The X-Files: Season 3

1995 · 24 episodes · ★ 7.6

What Season 3 of The X-Files

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.

24episodes

Sep 22, 1995premiered

May 17, 1996latest episode

18.1 hrtotal runtime

Season 3 Episodes

3x01 The Blessing Way (2)
Sep 22, 1995 · 46 min · ★ 8.0
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.
Directing: R. W. Goodwin · Writing: Chris Carter · Starring: William B. Davis, Mitch Pileggi, Peter Donat, Jerry Hardin
3x02 Paper Clip (3)
Sep 29, 1995 · 46 min · ★ 8.3
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.
Directing: Rob Bowman · Writing: Chris Carter · Starring: William B. Davis, Mitch Pileggi, Walter Gotell, John Neville
3x03 D.P.O.
Oct 6, 1995 · 45 min · ★ 7.6
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.
Directing: Kim Manners · Writing: Howard Gordon · Starring: Giovanni Ribisi, Jack Black, Ernie Lively, Karen Lorre
3x04 Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose
Oct 13, 1995 · 46 min · ★ 8.6
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.
Directing: David Nutter · Writing: Darin Morgan · Starring: Peter Boyle, Stuart Charno, Frank Cassini, Dwight McFee
3x05 The List
Oct 20, 1995 · 46 min · ★ 7.0
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.
Directing: Chris Carter · Writing: Chris Carter · Starring: Bokeem Woodbine, Badja Djola, John Toles-Bey, Ken Foree
3x06 2Shy
Nov 3, 1995 · 46 min · ★ 7.1
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.
Directing: David Nutter · Writing: Jeff Vlaming · Starring: Beverley Elliott, Dean Mckenzie, P.J. Prinsloo, Brad Wattum
3x07 The Walk
Nov 10, 1995 · 46 min · ★ 7.2
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.
Directing: Rob Bowman · Writing: John Shiban · Starring: Thomas Kopache, Pat Bermel, Willie Garson, Don Thompson
3x08 Oubliette
Nov 17, 1995 · 46 min · ★ 7.4
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.
Directing: Kim Manners · Writing: Charles Grant Craig · Starring: Jewel Staite, Tracey Ellis, Michael Chieffo, Ken Ryan
3x09 Nisei (1)
Nov 24, 1995 · 45 min · ★ 8.2
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.
Directing: David Nutter · Writing: Chris Carter, Howard Gordon, Frank Spotnitz · Starring: Mitch Pileggi, Carrie Cain-Sparks, Warren Takeuchi, Corrine Koslo
3x10 731 (2)
Dec 1, 1995 · 46 min · ★ 8.3
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.
Directing: Rob Bowman · Writing: Frank Spotnitz · Starring: William B. Davis, Michael Puttonen, Colin Cunningham, Sean Campbell
3x11 Revelations
Dec 15, 1995 · 45 min · ★ 6.9
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.
Directing: David Nutter · Writing: Kim Newton · Starring: Kevin Zegers, Sam Bottoms, Kenneth Welsh, Michael Berryman
3x12 War of the Coprophages
Jan 5, 1996 · 45 min · ★ 8.3
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.
Directing: Kim Manners · Writing: Darin Morgan · Starring: Bobbie Phillips, Raye Birk, Dion Anderson, Bill Dow
3x13 Syzygy
Jan 26, 1996 · 45 min · ★ 7.2
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.
Directing: Rob Bowman · Writing: Chris Carter · Starring: Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Wendy Benson-Landes, Lisa Robin Kelly, Garry Davey
3x14 Grotesque
Feb 2, 1996 · 45 min · ★ 7.3
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.
Directing: Kim Manners · Writing: Howard Gordon · Starring: Mitch Pileggi, Paul J. Anderson, John Milton Brandon, Levan Uchaneishvili
3x15 Piper Maru (1)
Feb 9, 1996 · 45 min · ★ 8.1
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.
Directing: Rob Bowman · Writing: Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz · Starring: Mitch Pileggi, Robert Clothier, Jo Bates, Stephen E. Miller
3x16 Apocrypha (2)
Feb 16, 1996 · 45 min · ★ 8.0
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.
Directing: Kim Manners · Writing: Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz · Starring: William B. Davis, Mitch Pileggi, Stanley Walsh, Craig Warkentin
3x17 Pusher
Feb 23, 1996 · 45 min · ★ 8.0
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.
Directing: Rob Bowman · Writing: Vince Gilligan · Starring: Mitch Pileggi, Janyse Jaud, Dave Grohl, Henry O. Watson
3x18 Teso Dos Bichos
Mar 8, 1996 · 44 min · ★ 6.0
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.
Directing: Kim Manners · Writing: John Shiban · Starring: Vic Trevino, Janne Mortil, Gordon Tootoosis, Tom McBeath
3x19 Hell Money
Mar 29, 1996 · 45 min · ★ 6.6
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.
Directing: Tucker Gates · Writing: Jeff Vlaming · Starring: Lucy Liu, James Hong, BD Wong, Michael Yama
3x20 Jose Chung's "From Outer Space"
Apr 12, 1996 · 45 min · ★ 7.8
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.
Directing: Rob Bowman · Writing: Darin Morgan · Starring: Charles Nelson Reilly, Alex Trebek, William Lucking, Jesse Ventura
3x21 Avatar
Apr 26, 1996 · 45 min · ★ 7.0
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.
Directing: Jim Charleston · Writing: Howard Gordon, David Duchovny · Starring: William B. Davis, Mitch Pileggi, Amanda Tapping, Jennifer Hetrick
3x22 Quagmire
May 3, 1996 · 43 min · ★ 7.3
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.
Directing: Kim Manners · Writing: Kim Newton · Starring: Mark Acheson, Chris Ellis, Peter Hanlon, R. Nelson Brown
3x23 Wetwired
May 10, 1996 · 45 min · ★ 7.9
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.
Directing: Rob Bowman · Writing: Mat Beck · Starring: William B. Davis, Mitch Pileggi, Sandy Tucker, Zinaid Memišević
3x24 Talitha Cumi (1) Season Finale
May 17, 1996 · 45 min · ★ 8.1
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.
Directing: David Duchovny, R. W. Goodwin · Writing: Chris Carter, David Duchovny · Starring: William B. Davis, Mitch Pileggi, Roy Thinnes, Brian Thompson