Episode Guide: Season 3

The Blessing Way - Paper Clip - D.P.O. - Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose - The List - 2Shy - The Walk - Oubliette - Nisei - 731 - Revelations - War of the Coprophages - Syzygy - Grotesque - Piper Maru - Apocrypha - Pusher - Teso Dos Bichos - Hell Money - Jose Chung's From Outer Space - Avatar - Quagmire - Wetwired - Talitha Cumi

The Blessing Way

Episode Number: 3X01
Original Air Date: September 22, 1995
Summary: Scully finds her career with the FBI in jeopardy as Mulder is still missing and The Cigarette Smoking Man is pursuing the stolen files. The Navajo elders find Mulder's body in a cave and perform an ancient ceremony to call the spirit back to the empty vessel.

Paper Clip

Episode Number: 3X02
Original Air Date: September 29, 1995
Summary: AD Skinner and Scully are at a standoff when Mulder bursts in and discovers that Skinner has the digital tape. Reuinited, Mulder and Scully travel to a secret vault inside a mine and find an elaborate filing system of medical records which reveals that Mulder's sister may not have been the first choice for abduction. Meanwhile, Skinner deals with The CSM for their safety.

D.P.O.

Episode Number: 3X03
Original Air Date: October 6, 1995
Summary: Mulder and Scully investigate a series of human and cattle deaths by lightning and are led to a teenage boy who is the only survivor out of five people recently hit by lightning strikes.

Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose

Episode Number: 3X04
Original Air Date: October 13, 1995
Summary: In the midst of a psychic sideshow while on a murder case, Mulder and Scully enlist the help of a man who may have a true psychic ability to forsee how people will die to help the agents catch a man killing fortune tellers.

The List

Episode Number: 3X05
Original Air Date: October 20, 1995
Summary: No-one takes much notice when a death row inmate vows on the electric chair to come back from the dead and kill 5 men who have wronged him during his time in prison; until a guard is mysteriously murdered in the former inmate's cell.

2Shy

Episode Number: 3X06
Original Air Date: November 3, 1995
Summary: A man with a genetic abnormality who must prey on overweight women in order to suck the fatty tissue from their bodies, begins to meet his victims through Internet chat rooms.

The Walk

Episode Number: 3X07
Original Air Date: November 10, 1995
Summary: After a suicide attempt and multiple murders at a military hospital, Mulder and Scully meet a quadruple amputee who has gained the power of Astral Projection and is taking out his personal frustrations on his commanding officers.

Oubliette

Episode Number: 3X08
Original Air Date: November 17, 1995
Summary: Mulder seeks the help of a woman whom he believes has a special connection with a young girl who has recently been kidnapped by the same man who held her captive many years earlier.

Nisei

Episode Number: 3X09
Original Air Date: November 24, 1995
Summary: An investigation into a video of an alien autopsy puts Mulder and Scully in the middle of a conspiracy involving WWII Japanese scientists brought to America to continue their experiments which may shed light on Scully's abduction.

731

Episode Number: 3X10
Original Air Date: December 1, 1995
Summary: Mulder is trapped inside a train car which contains a suspected alien-human hybrid and also a bomb, while Scully pursues the truth about her abduction and the mystery behind the implant in her neck.

Revelations

Episode Number: 3X11
Original Air Date: December 15, 1995
Summary: Mulder and Scully swap roles as they pursue a man killing priests that claim to have the wounds of Christ and the agents find and must protect a young boy who may be a real stigmatic. While Scully's faith draws her close to the boy, Mulder is convinced of another explanation.

War of the Coprophages

Episode Number: 3X12
Original Air Date: January 5, 1996
Summary: Widespread panic is caused in a small community after numerous deaths are linked to killer cockroaches and a government agricultural agency is discovered to have set up a secret experiment involving insects.

Syzygy

Episode Number: 3X13
Original Air Date: January 26, 1996
Summary: A rare planetary alignment causes strange behaviour in the residents of a small town but particularly in two teenage girls who were born at the exact same moment on that particular date.

Grotesque

Episode Number: 3X14
Original Air Date: February 2, 1996
Summary: A serial killer is captured after a three year manhunt and he claims an evil spirit is responsible for the crimes. When the killings continue as he sits in jail, Mulder's battle with a former colleague gets more heated when he suggests that something more paranormal may be involved.

Piper Maru

Episode Number: 3X15
Original Air Date: February 9, 1996
Summary: A French salvage ship searching for a lost WWII fighter jet unknowingly surfaces an alien which appears in the form of black oil and has the ability to jump hosts. Mulder heads to Hong Kong to investigate the salvage broker who sold the information to the French and he encounters Krycek, who has been selling information from the MJ Documents. As Mulder prepares to take Krycek back to the US, the alien makes its way to Hong Kong and takes control of Krycek.

Apocrypha

Episode Number: 3X16
Original Air Date: February 16, 1996
Summary: Mulder pursues Krycek, not knowing about the alien that has taken over his body, to get back the DAT tape containing the MJ Documents. Meanwhile, the shooting of AD Skinner uncovers evidence that could lead Scully to her sister's murderer.

Pusher

Episode Number: 3X17
Original Air Date: February 23, 1996
Summary: Mulder and Scully are asked to help in a case concerning the escape of a murderer possessing the ability to force his will onto other people by suggestion and he forces Mulder into a battle of mind over matter.

Teso Dos Bichos

Episode Number: 3X18
Original Air Date: March 8, 1996
Summary: The unearthing of an ancient Ecuadorian Amaru Urn and its removal to America despite protests leads to a series of deaths linked to a shaman spirit released by the urn.

Hell Money

Episode Number: 3X19
Original Air Date: March 29, 1996
Summary: The deaths of several Chinese men found to be missing vital internal organs that were removed prior to death leads Mulder and Scully to a deadly Chinatown lottery where men wager their body parts for a chance to win a cash jackpot.

Jose Chung's From Outer Space

Episode Number: 3X20
Original Air Date: April 12, 1996
Summary: A alien abduction of two teenagers with endless versions of the same story prompts a science-fiction novelist to to write a book about the incident; except no-one involved with the investigation can tell him the full story with any accuracy.

Avatar

Episode Number: 3X21
Original Air Date: April 26, 1996
Summary: During a one-night stand in the midst of his divorce, AD Skinner becomes a murder suspect, and Mulder and Scully return the many favours that he has done for them by analyzing evidence that someone doesn't want uncovered to prove his innocence.

Quagmire

Episode Number: 3X22
Original Air Date: May 3, 1996
Summary: Mulder and Scully investigate a series of disappearances and attacks around a lake where Mulder believes that the local legend about a lake monster, Big Blue, may be all too real.

Wetwired

Episode Number: 3X23
Original Air Date: May 10, 1996
Summary: After a man kills three people and his wife because he mistook them for a ruthless middle eastern dictator, Mulder and Scully discover a test involving mind control using television signals that make people's worst fears become real in any form.

Talitha Cumi

Episode Number: 3X24
Original Air Date: May 17, 1996
Summary: Mulder and Scully search for a mysterious man with the power to heal whose actions risk exposing the existence of aliens on Earth, while a confrontation between Mrs. Mulder and the CSM leads Mulder to the discovery of the only weapon which can kill the aliens.

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