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.
01. Herrenvolk (2)
With his mother on a deathbed and the alien bounty hunter in pursuit, Mulder decides to put Jeremiah Smith, the alien healer, in mortal danger for a chance to finally uncover the whole truth behind the alien conspiracy. Meanwhile, the Syndicate suspects that they have a traitor in their midst and set up a trap.
Gillian Anderson
Dana Scully
Roy Thinnes
Jeremiah Smith
David Duchovny
Fox Mulder
Brian Thompson
Alien Bounty Hunter
Laurie Holden
Marita Covarrubias
William B. Davis
Cigarette Smoking Man
Chris Carter
Writer
R. W. Goodwin
Director
02. Home
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.
Gillian Anderson
Dana Scully
David Duchovny
Fox Mulder
Sebastian Spence
Deputy Barney Paster
Karin Konoval
Little Judy Poundstone / Little Chucky Poundstone / Mrs. Peacock /Madame Zelma
03. Teliko
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.
Gillian Anderson
Dana Scully
David Duchovny
Fox Mulder
Laurie Holden
Marita Covarrubias
Sean Campbell
Local Cop
Howard Gordon
Writer
Jim Charleston
Director
04. Unruhe
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".
Vince Gilligan
Writer
Rob Bowman
Director
05. The Field Where I Died
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.
06. Sanguinarium
After a doctor loses control and kills a patient on the operating table, Scully hypothesizes that it's linked to work-related stress, while Mulder is convinced of a more sinister reason. After he finds a link between the victim and the four witches Sabbaths, he suspects that a nurse may be practicing witchcraft.
07. Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man
The Lone Gunmen reveal the (possibly fake) secret history of the Cigarette Smoking Man to Mulder and Scully; 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.
Gillian Anderson
Dana Scully
Jerry Hardin
Deep Throat
David Duchovny
Fox Mulder
Chris Owens
Mutato
Tom Braidwood
Melvin Frohike
Bruce Harwood
John Fitzgerald Byers
Dan Zukovic
Martin
William B. Davis
Cigarette Smoking Man
08. Tunguska (1)
Mulder is given a tip about potentially dangerous paramilitary operations on the U.S. soil but during the sting operation is surprised to find out the identity of his mysterious informant - it turns out to be Alex Krycek. Suspicious about his true motives, Mulder reluctantly follows the information provided by Krycek. However, soon he discovers a much bigger conspiracy which takes him to a gulag in Tunguska, Russia where prisoners are being used for experiments involving a substance of alien origin.
Gillian Anderson
Dana Scully
David Duchovny
Fox Mulder
John Neville
Well-Manicured Man
Laurie Holden
Marita Covarrubias
Brent Stait
Corporal Taylor
Nicholas Lea
Alex Krycek
William B. Davis
Cigarette Smoking Man
David Bloom
Stress Man
09. Terma (2)
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.
Gillian Anderson
Dana Scully
David Duchovny
Fox Mulder
John Neville
Well-Manicured Man
Brent Stait
Corporal Taylor
Nicholas Lea
Alex Krycek
William B. Davis
Cigarette Smoking Man
10. Paper Hearts
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. This leads him to believe that the killer he captured had more victims and that Mulder's sister Samantha may have been one of them.
Vince Gilligan
Writer
Rob Bowman
Director
11. El Mundo Gira
After a strange yellow rain kills a migrant girl, her family believes that a mythical creature el chupacabra was the cause and that it has manifested itself inside her fiancé's brother, who has since disappeared.
John Shiban
Writer
Tucker Gates
Director
12. Leonard Betts
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.
Gillian Anderson
Dana Scully
Paul McCrane
Leonard Morris Betts
David Duchovny
Fox Mulder
Jennifer Clement
Michele Wilkes
Lucia Walters
EMT (uncredited)
Brad Loree
Security Guard
Marjorie Lovett
Elaine Tanner
Greg Newmeyer
New Partner (uncredited)
Bill Dow
Charles Burks
Ken Jones
Bearded Man (uncredited)
Sean Campbell
Local Cop
Dave Hurtubise
Pathologist
Don Ackerman
Night Attendant (uncredited)
Laara Sadiq
Female EMT
J. Douglas Stewart
Male EMT
Peter Bryant
The Uniformed Cop
David Hurtubise
Pathologist
13. Never Again
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.
