Episode Guide: Season 2

Little Green Men - The Host - Blood - Sleepless - Duane Barry - Ascensions - 3 - One Breath - Firewalker - Red Museum - Excelsius Dei - Aubrey - Irresistible - Die Hand Die Verletzt - Fresh Bones - Colony - End Game - Fearful Symmetry - Død Kalm - Humbug - The Calusari - F. Emasculata - Soft Light - Our Town - Anasazi

Little Green Men

Episode Number: 2X01
Original Air Date: September 16, 1994
Writers: Glen Morgan & James Wong
Director: David Nutter
Summary: 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 unexplainably reactivated itself and could provide proof of contact with extra-terrestrial life.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), William B. Davis (Cigarette Smoking Man), Vanessa Morley (Young Samantha Mulder), Mitch Pileggi (Assistant Director Walter Skinner) , Marcus Turner (Young Fox Mulder), Les Carlson (Dr. Troisky), Fulvio Cecere (Aide), Deryl Hayes (Agent Morris), Dwight McFee (Commander), Gary Hetherington (Lewin), Bob Wilde (Rand), Mike Gomez (Jorge Concepcion), Raymond J. Barry (Senator Richard Matheson), Lisa Ann Beley (Student).

The Host

Episode Number: 2X02
Original Air Date: September 23, 1994
Writer: Chris Carter
Director: Daniel Sackheim
Summary: AD Skinner sends Mulder to investigate a body which washed into the New Jersey sewer from the ocean. Mulder believes that the basic blue-collar assignment is punishment, but on Skinner's own admission what he discovers is a true X-File. (Yes, this is the Flukeman episode)
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), William MacDonald (Federal Marshal), Mitch Pileggi (Assistant Director Walter Skinner), Steven Williams (X (voice - uncredited)) , Marc Baur (Agent Brisentine), Matthew Bennett (Workman), Freddy Andreiuci (Detective Norman), Don MacKay (Charlie), Hrothgar Mathews (Man on Phone), Gabrielle Rose (Dr. Zenzola), Ron Suave (Foreman), Dmitri Boudrine (Russian Engineer), Raoul Ganeev (Dmitri), Darin Morgan (Flukeman).

Blood

Episode Number: 2X03
Original Air Date: September 30, 1994
Writers: Darin Morgan, Glen Morgan, & James Wong
Director: David Nutter
Summary: When several violent deaths in a small farming community are connected by the destruction of digital devices, Mulder believes that people are being driven to kill by the use of subliminal messages in the digital readouts.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Bruce Harwood (Byers), Dean Haglund (Langly), Tom Braidwood (Frohike) , William Sanderson (Edward Funsch), John Cygan (Sheriff Spencer), Kimberly Patton (Mrs McRoberts), George Touliatos (Larry Winter), John Harris (Taber), Gerry Rousseau (Mechanic), William Mackenzie (Bus Driver), Diana Stevan (Mrs Adams), David Fredericks (Security Guard), Kathleen Duborg (Mother), B.J. Harrison (Clerk), Andre Daniels (Harry).

Sleepless

Episode Number: 2X04
Original Air Date: October 7, 1994
Writer: Howard Gordon
Director: Rob Bowman
Summary: Mulder reluctantly accepts a new partner, Agent Alex Krycek, and they investigate the deaths of several Green Beret soldiers who participated in a sleep deprivation experiment during the Vietnam war.
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), Nicholas Lea (Agent Alex Krycek), Steven Williams (X) , Mitchell Kosterman (Detective Horton), Don Thompson (Henry Willig), David Adams (Dr Girardi), Michael Puttonen (Dr Pilsson), Anna Hagan (Dr Charyn), Paul Bittante (Lt. Reagan), Claude de Martino (Dr Grissom), Jon Gries (Salvatore Matola), Tony Todd (Augustus Cole).

