The Best Episodes Written By David Duchovny

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.6/10(48 votes)

   #1 - Anasazi (1)

   S2:E255/19/1995

   Mulder receives an encrypted computer disk containing the defense department's top secret files on extraterrestrial life and becomes a target. Scully takes him to a Navajo family that unearthed a buried secret to decipher the disk.

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   8.2/10(53 votes)

   #2 - Colony (1)

   S2:E162/10/1995

   After the obituaries of four identical men are e-mailed to Mulder, the agents are contacted by a shadowy CIA agent who tells them about a bounty hunter sent to wipe out the beginning of a colony of clones. Meanwhile Mulder is distracted by the sudden reappearance of his sister Samantha.

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   8.2/10(42 votes)

   #3 - Talitha Cumi (1)

   S3:E245/17/1996

   After his mother suffers a stroke under strange circumstances, Mulder searches for a strange, benevolent alien man that possesses miraculous healing powers. With the help from Mr. X, he learns about the involvement of the Cigarette-Smoking Man and uncovers some secrets kept by his parents.

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   7.8/10(41 votes)

   #4 - The Unnatural

   S6:E194/25/1999

   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.

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   7.2/10(33 votes)

   #5 - The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati (3)

   S7:E211/14/1999

   Scully frantically searches for a way to help her ailing partner without having anyone to turn to for help, while a catatonic Mulder's dreams lead him away from his mission and the X-Files to a place which he believes is a better life.

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   7.0/10(49 votes)

   #6 - Avatar

   S3:E214/26/1996

   During a one-night-stand in the midst of his divorce, A.D. Skinner becomes a murder suspect, and Mulder and Scully return the many favors that he has done for them by analyzing evidence that someone doesn't want uncovered to prove his innocence.

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   6.7/10(30 votes)

   #7 - Hollywood A.D.

   S7:E194/30/2000

   Mulder and Scully watch a movie with themselves as characters and are thoroughly disgusted at how they and their case are portrayed on the big screen. They recount how 18 months earlier they were followed around by a Hollywood producer while investigating a case concerning The Lazarus Bowl - a mythical piece of pottery reputed to have inscribed on it the words that Jesus Christ spoke when he raised Lazarus from the dead.

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