Millions of years ago
Aliens arrive on Earth
The Black Oil lies dormant, awaiting the return of the alien colonists.
35,000 B.C.
Black oil strikes
During the last Ice Age, two human hunters are attacked by an alien and one is infected with the Black Oil virus.
The X-Files: Fight the Future
April 26, 1945
Operation Paper Clip
German scientists, including Victor Klemper, are allowed to continue their experiments in the U.S. under the name "Operation Paper Clip". These same scientists go on to work on the Alien/Human Hybrid program.
August 1945
Black Oil resurfaces
A B-29 bomber carrying an atomic bomb crashes after encountering a UFO. The Black Oil infiltrates a U.S. sub sent to salvage the plane. The plane is not recovered and remains lost on the ocean floor.
X3 Piper Maru and Apocrypha
July 4, 1947
Roswell crash
After a UFO crash in the New Mexico desert is covered up, contact is made with the alien colonists, giving birth to a secret government project.
June 24, 1952
Origins of the X-Files
While investigating a strange case involving Xenotransplantation, FBI agent Arthur Dales is told that such unexplained cases are stored under "X" where there is more room in the file drawer.
X5 Travelers
October 13, 1973
The Syndicate formed
Learning of the alien plan to colonize Earth, a secret consortium negotiates to delay colonization in order to develop a vaccine against the Black Oil.
X5 One Son
November 27, 1973
Samantha disappears
Samantha Mulder is allegedly abducted. Her brother Fox begins his search for the truth about her disappearance.
December 1991
Agent Mulder reopens the X-Files
Special Agent Fox Mulder manages to reopen the X-Files, an assignment he has sought since joining the FBI. His first order of business is opening a file on Samantha's disappearance.
March 7, 1992
"The X-Files" pilot
Agent Dana Scully is assigned to the X-Files project to work with, and secretly debunk, Agent Fox Mulder's investigations into unsolved cases. Their first investigation leads them to Oregon where Mulder discovers that local teens are being abducted by aliens.
Circa 1992
Deep Throat
Mulder is approached by Deep Throat, who tells him to stop his investigation of military test pilots who have disappeared after flying secret experimental aircraft of alien design. After Mulder infiltrates the base, he is captured and brainwashed to forget all he has seen.
X1 Deep Throat
Circa 1991
Fallen Angel
When the government tries to cover up a UFO crash site, an unseen enemy begins killing the soldiers. Infiltrating the site, Mulder meets Max Fenig, a multiple abductee. Although Mulder attempts to intervene, he watches in vain as Max is abducted once again.
X1 Fallen Angel
Circa Spring 1994
E.B.E.
Mulder learns more about Deep Throat's agenda when Deep Throat tries to prevent Mulder and Scully from gaining access to a secret government facility where an E.B.E. (Extraterrestrial Biological Entity) is believed to be held.
X1 E.B.E.
May 8, 1994
The Erlenmeyer Flask
When Mulder disappears while investigating a virus of extraterrestrial origin, Scully contacts Deep Throat to help get her partner back. Deep Throat's plan to exchange an alien biological sample for Mulder results in deadly consequences.
May 21, 1994
The X-Files is closed
A.D. Skinner, acting on orders from his superiors, informs Mulder that the X-Files have been closed. The partners are split up. Scully returns to Quantico as an instructor, while Mulder is put on menial cases. Mulder vows to continue to seek the truth.
July 7, 1994
Little Green Men
After learning that an abandoned radio telescope was the site of recent UFO activity, Mulder travels to Puerto Rico hoping to find hard evidence regarding extraterrestrials. While there, Mulder experiences tantalizing glimpses of the truth he is seeking.
August 7, 1994
Duane Barry
Mulder and his new partner Alex Krycek engage in a tense hostage negotiation where a deranged gunman, Duane Barry, tells Mulder he was abducted by aliens. Mulder believes Barry but ultimately betrays him to save the hostages' lives.
