The X-Files: Season 2

1994 · 25 episodes · ★ 7.6

What Season 2 of The X-Files

The X-Files has been shut down and Mulder and Scully are separated. Scully finds herself teaching classes at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, while Mulder is assigned to surveillance duty. With Agent Alex Krycek as his new partner, and the mysterious X as his new source of information, Mulder struggles to keep his search for the truth alive. But ironically it is Scully who experiences the close encounter Mulder has longed for, taking a journey that will ultimately bring the two agents back together and forging a bond that will make them closer than ever before.

25episodes

Sep 16, 1994premiered

May 19, 1995latest episode

19.1 hrtotal runtime

Season 2 Episodes

2x01 Little Green Men
Sep 16, 1994 · 46 min · ★ 7.7
With the X-Files closed, Scully has been assigned as an instructor at the FBI Academy while Mulder is doing menial surveillance work. After meeting with Senator Matheson, one of his supporters in regards to the X-Files, Mulder disobeys orders and heads to an abandoned SETI site in Puerto Rico which has inexplicably reactivated itself and could provide proof of contact with extra-terrestrial life.
Directing: David Nutter · Writing: James Wong, Glen Morgan · Starring: William B. Davis, Mitch Pileggi, Mike Gomez, Dwight McFee
2x02 The Host
Sep 23, 1994 · 46 min · ★ 7.9
A.D. Skinner sends Mulder to investigate a body which washed into the New Jersey sewer from the ocean. Mulder believes that the basic blue-collar assignment is punishment, but by Skinner's own admission, what he discovers is a true X-File.
Directing: Daniel Sackheim · Writing: Chris Carter · Starring: Mitch Pileggi, Matthew Bennett, Marc Baur, Don MacKay
2x03 Blood
Sep 30, 1994 · 46 min · ★ 7.4
When several violent deaths in a small farming community are connected by the destruction of digital devices, Mulder believes that people are being driven to kill by the use of subliminal messages in the digital readouts.
Directing: David Nutter · Writing: James Wong, Glen Morgan · Starring: William Sanderson, John Cygan, Ashlyn Gere, David Fredericks
2x04 Sleepless
Oct 7, 1994 · 45 min · ★ 7.6
Mulder reluctantly accepts a new partner, Agent Alex Krycek, and they investigate the deaths of several Green Beret soldiers who participated in a sleep deprivation experiment during the Vietnam war.
Directing: Rob Bowman · Writing: Howard Gordon · Starring: William B. Davis, Mitch Pileggi, Mitchell Kosterman, Dave Adams
2x05 Duane Barry (1)
Oct 14, 1994 · 46 min · ★ 8.1
Mulder is called to a hostage situation involving Duane Barry, a former FBI Agent who claims to be an alien abductee and wants to get back to the abduction site with someone who will be taken instead of him. Unfortunately, the someone he eventually chooses is Scully.
Directing: Chris Carter · Writing: Chris Carter · Starring: Steve Railsback, Michael Dobson, CCH Pounder, Stephen E. Miller
2x06 Ascension (2)
Oct 21, 1994 · 46 min · ★ 8.2
When Mulder finds out that Scully was kidnapped by Duane Barry, he risks the wrath of his superiors and the annoyance of Agent Krycek in order to do whatever it takes to find her. Meanwhile, Krycek is found to be reporting Mulder's activities to the Cigarette-Smoking Man.
Directing: Michael Lange · Writing: Paul Brown · Starring: William B. Davis, Mitch Pileggi, Steve Railsback, Bobby Stewart
2x07 3
Nov 4, 1994 · 46 min · ★ 6.6
Mulder, back on the X-Files but alone for the first time, investigates a series of vampire-like murders in Los Angeles and finds himself falling for the one woman that may be the prime suspect.
Directing: David Nutter · Writing: James Wong, Glen Morgan, Chris Ruppenthal · Starring: Perrey Reeves, Justina Vail Evans, Frank Military, Tom McBeath
