Episode Guide: Season 8

Within - Without - Redrum - Patience - Roadrunners - Invocation - Via Negativa - Per Manum - Surekill - Salvage - The Gift - Badlaa - Medusa - This is Not Happening - DeadAlive - Vienen - Empedocles - Three Words - Alone - Essence - Existence

Within

Episode Number: 8X01
Original Air Date: November 5, 2000
Writer: Chris Carter
Director: Kim Manners
Summary: Newly appointed Deputy Director Kersh organises a manhunt for Mulder and assigns Agent John Doggett to head the team. Scully and Skinner go along with the investigation, but are warned by Kersh that they will be fired if anything is said about aliens. Scully, along with the Lone Gunmen, summise that the Bounty Hunter is trying to erase all evidence of abductions and they realise that he may be going after Gibson Praise, who is now living at a school in Arizona. Agent Doggett comes to the same conclusion and his team race Scully and Skinner to the school where they find Mulder trying to kidnap Gibson.
Cast: Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder), Robert Patrick (Special Agent John Doggett), Jeff Gulka (Gibson Praise), Kirk B.R. Woller (Agent Gene Crane), Bruce Harwood (Byers), Dean Haglund (Langly), Tom Braidwood (Frohike), James Pickens Jr. (Deputy Director Kersh), Mitch Pileggi (Assistant Director Walter Skinner), Dondre T. Whitfield (Agent), Jo-Ann Dean (Secretary), Marty Zagon (Mr. Coeben), Marc Gomes (Agent Danny Mosley), Jonathan Palmer (Principal), Christine Firkins (Thea Sprecher).

Without

Episode Number: 8X02
Original Air Date: November 12, 2000
Summary: As the search for Mulder intensifies in the Arizona desert, Gibson Praise leads Scully to believe that she is truly closer to her target. Meanwhile AD Kersh informs Agent Doggett that he has been assigned as Mulder's sucessor on the X-Files.

Redrum

Episode Number: 8X03
Original Air Date: December 10, 2000
Summary: A prominent lawyer wakes to find himself in jail and about to be prosecuted for the murder of his wife. He has no memory of this event however, and when the days begin to regress backward towards the murder, he realizes that he has been given a second chance.

Patience

Episode Number: 8X04
Original Air Date: November 19, 2000
Summary: While tackling his first X-File case about a series of gruesome murders surrounding a bat-like creature, Doggett quickly learns that his investigative techniques are somewhat dissimilar to Scully's.

Roadrunners

Episode Number: 8X05
Original Air Date: November 26, 2000
Summary: Scully travels to Utah, without Doggett, on a murder case. Just after making a call to Doggett, Scully finds herself trapped in a tiny town where the locals oblige her to care for another stranger in town. Little does Scully know that the village harbors a large religious cult, which is preparing to offer up a human host for a hideous sluglike monster that has been identified as the Second Coming.

Invocation

Episode Number: 8X06
Original Air Date: December 3, 2000
Summary: In 1990 a little boy unexplainably disappeared from his crowded school playground and was never seen again; that is until now, ten years later, and he hasn't aged a day since.

Via Negativa

Episode Number: 8X07
Original Air Date: December 17, 2000
Summary: Working without Scully's input, Doggett and Skinner try to avert the mysterious murder spree of a drug-induced, religious cult leader and it becomes clear that the man can enter the dreams of the people he knows and can kill them in their sleep.

Per Manum

Episode Number: 8X08
Original Air Date: February 18, 2001
Summary: When Scully and Doggett are contacted by a man who claims his wife was murdered shortly after giving birth to an alien baby, Scully digs deeper into reports of alien fertilization on humans and she begins to question her own pregnancy and it's conception.

Surekill

Episode Number: 8X09
Original Air Date: January 7, 2001
Summary: When a real estate agent is shot inside a prison cell by someone who apparently fired from the roof, Scully and Doggett track him to two exterminators, one of whom has x-ray vision.

Salvage

Episode Number: 8X10
Original Air Date: January 14, 2001
Summary: A man whose blood is rapidly changing into metal alloy enacts revenge on those who caused his condition.

The Gift

Episode Number: 8X11
Original Air Date: February 4, 2001
Summary: Doggett comes upon an old case that Mulder kept secret from Scully and he follows up the investigation, hoping to find a possible connection to Mulder's disappearance.

Badlaa

Episode Number: 8X12
Original Air Date: January 21, 2001
Summary: An Indian mystic whose son died in a chemical plant accident smuggles himself into the United States and and takes his revenge on two families in suburban Washington D.C.

Medusa

Episode Number: 8X13
Original Air Date: February 11, 2001
Summary: Scully and Doggett must race against the clock to investigate and fight off a contagion lurking in the subway tunnels of Boston.