Duane Barry

Episode Number: 2X05
Original Air Date: October 14, 1994
Writer: Chris Carter
Director: Chris Carter
Summary: Mulder is called to a hostage situation involving Duane Barry, a former FBI Agent who claims to be an alien abductee and wants to get back to the abduction site with someone who will be taken instead of him. Unfortunately, the someone he eventually chooses is Scully.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Nicholas Lea (Agent Alex Krycek) , Steve Railsback (Duane Barry), Frank C. Turner (Dr Hakkie), Fred Henderson (Agent Rich), Stephen E. Miller (Tactical Commander), Barbara Pollard (Gwen), Sarah Strange (Kimberly), Robert Lewis (Officer), Tosca Baggoo (Clerk), Tim Dixon (Bob), Prince Maryland (Agent Janus), John Sampson (Marksman #1), Michael Dobson (Marksman #2), CCH Pounder (Agent Lucy Kazdin).

Ascensions

Episode Number: 2X06
Original Air Date: October 21, 1994
Writer: Paul Brown
Director: Michael Lange
Summary: When Mulder finds out that Scully was kidnapped by Duane Barry, he risks the wrath of his superiors and the annoyance of Agent Krycek in order to do whatever it takes to find her. Meanwhile, Krycek is found to be reporting Mulder's activities to the CSM.
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), Nicholas Lea (Agent Alex Krycek), Sheila Larken (Margaret Scully), Michael David Simms (Senior FBI Agent), Steven Williams (X) , Steve Railsback (Duane Barry), Meredith Bain Woodward (Dr. Ruth Slaughter), Peter LaCroix (Dwight), Steve Makaj (Patrolman), Peter Lapres (Video Technician), Bobby L. Stewart (Deputy).

3

Episode Number: 2X07
Original Air Date: November 4, 1994
Writers: Chris Ruppenthal, Glen Morgan, & James Wong
Director: David Nutter
Summary: Mulder, back on the X-Files but alone for the first time, investigates a series of vampire-like murders in Los Angeles and finds himself falling for the one woman that may be the prime suspect.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Malcolm Stewart (Commander Carver) , Frank Ferrucci (Detective Nettles), Tom McBeath (Detective Gwynn), Gustavo Moreno (The Father), Justina Vail (The Unholy Spirit), Ken Kramer (Dr. Browning), Roger Allford (Garrett Lorre), Richard Yee (David Yung), John Tierney (Dr. Jacobs), David Livingstone (Guard), Guyle Frazier (Officer), Perrey Reeves (Kirsten Kilar), Frank Military (John/The Son), Brad Loree (Fireman).

One Breath

Episode Number: 2X08
Original Air Date: November 11, 1994
Writers: Glen Morgan & James Wong
Director: R.W. Goodwin
Summary: 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.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Sheila Larken (Margaret Scully), Mitch Pileggi (Assistant Director Walter Skinner), Steven Williams (X), William B. Davis (Cigarette Smoking Man), Tom Braidwood (Frohike), Bruce Harwood (Byers), Dean Haglund (Langly) , Melinda McGraw (Melissa Scully), Jay Brazeau (Dr Daly), Nicola Cavendish (Nurse Owens), Lorena Gale (Nurse Wilkins), Ryan Michael (Overcoat Man), Tegan Moss (young Dana Scully), Don S. Davis (Captain William Scully).

Firewalker

Episode Number: 2X09
Original Air Date: November 18, 1994
Writer: Howard Gordon
Director: David Nutter
Summary: Mulder and Scully, reunited at last, head for an active volcano under a geological study and find a deadly life form that can survive in the searing heat of the crater and is killing the scientists to avoid being discovered.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Bradley Whitford (Dr Daniel Trepkos), Tuck Milligan (Dr Adam Pierce), Leland Orser (Jason Ludwig), Shawnee Smith (Jesse O'Neill), Hiro Kanagawa (Peter Tanaka), Torren Rolfsen (Technician), David Kaye (Reporter).

Red Museum

Episode Number: 2X10
Original Air Date: December 9, 1994
Writer: Chris Carter
Director: Win Phelps
Summary: While investigating the connection between the abduction of several teenagers and a rural religious cult, Mulder & Scully discover a secret test being performed on the children using the "Purity Control" alien DNA from 'The Erlenmeyer Flask' which leads Mulder to the Crew-Cut Man, Deep Throat's murderer.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Gillian Barber (Beth Kane), Bob Frazer (Gary Kane), Robert Clothier (Old Man), Elisabeth Rosen (Katie), Cameron Labine (Rick), Tony Sampson (Brad), Crystal Verge (Woman Reading Words), Gerry Nairn (1st Man), Brian McGugan (1st Officer), Paul Sand (Gerd Thomas), Steve Eastin (Sheriff Mazeroski), Mark Rolston (Richard Odin), Lindsey Ginter (Crew-Cut Man).