2x08 One Breath
Nov 11, 1994 · 46 min · ★ 8.0
Scully mysteriously appears in a Washington hospital, alive but in a coma, and Mulder must fight to keep her alive in order to find out what happened to her and who did it to her. Meanwhile, Scully fights her own personal battle as she decides whether to stay or go on to the next world.
Directing: R. W. Goodwin · Writing: James Wong, Glen Morgan · Starring: Mitch Pileggi, Don S. Davis, Jay Brazeau, Nicola Cavendish
2x09 Firewalker
Nov 18, 1994 · 46 min · ★ 7.1
Mulder and Scully, reunited at last, head for an active volcano under a geological study and find a deadly life form that can survive in the searing heat of the crater and is killing the scientists to avoid being discovered.
Directing: David Nutter · Writing: Howard Gordon · Starring: Bradley Whitford, David Kaye, Leland Orser, Hiro Kanagawa
2x10 Red Museum
Dec 9, 1994 · 46 min · ★ 7.4
While investigating the connection between the abduction of several teenagers and a rural religious cult, Mulder and Scully discover a secret test being performed on the children using the "Purity Control" alien DNA from 'The Erlenmeyer Flask' which leads Mulder to "the crew-cut man", Deep Throat's murderer.
Directing: Win Phelps · Writing: Chris Carter · Starring: Mark Rolston, Gillian Barber, Paul Sand, Steve Eastin
2x11 Excelsis Dei
Dec 16, 1994 · 45 min · ★ 6.8
Mulder and Scully uncover strange occurrences in an elderly care home when one of the nurses is attacked by an unseen force she claims to be one of the 90 year old residents.
Directing: Stephen Surjik · Writing: Paul Brown · Starring: Teryl Rothery, Ernie Prentice, Eric Christmas, Frances Bay
2x12 Aubrey
Jan 6, 1995 · 46 min · ★ 7.2
When a detective mysteriously uncovers the remains of an FBI agent who disappeared in the 1940s while investigating a similar murder case to one she is now on, Mulder and Scully believe that the original killer had passed his genetic trait of violence to his grandchild.
Directing: Rob Bowman · Writing: Sara B. Cooper · Starring: Terry O'Quinn, Morgan Woodward, Sarah-Jane Redmond, Joy Coghill
2x13 Irresistible
Jan 13, 1995 · 46 min · ★ 7.4
A mortuary worker who gets his thrills from collecting hair and fingernails from the dead begins killing his soon-to-be collectibles himself and sets his seriously disturbed sights on Scully.
Directing: David Nutter · Writing: Chris Carter · Starring: Nick Chinlund, Bruce Weitz, Christine Willes, Deanna Milligan
2x14 Die Hand Die Verletzt
Jan 27, 1995 · 46 min · ★ 7.8
The ritualistic murder of a teenager in a small town gets Mulder and Scully caught up in a secret occult practice within the local school's PTA and a substitute teacher with strange powers.
Directing: Kim Manners · Writing: James Wong, Glen Morgan · Starring: Dan Butler, Susan Blommaert, Heather McComb, Shaun Johnston
2x15 Fresh Bones
Feb 3, 1995 · 46 min · ★ 7.0
While investigating several deaths and murders within a Haitian refugee camp, Mulder and Scully get caught in the middle of a secret war between the camp commander and a Voodoo priest.
Directing: Rob Bowman · Writing: Howard Gordon · Starring: Daniel Benzali, Bruce A. Young, Jamil Walker Smith, Matt Hill
2x16 Colony (1)
Feb 10, 1995 · 45 min · ★ 8.2
After the obituaries of four identical men are e-mailed to Mulder, the agents are contacted by a shadowy CIA agent who tells them about a bounty hunter sent to wipe out the beginning of a colony of clones. Meanwhile Mulder is distracted by the sudden reappearance of his sister Samantha.
Directing: Nick Marck · Writing: Chris Carter, David Duchovny · Starring: Mitch Pileggi, Megan Leitch, Andrew Johnston, Brian Thompson
2x17 End Game (2)
