The WORST episodes of The X-Files
Every episode of The X-Files ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of The X-Files!
`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 - X-COPS
Season 7 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/20/2000
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.
#2 - Babylon
Season 10 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/15/2016
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.
#3 - First Person Shooter
Season 7 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/27/2000
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.
#4 - Travelers
Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 3/29/1998
In 1990 Agent Fox Mulder visits an aging FBI Agent named Arthur Dales. He listens to a story of the agents assigned to a would-be X-File in the Cold War era of the 1950's and how Mulder's father was connected to a series of strange deaths.
#5 - All Things
Season 7 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/9/2000
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.
#6 - Signs & Wonders
Season 7 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/23/2000
Snakes are killing the unrighteous, but Mulder and Scully doubt that this is a case of divine intervention.
#7 - Fight Club
Season 7 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/7/2000
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.
#8 - Excelsis Dei
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/16/1994
Mulder and Scully uncover strange occurrences in an elderly care home when one of the nurses is attacked by an unseen force she claims to be one of the 90 year old residents.
#9 - Teso Dos Bichos
Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/8/1996
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.
#10 - This
Season 11 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/10/2018
An old friend reaches out to Mulder and Scully in a seemingly impossible way, revealing a chilling secret.
#11 - The Field Where I Died
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/3/1996
After an FBI raid on a doomsday cult called the "Temple of the Seven Stars", Mulder meets Melissa, a cultist who claims to have known him in a previous life during the American Civil War. Scully believes the woman is a delusional schizophrenic, but Mulder allows himself to be drawn into her fantasies.
#12 - Aubrey
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/6/1995
When a detective mysteriously uncovers the remains of an FBI agent who disappeared in the 1940s while investigating a similar murder case to one she is now on, Mulder and Scully believe that the original killer had passed his genetic trait of violence to his grandchild.
#13 - Home Again
Season 10 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/8/2016
Mulder and Scully are sent to investigate the murder of a city official, which no human could have committed. Scully deals with a personal tragedy, which brings up old feelings about the child she gave up for adoption.
#14 - Mulder & Scully Meet the Were-Monster
Season 10 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/1/2016
A dead body is found in the woods. Mulder and Scully try to find out whether it was an animal attack, a serial killer or just a strange creature. Meanwhile, Mulder is able to confront some of his own demons about feeling disillusioned with his life's work.
#15 - Demons
Season 4 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/11/1997
Mulder undergoes an experimental form of hypnotherapy to recover his memories about his sister's abduction, but the treatment has side effects including psychotic behavior, and Mulder wakes up one morning in a motel room with someone else's blood all over him.
#16 - The Rain King
Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/10/1999
Strange weather phenomena in a small town leads Mulder to believe that a weatherman's deep emotions and unspoken love toward his workmate are becoming real in the form of snow and tornadoes.
#17 - Alpha
Season 6 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/28/1999
A mysterious dog thought to be the last of a rare Asian breed is responsible for several murders which Mulder and Scully are investigating. Now the agents have to find a way to stop the dog before it kills again.
#18 - 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.
#19 - Nothing Lasts Forever
Season 11 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/14/2018
While investigating human organ theft, Mulder and Scully uncover a mysterious cult consumed with macabre rituals.
#20 - Hollywood A.D.
Season 7 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/30/2000
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.
#21 - Chimera
Season 7 - Episode 16 - Aired 4/2/2000
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.
#22 - My Struggle IV
Season 11 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/21/2018
Mulder and Scully rush to find an on-the-run William while the Cigarette Smoking Man pushes forward with his ultimate plan.
#23 - Space
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/12/1993
A mysterious force is sabotaging a space launch program, which leads directly back to the commander of the team who once led a mission to Mars and claimed to have seen an alien in space.
#24 - My Struggle II
Season 10 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/22/2016
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.
#25 - El Mundo Gira
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/12/1997
A strange yellow rain kills a migrant girl, and her family believes that a mythical creature was the cause and has manifested itself inside the brother of her fiancé, who has since disappeared.