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Season One
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Season Two
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Season Three
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Season Four
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Season Five
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Season Six
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Season Seven
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Season Eight
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Season Nine
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The Future
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Plot Synopsis |
Continuity Notes |
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| 6x01 The Beginning | A vicious creature, possibly of extraterrestrial origin, is cutting a murderous swath through the American Southwest. With Syndicate infiltrators in control of the X-Files, Mulder and Scully must find it on their own, and determine its place in the alien conspiracy. | X-Files reopened, but Mulder & Scully reassigned. AD Kirsch introduced. No internal dates, but must occur shortly after the movie. Mulder's computer screen may indicate the date. |
9/28/98
– 10/1/98
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X |
| 6x02 Drive | A carjacking and subsequent highway chase have an inexplicably deadly ending: an innocent victim's head explodes. Disobeying FBI orders, Mulder investigates and becomes a high-speed hostage himself. | Mug shot indicates date. | 11/15/98 – 11/16/98 | G/E |
| 6x03 Triangle | Hauled onto a World War II era ocean liner trapped in the Bermuda Triangle, Mulder must get his bearings, fight off Nazi raiders, ensure that democracy survives in the twentieth century, and save the life of his paramour Scully. Or is it all a dream? | Date indicated. Recovery time required. Bracketed date indicates date of Mulder's experience. |
11/16/98 – 11/18/98 (9/3/39) |
F |
| 6x04 Dreamland I | After a close encounter near Area 51, Mulder becomes trapped in the body of another man who, unbeknownst to Scully, assumes her partner's identity. 1st appearance of Morris Fletcher. | No internal dates given, but must be after the above episodes. Due to time travel, this story only occurs over the course of two days. Dates in brackets indicate time prior to reverted dates. |
11/23/98
– 11/24/98 (11/23/98 – 11/25/98) |
H/F |
| 6x05 Dreamland II | While Mulder learns how he's switched bodies with Morris Fletcher, Scully discovers the true identity of her "partner." But this knowledge leads only to an unsolvable and tragic dilemma. | See above. |
11/23/98
– 11/24/98 (11/25/98 – 11/28/98) |
H/G |
| 6x06 Terms of Endearment | In a "normal" middle-class community, a mother is accused of murdering her late-term fetus. Mulder, however, suspects an even more shocking crime. | 12/13/98 – 12/16/98 | S/H | |
| 6x08 How the Ghosts Stole Christmas | On Christmas Eve, Mulder and Scully are trapped in a house haunted by its murder-filled history, and encounter the mansion's original owners, a misfit husband and wife team. | Internal dates provided. | 12/24/98 – 12/25/98 | H/L |
| 6x09 Tithonus | Separated from Mulder and teamed with another FBI agent, Scully pursues a crime photographer with an uncanny ability to predict death – or, perhaps, cause it. | Internal dates provided. | 1/3/99 – 1/12/99 | F |
| 6x10 S.R. 819 | An unknown, deadly microorganism – connected to a shady U.S. government trade deal – is found replicating in Walter Skinner's bloodstream. In just a few precious hours, Mulder and Scully must identify the bioagent, discover its propagators, and save their friend and former supervisor. |
No internal dates provided. Epilogue: 3 weeks later. This is the last appearance of Senator Matheson, as Mulder, feeling he was directly involved in the nanotechnology that threatened Skinner, no longer uses him as a contact. |
1/15/99 Epilogue: 2/5/99 |
G |
| 6x11 Two Fathers (part 1) | As a prelude to the colonization of Earth, Syndicate scientists successfully create a human-alien hybrid. The slave-race prototype is abductee Cassandra Spender, who reveals many secret conspiracies and connections to Mulder and Scully who are plunged into a climactic battle for global domination. | Cassandra and Jeffrey Spender die. Many members of the Consortium are killed. | 2/8/99 – 2/10/99 | X |