X2 Duane Barry
August 7, 1994
Ascension
Mulder tracks Duane Barry to Skyland Mountain where Barry, who has abducted Scully, seeks to hand her over to the aliens in place of himself. While Mulder arrives too late to save Scully, Duane Barry meets his end at the hands of Alex Krycek.
X2 Ascension
Circa November 1994
One Breath
When Scully mysteriously shows up at a hospital in a coma and her DNA exhibits signs of genetic tampering, Mulder attempts to find those responsible. Mulder's ultimate decision to forgo vengeance and remain at Scully's bedside is rewarded when she awakens.
X2 One Breath
Circa Late 1994
Red Museum
When teens are found wandering disoriented, bearing the words "he is one" on their flesh, Mulder and Scully go to Wisconsin to investigate. The agents discover a local doctor has been giving inoculations to his young patients that contain alien DNA.
X2 Red Museum
Circa January 1995
Colony
Abortion clinic doctors who look identical are being hunted by an alien bounty hunter. A woman claiming to be Samantha Mulder appears and asks for Mulder's help. While Mulder learns the truth about her, an alien bounty hunter captures Scully.
X2 Colony
Circa February 1995
End Game
Samantha reveals that she is not the real Samantha, but a clone, and that aliens have been trying to colonize the Earth. Mulder manages to save Scully but then travels to the Arctic in hopes of finding out the fate of his real sister from the alien bounty hunter.
X2 End Game
April 9, 1995
Anasazi
Encoded D.O.D. files on extraterrestrial life lead Mulder to the New Mexico desert where he discovers a buried railroad boxcar full of strange alien corpses. CSM has been tracking Mulder and orders that the boxcar be destroyed with Mulder inside.
X2 Anasazi
Circa April 1995
The Blessing Way
While CSM fails to recover Mulder's body, Scully finds that a computer chip had been implanted in her neck. In the desert, code-talker Albert Hosteen manages to locate Mulder. Using a sacred healing ritual, Albert is able to bring Mulder back from the brink of death.
X3 Blessing Way
Circa June 1995
Paper Clip
Mulder and Scully uncover a secret government plot to create a genetic catalog, under the guise of providing smallpox vaccinations. In an abandoned mining complex, the agents find files and tissue samples collected from U.S. citizens – including Samantha and Scully.
X3 Paper Clip
October 1995
Nisei
Following leads that began with an "alien autopsy" tape, Scully encounters a group of women, all claiming to be abductees, who tell her that she too was subjected to "the tests". Meanwhile Mulder boards a train he believes is transporting an alien life form.
X3 Nisei
October 1995
731
The Syndicate convinces Scully that her abduction was the result of secret experiments conducted by Japanese doctors on unwilling subjects. Mulder, who thinks the project's real goal was to create alien-human hybrids, tries to find the proof he needs.
X3 731
October 1995
X Saves Mulder's Life
Trapped aboard the train car carrying the possible hybrid, Mulder is attacked and knocked unconscious by the assassin who killed the Japanese doctors. Just before the train explodes, X saves Mulder's life by carrying him to safety – a fact Mulder is unaware of.
X3 731
October 1995
Piper Maru
A salvage mission to a sunken World War II fighter plane brings a Black Oil entity to the surface. While investigating, the agents discover the deadly fate of a U.S. sub sent 50 years ago to recover the plane. They also learn of a secret digital tape being sought by Krycek.
X3 Piper Maru
October 1995
Scully Tracks a Killer
Scully is frustrated when the murder investigation of her sister Melissa is declared inactive. New leads arise when a man shoots Skinner. Scully captures the shooter, who turns out to be Luis Cardinal, an operative of the Cigarette-Smoking Man and Melissa's murderer.
X3 Piper Maru and Apocrypha
October 1995
Apocrypha
Krycek, infected with the Black Oil, trades the digital tape with CSM in exchange for the location of the alien craft downed in WWII. In an abandoned missile silo, CSM prevents Mulder and Scully from finding the entity which oozes out of Krycek's body and back into its ship.
