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The X-Files Season 5 |
| The X-Files Season 5 : |
| Even as Scully’s genetically altered DNA brings her closer to the brink of death government agent Michael Kritschgau helps Mulder in the search for a cure partly to atone for his own involvement with perpetrating the alien hoax. Scully’s DNA comes into play once again when she discovers she is the mother of a little girl named Emily an incident that could only be related to her abduction years earlier. But in the end it is a young boy named Gibson Praise whose body may contain genetic proof of man’s relationship to an alien race — and who may hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of the X-Files. |
| Episode 1 - [Redux] |
| Details : Scully helps Mulder fake his own death in order for him to go undetected through the Department of Defence and find out the answers to his new questions about the government hoax concerning the existence of extraterrestrial life. Meanwhile at a joint FBI DOD inquiry Scully's attempt to drive out the Conspiracy's informant is halted as her cancer takes a bad turn. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : John Finn | Charles Cioffi | Mitch Pileggi | Pat Skipper | Tom Braidwood as Melvin Frohike | Steve Makaj | Ken Camroux-Taylor | Barry W. Levy | Don S. Williams | Julie Arkos | William B. Davis | Sheila Larken as Margaret Scully | Bruce Harwood as John Fitzgerald Byers | Dean Haglund as Richard 'Ringo' Langly | Writer : Chris Carter | |
| Air Date : Nov. 02, 1997 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 2 - [Redux II] |
| Details : The Cigarette-Smoking Man helps Mulder to obtain Scully's cure and also lets him see his real sister who doesn't turn out to be as happy to see Mulder as he would've liked. In return for this the Cigarette-Smoking Man asks that Mulder quit the FBI and work for him in the Syndicate where he could have power and respect which Mulder turns down deciding to stay on the side of justice. While Scully's cure appears to have worked the Cigarette-Smoking Man faces his own enemies and disappears presumed dead. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Erin Fitzgerald | John Finn | Charles Cioffi | Megan Leitch | Pat Skipper | Tom Braidwood as Melvin Frohike | Ken Camroux-Taylor | Don S. Williams | Arnie Walters | Brent Sheppard | William B. Davis | John Wright | Sheila Larken as Margaret Scully | Bruce Harwood as John Fitzgerald Byers | Dean Haglund as Richard 'Ringo' Langly | Writer : Chris Carter | |
| Air Date : Nov. 09, 1997 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 3 - [Unusual Suspects] |
| Details : Set in 1989 the story of the founding of The Lone Gunmen is finally told as we see how a straight-laced federal employee a sex mad AV expert and a nerdy computer hacker meet Susanne Modeski a strange woman with evidence of a government conspiracy. When their plan to expose the conspiracy fails and Susanne is captured by a group of men-in-black led by none other than X they soon become a paranoid group of government watchdogs. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Richard Belzer | Signy Coleman | Mitch Pileggi | Tom Braidwood as Melvin Frohike | Eric Knight | Kenneth H. Hawryliw | Chris Nelson Norris | Stuart O'Connell | Steven Williams | Glenn Williams | Gillian Anderson | Bruce Harwood as John Fitzgerald Byers | Dean Haglund as Richard 'Ringo' Langly | Writer : Vince Gilligan | Director : Kim Manners | |
| Air Date : Nov. 16, 1997 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 4 - [Detour] |
| Details : While on their way to an FBI group communication seminar Mulder and Scully manage to escape when they come across a situation in the Florida forest area where three men have recently disappeared. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Anthony Rapp | Colleen Flynn | Scott Burkholder | Merrilyn Gann | Simon Longmore | Alf Humphreys | J.C. Wendel | Tom Scholte | Tyler Thompson as Louis Asekoff | Director : Brett Dowler | Writer : Frank Spotnitz | |
| Air Date : Nov. 23, 1997 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 5 - [The Post-Modern Prometheus] |
