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The X-Files — Season 8

About this season

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.

Season premiere
November 5, 2000
Episodes in the season
21
Whole season
15 h 45 min
November 5, 2000 Season fully aired May 20, 2001

Episodes

21 episodes · 15 h 45 min

  1. 5 Nov 2000 The X-Files, season 8, episode 1 — a still from the episode E01

    Inside

    45 min

    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.

  2. 12 Nov 2000 The X-Files, season 8, episode 2 — a still from the episode E02

    Outside

    45 min

    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.

  3. 19 Nov 2000 The X-Files, season 8, episode 3 — a still from the episode E03

    Patience

    45 min

    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.

  4. 26 Nov 2000 The X-Files, season 8, episode 4 — a still from the episode E04

    Roadrunners

    45 min

    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.

  5. 3 Dec 2000 The X-Files, season 8, episode 5 — a still from the episode E05

    Invocation

    45 min

    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.

  6. 10 Dec 2000 The X-Files, season 8, episode 6 — a still from the episode E06

    Redrum

    45 min

    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.

  7. 17 Dec 2000 The X-Files, season 8, episode 7 — a still from the episode E07

    Via Negativa

    45 min

    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.

  8. 7 Jan 2001 The X-Files, season 8, episode 8 — a still from the episode E08

    Surekill

    45 min

    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.

  9. 14 Jan 2001 The X-Files, season 8, episode 9 — a still from the episode E09

    Salvage

    45 min

    A man whose blood is rapidly changing into metal alloy enacts revenge on those who caused his condition.

  10. 21 Jan 2001 The X-Files, season 8, episode 10 — a still from the episode E10

    Badlaa

    45 min

    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.

  11. 4 Feb 2001 The X-Files, season 8, episode 11 — a still from the episode E11

    The Gift

    45 min

    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.

  12. 11 Feb 2001 The X-Files, season 8, episode 12 — a still from the episode E12

    Medusa

    45 min

    Scully and Doggett must race against the clock to investigate and fight off a contagion lurking in the subway tunnels of Boston.

  13. 18 Feb 2001 The X-Files, season 8, episode 13 — a still from the episode E13

    Per Manum

    45 min

    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.

  14. 25 Feb 2001 The X-Files, season 8, episode 14 — a still from the episode E14

    This Is Not Happening (1)

    45 min

    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.

  15. 1 Apr 2001 The X-Files, season 8, episode 15 — a still from the episode E15

    Deadalive (2)

    45 min

    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.

  16. 8 Apr 2001 The X-Files, season 8, episode 16 — a still from the episode E16

    Three Words

    45 min

    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.

  17. 22 Apr 2001 The X-Files, season 8, episode 17 — a still from the episode E17

    Empedocles

    45 min

    Special Agent Reyes enlists Mulder's help in investigating a supernatural killer's connection to the unsolved murder of Agent Doggett's son, Luke.

  18. 29 Apr 2001 The X-Files, season 8, episode 18 — a still from the episode E18

    Vienen

    45 min

    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.

  19. 6 May 2001 The X-Files, season 8, episode 19 — a still from the episode E19

    Alone

    45 min

    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.

  20. 13 May 2001 The X-Files, season 8, episode 20 — a still from the episode E20

    Essence (1)

    45 min

    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.

  21. 20 May 2001 The X-Files, season 8, episode 21 — a still from the episode E21

    Existence (2)

    45 min

    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.