Season 4
(1996)
Overview
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 whi…
Cast
as Fox Mulder
as Dana Scully
Episodes
Herrenvolk (2) 8.0
October 4, 1996
With his mother on a deathbed and the alien bounty hunter in pursuit, Mulder decides to put Jeremiah Smith, the alien h…
Home 7.9
October 11, 1996
A baby is found buried alive in shallow ground and appears to have birth defects resulting from generations of inbreedi…
Teliko 6.4
October 18, 1996
After several African-American men are killed and the color is drained from their skin, Mulder learns about the Teliko,…
Unruhe 7.7
October 27, 1996
Several kidnappings of young women linked by distorted photographs lead Mulder and Scully to a man who can imprint his …
The Field Where I Died 6.3
November 3, 1996
After an FBI raid on a doomsday cult called the "Temple of the Seven Stars", Mulder meets Melissa, a cultist who claims…
Sanguinarium 6.8
November 10, 1996
After a doctor loses control and kills a patient on the operating table, Scully hypothesizes that it's linked to work-r…
Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man 8.3
November 17, 1996
The Lone Gunmen reveal the (possibly fake) secret history of the Cigarette Smoking Man to Mulder and Scully; from a you…
Tunguska (1) 7.9
November 24, 1996
Mulder is given a tip about potentially dangerous paramilitary operations on the U.S. soil but during the sting operati…
Terma (2) 7.5
December 1, 1996
While imprisoned in Russia and infected with the Black Cancer, Mulder learns that Krycek is working with the men respon…
Paper Hearts 8.0
December 15, 1996
Mulder's dreams help him in finding the body of a little girl which reopens one of his old cases in the Violent Crimes …
El Mundo Gira 6.5
January 12, 1997
After a strange yellow rain kills a migrant girl, her family believes that a mythical creature el chupacabra was the ca…
Leonard Betts 7.8
January 26, 1997
After the body of a decapitated EMT disappears from the morgue and an identical man starts work at the same hospital, M…
Never Again 7.2
February 2, 1997
While Mulder is forced to take a vacation he leaves Scully with an assignment to keep her busy until he returns. Howeve…
Memento Mori 7.8
February 9, 1997
Scully's recent failing health is revealed to be an inoperable cancer in her skull, which appears to be common among ab…
Kaddish 6.5
February 16, 1997
After a Jewish man is murdered in a Jewish community, his killers are murdered, too. Mulder and Scully have to determin…
Unrequited 7.2
February 23, 1997
When a U.S. military general is inexplicably murdered in the back of his limousine, a paramilitary group is suspected. …
Tempus Fugit (1) 8.0
March 16, 1997
While celebrating Scully's 33rd birthday, a strange woman informs Mulder that NICAP member Max Fenig (see Fallen Angel)…
Max (2) 7.8
March 23, 1997
Mulder is arrested for investigating the plane crash and interfering with a military operation, while Scully is caught …
Synchrony 7.3
April 13, 1997
A case involving a strange old man warning two scientists of events in the immediate future which come to pass (and the…
Small Potatoes 8.2
April 20, 1997
Five babies in the same town are all born with tails and the local OB-GYN is blamed for tampering with fertilized eggs.…
Zero Sum 7.8
April 27, 1997
After a swarm of bees mysteriously kill a postal worker in an enclosed restroom, Assistant Director Skinner covers it u…
Elegy 7.5
May 4, 1997
After a man sees a woman trapped inside a bowling alley pin setter, he goes for help and finds police standing next to …
Demons 7.3
May 11, 1997
Covered in blood and suffering from amnesia, Mulder pieces together the events of the last few days, but the trail lead…
Gethsemane (1) 8.2
May 18, 1997
Mulder fights to prove that a discovery frozen in the mountains of Canada is an irrefutable evidence of alien life, but…