Summary: Mulder and Scully have been reassigned to non X File work. Mulder gets a tip from a supportive congressman about alien activity at an Aricebo observatory and travels to Puerto Rico incognito. Scully follows. There is a lot of suspicious surveillance and paranoia going around.
Location: Aricebo, Puerto Rico
Summary: Episode starts with suspect fleeing police bleeding green then Mulder getting a call from Deep Throat. Deep Throat tips Mulder to government-run alien-human hybrid research. Season ends with Deep Throat being shot and uttering “Trust No One”, Mulder calling Scully in the middle of the night: “They’re shutting us down”, Cigarette Smoking Man storing alien sample in large Pentagon storage room.
Location: Baltimore, Maryland. Gaithersburg, Maryland. Washington, DC.
Mentions of the Human Genome Project and gene therapy as cutting edge work.
Summary: Rain Man-type janitor is being telepathically controller by cryogenically frozen researcher, committing murder and advancing research.
Location: Colson, Washington
Guest Stars: James Sloyan (ST:TNG Romulan Admiral Jarok)
Summary: A reincarnated officer is taking vengeance on crooked cops.
Location: Buffalo, New York
Guest Actors: Maggie Wheeler (shrill-voiced Janice from Friends), Brian Markinson (familiar from a dozen places)
Summary: The return of Eugene Victor Tooms from episode 3. Still creepy and slimy. The first appearance of FBI Assistant Director Walter Skinner, and with Cigarette Smoking Man blatantly overseeing the meeting with Scully, informing her that her work on the X Files isn’t up to expectations. Mulder presents crazy sounding evidence at Tooms’ parole hearing, and we’re off …
Location: Baltimore, Maryland
Summary: Loggers cut into an old growth tree releasing insects from the past. Death ensues.
Location: Northwest Washington