Episode Guide: Season 4

Herrenvolk - Unruhe - Home - Teliko - The Field Where I Died - Sanguinarium - Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man - Paper Hearts - Tunguska - Terma - El Mundo Gira - Kaddish - Never Again - Leonard Betts - Memento Mori - Unrequited - Tempus Fugit - Max - Synchrony - Small Potatoes - Zero Sum - Elegy - Demons - Gethsemane

Herrenvolk

Episode Number: 4X01
Original Air Date: October 4, 1996
Summary: Jeremiah Smith and Mulder are on the run from the alien bounty hunter and Smith takes Mulder to a small farm tended to by identical sets of children and all the girls are clones of his sister when she was still a child. Mulder prepares to take Jeremiah and one of the clones to see his mother in hospital but the bounty hunter catches up with them and kills Jeremiah. Meanwhile, the Syndicate suspects that they have a traitor in their midst and plan a trap which results in X being executed by the CSM.

Unruhe

Episode Number: 4X02
Original Air Date: October 27, 1996
Summary: Several kidnappings of young women linked by distorted photographs lead Mulder and Scully to a man who can imprint his darkest fantasies onto undeveloped film and is trying to save the women from the 'Howlers'.

Home

Episode Number: 4X03
Original Air Date: October 11, 1996
Summary: 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.

Teliko

Episode Number: 4X04
Original Air Date: October 18, 1996
Summary: After several African-American men are killed and the colour is drained from their skin, Mulder learns about the Teliko, an African folktale about a creature who must suck the pigmentation from a persons body in order to survive.

The Field Where I Died

Episode Number: 4X05
Original Air Date: November 3, 1996
Summary: After an FBI raid on a doomsday cult called the 'Temple of the Seven Stars', Mulder meets Melissa, a cultist who claims to have known him in a previous life during the American Civil War. Scully believes the woman is a delusional schitzophrenic but Mulder allows himself to be drawn into her fantasies.

Sanguinarium

Episode Number: 4X06
Original Air Date: November 10, 1996
Summary: A link to the four witches Sabbaths is found after a doctor loses control and kills a patient on the operating table and Mulder suspects a nurse may be practicing witchcraft.

Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man

Episode Number: 4X07
Original Air Date: November 17, 1996
Summary: Frohike pieces together and recites to Mulder and Scully what could be the possible life story of the Cigarette Smoking Man; from a young captain in the US Army recruited to assassinate President Kennedy, to becoming the mysterious man in the shadows at the height of a global conspiracy. What measures will the CSM take to ensure that he remains a mystery forever?

Paper Hearts

Episode Number: 4X08
Original Air Date: December 15, 1996
Summary: Mulder's dreams help him in finding the body of a little girl which reopens one of his old cases in the Violent Crimes Unit and leads him to believe the killer he captured had more victims and may have taken his sister many years before.

Tunguska

Episode Number: 4X09
Original Air Date: November 24, 1996
Summary: A rock sample taken from Mars is intercepted at an airport and infects a security officer with the Black Cancer, while Mulder is given a tip about potentially dangerous paramilitary operations but is doubtful when the informant turns out to be Alex Krycek. Reluctantly, Mulder accepts Krycek's help and tracks the rock to Russia where he discovers an elaborate test being performed by Russian scientists.

Terma

Episode Number: 4X10
Original Air Date: December 1, 1996
Summary: While imprisoned in Russia and infected with the Black Cancer, Mulder learns that Krycek is working with the men responsible and everything has been a setup from the start, while Scully and Skinner are called to a suspicious Senate hearing where the only question is the whereabouts of Agent Mulder.

El Mundo Gira

Episode Number: 4X11
Original Air Date: January 12, 1997
Summary: A strange yellow rain kills a migrant girl and her family believe that a mythical creature was the cause and that it has manifested itself inside the brother of her fiancee who has since disappeared.

Kaddish

Episode Number: 4X12
Original Air Date: February 12, 1997
Summary: Issac Luria, a Jewish man is killed by a group of teenagers working for a racist shopowner, but one of them is soon strangled to death and the fingerprints on his neck are of Issac. Despite other factors, Mulder becomes convinced that the man has returned from the dead to exact revenge.

