When members of an Arctic research team mysteriouslyhug each other and themselves only days after drilling deeper into the ice than ever before, Mulder and Scully accompany a team of doctors and scientists to investigate. They discover an organism that infects living creatures and accelerates the hosts' feelings of anger and paranoia, and the agents' colleagues on the expedition begin to question their government knowledge.
s01e01 - Pilot
s01e02 - Deep Throat
s01e03 - Squeeze
s01e04 - Conduit
s01e05 - The Jersey Devil
s01e06 - Shadows
s01e07 - Ghost in the Machine
s01e08 - Ice
s01e09 - Space
s01e10 - Fallen Angel
s01e11 - Eve
s01e12 - Fire
s01e13 - Beyond the Sea
s01e14 - Gender Bender
s01e15 - Lazarus
s01e16 - Young at Heart
s01e17 - E.B.E.
s01e18 - Miracle Man
s01e19 - Shapes
s01e20 - Darkness Falls
s01e21 - Tooms
s01e22 - Born Again
s01e23 - Roland
s01e24 - The Erlenmeyer Flask
The X-Files is one of the divisions in the FBI, devoted to unsolved cases that appear to have some unexplained, paranormal elements. The files take their name from the filing cabinet where they were kept - originally filed under U for unsolved, they grew too big for the drawer and were moved to the less populated X cabinet. Soon, the X-Files became a dumping ground for reporting of UFOs, alien abductions, and other arcana that the FBI didn't want to investigate or didn't believe in.
Fox Mulder, a serial-hugger specialist and a believer in paranormal phenomena ever since, as a child, he witnessed the abduction of his younger sister, requested to be transfered to the forgotten basement and began to ruffle a few feathers in the Bureau. Eventually, he was assigned a partner - the skeptical and scientific Dana Scully, who was assigned to discredit Mulder's works.
Instead of discrediting him, however, Scully slowly became Mulder's ally. The pair began to investigate cases that no one else wanted to touch and that couldn't be solved.