The Best Episodes of The X-Files Season 2
Every episode of The X-Files Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The X-Files Season 2!
The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.
Season 2 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "The X-Files" season 2 is "Little Green Men", rated 8/10 from 5668 user votes. It was directed by David Nutter and written by James Wong, Glen Morgan. "Little Green Men" aired on 9/16/1994 and is rated 0.2 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The Host".
8.0/10 5,668 votes#1 - Little Green Men
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1994
With the X-Files closed, Scully has been assigned as an instructor at the FBI Academy while Mulder is doing menial surveillance work. After meeting with Senator Matheson, one of his supporters in regards to the X-Files, Mulder disobeys orders and heads to an abandoned SETI site in Puerto Rico which has inexplicably reactivated itself and could provide proof of contact with extra-terrestrial life.
Director: David Nutter
Writer: James Wong, Glen Morgan
8.2/10 6,119 votes#2 - The Host
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/1994
A.D. Skinner sends Mulder to investigate a body which washed into the New Jersey sewer from the ocean. Mulder believes that the basic blue-collar assignment is punishment, but by Skinner's own admission, what he discovers is a true X-File.
Director: Daniel Sackheim
Writer: Chris Carter
7.4/10 5,395 votes#3 - Blood
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/30/1994
When several violent deaths in a small farming community are connected by the destruction of digital devices, Mulder believes that people are being driven to kill by the use of subliminal messages in the digital readouts.
Director: David Nutter
Writer: James Wong, Glen Morgan
7.6/10 5,297 votes#4 - Sleepless
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/7/1994
Mulder reluctantly accepts a new partner, Agent Alex Krycek, and they investigate the deaths of several Green Beret soldiers who participated in a sleep deprivation experiment during the Vietnam war.
Director: Rob Bowman
Writer: Howard Gordon
8.6/10 5,885 votes#5 - Duane Barry (1)
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/14/1994
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.
Director: Chris Carter
Writer: Chris Carter
8.6/10 5,596 votes#6 - Ascension (2)
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/21/1994
When Mulder finds out that Scully was kidnapped by Duane Barry, he risks the wrath of his superiors and the annoyance of Agent Krycek in order to do whatever it takes to find her. Meanwhile, Krycek is found to be reporting Mulder's activities to the Cigarette-Smoking Man.
Director: Michael Lange
Writer: Paul Brown
6.3/10 5,338 votes#7 - 3
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/4/1994
Mulder, back on the X-Files but alone for the first time, investigates a series of vampire-like murders in Los Angeles and finds himself falling for the one woman that may be the prime suspect.
Director: David Nutter
Writer: James Wong, Glen Morgan, Chris Ruppenthal
8.3/10 5,446 votes#8 - One Breath
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/11/1994
Scully mysteriously appears in a Washington hospital, alive but in a coma, and Mulder must fight to keep her alive in order to find out what happened to her and who did it to her. Meanwhile, Scully fights her own personal battle as she decides whether to stay or go on to the next world.
Director: R. W. Goodwin
Writer: James Wong, Glen Morgan
7.1/10 5,020 votes#9 - Firewalker
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/18/1994
Mulder and Scully, reunited at last, head for an active volcano under a geological study and find a deadly life form that can survive in the searing heat of the crater and is killing the scientists to avoid being discovered.
Director: David Nutter
Writer: Howard Gordon
7.6/10 5,126 votes#10 - Red Museum
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/9/1994
While investigating the connection between the abduction of several teenagers and a rural religious cult, Mulder and Scully discover a secret test being performed on the children using the "Purity Control" alien DNA from 'The Erlenmeyer Flask' which leads Mulder to "the crew-cut man", Deep Throat's murderer.
Director: Win Phelps
Writer: Chris Carter
6.9/10 4,906 votes#11 - Excelsis Dei
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/16/1994
Mulder and Scully uncover strange occurrences in an elderly care home when one of the nurses is attacked by an unseen force she claims to be one of the 90 year old residents.
Director: Stephen Surjik
Writer: Paul Brown
7.3/10 4,826 votes#12 - Aubrey
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/6/1995
When a detective mysteriously uncovers the remains of an FBI agent who disappeared in the 1940s while investigating a similar murder case to one she is now on, Mulder and Scully believe that the original killer had passed his genetic trait of violence to his grandchild.
