Episode Guide: Season 7

Hungry - The Goldberg Variation - The Sixth Extinction - The Sixth Extinction 2: Amor Fati - Millennium - Rush - Orison - The Amazing Maleeni - Signs and Wonders - Sein Und Zeit - Closure - X-Cops - First Person Shooter - Theef - En Ami - Chimera - all things - Hollywood AD - Brand X - Fight Club - Je Souhaite - Requiem

Hungry

Episode Number: 7X01
Original Air Date: November 21, 1999
Writer: Vince Gilligan
Director: Kim Manners
Summary: A monster who feeds on human brain matter tries to lead a normal life but he soon cannot control his feelings of hunger.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Chad E. Donella (Rob Roberts), Mark Pelligrino (Derwood Spinks), Judith Hoag (Dr Mindy Rinehart), Lois Foraker (Sylvia Jassy), Bill Lee Brown (Mr Rice), Chasen Hampton (Hungry Guy), Kerry Zook (Lucy), Steve Kiziak (Steve), Kevin Porter (Motivational Speaker), Susan Slome (Woman at O.A.)

The Goldberg Variation

Episode Number: 7X02
Original Air Date: December 12, 1999
Writer: Jeffrey Bell
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Summary: Mulder and Scully get caught in a real-life Rube Goldberg device when they meet Henry Weems, who just may be the luckiest man on Earth - except everyone around him don't seem to be that lucky.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Willie Garson (Henry Weems), Bobby Moynahan (Paramedic), Dominique DiPrima (Megan McLean), Ernie Lee Banks (Maurice), Marshall Manesh (Mr. Jank), Dom Magwili (Mr. Ng), Nicholas Worth (Mr. Hass), Tony Longo (Dominic), Ramy Zada (Joe Cutrona), Alyson Reed (Maggie Lupone), Chris Fogleman (Billy), Shia LaBeouf (Richie Lupone)

The Sixth Extinction

Episode Number: 7X03
Writer: Chris Carter
Director: Kim Manners
Original Air Date: November 7, 1999
Summary: While Scully travels to Africa to piece together the meaning of the symbols on the spaceship beached on the Ivory Coast, Mulder is imprisoned by his own frenetic brain activity. He manages to get a message to Skinner who finds Kritschgau and together they try to understand what is happening to Mulder before it is too late.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Mimi Rogers (Agent Diana Fowley), Mitch Pileggi (Assistant Director Walter Skinner), John Finn (Michael Kritschgau), Conrad Roberts (Primitive African Man), Jo Nell Kennedy (Amina Ngebe), Michael Ensign (Dr. Barnes), Anthony Okungbowa (Barnes' Driver), Abdoulaye N'Gom (Driver), Mari Weiss (I.C.U. Nurse), Warren Sweeney (Dr. Harriman)

The Sixth Extinction 2: Amor Fati

Episode Number: 7X04
Original Air Date: November 14, 1999
Writer: Jeffrey Bell
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Summary: Scully frantically searches for a way to help her ailing partner without having anyone to turn to for help, while a catatonic Mulder's dreams lead him away from his mission and the X-Files to a place which he believes is a better life.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), William B. Davis (Cigarette Smoking Man), Nicholas Lea (Alex Krycek), Mitch Pileggi (Assistant Director Walter Skinner), Mimi Rogers (Agent Diana Fowley), Jerry Hardin (Deep Throat), Rebecca Toolan (Teena Mulder), Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman (Albert Hosteen), Arlene Pileggi (Skinner's Secretary), John Finn (Michael Kritschgau), Steven Cavarno (Dream Boy), Martin Grey (Agent Flagler), Andrew Cavarno (Dream Boy), Warren Sweeney (Dr. Harriman), Fritz Greve (Bearded Man), Henry Schwartz (Toddler), Megan Leitch (Samantha Mulder), Brian George (Project Doctor), Anthony Anselmi (Paramedic)

