Season 1

The X-FilesSeason 1

1993
24 Episodes

Two agents from vastly different backgrounds join forces to solve cases the FBI has labeled X-Files, involving paranormal or unexplained phenomena. Both are determined to uncover hidden truths — one searching for otherworldly answers, the other for more earthbound scientific explanations. Together they will make discoveries neither could have ever imagined.

Episodes

Pilot
S01E01
7.9

Pilot

Agent Dana Scully is assigned to work with Agent Fox Mulder on the X-Files in an attempt to debunk his work on the paranormal. Their first case takes them to Oregon to investigate the unsolved murders of several high-school classmates.

10 Sept 199349m
Deep Throat
S01E02
7.8

Deep Throat

Mulder and Scully investigate the mysterious case of a military test pilot who disappeared after experiencing strange psychotic behavior. While on the case, Mulder meets a mysterious man who claims to have classified information about investigations into the paranormal.

17 Sept 199346m
Squeeze
S01E03
8.2

Squeeze

Mulder and Scully search for a killer whose savage murder spree reoccurs every thirty years, where there appears to be no tangible method for the murderer's entrance and escape.

24 Sept 199343m
Conduit
S01E04
7.4

Conduit

As Section Chief Blevins expresses his concern with the direction of the X-Files, Mulder becomes obsessed with solving a case that closely parallels an encounter he experienced as a child: the abduction of his kid sister, Samantha.

01 Oct 199345m
The Jersey Devil
S01E05
7.0

The Jersey Devil

Mulder and Scully track a legendary creature that has roamed the New Jersey countryside for over forty years..

08 Oct 199345m
Shadows
S01E06
7.4

Shadows

Mulder and Scully investigate the deaths of two men believed to have been killed by a powerful psychokinetic force.

22 Oct 199346m
Ghost in the Machine
S01E07
6.9

Ghost in the Machine

It's Halloween, and Mulder and Scully are investigating the strange death of a corporate executive in a sophisticated high-tech building.

29 Oct 199346m
Ice
S01E08
8.4

Ice

In the claustrophobic isolation of a remote outpost in Alaska, Mulder and Scully investigate the horrifying deaths of scientists.

05 Nov 199346m
Space
S01E09
6.4

Space

Mulder and Scully are contacted by a communications specialist from NASA who shows them evidence of sabotage in the space programme.

12 Nov 199347m
Fallen Angel
S01E10
7.7

Fallen Angel

Mulder puts the future of the X-Files in jeopardy when he heads to a UFO crash site being rapidly covered up by the military. He is arrested, and while in jail he meets Max Fenig, a UFO nut whose NICAP group has followed Mulder's work on the X-Files. When Mulder is released, Scully urges him to return to Washington to face his superiors and try to save his job, but Mulder finds out that Max is more than meets the eye and ignores Scully to try and save him instead.

19 Nov 199346m
Eve
S01E11
7.9

Eve

When two fathers on opposite sides of the country are inexplicably murdered at the exact same time in the exact same way, Mulder and Scully are called in to investigate. When they discover that the two fathers' eight-year-old daughters are identical twins, they realize that something even stranger is going on.

10 Dec 199346m
Fire
S01E12
7.1

Fire

An old Oxford girlfriend of Mulder's asks for his help on an international case concerning the unexplainable execution of several British dignitaries, and they encounter an assassin who can produce fire from his bare hands.

17 Dec 199346m
Beyond the Sea
S01E13
7.9

Beyond the Sea

When death row inmate Luther Lee Boggs claims to be psychic and can lead Mulder to a serial killer in return for a lesser sentence of life in prison, Scully becomes an unwilling believer when Boggs tells her that she can communicate through him with her recently deceased father.

07 Jan 199446m
Gender Bender
S01E14
7.1

Gender Bender

A series of sexually-oriented murders, which are identical except that the killer appears to be both male and female, draws Scully and Mulder to an Amish-type community of people called the Kindred.

21 Jan 199445m
Lazarus
S01E15
7.0

Lazarus

When FBI Agent Jack Willis and bank robber Warren Dupre are both shot at the same time during a robbery attempt, Dupre dies when Willis is brought back to life. When Willis rushes out of the hospital and begins acting strangely, Mulder concludes that Dupre has come back to life in Willis' body.

04 Feb 199446m
Young at Heart
S01E16
7.2

Young at Heart

Mulder becomes the target of someone from his past named John Barnett. He was a jewelry store robber with an itchy trigger finger that Mulder sent to prison when he first joined the Bureau. The only problem is that Barnett died four years ago.

11 Feb 199446m
E.B.E.
S01E17
8.1

E.B.E.

Mulder and Scully receive information from Deep Throat about a UFO that was shot down over Iraq and has been secretly transported to the US. However, Deep Throat then intentionally misleads the agents to prevent them from discovering the truth.

18 Feb 199445m
Miracle Man
S01E18
7.2

Miracle Man

A young man who has the power to heal people with his touch begins to question his gift when people start dying after he has supposedly healed them.

18 Mar 199446m
Shapes
S01E19
7.1

Shapes

Mulder and Scully travel to a Native American reservation to investigate the death of a man who was mistaken for a wild animal and may have been the legendary Manitou, a man who can shape-shift into a beast.

01 Apr 199446m
Darkness Falls
S01E20
8.0

Darkness Falls

When a group of loggers in the Washington State National Forest disappear in the same way that another group disappeared 50 years ago, Mulder and Scully go along to investigate and find themselves trapped in a cabin surrounded by flesh eating insects that only attack at night.

15 Apr 199444m
Tooms
S01E21
8.1

Tooms

Eugene Tooms is released from the sanitarium, and Mulder becomes personally involved to ensure that he is caught in the act of getting the last human liver he needs to go into hibernation for another 30 years.

22 Apr 199446m
Born Again
S01E22
7.0

Born Again

After a detective and his former partner die in unexplained circumstances, the accidents are linked to a little girl who witnessed both deaths. Mulder believes that she may be the reincarnation of a policeman murdered by his colleagues.

29 Apr 199445m
Roland
S01E23
7.4

Roland

Mulder and Scully investigate the death of a scientist working on advanced propulsion technology. The mentally challenged janitor Roland, who has secretly been completing the scientist's work, is the prime suspect.

06 May 199446m
The Erlenmeyer Flask
S01E24
8.7

The Erlenmeyer Flask

When Deep Throat points out a news story about a fugitive who apparently drowned, Mulder and Scully cannot see what makes the case special but follow it up anyway. With Deep Throat's insistence, they discover evidence of a secret government project code-named Purity Control, which uses human test subjects and infects them with extraterrestrial DNA. However, the evidence and everyone who has seen it is quickly being eliminated.

13 May 199446m