The X-Files: Season 7

1999 · 22 episodes · ★ 7.2

What Season 7 of The X-Files

Season seven opens with Fox Mulder admitted to a psychological care unit, affected by strange electrical impulses. Meanwhile, Dana Scully travels to the Ivory Coast, where a sunken ship off the coast bears unknown symbols. Scully is determined to decipher them, because the key to saving her partner may lie within them. It is a race against the clock against a phenomenon that is becoming more and more real. Skinner and Kritschgau also get involved in the search for answers about what is happening to Mulder.

22episodes

Nov 7, 1999Aired

May 21, 2000latest episode

16.5 hrtotal runtime

Season 7 Episodes

7x01 The Sixth Extinction (2)
Nov 7, 1999 · 45 min · ★ 7.2
While Scully travels to Africa to piece together the meaning of the symbols on the spaceship beached on the Ivory Coast, Mulder is imprisoned by his own frenetic brain activity. He manages to get a message to Skinner who finds Kritschgau, and together they try to understand what is happening to Mulder before it is too late.
Directing: Kim Manners · Writing: Chris Carter · Starring: Mitch Pileggi, John Finn, Mimi Rogers, Michael Ensign
7x02 The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati (3)
Nov 14, 1999 · 45 min · ★ 7.3
Scully frantically searches for a way to help her ailing partner without having anyone to turn to for help, while a catatonic Mulder's dreams lead him away from his mission and the X-Files to a place which he believes is a better life.
Directing: Michael W. Watkins · Writing: Chris Carter, David Duchovny · Starring: William B. Davis, Mitch Pileggi, John Finn, Megan Leitch
7x03 Hungry
Nov 21, 1999 · 45 min · ★ 7.5
A monster who feeds on human brain matter tries to lead a normal life, but he soon cannot control his feelings of hunger.
Directing: Kim Manners · Writing: Vince Gilligan · Starring: Judith Hoag, Chad Donella, Mark Pellegrino, Bill Lee Brown
7x04 Millennium
Nov 28, 1999 · 45 min · ★ 7.6
As the year 2000 draws closer, the agents are up against a man from the Millennium Group who believes that he can bring about the end of the world on the 31st of December if he resurrects four former members from the dead. To gain more insight into the group and its practices, Mulder and Scully enlist criminal profiler Frank Black to assist them in the investigation.
Directing: Thomas J. Wright · Writing: Frank Spotnitz, Vince Gilligan · Starring: Mitch Pileggi, Brittany Tiplady, Colby French, Octavia Spencer
7x05 Rush
Dec 5, 1999 · 45 min · ★ 7.4
A young man who has gained the ability to move faster than the eye can see begins to use his new power to kill his enemies, including the local sheriff who happens to be his father.
Directing: Rob Lieberman · Writing: David Amann · Starring: Rodney Scott, Nicki Aycox, Ann Dowd, Scott Cooper
7x06 The Goldberg Variation
Dec 12, 1999 · 45 min · ★ 7.9
Mulder and Scully get caught in a real-life Rube Goldberg device when they meet Henry Weems, who just may be the luckiest man on Earth - except everyone around him doesn't seem to be that lucky.
Directing: Thomas J. Wright · Writing: Jeffrey Bell · Starring: Alyson Reed, Ernie Lee Banks, Nicholas Worth, Tony Longo
7x07 Orison
Jan 9, 2000 · 45 min · ★ 7.3
Reverend Orison hopes to save Donnie Pfaster's soul by helping him break out of prison, but Donnie immediately plans to go after the victim that once escaped him... Scully.
Directing: Rob Bowman · Writing: Chip Johannessen · Starring: Nick Chinlund, Emilio Rivera, Scott Wilson, Steve Rankin
7x08 The Amazing Maleeni
Jan 16, 2000 · 45 min · ★ 7.7
When a small-time magician performs a trick where it appears that he turns his head all the way around but is then found in his van dead with his head neatly sawed off, Mulder and Scully suspect he was murdered and get caught up in an intricate scheme planned by two magicians trying to rob a bank.
Directing: Thomas J. Wright · Writing: John Shiban, Frank Spotnitz, Vince Gilligan · Starring: Robert LaSardo, Ricky Jay, Jim Maniaci, Jonathan Levit
7x09 Signs and Wonders
Jan 23, 2000 · 45 min · ★ 6.5
Snakes are killing the unrighteous, but Mulder and Scully doubt that this is a case of divine intervention.
Directing: Kim Manners · Writing: Jeffrey Bell · Starring: Randy Oglesby, Tracy Middendorf, Michael Childers, Eric Nenninger
7x10 Sein Und Zeit (1)
Feb 6, 2000 · 45 min · ★ 7.6
A young girl inexplicably disappears from her home, and Mulder requests the case even though it is a full FBI matter, not just an X-File. When Mulder takes some outrageous leaps to convince the girl's parents that she will be found, Scully fears that Mulder is becoming too personally involved with the case because of his sister's abduction.
Directing: Michael W. Watkins · Writing: Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz · Starring: Mitch Pileggi, Shareen Mitchell, Megan Corletto, Spencer Garrett
7x11 Closure (2)
Feb 13, 2000 · 45 min · ★ 7.3
