- 10.0/101 votes
#1 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 7/16/2006
The team investigates a millionaire whose wife has disappeared, and who is suspected of killing her. On the personal front, Angela goes to visit her father in prison for the first time in over ten years, but still has trouble letting her guard down about her past with her new boyfriend.
Director: Michael W. Watkins
Writer: N/A
- 10.0/101 votes
#2 - Coma Chameleon
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 4/14/2010
ATF agent Wade Guthrie is shot and left for dead by gun trader Jasper Malone. After three years in a coma, he wakes to find the world he left behind has drastically changed.
Director: Michael W. Watkins
Writer: Kim Newton
- 10.0/101 votes
#3 - I'm a Liver Not a Fighter
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 6/19/2011
A terminally ill father wants to reconcile with his children.
Director: Michael W. Watkins
Writer: Michael Reisz
- 10.0/101 votes
#4 - Sacrificial Lam
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 4/27/2012
Having slipped through the fingers of the FBI, James Shannon is on the run again and heading for the border, but first he must stop to take care of a little unfinished business. Agent O'Connor, convinced that she was somehow involved in James' escape, places Mary under investigation, but when he refuses to listen to her suggestions about the possible whereabouts of her father, the manhunt ends in tragedy.
Director: Michael W. Watkins
Writer: N/A
- 10.0/101 votes
#5 - What Happens in Vegas, Stays in Vegas
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/29/2003
Danny's friend Greg is found murdered in the desert, reporter is hot on the trail of a naughty senator, and King Arthur is riding through the casino.
Director: Michael W. Watkins
Writer: Gary Scott Thompson
- 9.0/107 votes
#6 - Decoy
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 3/19/2013
After capturing Drew Thompson, Raylan must find a way to get him past Boyd and the Detroit mob henchmen who've been sent to stop him.
Director: Michael W. Watkins
Writer: Graham Yost
- 8.4/1047 votes
#7 - Allen
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 8/29/2005
Michael seeks help of his fellow prison inhabitants to execute his escape plans.
Director: Michael W. Watkins
Writer: Paul T. Scheuring
- 8.3/1031 votes
#8 - Dreamland II (2)
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 12/6/1998
Mulder is thrown in jail at the Area 51 compound but is released when it is discovered that the flight data recorder he stole was a fake. Scully comes to her senses and realizes that the Mulder she sees isn't who he really is and heads back to Nevada to help the real Mulder. Meanwhile, the mechanism that caused the body swap is rapidly snapping back, undoing everything in its wake, and Mulder and his alter ego must race to put themselves back where they belong.
Director: Michael W. Watkins
Writer: Frank Spotnitz
- 8.3/1015 votes
#9 - Cottonmouth
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 3/9/2011
Raylan's hunt for a killer puts him on a collision course with the Bennett clan, while Boyd plots a heist with treacherous new partners.
Director: Michael W. Watkins
Writer: Taylor Elmore
- 8.2/1031 votes
#10 - Dreamland (1)
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 11/29/1998
While being detained near the famed "Dreamland" Area 51, a strange craft flies overhead and Mulder swaps bodies with an Area 51 "Man-in-Black". While the other agent has fun in Mulder's body, Mulder himself finds it difficult to fit into someone else's life, especially a shadowy one. Mulder contacts Scully about the body swap and tries to get her the flight data recorder from the UFO test flight, but his alter ego uses Mulder's FBI persona to have him arrested.
Director: Michael W. Watkins
Writer: Frank Spotnitz
- 8.1/1013 votes
#11 - The Spoil
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 3/30/2011
Raylan is assigned to protect a local coal mine executive as she tries to buy up land for the company but faces opposition from the Bennett clan.
Director: Michael W. Watkins
Writer: Dave Andron
- 8.0/103 votes
#12 - End Of Watch
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 2/9/2007
Don and the team reopen a cold case when a LAPD badge turns up at a construction site. When Charlie joins the investigation, they attempt to track down the owner of the badge, an officer who has been missing 17 years. Meanwhile, Alan is informed that he's being sued.
Director: Michael W. Watkins
Writer: Robert Port
- 8.0/1020 votes
#13 - Mr. Kaplan: Conclusion (2)
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 5/18/2017
With his empire in tatters, Red makes one last desperate move but Mr. Kaplan may have predicted his play.
