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The X-Files Season 8 |
| The X-Files Season 8 : |
| After Mulder’s disappearance Scully returns to FBI headquarters to find Special Agent John Doggett heading up a FBI manhunt for her partner. Knowing that type of search will prove futile Scully and Skinner turn to the Lone Gunmen in hopes of uncovering information about additional UFO activity around the time of Mulder’s disappearance. Although such information leads them to Gibson Praise the man with Gibson a man who appears to be Mulder is in fact an alien bounty hunter. Finally realizing that Mulder will not be found so easily Agent Doggett is officially assigned to the X-Files. Now after all she has been through with Mulder it is Scully who is “the believer” and who must find a way to work with “the skeptic” John Doggett. |
| Episode 1 - [Within] |
| Details : Newly appointed Deputy Director Kersh organizes 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 surmise that the Bounty Hunter is trying to erase all evidence of abductions and they realize 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Mitch Pileggi | Bryan Greenberg | Tom Braidwood as Melvin Frohike | Kirk B.R. Woller | Dondre Whitfield | Jeff Gulka | Christine Firkins | Marc Gomes | Jonathan Palmer | Marty Zagon | Jo-Ann Dean | David Duchovny | Sheila Larken as Margaret Scully | Bruce Harwood as John Fitzgerald Byers | Dean Haglund as Richard 'Ringo' Langly | James Pickens Jr. as Alvin Kersh | Writer : Chris Carter | Director : Kim Manners | |
| Air Date : Nov. 05, 2000 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 2 - [Without] |
| Details : 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 A.D. Kersh informs Agent Doggett that he has been assigned as Mulder's successor on the X-Files. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Mitch Pileggi | Brian Thompson as Alien Bounty Hunter | Sal Landi | Kirk B.R. Woller | Jeff Gulka | Christine Firkins | Marc Gomes | Robert Patrick | Jonathan Palmer | Jo-Ann Dean | David Duchovny | Dean Haglund as Richard 'Ringo' Langly | James Pickens Jr. as Alvin Kersh | Writer : Chris Carter | Director : Kim Manners | |
| Air Date : Nov. 12, 2000 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 3 - [Patience] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Gene Dynarski | Jay Caputo | Dan Leegant | Bradford English | Eve Brenner | Annie O'Donnell | Brent Sexton | Gary Bullock | Bryan Rasmussen | Writer : Chris Carter | Director : Chris Carter | |
| Air Date : Nov. 19, 2000 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 4 - [Roadrunners] |
| Details : Scully evades Doggett's help in investigating a vicious murder in a remote area of Utah and she is trapped in the small town by a religious cult that believe a slug-like creature is the second coming of God who needs a human host to survive. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Lawrence Pressman | William O'Leary | Rusty Schwimmer | Conor O'Farrell | David Barry Gray | Todd Jeffries | Bryan Dilbeck | Director : Rod Hardy | Writer : Vince Gilligan | |
| Air Date : Nov. 26, 2000 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 5 - [Invocation] |
| Details : In 1990 a little boy inexplicably disappeared from his crowded school playground and was never seen again until now ten years later and he hasn't aged a day. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Colton James | Kim Greist | Maggie Baird | Rodney Eastman | Erich Anderson | Jim Cody Williams | Sheila Shaw | Leslie Sachs | Barry Cullison | Steve Stapenhorst | Writer : David Amann | Director : Richard Compton | |
| Air Date : Dec. 03, 2000 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 6 - [Redrum] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Guy Torry | Cynthia Martells | Bellamy Young | Danny Trejo | Joe Morton | Joanna Sanchez | Jack Shearer | Lee Duncan | J. Patrick McCormack | Roger Hewlett | Robert Patrick | Shane Sinutko | James Howell | Brien Blakely | Derick Alexander | Génesis Rodríguez | Anne-Marie Johnson | Kayla Henry as Haley Wells | Director : Peter Markle | Writer : Steven Maeda | |