| Details : Filmed in glorious black and white with a comic book feel to it this is a modern retelling of Frankenstein as Mulder and Scully get caught up in a town where the residents live on Jerry Springer episodes and fear a two-faced monster who has been impregnating the women. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : John O'Hurley as Dr. Pollidori | Chris Owens as Mutato | C. Ernst Harth as Huge Man | Pattie Tierce as Shaineh Berkowitz | Stewart Gale as Izzy Berkowitz | Chris Giacoletti as Booger | Tracey Bell as Cher | Vitaly Kravchenko as J.J. (uncredited) | Miriam Smith as Elizabeth Pollidori | Jerry Springer as Jerry Springer | Lloyd Berry as Old Man Pollidori | Xantha Radley as Waitress | Jonathan Palis as Postal Worker (uncredited) | Writer : Chris Carter | |
| Air Date : Nov. 30, 1997 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 6 - [Christmas Carol] |
| Details : On her Christmas vacation with her brother's family Scully receives a mysterious phone call from a familiar voice who says She needs your help. Go to her. The phone call leads Scully to a murder case where the victim's 3-year-old adopted daughter bears an uncanny likeness to her sister Melissa at that age. The emotional roller coaster that follows has Scully believing that her sister had a baby during a period when she traveled the country and she tries to adopt the child knowing that caring for the little girl would change her life. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : John Pyper-Ferguson | Karri Turner | Melinda McGraw | Stephen Mendel | Pat Skipper | Lauren Diewold | Patricia Dahlquist | Bobby Freeman | Alastair Sim | Gillian Anderson | Dan Shea | Sheila Larken as Margaret Scully | Director : Peter Markle | Writer : Frank Spotnitz | Writer : John Shiban | Writer : Vince Gilligan | |
| Air Date : Dec. 07, 1997 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 7 - [Emily] |
| Details : DNA testing on Emily reveals that she is actually Scully's daughter and Mulder comes to assist her and to find out where and how the girl was born while Scully tries to help Emily with her own serious illness a rare form of anemia. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Arri Turner | John Pyper-Ferguson | Stephen Mendel | Sheila Paterson | Pat Skipper | Tom Braidwood as Melvin Frohike | Bob Morrisey | Lauren Diewold | Gerard Plunkett | Patricia Dahlquist | Tanya Huse | Eric Breker | David Abbott as Judge Maibaum | Sheila Larken as Margaret Scully | Writer : Frank Spotnitz | Writer : John Shiban | Writer : Vince Gilligan | Director : Kim Manners | |
| Air Date : Dec. 14, 1997 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 8 - [Kitsunegari] |
| Details : Pusher returns as Robert Patrick Modell escapes from the mental hospital and the FBI promptly organizes a manhunt assuming that he will continue where he left off. But is he really trying to get revenge on Mulder or does he want to warn him of another evil? |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Diana Scarwid as Linda Bowman | Mitch Pileggi | Robert Wisden | Michael Dobson | Colleen Winton | Scott Oughterson | Donna Yamamoto | Kurt Evans | Ty Olsson | Stuart O'Connell | Michelle Hart | Writer : Tim Minear | Director : Daniel Sackheim | Writer : Vince Gilligan | |
| Air Date : Jan. 04, 1998 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 9 - [Schizogeny] |
| Details : A therapist working with children from abusive families is found to be implanting them with the memories of her own abuse suffered at the hands of her late father when one of her patients tries to kill his stepfather. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Myles Ferguson | Katharine Isabelle | Sarah-Jane Redmond | George Josef | Chad Lindberg | Cynde Harmon | Bob Dawson | Laurie Murdoch | Gardiner Millar | Christine Anton | Kate Robbins | Writer : Jessica Scott | Writer : Mike Wollaeger | Director : Ralph Hemecker | |
| Air Date : Jan. 11, 1998 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 10 - [Chinga] |