X3 Apocrypha
Circa 1996
Talitha Cumi
A case involving miraculous healing causes the agents to meet Jeremiah Smith, an alien rebel who seeks to resist colonization. When Smith escapes from CSM, the Bounty Hunter pursues him. Mulder tries to protect Smith by using the Stiletto against the Bounty Hunter.
X3 Talitha Cumi
Circa 1996
Mulder's Mother Saved
When his mother suffers a stroke after arguing with CSM, Mulder asks Smith to use his powers to save her. But ultimately, CSM, who once had a possible romantic relationship with Mrs Mulder, has the Bounty Hunter cure her.
X3 Talitha Cumi, X4 Herrenvolk
Circa 1996
Herrenvolk
Smith takes Mulder to a farm inhabited by clones of his young sister Samantha. The Bounty Hunter learns of Smith and Mulder's location by taking Scully hostage. Mulder loses Smith and the clone of Samantha when he is incapacitated by the Bounty Hunter.
X4 Herrenvolk
Circa 1996
Smallpox Catalog
By reviewing data taken from Smith's computer at the Social security office, Scully learns of the secret program designed to catalog every human through the use of a unique genetic marker located in smallpox scars.
X4 Herrenvolk
Circa 1996
Death of X
When X is exposed as a traitor, CSM has him killed. Before he dies, X manages to scrawl out a message written in his own blood – "SRSG". This message leads Mulder to encounter Marita Covarrubias, the Special Representative to the U.N. Secretary General.
X4 Herrenvolk
Circa 1996
CSM Revealed
The Lone Gunmen reveal to Mulder Scully that CSM is a lonely and powerful man who has had a direct hand in the assassination of leaders and presidents. However, CSM secretly wishes he could give up the Syndicate and follow his dream of being a writer.
Nov. – Dec. 1996
Tunguska
Krycek returns and leads to the agents to a rock infested with the Black Oil. Mulder takes Krycek to the rock's origin in Tunguska, Russia. The two are imprisoned in a Russian Gulag where Mulder is given a vaccine and exposed to the Black Oil.
X4 Tunguska
Nov. – Dec. 1996
Terma
Leaving Krycek behind, Mulder escapes the Gulag. Back in the U.S., Mulder follows a lead to Terma, North Dakota, hoping to find another Black Oil rock. Mulder arrives too late as Peskow, an ex-KGB agent, destroys the rock in an oil well explosion.
X4 Terma
Nov. – Dec. 1996
Comrade Krycek
In the Gulag, Mulder learns that Alex Krycek could be a Russian spy. Unfortunately for Krycek, he is caught by a group of men who cut off his right arm in order to "protect" him from the Black Oil tests. Later, Krycek is told by Peskow that the rock has been destroyed.
X4 Terma
Early 1997
Memento Mori
Scully is diagnosed with the same type of lethal cancer responsible for the death of female abductees. While trying to save Scully, Mulder is contacted by a group of clones who explain that the ova of these women had been harvested for use in the cloning process.
X4 Memento Mori
February 23 – 26, 1997
Tempus Fugit
A woman claiming to be Max Fenig's sister contacts Mulder and Scully and tells them Max was killed in a plane crash. Mulder becomes convinced that the crash occurred when a UFO tried to abduct Max in order to retrieve the piece of alien technology he possessed.
X4 Tempus Fugit
February 23 – 26, 1997
Max
Mulder finds the wreckage of the alien craft in a nearby lake, indicating that the alien ship was shot down by a military fighter jet. Mulder obtains another piece of the alien technology, but this proof is lost when his flight is intercepted by another UFO.
X4 Max
April 27, 1967
Zero Sum
CSM forces Skinner to cover up the death of a postal worker killed by bees. When Mulder confronts Skinner over his involvement, he explains he was framed. Skinner and Mulder uncover a plot to use bees to infect the population with the deadly smallpox virus.