After arresting the murderer of Amber-Lynn LaPierre and discovering a mass grave site containing the bodies of dozens of missing children, a man comes to Mulder and claims to have had visions of other victims who aren't buried at the site. Despite Scully's objections, he takes Mulder on a journey which reveals what truly happened to his sister.
Directing: Kim Manners · Writing: Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz · Starring: Mitch Pileggi, Anthony Heald, Mimi Paley, Megan Corletto
7x12 X-Cops
Feb 20, 2000 · 45 min · ★ 7.3
A Los Angeles police officer who is being filmed for the show COPS is attacked by a strange monster and Mulder and Scully are investigating the case. Scully is wary of having their faces put on national television but Mulder welcomes the publicity.
Directing: Michael W. Watkins · Writing: Vince Gilligan · Starring: Judson Mills, Tara Karsian, Lombardo Boyar, Michael Maher
7x13 First Person Shooter
Feb 27, 2000 · 45 min · ★ 6.0
The Lone Gunmen call Mulder and Scully to a virtual reality development lab where they learn that one of the program testers was killed inside the computer generated game environment by the digital image of a woman. Needing to get his yah-yah's, Mulder enters the game to fight the woman, but Scully must step in to save him.
Directing: Chris Carter · Writing: Tom Maddox, William Gibson · Starring: Michael Bower, Constance Zimmer, Krista Allen, Jamie Marsh
7x14 Theef
Mar 12, 2000 · 45 min · ★ 6.7
Mulder and Scully suspect that hexcraft is the source of threats against a doctor's family.
Directing: Kim Manners · Writing: John Shiban, Frank Spotnitz, Vince Gilligan · Starring: Billy Drago, James Morrison, Sage Allen, Tom Dahlgren
7x15 En Ami
Mar 19, 2000 · 45 min · ★ 7.6
The Cigarette-Smoking Man offers to show Scully the cure for all diseases if she travels with him, but on one condition: Mulder must not know about her trip.
Directing: Rob Bowman · Writing: William B. Davis · Starring: Mitch Pileggi, Timothy Landfield, Michael Shamus Wiles, Michael Canavan
7x16 Chimera
Apr 2, 2000 · 45 min · ★ 7.0
As Mulder investigates a missing person case with a key feature being a menacing raven, he learns to enjoy the creature comforts of a well-tended home while Scully must tough it out on an uncomfortable stakeout.
Directing: Cliff Bole · Writing: David Amann · Starring: Mitch Pileggi, Ashley Edner, Wendy Schaal, Michelle Joyner
7x17 all things
Apr 9, 2000 · 45 min · ★ 6.7
A series of coincidences leads Scully to a married man she had an affair with during medical school but left him to protect his family.
Directing: Gillian Anderson · Writing: Gillian Anderson · Starring: Stacy Haiduk, Elayn J. Taylor, Stephen Hornyak, Nicolas Surovy
7x18 Brand X
Apr 16, 2000 · 45 min · ★ 7.5
While protecting a man due to testify against the Morley cigarette company, Skinner is horrified when the witness dies mysteriously. What the agents soon discover is that a new brand of cigarette has a dangerous secret.
Directing: Kim Manners · Writing: Greg Walker, Steven Maeda · Starring: Mitch Pileggi, Tobin Bell, Dennis Boutsikaris, Richard Cox
7x19 Hollywood A.D.
Apr 30, 2000 · 45 min · ★ 6.6
Mulder and Scully watch a movie with themselves as characters and are thoroughly disgusted at how they and their case are portrayed on the big screen. They recount how 18 months earlier they were followed around by a Hollywood producer while investigating a case concerning The Lazarus Bowl - a mythical piece of pottery reputed to have inscribed on it the words that Jesus Christ spoke when he raised Lazarus from the dead.
Directing: David Duchovny · Writing: David Duchovny · Starring: Mitch Pileggi, Wayne Federman, Harris Yulin, Minnie Driver
7x20 Fight Club
May 7, 2000 · 45 min · ★ 5.9
Mulder and Scully cross paths with two women who are identical and have followed each other across 17 states in the last three years, causing chaos and mayhem wherever they are.
Directing: Paul Shapiro · Writing: Chris Carter · Starring: Kathy Griffin, Jim Hanna, Gene LeBell, Randall 'Tex' Cobb
7x21 Je Souhaite
May 14, 2000 · 45 min · ★ 7.7
Mulder and Scully discover a genie in a rug who, after 500 years of granting wishes, has come to the conclusion that people are still as greedy and self-centered as they always have been, and she begins to corrupt the wishes she grants if they are not specific enough.
Directing: Vince Gilligan · Writing: Vince Gilligan · Starring: Mitch Pileggi, Will Sasso, Kevin Weisman, Paula Sorge
7x22 Requiem Season Finale
May 21, 2000 · 45 min · ★ 8.0
Mulder and Scully return to the town of their first X-Files investigation where a UFO has crashed in the forest. The Cigarette-Smoking Man arranges for Krycek to be released from prison in order for him to make contact with the aliens and begin rebuilding the "Project", while Scully's health appears to be taking a turn.
Directing: Kim Manners · Writing: Chris Carter · Starring: William B. Davis, Mitch Pileggi, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Sarah Koskoff