The Best Episodes Directed By Chris Carter

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.2/10(45 votes)

   #1 - Talitha Cumi (1)

   S3:E245/17/1996

   After his mother suffers a stroke under strange circumstances, Mulder searches for a strange, benevolent alien man that possesses miraculous healing powers. With the help from Mr. X, he learns about the involvement of the Cigarette-Smoking Man and uncovers some secrets kept by his parents.

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   8.1/10(60 votes)

   #2 - Duane Barry (1)

   S2:E510/14/1994

   Mulder is called to a hostage situation involving Duane Barry, a former FBI Agent who claims to be an alien abductee and wants to get back to the abduction site with someone who will be taken instead of him. Unfortunately, the someone he eventually chooses is Scully.

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   8.0/10(51 votes)

   #3 - Triangle

   S6:E311/22/1998

   Mulder goes to the Bermuda Triangle when he learns that the Queen Anne, a British luxury liner which disappeared during WWII, has reappeared in the middle of the Sargasso Sea. Mulder's boat is wrecked and after floating in the water, he is hauled aboard the ship which has just been hijacked by the Nazis searching for the man who will build the atom bomb. Mulder tries to convince the crew that they have traveled into the future, but evidence further suggests that it is he who is back in the past.

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   7.9/10(47 votes)

   #4 - The Red and the Black (2)

   S5:E143/8/1998

   After the gathering at the abduction site where everyone is killed by the rebel bounty hunters, Cassandra Spender disappears and Mulder is blamed by her son, Jeffrey, who is an up-and-coming FBI agent. Meanwhile, the Syndicate is continuing their tests to create a vaccine for the Black Cancer and Marita Covarrubias becomes an unwilling test subject.

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   7.7/10(47 votes)

   #5 - How the Ghosts Stole Christmas

   S6:E612/13/1998

   Mulder talks Scully into investigating a haunted house on Christmas Eve where several couples have met their fate on that very night. While there, they encounter endless tricks and traps set by a ghostly couple who originally made a lovers suicide pact in the house. The ghosts try to convince Mulder and Scully to kill each other.

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   7.3/10(47 votes)

   #6 - The Post-Modern Prometheus

   S5:E511/30/1997

   Filmed in glorious black and white with a comic book feel to it, this is a modern retelling of Frankenstein as Mulder and Scully get caught up in a town where the residents live on Jerry Springer episodes and fear a two-faced monster who has been impregnating the women.

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   7.2/10(33 votes)

   #7 - Patience

   S8:E311/19/2000

   While tackling his first X-File case about a series of gruesome murders surrounding a bat-like creature, Doggett quickly learns that his investigative techniques are somewhat dissimilar to Scully's.

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   7.0/10(51 votes)

   #8 - The List

   S3:E510/20/1995

   Nobody takes much notice when a death row inmate vows on the electric chair to come back from the dead and kill five men who have wronged him during his time in prison, until a guard is mysteriously murdered in the former inmate's cell.

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9. 

   6.9/10(71 votes)

   #9 - My Struggle

   S10:E11/24/2016

   Agents Mulder and Scully return after 13 years to investigate a government conspiracy at the behest of a popular web-TV-show host, who introduces them to a woman who claims she's an alien abductee and shares startling news with them.

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10. 

    6.7/10(31 votes)

    #10 - Providence (2)

    S9:E103/10/2002

    Scully is anxious to recover William from his kidnappers and takes matters into her own hands when the FBI's attempts to assist in the investigation are less than helpful. With the help of the Lone Gunmen, Scully discovers terrifying information about her child's captors, and is once again forced to confront the mystery regarding the sinister interest in her son.

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    6.6/10(31 votes)

    #11 - Improbable

    S9:E134/7/2002

    When Reyes uses numerology to connect the murders of several women to an obsessed serial killer, she and Scully become trapped with a mysterious checker-playing man who may or may not be the killer.

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12. 

    6.3/10(55 votes)

    #12 - My Struggle II

    S10:E62/22/2016

    The season concludes with people all across the country falling gravely ill. A widespread panic develops and Scully looks within to find a cure. Meanwhile, Mulder confronts the man he believes to be behind it all, but another figure from Mulder and Scully's past may prove to be the key to their salvation.

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13. 

    6.0/10(45 votes)

    #13 - First Person Shooter

    S7:E132/27/2000

    The Lone Gunmen call Mulder and Scully to a virtual reality development lab where they learn that one of the program testers was killed inside the computer generated game environment by the digital image of a woman. Needing to get his yah-yah's, Mulder enters the game to fight the woman, but Scully must step in to save him.

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    5.9/10(46 votes)

    #14 - My Struggle III

    S11:E11/3/2018

    Mulder and Scully learn that they aren't the only ones desperately searching for their long-lost son, William. The very fate of the world may depend on it.

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    5.8/10(61 votes)

    #15 - Babylon

    S10:E52/15/2016

    Scully and Mulder investigate when an art gallery displaying offensive artwork is bombed, and need to discover a way to communicate with the comatose perpetrator to try and prevent a future attack.

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