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The Worst Episodes of The X-Files

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...
  1. Background image for Teso Dos Bichos
    5.9/10(4.4k votes)

    #1 - Teso Dos Bichos

    S3:E18

    The unearthing of an ancient Ecuadorian Amaru urn and its removal to America despite protests leads to a series of deaths linked to a shaman spirit released by the urn.

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    Director:Kim Manners
  2. Background image for Fight Club
    5.9/10(3.5k votes)

    #2 - Fight Club

    S7:E20

    Mulder and Scully cross paths with two women who are identical and have followed each other across 17 states in the last three years, causing chaos and mayhem wherever they are.

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    Director:Paul Shapiro
  3. Background image for The Truth (2)
    6.0/10(6 votes)

    #3 - 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".

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    Director:Kim Manners
  4. Background image for First Person Shooter
    6.1/10(4.1k votes)

    #4 - First Person Shooter

    S7:E13

    The Lone Gunmen call Mulder and Scully to a virtual reality development lab where they learn that one of the program testers was killed inside the computer generated game environment by the digital image of a woman. Needing to get his yah-yah's, Mulder enters the game to fight the woman, but Scully must step in to save him.

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  5. Background image for Space
    6.2/10(6.9k votes)

    #5 - Space

    S1:E9

    Mulder and Scully are contacted by a communications specialist from NASA who shows them evidence of sabotage in the space programme.

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  6. Background image for 3
    6.3/10(5.6k votes)

    #6 - 3

    S2:E7

    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.

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  8. Background image for Fearful Symmetry
    6.4/10(4.9k votes)

    #7 - Fearful Symmetry

    S2:E18

    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.

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  9. Background image for Alpha
    6.4/10(3.5k votes)

    #8 - 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.

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    Director:Peter Markle
  10. Background image for Babylon
    6.4/10(5.8k votes)

    #9 - Babylon

    S10:E5

    Scully and Mulder investigate when an art gallery displaying offensive artwork is bombed, and need to discover a way to communicate with the comatose perpetrator to try and prevent a future attack.

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    Director:Chris Carter
  11. Background image for My Struggle III
    6.4/10(4.4k votes)

    #10 - My Struggle III

    S11:E1

    Mulder and Scully learn that they aren't the only ones desperately searching for their long-lost son, William. The very fate of the world may depend on it.

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    Director:Chris Carter
  12. Background image for Teliko
    6.6/10(4.2k votes)

    #11 - Teliko

    S4:E3

    After several African-American men are killed and the color is drained from their skin, Mulder learns about the Teliko, an African folktale about a creature who must suck the pigmentation from a persons body in order to survive.

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  13. Background image for The Field Where I Died
    6.6/10(4.9k votes)

    #12 - The Field Where I Died

    S4:E5

    After an FBI raid on a doomsday cult called the "Temple of the Seven Stars", Mulder meets Melissa, a cultist who claims to have known him in a previous life during the American Civil War. Scully believes the woman is a delusional schizophrenic, but Mulder allows himself to be drawn into her fantasies.

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  14. Background image for Signs and Wonders
    6.6/10(3.3k votes)

    #13 - Signs and Wonders

    S7:E9

    Snakes are killing the unrighteous, but Mulder and Scully doubt that this is a case of divine intervention.

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    Director:Kim Manners
  15. Background image for Nothing Lasts Forever
    6.6/10(2.7k votes)

    #14 - Nothing Lasts Forever

    S11:E9

    While investigating human organ theft, Mulder and Scully uncover a mysterious cult consumed with macabre rituals.

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    Director:James Wong
  16. Background image for Ghost in the Machine
    6.7/10(7.0k votes)

    #15 - Ghost in the Machine

    S1:E7

    It's Halloween, and Mulder and Scully are investigating the strange death of a corporate executive in a sophisticated high-tech building.

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  17. Background image for El Mundo Gira
    6.7/10(4.2k votes)

    #16 - El Mundo Gira

    S4:E11

    After a strange yellow rain kills a migrant girl, her family believes that a mythical creature el chupacabra was the cause and that it has manifested itself inside her fiancé's brother, who has since disappeared.

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    Director:Tucker Gates
  18. Background image for Salvage
    6.7/10(2.9k votes)

    #17 - Salvage

    S8:E9

    A man whose blood is rapidly changing into metal alloy enacts revenge on those who caused his condition.

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    Director:Rod Hardy
  19. Background image for Surekill
    6.8/10(2.9k votes)

    #18 - Surekill

    S8:E8

    When a real estate agent is shot inside a prison cell by someone who apparently fired from the roof, Scully and Doggett track him to two exterminators, one of whom has x-ray vision.

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  20. Background image for Badlaa
    6.8/10(3.1k votes)

    #19 - Badlaa

    S8:E10

    An Indian mystic whose son died in a chemical plant accident smuggles himself into the United States and takes his revenge on two families in suburban Washington, D.C.

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    Director:Tony Wharmby
  21. Background image for Lord of the Flies
    6.8/10(2.8k votes)

    #20 - 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.

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  22. Background image for The Jersey Devil
    6.9/10(7.6k votes)

    #21 - The Jersey Devil

    S1:E5

    Mulder and Scully track a legendary creature that has roamed the New Jersey countryside for over forty years..

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  23. Background image for Excelsis Dei
    6.9/10(5.1k votes)

    #22 - Excelsis Dei

    S2:E11

    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.

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    Writer:Paul Brown
  24. Background image for Kaddish
    6.9/10(4.2k votes)

    #23 - Kaddish

    S4:E15

    After a Jewish man is murdered in a Jewish community, his killers are murdered, too. Mulder and Scully have to determine whether someone is exacting vengeance or larger forces are at work.

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  25. Background image for Schizogeny
    6.9/10(3.8k votes)

    #24 - Schizogeny

    S5:E9

    A therapist working with children from abusive families is found to be implanting them with the memories of her own abuse suffered at the hands of her late father, when one of her patients tries to kill his stepfather.

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  26. Background image for Underneath
    6.9/10(2.6k votes)

    #25 - 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.

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    Director:John Shiban

Worst Episodes Summary

"Teso Dos Bichos" is the worst rated episode of "The X-Files". It scored 5.9/10 based on 4354 votes. Directed by Kim Manners and written by John Shiban, it aired on 3/8/1996. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Fight Club".