The X-Files is a one-hour drama on FOX which has become a Friday night phenomenon. The show is about an unconventional FBI agent named Fox Mulder (David Duchovny), who develops a consuming passion for a group of unsolved cases known within the FBI as X-Files. Mulder believes the cases involve paranormal phenomena and supernatural activity. To keep tabs on his work -- and to debunk his theories -- the FBI teams him with Agent Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson), a young, skeptical agent who has a degree in medicine and allegiance to science.

The two were at first an unlikely pair. Mulder is a former FBI fast-tracker whose preoccupation with things paranormal stalled his meteoric rise through the agency. Scully, on the other hand, is a medical doctor, trained to draw conclusions based on fact. Still, as their professional relationship progresses, even the skeptical doctor has had more than one experience that defies scientific explanation.

As the pair works to solve these unexplained cases, Mulder's strong belief in the forces of the unknown continues to challenge Scully's rational mind. Their relationship grows more complex with each case and slowly emerges as a heady mix of professional competitiveness, witty repartee and a personal intimacy due to the intensity of their job and the close proximity in which they work. they work.

Among the cases the pair has investigated are a violent, unseen force surrounding a young girl that kills those who threaten her; a series of bizarre deaths thought to be the work of a genetically-mutated serial killer who emerges every 30 years from hibernation to eat five human livers; the mysterious demise of a research team drilling for prehistoric ice core samples at an Arctic research facility; and an unorthodox government research project in which human subjects are injected with alien DNA.

The show returns this season to continue chronicling the lives of the two disparate FBI agents. "The truth is out there," declares the show's main title, and this season, Agents Mulder and Scully will again work to uncover that which is true.

Creator
Chris Carter

Production Staff
R.W. Goodwin
Howard Gordon
Darin Morgan
Frank Spotnitz
Jeff Vlaming
Kim Newton
John Shiban

Cast
David Duchovny
Gillian Anderson
Mitch Pileggi

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