The X-Files: Season 2
The X-Files season two continues the overarching saga across twenty-five episodes. The series features the exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully as they investigate unexplained cases. Created by Chris Carter, the American science fiction drama television series is a part of The X-Files franchise. The show is recognized as a defining series of the nineteen nineties, a period coinciding with widespr
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- The series follows the exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully.
- The agents investigate mysterious cases known as The X-Files.
- The show is part of a franchise created by Chris Carter.
- The overarching narrative is set against a backdrop of government distrust, conspiracy theories, and belief in extraterrestrial life.
Season overview
The X-Files season two continues the overarching saga across twenty-five episodes. The series features the exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully as they investigate unexplained cases. Created by Chris Carter, the American science fiction drama television series is a part of The X-Files franchise. The show is recognized as a defining series of the nineteen nineties, a period coinciding with widespread distrust of governments, interest in conspiracy theories and spirituality, and belief in the existence of extraterrestrial life. Alongside the television series, the franchise includes feature films such as the nineteen ninety-eight film The X-Files and the two thousand eight stand-alone film The X-Files: I Want to Believe, which was released six years after the original television run concluded.
Episode Guide
Season 2 Progress Shield
Little Green Men
Sep 16, 1994
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 hi
The Host
Sep 23, 1994
A.D. 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 by S
Blood
Sep 30, 1994
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 sub
Sleepless
Oct 7, 1994
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 duri
Duane Barry (1)
Oct 14, 1994
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 wi
Ascension (2)
Oct 21, 1994
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.
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Nov 4, 1994
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 p
One Breath
Nov 11, 1994
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.
Firewalker
Nov 18, 1994
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 killi
Red Museum
Dec 9, 1994
While investigating the connection between the abduction of several teenagers and a rural religious cult, Mulder and Scully discover a secret test being performed on the children u
Excelsis Dei
Dec 16, 1994
Mulder and Scully uncover strange occurrences in an elderly care home when one of the nurses is attacked by an unseen force she claims to be one of the 90 year old residents.
Aubrey
Jan 6, 1995
When a detective mysteriously uncovers the remains of an FBI agent who disappeared in the 1940s while investigating a similar murder case to one she is now on, Mulder and Scully be
Irresistible
Jan 13, 1995
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
Die Hand Die Verletzt
Jan 27, 1995
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 strang
Fresh Bones
Feb 3, 1995
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 pri
Colony (1)
Feb 10, 1995
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 beginni
End Game (2)
Feb 17, 1995
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
Fearful Symmetry
Feb 24, 1995
In a small town in Idaho, a man is killed by what seems to be an invisible elephant. Mulder's investigation into the local zoo, its owners and a local animal rights group uncovers
Død Kalm
Mar 10, 1995
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 i
Humbug
Mar 31, 1995
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
The Calusari
Apr 14, 1995
The agents investigate when a young boy's family is plagued by a series of tragic accidents.
F. Emasculata
Apr 28, 1995
When a plague-like illness kills ten men inside a maximum security prison, Scully tries to get into the quarantine site and discover the cause and origin of the contagion, while Mu
Soft Light
May 5, 1995
An experiment in dark matter accidentally turns a scientist's shadow into a deadly weapon that can unzip a person's molecules if they are touched by it.
Our Town
May 12, 1995
After several disappearances in a small town, Mulder and Scully investigate and find hundreds of human bones in the river. They discover that the man behind the town's main source
Anasazi (1)
May 19, 1995
Mulder receives an encrypted computer disk containing the defense department's top secret files on extraterrestrial life and becomes a target. Scully takes him to a Navajo family t