Millennium

Episode Number: 7X05
Original Air Date: November 28, 1999
Writers: Frank Spotnitz and Vince Gilligan
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Summary: As the year 2000 draws closer, the agents are up against a man from the Millennium Group who believes that he can bring about the end of the world on the 31st of December if he resurrects 4 former members from the dead. To gain more insight into the group and its practices, Mulder and Scully enlist criminal profiler Frank Black to assist them in the investigation.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder),Mitch Pileggi (Assistant Director Walter Skinner), Lance Henriksen (Frank Black), Marilyn McIntyre (Widow), Brittany Tiplady (Jordan Black), William Forward (Funeral Director), Colby French (Deputy), Holmes Osborne (Mark Johnson), Eulan Middlebrooks (Young Cop), Stephen Ramsey (First Agent), Romy Walthall (Second Agent), Octavia Spencer (Nurse), Monnae Michaell (Female Coroner), Dick Clark (Himself), Michael Dempsey (Sheriff)

Rush

Episode Number: 7X06
Original Air Date: December 5, 1999
Writer: David Amann
Director: Robert Lieberman
Summary: A young man who has gained the ability to move faster than the eye can see begins to use his new power to kill his enemies, including the local sheriff who happens to be his father.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Bill Dow (Dr Charles Burks), Rachel Winfree (Nurse), Christopher Wynne (Deputy), Les Lannom (Deputy Foster), Tom Bower (Sheriff Harden), Ann Dowd (Mrs. Reed), Nicki Lynn Aycox (Chastity Raines), Scott Cooper (Max Harden), Rodney Scott (Tony Reed), David Wells (Mr. Babbitt)

Orison

Episode Number: 7X07
Original Air Date: January 9, 2000
Writer: Chip Johannessen
Director: Rob Bowman
Summary: Reverend Orison hopes to save Donnie Pfaster's soul by helping him break out of prison, but he is very wrong though, when Donnie immediately plans to go after the victim that once escaped him--Scully.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Nick Chinlund (Donald Pfaster), Irene Muzzy (Waitress), Tara Buck (Blueberry), Rick Cramer (Guard), Lisa Arch (Lady in Red), Emilio Rivera (Brigham), Steve Rankin (US Marshal Daddo), Eric Buker (US Marshal)

The Amazing Maleeni

Episode Number: 7X08
Original Air Date: January 16, 2000
Writers: Frank Spotnitz, John Shiban, and Vince Gilligan
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Summary: When a small-time magician performs a trick where it appears that he turns his head all the way around but is then found in his van dead with his head neatly sawn off, Mulder and Scully suspect he was murdered and get caught up in an intricate scheme planned by two magicians trying to rob a bank.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Ricky Jay (Herman & Albert Pinchbeck), Steven Barr (Courier Guard) J. David (Young Boss), Sherri Howard (Female Employee), Dan Rice (Uniform Cop), Dennis Keiffer (Bullethead #2), Mark Chaet (Bank Officer), Rick Marzan (Holding Cell Officer), Jim Maniaci (Bullethead), Robert LaSardo (Cissy Alvarez), Jonathan Levit (Billy LaBonge), Adam Vernier (Driver)

Signs and Wonders

Episode Number: 7X09
Original Air Date: January 23, 2000
Writer: Jeffrey Bell
Director: Kim Manners
Summary: Snakes are killing the unrighteous, but Mulder and Scully doubt that this is a case of divine intervention.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Elyse Donalson (Elderly Woman), Dan Manning (Deputy), Phyllis Franklin (Middle Aged Woman), Stevie Johnson (EMT), Clement E. Blake (Holy Spirit Man #2), Philip Lenkowsky (Holy Spirit Man #1), Beth Grant (Iris Finster), Eric Nenninger (Jared Chirp), Michael Childers (Reverend Enoch O'Connor), Tracy Middendorf (Gracie), Randy Oglesby (Reverend Samuel Mackey), Donna May (Holy Spirit Woman #1)

