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Season 5 - Episode Guide

Episodes

Redux (1)

Episode: 5x01 | Airdate: Nov 2, 1997

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.

Redux (2)

Episode: 5x02 | Airdate: Nov 9, 1997

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.

Unusual Suspects

Episode: 5x03 | Airdate: Nov 16, 1997

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.

Detour

Episode: 5x04 | Airdate: Nov 23, 1997

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…

The Post-Modern Prometheus

Episode: 5x05 | Airdate: Nov 30, 1997

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.

Christmas Carol

Episode: 5x06 | Airdate: Dec 7, 1997

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.

Emily

Episode: 5x07 | Airdate: Dec 14, 1997

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.

Kitsunegari

Episode: 5x08 | Airdate: Jan 4, 1998

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?

Schizogeny

Episode: 5x09 | Airdate: Jan 11, 1998

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.

Chinga

Episode: 5x10 | Airdate: Feb 8, 1998

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.

Kill Switch

Episode: 5x11 | Airdate: Feb 15, 1998

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.

Bad Blood

Episode: 5x12 | Airdate: Feb 22, 1998

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.

Patient X

Episode: 5x13 | Airdate: Mar 1, 1998

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.

The Red and the Black

Episode: 5x14 | Airdate: Mar 8, 1998

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.

Travelers

Episode: 5x15 | Airdate: Mar 29, 1998

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.

Mind's Eye

Episode: 5x16 | Airdate: Apr 19, 1998

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.

All Souls

Episode: 5x17 | Airdate: Apr 26, 1998

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.

The Pine Bluff Variant

Episode: 5x18 | Airdate: May 3, 1998

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.

Folie a Deux

Episode: 5x19 | Airdate: May 10, 1998

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.

The End

Episode: 5x20 | Airdate: May 17, 1998

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.

Specials

Inside the X-Files

Episode: S05 Special | Airdate: Feb 1, 1998

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Inside the X-Files for a behind-the-scenes look at the show. Also included are interviews with the cast and creator Chris Carter, never before seen segments from the show, outtakes and a sneak preview of the upcoming feature film. 

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