| 6x12 One Son (part 2) | Cassandra Spender outlines the real connections between the Syndicate, the warring alien factions, a half century of sinister experiments, and the abductions of Scully and Samantha Mulder. Using her information, the agents reach the end of their long quest – and confront a worldwide apocalypse. | Mulder & Scully reassigned to the X-Files. Conclusion of former mythology. | 2/10/99 – 2/12/99 | X |
| 6x13 Arcadia | Residents of an upscale, uptight suburb are disappearing without a trace. Mulder and Scully go undercover – as a "typical" married couple – to investigate. | Internal dates provided. 1st case back on the X-Files. Time needed beforehand for preparation to go undercover. | 2/24/99 – 2/28/99 | C/H |
| 6x16 Alpha | A wolflike creature from China – long thought extinct – is cutting a murderous path through California. Aided by an animal behavior expert with suspicious motives, Mulder and Scully must somehow track it down. | No internal dates provided. Estimated dates my own. Mulder acquires new "I Want to Believe" poster. | 3/2/99 – 3/4/99 | W |
| 6x18 Milagro | A struggling young writer, obsessed with Scully, seemingly has the power to make his grisliest fantasies come true. | Internal dates indicate this should take place not long after Valentine's Day. Mail has a 2/8 postmark, yet that would place this prior to 6x13 which is their first case back on the X-Files. Likely Padgett had not picked up his mail in awhile. Also, this must occur after 6x16 as Mulder has a new 'I Want to Believe' poster. |
3/8/99
– 3/10/99
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N/F |
| 6x15 Monday | Trapped in an endless time loop, Mulder and Scully are fated to live the same day – the day that they die – over and over again. | No internal dates provided. Estimated dates my own. | 3/15/99 – 3/16/99 | F |
| 6x17 Trevor | A violent prisoner gains the ability to walk through walls, unleashing a series of horrifying murders as he searches for what is his own. | No internal dates provided. Begins on Tuesday. Dates my own. | 3/22/99 – 3/23/99 | K |
| 6x20 The Unnatural | A rabid baseball fan, Fox Mulder makes a startling discovery: Something alien has infiltrated his beloved national pasttime. | No internal dates provided (begins on a Saturday). Likely not too far from Scully's birthday. Flashback takes place between June 29 and July 2nd, 1947. | 3/28/99 – 3/29/99 |
H/X
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| 6x19 Three of a Kind | On a fishing trip to a convention in Las Vegas, the Lone Gunmen find murderers, shadow government conspirators and a long lost love. | Sequel to 5x01 (Unusual Suspects). No internal dates provided (other than 1999). Likely takes place over the weekend. | 4/2/99 – 4/4/99 | G |
| 6x21 Field Trip | After being exposed to a bizarre hallucinogenic, Mulder and Scully are trapped inside a subterranean cave and the dark recesses of their own mind. | No internal dates provided. Recovery time is needed following the events of this story. | Early May | N/V |
| 6x14 Agua Mala | A deadly creature is slithering through the water system of a seaside town. Mulder and Scully are called down to investigate and arrive in the midst of a killer hurricane. | Must be after 6x20 where Mulder learns Arthur Dale has moved to Florida. Hurricane season in Fl. runs from June 1st to November. Mulder requires recovery time afterwards. | Two days in early June | B |
| 6x07 The Rain King | In rural Kansas, thousands of drought-stricken citizens are being forced to enrich the town drunk – who seems able, through mystical means, to control the weather. | Internal dates provided, specifically 6 months from 2/24. The year is established by the fact of a 20 year reunion of the Class of '79. | 8/14/99 – 8/16/99 | H |
| 6x22 Biogenesis | An extraterrestrial artifact may hold the key to the origins of life on Earth. Mulder must unravels its mysteries before it destroys him. | Start of new mythology. Kritschgau returns. Mulder incarcerated for unspecified period of time following this episode. See 7x04. | 9/26/99 – 10/1/99 | X |
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