Following the X-Files feature film in the summer of 1998,
"The Beginning" quickly crowbars an attempt at fitting the film into
the TV chronology before it picks up plot points left dangling from
the fifth-season finale, "The End" (note the guard asleep at the
nuclear power plant console is named Homer!). Between arc threads
are several pleasing excursions: time travel to a Bermuda Triangle
boatload of Nazis ("Triangle"), further temporal escapades akin to
Groundhog Day ("Monday"), a demonic baby case featuring genre
stalwart Bruce Campbell ("Terms of Endearment"), and Duchovny being
able to play someone else via personality switching ("The Dreamland,
Parts 1 and 2"). Back in the real scheme of things, Mulder chases
"S.R. 819," a Senate resolution tying conspiracies together. "Two
Fathers" and "One Son" indicate that the abductee experiments are
intended to cure the black oil disease. The year finishes with "BioGenesis,"
in which we're asked to ponder, are we from Mars? A beach-buried UFO
leaves Scully wondering. --Paul Tonks
With the X-Files reopened, Mulder and Scully
eagerly hunt for a deadly creature in the Arizona desert.
What they find seems to support Mulder’s revived belief in
aliens, but is discredited when the agents are not
reassigned to the X-Files, with Spender and Fowley taking
over instead.
With Mulder trapped in a car by a seemingly
deranged man, Scully races to determine if the man is
suffering from a deadly illness — and if Mulder is in danger
of becoming the next victim.
Mulder goes in search of a ship that
disappeared in the
Bermuda Triangle in 1939. But when he gets on board,
Mulder finds that he — and all the passengers and crew (as
well as some strangely familiar ones) — are still stuck in
the past.
An anonymous tip finally brings Mulder and
Scully to the mecca of all UFO lore — Area 51. But when the
agents witness the flight of a mysterious craft, their lives
are profoundly — and perhaps irrevocably — altered.
Scully begins to suspect that her partner’s
strange behavior is more than it appears to be, while Mulder
fights to return his life to normal before it’s too late.
On Christmas Eve, Mulder convinces Scully to
put aside her gift wrapping and stake out a reputed haunted
house. But they discover a pair of lovelorn spectres living
inside the house who are determined to prove how lonely the
holidays can be.
In a small town plagued by drought, Mulder
and Scully come upon a man who claims to be able to control
the weather — at a hefty profit. Yet the agents discover a
force of nature at work even more powerful than the weather,
and just as unpredictable.
Assistant Director Skinner is poisoned.
Mulder and Scully have 24 hours to save him, but in order to
do so, they must determine who wants him dead, and why.
Scully learns that she, but not Mulder, is
being given a chance to prove her worth at the FBI, and -
paired with a new partner - she investigates a crime scene
photographer with an uncanny knack for arriving just in time
to see his victims final moments. What she does not expect
is for Death to play a role himself.
When Cassandra Spender is returned, Mulder,
Scully and Agent Spender find themselves facing the exposure
of the conspiracy involving extraterrestrials; while the
worried Syndicate take evasive measures.
While Cassandra reveals the truth about the
alien conspiracy to Mulder, her ex-husband - the Cigarette
Smoking Man - does the same to Agent Spender in an effort to
convince him to work with the conspiracy. But even as Mulder
is deceived by Agent Fowley, Scully stays true to the
investigation, and the two find a surprise ally. Meanwhile,
the Syndicate reach the climax of their plans, only to find
that the end is not as they expected.
Having been re-assigned to the X-Files,
Mulder and Scully are looking forward to cases again.
Instead, Arthur Dales, now living in a Florida trailer park,
calls the agents for help when a neighbouring family
disappears; and, with a hurricane approaching, Mulder and
Scully find themselves trapped with a group of residents in
a building where there really is something in the
water.
The world is trapped in a
time loop, and only one woman seems to know. A bank
robbery is committed over and over again until Mulder and
Scully can make it go right.
Several disappearances at an idyllic planned
community lead Mulder and Scully to go undercover as a
married couple. However, what they soon discover is that the
ruler of this small community enforced his rule with an
Übermenscher (technically a
Tulpa creature from
Tibet.)
An
Asian dog, called the
Wanshang Dhole, thought to be extinct is blamed for
several killings. Mulder and Scully join an obstinate
Sheriff, a seemingly eccentric hunter, and a reclusive
canine expert to find it. However, there is more mystery to
the expert than meets the eye.
After a prison camp is destroyed by a
tornado, an escaped inmate is suspected of killing the
warden. As the inmate hunts down his old girlfriend, he
finds out where his child is and attempts to take him back.
Mulder and Scully set out to find him and discover that he
has the ability to pass through solid matter.
A series of murders takes place where the
heart has been removed from the victims. A writer that lives
next door to Mulder is writing a novel about the murders
before they actually happen. Scully finds herself confused
and drawn to the writer, who has a romantic interest in
her.
While working in
Roswell,
New Mexico in 1947, young cop Arthur Dales (the brother
of the Arthur Dales who started the X-Files) stumbles across
a “negro”
baseball player who is actually an alien with a love of
the game hiding among humans.
While at a conference in
Las Vegas,
The Lone Gunmen run into the enigmatic Susanne Modeski (Unusual
Suspects). After deceiving Scully into joining them the
trio soon find out that Susan’s new fiancé is planning to
use her new brainwashing drug for political assassinations.
The skeletonized remains of a young couple
are found in the fields of
North Carolina. When Mulder and Scully go to
investigate, they find that a giant fungal life form
releases an
LSD-like drug into the air with
spores, and then slowly digests its victims. Mulder and
Scully fall into its trap and are not sure of what is
reality and what is fantasy.
A bizarre rock inscribed with
Navajo writing is found in
Côte d’Ivoire, and its discovery is closely followed by
the death of the
African scientist involved. While its appearance in
Washington begins to affect Mulder’s
mental health, leading him to turn to Agent Fowley for
help; a disturbed Scully - determined to disprove the theory
that life on
Earth began with aliens - heads to New Mexico and finds
a dying Albert Hosteen - who has discovered that the rock
includes passages from the
Bible, and a map of the
human genome. While Mulder breaks down in a mental
institution, Scully journeys unexpectedly to Africa.
