The X-Files

Season 4 1996 - 1997
TV-14

  • 1996-10-05T00:00:00Z on FOX
  • 45m
  • 17h 55m (24 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Mystery, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Crime, Drama
The prophetic words of the alien Bounty Hunter resonate throughout the fourth season, beginning with the near death of Mulder's mother and the murder of the mysterious X. Even the return of Alex Krycek and the alien black oil are overshadowed by Scully's cancer. Then the tragic reappearance of Max Fenig leads to the death of a fellow FBI agent. Yet even as these events strengthen Mulder's belief in a growing conspiracy, a startling truth revealed to Scully plunges him into a crisis of faith which could prove his ultimate undoing.

24 episodes

Season Premiere

1996-10-05T00:00:00Z

4x01 Herrenvolk (2)

Season Premiere

4x01 Herrenvolk (2)

  • 1996-10-05T00:00:00Z44m

With his mother on a deathbed and the alien bounty hunter in pursuit, Mulder decides to put Jeremiah Smith, the alien healer, in mortal danger for a chance to finally uncover the whole truth behind the alien conspiracy. Meanwhile, the Syndicate suspects that they have a traitor in their midst and set up a trap.

1996-10-12T00:00:00Z

4x02 Home

4x02 Home

  • 1996-10-12T00:00:00Z45m

A baby is found buried alive in shallow ground and appears to have birth defects resulting from generations of inbreeding, leading Mulder and Scully to a reclusive family who have a history of inbred children.

1996-10-19T00:00:00Z

4x03 Teliko

4x03 Teliko

  • 1996-10-19T00:00:00Z44m

After several African-American men are killed and the color is drained from their skin, Mulder learns about the Teliko, an African folktale about a creature who must suck the pigmentation from a persons body in order to survive.

1996-10-28T01:00:00Z

4x04 Unruhe

4x04 Unruhe

  • 1996-10-28T01:00:00Z45m

Several kidnappings of young women linked by distorted photographs lead Mulder and Scully to a man who can imprint his darkest fantasies onto undeveloped film and is trying to save the women from the "howlers".

1996-11-04T01:00:00Z

4x05 The Field Where I Died

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.

1996-11-11T01:00:00Z

4x06 Sanguinarium

4x06 Sanguinarium

  • 1996-11-11T01:00:00Z45m

After a doctor loses control and kills a patient on the operating table, Scully hypothesizes that it's linked to work-related stress, while Mulder is convinced of a more sinister reason. After he finds a link between the victim and the four witches Sabbaths, he suspects that a nurse may be practicing witchcraft.

The Lone Gunmen reveal the (possibly fake) secret history of the Cigarette Smoking Man to Mulder and Scully; from a young captain in the U.S. Army recruited to assassinate President Kennedy, to becoming the mysterious man in the shadows at the height of a global conspiracy.

1996-11-25T01:00:00Z

4x08 Tunguska (1)

4x08 Tunguska (1)

  • 1996-11-25T01:00:00Z45m

Mulder is given a tip about potentially dangerous paramilitary operations on the U.S. soil but during the sting operation is surprised to find out the identity of his mysterious informant - it turns out to be Alex Krycek. Suspicious about his true motives, Mulder reluctantly follows the information provided by Krycek. However, soon he discovers a much bigger conspiracy which takes him to a gulag in Tunguska, Russia where prisoners are being used for experiments involving a substance of alien origin.

1996-12-02T01:00:00Z

4x09 Terma (2)

4x09 Terma (2)

  • 1996-12-02T01:00:00Z45m

While imprisoned in Russia and infected with the Black Cancer, Mulder learns that Krycek is working with the men responsible and everything has been a setup from the start, while Scully and Skinner are called to a suspicious Senate hearing where the only question is the whereabouts of Agent Mulder.

1996-12-16T01:00:00Z

4x10 Paper Hearts

4x10 Paper Hearts

  • 1996-12-16T01:00:00Z45m

Mulder's dreams help him in finding the body of a little girl which reopens one of his old cases in the Violent Crimes Unit. This leads him to believe that the killer he captured had more victims and that Mulder's sister Samantha may have been one of them.

1997-01-13T01:00:00Z

4x11 El Mundo Gira

4x11 El Mundo Gira

  • 1997-01-13T01:00:00Z45m

After a strange yellow rain kills a migrant girl, her family believes that a mythical creature el chupacabra was the cause and that it has manifested itself inside her fiancé's brother, who has since disappeared.

1997-01-27T01:00:00Z

4x12 Leonard Betts

4x12 Leonard Betts

  • 1997-01-27T01:00:00Z45m

After the body of a decapitated EMT disappears from the morgue and an identical man starts work at the same hospital, Mulder believes that the man has the ability to regrow parts of his body, including his head. The agents soon discover that Betts' body is riddled with cancer and he is able to live in that condition but needs to feed on cancerous tumors to keep up his strength.

