The X-Files: Season 5

The X-Files: Season 5

20th Century Fox (1998)
Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller, Mystery
USA / English / Color / 984 min
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Cast View More ↓
David Duchovny Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson Special Agent Dana Scully
Tom Braidwood Melvin Frohike
William B. Davis The Cigarette-Smoking Man
John Neville The Well-Manicured Man
Mitch Pileggi Assistant Director Walter Skinner
Crew View More ↓
Director Rob Bowman, Chris Carter, Cliff Bole, Kim Manners, Robert Mandel, R.W. Goodwin
Writer Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz, William Gibson, Vince Gilligan, Steven Maeda, Valerie Mayhew, Vivian Mayhew, Jessica Scott
Producer Rob Bowman, Chris Carter, Daniel Sackheim, Kim Manners, Tony Wharmby, David Nutter, Bernadette Caulfield, Joseph Patrick Finn
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Plot
This long running FOX drama lasted nine seasons and focused on the exploits of FBI Agents Fox Mulder, Dana Scully, John Doggett and Monica Reyes and their investigations into the paranormal. From genetic mutants and killer insects to a global conspiracy concerning the colonization of Earth by an alien species, this mind-boggling, humorous and occasionally frightening series created by Chris Carter has been one of the world's most popular sci-fi/drama shows since its humble beginnings in 1993.
Episodes
1
Redux (2)
60 min 1998-03-05
Scully helps Mulder fake his own death in order for him to go undetected through the Department of Defence and find out the answers to his new questions about the government hoax concerning the existence of extraterrestrial life. Meanwhile, at a joint FBI/DOD inquiry, Scully's attempt to drive out the Conspiracy's informant is halted as her cancer takes a bad turn.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Chris Carter
Guest starring: Steve Makaj, Ken Camroux, Barry W. Levy, Julia Arkos
2
Redux II (3)
60 min 1998-05-10
The Cigarette-Smoking Man helps Mulder to obtain Scully's cure and also lets him see his real sister who doesn't turn out to be as happy to see Mulder as he would've liked. In return for this, the Cigarette-Smoking Man asks that Mulder quit the FBI and work for him in the Syndicate where he could have power and respect which Mulder turns down, deciding to stay on the side of justice. While Scully's cure appears to have worked, the Cigarette-Smoking Man faces his own enemies and disappears, presumed dead.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Chris Carter
Guest starring: Robert Wright, Ken Camroux, Arnie Walters, Brent Sheppard, Willy Ross, Erin Fitzgerald, Catherine Barroll, Pat Skipper, Megan Leitch
3
Unusual Suspects
60 min 1998-04-19
Set in 1989, the story of the founding of The Lone Gunmen is finally told as we see how a straight-laced federal employee, a sex mad AV expert, and a nerdy computer hacker meet Susanne Modeski, a strange woman with evidence of a government conspiracy. When their plan to expose the conspiracy fails and Susanne is captured by a group of men-in-black, led by none other than X, they soon become a paranoid group of government watchdogs.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Vince Gilligan
Guest starring: Richard Belzer, Signy Coleman, Chris Nelson Norris, Glenn Williams, Stuart O'Connell, Ken Hawryliw
4
Detour
60 min 1998-05-12
While on their way to an FBI group communication seminar, Mulder and Scully manage to escape when they come across a situation in the Florida forest area where three men have recently disappeared.
Director: Brett Dowler
Writer: Frank Spotnitz
Guest starring: Colleen Flynn, Anthony Rapp, Scott Burkholder, J.C. Wendel, Tyler Thompson, Merrilyn Gann, Alfred E. Humphreys, Tom Scholte, Simon Longmore
5
The Post-Modern Prometheus
60 min 1998-05-12
Filmed in glorious black and white with a comic book feel to it, this is a modern retelling of Frankenstein as Mulder and Scully get caught up in a town where the residents live on Jerry Springer episodes and fear a two-faced monster who has been impregnating the women.
Director: Chris Carter
Writer: Chris Carter
Guest starring: John O'Hurley, Pattie Tierce, Stewart Gale, Chris Giacoletti, Chris Owens, Miriam Smith, Vitaliy Kravchenko, Jerry Springer, Lloyd Berry, Xantha Radley, Jean-Yves Hammel, Jonathan Palis, Dana Grahame, C. Ernst Harth, Andrew Laurenson, Tracey Bell
6
Christmas Carol (1)
60 min 1997-12-07
On her Christmas vacation with her brother's family, Scully receives a mysterious phone call from a familiar voice who says, "She needs your help. Go to her." The phone call leads Scully to a murder case where the victim's 3-year-old adopted daughter bears an uncanny likeness to her sister, Melissa, at that age. The emotional roller coaster that follows has Scully believing that her sister had a baby during a period when she traveled the country and she tries to adopt the child, knowing that caring for the little girl would change her life.
