The X-Files: Season 8

2000 · 21 episodes · ★ 7.2

What Season 8 of The X-Files

Fox Mulder has been abducted, and Scully is still searching for her missing partner. This time she is not alone. Agent John Doggett, leader of a special FBI task force, is assigned to her side and takes Mulder's place on The X-Files. Joining them is Monica Reyes, a specialist in criminal rituals. The cases range from strange bites in a town in Ohio to cults, children who do not age, or a cult leader capable of killing those who sleep. Scully, in addition, faces the birth of her baby. A hidden threat waits for the right moment to act.

21episodes

Nov 5, 2000Aired

May 20, 2001latest episode

15.8 hrtotal runtime

Season 8 Episodes

8x01 Within (1)
Nov 5, 2000 · 45 min · ★ 7.4
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.
Directing: Kim Manners · Writing: Chris Carter · Starring: Mitch Pileggi, Kirk B.R. Woller, Dondré Whitfield, Christine Firkins
8x02 Without (2)
Nov 12, 2000 · 45 min · ★ 7.5
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.
Directing: Kim Manners · Writing: Chris Carter · Starring: Mitch Pileggi, Brian Thompson, Sal Landi, Kirk B.R. Woller
8x03 Patience
Nov 19, 2000 · 45 min · ★ 7.2
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.
Directing: Chris Carter · Writing: Chris Carter · Starring: Gene Dynarski, Jay Caputo, Dan Leegant, Bradford English
8x04 Roadrunners
Nov 26, 2000 · 45 min · ★ 7.6
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.
Directing: Rod Hardy · Writing: Vince Gilligan · Starring: Lawrence Pressman, William O'Leary, Rusty Schwimmer, Conor O'Farrell
8x05 Invocation
Dec 3, 2000 · 45 min · ★ 7.1
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.
Directing: Richard Compton · Writing: David Amann · Starring: Colton James, Kim Greist, Maggie Baird, Rodney Eastman
8x06 Redrum
Dec 10, 2000 · 45 min · ★ 7.5
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.
Directing: Peter Markle · Writing: Steven Maeda · Starring: Guy Torry, Cynthia Martells, Bellamy Young, Danny Trejo
8x07 Via Negativa
Dec 17, 2000 · 45 min · ★ 6.9
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.
Directing: Tony Wharmby · Writing: Frank Spotnitz · Starring: Mitch Pileggi, Keith Szarabajka, Kirk B.R. Woller, Grant Heslov
8x08 Surekill
Jan 7, 2001 · 45 min · ★ 6.8
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.
Directing: Terrence O'Hara · Writing: Greg Walker · Starring: Noel Gugliemi, James Franco, Kellie Waymire, Michael Bowen
8x09 Salvage
Jan 14, 2001 · 45 min · ★ 6.7
A man whose blood is rapidly changing into metal alloy enacts revenge on those who caused his condition.
Directing: Rod Hardy · Writing: Jeffrey Bell · Starring: Arye Gross, Dan Desmond, Wade Williams, Jennifer Parsons
8x10 Badlaa
Jan 21, 2001 · 45 min · ★ 6.5
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.
Directing: Tony Wharmby · Writing: John Shiban · Starring: Michael Welch, Jordan Warkol, Maura Soden, Deep Roy
8x11 The Gift
Feb 4, 2001 · 45 min · ★ 7.0
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.
Directing: Kim Manners · Writing: Frank Spotnitz · Starring: Mitch Pileggi, Natalie Radford, Caroline Lagerfelt, Jordan Marder
8x12 Medusa
Feb 11, 2001 · 45 min · ★ 7.1
Scully and Doggett must race against the clock to investigate and fight off a contagion lurking in the subway tunnels of Boston.
Directing: Richard Compton · Writing: Frank Spotnitz · Starring: Ken Jenkins, Penny Johnson Jerald, Judith Scott, Mary Kathleen Gordon
8x13 Per Manum
Feb 18, 2001 · 45 min · ★ 6.9
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.
Directing: Kim Manners · Writing: Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz · Starring: Mitch Pileggi, Karl T. Wright, Saxon Trainor, Steven Anderson
8x14 This Is Not Happening (1)
Feb 25, 2001 · 45 min · ★ 7.5
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.
Directing: Kim Manners · Writing: Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz · Starring: Annabeth Gish, Mitch Pileggi, Roy Thinnes, Sarah Koskoff
8x15 Deadalive (2)
Apr 1, 2001 · 45 min · ★ 7.3
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.
Directing: Tony Wharmby · Writing: Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz · Starring: Mitch Pileggi, Judson Scott, Zachary Ansley, Gibby Brand
8x16 Three Words
Apr 8, 2001 · 45 min · ★ 7.5
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.
Directing: Tony Wharmby · Writing: Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz · Starring: Mitch Pileggi, Judson Scott, Adam Baldwin, Gary Bristow
8x17 Empedocles
Apr 22, 2001 · 45 min · ★ 6.6
Special Agent Reyes enlists Mulder's help in investigating a supernatural killer's connection to the unsolved murder of Agent Doggett's son, Luke.
Directing: Barry K. Thomas · Writing: Greg Walker · Starring: Annabeth Gish, Jennifer Hammon, Caitlin Fein, Jay Underwood
8x18 Vienen
Apr 29, 2001 · 45 min · ★ 7.2
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.
Directing: Rod Hardy · Writing: Steven Maeda · Starring: Mitch Pileggi, Lee Reherman, Casey Biggs, M.C. Gainey
8x19 Alone
May 6, 2001 · 45 min · ★ 7.2
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.
Directing: Frank Spotnitz · Writing: Frank Spotnitz · Starring: Mitch Pileggi, Zach Grenier, Jolie Jenkins, Tony Ketcham
8x20 Essence (1)
May 13, 2001 · 45 min · ★ 7.5
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.
Directing: Kim Manners · Writing: Chris Carter · Starring: Annabeth Gish, Mitch Pileggi, Frances Fisher, Zachary Ansley
8x21 Existence (2) Season Finale
May 20, 2001 · 45 min · ★ 7.9
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.
Directing: Kim Manners · Writing: Chris Carter · Starring: Annabeth Gish, Mitch Pileggi, Zachary Ansley, Kirk B.R. Woller