The X-Files

10 Beste Episodes of The X-Files - Season 5

The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.

Written by Sophie and last updated on Feb 04, 2023.

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The X-Files - S5E11

#15 - Kill Switch (Staffel 5 - Folge 11)

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.

The episode was rated 7,56 from 520 votes.

The X-Files - S5E4

#14 - Detour (Staffel 5 - Folge 4)

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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 recently disappeared.

The episode was rated 7,60 from 556 votes.

The X-Files - S5E8

#13 - Kitsunegari (Staffel 5 - Folge 8)

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 really trying to get revenge on Mulder, or does he want to warn him of another evil?

The episode was rated 7,61 from 519 votes.

The X-Files - S5E16

#12 - Mind's Eye (Staffel 5 - Folge 16)

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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.

The episode was rated 7,62 from 477 votes.

The X-Files - S5E18

#11 - The Pine Bluff Variant (Staffel 5 - Folge 18)

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 biological weapon that can eat through a person's flesh.

The episode was rated 7,64 from 484 votes.

The X-Files - S5E6

#10 - Christmas Carol (1) (Staffel 5 - Folge 6)

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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 Scully to a murder case where the victim's 3-year-old adopted daughter bears an uncanny likeness to her sister, Melissa, at that age. The emotional roller coaster that follows has Scully believing that her sister had a baby during a period when she traveled the country and she tries to adopt the child, knowing that caring for the little girl would change her life.

The episode was rated 7,67 from 526 votes.

The X-Files - S5E5

#9 - The Post-Modern Prometheus (Staffel 5 - Folge 5)

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 Jerry Springer episodes and fear a two-faced monster who has been impregnating the women.

The episode was rated 7,68 from 592 votes.

The X-Files - S5E19

#8 - Folie ร  Deux (Staffel 5 - Folge 19)

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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 until Mulder opens his mind and allows himself to see it too.

The episode was rated 7,82 from 487 votes.

The X-Files - S5E13

#7 - Patient X (1) (Staffel 5 - Folge 13)

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 extraterrestrial activity is enhanced while Scully forms a special bond with the woman. A series of group attacks against abductees take place and the shadowy Syndicate believes that a rebel alien resistance is attempting to destroy all their work.

The episode was rated 7,84 from 534 votes.

The X-Files - S5E3

#6 - Unusual Suspects (Staffel 5 - Folge 3)

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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 Susanne Modeski, a strange woman with evidence of a government conspiracy. When their plan to expose the conspiracy fails and Susanne is captured by a group of men-in-black, led by none other than X, they soon become a paranoid group of government watchdogs.

The episode was rated 7,98 from 543 votes.

The X-Files - S5E14

#5 - The Red and the Black (2) (Staffel 5 - Folge 14)

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-and-coming FBI agent. Meanwhile, the Syndicate is continuing their tests to create a vaccine for the Black Cancer and Marita Covarrubias becomes an unwilling test subject.

The episode was rated 7,99 from 531 votes.

The X-Files - S5E1

#4 - Redux (1) (Staffel 5 - Folge 1)

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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 concerning the existence of extraterrestrial life. Meanwhile, at a joint FBI/DOD inquiry, Scully's attempt to drive out the Conspiracy's informant is halted as her cancer takes a bad turn.

The episode was rated 8,18 from 612 votes.

The X-Files - S5E20

#3 - The End (Staffel 5 - Folge 20)

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.

The episode was rated 8,20 from 505 votes.

The X-Files - S5E12

#2 - Bad Blood (Staffel 5 - Folge 12)

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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 the man, they recount each of their sides to the story leading up to the event. In the extremely humorous stories that follow we see how Scully and Mulder both perceive each other.

The episode was rated 8,23 from 607 votes.

The X-Files - S5E2

#1 - Redux II (2) (Staffel 5 - Folge 2)

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 return for this, the Cigarette-Smoking Man asks that Mulder quit the FBI and work for him in the Syndicate where he could have power and respect which Mulder turns down, deciding to stay on the side of justice. While Scully's cure appears to have worked, the Cigarette-Smoking Man faces his own enemies and disappears, presumed dead.

The episode was rated 8,33 from 594 votes.

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