| Details : Master of Horror Stephen King's first effort at an X-File sees Scully's well deserved vacation going terribly wrong and landing her in a small Maine town where one of the residents is believed to be a witch and her autistic daughter's doll has frighteningly evil powers. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jenny-Lynn Hutcheson | Carolyn Tweedle as Jane Froelich | Henry Beckman as Old Man | Susannah Hoffmann as Melissa Turner | Larry Musser | Dean Wray as Rich Turner | Elizabeth McCarthy | Gordon Tipple | Sean Benbow | Tracy Lively | Ian Robison | Harrison Coe | William MacDonald as Deputy Buddy Riggs | Writer : Stephen King | Writer : Chris Carter | Director : Kim Manners | |
| Air Date : Feb. 08, 1998 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 11 - [Kill Switch] |
| Details : A super-intelligent virus program is let loose on the internet and begins to grow and expand by itself eventually killing its creator when he tries to eradicate it. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Kristin Lehman | Ted Cole | Tom Braidwood as Melvin Frohike | Peter Williams | Rob Daprocida | Jerry Schram | Daniel Weber | Kate Luyben | Steven Griffith | Patrick Keating as Donald Gelman | Bruce Harwood as John Fitzgerald Byers | Dean Haglund as Richard 'Ringo' Langly | Writer : William Gibson | Writer : Tom Maddox | Director : Rob Bowman | |
| Air Date : Feb. 15, 1998 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 12 - [Bad Blood] |
| Details : After Mulder chases down and kills a young man who he believes to be a vampire the agents return to DC aware of the mistake they just made. Faced with a lawsuit from the family of the man they recount each of their sides to the story leading up to the event. In the extremely humorous stories that follow we see how Scully and Mulder both perceive each other. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Luke Wilson | Brent Butt | Mitch Pileggi | Patrick Renna | Marion Killinger | Forbes Angus | Director : Cliff Bole | Writer : Vince Gilligan | |
| Air Date : Feb. 22, 1998 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 13 - [Patient X] |
| Details : Mulder and Scully meet Cassandra Spender a woman who claims to be a multiple abductee and wants to deliver a positive message about the aliens. Mulder's new found disbelief in extraterrestrial activity is enhanced while Scully forms a special bond with the woman. A series of group attacks against abductees take place and the shadowy Syndicate believes that a rebel alien resistance is attempting to destroy all their work. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Chris Owens as Mutato | Veronica Cartwright as Cassandra Spender | Brian Thompson as Alien Bounty Hunter | John Neville as Well-Manicured Man | Alex Shostak Jr. | Laurie Holden as Marita Covarrubias | Ron Halder | Don S. Williams | Kurt Max Runte | Raoul Ganeen | Nicholas Lea as Alex Krycek | John Moore | Anatol Rezmeritsa | Barbara Dyke | Jim Jansen | Max Wyman | Willy Ross | Writer : Frank Spotnitz | Writer : Chris Carter | Director : Kim Manners | |
| Air Date : Mar. 01, 1998 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 14 - [The Red And The Black] |
| Details : After the gathering at the abduction site where everyone is killed by the rebel bounty hunters Cassandra Spender disappears and Mulder is blamed by her son Jeffrey who is an up-and-coming FBI agent. Meanwhile the Syndicate is continuing their tests to create a vaccine for the Black Cancer and Marita Covarrubias becomes an unwilling test subject. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Chris Owens as Mutato | Mitch Pileggi | Veronica Cartwright as Cassandra Spender | Brian Thompson as Alien Bounty Hunter | George Murdock | John Neville as Well-Manicured Man | Alex Shostak Jr. | Laurie Holden as Marita Covarrubias | Don S. Williams | Nicholas Lea as Alex Krycek | Chapelle Jaffe | William B. Davis | John Moore | Jenn Forgie | Michal Suchánek | Jim Jansen | Klodyne Rodney | Derek Thomas Versteeg | Jack Finn | Writer : Frank Spotnitz | Writer : Chris Carter | Director : Chris Carter | |
| Air Date : Mar. 08, 1998 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 15 - [Travelers] |