| Air Date : Dec. 10, 2000 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 7 - [Via Negativa] |
| Details : Working without Scully's input Doggett and Skinner try to stop 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Mitch Pileggi | Wayne Alexander | Keith Szarabajka | Tom Braidwood as Melvin Frohike | Grant Heslov | Kirk B.R. Woller | Chris Jacobs | Kevin McClatchy | Lawrence Le John | Wayne A. King | Mary Ostrow | Bruce Harwood as John Fitzgerald Byers | Dean Haglund as Richard 'Ringo' Langly | James Pickens Jr. as Alvin Kersh | Director : Tony Wharmby | Writer : Frank Spotnitz | |
| Air Date : Dec. 17, 2000 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 8 - [Surekill] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Noel Gugliemi | James Franco | Kellie Waymire | Michael Bowen | Patrick Kilpatrick | Tom Jourden | Ty Upshaw | Joe Sabatino | Greg Boniface | Writer : Greg Walker | Director : Terrence O'Hara | |
| Air Date : Jan. 07, 2001 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 9 - [Salvage] |
| Details : A man whose blood is rapidly changing into metal alloy enacts revenge on those who caused his condition. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Arye Gross | Dan Desmond | Wade Williams | Jennifer Parsons | Tamara Clatterbuck | Kenneth Meseroll | Scott MacDonald | Randy Walker | Colleen Quinn | Reece Morgan | Jack Forbes | Director : Rod Hardy | Writer : Jeffrey Bell | |
| Air Date : Jan. 14, 2001 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 10 - [Badlaa] |
| Details : An Indian mystic whose son died in a chemical plant accident smuggles himself into the United States and takes his revenge on two families in suburban Washington D.C. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Michael Welch | Jordan Warkol | Maura Soden | Deep Roy | Andy Hubbell | Christopher Hutson | Bill Dow | Calvin Remsberg | Mimi Savage | Jacob Franchek | Winston Story | Kiran Rao | Tony Adelman | Jane Daly as Mrs. Holt | Director : Tony Wharmby | Writer : John Shiban | |
| Air Date : Jan. 21, 2001 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 11 - [The Gift] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Natalie Radford | Caroline Lagerfelt | Mitch Pileggi | Tom Braidwood as Melvin Frohike | Jordan Marder | Justin Williams | Michael McGrady as Sheriff Kurt Frey | Bruce Harwood as John Fitzgerald Byers | Dean Haglund as Richard 'Ringo' Langly | Writer : Frank Spotnitz | Director : Kim Manners | |
| Air Date : Feb. 04, 2001 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 12 - [Medusa] |
| Details : Scully and Doggett must race against the clock to investigate and fight off a contagion lurking in the subway tunnels of Boston. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Ken Jenkins | Penny Johnson | Judith Scott | Mary Kathleen Gordon | Vyto Ruginis | Brent Sexton | Bill Jacobson | Christopher and Kevin Graves | Director : Richard Compton | Writer : Frank Spotnitz | |
| Air Date : Feb. 11, 2001 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 13 - [Per Manum] |
| Details : 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 its conception. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jay Acovone | Mitch Pileggi | Karl T. Wright | Saxon Trainor | Steven Anderson | Megan Follows | Adam Baldwin | David Purdham | Diana Castle | Elizabeth Cheap | Christopher Stanley | Victoria Gallegos | Alexandra Margulies | Jennifer Griffin as Dr. Miryum | Writer : Frank Spotnitz | Writer : Chris Carter | Director : Kim Manners | |
| Air Date : Feb. 18, 2001 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 14 - [This Is Not Happening] |
| Details : When Teresa Hoese (the woman Scully and Mulder met the previous spring in Oregon just before Mulder was abducted) is found in a desert after enduring alien testing 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Roy Thinnes | Eddie Kaye Thomas | Mitch Pileggi | Sarah Koskoff | Judson Scott | Bernard White | John McGonegle | Arlene Pileggi | Roz Witt | Randy Ross | Judd Trichter | David Duchovny | Annabeth Gish as Monica Reyes | Writer : Frank Spotnitz | Writer : Chris Carter | Director : Kim Manners | |