Excelsius Dei

Episode Number: 2X11
Original Air Date: December 16, 1994
Writer: Paul Brown
Director: Steven Surjik
Summary: Mulder and Scully uncover strange occurrences in an old-age care home when one of the nurses is attacked by an unseen force she claims to be one of the residents, a 90 year old man.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Frances Bay (Dorothy), Teryl Rothery (Nurse Michelle Charters), Eric Christmas (Stan Phillips), David Fresco (Hal Arden), Sab Shimono (Gung Bittuen), Tasha Simms (Laura Kelly), Sheila Moore (Mrs. Dawson), Jerry Wasserman (Dr. John Grago), Jon Cuthbert (Tiernan), Paul Jarrett (Upshaw), Ernie Prentice (Leo Kreutzer).

Aubrey

Episode Number: 2X12
Original Air Date: January 6, 1995
Writer: Sara Charno
Director: Rob Bowman
Summary: Mulder and Scully investigate the possibility of transference of personality from one generation to the next when a detective mysteriously uncovers the remains of an FBI agent who disappeared in the 1940s while investigating a similar case to one she is now.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Deborah Strang (Detective B.J. Morrow), Morgan Woodward (Harry Cokely), Terry O'Quinn (Lt. Brian Tillman), Joy Coghill (Linda Thibedeaux), Robyn Driscoll (Detective Joe Darnell), Peter Fleming (Officer #1), Sarah-Jane Redmond (Young Mother), Emanuel Hajek (Young Cokely).

Irresistible

Episode Number: 2X13
Original Air Date: January 13, 1995
Writer: Chris Carter
Director: David Nutter
Summary: A mortuary worker who gets his thrills from collecting hair and fingernails from the dead begins killing his soon-to-be collectibles himself and sets his seriously disturbed sights on Scully.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Nick Chinlund (Donald Pfaster), Robert Thurston (Jackson Toews), Bruce Weitz (Agent Moe Bocks), Christine Willes (Karen Kossoff), Deanna Milligan (Satin), Glynis Davies (Ellen), Tim Progosh (Mr Fiebling), Dwight McFee (Suspect), Maggie Blue O'Hara (Young Woman), Mark Saunders (Agent Busch), Clara Hunter (Coed), Denalda Williams (Marilyn), Kathleen Duborg (Prostitute).

Die Hand Die Verletzt

Episode Number: 2X14
Original Air Date: January 27, 1995
Writers: Glen Morgan & James Wong
Director: Kim Manners
Summary: 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.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Doug Abrahams (Paul Vitaris) , Susan Blommaert (Phyllis Paddock), Dan Butler (Jim Ausbury), Heather McComb (Shannon Ausbury), P. Lynn Johnson (Deborah Brown), Shaun Johnson (Pete Calcagni), Travis MacDonald (Dave Duran), Michele Goodger (Barbara Ausbury), Larry Musser (Sheriff John Oakes), Frank Czinege (Jerry Thomas), Laura Harris (Andrea).

Fresh Bones

Episode Number: 2X15
Original Air Date: February 3, 1995
Writer: Howard Gordon
Director: Rob Bowman
Summary: While investigating several deaths and murders within a Haitian refugee camp, Mulder and Scully get caught in the middle of a secret war between the camp commander and a Voodoo priest.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Steven Williams (X) , Kevin Conway (Private Jack McAlpin), Katya Gardener (Robin McAlpin), Roger R. Cross (Private Kittel), Peter Kelamis (Lt. Foyle), Adrien Malebranche (Skinny Man (uncredited)), Bruce A. Young (Pierre Bauvais), Daniel Benzali (Colonel Jacob Wharton), Jamil Walker Smith (Chester Bonaparte), Callum Keith Rennie (Groundskeeper), Matt Hill (Private Harry Dunham).