| Details : In 1990 Agent Fox Mulder visits an aging FBI Agent named Arthur Dales. He listens to a story of the agents assigned to a would-be X-File in the Cold War era of the 1950's and how Mulder's father was connected to a series of strange deaths. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Darren McGavin | Mitchell Kosterman | Brian Leckner | David Fredericks | Garret Dillahunt | Fredric Lehne | David Moreland | Jane Perry | Eric W. Gilder | Dean Aylesworth | Roger Haskett | Dean Barrett | Cory Dagg | Eileen Pedde | J. Douglas Stewart as Landlord | Director : William A. Graham | Writer : Frank Spotnitz | Writer : John Shiban | |
| Air Date : Mar. 29, 1998 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 16 - [Mind’s Eye] |
| Details : Mulder and Scully try to get answers out of a stubborn blind woman found at a murder scene who may have the ability to look through the killer's eyes in her mind. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Ralph Alderman as Hotel Manager (uncredited) | Lili Taylor as Marty Glenn | Henry Watson as Blue-Collar Guy (uncredited) | Blu Mankuma as Det. Pennock | Richard Fitzpatrick as Charles Wesley Gotts | Peter Kelamis as Daniel Costa | Henri Lubatti as Dr. Wilkenson | Joe Pascual as Examiner | Colin Lawrence as First Cop | Dalias Blake as Second Cop | Writer : Tim Minear | Director : Kim Manners | |
| Air Date : Apr. 19, 1998 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 17 - [All Souls] |
| Details : Scully faces her Catholic faith and the loss of her daughter Emily when she is asked to help a family whose adopted daughter was found dead in a position that looked like she was struck down by God himself. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Eric Keenleyside | Patti Allan | Jody Racicot | Emily Perkins | Lorraine Landry | Glenn Morshower | Bob Wilde | Lauren Diewold | Tim O'Halloran | Arnie Walters | Tracy Elofson | Director : Allen Coulter | Writer : Frank Spotnitz | Writer : John Shiban | Director : Rob Bowman | |
| Air Date : Apr. 26, 1998 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 18 - [The Pine Bluff Variant] |
| Details : Scully fears that Mulder has gone to the other side when she sees him assisting a federal suspect escape custody. In truth he has infiltrated a terrorist group testing a deadly biological weapon that can eat through a person's flesh. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Ralph Alderman as Hotel Manager (uncredited) | Michael MacRae | Daniel von Bargen | Sam Anderson | Armin Moattar | Tom Braidwood as Melvin Frohike | Kate Braidwood | Kett Turton | Trevor Roald | Douglas Arthurs | John B. Lowe | J. B. Bivens | Michael St. John Smith | Writer : Frank Spotnitz | Writer : John Shiban | Director : Rob Bowman | |
| Air Date : May. 03, 1998 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 19 - [Folie ŕ Deux] |
| Details : Mulder is held hostage inside an office where a man claims his boss is a monster and has clouded all their minds while he turns them into zombies one by one which is disbelieved until Mulder opens his mind and allows himself to see it too. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Roger Cross | Brian Markinson | Dmitry Chepovetsky | Mitch Pileggi | Cynthia Preston | John Apicella | Mick Jones | Steve Bacic | Grant Gladish | Norma Jean Wick | Owen Walstrom | Brenda McDonald | Nancy Kerr as Nurse | Director : Rob Bowman | Writer : Vince Gilligan | |
| Air Date : May. 10, 1998 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 20 - [The End] |
| Details : The Cigarette-Smoking Man returns as Mulder investigates the attempted assassination of a young boy with psychic powers who may be the proof that he has looked for all his life. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Chris Owens as Mutato | Mitch Pileggi | Mimi Rogers | George Murdock | Tom Braidwood as Melvin Frohike | John Neville as Well-Manicured Man | Jeff Gulka | Don S. Williams | Martin Ferrero | Nicholas Lea as Alex Krycek | William B. Davis | John Moore | Bruce Harwood as John Fitzgerald Byers | Dean Haglund as Richard 'Ringo' Langly | Director : R. W. Goodwin | Writer : Chris Carter | |
| Air Date : May. 17, 1998 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★★ |