The X-Files Retrospective: Young At Heart
Season 1, Episode 16 John Barnett, a violent bank robber who promised revenge against Mulder during his incarceration, seemingly returns to life after dying in prison five years earlier. A death threat aimed at Mulder and left at the site…
The X-Files Retrospective: Lazarus
Season 1, Episode 15 A botched sting operation results in FBI Agent—and Scully’s ex boyfriend—Willis getting shot by the very criminal he was trying to apprehend, ex-prison guard-turned-murderer Warren Dupre. After Scully shoots Dupre dead, his spirit is transferred into…
The X-Files Retrospective: Beyond the Sea
Season 1, Episode 13 “I thought you’d be pleased that I opened myself to extreme possibilities.” —Scully after Mulder dismisses her belief in serial killer Luther Lee Boggs. In a moment of despair, Scully puts her faith in the hands…
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…