8.5/102 votes#1 - And If They Lay Us Down to Rest...
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/26/1996
The 58th is deployed to a seemingly barren moon to make final preparations for a major offensive by the Earth forces, but when they arrive they discover that the moon is home to an unknown species-and that Operation: Roundhammer may cause its extinction.
Director: Vern Gillum
Writer: Glen Morgan
8.5/102 votes#2 - Los Ciegos
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 2/14/2012
When the crew of the Magus goes blind from tree spores, lone holdout AJ must overcome his most-paralyzing fear to find a cure before the blindness becomes permanent; the local tribe stalks the crew and judges if they are worthy to stay in the jungle.
Director: Michael Katleman
Writer: Glen Morgan
8.4/1067 votes#3 - Ice
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/5/1993
In the claustrophobic isolation of a remote outpost in Alaska, Mulder and Scully investigate the horrifying deaths of scientists.
Director: David Nutter
Writer: Glen Morgan
8.3/1037 votes#4 - Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/17/1996
The Lone Gunmen reveal the (possibly fake) secret history of the Cigarette Smoking Man to Mulder and Scully; from a young captain in the U.S. Army recruited to assassinate President Kennedy, to becoming the mysterious man in the shadows at the height of a global conspiracy.
Director: Glen Morgan
Writer: Glen Morgan
8.1/1048 votes#5 - E.B.E.
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/18/1994
Mulder and Scully receive information from Deep Throat about a UFO that was shot down over Iraq and has been secretly transported to the US. However, Deep Throat then intentionally misleads the agents to prevent them from discovering the truth.
Director: William A. Graham
Writer: Glen Morgan
8.1/1074 votes#6 - Squeeze
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/24/1993
Mulder and Scully search for a humanoid killer whose savage murder spree reoccurs every thirty years.
Director: Harry Longstreet
Writer: Glen Morgan
8.1/1051 votes#7 - Tooms
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 4/22/1994
Eugene Tooms is released from the sanitarium, and Mulder becomes personally involved to ensure that he is caught in the act of getting the last human liver he needs to go into hibernation for another 30 years.
Director: David Nutter
Writer: Glen Morgan
8.0/102 votes#8 - Ray Butts
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/22/1995
The Saratoga has a mysterious new passenger: a battle-scarred special-forces commando whose classified mission directives put the 58th at his disposal, even if it means leading them to certain disaster.
Director: Charles Martin Smith
Writer: Glen Morgan
8.0/102 votes#9 - Never No More (1)
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/4/1996
Shane risks her life when she volunteers to fight an enemy spacecraft with another squadron, led by a former boyfriend whose new love was killed during a mission.
Director: Jim Charleston
Writer: Glen Morgan
8.0/103 votes#10 - Souvenirs
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 4/13/2014
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.
Director: David Petrarca
Writer: Glen Morgan
8.0/1052 votes#11 - One Breath
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/11/1994
Scully mysteriously appears in a Washington hospital, alive but in a coma, and Mulder must fight to keep her alive in order to find out what happened to her and who did it to her. Meanwhile, Scully fights her own personal battle as she decides whether to stay or go on to the next world.
Director: R. W. Goodwin
Writer: Glen Morgan
7.9/1045 votes#12 - Home
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 10/11/1996
A baby is found buried alive in shallow ground and appears to have birth defects resulting from generations of inbreeding, leading Mulder and Scully to a reclusive family who have a history of inbred children.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Glen Morgan
7.8/1057 votes#13 - Beyond the Sea
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/7/1994
When death row inmate Luther Lee Boggs claims to be psychic and can lead Mulder to a serial killer in return for a lesser sentence of life in prison, Scully becomes an unwilling believer when Boggs tells her that she can communicate through him with her recently deceased father.
Director: David Nutter
Writer: Glen Morgan
7.7/1051 votes#14 - Little Green Men
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1994
With the X-Files closed, Scully has been assigned as an instructor at the FBI Academy while Mulder is doing menial surveillance work. After meeting with Senator Matheson, one of his supporters in regards to the X-Files, Mulder disobeys orders and heads to an abandoned SETI site in Puerto Rico which has inexplicably reactivated itself and could provide proof of contact with extra-terrestrial life.