X4 Zero Sum
October 1997
Gethsemane
When a frozen alien body is uncovered, Mulder hopes that he has finally found the proof that he needs, but Michael Kritschgau, a D.O.D. agent, throws serious doubt on everything that Mulder has believed about alien life. Mulder's faith is deeply shaken by the revelations.
X4 Gethsemane
October 1997
Scully's Cancer
Scully's cancer metastasizes, aggressively invading her bloodstream, making her death only a matter of time. Scully learns that the lethal disease was given to her to help make Mulder fully believe in a hoax put forth by the government to hide their more heinous crimes.
October 1997
Redux
Scully attempts to keep up the appearance that a dead man in Mulder's apartment is actually Mulder. Mulder uses the dead agent's key card to infiltrate a secret Pentagon facility. There he finds evidence of the alien hoax and a vial that may contain Scully's cure.
X5 Redux
October 1997
Redux II
When Scully collapses, Mulder hastens to her side. Later CSM takes Mulder to see a woman who may be Samantha. CSM explains that the vial contains a microchip that will save Scully's life. After Mulder exposes the Section Chief as a mole, Blevins is killed.
X5 Redux II
October 1997
CSM Shot
The First Elder authorizes the assassination of CSM. The body is never found, but the massive loss of blood found inside the apartment leaves no other conclusion.
Scully Recovers
Due the implantation of the microchip, Scully's cancer goes into remission.
X5 Redux II
Late 1997 – Early 1998
Mulder's Doubt
Mulder began to doubt in the existence of alien life ever since Kritschgau told him that the government had fabricated stories of "little green men". Thus, when Mulder meets with Cassandra Spender, he is skeptical of her story about being an alien abductee.
X5 Patient X
Circa February 1998
Patient X
Mulder believes that the government is behind the mysterious burning deaths of abductees at Skyland mountain. But Scully comes to believe Cassandra and the two find themselves "called" to the Ruskin Dam bridge along with many other abductees.
X5 Patient X
Circa February 1998
The Vaccine
At the Kazakhstan burning site, Krycek captures a boy, infects him with the Black Oil virus, and then offers to trade him to the Syndicate for data on the Black Oil vaccine. Marita steals the boy, but after she becomes infected, she is used as a test subject for the vaccine.
X5 Patient X
Circa February 1998
Alien Rebellion
The burnings of abductees has been carried out by faceless alien rebels intent on thwarting the plans of the alien colonists. The Well-Manicured Man proposes siding with rebels, but the Syndicate chooses to give a captured alien rebel back to the alien colonists.
Circa March 1998
The Red and The Black
Under hypnosis, Scully remembers Cassandra's abduction and that an alien ship destroyed the rebels. Krycek tells Mulder that in the coming colonization, the one rule will be "resist or serve". CSM, who is still alive, tries to contact his son, Agent Jeffrey Spender.
Circa May 1998
The End
Mulder and Scully meet Gibson Praise, a young boy capable of reading minds. Mulder believes Gibson is genetic proof of an alien-human connection. The Syndicate, seeing Gibson as a threat, directs Krycek to bring CSM back to help capture Gibson.
X5 The End
August 1998
The X-Files: Fight the Future
Mulder and Scully discover more about the Syndicate's collaboration and of the alien's colonization plans. Mulder travels to the Arctic in order to rescue Scully, who is held captive aboard an alien ship and infected with the Black Oil virus.
The X-Files: Fight the Future
Circa September 1998
The X-Files Reassigned
Mulder experiences major setbacks after CSM burns down the X-Files office and Diana Fowley and Jeffrey Spender are assigned to the X-Files. Fowler tells Mulder she wants to protect the X-Files, but Spender is under the influence of CSM.