| Air Date : Feb. 25, 2001 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 15 - [Deadalive] |
| Details : Shortly after Mulder is buried Billy Miles is found very dead but he 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 the 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Mitch Pileggi | Judson Scott | Zachary Ansley | Tom Braidwood as Melvin Frohike | Gibby Brand | Arlene Pileggi | Larry Dorf | Nicholas Lea as Alex Krycek | Richard McGonagle | Nelson Mashita | David Doty | David Duchovny | Mary Wickliffe | Larry Rippenkroeger | Sheila Larken as Margaret Scully | Bruce Harwood as John Fitzgerald Byers | Dean Haglund as Richard 'Ringo' Langly | James Pickens Jr. as Alvin Kersh | Director : Tony Wharmby | Writer : Frank Spotnitz | Writer : Chris Carter | |
| Air Date : Apr. 01, 2001 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 16 - [Three Words] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Mitch Pileggi | Judson Scott | Tom Braidwood as Melvin Frohike | Adam Baldwin | Gary Bristow | Joe Basile | Ric Sarabia | Dwight Hicks | J.C. Murad | Nelson Mashita | Bruce Harwood as John Fitzgerald Byers | Dean Haglund as Richard 'Ringo' Langly | James Pickens Jr. as Alvin Kersh | Director : Tony Wharmby | Writer : Frank Spotnitz | Writer : Chris Carter | |
| Air Date : Apr. 08, 2001 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 17 - [Empedocles] |
| Details : Special Agent Reyes enlists Mulder's help in investigating a supernatural killer's connection to the unsolved murder of Agent Doggett's son Luke. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jennifer Hammon | Caitlin Fein | Jay Underwood | Bruce Wright | Dayna Beilenson | Ron Canada | Wendy Gazelle | Cheryl Francis Harrington | Denise Crosby | Devlin Elliott | Veronica Brown | Jake Fritz | Louise Melilli | Amanda Fein | Annabeth Gish as Monica Reyes | Writer : Greg Walker | Director : Barry K. Thomas | |
| Air Date : Apr. 15, 2001 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 18 - [Vienen] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Lee Reherman | Casey Biggs | Mitch Pileggi | M.C. Gainey | Miguel Sandoval | Gregory Cruz | Luis Villalta | Kevin C. Loomis | Steve Wilcox | Rich Marotta | David Duchovny | James Pickens Jr. as Alvin Kersh | Director : Rod Hardy | Writer : Steven Maeda | |
| Air Date : Apr. 22, 2001 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 19 - [Alone] |
| Details : 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 heads out to search for them. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jay Caputo | Zach Grenier | Mitch Pileggi | Jolie Jenkins | Tony Ketcham | David Duchovny | Lisa Kaseman as Pathology Assistant | James Otis as Arlen Sacks | Director : Frank Spotnitz | Writer : Frank Spotnitz | |
| Air Date : May. 06, 2001 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 20 - [Essence] |
| Details : 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. 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jay Acovone | Mitch Pileggi | Frances Fisher | Zachary Ansley | Kirk B.R. Woller | Steven Anderson | David Purdham | Arlene Pileggi | Denise Crosby | Nicholas Lea as Alex Krycek | Karon Kearney | Sheila Larken as Margaret Scully | Annabeth Gish as Monica Reyes | Writer : Chris Carter | Director : Kim Manners | |
| Air Date : May. 13, 2001 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 21 - [Existence] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Mark Linn-Baker | Zachary Ansley | Tom Braidwood as Melvin Frohike | Kirk B.R. Woller | Adam Baldwin | Dale Dickey | Austin Tichenor | Jerry Shiban | Tommy Jeff Martin | David Duchovny | Bruce Harwood as John Fitzgerald Byers | Dean Haglund as Richard 'Ringo' Langly | James Pickens Jr. as Alvin Kersh | Annabeth Gish as Monica Reyes | Writer : Chris Carter | Director : Kim Manners | |
| Air Date : May. 20, 2001 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |