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The X-Files Season 4 |
| The X-Files Season 4 : |
| The prophetic words of the alien Bounty Hunter resonate throughout the fourth season beginning with the near death of Mulder's mother and the murder of the mysterious X. Even the return of Alex Krycek and the alien black oil are overshadowed by Scully's cancer. Then the tragic reappearance of Max Fenig leads to the death of a fellow FBI agent. Yet even as these events strengthen Mulder's belief in a growing conspiracy a startling truth revealed to Scully plunges him into a crisis of faith which could prove his ultimate undoing. |
| Episode 1 - [Herrenvolk] |
| Details : 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 the hospital but the bounty hunter catches up with them. Meanwhile the Syndicate suspects that they have a traitor in their midst and plan a trap which results in X being executed by the Cigarette-Smoking Man. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Roy Thinnes | Mitch Pileggi | Brendan Beiser | Rebecca Toolan | Brian Thompson as Alien Bounty Hunter | Vanessa Morley | Laurie Holden as Marita Covarrubias | Garvin Cross | Morris Panych | Don S. Williams | Steven Williams | William B. Davis | Director : R. W. Goodwin | Writer : Chris Carter | |
| Air Date : Oct. 04, 1996 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 2 - [Home] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Tucker Smallwood | Neil Denis | Douglas Smith | Judith Maxie | Chris Cagle | Adrian G. Griffiths | John Trottier | Chris Carter | Cory Frye | Sebastian Spence as Deputy Barney Paster | Karin Konoval as Little Judy Poundstone / Little Chucky Poundstone / Mrs. Peacock /Madame Zelma | Writer : James Wong | Writer : Glen Morgan | Director : Kim Manners | |
| Air Date : Oct. 11, 1996 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 3 - [Teliko] |
| Details : After several African-American men are killed and the color 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Carl Lumbly | Mitch Pileggi | Zakes Mokae | Don Stewart | Brendan Beiser | Laurie Holden as Marita Covarrubias | Maxine Guess | Willie Amakye | Bob Morrisey | Sean Campbell | Dexter Bell | Geoffrey Ayi-Bonte | Writer : Howard Gordon | Director : Jim Charleston | |
| Air Date : Oct. 18, 1996 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 4 - [Unruhe] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Pruitt Taylor Vince | Michael Cram | Sharon Alexander | Scott Heindl | Ron Chartier | Michele Melland | Angela Donahue | Walter Marsh | William MacDonald as Officer Trott | Director : Rob Bowman | Writer : Vince Gilligan | |
| Air Date : Oct. 27, 1996 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 5 - [The Field Where I Died] |
| Details : 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 schizophrenic but Mulder allows himself to be drawn into her fantasies. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Kristen Cloke | Donna White | Mitch Pileggi | Michael Dobson | Les Gallagher | Michael Massee | Anthony Harrison | Douglas Roy Dack | Doug Abrahams | Writer : James Wong | Writer : Glen Morgan | Director : Rob Bowman | |
| Air Date : Nov. 03, 1996 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 6 - [Sanguinarium] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Richard Beymer | O-Lan Jones | Andrew Arlie | John Juliani | Greg Thirloway | Nancy J. Lilley | Celine Lockhart | Arlene Mazerolle | Nina Roman | Marie Stillin | Paul Raskin | Writer : Vivian Mayhew | Writer : Valerie Mayhew | Director : Kim Manners | |
| Air Date : Nov. 10, 1996 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 7 - [Musings Of A Cigarette Smoking Man] |
| Details : 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 U.S. 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 Cigarette Smoking Man take to ensure that he remains a mystery forever? |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Donnelly Rhodes | Jerry Hardin | Chris Owens as Mutato | Peter Hanlon | David Fredericks | Marc Baur | Tom Braidwood as Melvin Frohike | Morgan Weisser | Laurie Murdoch | Colin Lawrence | Dean Aylesworth | William B. Davis | Anthony Ashbee | Jude Zachary | Peter Mele | Steve Oatway | Gonzalo Canton | Michael St. John Smith | Paul Jarrett | Bruce Harwood as John Fitzgerald Byers | Dan Zukovic as Martin | Writer : James Wong | Writer : Glen Morgan | Director : Glen Morgan | Director : James Wong | |
| Air Date : Nov. 17, 1996 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 8 - [Tunguska] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Fritz Weaver | Jan Rube | Mitch Pileggi | Stefan Arngrim | Campbell Lane | Brendan Beiser | Malcolm Stewart | John Neville as Well-Manicured Man | Laurie Holden as Marita Covarrubias | Robin Mossley | Brent Stait | Olesky Shostak | John Hainsworth | Nicholas Lea as Alex Krycek | William B. Davis | Jessica Schreier | Eileen Pedde | David Bloom | Lee Serpa | Writer : Frank Spotnitz | Writer : Chris Carter | Director : Rob Bowman | Director : Kim Manners | |