Director: Peter Markle
Writer: Frank Spotnitz, Vince Gilligan, John Shiban
Guest starring: Mecca Menard, Melinda McGraw, Pat Skipper, Karri Turner, John Pyper-Ferguson, Gerard Plunkett, Lauren Diewold, Patricia Dahlquist, Rob Freeman, Eric Breker, Stephen Mendel, Walter Marsh, Rebecca Codling, Joey Shea, Ryan de Boer, Zoe Anderson, Jo-Anne Fernandes, Gregor Sn
7
Emily (2)
60 min 1997-12-14
DNA testing on Emily reveals that she is actually Scully's daughter and Mulder comes to assist her and to find out where and how the girl was born while Scully tries to help Emily with her own serious illness, a rare form of anemia.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Frank Spotnitz, Vince Gilligan, John Shiban
Guest starring: David Abbott, Sheila Paterson, Eric Breker, Stephen Mendel, Tanya Huse, John Pyper-Ferguson, Pat Skipper, Karri Turner, Bob Morrisey, Gerard Plunkett, Patricia Dahlquist, Lauren Diewold
8
Kitsunegari
60 min 1998-01-04
Pusher returns as Robert Patrick Modell escapes from the mental hospital and the FBI promptly organizes a manhunt, assuming that he will continue where he left off. But is he really trying to get revenge on Mulder, or does he want to warn him of another evil?
Director: Daniel Sackheim
Writer: Vince Gilligan, Tim Minear
Guest starring: Scott Oughterson, Ty Olsson, Kurt Evans, Donna Yamamoto, Stuart O'Connell, Richard Leacock, Michael Dobson, Michelle Hart, Steven Jones, Clare Lipinskie, Gail Anderson, John Dadey, Jill Krop, Mark Holden, Diana Scarwid, Colleen Winton, Robert Wisden
9
Schizogeny
60 min 1998-01-11
A therapist working with children from abusive families is found to be implanting them with the memories of her own abuse suffered at the hands of her late father, when one of her patients tries to kill his stepfather.
Director: Ralph Hemeckler
Writer: Jessica Scott, Mike Wollaeger
Guest starring: Chad Lindberg, Sarah Jane Redmond, Katharine Isabelle, Cynde Harmon, George Josef, Myles Ferguson, Bob Dawson, Laurie Murdoch, Kate Robbins, Gardiner Miller, Christine Anton
10
Chinga
60 min 1998-02-08
Master of Horror Stephen King's first effort at an X-File sees Scully's well deserved vacation going terribly wrong and landing her in a small Maine town where one of the residents is believed to be a witch, and her autistic daughter's doll has frighteningly evil powers.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Chris Carter, Steven King
Guest starring: Susannah Hoffman, Larry Musser, William MacDonald, Dean Wray, Gordon Tipple, Harrison Coe, Ian Robison, Elizabeth McCarthy, Tracey Lively, Sean Benbow, Jenny-Lynn Hutcheson, Henry Beckman, Carolyn Tweedle
11
Kill Switch
60 min 1998-02-15
A super-intelligent virus program is let loose on the internet and begins to grow and expand by itself, eventually killing its creator when he tries to eradicate it.
Director: Rob Bowman
Writer: William Gibson, Tom Maddox
Guest starring: Kristin Lehman, Kate Luyben, Patrick Keating, Rob Daprocida, Jerry Schram, Steve Griffith, Dan Weber, Peter Williams
12
Bad Blood
60 min 1998-02-22
After Mulder chases down and kills a young man who he believes to be a vampire, the agents return to DC aware of the mistake they just made. Faced with a lawsuit from the family of the man, they recount each of their sides to the story leading up to the event. In the extremely humorous stories that follow we see how Scully and Mulder both perceive each other.
Director: Clifford Bole
Writer: Vince Gilligan
Guest starring: Forbes Angus, Brent Butt, Luke Wilson, Patrick Renna, Arlene Pileggi
13
Patient X (1)
60 min 1998-03-01
Mulder and Scully meet Cassandra Spender, a woman who claims to be a multiple abductee and wants to deliver a positive message about the aliens. Mulder's new found disbelief in extraterrestrial activity is enhanced while Scully forms a special bond with the woman. A series of group attacks against abductees take place and the shadowy Syndicate believes that a rebel alien resistance is attempting to destroy all their work.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz
Guest starring: Brian Thompson, Veronica Cartwright, Alex Shostak Jr, Ron Halder, Kurt Max Bunte, John Moore, Raoul Ganeev, Max Wyman, Barbara Dyke, Bruno Verdoni, Andrew Star, Anatol Rezmeritsa, Oleg Feoktistov, Willy Ross, Allen Franz, Jim Jansen
14
The Red and the Black (2)
60 min 1998-03-08
After the gathering at the abduction site where everyone is killed by the rebel bounty hunters, Cassandra Spender disappears and Mulder is blamed by her son, Jeffrey, who is an up-and-coming FBI agent. Meanwhile, the Syndicate is continuing their tests to create a vaccine for the Black Cancer and Marita Covarrubias becomes an unwilling test subject.
