The BEST episodes directed by Chris Carter

The Red and the Black (2)
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7.96
1064 votes

#1 - The Red and the Black (2)

The X-Files - Season 5 - Episode 14

After the gathering at the abduction site where everyone is killed by the rebel bounty hunters, Cassandra Spender disappears and Mulder is blamed by her son, Jeffrey, who is an up-and-coming FBI agent. Meanwhile, the Syndicate is continuing their tests to create a vaccine for the Black Cancer and Marita Covarrubias becomes an unwilling test subject.

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Triangle
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7.81
1164 votes

#2 - Triangle

The X-Files - Season 6 - Episode 3

Mulder goes to the Bermuda Triangle when he learns that the Queen Anne, a British luxury liner which disappeared during WWII, has reappeared in the middle of the Sargasso Sea. Mulder's boat is wrecked and after floating in the water, he is hauled aboard the ship which has just been hijacked by the Nazis searching for the man who will build the atom bomb. Mulder tries to convince the crew that they have traveled into the future, but evidence further suggests that it is he who is back in the past.

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Duane Barry (1)
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7.81
1983 votes

#3 - Duane Barry (1)

The X-Files - Season 2 - Episode 5

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.

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My Struggle
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7.80
5005 votes

#4 - My Struggle

The X-Files - Season 10 - Episode 1

Fox Mulder and Dana Scully have been contacted by Tad O’Malley, a popular conspiracy theorist web-TV show host who believes he has uncovered a significant government conspiracy. With the assistance of FBI Asst. Dir. Walter Skinner, O’Malley seeks to enlist the help of former X-Files agents Mulder and Scully, who have since severed ties with the FBI. Through O’Malley they are introduced to Sveta, a possible alien abductee who shares shocking information with them that will challenge everything that Mulder has ever believed about the existence of aliens and the government’s role in covering them up.

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How The Ghosts Stole Christmas
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7.65
1144 votes

#5 - How The Ghosts Stole Christmas

The X-Files - Season 6 - Episode 6

Mulder talks Scully into investigating a haunted house on Christmas Eve where several couples have met their fate on that very night. While there, they encounter endless tricks and traps set by a ghostly couple who originally made a lovers suicide pact in the house. The ghosts try to convince Mulder and Scully to kill each other.

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Providence (2)
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7.61
903 votes

#6 - Providence (2)

The X-Files - Season 9 - Episode 10

Scully is anxious to recover William from his kidnappers and takes matters into her own hands when the FBI's attempts to assist in the investigation are less than helpful. With the help of the Lone Gunmen, Scully discovers terrifying information about her child's captors, and is once again forced to confront the mystery regarding the sinister interest in her son.

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The Post-Modern Prometheus
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7.54
1139 votes

#7 - The Post-Modern Prometheus

The X-Files - Season 5 - Episode 5

Filmed in glorious black and white with a comic book feel to it, this is a modern retelling of Frankenstein as Mulder and Scully get caught up in a town where the residents live on Jerry Springer episodes and fear a two-faced monster who has been impregnating the women.

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My Struggle II
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7.39
3315 votes

#8 - My Struggle II

The X-Files - Season 10 - Episode 6

The investigations that Mulder and Scully began with Tad O’Malley have awakened powerful enemies. A panic begins as people all over the country suddenly start falling ill, and Scully looks for a cure. Mulder confronts the man whom he believes to be behind it all, but another figure from their past may prove to be the key.

My Struggle IV
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7.37
1551 votes

#9 - My Struggle IV

The X-Files - Season 11 - Episode 10

Mulder and Scully rush to find an on-the-run William while the Cigarette Smoking Man pushes forward with his ultimate plan.

Patience
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7.35
1000 votes

#10 - Patience

The X-Files - Season 8 - Episode 3

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.

Improbable
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7.21
919 votes

#11 - Improbable

The X-Files - Season 9 - Episode 13

When Reyes uses numerology to connect the murders of several women to an obsessed serial killer, she and Scully become trapped with a mysterious checker-playing man who may or may not be the killer.

The List
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7.15
1504 votes

#12 - The List

The X-Files - Season 3 - Episode 5

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.

My Struggle III
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7.13
2539 votes

#13 - My Struggle III

The X-Files - Season 11 - Episode 1

Picking up after the last event series' cliffhanger, Mulder and Scully learn that they aren't the only ones desperately searching for their long-lost son, William. The very fate of the world may depend on it.

Babylon
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6.95
3481 votes

#14 - Babylon

The X-Files - Season 10 - Episode 5

An art gallery that's showing potentially offensive artwork is bombed, and Mulder and Scully try to communicate with the comatose bomber to prevent a future attack. A pair of younger FBI agents on the case push Mulder and Scully to examine their own beliefs.

First Person Shooter
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6.40
1003 votes

#15 - First Person Shooter

The X-Files - Season 7 - Episode 13

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.