The X-Files: Season 3
The X-Files Season 3 continues the overarching saga across twenty-four episodes. The television series, created by Chris Carter and broadcast as an American science fiction drama, follows the exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. The agents investigate mysterious, paranormal, and unexplained cases known as the X-Files. The series, which aired during the 1990s, captures the era's widespread distru
Season 3 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- The series follows FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully.
- The agents investigate cases known as the X-Files.
- The overarching narrative is part of an ongoing saga involving mystery, sci-fi, fantasy, and crime.
- The show reflects a widespread distrust of governments, interest in conspiracy theories, and belief in extraterrestrial life.
Season overview
The X-Files Season 3 continues the overarching saga across twenty-four episodes. The television series, created by Chris Carter and broadcast as an American science fiction drama, follows the exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. The agents investigate mysterious, paranormal, and unexplained cases known as the X-Files. The series, which aired during the 1990s, captures the era's widespread distrust of governments, fascination with conspiracy theories, interest in spirituality, and belief in extraterrestrial life. Alongside the television run, the franchise includes feature films such as the 1998 film The X-Files and the 2008 stand-alone film The X-Files: I Want to Believe, released years after the original television series concluded its broadcast.
Episode Guide
Season 3 Progress Shield
The Blessing Way (2)
Sep 22, 1995
Scully finds her career with the FBI in jeopardy as Mulder is still missing and the Cigarette Smoking Man is pursuing the stolen files. The Navajo elders find Mulder's body in a ca
Paper Clip (3)
Sep 29, 1995
A.D. Skinner and Scully are at a standoff when Mulder bursts in and discovers that Skinner has the digital tape. Reunited, Mulder and Scully travel to a secret vault inside a mine
D.P.O.
Oct 6, 1995
Mulder and Scully investigate a series of human and cattle deaths by lightning and are led to a teenage boy who is the only survivor out of five people recently hit by lightning st
Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose
Oct 13, 1995
In the midst of a psychic sideshow while on a murder case, Mulder and Scully enlist the help of a man who may have a true psychic ability to foresee how people will die to help the
The List
Oct 20, 1995
Nobody takes much notice when a death row inmate vows on the electric chair to come back from the dead and kill five men who have wronged him during his time in prison, until a gua
2Shy
Nov 3, 1995
A man with a genetic abnormality, who must prey on overweight women in order to suck the fatty tissue from their bodies, begins to meet his victims through internet chat rooms.
The Walk
Nov 10, 1995
After a suicide attempt and multiple murders at a military hospital, Mulder and Scully meet a quadruple amputee who has gained the power of astral projection and is taking out his
Oubliette
Nov 17, 1995
Mulder seeks the help of a woman who he believes has a special connection with a young girl who has recently been kidnapped by the same man who held her captive many years earlier.
Nisei (1)
Nov 24, 1995
An investigation into a video of an alien autopsy puts Mulder and Scully in the middle of a conspiracy involving WWII Japanese scientists brought to America to continue their exper
731 (2)
Dec 1, 1995
Mulder is trapped inside a train car which contains a suspected alien-human hybrid and also a bomb, while Scully pursues the truth about her abduction and the mystery behind the im
Revelations
Dec 15, 1995
Mulder and Scully swap roles as they pursue a man killing priests that claim to have the wounds of Christ. The agents find and must protect a young boy who may be a real stigmatic.
War of the Coprophages
Jan 5, 1996
Widespread panic is caused in a small community after numerous deaths are linked to killer cockroaches, and a government agricultural agency is discovered to have set up a secret e
Syzygy
Jan 26, 1996
A rare planetary alignment causes strange behavior in the residents of a small town, but particularly in two teenage girls who were born at the exact same moment on that date. Whil
Grotesque
Feb 2, 1996
A serial killer is captured after a three year manhunt, and he claims an evil spirit is responsible for the crimes. When the killings continue as he sits in jail, Mulder's battle w
Piper Maru (1)
Feb 9, 1996
A French salvage ship searching for a lost WWII fighter plane unknowingly surfaces an alien which appears in the form of black oil and has the ability to jump hosts. Mulder heads t
Apocrypha (2)
Feb 16, 1996
Mulder pursues Krycek (unaware of the alien that has taken over his body) to get back the DAT tape containing the MJ documents. Meanwhile, the shooting of A.D. Skinner uncovers ev
Pusher
Feb 23, 1996
Mulder and Scully are asked to help in a case involving Robert Patrick Modell, a murderer possessing the psychic ability to force his will onto people. Due to a brain tumor that is
Teso Dos Bichos
Mar 8, 1996
The unearthing of an ancient Ecuadorian Amaru urn and its removal to America despite protests leads to a series of deaths linked to a shaman spirit released by the urn.
Hell Money
Mar 29, 1996
Mulder, Scully and a local Chinese American cop investigate deaths of several Chinese men found to be missing vital internal organs. The clues lead them to a deadly secret lottery
Jose Chung's "From Outer Space"
Apr 12, 1996
A alien abduction of two teenagers with endless versions of the same story prompts a science-fiction novelist to to write a book about the incident; however, nobody involved with t
Avatar
Apr 26, 1996
During a one-night-stand in the midst of his divorce, A.D. Skinner becomes a murder suspect, and Mulder and Scully return the many favors that he has done for them by analyzing evi
Quagmire
May 3, 1996
Mulder and Scully investigate a series of disappearances and attacks around a lake where Mulder believes that the local legend about a lake monster may be all too real. Frustrated
Wetwired
May 10, 1996
Mulder and Scully investigate a series of murders linked to a mysterious device that alters television signals causing paranoid hallucinations. One of them falls victim to it.
Talitha Cumi (1)
May 17, 1996
After his mother suffers a stroke under strange circumstances, Mulder searches for a strange, benevolent alien man that possesses miraculous healing powers. With the help from Mr.