| Air Date : Nov. 24, 1996 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 9 - [Terma] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Fritz Weaver | Jan Rube | Mitch Pileggi | Stefan Arngrim | Campbell Lane | Brendan Beiser | Malcolm Stewart | John Neville as Well-Manicured Man | Robin Mossley | Brent Stait | Olesky Shostak | John Hainsworth | Nicholas Lea as Alex Krycek | William B. Davis | Jessica Schreier | Eileen Pedde | Brenda McDonald | Writer : Frank Spotnitz | Writer : Chris Carter | Director : Rob Bowman | |
| Air Date : Dec. 01, 1996 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 10 - [Paper Hearts] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jenny-Lynn Hutcheson | Mitch Pileggi | Carly McKillip | Byrne Piven | Rebecca Toolan | Vanessa Morley | Tom Noonan | Paul Bittante | Sonia Norris | John Dadey | Director : Rob Bowman | Writer : Vince Gilligan | |
| Air Date : Dec. 15, 1996 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 11 - [El Mundo Gira] |
| Details : A strange yellow rain kills a migrant girl and her family believes that a mythical creature was the cause and has manifested itself inside the brother of her fiancé who has since disappeared. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Raymond Cruz | Rubén Blades | Mitch Pileggi | Michael Kopsa | Lillian Hurst | Jose Yenque | Robert Thurston | Pamela Diaz | Tina Amayo | Tatjana Simic | Susan Bain | Director : Tucker Gates | Writer : John Shiban | |
| Air Date : Jan. 12, 1997 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 12 - [Leonard Betts] |
| Details : 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 tumors to keep up his strength. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Paul McCrane | Jennifer Clement | Lucia Walters | Brad Loree | Marjorie Lovett | Greg Newmeyer | Bill Dow | Ken Jones | Sean Campbell | Dave Hurtubise | Don Ackerman | Laara Sadiq | J. Douglas Stewart as Male EMT | Peter Bryant as The Uniformed Cop | Writer : Frank Spotnitz | Writer : John Shiban | Writer : Vince Gilligan | Director : Kim Manners | |
| Air Date : Jan. 26, 1997 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 13 - [Never Again] |
| Details : While Mulder is forced to take a vacation he leaves Scully with an assignment to keep her busy until he returns. However she 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jodie Foster | Rodney Rowland | Carla Stewart | Barry 'Bear' Horton | Igor Morozov | Rita Bozi | Jan Bailey Mattia | Marilyn Chin | Jillian Fargey | Bill Croft | Peter Nadler | Jay Donahue | Jenn Forgie | Ian Robison | B.J. Harrison as Hannah | Natasha Vasiluk | Writer : James Wong | Writer : Glen Morgan | Director : Rob Bowman | |
| Air Date : Feb. 02, 1997 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 14 - [Memento Mori] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Gillian Barber | Mitch Pileggi | David Lovgren | Tom Braidwood as Melvin Frohike | Morris Panych | Julie Bond | Sean Allen | William B. Davis | Sheila Larken as Margaret Scully | Bruce Harwood as John Fitzgerald Byers | Dean Haglund as Richard 'Ringo' Langly | Writer : Frank Spotnitz | Writer : John Shiban | Writer : Chris Carter | Director : Rob Bowman | Writer : Vince Gilligan | |
| Air Date : Feb. 09, 1997 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 15 - [Kaddish] |
| Details : Issac Luria a Jewish man is killed by a group of teenagers working for a racist shop owner but one of them is soon strangled to death and the fingerprints on his neck are from Issac. Despite other factors Mulder becomes convinced that the man has returned from the dead to exact revenge. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Channon Roe | David Groh | Justine Miceli | Jabin Litwiniec | Timur Karabilgin | David Wohl | Jonathan Whittaker | Murrey Rabinovitch | David Freedman | Harrison Coe | George Gordon as Detective | Director : Michael Lange | Writer : Howard Gordon | Writer : Chris Carter | Director : Kim Manners | |
| Air Date : Feb. 16, 1997 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 16 - [Unrequited] |
| Details : When a U.S. military general is inexplicably murdered in the back of his limousine a paramilitary group is suspected. They believe it was a soldier who they liberated from a Vietnam POW camp and is plotting to kill certain corrupt military figures. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Scott Hylands | Mark Holden | Mitch Pileggi | Peter LaCroix | Larry Musser | Don McWilliams | Laurie Holden as Marita Covarrubias | Bill Agnew | Allan Franz | Bill Nunn | William S. Taylor | Michael Ryan | Jen Jasey | Lesley Ewen | Jennifer Jasey as Female Private (as Jen Jasey) | Director : Michael Lange | Writer : Howard Gordon | Writer : Chris Carter | |
