E P I S O D E S.. S 1 9 9 3 - 2 0 0 2 .. Season 1 (1993-1994) Main article: The X-Files (season 1) Prod. # # Title Written by Directed by Original airdate code September 10, 1 1 "Pilot"** Chris Carter Robert Mandel 1X79 1993 Agent Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) is assigned to work with Agent Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) on the X-Files in an attempt to debunk his work on the paranormal. Their first case has them investigating apparent alien abductions. A near comatose man, Billy Miles, is taking his classmates, including Theresa Nemman, into the woods, where they are killed in a flash of bright light. September 17, 2 2 "Deep Throat"** Chris Carter Daniel Sackheim 1X01 1993 Mulder & Scully travel to Idaho in order to investigate the disappearance of a military test pilot. They observe unusual aircraft activity, prompting Mulder to proclaim the existence of a government conspiracy. Mulder sneaks onto the military base and is spotlighted by one of the craft, but is captured by soldiers and has his memory erased before he is released. Glen Morgan & James September 24, 3 3 "Squeeze" Harry Longstreet 1X02 Wong 1993 Mulder and Scully investigate a series of murders where there appears to be no tangible method for the murderer’s entrance and escape. Eugene Victor Tooms, a seemingly normal janitor, is suspected by Mulder to be a mutant who kills his victims and extracts their livers in order to prolong his existence. Alex Gansa & Howard 4 4 "Conduit" Daniel Sackheim October 1, 1993 1X03 Gordon As Section Chief Scott Blevins expresses his concern with the direction of the X-Files department, Mulder becomes obsessed with solving a case that closely parallels an ‘encounter’ he experienced as a child. Which dealt with alien abduction and an exploration of Mulder's determination to find his sister, Samantha Mulder. 5 5 "The Jersey Devil" Chris Carter Joe Napolitano October 8, 1993 1X04 The murder of a homeless man which is very similar in detail to a murder committed in 1947 leads Mulder and Scully to the legendary man-beast the Jersey Devil roaming in the forests surrounding Atlantic City. Glen Morgan & James Michael 6 6 "Shadows" October 22, 1993 1X05 Wong Katleman When an unseen force commits several murders where a young woman is present, Mulder suspects that it is the spirit of the woman’s former boss who was believed to have committed suicide but was actually murdered and he is protecting her from his business partner. "Ghost in the Howard Gordon & Alex Jerrold 7 7 October 29, 1993 1X06 Machine" Gansa Freedman A computer with highly advanced artificial intelligence begins to kill in order to preserve its existence when it is deemed inefficient to continue controlling the workings of an office building. Glen Morgan & James 8 8 "Ice" David Nutter November 5, 1993 1X07 Wong When an Arctic research team mysteriously kill each other and themselves only days after drilling deeper into the ice than ever before, Mulder and Scully accompany a team of doctors and scientists to investigate. They discover an organism which infects living creatures and amplifies the host’s feeling of anger and paranoia, and the new team starts to deteriorate as they wonder who among them are killers. November 12, 9 9 "Space" Chris Carter William Graham 1X08 1993 A mysterious force is sabotaging a space launch program which leads directly back to the commander of the team, who once claimed to have seen an alien in space while witnessing Mars from Earth orbit. The so-called "alien" returns to Earth with him to torment him, and wreck his new space program. Howard Gordon & Alex November 19, 10 10 "Fallen Angel"** Larry Shaw 1X09 Gansa 1993 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 and save his job but Mulder finds out that Max is more than meets the eye and ignores Scully to try and save him instead. Kenneth Biller & Chris December 10, 11 11 "Eve" Fred Gerber 1X10 Brancato 1993 When two fathers on opposite sides of the country are unexplainably murdered at the exact same time in the exact same way, Mulder and Scully find that their eight-year-old daughters are perfect twins and were created in order to continue The Litchfield Experiment, a eugenics project of the 1950’s which produced cloned boys named Adam and girls named Eve who have