Director: David Nutter
Writer: Glen Morgan
7.7/103 votes#15 - The Way Home
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 3/10/2014
While Catherine waits to be cleared for duty by the D.A.'s office, and Thomas secretly investigates Catherine's past, a brutal murder and a John Doe suicide are discovered.
Director: David Petrarca
Writer: Glen Morgan
7.7/103 votes#16 - Rocking the Boat
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 3/30/2014
As the killing escalates, Catherine uses the investigation of the two victims to push Thomas to research her allegations further.
Director: Phil Abraham
Writer: Glen Morgan
7.7/103 votes#17 - Sunday
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/6/2014
Catherine is forced go to Howard for more information on the case, while Thomas has a real conversation with John about getting inside the minds of murderers. Using Thomas' narrowing profile, Catherine closes in on the killer.
Director: Charlotte Sieling
Writer: Glen Morgan
7.7/1048 votes#18 - Die Hand Die Verletzt
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 1/27/1995
The ritualistic murder of a teenager in a small town gets Mulder and Scully caught up in a secret occult practice within the local school's PTA and a substitute teacher with strange powers.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Glen Morgan
7.5/102 votes#19 - The Farthest Man from Home
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/1995
When the USS Saratoga passes close to the planet, Vesta Colony, where the Earth colonist were attacked, West goes AWOL and flies down to the planet in hopes that his girlfriend, Kylen, somehow survived.
Director: David Nutter
Writer: Glen Morgan
7.5/102 votes#20 - Mutiny
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/15/1995
When mutiny erupts aboard a civilian cargo ship carrying 200 In Vitro embryos, Cooper faces a difficult decision-should he protect his fellow soldiers, or join forces with the rebellious Tanks?
Director: Charles Martin Smith
Writer: Glen Morgan
7.5/102 votes#21 - Who Monitors the Birds?
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/7/1996
Stranded and practically defenseless on an alien world, Hawkes accepts an assassination assignment that's supposed to buy him an immediate Honorable Discharge from the Marines.
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Writer: Glen Morgan
7.5/106 votes#22 - The Time is Now (2)
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 5/15/1998
In this continuation of the previous episode... Jordan, Frank and Catherine bury the dead parakeet, prompting more questions from Jordan regarding God and the hereafter. Later, a Millennium team clad in bioharzard suits sweeps into the Davis home, where earlier an entire family was wiped out by the mysterious virus. Outside the house, in the backyard, are a dozen dead birds of various species.
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Writer: Glen Morgan
7.5/104 votes#23 - Time Has Come Today
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/6/2014
Jack returns home and discovers a distraught and distant Amy. Meanwhile, Madison becomes determined to get to Seattle, regardless of the cost, and evade Richard's vengeance.
Director: Eduardo Sánchez
Writer: Glen Morgan
7.4/109 votes#24 - The Thin White Line
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/14/1997
Frank enters a hospital emergency room looking for Catherine, who is working the night shift in child counseling. Suddenly, paramedics rush in with a bloodied woman on a gurney. Frank is inexplicably drawn to the stranger, and as he moves closer, notices a curved slash on her palm. He raises his own right hand, revealing a thin white scar which matches exactly the slash on the victim's hand. The woman dies from her injuries.
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Writer: Glen Morgan
7.4/109 votes#25 - The Curse of Frank Black
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/1997
On Halloween, Frank experiences eerie visions and strange events that spark flashbacks to his youth—and a telling encounter with a troubled World War II veteran.
Director: Ralph Hemecker
Writer: Glen Morgan
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"And If They Lay Us Down to Rest..." is the best rated episode written by Glen Morgan. It scored 8.5/10 based on 2 votes. It was directed by Vern Gillum. It aired on 5/26/1996 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Los Ciegos".