| Air Date : Feb. 23, 1997 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 17 - [Tempus Fugit] |
| Details : While celebrating Scully's 33rd birthday a strange woman informs Mulder that NICAP member Max Fenig (see Fallen Angel) 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Joe Spano | Jon Ratt | Mitch Pileggi | Scott Bellis | Tom O'Brien | Brendan Beiser | Chilton Crane | Greg Michaels | Jerry Schram | Robert Moloney | Rick Dobran | David Palffy | Jon Raitt | Marek Wiedman | Mark Wilson as The Pilot | Felicia Shulman as Motel Manager | Stacy Fair as Flight Attendant (uncredited) | Writer : Frank Spotnitz | Writer : Chris Carter | Director : Rob Bowman | |
| Air Date : Mar. 16, 1997 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 18 - [Max] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Joe Spano | Mitch Pileggi | Scott Bellis | Tom O'Brien | Brendan Beiser | Chilton Crane | Greg Michaels | Jerry Schram | Robert Moloney | Rick Dobran | David Palffy | Mark Wilson as The Pilot | Felicia Shulman as Motel Manager | Stacy Fair as Flight Attendant (uncredited) | Writer : Frank Spotnitz | Writer : Chris Carter | Director : Kim Manners | |
| Air Date : Mar. 23, 1997 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 19 - [Synchrony] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jed Rees | Joseph Fuqua | Michael Fairman | Hiro Kanagawa | Jonathan Walker | Austin Basile | Eric Buermeyer | Patricia Idlette | Alison Matthews | Brent Chapman | Susan Lee Hoffman | Writer : Howard Gordon | Writer : David Greenwalt | Director : Jim Charleston | |
| Air Date : Apr. 06, 1997 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 20 - [Small Potatoes] |
| Details : Five babies in the same town are all born with tails and the local OB-GYN is blamed for tampering with fertilized eggs. However Mulder discovers the culprit to be a simple man with a genetic deformity who may have the ability to alter his appearance. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Paul McGillion | Mitch Pileggi | Christine Cavanaugh | Peter Kelamis as Daniel Costa | Constance Barnes | P. Lynn Johnson | David Cameron | Monica Gemmer | Carrie Cain-Sparks | Darin Morgan | Director : Cliff Bole | Writer : Vince Gilligan | |
| Air Date : Apr. 20, 1997 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 21 - [Zero Sum] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Mitch Pileggi | Barry Greene | Paul Anthony McLean | Laurie Holden as Marita Covarrubias | Morris Panych | Nicolle Nattrass | Don S. Williams | Theresa Puskar | William B. Davis | John Moore | Allan Gray | Fred Keating as Ray Thomas | Lisa Stewart as Jane Brody | Jason Griffith as Uniformed Officer | Christopher Newton as Photo Technician | Marites Pineda as Crying Girl (uncredited) | Writer : Howard Gordon | Writer : Frank Spotnitz | Director : Kim Manners | |
| Air Date : Apr. 27, 1997 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 22 - [Elegy] |
| Details : After a man sees a woman trapped inside a bowling alley pin setter he goes for help and finds police standing next to a 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 mentally challenged man who works at the bowling alley. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Sydney Lassick | Christine Willes | Steven M. Porter | Lorena Gale | Ken Tremblett | Nancy Fish | Danny Kamin | Alex Bruhanski | Mike Puttonen | Gerry Naim | Writer : John Shiban | Director : Jim Charleston | |
| Air Date : May. 04, 1997 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 23 - [Demons] |
| Details : Mulder undergoes an experimental form of hypnotherapy to recover his memories about his sister's abduction but the treatment has side effects including psychotic behavior and Mulder wakes up one morning in a motel room with someone else's blood all over him. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jay Acovone | Chris Owens as Mutato | Mike Nussbaum | Andrew Johnston | Rebecca Toolan | Vanessa Morley | Rebecca Harker | Shelley Adam | Dean Aylesworth | Alex Haythorne | Eric Breker | Terry Barclay as Officer Imhof | Writer : R. W. Goodwin | Director : Kim Manners | |
| Air Date : May. 11, 1997 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 24 - [Gethsemane] |
| Details : While investigating the discovery of a preserved alien body found in the mountains of Canada Mulder is contacted by Michael Kritschgau. He tells Mulder about a government conspiracy to make people believe in aliens without question and Mulder has been the prime target. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : John Finn | Charles Cioffi | James Sutorius | Pat Skipper | Matthew Walker | John Oliver | Steve Makha | Barry W. Levy | Arnie Walters | Bobby Freeman | Craig Burnanski | Sheila Larken as Margaret Scully | Nancy Kerr as Agent Hedin | Director : R. W. Goodwin | Writer : Chris Carter | |
| Air Date : May. 18, 1997 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★★ |