heightened strength and intelligence, but are prone to psychotic behavior. December 17, 12 12 "Fire" Chris Carter Larry Shaw 1X11 1993 Mulder investigates the deaths of British dignitaries at the behest of an old Oxford girlfriend. Bob/Cecil L’Ively is a pyrokinetic, and he wants Sir Malcolm Marsden’s wife. Cecil attempts to kill Marsden, with his ability to make fire come out of his hands, but Mulder stops him. Glen Morgan & James 13 13 "Beyond the Sea" David Nutter January 7, 1994 1X12 Wong A death row inmate named Luther Lee Boggs claims that he is psychic and can lead Mulder to a serial killer in exchange for a lesser sentence of life in prison. The agents’ roles are reversed in this episode, with Mulder doubting Boggs’ claim and Scully believing him after she is told that she can communicate through him with her recently deceased father. Larry Barber & Paul 14 14 "Gender Bender"** Rob Bowman January 21, 1994 1X13 Barber A series of identical sexual murders, where the killer appears to be both male and female, draw Mulder and Scully to an Amish-type community of people who may be of alien origin, leading to the discovery of a man who can change sex. Alex Gansa & Howard 15 15 "Lazarus" David Nutter February 4, 1994 1X14 Gordon 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. Scott Kaufer & Chris 16 16 "Young at Heart" Michael Lange February 11, 1994 1X15 Carter A psychotic criminal from one of Mulder’s past cases - John Barnett - is back to get revenge on Mulder for incarcerating him. Before Barnett’s release, a renegade doctor had found a way to reverse the aging process - using Barnett as his test subject. Mulder and Scully rush to catch the now-unrecognisable youthful Barnett before he carries out his threat to kill all of Mulder’s loved ones. Glen Morgan & James 17 17 "E.B.E."** William Graham February 18, 1994 1X16 Wong 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. Howard Gordon & 18 18 "Miracle Man" Michael Lange March 18, 1994 1X17 Chris Carter Mulder and Scully travel to Tennessee to investigate the “Miracle Ministry” and its star attraction - a young man with the ability to heal people with his touch - when a person dies shortly after being healed. 19 19 "Shapes" Marilyn Osborn David Nutter April 1, 1994 1X18 Mulder and Scully head to an Indian reservation in northwestern Montana to investigate a manslaughter case which Mulder believes may relate to the very first X-File ever created at the FBI, and its main subject: Lycanthropy. 20 20 "Darkness Falls" Chris Carter Joe Napolitano April 15, 1994 1X19 Mulder and Scully travel to a remote area of Washington State National Forest after an entire group of thirty loggers goes missing. They soon discover that an unseen force that was lying dormant has been awakened. Glen Morgan & James 21 21 "Tooms" David Nutter April 22, 1994 1X20 Wong Eugene Victor Tooms (from "Squeeze") is released from the psychiatric sanitarium in which he was incarcerated for assaulting Scully - and he needs to kill once more to get the final liver which will allow him to hibernate for another thirty years. Mulder and Scully race against time to find evidence of his involvement in the past string of murders before Tooms disappears again. Howard Gordon & Alex Jerrold 22 22 "Born Again" April 29, 1994 1X21 Gansa Freedman After a detective and his former partner die in unexplained circumstances, the accidents are linked to a little girl who witnessed both deaths and Mulder believes that she may be the reincarnation of a policeman murdered by his colleagues. 23 23 "Roland" Chris Ruppenthal David Nutter May 6, 1994 1X22 Agents Mulder and Scully investigate a series of murders in Mahan Propulsion Laboratory as a team of scientists die one by one and the only suspect is a mentally handicapped cleaner named Roland. 24 24 Chris Carter R.W. Goodwin May 13, 1994 1X23 "The Erlenmeyer Flask"** A seemingly unrelated car chase leads Mulder and Scully to a scientific lab encompassing a secret which could provide proof of a government conspiracy. Season 2 (1994-1995) Main article: The X-Files (season 2) Prod. # # Title Written by Directed by Original airdate code Glen Morgan & James September 16, 1 25 "Little Green Men"** David Nutter 2X01 Wong 1994 With the X-Files shut down, Mulder finds his own belief in the truth waning.