Sein Und Zeit

Episode Number: 7X10
Original Air Date: February 6, 2000
Writers: Frank Spotnitz and Chris Carter
Director: Michael W. Watkins
Summary: A young girl unexplainably disappears from her home and Mulder requests the case even though it is a full FBI matter, not just an X-File. When Mulder takes some outrageous leaps to convince the girl's parents that she will be found, Scully fears that Mulder is becoming too personally involved with the case because of his sister's abduction.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Rebecca Toolan (Teena Mulder), Mitch Pileggi (Assistant Director Walter Skinner), Martin Grey (Agent Flagler), Kim Darby (Kathy Lee Tencate), Spencer Garrett (Bring), Megan Corletto (Amber Lynn LaPierre), Shareen J. Mitchell (Billy LaPierre), Mark Rolston (Bud LaPierre), Dylan Stjepovic (Dean Tencate), Nancy Tiballi (News Anchor #1), John Bisom (News Anchor #2), Marie Chambers (Guard), John Harnagel (World Weary Dad), Randall Bosley (Ed)

Closure

Episode Number: 7X11
Original Air Date: February 13, 2000
Writers: Frank Spotnitz and Chris Carter
Director: Kim Manners
Summary: After arresting the murderer of Amber-Lynn LaPierre and discovering a mass gravesite containing the bodies of dozens of missing children, a man comes to Mulder and claims to have had visions of other victims who aren't buried at the site. Despite Scully's objections, he takes Mulder on a journey which reveals what truly happened to his sister.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Rebecca Toolan (Teena Mulder), William B. Davis (Cigarette Smoking Man), Stanley Anderson (Agent Lewis Schoniger), Anthony Heald (Harold Piller), Norman Smith (Detective #3), Jeff Xander (Detective #2), Fort Atkinson (Detective #1), Nicholas Stratton (Ghost Boy), Megan Corletto (Amber Lynn LaPierre), Ed Beechner (Cop), Christopher Wynne (Base Cop), Patience Cleveland (Artubus Ray), Mimi Paley (Samantha Mulder)

X-Cops

Episode Number: 7X12
Original Air Date: February 20, 2000
Writer: Vince Gilligan
Director: Michael W. Watkins
Summary: A Los Angeles police officer who is being filmed for the show COPS is attacked by a strange monster and Mulder and Scully are investigating the case. Scully is wary of having their faces put on national television but Mulder welcomes the publicity.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Daniel Emmett (Cameraman), Frankie Ray (Crackhead), Solomon Eversol (Sketch Artist), Cheryl Comstock (Sheriff #1), Ron Gilbert (Sheriff #2), Diane Harris (Sheriff #3), Boris Nikolof (Sheriff #4), Scott Arger (Sheriff #5), Kevin Boggs (Sheriff #6), Esther Myare (Sheriff #7), Steve Sciacca (Sheriff #8), John Michael Vaughn (Soundman), Maria Celedonio (Chantara Gomez), Lombardo Boyar (Spanish Speaking Deputy), Judson Mills (Deputy Keith Wetzel), Dee Freeman (Sergeant Paula Guthrie), Perla Walter (Mrs Guerrero), J.W. Smith (Steve), Curtis C. (Edy), Michael Maher (Redhead Deputy), Tara Karsian (Coroner's Assistant), Mary Campbell (Sheriff #9)

First Person Shooter

Episode Number: 7X13
Original Air Date: February 27, 2000
Writers: Tom Maddox and William Gibson
Director: Chris Carter
Summary: The Lone Gunmen call Mulder and Scully to a Virtual Reality development lab where they learn that one of the program testers was killed inside the computer generated game environment by the digital image of a woman. Needing to get his yah-yah's, Mulder enters the game to fight the woman but Scully must step in to save him.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Bruce Harwood (Byers), Dean Haglund (Langly), Tom Braidwood (Frohike), Christopher Ng (Darryl Musashi), John Marrott (Security Guard), James Geralden (Detective Lacoeur), Ryan Todd (Moxie), Billy Ray Gallion (Retro), Constance Zimmer (Phoebe), Jamie Marsh (Ivan), Krista Allen (Jade Blue Afterglow/Maitreya), Michael Bower (Lo-Fat)

