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The Best Episodes of The X-Files Season 9

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The X-Files Season 9 Episode 1 - Nothing Important Happened Today (1)
    7.2/10(2978 votes)

    #1 - Nothing Important Happened Today (1)

    S9:E1

    Agent Doggett investigates the death of an EPA official after his car is forced off a bridge by a woman he picked up. He asks for assistance on the case from Scully, who has returned to her teaching position at the FBI Academy in Quantico.

    Director:Kim Manners
    Writers:Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz

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  2. The X-Files Season 9 Episode 2 - Nothing Important Happened Today II (2)
    7.3/10(2914 votes)

    #2 - Nothing Important Happened Today II (2)

    S9:E2

    Doggett catches up with Shannon McMahon, the woman who the EPA official picked up. She claims to be a super soldier and that the people she has killed were poisoning the water supply, and she wants Doggett to expose the truth.

    Director:Tony Wharmby
    Writers:Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz

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  3. The X-Files Season 9 Episode 3 - Dæmonicus
    7.1/10(2913 votes)

    #3 - Dæmonicus

    S9:E3

    Doggett and Reyes investigate the murder of a couple in West Virginia that has all the signs of a satanic ritual killing. They link the murder to a doctor who is incarcerated in a mental institute, and Doggett becomes convinced that the doctor is orchestrating the crimes from within the hospital.

    Director:Frank Spotnitz
    Writer:Frank Spotnitz

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  4. The X-Files Season 9 Episode 4 - 4-D
    7.7/10(3129 votes)

    #4 - 4-D

    S9:E4

    During a stakeout of murderer Irwin Lukesh, Doggett sees Reyes attacked by Lukesh, but then we see Reyes and Doggett in her apartment, apparently both fine. Elsewhere at the same time, Doggett is shot and Lukesh identifies Reyes as the shooter. While Reyes is asked for her badge and gun by A.D. Follmer, and Doggett lies in hospital near death, the conflicting circumstances of the stakeout and Doggett's shooting do not add up and it becomes clear that Lukesh possesses the power to switch between parallel universes and alter the events in each.

    Director:Tony Wharmby
    Writer:Steven Maeda

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  5. The X-Files Season 9 Episode 5 - Lord of the Flies
    6.8/10(2962 votes)

    #5 - Lord of the Flies

    S9:E5

    When a stunt on a local cable reality show goes horribly wrong resulting in a man's death, Doggett and Reyes investigate. But when flies pour out of the victims eye sockets, they find themselves relying on Scully's expertise and ask her to join the investigation.

    Director:Kim Manners
    Writer:Thomas Schnauz

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  6. The X-Files Season 9 Episode 6 - Trust No 1
    7.3/10(2950 votes)

    #6 - Trust No 1

    S9:E6

    Scully is approached by a couple who claim their baby has the same abilities as William and have information about the super soldier program; however, they will only talk to Mulder, believing him the only person who can make the connections and uncover the truth. Scully is forced into an awkward situation when she has to decide whether to put Mulder's life in more danger even though she desperately wants to see him.

    Director:Tony Wharmby
    Writers:Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz

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  7. The X-Files Season 9 Episode 7 - John Doe
    7.4/10(2938 votes)

    #7 - John Doe

    S9:E7

    Scully and Reyes join forces to try and find Doggett when he goes missing. Doggett has his own problems, having woken up in jail in Mexico suffering from amnesia. With no knowledge of who he is, Doggett is befriended by a local who soon has him working smuggling illegal immigrants across the border.

    Director:Michelle MacLaren
    Writer:Vince Gilligan

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  8. The X-Files Season 9 Episode 8 - Hellbound
    7.0/10(2772 votes)

    #8 - Hellbound

    S9:E8

    Agent Reyes takes the lead while investigating an X-file case, surrounding a man found skinned alive after having visions of seeing other people appearing skinned alive. Reyes calls on Scully's expertise to help on the investigation, which pays off when Scully finds a link to a case from 1960.

    Director:Kim Manners
    Writer:David Amann

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  9. The X-Files Season 9 Episode 9 - Provenance (1)
    7.4/10(2778 votes)

    #9 - Provenance (1)

    S9:E9

    When pieces of the spaceship beached in Africa resurface, the conspiracy within the FBI attempts to hide the information from the X-Files, especially the one person for whom the pieces have a special significance - Scully. When Doggett and Reyes discover that Scully and her child have been put in great danger, they race to protect her and William from the evil forces pursuing him, and Scully is forced to take drastic measures to protect her child.

    Director:Kim Manners
    Writers:Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz

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  10. The X-Files Season 9 Episode 10 - Providence (2)
    7.2/10(2782 votes)

    #10 - Providence (2)

    S9:E10

    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.

