
The X-Files Retrospective: Eve
Season 1, Episode 11—Eve The unexplained exsanguination of two fathers on opposite sides of the country sparks an investigation that brings Mulder and Scully to the two men’s 8-year-old daughters, Teena and Cindy—both girls unrelated but having the physical characteristics…

The X-Files Retrospective: Fire
Season 1, Episode 12 Mulder is paid a visit by Phoebe Green (Amanda Pays), a Scotland Yard detective and former Oxford schoolmate/lover who believes members of the British aristocracy are being set on fire by a serial arsonist—that killer being…

The X-Files Retrospective: Fallen Angel
Season 1, Episode 10 Mulder receives intel from Deep Throat on a crashed UFO—government codename: Fallen Angel—in Wisconsin and is captured by the military while documenting the crash site. While in captivity, Mulder meets Max Fenig (Scott Bellis), a UFO…

The X-Files Retrospective: Space
Season 1, Episode 9—Space While on a space mission, astronaut Lt. Col. Belt (Ed Lauter) encounters an intergalactic entity that latches onto him and follows him back to Earth. Years later, Mulder and Scully are contacted by a NASA communications…

The X-Files Retrospective: Ice
Season 1, Episode 8—Ice “Before anyone passes judgment—may I remind you, we are in the Arctic.” —Mulder before removing his clothes in front of his colleagues. Mulder and Scully find themselves stranded in the middle of the Arctic with a…

The X-Files Retrospective: Ghost in the Machine
Season 1, Episode 7—Ghost in the Machine Mulder is asked by a former colleague to assist in the investigation of the murder of a technology company CEO who was inexplicably electrocuted by the building’s self-learning AI security system. The creator…

The X-Files Retrospective: Shadows
Season 1, Episode 6—Shadows “I would never lie. I willfully participated in a campaign of misinformation.” To their surprise, Mulder and Scully are requested by Chief Blevins to quietly investigate the unexplained deaths of two terrorists who are the victims…

The X-Files Retrospective: Jersey Devil
Season 1, Episode 5—The Jersey Devil This review contains spoilers. “I heard the same story when I was a kid, too. Funny thing is, I believed it.” A corpse with gnawed-off body parts discovered outside Atlantic City is thought to…

The X-Files Retrospective: Conduit
Season 1, Episode 4—Conduit Mulder is attracted to a tabloid story about a teenage girl’s abduction by aliens and petitions the FBI to make it a legitimate X-Files case—a move that angers his superiors and gives Scully pause. Believing the…
