Episode Guide: Season 1

Pilot - Deep Throat - Squeeze - Conduit - The Jersey Devil - Shadows - Ghost in the Machine - Ice - Space - Fallen Angel - Eve - Fire - Beyond the Sea - Genderbender - Lazarus - Young at Heart - E.B.E - Miracle Man - Shapes - Darkness Falls - Tooms - Born Again - Roland - The Erlenmeyer Flask

Pilot

Episode Number: 1X79
Original Air Date: September 10, 1993
Writer: Chris Carter
Director: Robert Mandel
Summary: Special Agent Dana Scully is partnered with Special Agent Fox Mulder to validate his work on a special project called The X-Files. While he is a believer in the paranormal, fuelled by a lost memory where his sister was abducted by aliens; she is a scientist and prefers to look for rational, logical explanations. Their first case takes them to Oregon, to investigate the unsolved murders of several High School classmates, whom "Spooky" Mulder believes have been experimented on by aliens.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), William B. Davis (Cigarette Smoking Man), Zachary Ansley (Billy Miles), Malcolm Stewart (Dr Glass), Charles Cioffi (Section Chief Scott Blevins), Ken Camroux (3rd Man), Doug Abrahams (Patrolman #1) , Stephen E. Miller (Coroner Truitt), Alexandra Berlin (Orderly), Katya Gardener (Peggy O'Dell), Cliff DeYoung (Dr. Jay Nemman), Sarah Koskoff (Teresa Nemman), Leon Russom (Detective Miles), Ric Reid (Assistant Coroner), Lesley Ewen (FBI Receptionist), J. B. Bivens (Truck Driver), Jim Jansen (Dr. Heitz Werber).

Deep Throat

Episode Number: 1X01
Original Air Date: September 17, 1993
Writer: Chris Carter
Director: Daniel Sackheim
Summary: Mulder and Scully head to Ellens Air Force Base to investigate the mysterious case of a military test pilot who disappeared after experiencing strange psychotic behaviour. While on the case, Mulder meets a mysterious man dubbed 'Deep Throat', who claims to have classified information about his investigations into the paranormal.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Jerry Hardin (Deep Throat) , Michael Bryan French (Paul Mossinger), Seth Green (Emil), Gabrielle Rose (Anita Budahas), Andrew Johnston (Col. Robert Budahas), Vince Metcalfe (Kissell), Doc Harris (Mr McLennen), Jon Cuthbert (Commanding Officer), Brian Furlong (Lead Officer), Michael Puttonen (Motel Manager), Sheila Moore (Verla McLennen), Monica Parker (Ladonna), Lalainia Lindbjerg (Zoe).

Squeeze

Episode Number: 1X02
Original Air Date: September 24, 1993
Writers: James Wong & Glen Morgan
Director: Harry Longstreet
Summary: One of Scully's friends from the FBI academy, now working in the Violent Crimes Unit asks her to assist him on a homicide investigation involving no clear MO or point of entry, with the hope that it will save her career and Scully accepts, while finally realising what a joke she and Mulder are considered to be. Mulder reviews the case and he notices that similar homicides occurred in 1903, 1933 and 1963. When he helps capture Eugene Tooms, Mulder mentions the other murders and his credibility is weakened. Mulder and Scully follow the paranormal angle of the case and discover the Tooms is a genetic mutant who can fit his body through the smallest of spaces and needs to consume 5 human livers to sustain himself for thirty years of hibernation.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), James Bell (II) (Det. Johnson), Donal Logue (Agent Tom Colton), Henry Beckman (Detective Frank Briggs), Doug Hutchison (Eugene Victor Tooms), Kevin McNulty (Agent Fuller), Terence Kelly (George Usher), Colleen Winton (Lie Detector Technician), Gary Hetherington (Kennedy), Rob Morton (Kramer), Paul Joyce (Mr Werner).