Theef

Episode Number: 7X14
Original Air Date: March 12, 2000
Writers: Vince Gilligan, John Shiban, and Frank Spotnitz
Director: Kim Manners
Summary: Mulder and Scully are called in to investigate a series of murders where the victims are all in some way related to a wealthy, well-educated doctor. As they search for clues the FBI agents discover the apparent motive is revenge. Years ago the doctor was involved in the euthanasia of a young girl on the verge of death. Once again, Mulder must race against time to find who is behind the killings before the doctor and (more importantly) Scully become the next victims.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Cara Jedell (Lucy Wieder), Tom Dahlgren (Dr Irving Thalbro), Sage Allen (Landlady), Pamela Gordon (Proprietor), Michael Sidney (Security Guard), Matthew Sutherland (Records Clerk), Dylan Kussman (Med Student), Aaron Braxton (Radiology Tech), Kate McNeil (Nan Wieder), James Morrison (Dr Robert Wieder), Mark Thompson (Reporter #2), Billy Drago (Mr. Peattie), Leah Sanders (Reporter #1)

En Ami

Episode Number: 7X15
Original Air Date: March 19, 2000
Writer: William B. Davis
Director: Rob Bowman
Summary: After the miraculous recovery of a young boy who had cancer, Mulder and Scully investigate what has happened but Scully is shocked when The Smoking Man tells her that he cured the boy and offers to show Scully the cure for cancer if she travels with him. But hides her trip from Mulder.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Dean Haglund (Langly), Tom Braidwood (Frohike), Mitch Pileggi (Assistant Director Walter Skinner), William B. Davis (Cigarette Smoking Man), Bruce Harwood (Byers), Louise Latham (Marjorie Butters), Michael Shamus Wiles (Black Haired Man), Tom Bailey (Apartment Manager), Thomas Roe (Guard), Jacqueline Schultz (Irene McPeck), Michael Canavan (Cameron McPeck), Cory Parravano (Jason McPeck), Timothy Landfield (Scientist/Cobra)

Chimera

Episode Number: 7X16
Original Air Date: April 2, 2000
Writer: David Amann
Director: Cliff Bole
Summary: As Mulder investigates a missing person case with a key feature being a menacing raven, he learns to enjoy the creature comforts of a well-tended home while Scully must tough it out on an uncomfortable stakeout.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Mitch Pileggi (Assistant Director Walter Skinner), John Mese (Sheriff Phil Adderly), F. William Parker (Dr. Blankenship), Gina Mastrogiacomo (Jenny Uphouse), Michelle Joyner (Ellen Adderly), Ashley Edner (Michelle Crittendon), Charles Hoyes (Howard Crittendon), Wendy Schall (Martha Crittendon)

all things

Episode Number: 7X17
Original Air Date: April 9, 2000
Writer: Gillian Anderson
Director: Gillian Anderson
Summary: A series of coincidences puts Scully in contact with someone from her past, a married man who she once had an affair with during medical school, but is dying. This causes her to question her romantic and professional choices in her life. Meanwhile Mulder investigates crop circles.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Scott Vance (Healer), Cheryl White (Nurse #3), Elayn Taylor (Nurse #2), Carol Banker (Carol), Victoria Faerber (Nurse #1), Nicolas Surovy (Dr Daniel Waterston), Stephen Hornyak (Dr Paul Kopeikan), Stacy Haiduk (Maggie Waterston), Colleen Flynn (Colleen Azar)

Hollywood AD

Episode Number: 7X18
Original Air Date: April 30, 2000
Writers: David Duchovny and Jeffrey Bell
Director: David Duchovny
Summary: Mulder and Scully watch a movie with themselves as characters and are thoroughly disgusted at how they and their case are portrayed on the big screen. They recount how 18 months earlier they were followed around by a Hollywood producer while investigating a case concerning 'The Lazarus Bowl' a mythical piece of pottery reputed to have inscribed on it the words that Jesus Christ spoke when he raised Lazarus from the dead.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Mitch Pileggi (Assistant Director Walter Skinner), Bill Dow (Dr Charles Burks), Tony Amendola (Cigarette Smoking Pontiff), Garry Shandling (Himself), Téa Leoni (Herself), Harris Yulin (Cardinal O'Fallon), Wayne Federman (Wayne Federman), Paul Lieber (Micah Hoffman), Chris Carter (Audience Member) David Alan Grier (Audience Member), Bill Millar (Director), Tina M. Ameduri (Tina), Tim Roe (Zombie), Barry K. Thomas (Sugar Bear), Minnie Driver (Audience Member)

