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The Best Episodes of The X-Files Season 6

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The X-Files Season 6 Episode 1 - The Beginning
    8.1/10(4196 votes)

    #1 - The Beginning

    S6:E1

    Mulder is less than thrilled when an Office of Professional Conduct board refuses to reassign him and Scully to The X-Files and even more so when he learns that Agent Spender and Agent Fowley have become their successors. When Gibson Praise reappears and comes to them for help, Mulder and Scully attempt to continue their quest undercover despite having fewer friends and less access and protection than ever before.

    Director:Kim Manners
    Writer:Chris Carter

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  2. The X-Files Season 6 Episode 2 - Drive
    8.5/10(5002 votes)

    #2 - Drive

    S6:E2

    Mulder is trapped in a car with a man who has developed a serious ear condition which can only be suppressed by driving west at high speeds. As Scully tries to find the cause and a cure for the problem, Mulder and the man get closer and closer to the ocean.

    Director:Rob Bowman
    Writer:Vince Gilligan

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  3. The X-Files Season 6 Episode 3 - Triangle
    8.5/10(5691 votes)

    #3 - Triangle

    S6:E3

    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.

    Director:Chris Carter
    Writer:Chris Carter

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  4. The X-Files Season 6 Episode 4 - Dreamland (1)
    8.9/10(5251 votes)

    #4 - Dreamland (1)

    S6:E4

    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.

    Directors:Kim Manners, Michael W. Watkins
    Writers:Vince Gilligan, John Shiban, Frank Spotnitz

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  5. The X-Files Season 6 Episode 5 - Dreamland II (2)
    8.8/10(4936 votes)

    #5 - Dreamland II (2)

    S6:E5

    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.

    Directors:Kim Manners, Michael W. Watkins
    Writers:Vince Gilligan, John Shiban, Frank Spotnitz

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  6. The X-Files Season 6 Episode 6 - How the Ghosts Stole Christmas
    8.2/10(5172 votes)

    #6 - How the Ghosts Stole Christmas

    S6:E6

    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.

    Director:Chris Carter
    Writer:Chris Carter

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  7. The X-Files Season 6 Episode 7 - Terms of Endearment
    7.7/10(4271 votes)

    #7 - Terms of Endearment

    S6:E7

    After a scan of a couple's unborn child is found to have strange growths protruding from the head and back, the fetus is taken from inside the mother by a demon creature while she is asleep. Mulder heads to investigate after Agent Spender dismisses the claims, and discovers that the father is actually a demon who wants to have a normal child.

    Director:Rob Bowman
    Writer:David Amann

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  8. The X-Files Season 6 Episode 8 - The Rain King
    7.3/10(4359 votes)

    #8 - The Rain King

    S6:E8

    Strange weather phenomena in a small town leads Mulder to believe that a weatherman's deep emotions and unspoken love toward his workmate are becoming real in the form of snow and tornadoes.

    Director:Kim Manners
    Writer:Jeffrey Bell

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  9. The X-Files Season 6 Episode 9 - S.R. 819
    7.8/10(3936 votes)

    #9 - S.R. 819

    S6:E9

    Mulder and Scully have 24 hours to save A.D. Skinner from being killed by a biologically engineered disease. The disease appears to be created by a shadowy government organization, but in order to save Skinner's life they must determine who wants him dead and why. With Skinner's condition worsening, Mulder seeks assistance from Senator Matheson, who he hopes can provide some answers and help him to find a cure.

    Director:Daniel Sackheim
    Writer:John Shiban

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  10. The X-Files Season 6 Episode 10 - Tithonus
    8.3/10(4305 votes)

    #10 - Tithonus

    S6:E10

    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

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  11. The X-Files Season 6 Episode 11 - Two Fathers (1)
    8.5/10(4150 votes)

    #11 - Two Fathers (1)

    S6:E11

    While the Cigarette-Smoking Man recites to an unseen listener everything about the work of the Syndicate involving a global conspiracy in cooperation with an alien species, Cassandra Spender reappears and is pursued by the scientists who would rather kill her than keep her alive. Cassandra runs to Mulder's apartment and demands that he shoot her because she is the culmination of 50 years work - a living alien/human hybrid - and colonization will begin if the aliens find out about her.

    Director:Kim Manners
    Writers:Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz, Jeffrey Bell

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  12. The X-Files Season 6 Episode 12 - One Son (2)
    8.8/10(4252 votes)

    #12 - One Son (2)

    S6:E12

    The Cigarette-Smoking Man reveals all the government secrets from the past 50 years in order for his son, Jeffery Spender, to join him in his work. Mulder learns that the final stage of the conspiracy will soon begin with the hybridization of the Syndicate members, and he must stop it from happening. Agent Spender deceives his father and arranges for Mulder and Scully to be reassigned to the X-Files, which doesn't sit too well with the Cigarette-Smoking Man.