Conduit

Episode Number: 1X03
Original Air Date: October 1, 1993
Writers: Howard Gordon & Alex Gansa
Director: Daniel Sackheim
Summary: As Section Chief Blevins expresses his concern with the direction of The X-Files, Mulder becomes obsessed with solving a case that closely parallels an 'encounter' he experienced as a child - the abduction of his kid sister, Samantha.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Charles Cioffi (Section Chief Scott Blevins) , Carrie Snodgress (Darlene Morris), Michael Cavanaugh (Sheriff Jack Withers), Don Gibb (Kip), Joel Palmer (Kevin Morris), Taunya Dee (Ruby Morris), Don Thompson (Holtzman), Akiko Morison (Leza Atsumi), Anthony Harrison (4th Man), Glen Roald (M.E. Worker), Mauricio Mercado (Coroner), Shelley Owens (Tessa Seers).

The Jersey Devil

Episode Number: 1X04
Original Air Date: October 8, 1993
Writer: Chris Carter
Director: Joe Napolitano
Summary: The murder of a homeless man which is very similar in detail to a murder committed in 1947 leads Mulder and Scully to a legendary man-beast roaming in the forest near Atlantic City.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Claire Stansfield (The Jersey Devil), Wayne Tippet (Detective Thompson), Gregory Sierra (Dr. Diamond), Michael McRae (Ranger Peter Broullet), Jill Teed (Dr. Schnablegger), Tamsin Kelsey (Ellen), Andrew Airlie (Rob), Bill Dow (Father), Jayme Knox (Mother), Hrothgar Mathews (Jack), Scott Swanson (1st Officer), Sean O'Byrne (2nd Officer), D. Neil Mark (SWAT Team Officer), Jessica Murdoch (girl in a car), Lachlan Murdoch (boy in a car), Rhys Huber (Trent).

Shadows

Episode Number: 1X05
Original Air Date: October 22, 1993
Writers: James Wong & Glen Morgan
Director: Michael Katleman
Summary: When an unseen force commits several murders where a young woman is present, Mulder suspects that it is the spirit of the woman's former boss who was believed to have committed suicide but was actually murdered and he is protecting her from his business partner.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Barry Primus (Robert Dorland), Lisa Waltz (Lauren Kyte), Lorena Gale (Ellen Bledsoe), Veena Sood (Mrs Saunders (female agent)), Deryl Hayes (Webster (male agent)), Kelli Fox (Pathologist), Tom Pickett (Cop), Tom Heaton (Groundskeeper), Janie Woods-Morris (Ms Lange), Nora McLellan (Jane Morris), Anna Ferguson (Ms Winn).

Ghost in the Machine

Episode Number: 1X06
Original Air Date: October 29, 1993
Writers: Howard Gordon & Alex Gansa
Director: Jerrold Freedman
Summary: A computer with highly advanced Artificial Intelligence begins to kill in order to preserve its existence when it is deemed inefficient to continue controlling the workings of an office building.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Jerry Hardin (Deep Throat) , Wayne Duvall (Agent Jerry Lamana), Rob LaBelle (Brad Wilczek), Blu Mankuma (Claude Peterson), Gillian Barber (Agent Nancy Spiller), Marc Baur (Man in Suit), Bill Finck (Sandwich Man), Theodore Thomas (Clyde), Tom Butler (Benjamin Drake)

Ice

Episode Number: 1X07
Original Air Date: November 5, 1993
Writers: James Wong & Glen Morgan
Director: David Nutter
Summary: When an Arctic research team mysteriously kill each other and themselves only days after drilling deeper into the ice than ever before, Mulder and Scully accompany a team of doctors and scientists to investigate. They discover an organism which infects living creatures and accelerates the host's feeling of anger and paranoia and the agent's colleagues on the expedition begin to question their government knowledge.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Xander Berkeley (Dr. Hodge), Felicity Huffman (Dr. DaSilva), Steve Hytner (Dr. Murphy), Jeff Kober (Bear), Sonny Surwiec (Campbell), Ken Kirzinger (Richter).

Space

Episode Number: 1X08
Original Air Date: November 12, 1993
Writer: Chris Carter
Director: William Graham
Summary: A mysterious force is sabotaging a space launch program which leads directly back to the commander of the team, who once led a mission to Mars and claimed to have seen an alien in space.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Ed Lauter (Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt), Susanna Thompson (Michelle Generoo), Tom McBeath (Scientist), Terry David Mulligan (Mission Controller), Tyronne L'Hirondelle (Databank Scientist), Norma Wick (Reporter), Alfred E. Humphreys (2nd Controller), Dave Cameron (Young Scientist), French Tickner (Preacher), Paul Desroches (Paramedic).