Colony

Episode Number: 2X16
Original Air Date: February 10, 1995
Writers: Chris Carter & David Duchovny
Director: Nick Marck
Summary: 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.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Rebecca Toolan (Mrs Mulder), Bonnie Hay (Field Doctor), Peter Donat (William Mulder), Brian Thompson (Bounty Hunter), Mitch Pileggi (Assistant Director Walter Skinner) , David L. Gordon (FBI Agent), Andrew Johnston (Agent Weiss), Tim Henry (Federal Marshal), Michael McDonald (M.P. (uncredited)), Capper McIntyre (Jailer (uncredited)), Linden Banks (Reverend Sistrunk), Kim Restell (Newspaper Clerk), Richard Sargent (Captain), Ken Roberts (Proprietor), Michael Rogers (1st Crewman), Oliver Becker (2nd Doctor), Dana Gladstone (Dr. Landon Prince/Gregor Clone), Megan Leitch (Samantha Mulder), Tom Butler (CIA Agent Ambrose Chapel), James Leard (Sgt. Al Dixon).

End Game

Episode Number: 2X17
Original Air Date: February 17, 1995
Writer: Frank Spotnitz
Director: Rob Bowman
Summary: The alien bounty hunter kidnaps Scully and wants to trade her for Mulder's sister, who is revealed to be a clone herself. After the trade goes badly and Mulder discovers the truth about Samantha, he tracks the bounty hunter to his ship buried in the arctic ice and demands the whereabouts of his real sister.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Bonnie Hay (Field Doctor), Steven Williams (X), Peter Donat (William Mulder), Brian Thompson (Bounty Hunter), Mitch Pileggi (Assistant Director Walter Skinner) , Garry Davey (Captain), Andrew Johnston (Agent Weiss), Allan Lysell (Gardner), J. B. Bivens (Sharpshooter), Oliver Becker (2nd Doctor), Beatrice Zeilinger (Paramedic), Megan Leitch (Samantha Mulder), Colin Cunningham (Lt. Terry Wilmer).

Fearful Symmetry

Episode Number: 2X18
Original Air Date: February 24, 1995
Writer: Steve DeJarnatt
Director: James Whitmore Jr.
Summary: Mulder and Scully investigate strange attacks from invisible animals inside a zoo which is near a known UFO hot spot.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Tom Braidwood (Frohike), Bruce Harwood (Byers), Lenno Britos (Janitor #1 (uncredited)) , Jayne Atkinson (Willa Ambrose), Lance Guest (Kyle Lang), Jack Rader (Ed Meecham), Charles André (Ray Floyd), Garvin Cross (Red Head Kid), Tom Glass (Trucker), Jody St. Michael (Sophie).

Død Kalm

Episode Number: 2X19
Original Air Date: March 10, 1995
Writers: Howard Gordon & Alex Gansa
Director: Rob Bowman
Summary: When half the crew of a Navy ship abandon their boat in a life raft and are rescued 18 hours later looking about 60 years older than they should be, Mulder suggests that the ship is caught in a time field which is speeding up their aging.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), John Savage (Henry Trondheim), Mar Anderson (Halverson), Vladimir Kulich (Olafsson), David Cubitt (Captain Barclay), Dmitry Chepovetsky (Lt. Harper), Claire Riley (Dr. Laskos), Stephen Dimopoulos (Ionesco), John McConnach (Sailor), Robert Metcalfe (Nurse), Kelly Irving (Burke).

Humbug

Episode Number: 2X20
Original Air Date: March 31, 1995
Writer: Darin Morgan
Director: Kim Manners
Summary: Mulder and Scully investigate the bizarre deaths of several circus performers in a small town built and populated by circus and sideshow acts.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Jim Rose (Dr Blockhead), Wayne Grace (Sheriff James Hamilton), George Tipple (Hepcat Helm), Alex Diakun (Curator), John Payne (II) (Jerald Glazebrook), Alvin Law (Reverend), Blair Slater (older Glazebrook Child), Devin Walker (younger Glazebrook Child), Debis Simpson (Waiter), Michael J. Anderson (Mr. Nutt), The Enigma (The Conundrum), Vincent Schiavelli (Lanny).

