge on Mulder or does he want to warn him of another evil?

Jan 4, 1998
Schizogeny
Season 5Episode 960 min

Schizogeny

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 tries to kill his stepfather.

Jan 11, 1998
Chinga
Season 5Episode 1060 min

Chinga

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 believed to be a witch and her autistic daughter's doll has frighteningly evil powers.

AKA "Bunghoney" outside of U.S.

Feb 8, 1998
Kill Switch
Season 5Episode 1160 min

Kill Switch

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.

Feb 15, 1998
Bad Blood
Season 5Episode 1260 min

Bad Blood

After Mulder chases down and kills a young man whom he believes to be a vampire, Scully realizes that his fangs are fake. The agents then return to DC, aware of the mistake they just made. Faced with a lawsuit from the family of the man, they recount each of their sides to the story leading up to the event.

Feb 22, 1998
Patient X
Season 5Episode 1360 min

Patient X

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 who now is skeptical of extraterrestrial activity and believes that the government is behind the abduction phenomena is disturbed when Scully forms a special bond with the woman. A series of group attacks against abductees take place and the shadowy Syndicate believes that a rebel alien resistance is attempting to destroy all their work.

Mar 1, 1998
The Red and the Black
Season 5Episode 1460 min

The Red and the Black

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 up-and-coming FBI agent and opposed to Mulder's work. Meanwhile, the Syndicate are continuing their tests to create a vaccine for the Black Cancer and Marita Covarrubias becomes an unwilling test subject.

Mar 8, 1998
Travelers
Season 5Episode 1560 min

Travelers

In 1990 Agent Fox Mulder visits an aging FBI Agent Arthur Dales and 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 father was connected to a series of strange deaths.

Mar 29, 1998
Mind's Eye
Season 5Episode 1660 min

Mind's Eye

Agents Mulder and Scully investigate a murder that seems to have been committed by a blind woman, but Mulder suspects that her involvement is not what it seems. The agents soon find out that the blind woman some how has the ability to look through the eyes of the killer and get to the crime seen first.

Apr 19, 1998
All Souls
Season 5Episode 1760 min

All Souls

Scully and her Catholic faith must confront 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 down by God himself.

Apr 26, 1998
The Pine Bluff Variant
Season 5Episode 1860 min

The Pine Bluff Variant

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 weapon that can eat through a person's flesh.

May 3, 1998
Folie a Deux
Season 5Episode 1960 min

Folie a Deux

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 Mulder opens his mind and allows himself to see it too.

May 10, 1998
The End
Season 5Episode 2060 min

The End

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. On his way he encounters many enemies especially in the finale' as his office and every X-File is torched by CSM.

May 17, 1998

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