Fallen Angel

Episode Number: 1X09
Original Air Date: November 19, 1993
Writers: Howard Gordon & Alex Gansa
Director: Larry Shaw
Summary: Mulder puts the future of the X-Files in jeopardy when he heads to a UFO crash site being rapidly covered up by the military. He is arrested and while in jail he meets Max Fenig, a UFO nut whose NICAP group has followed Mulder's work on the X-Files. When Mulder is released, Scully urges him to return to Washington to face his superiors and try and save his job but Mulder finds out that Max is more than meets the eye and ignores Scully to try and save him instead.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Scott Bellis (Max Fenig), Jerry Hardin (Deep Throat), William MacDonald (Dr Oppenheim) , Frederick Coffin (Section Chief Joseph McGrath), Marshall Bell (Commander Calvin Henderson), Alvin Sanders (Deputy Wright), Sheila Paterson (Gina Watkins), Tony Pantages (Lt Fraser), Jane McDougall (Laura Dalton), Brent Stait (Lt Taylor), Freda Perry (Mrs Wright), Michael Rogers (Lt Griffin), Kimberly Unger (Karen Koretz)

Eve

Episode Number: 1X10
Original Air Date: December 10, 1993
Writers: Kenneth Biller & Chris Brancato
Director: Fred Gerber
Summary: When two fathers on opposite sides of the country are unexplainably murdered at the exact same time in the exact same way, Mulder and Scully find that their eight-year-old daughters are perfect twins and were created in order to continue The Litchfield Experiment, a eugenics project of the 1950's which produced several identical sets of twin boys named Adam and girls named Eve who have heightened strength and intelligence, but are prone to psychotic behaviour.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Jerry Hardin (Deep Throat) , Harriet Sansom Harris (Dr. Sally Kendrick/Adult Eves), Erika Krievins (Cindy Reardon), Sabrina Krievins (Teena Simmons), George Touliatos (Dr Katz), Janet Hodgkinson (Waitress), Tasha Simms (Ellen Reardon), Tina Gilbertson (Donna Watkins), Christine Upright-Letain (Ms Wells), Gordon Tipple (Detective), Garry Davey (Hunter), Joe Maffei (Guard #1), Maria Herrera (Guard #2), Robert Lewis (Officer), David Kirby (Ted Watkins).

Fire

Episode Number: 1X11
Original Air Date: December 17, 1993
Writer: Chris Carter
Director: Larry Shaw
Summary: An old Oxford girlfriend of Mulder's asks for his help in an international case concerning the unexplainable execution of several British dignitaries and they encounter an assassin who can produce fire from his bare hands.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Amanda Pays (Inspector Phoebe Green), Mark A. Sheppard (Cecil L'ively/Bob), Dan Lett (Sir Malcolm Marsden), Duncan Fraser (Beatty), Lynda Boyd (Bar Patron), Phil Hayes (Driver), Christopher Gray (Jimmie), Keegan MacIntosh (Michael), Alan Robertson (Grey-Haired Man), Laurie Paton (Lady Marsden).

Beyond the Sea

Episode Number: 1X12
Original Air Date: January 7, 1994
Writers: James Wong & Glen Morgan
Director: David Nutter
Summary: 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.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Sheila Larken (Margaret Scully) , Brad Dourif (Luther Lee Boggs), Don S. Davis (Captain William Scully), Fred Henderson (Agent Thomas), Lisa Vultaggio (Liz Hawley), Chad Willett (Jim Summers), Lawrence King (Lucas Jackson Henry), Don MacKay (Warden Joseph Cash), Katherynn Chisholm (Nurse), Randy Lee (Paramedic), Len Rose (E.R. Doctor).

