25. Little Green Men
Writer Glen Morgan/James Wong
Director David Nutter
guests: Mitch Pileggi (Assistant Director Walter Skinner) Mike Gomez (Jorge Concepcion) Raymond J. Barry (Senator Richard Matheson)
With the X-Files closed, Scully has been assigned as an instructor at the FBI Academy while Mulder is doing menial surveillance work. After meeting with Senator Matheson, one of his supporters in regards to The X-Files, Mulder disobeys orders and heads to an abandoned SETI site in Puerto Rico which has unexplainably reactivated itself and could provide proof of contact with extra-terrestrial life.
NOTE: Mulder's password is 'trustno1', the final words spoken by Deep Throat in last season's closer.
The character "Senator Richard Matheson" is named after Richard Matheson, whose writing inspired Kolchak: The Night Stalker, the show that inspired Chris Carter to create The X-Files.
The dramatisation of Samantha's abduction differs from Mulder's earlier description of what happened. According to the latter, she was taken from her bed, but, in this scene, she and Fox are in the living room.
The Close ups of Mulder that were used during the scene where he first meets X, were filmed with Natalia Novilaje. the close ups of X were added later. during some of the close ups of Mulder you can easily see the actress's hair shadow for a split second
26. The Host
Writer Chris Carter
Director Daniel Sackheim
guests: Mitch Pileggi (Assistant Director Walter Skinner) Darin Morgan (Flukeman)
AD Skinner sends Mulder to investigate a body which washed into the New Jersey sewer from the ocean. Mulder believes that the basic blue-collar assignment is punishment, but on Skinner's own admission what he discovers is a true X-File.
NOTE: This episode marks the first appearance of X, Deep Throat's successor as Mulder's confidential source who phones him to say that he has 'a friend in the FBI'. Although the actor on the phone isn't Steven Williams, the voice was dubbed over with X's voice after Steven Williams was cast in the part for 'Sleepless'.
the original casting for X was an actress called Natalia Novilage
27. Blood
Writer Glen Morgan/James Wong
Director David Nutter
guests: William Sanderson (Ed Funsch) John Cygan (Sheriff Spencer) Bruce Harwood (Byers) Dean Haglund (Langly) Tom Braidwood (Frohike) Kimberly Patton (Mrs McRoberts) George Touliatos (Larry Winter)
When several violent deaths in a small farming community are connected by the destruction of digital devices, Mulder believes that people are being driven to kill by the use of subliminal messages in the digital readouts.
NOTE: If the buzzing of the doorbell at Ed's house sounded strange, its because the nurse was buzzing 'Kill' in Morse code.
Mrs. McRoberts, the woman who kills the mechanic, was played by porn star Kimberly Patton. She is credited in the episode with her stage name, Kimberly Ashlyn Gere.
Kimberly Ashlyn Gere also guest starred in several episodes of Glen Morgan and James Wong's Space: Above and Beyond, and in Chris Carter's Millennium.
28. Sleepless
Writer Howard Gordon
Director Rob Bowman
guests: Mitch Pileggi (Assistant Director Walter Skinner) Nicholas Lea (Agent Alex Krycek) Jon Gries (Salvatore Matola) Steven Williams (X) Tony Todd (Augustus Cole)
Mulder reluctantly accepts a new partner, Agent Alex Krycek, and they investigate the deaths of several Green Beret soldiers who participated in a sleep deprivation experiment during the Vietnam war.
NOTE: This episode is X's first real appearance after phoning Mulder in 'The Host'.
The name of 'Krycek' comes from the Russian and Czech word 'Krysa' meaning 'Rat'; quite possibly one of the reasons behind Nicholas Lea's affectionate nickname "Ratboy", Tony Todds better known for playing the Candyman and death in the later 2 films "Final Destination 1 and 2.
29. Duane Barry (part 1)
Writer Chris Carter
Director Chris Carter
guests: Steve Railsback (Duane Barry) Nicholas Lea (Agent Alex Krycek) CCH Pounder (Agent Lucy Kazdin)
Mulder is called to a hostage situation involving Duane Barry, a former FBI Agent who claims to be an alien abductee and wants to get back to the abduction site with someone who will be taken instead of him. Unfortunately, the someone he eventually chooses is Scully.