    Director:Rob Bowman
    Writers:Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz

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  13. The X-Files Season 6 Episode 13 - Agua Mala
    7.3/10(4038 votes)

    #13 - Agua Mala

    S6:E13

    Arthur Dales summons Mulder and Scully to his holiday home in Florida where he is concerned over the disappearance of his neighbors. Despite the raging hurricane, Mulder and Scully head out to investigate and discover several strange deaths caused by an octopus-like sea creature that swam in through the overflowing sewer system.

    Director:Rob Bowman
    Writer:David Amann

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  14. The X-Files Season 6 Episode 14 - Monday
    8.7/10(5220 votes)

    #14 - Monday

    S6:E14

    A woman is forced to relive the same day over and over as she tries to prevent Mulder and Scully from being killed by her boyfriend during a bank robbery attempt. As the events restart again and again, Mulder's sense of Deja-vu grows stronger.

    Director:Kim Manners
    Writers:Vince Gilligan, John Shiban

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  15. The X-Files Season 6 Episode 15 - Arcadia
    8.4/10(4885 votes)

    #15 - Arcadia

    S6:E15

    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

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  16. The X-Files Season 6 Episode 16 - Alpha
    6.4/10(3712 votes)

    #16 - Alpha

    S6:E16

    A mysterious dog thought to be the last of a rare Asian breed is responsible for several murders which Mulder and Scully are investigating. Now the agents have to find a way to stop the dog before it kills again.

    Director:Peter Markle
    Writer:Jeffrey Bell

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  17. The X-Files Season 6 Episode 17 - Trevor
    7.1/10(3733 votes)

    #17 - Trevor

    S6:E17

    After a tornado rips through a prison camp, one of the inmates disappears from solitary confinement and the prison warden is killed. As Mulder and Scully track him, he appears to have the power to pass through solid matter while changing its composition.

    Director:Rob Bowman
    Writers:Kenneth H. Hawryliw, Jim Guttridge

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  18. The X-Files Season 6 Episode 18 - Milagro
    7.5/10(4609 votes)

    #18 - Milagro

    S6:E18

    A writer living next to Mulder becomes obsessed with Scully and confesses to her that he is using her for a character in his novel. Scully finds herself strangely drawn to him even though he is now the prime suspect in the murder case that she and Mulder are investigating.

    Director:Kim Manners
    Writers:Chris Carter, John Shiban, Frank Spotnitz

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  19. The X-Files Season 6 Episode 19 - The Unnatural
    8.4/10(5031 votes)

    #19 - The Unnatural

    S6:E19

    Mulder meets with Agent Arthur Dales' brother (also named Arthur) and is told a tale of a talented negro baseball player from Roswell, New Mexico in the 1940's who may have been an alien that ran away from his colony because of his love for the game.

    Director:David Duchovny
    Writer:David Duchovny

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  20. The X-Files Season 6 Episode 20 - Three of a Kind
    7.8/10(3931 votes)

    #20 - Three of a Kind

    S6:E20

    While on a stakeout of a Government Defense Convention in Las Vegas, The Lone Gunmen are reunited with Susanne Modeski, the mysterious woman who disappeared ten years earlier when they first met Agent Mulder.

    Director:Bryan Spicer
    Writers:Vince Gilligan, John Shiban

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  21. The X-Files Season 6 Episode 21 - Field Trip
    8.5/10(4527 votes)

    #21 - Field Trip

    S6:E21

    When the bodies of a couple who have been missing for less than a week are discovered to have been reduced to bone, Mulder suggests that recent paranormal phenomena in the area may have caused the accelerated decomposition.

    Director:Kim Manners
    Writers:Vince Gilligan, John Shiban, Frank Spotnitz

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  22. The X-Files Season 6 Episode 22 - Biogenesis (1)
    8.1/10(3751 votes)

    #22 - Biogenesis (1)

    S6:E22

    Two scientists confer about each of their metal objects that were found in Africa and they theorize that the objects are pieces of a puzzle which could be undeniable proof that human, plant, and animal life did not originate on this planet. When one of the scientists is killed and the objects are stolen, the agents investigate and Mulder begins to experience severe neurological pain caused by the objects.

    Director:Rob Bowman
    Writers:Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz

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Season 6 Ratings Summary

"The Beginning" is the best rated episode of "The X-Files" season 6. It scored 8.1/10 based on 4196 votes. Directed by Kim Manners and written by Chris Carter, it aired on 11/8/1998. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Drive".