10.0/101 votes#1 - Protect Them from the Truth
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/2010
The administration unveils a tough new strategy to force Sophia to reveal the detainees' plan; Vicky and Carter possess a crucial hostage.
Director: Jeffrey Reiner
Writer: James Wong
8.5/102 votes#2 - 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: James Wong
8.4/1069 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: James Wong
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: James Wong
8.1/1075 votes#5 - 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: James Wong
8.1/1050 votes#6 - 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: James Wong
8.1/1053 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: James Wong
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: James Wong
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: James Wong
8.0/1052 votes#10 - 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: James Wong
8.0/101 votes#11 - Ghost Month
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 7/20/2023
During the traditional “Ghost Month” in the Philippines, Alex seems to be visited by the spirit of a dead man, wrongly accused of a crime, who seeks justice from the afterlife.
Director: Irene Villamor
Writer: James Wong
7.9/1040 votes#12 - Orphans
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 12/17/2014
The death of a Freak sparks troubling behavior in Pepper. Elsa reveals the history of the Freak Show. Desiree grows suspicious of Maggie.
Director: Bradley Buecker
Writer: James Wong
7.9/1045 votes#13 - 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: James Wong
7.9/1027 votes#14 - Slashdance
Season 9 Episode 3 - Aired 10/2/2019
Imitation is the best form of tragedy. Coming clean can be pretty messy.
Director: Mary Wigmore
Writer: James Wong
7.8/1059 votes#15 - 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: James Wong
7.8/1072 votes#16 - Halloween (2)
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/2/2011
Tate comes face to face with his past, and Ben and Vivien are haunted by a new houseguest before Halloween night comes to an end.
Director: David Semel
Writer: James Wong
7.8/1067 votes#17 - Smoldering Children
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/7/2011
Violet learns about the rules of the house. The truth about Larry's condition is explained. Constance is interrogated by the police.
Director: Michael Lehmann
Writer: James Wong
7.8/1045 votes#18 - The Replacements
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/23/2013
Fiona takes on an unlikely protégé; a guilt-ridden Zoe tries to give Kyle his old life back; Madison has a fiery exchange with Joan Ramsey.
Director: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
Writer: James Wong
7.7/1051 votes#19 - 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: James Wong
7.7/1048 votes#20 - 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: James Wong
7.7/1063 votes#21 - Tricks and Treats
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/24/2012
An exorcist is called to Briarcliff to help save a troubled farm boy; Sister Jude's darkest secret is revealed.
Director: Bradley Buecker
Writer: James Wong
7.7/1076 votes#22 - Halloween (1)
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/26/2011
The line between the living and the dead blurs on Halloween. Two of the house's previous residents give the Harmons decorating advice.
Director: David Semel
Writer: James Wong
7.7/1053 votes#23 - Unholy Night
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 12/5/2012
A murderous Santa wreaks havoc on Briarcliff; Sister Jude faces off with the devil; Arden has a shocking encounter in the death chute.
Director: Michael Lehmann
Writer: James Wong
7.6/1017 votes#24 - Neighbors from Hell
Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 9/19/2017
The community turns on Ally after she shoots and kills a Hispanic man. At home tensions between Ally and Ivy grow worse, and Kai may be Ally's only hope.
Director: Gwyneth Horder-Payton
Writer: James Wong
7.6/1043 votes#25 - The Magical Delights of Stevie Nicks
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 1/8/2014
Fiona attempts to out the new supreme with a visit from Stevie Nicks; Cordelia learns the truth about Hank and the witch hunters; Madison tries to eliminate her competition for the supremacy.
Director: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
Writer: James Wong
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"Protect Them from the Truth" is the best rated episode written by James Wong. It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by Jeffrey Reiner. It aired on 10/4/2010 and is rated 1.5 points higher than their second-best episode, "And If They Lay Us Down to Rest...".