The X-Files: Season 5
The X-Files Season 5 continues the overarching saga across twenty episodes, following the exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully as they investigate unexplained cases. Created by Chris Carter, the series is an American science fiction drama television series that stands as a defining television show of the 1990s. The narrative unfolds during an era characterized by widespread distrust of government
Season 5 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 saga is set against an era of widespread distrust of governments and interest in conspiracy theories.
- The narrative explores themes involving spirituality and the belief in the existence of extraterrestrial life.
Season overview
The X-Files Season 5 continues the overarching saga across twenty episodes, following the exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully as they investigate unexplained cases. Created by Chris Carter, the series is an American science fiction drama television series that stands as a defining television show of the 1990s. The narrative unfolds during an era characterized by widespread distrust of governments, a strong public interest in conspiracy theories and spirituality, and a fascination with the existence of extraterrestrial life. The television series eventually led to the release of two feature films, including the 1998 film titled The X-Files and the 2008 stand-alone film titled The X-Files: I Want to Believe, which arrived six years after the original television run concluded.
Episode Guide
Season 5 Progress Shield
Redux (2)
Nov 2, 1997
Scully helps Mulder fake his own death in order for him to go undetected through the Department of Defence and find out the answers to his new questions about the government hoax c
Redux II (3)
Nov 9, 1997
The Cigarette-Smoking Man helps Mulder to obtain Scully's cure and also lets him see his real sister who doesn't turn out to be as happy to see Mulder as he would've liked. In retu
Unusual Suspects
Nov 16, 1997
Set in 1989, the story of the founding of The Lone Gunmen is finally told as we see how a straight-laced federal employee, a sex mad AV expert, and a nerdy computer hacker meet Sus
Detour
Nov 23, 1997
While on their way to an FBI group communication seminar, Mulder and Scully manage to escape when they come across a situation in the Florida forest area where three men have recen
The Post-Modern Prometheus
Nov 30, 1997
Filmed in glorious black and white with a comic book feel to it, this is a modern retelling of Frankenstein as Mulder and Scully get caught up in a town where the residents live on
Christmas Carol (1)
Dec 7, 1997
On her Christmas vacation with her brother's family, Scully receives a mysterious phone call from a familiar voice who says, "She needs your help. Go to her." The phone call leads
Emily (2)
Dec 14, 1997
DNA testing on Emily reveals that she is actually Scully's daughter and Mulder comes to assist her. While Mulder is looking for any information about where and how the girl was bor
Kitsunegari
Jan 4, 1998
Pusher returns as Robert Patrick Modell escapes from the mental hospital and the FBI promptly organizes a manhunt, assuming that he will continue where he left off. But is he reall
Schizogeny
Jan 11, 1998
A therapist working with children from abusive families is found to be implanting them with the memories of her own abuse suffered at the hands of her late father, when one of her
Chinga
Feb 8, 1998
Master of Horror Stephen King's first effort at an X-File sees Scully's well deserved vacation going terribly wrong and landing her in a small Maine town where one of the residents
Kill Switch
Feb 15, 1998
A super-intelligent virus program is let loose on the internet and begins to grow and expand by itself, eventually killing its creator when he tries to eradicate it.
Bad Blood
Feb 22, 1998
After Mulder chases down and kills a young man who he believes to be a vampire, the agents return to DC aware of the mistake they just made. Faced with a lawsuit from the family of
Patient X (1)
Mar 1, 1998
Mulder and Scully meet Cassandra Spender, a woman who claims to be a multiple abductee and wants to deliver a positive message about the aliens. Mulder's new found disbelief in ext
The Red and the Black (2)
Mar 8, 1998
After the gathering at the abduction site where everyone is killed by the rebel bounty hunters, Cassandra Spender disappears and Mulder is blamed by her son, Jeffrey, who is an up-
Travelers
Mar 29, 1998
In 1990 Agent Fox Mulder visits an aging FBI Agent named Arthur Dales. He listens to a story of the agents assigned to a would-be X-File in the Cold War era of the 1950's and how M
Mind’s Eye
Apr 19, 1998
Mulder and Scully try to get answers out of a stubborn blind woman found at a murder scene who may have the ability to look through the killer's eyes in her mind.
All Souls
Apr 26, 1998
Scully faces her Catholic faith and the loss of her daughter Emily when she is asked to help a family whose adopted daughter was found dead in a position that looked like she was s
The Pine Bluff Variant
May 3, 1998
Scully fears that Mulder has gone to the other side when she sees him assisting a federal suspect escape custody. In truth he has infiltrated a terrorist group testing a deadly bio
Folie à Deux
May 10, 1998
Mulder is held hostage inside an office where a man claims his boss is a monster and has clouded all their minds while he turns them into zombies one by one, which is disbelieved u
The End
May 17, 1998
The Cigarette-Smoking Man returns as Mulder investigates the attempted assassination of a young boy with psychic powers who may be the proof that he has looked for all his life.