8.5/1039 votes#1 - Anasazi (1)
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 5/19/1995
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.
Director: R. W. Goodwin
Writer: David Duchovny
8.2/1044 votes#2 - Colony (1)
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/10/1995
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.
Director: Nick Marck
Writer: David Duchovny
8.1/1035 votes#3 - Talitha Cumi (1)
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 5/17/1996
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.
Director: R. W. Goodwin
Writer: David Duchovny
7.9/1035 votes#4 - The Unnatural
Season 6 Episode 19 - Aired 4/25/1999
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.
Director: David Duchovny
Writer: David Duchovny
7.2/1026 votes#5 - The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati (3)
Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 11/14/1999
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.
Director: Michael W. Watkins
Writer: David Duchovny
7.1/1040 votes#6 - Avatar
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 4/26/1996
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.
Director: Jim Charleston
Writer: David Duchovny
6.5/1024 votes#7 - Hollywood A.D.
Season 7 Episode 19 - Aired 4/30/2000
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.
Director: David Duchovny
Writer: David Duchovny
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"Anasazi (1)" is the best rated episode written by David Duchovny. It scored 8.487/10 based on 39 votes. It was directed by R. W. Goodwin. It aired on 5/19/1995 and is rated 0.3 points higher than their second-best episode, "Colony (1)".