X5 The End; X6 The Beginning
Circa September 1998
The Beginning
CSM uses Gibson to track a vicious alien creature that burst out of the body of a human scientist. Mulder concludes that Gibson's DNA tests prove that all humans are part alien. In an Arizona nuclear plant, the alien creature changes into a "grey" alien.
Early 1999
S.R. 819
When Skinner is afflicted with a disfiguring disease that brings him to the brink of death, Scully and Mulder try to discover the cause. Skinner learns Krycek has infected him with deadly nanotechnology, giving him the power to kill him at the push of a button.
X6 S.R. 819
1973 to 1999
The Syndicate
The Syndicate began in 1973, when a group of powerful men began collaborating with the alien colonists to create alien-human hybrids. As part of the agreement, the Syndicate turned over their family members as collateral and to be used as test subjects.
X6 Two Fathers and One Son
Circa February 1999
Two Fathers
Jeffrey Spender learns the truth about alien life when CSM directs him to kill an alien rebel disguised as a Syndicate elder. Cassandra, who knows she is an alien-human hybrid, tells Mulder and Scully that she must be killed in order to prevent colonization from beginning.
X6 Two Fathers
Circa February 1999
One Son
CSM tells Mulder that the conspiracy was necessary in order to save their loved ones, but now colonization is a certainty. The Syndicate, intending to meet the alien colonists, are instead killed by the alien rebels. Diana Fowler and CSM, who are in league together, escape.
X6 One Son
Circa September 1999
Biogenesis
Mulder and Scully locate a metal shard etched with Navajo writing containing passages from the Bible and a map of human DNA. Mulder believes the shard proves that the progenitors of humanity were aliens. On the African coast, Scully discovers an alien craft.
X6 Biogenesis
Circa September 1999
Mulder's Illness
After exposure to the shard, Mulder suffers blackouts and is soon admitted to a mental ward due to intense hyperactivity of the brain. Skinner and Kritschgau come to Mulder's aid, and after testing him, they learn that Mulder has developed amazing psychic abilities.
Circa October 1999
The Sixth Extinction
In Africa, Scully translates the strange writing on the alien craft, finding religious passages and genetic information. The craft has a mystical effect on the sea and nearby animals. After Scully returns to the U.S. to help save Mulder, the alien craft soon disappears.
Late 1999
The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati
In a dream state, CSM shows Mulder a happier life. But in reality, they are undergoing an operation to transplant genetic material from Mulder into CSM. Scully locates Mulder with Fowley's help. Later, Fowley is killed for her betrayal of CSM.
X7 The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati
Late 1999
Sein Und Zeit
While investigating a young girl's disappearance, Mulder learns of the "walk-ins" – spirits who save children by taking them away in the starlight. Mulder's hope to finally find answers about Samantha is overshadowed by his mother's suicide.
Late 1999 – Early 2000
Closure
At a closed Air Force base, Mulder learns about his sister's early life with CSM. In a vision, Mulder sees that Samantha was taken by the "walk-ins" so she wouldn't have to suffer the terrible tests. After seeing Samantha's spirit, Mulder feels he is "finally free".
X7 Closure
Early 2000
En Ami
CSM explains he is dying and offers to give Scully a cure for all human disease. Scully agrees to help CSM and she gains possession of a diskette supposedly containing the cure. But the diskette turns out to be blank. CSM switched them and destroyed the original.
X7 En Ami
Early 2000
Requiem
Mulder and Scully return to Oregon where they find out that the alien Bounty Hunter is rounding up abductees like Billy Miles and Teresa Hoese. CSM asks Krycek and Marita to locate the crash of an alien ship, but they betray CSM and leave him for dead.
X7 Requiem
Circa June 2000
Mulder's Abduction
The Bounty Hunter abducts Mulder. Skinner watches helplessly as the alien ship disappears. Skinner and Scully vow to find Mulder.
Scully Pregnant
Scully tells Skinner that even though it shouldn't be possible she is pregnant.
