The BEST episodes of The X-Files season 8
Every episode of The X-Files season 8, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The X-Files season 8!
`The truth is out there,' and FBI agents Scully and Mulder seek it in this sci-fi phenomenon about their quest to explain the seemingly unexplainable. Their strange cases include UFO sightings, alien abductions and just about anything else paranormal.
#1 - Existence (2)
Season 8 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/20/2001
Mulder, Doggett and Skinner attempt to fight off the alien replicants, and they find a connection to the conspiracy that leads into the FBI. Reyes and Scully head to a remote farm to safeguard the birth of Scully's child.
#2 - Without (2)
Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/12/2000
As the search for Mulder intensifies in the Arizona desert, Gibson Praise leads Scully to believe that she is truly closer to her target. Kersh informs Doggett that he has been assigned as Mulder's successor on the X-Files.
#3 - This is Not Happening (1)
Season 8 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/25/2001
When Teresa Hoese (who Scully and Mulder met just before Mulder's abduction) 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 soon realizes this is exactly what's going on with Mulder.
#4 - Essence (1)
Season 8 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/13/2001
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.
#5 - Deadalive (2)
Season 8 - Episode 15 - Aired 4/1/2001
Shortly after Mulder is buried, Billy Miles is found very dead, but somehow comes back to life. Skinner and Scully put all their hopes into digging up Mulder.
#6 - Within (1)
Season 8 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/5/2000
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.
#7 - Three Words
Season 8 - Episode 16 - Aired 4/8/2001
Mulder's request for reassignment to the X-Files is denied by Kersh, who hopes that he 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.
#8 - Alone
Season 8 - Episode 19 - Aired 5/6/2001
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.
#9 - The Gift
Season 8 - Episode 11 - Aired 2/4/2001
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.
#10 - Per Manum
Season 8 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/18/2001
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 begins to question her own pregnancy and its conception.
#11 - Patience
Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/19/2000
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.
#12 - Redrum
Season 8 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/10/2000
A prominent lawyer wakes to find himself in jail and about to be prosecuted for the murder of his wife. However, he has no memory of the event and, when the days begin to regress towards the murder, he realizes he has been given a second chance.
#13 - Roadrunners
Season 8 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/26/2000
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.
#14 - Medusa
Season 8 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/11/2001
Scully and Doggett must race against the clock to investigate and fight off a contagion lurking in the subway tunnels of Boston.
#15 - Vienen
Season 8 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/22/2001
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.
#16 - Invocation
Season 8 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/3/2000
In 1990 a young 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.
#17 - Via Negativa
Season 8 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/17/2000
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.
#18 - Salvage
Season 8 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/14/2001
A man whose blood is rapidly changing into metal alloy enacts revenge on those who caused his condition.
#19 - Badlaa
Season 8 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/21/2001
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.
#20 - Empedocles
Season 8 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/15/2001
Special Agent Reyes enlists Mulder's help in investigating a supernatural killer's connection to the unsolved murder of Doggett's son.
#21 - Surekill
Season 8 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/7/2001
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.