Brand X

Episode Number: 7X19
Original Air Date: April 16, 2000
Writers: Greg Walker and Steven Maeda
Director: Kim Manners
Summary: When an employee of Morley Tobacco Co. is apparently killed by tobacco beetles, Mulder suspects that the beetles have hatched inside his lungs and found their way there through inhalation of smoke from an experimental cigarette.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Mitch Pileggi (Assistant Director Walter Skinner), Richard Cox (Daniel Brimley), Shannon O'Hurley (Anne Voss), Tobin Bell (Daryl Weaver), Dennis Boutsikaris (Dr. Peter Voss), Matthew T. Wilson (Manager), Greg Poland (2nd Windbreaker Man), David Sawyer (Security Man), Rick Deats (Dr. Jim Scobie), Caryn West (Dr. Libby Nance), Pat Destro (Joan Scobie), Ron Marasco (Doctor), Arthur Rosenberg (Lead Counsel), Michael Hungerford (Thomas Gastall)

Fight Club

Episode Number: 7X20
Original Air Date: May 7, 2000
Writer: Chris Carter
Director: Paul Shapiro
Summary: The Agents cross paths with a pair of doppelgangers whose close proximity with each other leaves a trail of destruction across 17 states. Mulder and Scully must first understand why this is happening before they can stop it. But the Agents soon realise that the only way to stop the destruction is by stopping the girls meeting up, but this becomes difficult when both fall in love with the same man.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Arlene Pileggi (Woman Who Looks Like Scully), Steve Kiziak (Man Who Looks Like Mulder), Cory Blevins (Missionary #1), John O'Brien (Missionary #2), Christopher Michael (Trusty), Brian Chenoweth (Koko's Manager #1), Jim Hanna (Koko's Manager #2), Nicole Bush (Customer #1), Paul Hansen Kim (Customer #2), John Mack (Customer #3), Kathy Griffin (Betty Templeton/Lulu Pfeiffer), Randall "Tex" Cobb (Burt Zupanic), Art Evans (Argyle Saperstein), Jack McGee (Bob Damphouse), Gene LeBell (Bartender), Rob Szatkowski (Burt's Opponent (as Rob Van Dam))

Je Souhaite

Episode Number: 7X21
Original Air Date: May 14, 2000
Writer: Vince Gilligan
Director: Vince Gilligan
Summary: Mulder and Scully discover a genie in a rug who, after 500 years of granting wishes, has come to the conclusion that people are still as greedy and self-centered as they always have been and she begins to corrupt the wishes she grants if they are not 'specific' enough.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Mitch Pileggi (Assistant Director Walter Skinner), Kevin Weisman (Anson Stokes), Will Sasso (Lesley Stokes), Paula Sorge (Jenn), Brett Bell (Morgue Attendant), Paul Hayes (Jay Gilmore)

Requiem

Episode Number: 7X22
Original Air Date: May 21, 2000
Writer: Chris Carter
Director: Kim Manners
Summary: Mulder and Scully return to the town of their first X-Files investigation where a UFO has crashed in the forest. CSM arranges for Krycek to be released from prison in order for him to make contact with the aliens and begin rebuilding the 'Project', while Scully's health appears to be taking a turn.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Laurie Holden (Marita Covarrubias) Tom Braidwood (Frohike), Dean Haglund (Langly), Bruce Harwood (Byers), Brian Thompson (Bounty Hunter), Zachary Ansley (Billy Miles), William B. Davis (Cigarette Smoking Man), Nicholas Lea (Alex Krycek), Mitch Pileggi (Assistant Director Walter Skinner), Andy Umberger (Special Agent Chesty Short), Sarah Koskoff (Teresa Hoese), Gretchen Becker (Greta), Darin Cooper (Deputy Ray Hoese), Eddie Kaye Thomas (Gary Cory), Leon Russom (Detective Miles), Peter MacDissi (Prison Guard), Grace deMontesquiou (Baby), Kelly deMontesquiou (Baby), Judd Trichter (Richie Szalay)

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