The Best Episodes of The X-Files Season 9
Every episode of The X-Files Season 9 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The X-Files Season 9!
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 9 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "The X-Files" season 9 is "Nothing Important Happened Today (1)", rated 7.2/10 from 2715 user votes. It was directed by Kim Manners and written by Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz. "Nothing Important Happened Today (1)" aired on 11/11/2001 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Nothing Important Happened Today II (2)".
7.2/10 2,715 votes#1 - Nothing Important Happened Today (1)
Season 9 Episode 1 - Aired 11/11/2001
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
Writer: Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz
7.3/10 2,653 votes#2 - Nothing Important Happened Today II (2)
Season 9 Episode 2 - Aired 11/18/2001
Doggett catches up with Shannon McMahon, the woman who the EPA official picked up. She claims to be a super solider and that the people she has killed were poisoning the water supply, and she wants Doggett to expose the truth.
Director: Tony Wharmby
Writer: Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz
7.1/10 2,656 votes#3 - Dæmonicus
Season 9 Episode 3 - Aired 12/2/2001
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
7.7/10 2,837 votes#4 - 4-D
Season 9 Episode 4 - Aired 12/9/2001
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
6.9/10 2,697 votes#5 - Lord of the Flies
Season 9 Episode 5 - Aired 12/16/2001
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
7.4/10 2,695 votes#6 - Trust No 1
Season 9 Episode 6 - Aired 1/6/2002
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
Writer: Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz
7.4/10 2,680 votes#7 - John Doe
Season 9 Episode 7 - Aired 1/13/2002
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
7.0/10 2,526 votes#8 - Hellbound
Season 9 Episode 8 - Aired 1/27/2002
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
7.4/10 2,532 votes#9 - Provenance (1)
Season 9 Episode 9 - Aired 3/3/2002
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
Writer: Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz
7.2/10 2,538 votes#10 - Providence (2)
Season 9 Episode 10 - Aired 3/10/2002
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.
Director: Chris Carter
Writer: Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz
7.4/10 2,692 votes#11 - Audrey Pauley
Season 9 Episode 11 - Aired 3/17/2002
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
6.9/10 2,437 votes#12 - Underneath
Season 9 Episode 12 - Aired 3/31/2002
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
7.2/10 3,144 votes#13 - Improbable
Season 9 Episode 13 - Aired 4/7/2002
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.
Director: Chris Carter
Writer: Chris Carter
7.2/10 2,529 votes#14 - Scary Monsters
Season 9 Episode 14 - Aired 4/14/2002
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
7.3/10 2,701 votes#15 - Jump the Shark
Season 9 Episode 15 - Aired 4/21/2002
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
Writer: John Shiban, Frank Spotnitz, Vince Gilligan
7.6/10 2,686 votes#16 - William
Season 9 Episode 16 - Aired 4/28/2002
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
8.1/10 2,741 votes#17 - Release
Season 9 Episode 17 - Aired 5/5/2002
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
Writer: John Shiban, David Amann
7.6/10 2,669 votes#18 - Sunshine Days
Season 9 Episode 18 - Aired 5/12/2002
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
8.2/10 3,929 votes#19 - The Truth (1)
Season 9 Episode 19 - Aired 5/19/2002
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
6.0/10 6 votes#20 - The Truth (2)
Season 9 Episode 20 - Aired 5/19/2002
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