Season 5
(1997)
Overview
Even as Scully’s genetically altered DNA brings her closer to the brink of death, government agent Michael Kritschgau helps Mulder in the search for a cure, partly to atone for his own involvement with perpetrating the alien hoax. Scully’s DNA comes into play once again when she discovers she is the mother of a little girl named Emily, an incident that could only be related to her abduction years earlier. But in the end it is a young boy named Gibson Praise whose body may contain genetic proof …
Cast
as Fox Mulder
as Dana Scully
Episodes
Redux (2) 7.7
November 2, 1997
Scully helps Mulder fake his own death in order for him to go undetected through the Department of Defence and find out…
Redux II (3) 7.9
November 9, 1997
The Cigarette-Smoking Man helps Mulder to obtain Scully's cure and also lets him see his real sister who doesn't turn o…
Unusual Suspects 7.8
November 16, 1997
Set in 1989, the story of the founding of The Lone Gunmen is finally told as we see how a straight-laced federal employ…
Detour 7.5
November 23, 1997
While on their way to an FBI group communication seminar, Mulder and Scully manage to escape when they come across a si…
The Post-Modern Prometheus 7.0
November 30, 1997
Filmed in glorious black and white with a comic book feel to it, this is a modern retelling of Frankenstein as Mulder a…
Christmas Carol (1) 7.0
December 7, 1997
On her Christmas vacation with her brother's family, Scully receives a mysterious phone call from a familiar voice who …
Emily (2) 7.1
December 14, 1997
DNA testing on Emily reveals that she is actually Scully's daughter and Mulder comes to assist her and to find out wher…
Kitsunegari 7.4
January 4, 1998
Pusher returns as Robert Patrick Modell escapes from the mental hospital and the FBI promptly organizes a manhunt, assu…
Schizogeny 7.0
January 11, 1998
A therapist working with children from abusive families is found to be implanting them with the memories of her own abu…
Chinga 7.2
February 8, 1998
Master of Horror Stephen King's first effort at an X-File sees Scully's well deserved vacation going terribly wrong and…
Kill Switch 7.4
February 15, 1998
A super-intelligent virus program is let loose on the internet and begins to grow and expand by itself, eventually kill…
Bad Blood 8.6
February 22, 1998
After Mulder chases down and kills a young man who he believes to be a vampire, the agents return to DC aware of the mi…
Patient X (1) 7.6
March 1, 1998
Mulder and Scully meet Cassandra Spender, a woman who claims to be a multiple abductee and wants to deliver a positive …
The Red and the Black (2) 7.8
March 8, 1998
After the gathering at the abduction site where everyone is killed by the rebel bounty hunters, Cassandra Spender disap…
Travelers 7.3
March 29, 1998
In 1990 Agent Fox Mulder visits an aging FBI Agent named Arthur Dales. He listens to a story of the agents assigned to …
Mind’s Eye 7.4
April 19, 1998
Mulder and Scully try to get answers out of a stubborn blind woman found at a murder scene who may have the ability to …
All Souls 6.6
April 26, 1998
Scully faces her Catholic faith and the loss of her daughter Emily when she is asked to help a family whose adopted dau…
The Pine Bluff Variant 7.7
May 3, 1998
Scully fears that Mulder has gone to the other side when she sees him assisting a federal suspect escape custody. In tr…
Folie à Deux 7.8
May 10, 1998
Mulder is held hostage inside an office where a man claims his boss is a monster and has clouded all their minds while …
The End 8.3
May 17, 1998
The Cigarette-Smoking Man returns as Mulder investigates the attempted assassination of a young boy with psychic powers…