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The X-Files: Season 8

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21 episodes · first aired Nov 5, 2000

After Mulder’s disappearance, Scully returns to FBI headquarters to find Special Agent John Doggett heading up a FBI manhunt for her partner. Knowing that type of search will prove futile, Scully and Skinner turn to the Lone Gunmen in hopes of uncovering information about additional UFO activity around the time of Mulder’s disappearance. Although such information leads them to Gibson Praise, the man with Gibson, a man who appears to be Mulder, is in fact an alien bounty hunter. Finally realizing that Mulder will not be found so easily, Agent Doggett is officially assigned to the X-Files. Now, after all she has been through with Mulder, it is Scully who is “the believer” and who must find a way to work with “the skeptic,” John Doggett.

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  1. 1 Within (1) Nov 5, 2000 · 45m · TMDB 7.4 Newly appointed Deputy Director Kersh organizes a manhunt for Mulder and assigns Agent John Doggett to head the team. Scully and Skinner go along with the investigation but are warned by…
  2. 2 Without (2) Nov 12, 2000 · 45m · TMDB 7.5 As the search for Mulder intensifies in the Arizona desert, Gibson Praise leads Scully to believe that she is truly closer to her target. Meanwhile, A.D. Kersh informs Agent Doggett that…
  3. 3 Patience Nov 19, 2000 · 45m · TMDB 7.2 While tackling his first X-File case about a series of gruesome murders surrounding a bat-like creature, Doggett quickly learns that his investigative techniques are somewhat dissimilar to…
  4. 4 Roadrunners Nov 26, 2000 · 45m · TMDB 7.6 Scully evades Doggett's help in investigating a vicious murder in a remote area of Utah, and she is trapped in the small town by a religious cult that believe a slug-like creature is the…
  5. 5 Invocation Dec 3, 2000 · 45m · TMDB 7.1 In 1990 a little boy inexplicably disappeared from his crowded school playground and was never seen again until now, ten years later, and he hasn't aged a day.
  6. 6 Redrum Dec 10, 2000 · 45m · TMDB 7.5 A prominent lawyer wakes to find himself in jail and about to be prosecuted for the murder of his wife. He has no memory of this event however, and when the days begin to regress backward…
  7. 7 Via Negativa Dec 17, 2000 · 45m · TMDB 6.9 Working without Scully's input, Doggett and Skinner try to stop the mysterious murder spree of a drug-induced religious cult leader, and it becomes clear that the man can enter the dreams…
  8. 8 Surekill Jan 7, 2001 · 45m · TMDB 6.8 When a real estate agent is shot inside a prison cell by someone who apparently fired from the roof, Scully and Doggett track him to two exterminators, one of whom has x-ray vision.
  9. 9 Salvage Jan 14, 2001 · 45m · TMDB 6.7 A man whose blood is rapidly changing into metal alloy enacts revenge on those who caused his condition.
  10. 10 Badlaa Jan 21, 2001 · 45m · TMDB 6.5 An Indian mystic whose son died in a chemical plant accident smuggles himself into the United States and takes his revenge on two families in suburban Washington, D.C.
  11. 11 The Gift Feb 4, 2001 · 45m · TMDB 7.0 Doggett comes upon an old case that Mulder kept secret from Scully and he follows up the investigation, hoping to find a possible connection to Mulder's disappearance.
  12. 12 Medusa Feb 11, 2001 · 45m · TMDB 7.1 Scully and Doggett must race against the clock to investigate and fight off a contagion lurking in the subway tunnels of Boston.
  13. 13 Per Manum Feb 18, 2001 · 45m · TMDB 6.9 When Scully and Doggett are contacted by a man who claims his wife was murdered shortly after giving birth to an alien baby, Scully digs deeper into reports of alien fertilization on…
  14. 14 This Is Not Happening (1) Feb 25, 2001 · 45m · TMDB 7.5 When Teresa Hoese (the woman Scully and Mulder met the previous spring in Oregon just before Mulder was abducted) is found in a desert after enduring alien testing, Doggett alerts Scully…
  15. 15 Deadalive (2) Apr 1, 2001 · 45m · TMDB 7.3 Shortly after Mulder is buried, Billy Miles is found very dead, but he somehow comes back to life. Skinner and Scully put all their hopes into digging up Mulder and discovering that he…
  16. 16 Three Words Apr 8, 2001 · 45m · TMDB 7.5 Mulder's request for reassignment to the X-Files is denied by Kersh, who hopes that Mulder will simply quit the FBI. When a census worker is killed on the White House lawn trying to get…
  17. 17 Empedocles Apr 22, 2001 · 45m · TMDB 6.6 Special Agent Reyes enlists Mulder's help in investigating a supernatural killer's connection to the unsolved murder of Agent Doggett's son, Luke.
  18. 18 Vienen Apr 29, 2001 · 45m · TMDB 7.2 Mulder and Doggett are reluctantly thrown together to investigate several deaths aboard an oil rig, and Mulder becomes convinced that the rig is really carrying the black oil alien.
  19. 19 Alone May 6, 2001 · 45m · TMDB 7.2 While Scully takes maternity leave, Doggett is partnered with a young agent who is fascinated with the X-Files and has followed Mulder and Scully's careers. She and Doggett investigate the…
  20. 20 Essence (1) May 13, 2001 · 45m · TMDB 7.5 Mulder and Doggett join forces to investigate the arson attack on a genetics lab where one of the doctors suspected of experimenting with alien impregnation is killed. They encounter Billy…
  21. 21 Existence (2) May 20, 2001 · 45m · TMDB 7.9 Mulder, Doggett and Skinner attempt to fight off the alien replicants, and they find a connection to the conspiracy that leads into the FBI while Reyes and Scully head to a remote farm to…