X8 Within
Circa June 2000
Within
Agent John Doggett is put on the case to find Mulder. In Arizona, Scully, Skinner and Doggett locate Gibson Praise, who is being tracked by the alien Bounty Hunter. Disguised as Mulder, the Bounty Hunter tries to take Gibson but is stopped by Agent Doggett.
X8 Within
Circa June 2000
Without
The Bounty Hunter takes on other forms to try to capture Gibson. In a struggle, Scully kills the Bounty Hunter. In the end, Scully and Skinner cannot rescue Mulder who remains aboard the ship, suffering from the torturous tests. Agent Doggett is put on the X-Files full time.
X8 Without
Circa February 2001
Per Manum
It is revealed that Mulder is the donor father of Scully's baby. Scully is concerned for her unborn child after meeting a woman claiming to be pregnant with an alien baby. Knowle Rohrer uses Doggett to locate Scully and prevents her from witnessing an alien baby being born.
X8 Per Manum
Circa February 2001
This Is Not Happening
Agent Monica Reyes joints Scully and Doggett as they look into the reappearance of Teresa Hoese, a woman abducted at the same time as Mulder. Scully has a vision of a seemingly dead Mulder aboard the alien craft. The three agents locate more abductees at a UFO cult.
Circa February 2001
Smith Returns
At the secret compound of Absalom's UFO cult, the agents find Jeremiah Smith, who has been using his powers to heal wounded abductees. When Mulder's dead body is found nearby, Scully immediately seeks out Smith's help, but he is nowhere to be found.
Circa Feb. & May 2001
DeadAlive
Mulder is buried. Doggett worries the X-Files will be closed if he is transferred. After the "dead" body of abductee Billy Miles shows signs of life, Skinner has Mulder's body exhumed and put on life support. Later, Billy sheds his skin and emerges as a Super Soldier.
X8 DeadAlive
Circa May 2001
Mulder Revived
In exchange for Mulder's cure, Krycek wants Skinner to make sure that Scully's pregnancy doesn't come to term. Skinner takes Mulder off of life support, inadvertently halting the alien virus from transforming him. Scully prescribes anti-virals which save Mulder.
X8 DeadAlive
Circa May 2001
Three Words
Doggett remains with the X-Files after Kersh denies Mulder's reinstatement. Mulder uses the code "fight the future" to infiltrate a U.S. Census database. Doggett, realizing that Mulder has been set up, forces Mulder to abandon his search before they are both killed.
X8 Three Words
Circa May 2001
Vienen
Seeking answers about a dead oil rig worker, Doggett and Mulder travel to an offshore oil platform. There they discover the crew is possessed by the Black Oil. Doggett and Mulder escape just before the rig explodes. Kersh kicks Mulder out of the FBI for interfering.
X8 Vienen
Circa May 2001
Essence
Super Soldier Billy Miles kills genetic scientists. A woman posing as a nurse informs Scully her unborn baby is a perfect human child with no human frailties. Billy pursues Scully to the FBI building. There Mulder is able to shove Billy off the roof in a garbage shredder.
X8 Essence
Circa May 2001
Super Soldiers
Alex Krycek explains that Super Soldiers such as Billy Miles want to keep humans from surviving when the aliens retake the planet. Krycek says these beings fear Scully's baby because it is "more human than human" and may provide proof of a "higher power".
X8 Essence
Circa May 2001
Existence
After he regenerates, Billy resumes tracking Scully. Knowle Rohrer tells Doggett that Billy is a Super Soldier. Krycek, who claimed to be helping the agents, is in fact allied with Rohrer and the other Super Soldiers. Krycek threatens to kill Mulder, but is shot dead by Skinner.
X8 Existence
Circa May 2001
Scully Gives Birth
Scully and Reyes escape to a secret location in Georgia to birth Scully's baby. Billy Miles and the other Super Soldiers locate Scully, but strangely, they allow her to give birth and then leave. When Mulder and Scully are reunited, they express their love for each other.