14. Memento Mori
Scully's recent failing health is revealed to be an inoperable cancer in her skull, which appears to be common among abductees and she attempts to come to terms with her condition. Meanwhile, Mulder and the Lone Gunmen break into a high-security research lab to find the cure that could save her life.
Gillian Anderson
Dana Scully
David Duchovny
Fox Mulder
Tom Braidwood
Melvin Frohike
Sheila Larken
Margaret Scully
Bruce Harwood
John Fitzgerald Byers
Dean Haglund
Richard 'Ringo' Langly
William B. Davis
Cigarette Smoking Man
Frank Spotnitz
Writer
John Shiban
Writer
Chris Carter
Writer
Vince Gilligan
Writer
Rob Bowman
Director
15. Kaddish
After a Jewish man is murdered in a Jewish community, his killers are murdered, too. Mulder and Scully have to determine whether someone is exacting vengeance or larger forces are at work.
16. Unrequited
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.
Gillian Anderson
Dana Scully
David Duchovny
Fox Mulder
Laurie Holden
Marita Covarrubias
Jennifer Jasey
Female Private (as Jen Jasey)
William Nunn
Gen. John Steffan
17. Tempus Fugit (1)
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.
Gillian Anderson
Dana Scully
David Duchovny
Fox Mulder
Scott Bellis
Max Fenig
Jon Raitt
Father
Mark Wilson
The Pilot
Felicia Shulman
Motel Manager
Stacy Fair
Flight Attendant (uncredited)
18. Max (2)
Mulder is arrested for investigating the plane crash and interfering with a military operation, while Scully is caught in the attempted assassination of Corporal Frish.
Gillian Anderson
Dana Scully
David Duchovny
Fox Mulder
Scott Bellis
Max Fenig
Mark Wilson
The Pilot
Felicia Shulman
Motel Manager
Stacy Fair
Flight Attendant (uncredited)
Frank Spotnitz
Writer
Chris Carter
Writer
Kim Manners
Director
David Greenwalt
Co-Executive Producer
19. Synchrony
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.
Howard Gordon
Writer
David Greenwalt
Writer
Jim Charleston
Director
David Greenwalt
Co-Executive Producer
20. Small Potatoes
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.
Gillian Anderson
Dana Scully
David Duchovny
Fox Mulder
Peter Kelamis
Daniel Costa
David S. Cameron
Young Scientist
Darin Morgan
Flukeman
Melanie Angel
Nurse (uncredited)
21. Zero Sum
After a swarm of bees mysteriously kill a postal worker in an enclosed restroom, Assistant Director Skinner covers it up by destroying the evidence. In order to complete the task he poses as Agent Mulder, however his deception backfires. When Mulder finds out and confronts him, Skinner reveals that he is working for the Cigarette-Smoking Man in order to obtain a possible cure for Scully's cancer.
Gillian Anderson
Dana Scully
David Duchovny
Fox Mulder
Laurie Holden
Marita Covarrubias
Fred Keating
Ray Thomas
Lisa Stewart
Jane Brody
Jason Griffith
Uniformed Officer
Christopher Newton
Photo Technician
Marites Pineda
Crying Girl (uncredited)
William B. Davis
Cigarette Smoking Man
Howard Gordon
Writer
Frank Spotnitz
Writer
Kim Manners
Director
David Greenwalt
Co-Executive Producer
22. Elegy
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.
23. Demons
Covered in blood and suffering from amnesia, Mulder pieces together the events of the last few days, but the trail leads to a double murder that appears to have been committed with Mulder's weapon.
Gillian Anderson
Dana Scully
David Duchovny
Fox Mulder
Chris Owens
Mutato
Terry Barclay
Officer Imhof
24. Gethsemane (1)
Mulder fights to prove that a discovery frozen in the mountains of Canada is an irrefutable evidence of alien life, but his quest for the truth only leads to more lies and an unthinkable conclusion.
Gillian Anderson
Dana Scully
David Duchovny
Fox Mulder
Sheila Larken
Margaret Scully
Nancy Kerr
Agent Hedin
Rob Freeman
Detective Rempulski