NOTE: Scully's abduction and her disappearence between "Duane Barry" and "One Breath" were written as a way for Gillian Anderson to have some time off from the show to give birth to her baby. Her daughter, Piper Maru Anderson was born on 25th September 1994.
This is the first episode to be solely written and directed by Chris Carter
The date of the infamous "speedo scene" is August 7th, which is also David Duchovny's birthday.
A sign at the mental hospital reads "Please Line Up Quietly", which was specially requested by Chris Carter as a tribute to One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.
CCH Pounder received an Outstanding Guest Actress for Drama Emmy Award nomination for this episode.
30. Ascension (part 2)
Writer Paul Brown
Director Michael Lange
guests: Steve Railsback (Duane Barry) Mitch Pileggi (Assistant Director Walter Skinner) Nicholas Lea (Agent Alex Krycek) Sheila Larken (Margaret Scully) Steven Williams (X)
When Mulder finds out that Scully was kidnapped by Duane Barry, he risks the wrath of his superiors and the annoyance of Agent Krycek in order to do whatever it takes to find her. Meanwhile, Krycek is found to be reporting Mulder's activities to the CSM.
NOTE: The song that Duane Barry is listening to on his way to Skyland Mountain is "Red Right Hand" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, featured on the X-Files album "Songs in the Key of X".
Margaret Scully tells Mulder that she gave her daughter the cross necklace for her 15th birthday. This is contradicted in season 5's 'Christmas Carol'.
This episode's tagline changes to 'Deny Everything', spoken by X: "They only have one policy Mister Mulder... Deny Everything"
31. 3
Writer Chris Ruppenthal/Glen Morgan/James Wong
Director David Nutter
guests: Tom McBeath (Detective Gwynn) Justina Vail (The Unholy Spirit) Perrey Reeves (Kirsten Kilar) Frank Military (John/The Son)
Mulder, back on the X-Files but alone for the first time, investigates a series of vampire-like murders in Los Angeles and finds himself falling for the one woman that may be the prime suspect.
NOTE: Mulder wears Scully's gold cross necklace throughout this episode after Mrs Scully gave it back to him in 'Ascension'.
David Duchovny and Perrey Reeves had been dating for a while at the time this episode was filmed.
'Club Tepes' is named after Vlad 'The Impaler' Tepes, the real-life inspiration behind Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Gillian Anderson does not appear in this episode.
According to David Duchovny, in "Secrets of the X-Files", Gillian Anderson missed the past 3 episodes in this season, altough it was cleverly filmed to appear that she only missed this one
32. One Breath
Writer Glen Morgan/James Wong
Director R.W. Goodwin
guests: Sheila Larken (Margaret Scully) Melinda McGraw (Melissa Scully) Mitch Pileggi (Assistant Director Walter Skinner) Steven Williams (X) William B. Davis (Cigarette Smoking Man) Don S. Davis (Captain William Scully) Tom Braidwood (Frohike) Bruce Harwood (Byers) Dean Haglund (Langly)
Scully mysteriously appears in a Washington hospital, alive but in a coma, and Mulder must fight to keep her alive in order to find out what happened to her and who did it to her. Meanwhile, Scully fights her own personal battle as she decides whether to stay or go on to the next world.
NOTE: The character 'Nurse Owens' was named after writer Glen Morgan's grandmother.
The comment made by Langly about "hopping onto the internet to nit-pick the scientific inaccuracies of Earth2" was a nod to the internet X-Philes who work tirelessly to nitpick the facts of the show.
33. Firewalker
Writer Howard Gordon
Director David Nutter
guests: Bradley Whitford (Dr Daniel Trepkos) David Kaye (Reporter) Tuck Milligan (Dr Adam Pierce) Leland Orser (Jason Ludwig) Shawnee Smith (Jesse O'Neill)
Mulder and Scully, reunited at last, head for an active volcano under a geological study and find a deadly life form that can survive in the searing heat of the crater and is killing the scientists to avoid being discovered.
34. Red Museum
Writer Chris Carter
Director Win Phelps
guests: Paul Sand (Gerd Thomas) Steve Eastin (Sheriff Mazeroski) Mark Rolston (Richard Odin) Lindsey Ginter (Crew-Cut Man)
While investigating the connection between the abduction of several teenagers and a rural religious cult, Mulder & Scully discover a secret test being performed on the children using the "Purity Control" alien DNA from 'The Erlenmeyer Flask' which leads Mulder to the Crew-Cut Man, Deep Throat's murderer.