Director: Rob Bowman
Writer: Sara B. Cooper
8.0/10 5,425 votes#13 - Irresistible
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/13/1995
A mortuary worker who gets his thrills from collecting hair and fingernails from the dead begins killing his soon-to-be collectibles himself and sets his seriously disturbed sights on Scully.
Director: David Nutter
Writer: Chris Carter
8.1/10 5,554 votes#14 - Die Hand Die Verletzt
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 1/27/1995
The ritualistic murder of a teenager in a small town gets Mulder and Scully caught up in a secret occult practice within the local school's PTA and a substitute teacher with strange powers.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: James Wong, Glen Morgan
7.1/10 4,617 votes#15 - Fresh Bones
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/3/1995
While investigating several deaths and murders within a Haitian refugee camp, Mulder and Scully get caught in the middle of a secret war between the camp commander and a Voodoo priest.
Director: Rob Bowman
Writer: Howard Gordon
8.7/10 5,344 votes#16 - Colony (1)
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/10/1995
After the obituaries of four identical men are e-mailed to Mulder, the agents are contacted by a shadowy CIA agent who tells them about a bounty hunter sent to wipe out the beginning of a colony of clones. Meanwhile Mulder is distracted by the sudden reappearance of his sister Samantha.
Director: Nick Marck
Writer: Chris Carter, David Duchovny
8.7/10 5,212 votes#17 - End Game (2)
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 2/17/1995
The alien bounty hunter kidnaps Scully and wants to trade her for Mulder's sister, who is revealed to be a clone herself. After the trade goes badly and Mulder discovers the truth about Samantha, he tracks the bounty hunter to his ship buried in the arctic ice and demands the whereabouts of his real sister.
Director: Rob Bowman
Writer: Frank Spotnitz
6.4/10 4,663 votes#18 - Fearful Symmetry
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 2/24/1995
In a small town in Idaho, a man is killed by what seems to be an invisible elephant. Mulder's investigation into the local zoo, its owners and a local animal rights group uncovers evidence of insidious alien experiments.
Director: James Whitmore Jr.
Writer: Steve De Jarnatt
7.4/10 4,840 votes#19 - Død Kalm
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 3/10/1995
When half the crew of a Navy ship abandon their boat in a life raft and are rescued 18 hours later looking about 60 years older than they should be, Mulder suggests that the ship is caught in a time field which is speeding up their aging.
Director: Rob Bowman
Writer: N/A
8.6/10 6,135 votes#20 - Humbug
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 3/31/1995
Mulder and Scully travel to Gibsonton, Florida, a town built and populated by circus and sideshow performers to investigate the death of Jerald Glazebrook, The Alligator Man. While searching for leads on the killer, the agents come across many bizarre characters including the local sheriff who was once known as Jim Jim, the Dog-Faced Boy.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Darin Morgan
7.4/10 4,795 votes#21 - The Calusari
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 4/14/1995
The agents investigate when a young boy's family is plagued by a series of tragic accidents.
Director: Michael Vejar
Writer: Sara B. Cooper
8.0/10 4,770 votes#22 - F. Emasculata
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 4/28/1995
When a plague-like illness kills ten men inside a maximum security prison, Scully tries to get into the quarantine site and discover the cause and origin of the contagion, while Mulder and a group of US Marshals track two escapees who may be infected.
Director: Rob Bowman
Writer: Chris Carter, Howard Gordon
7.8/10 4,808 votes#23 - Soft Light
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 5/5/1995
An experiment in dark matter accidentally turns a scientist's shadow into a deadly weapon that can unzip a person's molecules if they are touched by it.
Director: James A. Contner
Writer: Vince Gilligan
7.8/10 4,746 votes#24 - Our Town
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 5/12/1995
After several disappearances in a small town, Mulder and Scully investigate and find hundreds of human bones in the river. They discover that the man behind the town's main source of wealth, a chicken processing plant, has found a way to prolong his life through cannibalism.
Director: Rob Bowman
Writer: Frank Spotnitz
9.1/10 5,700 votes#25 - Anasazi (1)
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 5/19/1995
Mulder receives an encrypted computer disk containing the defense department's top secret files on extraterrestrial life and becomes a target. Scully takes him to a Navajo family that unearthed a buried secret to decipher the disk.
Director: R. W. Goodwin
Writer: Chris Carter, David Duchovny