X8 Existence
Circa May 2001
Nothing Important Happened Today
Doggett assigns Reyes to the X-Files to help with his investigation of Kersh. Shannon McMahon tells Doggett about the Super Soldier program and how she was responsible for the deaths of two water reclamation workers.
Circa May 2001
The Spinning Mobile
Scully is alarmed to see the mobile over William's crib spinning by itself. The Lone Gunmen help Scully, Reyes and Doggett locate a WWII navy ship where scientists have been experimenting on human ova. Unfortunately for the agents, Rohrer is already aboard the ship.
Circa May 2001
Nothing Important Happened Today II
Shannon rescues Doggett by killing Rohrer. However, Rohrer's headless body drags Shannon down into the ocean. Scully is kept from learning of William's true nature when the ship and the lab are destroyed in a massive explosion.
January 2002
Trust No 1
Scully learns from a young couple that baby William is "different". Mulder had gone into hiding previously on Scully's bidding. A shadowy man, a Super Soldier, tries to use Scully to lure Mulder out. The Super Soldier is killed when his whole body is sucked into a rock wall.
X9 Trust No 1
Circa Early 2002
Provenance
The FBI locates papers with alien writing. These images came from a different alien ship that has been dug up by a Canadian UFO cult. After an attempt on her baby's life, Scully turns to the Lone Gunmen, but they cannot prevent the UFO cult from kidnapping William.
X9 Provenance
Circa Early 2002
Mulder's Life Threatened
Scully learns that the UFO cult believes it is William's destiny to aid in the alien's return. But if Mulder remains alive, William may instead follow his father and fight the alien colonists. William's life had been threatened by a renegade cult member who sought to save humanity.
X9 Provenance
Circa Early 2002
Providence
Doggett remains in a coma after being run over during William's kidnapping. Scully and Reyes race to Canada, where they find that all the cult members were killed when the alien craft lifted off. Scully is overjoyed to find William unharmed. Later, Doggett revives.
X9 Providence
Spring 2002
William
Doggett thinks a man with a disfigured face is Mulder, but DNA tests provide him to be Jeffrey Spender, Mulder's half-brother. Spender gives William an injection that will nullify his alien DNA. Desperate to protect William, Scully decides she has to give him up for adoption.
X9 William
May 2002
The Truth
Mulder infiltrates a secret military base and seemingly kills Knowle Rohrer. Mulder is captured and forced to stand trial for Rohrer's death. Acting as Mulder's defense attorney, Skinner calls Scully, Jeffrey, Marita, Gibson, Doggett and Reyes to testify on Mulder's behalf.
X9 The Truth
May 2002
Mulder's Trial
Before military judges, the witnesses recount the entire conspiracy of alien colonization. Mulder refuses to take the stand because he dares not speak about the shocking fact he has learned. Using his telepathy, Gibson reveals that one of the judges is not human.
X9 The Truth
May 2002
The Verdict
Even though Scully proves that the corpse is not Rohrer, Mulder is still convicted and sentenced to die. Mulder is able to escape with the help of Doggett, Skinner and, surprisingly, Kersh. Mulder and Scully travel to a site of an ancient Anasazi ruins, looking for a "wise man".
X9 The Truth
May 2002
The Wise Man
After tracking Mulder and Scully to the ruins, Doggett and Reyes are threatened by Rohrer, but the Super Solder is destroyed when he is pulled into a magnetite rockface. Mulder and Scully search the ruins and are shocked to find that the wise man is actually CSM.
X9 The Truth
May 2002
The Date Is Set
CSM says the truth Mulder has refused to speak is that the date for the final alien invasion is set – December 22, 2012. Mulder and Scully escape before military jets destroy the ruins with CSM inside. Afterwards, Mulder tells Scully they must hold out hope for the future.
X9 The Truth