    Director:Chris Carter
    Writers:Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz

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  11. The X-Files Season 9 Episode 11 - Audrey Pauley
    7.4/10(2959 votes)

    #11 - Audrey Pauley

    S9:E11

    After a car accident, Reyes finds herself in a very gray area, while Doggett desperately denies doctors' diagnoses about his partner, who witnesses a strange disappearance.

    Director:Kim Manners
    Writer:Steven Maeda

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  12. The X-Files Season 9 Episode 12 - Underneath
    6.9/10(2677 votes)

    #12 - Underneath

    S9:E12

    Scully, Doggett and Reyes investigate an old case that Doggett worked on as a cop in Brooklyn, dubbed "The Screwdriver Killer". They try to determine whether the man who was convicted and has just been released from prison was actually the man responsible for the murders.

    Director:John Shiban
    Writer:John Shiban

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  13. The X-Files Season 9 Episode 13 - Improbable
    7.2/10(3453 votes)

    #13 - Improbable

    S9:E13

    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.

    Director:Chris Carter
    Writer:Chris Carter

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  14. The X-Files Season 9 Episode 14 - Scary Monsters
    7.2/10(2784 votes)

    #14 - Scary Monsters

    S9:E14

    Agent Harrison talks Doggett and Reyes into investigating a boy's claim that monsters killed his mother, who was officially determined to have stabbed herself repeatedly.

    Director:Dwight H. Little
    Writer:Thomas Schnauz

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  15. The X-Files Season 9 Episode 15 - Jump the Shark
    7.2/10(2970 votes)

    #15 - Jump the Shark

    S9:E15

    The agents ask the Lone Gunmen to help find their friendly foe Yves Adele Harlow after former Area 51 Man-In-Black Morris Fletcher claims she is one of the super-soldiers.

    Director:Cliff Bole
    Writers:Vince Gilligan, John Shiban, Frank Spotnitz

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  16. The X-Files Season 9 Episode 16 - William
    7.5/10(2950 votes)

    #16 - William

    S9:E16

    Doggett catches someone in the X-files office trying to steal documents pertaining to Mulder's sister. The intruder is a severely scarred man who blames his disfigurement on Government conspirators. He claims the source of that information - and, in fact, the one who helped him gain entry - is Mulder. Although he refuses to divulge the missing agent's whereabouts, the mystery man has enough knowledge of the X-files and its history to lead Doggett to suspect that he just might be Mulder himself. Scully's fears for the safety of her son are elevated when he is injected with an unknown substance. With the mystery surrounding William becoming even darker, Scully must allow herself to send him away for his own safety.

    Director:David Duchovny
    Writer:Chris Carter

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  17. The X-Files Season 9 Episode 17 - Release
    8.1/10(3003 votes)

    #17 - Release

    S9:E17

    When an FBI cadet with amazing profiling skills approaches Doggett, Reyes, and Scully with a lead on a suspect in a series of recent murders, he claims the same killer is responsible for the death of Doggett's son. The agents find themselves wondering if his knowledge of the deaths is because of his obsession with the cases he has studied at Quantico, or if he is in some way involved in the murders.

    Director:Kim Manners
    Writers:John Shiban, David Amann

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  18. The X-Files Season 9 Episode 18 - Sunshine Days
    7.6/10(2954 votes)

    #18 - Sunshine Days

    S9:E18

    Doggett and Reyes investigate a murder outside the house that the original Brady Bunch series was filmed in. The house is owned by a man named Oliver who is obsessed with the show and has rigged the house into a series of traps and changing appearances to look like the Brady house.

    Director:Vince Gilligan
    Writer:Vince Gilligan

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  19. The X-Files Season 9 Episode 19 - The Truth (1)
    8.2/10(4229 votes)

    #19 - The Truth (1)

    S9:E19

    After not knowing Fox Mulder's whereabouts for the last year, A.D. Skinner and Agent Scully learn he's being held for the murder of a military man he couldn't possibly have killed: Knowle Rohrer, one of the government's secret super-soldiers. With Skinner acting as Mulder's defense, people who Mulder has dealt with during his last nine years as an FBI agent testify on his behalf. But the military tribunal isn't interested in the truth.

    Director:Kim Manners
    Writer:Chris Carter

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  20. The X-Files Season 9 Episode 20 - The Truth (2)
    6.1/10(8 votes)

    #20 - The Truth (2)

    S9:E20

    When an unexpected person comes to Mulder's rescue, Mulder refuses to slip north over the border to safety. Instead, he heads southwest to the Anasazi ruins of New Mexico seeking a mysterious wise man who the Indians call "The Keeper of the Truth".

    Director:Kim Manners
    Writer:Chris Carter

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Season 9 Ratings Summary

"Nothing Important Happened Today (1)" is the best rated episode of "The X-Files" season 9. It scored 7.2/10 based on 2978 votes. Directed by Kim Manners and written by Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz, it aired on 11/11/2001. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Nothing Important Happened Today II (2)".