Season 8
(2000)
Overview
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 realizin…
Cast
Episodes
Within (1) 7.5
November 5, 2000
Newly appointed Deputy Director Kersh organizes a manhunt for Mulder and assigns Agent John Doggett to head the team. S…
Without (2) 7.3
November 12, 2000
As the search for Mulder intensifies in the Arizona desert, Gibson Praise leads Scully to believe that she is truly clo…
Patience 7.0
November 19, 2000
While tackling his first X-File case about a series of gruesome murders surrounding a bat-like creature, Doggett quickl…
Roadrunners 7.3
November 26, 2000
Scully evades Doggett's help in investigating a vicious murder in a remote area of Utah, and she is trapped in the smal…
Invocation 6.9
December 3, 2000
In 1990 a little boy inexplicably disappeared from his crowded school playground and was never seen again until now, te…
Redrum 7.2
December 10, 2000
A prominent lawyer wakes to find himself in jail and about to be prosecuted for the murder of his wife. He has no memor…
Via Negativa 6.7
December 17, 2000
Working without Scully's input, Doggett and Skinner try to stop the mysterious murder spree of a drug-induced religious…
Surekill 6.5
January 7, 2001
When a real estate agent is shot inside a prison cell by someone who apparently fired from the roof, Scully and Doggett…
Salvage 6.4
January 14, 2001
A man whose blood is rapidly changing into metal alloy enacts revenge on those who caused his condition.
Badlaa 6.4
January 21, 2001
An Indian mystic whose son died in a chemical plant accident smuggles himself into the United States and takes his reve…
The Gift 6.7
February 4, 2001
Doggett comes upon an old case that Mulder kept secret from Scully and he follows up the investigation, hoping to find …
Medusa 6.9
February 11, 2001
Scully and Doggett must race against the clock to investigate and fight off a contagion lurking in the subway tunnels o…
Per Manum 6.8
February 18, 2001
When Scully and Doggett are contacted by a man who claims his wife was murdered shortly after giving birth to an alien …
This Is Not Happening (1) 7.2
February 25, 2001
When Teresa Hoese (the woman Scully and Mulder met the previous spring in Oregon just before Mulder was abducted) is fo…
Deadalive (2) 7.2
April 1, 2001
Shortly after Mulder is buried, Billy Miles is found very dead, but he somehow comes back to life. Skinner and Scully p…
Three Words 7.2
April 8, 2001
Mulder's request for reassignment to the X-Files is denied by Kersh, who hopes that Mulder will simply quit the FBI. Wh…
Empedocles 6.6
April 22, 2001
Special Agent Reyes enlists Mulder's help in investigating a supernatural killer's connection to the unsolved murder of…
Vienen 7.0
April 29, 2001
Mulder and Doggett are reluctantly thrown together to investigate several deaths aboard an oil rig, and Mulder becomes …
Alone 7.0
May 6, 2001
While Scully takes maternity leave, Doggett is partnered with a young agent who is fascinated with the X-Files and has …
Essence (1) 7.2
May 13, 2001
Mulder and Doggett join forces to investigate the arson attack on a genetics lab where one of the doctors suspected of …
Existence (2) 7.7
May 20, 2001
Mulder, Doggett and Skinner attempt to fight off the alien replicants, and they find a connection to the conspiracy tha…