Director: Michael W. Watkins
Writer: Jon Bokenkamp
- 7.9/1013 votes
#14 - Jitters
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 12/11/2001
An experiment at the Luthor fertilizer plant makes an old friend of the Kents literally shake and jitter, and he seeks vengeance against the Luthors, who hide the secret of his transformation behind "Level Three" at the local plant.
Director: Michael W. Watkins
Writer: Jeff Gottesfeld
- 7.9/1028 votes
#15 - Arcadia
Season 6 Episode 15 - Aired 3/7/1999
On their first official case back on the X-Files, Mulder and Scully go undercover as a married couple at a prestigious planned community where several residents have recently disappeared after failing to comply with the rules and regulations.
Director: Michael W. Watkins
Writer: Daniel Arkin
- 7.8/1013 votes
#16 - Hope
Season 7 Episode 8 - Aired 11/16/2011
It’s personal for Garcia when the BAU investigate the disappearance of a woman in her survivors’ support group whose daughter went missing seven years earlier.
Director: Michael W. Watkins
Writer: Kimberly A. Harrison
- 7.7/1011 votes
#17 - A Thin Line
Season 7 Episode 15 - Aired 2/22/2012
The BAU team investigates a series of brutal home invasions and murders in California's Inland Empire that appear to be gang-related, but their investigation may uncover a more sinister motivation.
Director: Michael W. Watkins
Writer: Virgil Williams
- 7.7/1025 votes
#18 - Esteban
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/22/2016
After Liz is abducted by a man claiming to be her father, Red sets out to find her at any cost. Meanwhile, the Task Force grapples with the shocking news that Liz is still alive.
Director: Michael W. Watkins
Writer: Jon Bokenkamp
- 7.6/1032 votes
#19 - Tithonus
Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 1/24/1999
Assistant Director Kersh tries to tear Scully and Mulder apart when he partners Scully with a New York agent investigating Alfred Fellig, a freelance police photographer who conveniently shows up to document the scene of a death as soon as it happens. While the young hotshot agent is convinced that Fellig is murdering the people, Scully has other (paranormal) theories.
Director: Michael W. Watkins
Writer: Vince Gilligan
- 7.6/1019 votes
#20 - Last Grimm Standing
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 2/24/2012
An underground fight club where monsters participate in blood battles is tied to a murder that Nick and Hank are investigating.
Director: Michael W. Watkins
Writer: Naren Shankar
- 7.6/1018 votes
#21 - The Endling
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/18/2017
Liz and the Task Force hunt for an elusive criminal who will stop at nothing to destroy some of the world's most precious treasures. Meanwhile, a surprise encounter leads a cash-strapped Red toward a new business opportunity, and Tom takes action to investigate the bones in the suitcase.
Director: Michael W. Watkins
Writer: Noah Schechter
- 7.5/104 votes
#22 - Last Dance Before an Execution
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 5/1/1991
May 12, 1971: "Just think of someplace far away" is the advice Sam hears as he leaps into Jesus Ortega, a Cuban-American being strapped into an electric chair. A last second stay of execution gives Sam just forty-eight hours to either prove himself innocent or fulfill his mission so that he can leap before the Big Switch is pulled
Director: Michael W. Watkins
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/104 votes
#23 - Unchained
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 11/27/1991
November 2, 1956: Sam and a fellow convict named Boone are the defiant ones when Sam has to rescue his companion from a fifteen-year sentence on a chain gang.
Director: Michael W. Watkins
Writer: Paris Qualles
- 7.5/1025 votes
#24 - Sein Und Zeit (1)
Season 7 Episode 10 - Aired 2/6/2000
A young girl inexplicably disappears from her home, and Mulder requests the case even though it is a full FBI matter, not just an X-File. When Mulder takes some outrageous leaps to convince the girl's parents that she will be found, Scully fears that Mulder is becoming too personally involved with the case because of his sister's abduction.
Director: Michael W. Watkins
Writer: Chris Carter
- 7.5/1022 votes
#25 - Blind Spot
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 4/27/2010
Raylan foils an attempt on Ava's life and vows to find out who was behind it. Later, Raylan finds out that Ava may not have been the target.
Director: Michael W. Watkins
Writer: Graham Yost