This Is Not Happening

Episode Number: 8X14
Original Air Date: February 25, 2001
Summary: When Teresa Hoese, the woman Scully & Mulder met the previous spring in Oregon just before Mulder was abducted, is found in a desert, returned from testing done on her by aliens, Doggett alerts Scully that this could have something to do with Mulder and his whereabouts. Skinner joins them and they travel to the hospital where Teresa is, clinging to life by a thread, and Scully realizes that this is exactly what's going on with Mulder. The agents catch up with Richie Szalay, who found Teresa Hoese and was looking for his friend, and talk to him. Richie says that the area has been heavily covered with UFO activity and thought he might find his friend here but instead found Teresa. Meanwhile, Jeremiah Smith is back with his friend, Absalom, who belives in the coming alien apocalypse. Jeremiah has been taking the returned abductees and secretly healing all their wounds so that they wouldn't die. Being a shapeshifter, Jeremiah walked into the hospital that Teresa Hoese was in and posed as her doctor, transfering her out to his place in the woods so that he might heal her, too. That night, Scully goes to talk to Skinner about how she's afraid that they're going to find Mulder like Teresa, near death or already dead. Skinner says they'll find him alive. The next day, Doggett calls Scully and Skinner out to a field to get another point of view from an FBI agent from New Orleans that worked on his son's murder case with him. Her name is Monica Reyes and she specializes in ritualistic crimes and religious cults. Monica thinks that Mulder may have joined some sort of UFO cult but Scully disagrees. That night, Reyes is driving back when she spots a UFO. She gets out, only to stumble onto the body of Richie's friend. With evidence, Scully, Skinner, Doggett, and Reyes storm the house of Jeremiah Smith, Absalom, and all the abductees that have been healed, looking for Mulder. Scully interviews Jeremiah, asking about Mulder, and Jeremiah says that he was trying to help Mulder when the FBI came storming in. Before she could do anything, Skinner pulls Scully out of the room to tell her that they found Mulder. They rush out to the field where people are standing over the lifeless body of Fox Mulder. Seeing that Mulder is dead, Scully rushes back to get Jeremiah to help but before she reaches the house, Jeremiah is abducted...

DeadAlive

Episode Number: 8X15
Original Air Date: April 1, 2001
Summary: Shortly after Mulder is buried, Billy Miles is found very dead but somehow comes back to life. Skinner and Scully put all their hopes into digging up Mulder and discovering that he too, is still alive. As Mulder lies in hospital without indication that he is going to fully recover, Krycek comes to Skinner and offers him a vaccine to the virus that has infected Mulder - but the cost of the vaccine is that Skinner has to kill Scully's unborn child.

Vienen

Episode Number: 8X16
Original Air Date: April 29, 2001
Summary: Mulder and Doggett are reluctantly thrown together to investigate several deaths aboard an oil rig and Mulder becomes convinced that the rig is really carrying the black oil alien.

Empedocles

Episode Number: 8X17
Original Air Date: April 22, 2001
Summary: Special Agent Reyes enlists Mulder's help in investigating a supernatural killer's connection to the unsolved murder of Agent Doggett's son, Luke.

Three Words

Episode Number: 8X18
Original Air Date: April 18, 2001
Summary: Mulder's request for reassignment to the X-Files is denied by Kersh, who hopes that Mulder will simply quit the FBI. When a census worker is killed on the White House lawn trying to get information to the President, Mulder gets in over his head trying to discover what the man knew.

Alone

Episode Number: 8X19
Original Air Date: May 6, 2001
Summary: While Scully takes maternity leave, Doggett is partnered with a young agent who is fascinated with the X-Files and has followed Mulder and Scully's careers. She and Doggett investigate the death of an old man and the disappearance of his son but when they disappear as well, Mulder, despite having left the FBI, heads out to search for them.

Essence

Episode Number: 8X20
Original Air Date: May 13, 2001
Summary: Mulder and Doggett join forces to investigate the arson attack on a genetics lab where one of the doctors suspected of experimenting with alien impregnation is killed. They encounter Billy Miles, who has been changed into an alien replicant after his recent abduction and is attempting to erase evidence of the tests; part of the Syndicate's conspiracy with an alien race. When a woman helping Scully out at home is found to be a part of the conspiracy, the agents, along with Monica Reyes and Alex Krycek, know they must protect Scully and her baby from Billy Miles and get her out of the city.

Existence

Episode Number: 8X21
Original Air Date: May 20, 2001
Summary: Mulder, Doggett and Skinner attempt to fight off the alien replicants and they find a connection to the conspiracy that leads into the FBI, while Reyes and Scully head to a remote farm to safeguard the birth of Scully's child.

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