Mulder and Scully investigate the strange passing of a computer genius. Unknown to them, a super-intelligent virus program is let loose on the Internet and begins to grow and expand by itself.
s05e01 - Redux (2)
s05e02 - Redux II (3)
s05e03 - Unusual Suspects
s05e04 - Detour
s05e05 - The Post-Modern Prometheus
s05e06 - Christmas Carol (1)
s05e07 - Emily (2)
s05e08 - Kitsunegari
s05e09 - Schizogeny
s05e10 - Chinga (orig.
s05e11 - Kill Switch
s05e12 - Bad Blood
s05e13 - Patient X (1)
s05e14 - The Red and the Black (2)
s05e15 - Travelers
s05e16 - Mind's Eye
s05e17 - All Souls
s05e18 - The Pine Bluff Variant
s05e19 - Folie à Deux
s05e20 - The End
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.