The Best Episodes Written By Darin Morgan

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.5/10(62 votes)

   #1 - Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose

   S3:E410/13/1995

   In the midst of a psychic sideshow while on a murder case, Mulder and Scully enlist the help of a man who may have a true psychic ability to foresee how people will die to help the agents catch a man killing fortune tellers.

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   8.3/10(48 votes)

   #2 - War of the Coprophages

   S3:E121/5/1996

   Widespread panic is caused in a small community after numerous deaths are linked to killer cockroaches, and a government agricultural agency is discovered to have set up a secret experiment involving insects.

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   8.0/10(57 votes)

   #3 - Humbug

   S2:E203/31/1995

   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.

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   8.0/10(3 votes)

   #4 - Souvenirs

   S1:E54/13/2014

   Thomas' decision to stop working on active cases causes Catherine to investigate his past, leading her to an unexpected family history. Catherine takes Thomas to the scene of her childhood trauma where she finally reveals all the details that still haunt her.

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   7.9/10(65 votes)

   #5 - Jose Chung's "From Outer Space"

   S3:E204/12/1996

   A alien abduction of two teenagers with endless versions of the same story prompts a science-fiction novelist to to write a book about the incident; however, nobody involved with the investigation can tell him the full story with any accuracy.

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   7.7/10(10 votes)

   #6 - Jose Chung's Doomsday Defense

   S2:E911/21/1997

   Novelist Jose Chung authors a short story critical of a millennial self-help movement... and performs some profiling of his own when a college professor is found murdered.

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   7.5/10(72 votes)

   #7 - Mulder & Scully Meet the Were-Monster

   S10:E32/1/2016

   Mulder and Scully investigate a dead body in the woods, and try to determine whether it was the work of a serial killer, an animal or a mysterious creature seen by eyewitnesses. Meanwhile, a disillusioned Mulder confronts some of his own demons.

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   7.5/10(2 votes)

   #8 - Book Report

   S1:E611/23/2010

   While reading the Odyssey, Ian discovers notes about how to escape Tower Prep, written by a former student named Norman. While on his quest, Ian encounters students similar to the creatures in the book. It is later revealed Ian is not supposed to escape, but find out what Tower Prep is all about from within the school.

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   7.4/10(58 votes)

   #9 - Blood

   S2:E39/30/1994

   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.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - Dreams

    S1:E912/14/2010

    When Ian, Gabe, and Suki have dreams about a mysterious yellow elevator, they search for it in the tunnels. They observe a new student being brought out of the elevator. He becomes Ian and Gabe's new roommate and can infiltrate dreams. They discover Cornelius Tower's office (Tower Prep's founder) and investigate. They take some items from Cornelius' office and bring it to the observatory. Conner then escapes and reveals, in Ian's dream, that he is a "scout". They find that Conner took the things from the observatory, but left a picture of Cornelious Tower with a young child. Ian realizes that the young boy is himself.

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    6.3/10(11 votes)

    #11 - Somehow, Satan Got Behind Me

    S2:E215/1/1998

    Four devils gather at a doughnut shop and swap stories about their dealings with mankind.

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