Never Again

Episode Number: 4X13
Original Air Date: February 2, 1997
Summary: While Mulder is forced to take a vacation he leaves Scully with an assignment to keep her busy until he returns. She however, decides to start living and goes on a date with a man who believes that his tattoo talks to him and is telling him to stay away from other women.

Leonard Betts

Episode Number: 4X14
Original Air Date: January 26, 1997
Summary: After the body of a decapitated EMT disappears from the morgue and an identical man starts work at the same hospital, Mulder believes that the man has the ability to regrow parts of his body, including his head. The agents soon discover that Betts' body is riddled with cancer and he is able to live in that condition but needs to feed on cancerous tumours to keep up his strength.

Memento Mori

Episode Number: 4X15
Original Air Date: February 9, 1997
Summary: Scully's recent failing health is revealed to be inoperable brain cancer which is common among abductees. She meets with other abductees with the same condition and forms a special bond with a dying woman, while Mulder tries to save her from a doctor who may be connected with the abductions.

Unrequited

Episode Number: 4X16
Original Air Date: February 23, 1997
Summary: When a US military general is unexplainably murdered in the back of his limousine, a paramilitary group is suspected and they believe it was a soldier whom they liberated from a Vietnam POW camp and is plotting to kill certain corrupt military figures.

Tempus Fugit

Episode Number: 4X17
Original Air Date: March 16, 1997
Summary: While celebrating Scully's 33rd birthday, a strange woman informs Mulder that NICAP member Max Fenig has recently died in a plane crash. After a visit to the crash site and finding Max's body with radiation burns on it, Mulder suggests that the plane was intercepted by a UFO and is rapidly being covered up by the military.

Max

Episode Number: 4X18
Original Air Date: March 23, 1997
Summary: Mulder is arrested for investigating the plane crash and interfering with a military operation, while Scully is caught in an attempted assassination of Corporal Frish which claims the life of Agent Pendrell. Scully bails Mulder out of prison and they go to Max Fenig's trailer to find out why he was on the plane. Mulder finds evidence of alien technology and boards a plane with it but the plane is intercepted mid-flight and it disappears. Mulder is again left with nothing.

Synchrony

Episode Number: 4X19
Original Air Date: April 13, 1997
Summary: A case involving a strange old man warning two scientists of events in the immediate future which come to pass; and the use of their experimental flash-freezing compound that does not exist yet, has Mulder believing that one of the scientists has come from the future to stop his own scientific breakthrough from becoming reality.

Small Potatoes

Episode Number: 4X20
Original Air Date: April 20, 1997
Summary: Five babies in the same town are all born with tails and the local OB-GYN is blamed for tampering with fertilised eggs. However, Mulder discovers the culprit to be a simple man with a genetic deformity who may have the ability to alter his appearance.

Zero Sum

Episode Number: 4X21
Original Air Date: April 27, 1997
Summary: Skinner destroys evidence to cover up a woman's death and poses as Agent Mulder to complete the task. Mulder finds out about Skinner's deception and confronts him and Skinner reveals that he is working for the Cigarette Smoking Man in order to obtain a possible cure for Scully's cancer.

Elegy

Episode Number: 4X22
Original Air Date: May 4, 1997
Summary: After a man sees a woman trapped inside a bowling alley pin setter, he goes for help and finds police standing next to to body of the same woman. Mulder and Scully join the investigation and follow up this lead which the police won't bother with and they are led to a retarded man who works at the bowling alley.

Demons

Episode Number: 4X23
Original Air Date: May 11, 1997
Summary: Mulder undergoes an experimental form of hypnotherapy to recover his memories about his sister's abduction but the treatment has side effects including psychotic behaviour and Mulder wakes up one morning in a motel room with someone else's blood all over him.

Gethsemane

Episode Number: 4X24
Original Air Date: May 18, 1997
Summary: While investigating the discovery of a preserved alien body found in the mountains of Canada, Mulder is contacted by Michael Kritschgau who tells him about a government conspiracy not to keep alien activity a secret, but to make people believe in them without question and Mulder has been the prime target. With the idea that everything he believes is a lie, Mulder appears to take his own life.

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