The X-Files (season 3)
This article contains episode information and plot summaries from the television show The X-Files.
Season three ran from 1995-1996.
- Main and recurring cast are listed on the main X-Files page.
The Blessing Way
- Guest Starring Walter Gotell as Victor Klemper
The Smoking Man works quickly to recover the stolen computer files, but finds himself thwarted by a man whom he hoped was dead. Meanwhile, Scully finds herself at a loss for her next step and turns to her family for support, since Mulder is otherwise engaged fighting for survival.
Paper Clip
- Guest Starring Walter Gotell as Victor Klemper
Reunited, Mulder and Scully locate an old scientist from Nazi Germany, pardoned through Operation Paper Clip. The information he gives them leads to their discovery of something which could mean their deaths.
D.P.O.
- Guest Starring Jack Black as Bart 'Zero' Liquori
- Giovanni Ribisi as Darin Peter Oswald
Mulder is sceptical over a coroner's report regarding the fifth person to be struck by lightning in a small Oklahoma town. Their investigation into the latest death seems to point to the only person to have survived a lightning strike, an emotionally-charged youth.
Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose
- Guest Starring Peter Boyle as Clyde Bruckman
Sceptical of a famous psychic's predictions regarding the murder of several prognosticators, Mulder instead finds someone who he believes truly can predict the future. Though catching the killer could prove difficult, particularly if the murderer can also see into his future.
- This episode sets up an important plot point of the Season Six episode "Tithonus": if we believe the two psychic characters presented in these episodes, Scully is immortal. Let me explain: Tithonus centers around a man who looked away from Death when he came for him, and he became immortal. Scully is shot, she looks away and the man looks to him instead (so she now has his curse of immortality). In this episode, Scully asks Clyde how she dies, he replies, "You don't."
- This episode won two Emmys. One was for the writing, and the other was awarded to Peter Boyle for his guest appearance in this episode.
- This episode was named by TV Guide as one of the greatest episodes in TV history.
The List
A death row inmate makes good on his promise to come back from the dead and kill the five people involved in his death. The fear of his retribution has everyone scrambling to determine if they are on the list, while Mulder and Scully attempt to determine how he has returned to execute his tormentors.
2Shy
- Guest Starring Timothy Carhart as Virgil Incanto
Meeting insecure women through an on-line service, a serial killer seduces his prey with the right words. However, Mulder and Scully determine these killings are far from ordinary by the presence of a strange substance coating the victims, a substance which seems to digest the fatty acids in flesh.
The Walk
- Guest Starring Willie Garson as 'Roach' Freely
Another failed suicide attempt by a patient in a military hospital interests Mulder with the talk of a 'phantom soldier' which has prevented the man's death. The general in charge is at first opposed to the FBI's involvement until the invisible killer begins stalking him. But none believe when the primary suspect is a quadriplegic.
Oubliette
When a young girl is kidnapped from her home, a fast food worker miles away collapses on the job, apparently experiencing exactly what the child is feeling. When Mulder learns that the woman was kidnapped and held hostage for years as a child, he begins to believe that she may be the key to help find the missing girl.
Nisei
- Guest Starring Raymond J Barry as Senator Richard Matheson
- Robert Ito as Dr. Ishimaru
A mail order videotape of an alien autopsy blossoms into a much more complicated investigation when Mulder and Scully find the distributor of the tape murdered in his own home apparently by a high-ranking Japanese diplomat. While Mulder's search for the video leads him to a train car, Scully investigates a Mutual UFO Network group and discovers several women who claim to know her.
731
- Guest Starring Robert Ito as Dr. Ishimaru
Scully takes X's advice to heart and investigates more into the implant she removed from her neck. Mulder, having ignored the advice given him, finds himself trapped on the train with a Japanese scientist and the man sent to kill him.
Revelations
- Guest Starring Kevin Zegers as Kevin Kryder
Mulder tracks a series of religiously motivated murders. Each of the eleven victims claims to have been stigmatic but all turned out to be frauds. When Mulder and Scully discover a little boy displaying inexplicable wounds of religious significance, they try to protect him from the killer they know will be coming.
War of the Coprophages
A small town is plagued by deaths in which the bodies are found covered in cockroaches. Working from home, Scully has scientific explanations for all of them but Mulder – at the crime scene with an attractive bug expert – suspects the insects may not be organic, or earthly.
Syzygy
Agents Mulder and Scully visit a small town to investigate a series of bizarre deaths that coincide with strange astrological phenomena.
Grotesque
Agents Mulder and Scully join Mulder's former mentor, the FBI's chief profiler, on a case involving a serial killer who claims to be possessed by a demonic force. The case gets even more mysterious when the suspect is apprehended and the murders continue.
Piper Maru
When a French salvage ship sends a diving crew to recover a mysterious wreckage from World War II, the crew falls prey to a bizarre illness and Agents Mulder and Scully join the investigation. The investigation leads to the discovery of a familiar face, and Skinner being threatened.
Apocrypha
While Mulder continues to investigate a bizarre illness that originated with the discovery of a mysterious World War II wreckage buried at sea, several government figures try to thwart their efforts. And as Skinner recovers from his shooting, Scully discovers that he is still in danger, from the man who killed her sister.
Pusher
- Guest Starring Robert Wisden as Robert 'Pusher' Modell
Agents Mulder and Scully's assistance is requested for a case involving a man seemingly capable of bending people to his will. The suspect uses his mysterious abilities to manipulate Agent Mulder into a dangerous end game.
Teso Dos Bichos
A series of deaths occurs immediately after an ancient artefact is brought to Boston from an excavation site in South America. According to Scully, the deaths appear to be the result of political terrorism, but Mulder suspects something more improbable.
Hell Money
A string of mysterious deaths of recent Chinese immigrants brings Agents Mulder and Scully to San Francisco's Chinatown. The Agents team up with a Chinese detective to better understand the language and customs of the Chinese culture, but one thing remains frightening clear; all of the bodies are missing various internal organs
Jose Chung's From Outer Space
- Guest Starring Charles Nelson Reilly as Jose Chung
- and cameos by Alex Trebek and Jesse Ventura
When a couple claims to have been abducted by aliens, Agents Mulder and Scully try to get at the truth but everyone has a different version of the story, including the 'aliens' themselves
Avatar
When Assistant Director Skinner is accused of murder, Agents Mulder and Scully join the investigation to clear their supervisor's name. As they unravel the threads of a conspiracy, they also learn more about Skinner's personal affairs.
Quagmire
When a series of mysterious deaths and disappearances are reported near a lake in a small town, Agents Mulder and Scully are called in to investigate. With local folklore of a killer sea serpent running rampant amongst the locals, the agents must take their search for the truth to the water.
Wetwired
Agents Mulder and Scully uncover a dark conspiracy behind a bizarre series of seemingly unrelated murders in a small town. As the extent of the conspiracy is revealed, Scully's trust in Mulder is put to the test.
Talitha Cumi
- Guest Starring Roy Thinnes as Jeremiah Smith
Agents Mulder and Scully search for a man who seems to possess strange powers, which leads to the discovery of dangerous secret from Mulder's past. The secret could bring Mulder and Scully to the brink of exposing the truth about alien existence.
- Synopses courtesy of Krycek's
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