Genderbender

Episode Number: 1X13
Original Air Date: January 21, 1994
Writers: Larry Barber & Paul Barber
Director: Rob Bowman
Summary: A series of sexually-oriented murders which are identical except that the killer appears to be both male and female, draws Scully and Mulder to an Amish-type community of people who may be alien in origin.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Doug Abrahams (Agent #2) , Brent Hinkley (Brother Andrew), David Thomson (Brother Oakley), Kate Twa (Female Marty), Peter Stebbings (Male Marty), Mitchell Kosterman (Detective Horton), Michele Goodger (Sister Abigail), Aundrea MacDonald (Pretty Woman), John R. Taylor (Husband), Grai Carrington (Tall Man), Tony Morelli (Cop), Lesley Ewen (Agent #1), Nicholas Lea (Michael), Paul Batten (Brother Wilton).

Lazarus

Episode Number: 1X14
Original Air Date: February 4, 1994
Writers: Howard Gordon & Alex Gansa
Director: David Nutter
Summary: When FBI Agent Jack Willis and bank robber Warren Dupre are both shot at the same time during a robbery attempt, Dupre dies when Willis is brought back to life. When Willis rushes out of the hospital and begins acting strangely, Mulder concludes that Dupre has come back to life in Willis' body.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Christopher Allport (Agent Jack Willis), Cec Verrell (Lula Philips), Jason Schombing (Warren James Dupre), Callum Keith Rennie (Tommy Philips), Peter Kelamis (O'Dell), Jay Brazeau (Professor Varnes), Lisa Bunting (Doctor #1), Mark Saunders (Doctor #2), Russel Hamilton (Officer Daniels), Brenda Crichlow (Reporter), Jackson Davies (Agent Bruskin).

Young at Heart

Episode Number: 1X15
Original Air Date: February 11, 1994
Writers: Chris Carter & Scott Kaufer
Director: Michael Lange
Summary: Mulder is being stalked by someone from his past. John Barnett, a criminal whom he played a large part in capturing has returned to get revenge. Mulder and Scully find that Barnett's escape was due to a doctor trying to discover the secrets of aging, and the agents soon realise that Barnett has found the perfect disguise: Youth.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Jerry Hardin (Deep Throat) , Dick Anthony Williams (Agent Reggie Purdue), Alan Boyce (young John Barnett), Christine Estabrook (Agent Henderson), Graham Jarvis (Dr. Austin), Robin Mossley (Dr. Joe Ridley), David Peterson (old John Barnett), Merrilyn Gann (Prosecutor), Gordon Tipple (Joe Crandall), Courtney Arciaga (Progeria Victim).

E.B.E.

Episode Number: 1X16
Original Air Date: February 18, 1994
Writers: Glen Morgan & James Wong
Director: William Graham
Summary: 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.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Jerry Hardin (Deep Throat), Bruce Harwood (Byers), Dean Haglund (Langly), Tom Braidwood (Frohike) , Allan Lysell (Chief Rivers), Peter LaCroix (Ranheim/Frank Druse).

Miracle Man

Episode Number: 1X17
Original Air Date: March 18, 1994
Writers: Chris Carter & Howard Gordon
Director: Michael Lange
Summary: A young man who has the power to heal people with his touch begins to question his gift when people start dying after he has supposedly healed them.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Iris Quinn (Lillian Daniels), R.D. Call (Sheriff Maurice Daniels), Scott Bairstow (Samuel Hartley), Chilton Crane (Margaret Hohman), Campbell Lane (Hohman's Father), Howard Storey (Fire Chief), Lisa Ann Beley (Beatrice Salinger), Alex Doduk (young Samuel), Walter Marsh (Judge), Roger Haskett (Deputy Tyson), George Gerdes (Reverend Calvin Hartley), Dennis Lipscomb (Leonard Vance).

Shapes

Episode Number: 1X18
Original Air Date: April 1, 1994
Writer: Marilyn Osborne
Director: David Nutter
Summary: Mulder and Scully travel to an American Indian reservation to investigate the death of an Indian man who was mistaken for a wild animal and may have been the legendary Manitou, a man who can shapeshift into a beast.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Ty Miller (Lyle Parker), Michael Horse (Sheriff Charley Tskany), Donnelly Rhodes (Jim Parker), Jimmy Herman (Ish), Renae Morriseau (Gwen Goodensnake), Dwight McFee (David Gates), Paul McLean (Dr. Josephs).