NOTE: This episode was originally supposed to take place in Rome, Wisconsin, when Chris Carter and David Kelley flirted with the notion of an X-Files/Picket Fences crossover. Although the networks (FOX and CBS) did not allow the crossover to go ahead, the corresponding episode of Picket Fences did feature two FBI agents conducting an investigation.
35. Excelsis Dei
Writer Paul Brown
Director Stephen Surjik
guests: Frances Bay (Dorothy) Teryl Rothery (Nurse Michelle Charters) Eric Christmas (Stan Phillips) David Fresco (Hal Arden) Sab Shimono (Gung Bittuen)
Mulder and Scully uncover strange occurrences in an old-age care home when one of the nurses is attacked by an unseen force she claims to be one of the residents, a 90 year old man.
NOTE: 'Excelsis Dei' is Latin for "Glory of God".
Teryl Rothery (Nurse Michelle Charthers) of this episode went on to co-star in another sci-fi series Stargate SG-1 with Don S. Davis who protrayed Capt. Williiam Scully (Dana Scully's father)
36. Aubrey
Writer Sara B. Charno
Director Rob Bowman
guests: Deborah Strang (Detective B.J. Morrow) Morgan Woodward (Harry Cokely) Terry O'Quinn (Lt. Brian Tillman) Joy Coghill (Linda Thibedeaux)
Mulder and Scully investigate the possibility of transference of personality from one generation to the next when a detective mysteriously uncovers the remains of an FBI agent who disappeared in the 1940s while investigating a similar case to one she is now.
NOTE: Mulder's fascination with women named BJ probably has something to do with David Duchovny's then girlfriend Perry Reeves playing a woman named BJ on Doogie Howser M.D. .
Terry O'Quinn starred as Peter Watts in Chris Carter's Millennium and also as General Omar Santiago in Carter's short lived series Harsh Realm.
Terry O'Quinn´s appearance as Agent Darius Michaud in the X-Files movie confused some viewers who mistook him for Millennium's Peter Watts and who were, no doubt, unused to the concept that an actor may play several roles within one series/fictitious universe. O´Quinn reappears in season 9 as yet another character, aptly named Shadow Man.
37. Irresistible
Writer Chris Carter
Director David Nutter
guests: Nick Chinlund (Donald Pfaster) Bruce Weitz (Agent Moe Bocks)
A mortuary worker who gets his thrills from collecting hair and fingernails from the dead begins killing his soon-to-be collectibles himself and sets his seriously disturbed sights on Scully.
NOTE: The name Soames can be seen on a tombstone at the beginning of the episode - Ray Soames is the name of the person Mulder and Scully had exhumed in the Pilot episode.
Mulder and Scully were supposed to attend a football game between Washington and Minnesota. At the time, both of these teams had a player named Carter. Later we see the game on television, just in time to catch a play made by 'Cris Carter'.
When Donnie is talking to the other suspect in jail, the suspect recalls Scully's name because it was like "that baseball announer". The baseball announcer in question is Vin Scully, the man Chris Carter named Dana Scully after.
Nick Chinlund later returns in Season 7's Orison.
38. Die Hand die Verletzt
Writer Glen Morgan/James Wong
Director Kim Manners
guests: Susan Blommaert (Phyllis Paddock) Dan Butler (Jim Ausbury) Heather McComb (Shannon Ausbury)
The ritualistic murder of a teenager in a small town gets Mulder and Scully caught up in a secret occult practice within the local school's PTA and a substitute teacher with strange powers.
NOTE: Writers Glen Morgan and James Wong left the show to create the sci-fi epic Space: Above and Beyond. The message left behind by Mrs Paddock "It's been nice working with you." served also as their goodbye to the cast and crew.
The pair returned to co-write several season 4 episodes starting with 'Home'.
'Die Hand die Verletzt' is German for "The Hand that Wounds", which is part of the satanic prayer spoken in the teaser by the members of the PTA.
In homage to Super Bowl XXIX (to be played two days after the airing of this episode) writers Morgan and Wong changed their names in the opening credits to James "Chargers" Wong and Glen "Bolts, Baby" Morgan. The San Diego Chargers ended up losing to the San Francisco 49ers, but Glen Morgan declared he wasn't superstitious enough to believe that he had jinxed his team.