Director: Chris Carter
Writer: Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz
Guest starring: Brian Thompson, John Moore, Chapelle Jaffe, Michal Suchanek, Klodyne Rodney, Jenn Forgie, Derek Thomas Versteeg, Jack Finn, Willy Ross, Veronica Cartwright, Jim Jansen, Alex Shostak Jr
15
Travelers
60 min 1998-03-29
In 1990 Agent Fox Mulder visits an aging FBI Agent named Arthur Dales. He listens to a story of the agents assigned to a would-be X-File in the Cold War era of the 1950's and how Mulder's father was connected to a series of strange deaths.
Director: William Graham
Writer: Frank Spotnitz, John Shiban
Guest starring: Fredric Lehne, Garret Dillahunt, Brian Leckner, David Moreland, Eileen Pedde, Dean Aylesworth, David Fredericks, Mitchell Kosterman, Roger Haskett, Jane Perry, J. Douglas Stewart, Cory Dagg, Eric W. Gilder, Darren McGavin
16
Mind's Eye
60 min 1998-04-19
Mulder and Scully try to get answers out of a stubborn blind woman found at a murder scene who may have the ability to look through the killer's eyes in her mind.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Tim Minear
Guest starring: Blu Mankuma, Richard Fitzpatrick, Henri Lubatti, Peter Kelamis, Jason Diablo, Veronica Stocker, Dallas Blake, Joe Pascual, Laurie Brunetti, Rick Dobran, Ralph Alderman, Colin Lawrence, Henry O. Watson, Lili Taylor
17
All Souls
60 min 1998-04-26
Scully faces her Catholic faith and the loss of her daughter Emily when she is asked to help a family whose adopted daughter was found dead in a position that looked like she was struck down by God himself.
Director: Rob Bowman, Billy Brown, Dan Angel
Writer: Frank Spotnitz, John Shiban
Guest starring: Arnie Walters, Glenn Morshower, Jody Racicot, Emily Perkins, Lauren Diewold, Eric Keenleyside, Patti Allan, Lorraine Landry, Tracy Elofson, Bob Wilde, Tim O'Halloran, Joseph Patrick Finn
18
The Pine Bluff Variant
60 min 1998-05-03
Scully fears that Mulder has gone to the other side when she sees him assisting a federal suspect escape custody. In truth he has infiltrated a terrorist group testing a deadly biological weapon that can eat through a person's flesh.
Director: Rob Bowman
Writer: Frank Spotnitz, John Shiban
Guest starring: J. B. Bivens, Douglas Arthurs, John B. Lowe, Ralph Alderman, Dean McKenzie, Kate Braidwood, Armin Moattar, Daniel Von Bargen, Michael McRae, Sam Anderson
19
Folie à Deux
60 min 1998-05-10
Mulder is held hostage inside an office where a man claims his boss is a monster and has clouded all their minds while he turns them into zombies one by one, which is disbelieved until Mulder opens his mind and allows himself to see it too.
Director: Rob Bowman
Writer: Vince Gilligan
Guest starring: Roger R. Cross, Leslie Jones, Dmitry Chepovetsky, Brenda McDonald, Robert Luft, Tim Bissett, Norma Wick, Grant Gladish, Steve Bacic, Nancy Kerr, Owen Walstrom, Brian Markinson, John Apicella, Cynthia Preston
20
The End
60 min 1998-05-17
The Cigarette-Smoking Man returns as Mulder investigates the attempted assassination of a young boy with psychic powers who may be the proof that he has looked for all his life.
Director: R.W. Goodwin
Writer: Chris Carter
Guest starring: Martin Ferrero, Michael Shamus Wiles, John Moore, Patrick Phillips, Paul Moniz de Sa, John Trottier, Orest Blajkevitch, Erika Krievins, Sabrina Krievins
Editions
Barcode Format Region Release Edition
024543228585 1 2006-03-28 The Complete Fifth Season
024543034964 1 2002-05-14 The Complete Fifth Season
024543034988 1 2002-05-14 The Complete Fifth Season
5039036009454 1
4010232011084 1 2002-09-02 Season 5
5039036018289 2 2001-12-27 The Complete Fifth Season
8712626018575 2 2005-07-04 Het Volledige Seizoen 5 / L'Integrale De La Saison 5
8712626012412 2 2002-05-14 Seizoen 5
3344428017354 2 2005-04-20
9321337029061 4 2001-12-27 The Complete Fifth Season
9321337089027 4 2007-09-05
9321337089119 4 2007-09-05
024543228592 2009-02-03
7391772315410
3344428031534