The X-Files: Season 4
The fourth season of the television series The X-Files continues the overarching saga across twenty-four episodes. The series follows the exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully as they investigate unexplained cases known as the X-Files. Created by Chris Carter and broadcast as an American science fiction drama, the program is part of a franchise that reflects widespread distrust of governments, int
Season 4 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 unexplained cases known as the X-Files.
- The show explores widespread distrust of governments and interest in conspiracy theories and spirituality.
- The overarching narrative involves investigations into the existence of extraterrestrial life.
Season overview
The fourth season of the television series The X-Files continues the overarching saga across twenty-four episodes. The series follows the exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully as they investigate unexplained cases known as the X-Files. Created by Chris Carter and broadcast as an American science fiction drama, the program is part of a franchise that reflects widespread distrust of governments, interest in conspiracy theories and spirituality, and belief in the existence of extraterrestrial life. Alongside the television run, the broader 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. The television show remains a defining series of the 1990s, centering on the investigative partnership and ongoing mysteries handled by the two federal agents as they navigate conspiracies and paranormal phenomena throughout their assignments.
Episode Guide
Season 4 Progress Shield
Herrenvolk (2)
Oct 4, 1996
With his mother on a deathbed and the alien bounty hunter in pursuit, Mulder decides to put Jeremiah Smith, the alien healer, in mortal danger for a chance to finally uncover the w
Home
Oct 11, 1996
A baby is found buried alive in shallow ground and appears to have birth defects resulting from generations of inbreeding, leading Mulder and Scully to a reclusive family who have
Teliko
Oct 18, 1996
After several African-American men are killed and the color is drained from their skin, Mulder learns about the Teliko, an African folktale about a creature who must suck the pigme
Unruhe
Oct 27, 1996
Several kidnappings of young women linked by distorted photographs lead Mulder and Scully to a man who can imprint his darkest fantasies onto undeveloped film and is trying to save
The Field Where I Died
Nov 3, 1996
After an FBI raid on a doomsday cult called the "Temple of the Seven Stars", Mulder meets Melissa, a cultist who claims to have known him in a previous life during the American Civ
Sanguinarium
Nov 10, 1996
After a doctor loses control and kills a patient on the operating table, Scully hypothesizes that it's linked to work-related stress, while Mulder is convinced of a more sinister r
Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man
Nov 17, 1996
The Lone Gunmen reveal the (possibly fake) secret history of the Cigarette Smoking Man to Mulder and Scully; from a young captain in the U.S. Army recruited to assassinate Presiden
Tunguska (1)
Nov 24, 1996
Mulder is given a tip about potentially dangerous paramilitary operations on the U.S. soil but during the sting operation is surprised to find out the identity of his mysterious in
Terma (2)
Dec 1, 1996
While imprisoned in Russia and infected with the Black Cancer, Mulder learns that Krycek is working with the men responsible and everything has been a setup from the start, while S
Paper Hearts
Dec 15, 1996
Mulder's dreams help him in finding the body of a little girl which reopens one of his old cases in the Violent Crimes Unit. This leads him to believe that the killer he captured h
El Mundo Gira
Jan 12, 1997
After a strange yellow rain kills a migrant girl, her family believes that a mythical creature el chupacabra was the cause and that it has manifested itself inside her fiancé's bro
Leonard Betts
Jan 26, 1997
After the body of a decapitated EMT disappears from the morgue and an identical man starts work at the same hospital, Mulder believes that the man has the ability to regrow parts o
Never Again
Feb 2, 1997
While Mulder is forced to take a vacation he leaves Scully with an assignment to keep her busy until he returns. However, she decides to start living and goes on a date with a man
Memento Mori
Feb 9, 1997
Scully's recent failing health is revealed to be an inoperable cancer in her skull, which appears to be common among abductees and she attempts to come to terms with her condition.
Kaddish
Feb 16, 1997
After a Jewish man is murdered in a Jewish community, his killers are murdered, too. Mulder and Scully have to determine whether someone is exacting vengeance or larger forces are
Unrequited
Feb 23, 1997
When a U.S. military general is inexplicably murdered in the back of his limousine, a paramilitary group is suspected. They believe it was a soldier who they liberated from a Vietn
Tempus Fugit (1)
Mar 16, 1997
While celebrating Scully's 33rd birthday, a strange woman informs Mulder that NICAP member Max Fenig (see Fallen Angel) has recently died in a plane crash. After a visit to the cra
Max (2)
Mar 23, 1997
Mulder is arrested for investigating the plane crash and interfering with a military operation, while Scully is caught in the attempted assassination of Corporal Frish.
Synchrony
Apr 13, 1997
A case involving a strange old man warning two scientists of events in the immediate future which come to pass (and the use of their experimental flash-freezing compound that does
Small Potatoes
Apr 20, 1997
Five babies in the same town are all born with tails and the local OB-GYN is blamed for tampering with fertilized eggs. However, Mulder discovers the culprit to be a simple man wit
Zero Sum
Apr 27, 1997
After a swarm of bees mysteriously kill a postal worker in an enclosed restroom, Assistant Director Skinner covers it up by destroying the evidence. In order to complete the task h
Elegy
May 4, 1997
After a man sees a woman trapped inside a bowling alley pin setter, he goes for help and finds police standing next to a body of the same woman. Mulder and Scully join the investig
Demons
May 11, 1997
Covered in blood and suffering from amnesia, Mulder pieces together the events of the last few days, but the trail leads to a double murder that appears to have been committed with
Gethsemane (1)
May 18, 1997
Mulder fights to prove that a discovery frozen in the mountains of Canada is an irrefutable evidence of alien life, but his quest for the truth only leads to more lies and an unthi