The high school, Crowley High, is named for Alistair Crowley; whose theories layed much of the groundwork for modern Wicca religion.
39. Fresh Bones
Writer Howard Gordon
Director Rob Bowman
guests: Matt Hill (Harry Dunham) Matt Hill (Harry Dunham) Bruce Young (Pierre Bauvais) Daniel Benzali (Colonel Wharton) Jamil Walker Smith (Chester Bonaparte) Matt Hill (Private Harry Dunham) Callum Keith Rennie (Groundskeeper) Steven Williams (X)
While investigating several deaths and murders within a Haitian refugee camp, Mulder and Scully get caught in the middle of a secret war between the camp commander and a Voodoo priest.
NOTE: The groundskeeper's dog, Wong, is named after the writer James Wong, who had just left the show.
40. Colony (part 1)
Writer Chris Carter (Story by David Duchovny/Chris Carter)
Director Nick Marck
guests: Peter Donat (William Mulder) Brian Thompson (Bounty Hunter) Dana Gladstone (Dr. Landon Prince/Gregor Clone) Megan Leitch (Samantha Mulder) Tom Butler (CIA Agent Ambrose Chapel) Mitch Pileggi (Assistant Director Walter Skinner)
After the obituaries of four identical men are e-mailed to Mulder, the agents are contacted by a shadowy CIA agent who tells them about a bounty hunter sent to wipe out the beginning of a colony of clones. Meanwhile Mulder is distracted by the sudden reappearance of his sister Samantha.
41. End Game (part 2)
Writer Frank Spotnitz
Director Rob Bowman
guests: Steven Williams (X) Peter Donat (William Mulder) Brian Thompson (Bounty Hunter) Megan Leitch (Samantha Mulder) Colin Cunningham (Lt. Terry Wilmer) Mitch Pileggi (Assistant Director Walter Skinner)
The alien bounty hunter kidnaps Scully and wants to trade her for Mulder's sister, who is revealed to be a clone herself. After the trade goes badly and Mulder discovers the truth about Samantha, he tracks the bounty hunter to his ship buried in the arctic ice and demands the whereabouts of his real sister.
42. Fearful Symmetry
Writer Steve De Jarnatt
Director James Whitmore Jr.
guests: Jayne Atkinson (Willa Ambrose) Lance Guest (Kyle Lang) Jack Rader (Ed Meecham) Tom Braidwood (Frohike) Bruce Harwood (Byers) Mulder and Scully investigate strange attacks from invisible animals inside a zoo which is near a known UFO hot spot.
NOTE: 'Fearful Symmetry' is a phrase from William Blake's poem "The Tyger". The novelisation of this episode is called "Tyger, Tyger".
Furthermore, the Blake Towers, where the tiger is found, is named after the poet.
43. Dod Kalm
Writer Alex Gansa/Howard Gordon
Director Rob Bowman
guests: John Savage (Henry Trondheim) Mar Anderson (Halverson) Vladimir Kulich (Olafsson) David Cubitt (Captain Barclay) When half the crew of a Navy ship abandon their boat in a life raft and are rescued 18 hours later looking about 60 years older than they should be, Mulder suggests that the ship is caught in a time field which is speeding up their aging.
NOTE: 'Dod Kalm' is an intended foreign-sounding version of "Dead Calm". 44. Humbug
Writer Darin Morgan
Director Kim Manners
guests: Jim Rose (Dr Blockhead) Wayne Grace (Sheriff James Hamilton) Michael J. Anderson (Mr. Nutt) The Enigma (The Conundrum) Vincent Schiavelli (Lanny) Mulder and Scully travel to Gibsonton, Florida, a town built and populated by circus and sideshow performers to investigate the death of Jerald Glazebrook, The Alligator Man. While searching for leads on the killer, the agents come across many bizarre characters including the local sheriff who was once known as Jim Jim, the Dog-Faced Boy.
NOTE: Gillian Anderson actually ate a live cricket during the filming of this episode, after a dare from performer Jim Rose. She was quite prepared to repeat the act on-camera, but the crew had already paid big money for a jar of edible chocolate crickets.
When Scully visits the museum and ends up paying extra to see an empty box, that was, in-fact, a real P.T. Barnum exhibit. Barnum displayed a sign that proudly pointed visitors to "The Egress", which people assumed led to another of the many oddities in the museum, but which actually led to an exit. Once outside, visitors had to pay again to re-enter the museum.
