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The X-Files — Season 3

About this season

Mulder is missing and assumed dead . . . although Scully experiences a vision in which he is still alive. Yet even as they are reunited, each must deal with an additional personal loss, tragedies that ultimately serve to strengthen their connection to each other. And they soon find themselves depending on that strength as familiar foes resurface and preconceived notions are shattered.

Season premiere
September 22, 1995
Episodes in the season
24
Whole season
18 h 5 min
September 22, 1995 Season fully aired May 17, 1996

Episodes

24 episodes · 18 h 5 min

  1. 22 Sep 1995 The X-Files, season 3, episode 1 — a still from the episode E01

    The Blessing Way (2)

    46 min

    Scully finds her career with the FBI in jeopardy as Mulder is still missing and the Cigarette Smoking Man is pursuing the stolen files. The Navajo elders find Mulder's body in a cave and perform an ancient ceremony to call the spirit back to the empty vessel.

  2. 29 Sep 1995 The X-Files, season 3, episode 2 — a still from the episode E02

    Paper Clip (3)

    46 min

    A.D. Skinner and Scully are at a standoff when Mulder bursts in and discovers that Skinner has the digital tape. Reunited, Mulder and Scully travel to a secret vault inside a mine and find an elaborate filing system of medical records which reveals that Mulder's sister may not have been the first choice for abduction. Meanwhile, Skinner deals with the Cigarette-Smoking Man for their safety.

  3. 6 Oct 1995 The X-Files, season 3, episode 3 — a still from the episode E03

    D.P.O.

    45 min

    Mulder and Scully investigate a series of human and cattle deaths by lightning and are led to a teenage boy who is the only survivor out of five people recently hit by lightning strikes.

  4. 13 Oct 1995 The X-Files, season 3, episode 4 — a still from the episode E04

    Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose

    46 min

    In the midst of a psychic sideshow while on a murder case, Mulder and Scully enlist the help of a man who may have a true psychic ability to foresee how people will die to help the agents catch a man killing fortune tellers.

  5. 20 Oct 1995 The X-Files, season 3, episode 5 — a still from the episode E05

    The List

    46 min

    Nobody takes much notice when a death row inmate vows on the electric chair to come back from the dead and kill five men who have wronged him during his time in prison, until a guard is mysteriously murdered in the former inmate's cell.

  6. 3 Nov 1995 The X-Files, season 3, episode 6 — a still from the episode E06

    2Shy

    46 min

    A man with a genetic abnormality, who must prey on overweight women in order to suck the fatty tissue from their bodies, begins to meet his victims through internet chat rooms.

  7. 10 Nov 1995 The X-Files, season 3, episode 7 — a still from the episode E07

    The Walk

    46 min

    After a suicide attempt and multiple murders at a military hospital, Mulder and Scully meet a quadruple amputee who has gained the power of astral projection and is taking out his personal frustrations on his commanding officers.

  8. 17 Nov 1995 The X-Files, season 3, episode 8 — a still from the episode E08

    Oubliette

    46 min

    Mulder seeks the help of a woman who he believes has a special connection with a young girl who has recently been kidnapped by the same man who held her captive many years earlier.

  9. 24 Nov 1995 The X-Files, season 3, episode 9 — a still from the episode E09

    Nisei (1)

    45 min

    An investigation into a video of an alien autopsy puts Mulder and Scully in the middle of a conspiracy involving WWII Japanese scientists brought to America to continue their experiments which may shed light on Scully's abduction.

  10. 1 Dec 1995 The X-Files, season 3, episode 10 — a still from the episode E10

    731 (2)

    46 min

    Mulder is trapped inside a train car which contains a suspected alien-human hybrid and also a bomb, while Scully pursues the truth about her abduction and the mystery behind the implant in her neck.

  11. 15 Dec 1995 The X-Files, season 3, episode 11 — a still from the episode E11

    Revelations

    45 min

    Mulder and Scully swap roles as they pursue a man killing priests that claim to have the wounds of Christ. The agents find and must protect a young boy who may be a real stigmatic. While Scully's faith draws her close to the boy, Mulder is convinced of another explanation.

  12. 5 Jan 1996 The X-Files, season 3, episode 12 — a still from the episode E12

    War of the Coprophages

    45 min

    Widespread panic is caused in a small community after numerous deaths are linked to killer cockroaches, and a government agricultural agency is discovered to have set up a secret experiment involving insects.