The Calusari

Episode Number: 2X21
Original Air Date: April 14, 1995
Writer: Sara Charno
Director: Mike Vejar
Summary: A toddler's unusual death leads Mulder and Scully into a Romanian exorcism ritual involving a young boy possessed by his stillborn twin.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Bill Dow (Dr. Charles Burks) , Helene Clarkson (Maggie Holvey), Joel Palmer (Charlie/Michael Holvey), Lilyan Chauvin (Golda), Ric Reid (Steve Holvey), Oliver Wildsmith (Teddy Holvey), Jeremy Issac Wildsmith (Teddy Holvey), Christine Willes (Karen Kossoff), Kay E. Kuter (Head Calusari), Jacqueline Danieneau (Nurse Castor), Bill Croft (Calusari #2), George Josef (Calusari #4), Campbell Lane (Calusari #3).

F. Emasculata

Episode Number: 2X22
Original Air Date: April 28, 1995
Writers: Chris Carter & Howard Gordon
Director: Rob Bowman
Summary: When a plaguelike illness kills 10 men inside a maximum security prison, Scully tries to get into the quarantine site and discover the cause and origin of the contagion, while Mulder and a group of US Marshals track two escapees who may be infected.
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) , Myles Ferguson (Boy in the Bus (uncredited)), Charles Martin Smith (Dr. Osborne), Dean Norris (US Marshal Tapia), John Pyper-Ferguson (Paul), John Tench (Steve), Morris Panych (Dr. Simon Auerbach), Lynda Boyd (Elizabeth), Alvin Sanders (Bus Driver), Kim Kondrashoff (Bobby Torrence), Chilton Crane (Mother at Bus Station), Bill Rowat (Dr. Robert Torrence), Jude Zachary (Winston), Angelo Vacco (Angelo Garza), Jenny-Lynn Hutcheson (Little Girl from the Trailer (uncredited)).

Soft Light

Episode Number: 2X23
Original Air Date: May 5, 1995
Writer: Vince Gilligan
Director: James A. Contner
Summary: An experiment in dark matter accidentally turns a scientist's shadow into a deadly weapon that can reduce a person's body to pure energy if they are touched by it.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Steven Williams (X) , Tony Shalhoub (Dr. Chester Ray Banton), Kevin McNulty (Dr. Christopher Davey), Kate Twa (Kelly Ryan), Nathaniel Deveaux (Detective Barron), Robert Rozen (Doctor), Donna Yamamoto (Night Nurse), Forbes Angus (Government Scientist), Guyle Frazier (Barney (1st Officer)), Steve Bacic (2nd Officer), Craig Brunanski (Security Guard).

Our Town

Episode Number: 2X24
Original Air Date: May 12, 1995
Writer: Frank Spotnitz
Director: Rob Bowman
Summary: After several disappearances in a small town, Mulder and Scully investigate and find hundreds of human bones in the river and discover that the man behind the towns main source of wealth, a chicken processing plant, has found a way to prolong his life through cannibalism.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Gary Grubbs (Sheriff Tom Arens), John Milford (Walter Chaco), Caroline Kava (Doris Kearns), Robin Mossley (Dr Vance Randolph), Timothy Webber (Jess Harold), Hrothgar Mathews (Creighton Jones), Gabrielle Miller (Paula), John MacLaren (George Kearns), Robert Moloney (Worker), Carrie Cain Sparks (Maid).

Anasazi

Episode Number: 2X25
Original Air Date: May 19, 1995
Writers: Chris Carter & David Duchovny
Director: Rob Bowman
Summary: When Mulder obtains what could be the original and uncut MJ documents containing information about the government's knowledge of extraterrestrial life; his shadowy enemies step up their harassment of him eventually leading to his apparent murder.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Michael David Simms (Senior FBI Agent), Ken Camroux (2nd Senior Agent), Peter Donat (William Mulder), Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman (Albert Hosteen), Nicholas Lea (Alex Krycek), Tom Braidwood (Frohike), Dean Haglund (Langly), Bruce Harwood (Byers), William B. Davis (Cigarette Smoking Man), Mitch Pileggi (Assistant Director Walter Skinner) , Chris Carter (3rd Senior Agent (uncredited)), Bernie Coulson (Kenneth Soona (The Thinker)), Aurelio Dinunzio (Antonio (uncredited)), Paul McLean (Agent Kautz), Byron Chief-Moon (Father (uncredited)), Renae Morriseau (Josephine Doane), Mitchell Davies (Stealth Man), Dakota House (Eric Hosteen).

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