Darkness Falls

Episode Number: 1X19
Original Air Date: April 15, 1994
Writer: Chris Carter
Director: Joe Napolitano
Summary: When a group of loggers in the Washington State National Forest disappear in the same way that another group disappeared 50 years ago, Mulder and Scully go along to investigate and find themselves trapped in a cabin surrounded by flesh eating insects that only attack at night.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Jason Beghe (Ranger Larry Moore), Tom O'Rourke (Steve Humphreys), Barry Greene (Perkins), David Hay (Clean-Suited Man), Ken Tremblett (Dyer), Titus Welliver (Doug Spinney).

Tooms

Episode Number: 1X20
Original Air Date: April 22, 1994
Writers: Glen Morgan & James Wong
Director: David Nutter
Summary: Eugene Tooms, the genetic mutant, 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.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), William B. Davis (Cigarette Smoking Man), Mitch Pileggi (Assistant Director Walter Skinner) , Doug Hutchison (Eugene Victor Tooms), Paul Ben-Victor (Dr Aaron Monte), Timothy Webber (Detective Talbot), Frank C. Turner (Dr. Collins), Gillian Carfra (Christine Ranford), Pat Bermel (Frank Ranford), Jan D'Arcy (Judge Kann), Jerry Wasserman (Dr. Plith), Mikal Dughi (Dr. Karetzky), Glynis Davies (Nelson), Steve Adams (Myers), Andre Daniels (Arlan Green), Henry Beckman (Detective Frank Briggs), Catherine Lough Haggquist (Dr. Richmond).

Born Again

Episode Number: 1X21
Original Air Date: April 29, 1994
Writers: Howard Gordon & Alex Gansa
Director: Jerrold Freedman
Summary: After a detective and his former partner die in unexplained circumstances, the accidents are linked to a little girl who witnessed both deaths and Mulder believes that she may be the reincarnate of a policeman murdered by his colleagues.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Brian Markinson (Tony Fiore), Mimi Lieber (Anita Fiore), Maggie Wheeler (Detective Sharon Lazard), Dey Young (Judy Bishop), Andrea Libman (Michelle Bishop), P. Lynn Johnson (Dr. Sheila Braun), Leslie Carlson (Dr. Spitz), Richard Sali (Leon Felder), Dwight Koss (Detective Barbala), Peter Lapres (Harry Linhart).

Roland

Episode Number: 1X22
Original Air Date: May 6, 1994
Writer: Chris Ruppenthal
Director: David Nutter
Summary: A scientist working on advanced propulsion technology is killed by the handicapped janitor Roland, who then corrects the man's calculations. Mulder and Scully investigate and find that another recently deceased scientist who's head is cryogenically frozen, was Roland's twin brother and is controlling him telepathically from beyond the grave.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Zeljko Ivanek (Roland Fuller), Garry Davey (Dr Keats), James Sloyan (Dr Nollette), Micole Mercurio (Miss Stodie), Kerry Sandomirsky (Tracey), Matthew Walker (Dr. Surnow), David Hurtubise (Barrington), Suleka Mathew (Lisa Howe).

The Erlenmeyer Flask

Episode Number: 1X23
Original Air Date: May 13, 1994
Writer: Chris Carter
Director: R.W. Goodwin
Summary: Following a vague tip from Deep Throat, Mulder uncovers secret testing of alien DNA on humans by the government but is captured and infected with an alien retrovirus. Against his own concerns, Deep Throat tries to do too much for the agents and is discovered as Mulder's source and is executed. At the very end, Mulder informs Scully that word has come from the top of the executive branch to close The X-Files.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Jerry Hardin (Deep Throat), William B. Davis (Cigarette Smoking Man) , Lindsey Ginter (Crew-Cut Man), Anne De Salvo (Dr Anne Carpenter), Simon Webb (Dr Secare), James Leard (Captain Lacerio), Ken Kramer (Dr. Berube), Phillip MacKenzie (Medic), Jaylene Hamilton (Reporter), Mike Mitchell (1st Uniformed Cop), John Payne (II) (Guard) .

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