  13. 26 Jan 1996 The X-Files, season 3, episode 13 — a still from the episode E13

    Syzygy

    45 min

    A rare planetary alignment causes strange behavior in the residents of a small town, but particularly in two teenage girls who were born at the exact same moment on that date. While investigating the strange occurrences Mulder's interest in the local female detective makes Scully jealous.

  14. 2 Feb 1996 The X-Files, season 3, episode 14 — a still from the episode E14

    Grotesque

    45 min

    A serial killer is captured after a three year manhunt, and he claims an evil spirit is responsible for the crimes. When the killings continue as he sits in jail, Mulder's battle with a former colleague gets more heated when he suggests that something more paranormal may be involved.

  15. 9 Feb 1996 The X-Files, season 3, episode 15 — a still from the episode E15

    Piper Maru (1)

    45 min

    A French salvage ship searching for a lost WWII fighter plane unknowingly surfaces an alien which appears in the form of black oil and has the ability to jump hosts. Mulder heads to Hong Kong to investigate the salvage broker who sold the information to the French and he encounters Krycek, who has been selling information from the MJ documents. As Mulder prepares to take Krycek back to the US, the alien makes its way to Hong Kong and takes control of Krycek.

  16. 16 Feb 1996 The X-Files, season 3, episode 16 — a still from the episode E16

    Apocrypha (2)

    45 min

    Mulder pursues Krycek (unaware of the alien that has taken over his body) to get back the DAT tape containing the MJ documents. Meanwhile, the shooting of A.D. Skinner uncovers evidence that could lead Scully to her sister's murderer.

  17. 23 Feb 1996 The X-Files, season 3, episode 17 — a still from the episode E17

    Pusher

    45 min

    Mulder and Scully are asked to help in a case involving Robert Patrick Modell, a murderer possessing the psychic ability to force his will onto people. Due to a brain tumor that is slowly killing him, he is searching for a "worthy adversary" and forces Mulder into a battle of mind over matter.

  18. 8 Mar 1996 The X-Files, season 3, episode 18 — a still from the episode E18

    Teso Dos Bichos

    44 min

    The unearthing of an ancient Ecuadorian Amaru urn and its removal to America despite protests leads to a series of deaths linked to a shaman spirit released by the urn.

  19. 29 Mar 1996 The X-Files, season 3, episode 19 — a still from the episode E19

    Hell Money

    45 min

    Mulder, Scully and a local Chinese American cop investigate deaths of several Chinese men found to be missing vital internal organs. The clues lead them to a deadly secret lottery run by the Triads in San Francisco's Chinatown district. The game is free to play but losing will cost you more than an arm and a leg.

  20. 12 Apr 1996 The X-Files, season 3, episode 20 — a still from the episode E20

    Jose Chung's "From Outer Space"

    45 min

    An alien abduction of two teenagers with endless versions of the same story prompts a science-fiction novelist to write a book about the incident; however, nobody involved with the investigation can tell him the full story with any accuracy.

  21. 26 Apr 1996 The X-Files, season 3, episode 21 — a still from the episode E21

    Avatar

    45 min

    During a one-night-stand in the midst of his divorce, A.D. Skinner becomes a murder suspect, and Mulder and Scully return the many favors that he has done for them by analyzing evidence that someone doesn't want uncovered to prove his innocence.

  22. 3 May 1996 The X-Files, season 3, episode 22 — a still from the episode E22

    Quagmire

    43 min

    Mulder and Scully investigate a series of disappearances and attacks around a lake where Mulder believes that the local legend about a lake monster may be all too real. Frustrated Scully insightfully confronts Mulder about the futility of their work on the X-Files.

  23. 10 May 1996 The X-Files, season 3, episode 23 — a still from the episode E23

    Wetwired

    45 min

    Mulder and Scully investigate a series of murders linked to a mysterious device that alters television signals causing paranoid hallucinations. One of them falls victim to it.

  24. 17 May 1996 The X-Files, season 3, episode 24 — a still from the episode E24

    Talitha Cumi (1)

    45 min

    After his mother suffers a stroke under strange circumstances, Mulder searches for a strange, benevolent alien man that possesses miraculous healing powers. With the help from Mr. X, he learns about the involvement of the Cigarette-Smoking Man and uncovers some secrets kept by his parents.