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The X-Files: Season 4

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24 episodes · first aired Oct 4, 1996

The prophetic words of the alien Bounty Hunter resonate throughout the fourth season, beginning with the near death of Mulder's mother and the murder of the mysterious X. Even the return of Alex Krycek and the alien black oil are overshadowed by Scully's cancer. Then the tragic reappearance of Max Fenig leads to the death of a fellow FBI agent. Yet even as these events strengthen Mulder's belief in a growing conspiracy, a startling truth revealed to Scully plunges him into a crisis of faith which could prove his ultimate undoing.

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  1. 1 Herrenvolk (2) Oct 4, 1996 · 45m · TMDB 7.9 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 whole…
  2. 2 Home Oct 11, 1996 · 45m · TMDB 8.1 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 a…
  3. 3 Teliko Oct 18, 1996 · 44m · TMDB 6.6 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 pigmentation…
  4. 4 Unruhe Oct 27, 1996 · 45m · TMDB 7.8 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…
  5. 5 The Field Where I Died Nov 3, 1996 · 45m · TMDB 6.3 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 Civil War…
  6. 6 Sanguinarium Nov 10, 1996 · 45m · TMDB 7.0 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 reason…
  7. 7 Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man Nov 17, 1996 · 45m · TMDB 8.4 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 President…
  8. 8 Tunguska (1) Nov 24, 1996 · 45m · TMDB 8.0 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 informant…
  9. 9 Terma (2) Dec 1, 1996 · 45m · TMDB 7.6 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 Scully…
  10. 10 Paper Hearts Dec 15, 1996 · 45m · TMDB 8.0 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 had more…
  11. 11 El Mundo Gira Jan 12, 1997 · 45m · TMDB 6.6 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 brother…
  12. 12 Leonard Betts Jan 26, 1997 · 45m · TMDB 7.9 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 of his…
  13. 13 Never Again Feb 2, 1997 · 45m · TMDB 7.1 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 who…
  14. 14 Memento Mori Feb 9, 1997 · 45m · TMDB 7.8 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…
  15. 15 Kaddish Feb 16, 1997 · 45m · TMDB 6.7 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 at work.
  16. 16 Unrequited Feb 23, 1997 · 43m · TMDB 7.2 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 Vietnam POW…
  17. 17 Tempus Fugit (1) Mar 16, 1997 · 45m · TMDB 8.0 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 crash site…
  18. 18 Max (2) Mar 23, 1997 · 45m · TMDB 7.9 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.
  19. 19 Synchrony Apr 13, 1997 · 44m · TMDB 7.4 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 not…
  20. 20 Small Potatoes Apr 20, 1997 · 45m · TMDB 8.1 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 with a…
  21. 21 Zero Sum Apr 27, 1997 · 45m · TMDB 7.9 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 he poses…
  22. 22 Elegy May 4, 1997 · 45m · TMDB 7.5 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 investigation…
  23. 23 Demons May 11, 1997 · 45m · TMDB 7.3 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…
  24. 24 Gethsemane (1) May 18, 1997 · 45m · TMDB 8.2 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 unthinkable…