Episode guide

The X-Files: Season 3

24 episodes · first aired Sep 22, 1995

Mulder is missing and assumed dead . . . although Scully experiences a vision in which he is still alive. Yet even as they are reunited, each must deal with an additional personal loss, tragedies that ultimately serve to strengthen their connection to each other. And they soon find themselves depending on that strength as familiar foes resurface and preconceived notions are shattered.

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1 The Blessing Way (2) Sep 22, 1995 · 46m · TMDB 8.0 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 cave and…
2 Paper Clip (3) Sep 29, 1995 · 46m · TMDB 8.3 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 and find…
3 D.P.O. Oct 6, 1995 · 45m · TMDB 7.6 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 strikes.
4 Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose Oct 13, 1995 · 46m · TMDB 8.5 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 agents…
5 The List Oct 20, 1995 · 46m · TMDB 7.0 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 guard is…
6 2Shy Nov 3, 1995 · 46m · TMDB 7.1 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.
7 The Walk Nov 10, 1995 · 46m · TMDB 7.2 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 personal…
8 Oubliette Nov 17, 1995 · 46m · TMDB 7.4 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.
9 Nisei (1) Nov 24, 1995 · 45m · TMDB 8.2 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 experiments…
10 731 (2) Dec 1, 1995 · 46m · TMDB 8.3 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 implant in…
11 Revelations Dec 15, 1995 · 45m · TMDB 6.9 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. While…
12 War of the Coprophages Jan 5, 1996 · 45m · TMDB 8.2 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…
13 Syzygy Jan 26, 1996 · 45m · TMDB 7.1 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. While…
14 Grotesque Feb 2, 1996 · 45m · TMDB 7.3 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 with a…
15 Piper Maru (1) Feb 9, 1996 · 45m · TMDB 8.1 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 to Hong…
16 Apocrypha (2) Feb 16, 1996 · 45m · TMDB 8.0 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 evidence…
17 Pusher Feb 23, 1996 · 45m · TMDB 8.0 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 slowly…
18 Teso Dos Bichos Mar 8, 1996 · 44m · TMDB 6.0 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.
19 Hell Money Mar 29, 1996 · 45m · TMDB 6.6 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 run by…
20 Jose Chung's "From Outer Space" Apr 12, 1996 · 45m · TMDB 7.8 An alien abduction of two teenagers with endless versions of the same story prompts a science-fiction novelist to write a book about the incident; however, nobody involved with the…
21 Avatar Apr 26, 1996 · 45m · TMDB 7.0 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 evidence…
22 Quagmire May 3, 1996 · 43m · TMDB 7.3 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 Scully…
23 Wetwired May 10, 1996 · 45m · TMDB 7.9 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.
24 Talitha Cumi (1) May 17, 1996 · 45m · TMDB 8.1 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. X, he…