Feb 17, 1995 · 46 min · ★ 8.3
The alien bounty hunter kidnaps Scully and wants to trade her for Mulder's sister, who is revealed to be a clone herself. After the trade goes badly and Mulder discovers the truth about Samantha, he tracks the bounty hunter to his ship buried in the arctic ice and demands the whereabouts of his real sister.
Directing: Rob Bowman · Writing: Frank Spotnitz · Starring: Mitch Pileggi, Colin Cunningham, Megan Leitch, Andrew Johnston
2x18 Fearful Symmetry
Feb 24, 1995 · 45 min · ★ 6.5
In a small town in Idaho, a man is killed by what seems to be an invisible elephant. Mulder's investigation into the local zoo, its owners and a local animal rights group uncovers evidence of insidious alien experiments.
Directing: James Whitmore Jr. · Writing: Steve De Jarnatt · Starring: Jayne Atkinson, Lance Guest, Jack Rader, Jody St. Michael
2x19 Død Kalm
Mar 10, 1995 · 46 min · ★ 7.4
When half the crew of a Navy ship abandon their boat in a life raft and are rescued 18 hours later looking about 60 years older than they should be, Mulder suggests that the ship is caught in a time field which is speeding up their aging.
Directing: Rob Bowman · Writing: Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon · Starring: John Savage, David Cubitt, Vladimir Kulich, Stephen Dimopoulos
2x20 Humbug
Mar 31, 1995 · 46 min · ★ 8.1
Mulder and Scully travel to Gibsonton, Florida, a town built and populated by circus and sideshow performers to investigate the death of Jerald Glazebrook, The Alligator Man. While searching for leads on the killer, the agents come across many bizarre characters including the local sheriff who was once known as Jim Jim, the Dog-Faced Boy.
Directing: Kim Manners · Writing: Darin Morgan · Starring: Jim Rose, Wayne Grace, Michael J. Anderson, The Enigma
2x21 The Calusari
Apr 14, 1995 · 45 min · ★ 7.3
The agents investigate when a young boy's family is plagued by a series of tragic accidents.
Directing: Michael Vejar · Writing: Sara B. Cooper · Starring: Helene Clarkson, Joel Palmer, Lilyan Chauvin, Kay E. Kuter
2x22 F. Emasculata
Apr 28, 1995 · 46 min · ★ 7.8
When a plague-like illness kills ten men inside a maximum security prison, Scully tries to get into the quarantine site and discover the cause and origin of the contagion, while Mulder and a group of US Marshals track two escapees who may be infected.
Directing: Rob Bowman · Writing: Chris Carter, Howard Gordon · Starring: William B. Davis, Mitch Pileggi, Charles Martin Smith, Dean Norris
2x23 Soft Light
May 5, 1995 · 45 min · ★ 7.5
An experiment in dark matter accidentally turns a scientist's shadow into a deadly weapon that can unzip a person's molecules if they are touched by it.
Directing: James A. Contner · Writing: Vince Gilligan · Starring: Tony Shalhoub, Kate Twa, Kevin McNulty, Nathaniel DeVeaux
2x24 Our Town
May 12, 1995 · 45 min · ★ 7.3
After several disappearances in a small town, Mulder and Scully investigate and find hundreds of human bones in the river. They discover that the man behind the town's main source of wealth, a chicken processing plant, has found a way to prolong his life through cannibalism.
Directing: Rob Bowman · Writing: Frank Spotnitz · Starring: Caroline Kava, John Milford, Gary Grubbs, Timothy Webber
2x25 Anasazi (1) Season Finale
May 19, 1995 · 46 min · ★ 8.6
Mulder receives an encrypted computer disk containing the defense department's top secret files on extraterrestrial life and becomes a target. Scully takes him to a Navajo family that unearthed a buried secret to decipher the disk.
Directing: R. W. Goodwin · Writing: Chris Carter, David Duchovny, Chris Carter · Starring: William B. Davis, Mitch Pileggi, Renae Morriseau, Ken Camroux-Taylor