The song Hepcat Helm is listening to is 'Frenzy' by Screamin' Jay Hawkins, featured on the X-Files album Songs in the Key of X.
The trailer park is named Gulf Breeze, also a suburb in Florida known as a hotspot for UFO sightings.
A deleted Scene from this episode featured a waiter half Man/half woman during the 1st act
45. The Calusari
Writer Sara B. Charno
Director Michael Vejar
guests: Campbell Lane (Calusar #3) Helene Clarkson (Maggie Holvey) Joel Palmer (Charlie/Michael Holvey) Lilyan Chauvin (Golda) Ric Reid (Steve Holvey) The suspicious circumstances of a toddler's death leads Mulder and Scully into a Romanian exorcism ritual involving a young boy possessed by his stillborn twin.
46. F. Emasculata
Writer Chris Carter/Howard Gordon
Director Rob Bowman guests: Charles Martin Smith (Dr Osborne) Dean Norris (US Marshal Tapia) John Pyper-Ferguson (Paul) William B. Davis (Cigarette Smoking Man) Angelo Vacco (Angelo Garza) Mitch Pileggi (Assistant Director Walter Skinner) When a plaguelike illness kills 10 men inside a maximum security prison, Scully tries to get into the quarantine site and discover the cause and origin of the contagion, while Mulder and a group of US Marshals track two escapees who may be infected.
NOTE: NOTE: Chris Carter wrote the part of gas station attendant Angelo Garza especially for X-Files Production Assistant Angelo Vacco.
47. Soft Light
Writer Vince Gilligan
Director James Contner
guests: Tony Shalhoub (Dr. Chester Ray Banton) Kevin McNulty (Dr. Christopher Davey) Kate Twa (Detective Kelly Ryan) Steven Williams (X) An experiment in dark matter accidentally turns a scientist's shadow into a deadly weapon that can reduce a person's body to pure energy if they are touched by it.
NOTE: When looking for a possible entry point to the hotel room, Scully checks out the small heating grate, remembering the events of season 1's 'Squeeze' and 'Tooms'.
Scully here completely rebuffs Mulders suggestion of Spontaneous Human Combustion, but in the season 6 episode 'Trevor' she is the one to mention SHC, claiming that there have been "several well-documented cases".
48. Our Town
Writer Frank Spotnitz
Director Rob Bowman
guests: Gary Grubbs (Sheriff Tom Arens) John Milford (Walter Chaco) Caroline Kava (Doris Kearns) Timothy Webber (Jess Harold)
After several disappearances in a small town, Mulder and Scully investigate and find hundreds of human bones in the river and discover that the man behind the towns main source of wealth, a chicken processing plant, has found a way to prolong his life through cannibalism.
NOTE: Chaco Chicken was named for Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, where the Anasazi tribe lived and where boiled bones such as those depicted in the episode were uncovered.
49. Anasazi (part 1)
Writer Chris Carter (Story by David Duchovny/Chris Carter)
Director R.W. Goodwin
Peter Donat (William Mulder) Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman (Albert Hosteen) Nicholas Lea (Alex Krycek) Tom Braidwood (Frohike) Dean Haglund (Langly) Bruce Harwood (Byers) William B. Davis (Cigarette Smoking Man) Mitch Pileggi (Assistant Director Walter Skinner) When Mulder obtains what could be the original and uncut MJ documents containing information about the government's knowledge of extraterrestrial life; his shadowy enemies step up their harassment of him eventually leading to his apparent murder.
NOTE: Chris Carter makes his first and only (as far as I know) acting appearance as the FBI Agent who asks Scully if she would lie to protect Mulder.
The tagline for the season's finale is "EL 'AANIGOO 'AHOOT'E", which is Navajo for 'The Truth is out There'
Director and Executive Producer R.W. Goodwin also had a cameo in this episode, as a gardener. Unfortunately his scene ended up on the cutting-room floor.
In the shots of the encrypted MJ Documents on Mulder's computer, you can clearly make out the line "do-ray-me-fa-so-la-todo".
"Duane Barry"
SCULLY: Mulder, it's me. I just had something incredibly strange happen. This piece of metal that they took out of Duane Barry, it has some kind of a code on it. I ran it through a scanner and some kind of a serial number came up. What the hell is this thing, Mulder? It's almost as if... it's almost as if somebody was using it to catalogue him.
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