1997-02-03T01:00:00Z

4x13 Never Again

4x13 Never Again

  • 1997-02-03T01:00:00Z45m

While Mulder is forced to take a vacation he leaves Scully with an assignment to keep her busy until he returns. However, she decides to start living and goes on a date with a man who believes that his tattoo talks to him and is telling him to stay away from other women.

1997-02-10T01:00:00Z

4x14 Memento Mori

4x14 Memento Mori

  • 1997-02-10T01:00:00Z45m

Scully's recent failing health is revealed to be an inoperable cancer in her skull, which appears to be common among abductees and she attempts to come to terms with her condition. Meanwhile, Mulder and the Lone Gunmen break into a high-security research lab to find the cure that could save her life.

1997-02-17T01:00:00Z

4x15 Kaddish

4x15 Kaddish

  • 1997-02-17T01:00:00Z45m

After a Jewish man is murdered in a Jewish community, his killers are murdered, too. Mulder and Scully have to determine whether someone is exacting vengeance or larger forces are at work.

1997-02-24T01:00:00Z

4x16 Unrequited

4x16 Unrequited

  • 1997-02-24T01:00:00Z43m

When a U.S. military general is inexplicably murdered in the back of his limousine, a paramilitary group is suspected. They believe it was a soldier who they liberated from a Vietnam POW camp and is plotting to kill certain corrupt military figures.

1997-03-17T01:00:00Z

4x17 Tempus Fugit (1)

4x17 Tempus Fugit (1)

  • 1997-03-17T01:00:00Z45m

While celebrating Scully's 33rd birthday, a strange woman informs Mulder that NICAP member Max Fenig (see Fallen Angel) has recently died in a plane crash. After a visit to the crash site and finding Max's body with radiation burns on it, Mulder suggests that the plane was intercepted by a UFO and is rapidly being covered up by the military.

1997-03-24T01:00:00Z

4x18 Max (2)

4x18 Max (2)

  • 1997-03-24T01:00:00Z45m

Mulder is arrested for investigating the plane crash and interfering with a military operation, while Scully is caught in an attempted assassination of Corporal Frish which claims the life of Agent Pendrell. Scully bails Mulder out of prison, and they go to Max Fenig's trailer to find out why he was on the plane. Mulder finds evidence of alien technology and boards a plane with it, but the plane is intercepted mid-flight and it disappears. Mulder is again left with nothing.

1997-04-14T00:00:00Z

4x19 Synchrony

4x19 Synchrony

  • 1997-04-14T00:00:00Z44m

A case involving a strange old man warning two scientists of events in the immediate future which come to pass (and the use of their experimental flash-freezing compound that does not exist yet) has Mulder believing that one of the scientists has come from the future to stop his own scientific breakthrough from becoming reality.

1997-04-21T00:00:00Z

4x20 Small Potatoes

4x20 Small Potatoes

  • 1997-04-21T00:00:00Z45m

Five babies in the same town are all born with tails and the local OB-GYN is blamed for tampering with fertilized eggs. However, Mulder discovers the culprit to be a simple man with a genetic deformity who may have the ability to alter his appearance.

1997-04-28T00:00:00Z

4x21 Zero Sum

4x21 Zero Sum

  • 1997-04-28T00:00:00Z45m

After a swarm of bees mysteriously kill a postal worker in an enclosed restroom, Assistant Director Skinner covers it up by destroying the evidence. In order to complete the task he poses as Agent Mulder, however his deception backfires. When Mulder finds out and confronts him, Skinner reveals that he is working for the Cigarette-Smoking Man in order to obtain a possible cure for Scully's cancer.

1997-05-05T00:00:00Z

4x22 Elegy

4x22 Elegy

  • 1997-05-05T00:00:00Z45m

After a man sees a woman trapped inside a bowling alley pin setter, he goes for help and finds police standing next to a body of the same woman. Mulder and Scully join the investigation and follow up this lead which the police won't bother with, and they are led to a mentally challenged man who works at the bowling alley.

1997-05-12T00:00:00Z

4x23 Demons

4x23 Demons

  • 1997-05-12T00:00:00Z45m

Covered in blood and suffering from amnesia, Mulder pieces together the events of the last few days, but the trail leads to a double murder that appears to have been committed with Mulder's weapon.

Season Finale

1997-05-19T00:00:00Z

4x24 Gethsemane (1)

Season Finale

4x24 Gethsemane (1)

  • 1997-05-19T00:00:00Z45m

Mulder fights to prove that a discovery frozen in the mountains of Canada is an irrefutable evidence of alien life, but his quest for the truth only leads to more lies and an unthinkable conclusion.

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