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Mulder and Scully in graveyard (day)

1x00 The Pilot

Written by Chris Carter
Directed by Robert Mandel
Airdate: 10 September 1993

A young FBI agent is assigned watchdog duty over a fellow agent, but finds herself drawn into his investigations of paranormal and unexplained phenomena.

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Mulder on the runway looking at the light in the sky

1x01 Deep Throat

Written by Chris Carter
Directed by Daniel Sackheim
Airdate: 17 September 1993

A test pilot who may have been flying aircraft made with alien technology disappears, and Mulder and Scully must defy their own government to find the truth.

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Commentary by Chris Carter


Scully's bathroom - Scully with Tooms handcuffed to faucets

1x02 Squeeze

Written by Glen Morgan and James Wong
Directed by Harry Longstreet
Airdate: 24 September 1993

Mulder and Scully search for a humanoid killer whose savage murder spree reoccurs every thirty years.

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Kevin Morris pointing at television screen

1x03 Conduit

Written by Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon
Directed by Daniel Sackheim
Airdate: 1 October 1993

Mulder becomes obsessed with solving a case that closely parallels an "encounter" he
experienced as a child.

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The Jersey Devil and Mulder

1x04 The Jersey Devil

Written by Chris Carter
Directed by Joe Napolitano
Airdate: 8 October 1993

Mulder and Scully track a legendary creature that has roamed the New Jersey countryside for
over forty years.

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Mulder looking at man hanging in mid-air

1x05 Shadows

Written by Glen Morgan and James Wong
Directed by Michael Katleman
Airdate: 22 October 1993

Mulder and Scully investigate the deaths of two men believed to have been killed by a powerful
psychokinetic force.

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Mulder and Scully in the elevator

1x06 Ghost in the Machine

Written by Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa
Directed by Jerrold Freedman
Airdate: 29 October 1993

On Halloween, Mulder and Scully investigate the death of a corporate executive who may
have been murdered by a thinking computer.

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Two jars each containing a worm

1x07 Ice

Written by Glen Morgan and James Wong
Directed by David Nutter
Airdate: 5 November 1993

Mulder and Scully are sent to investigate when a team of geophysicists stationed at a remote
Alaskan outpost is killed by a parasitic alien life form.

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The extraterrestrial spirit

1x08 Space

Written by Chris Carter
Directed by William Graham
Airdate: 12 November 1993

When a space shuttle mission is sabotaged, Mulder suspects it may be the work of an evil
extraterrestrial spirit that inhabits the body of a former Gemini astronaut.

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Faint image of UFO pilot in the woods

1x09 Fallen Angel

Written by Alex Ganza and Howard Gordon
Directed by Larry Shaw
Airdate: 19 November 1993

The future of the X-Files project is jeopardized after Mulder secretly infiltrates the government
cover-up of a UFO crash.

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One of the twin girls

1x10 Eve

Written by Kenneth Biller and Chris Brancato
Directed by Fred Gerber
Airdate: 10 December 1993

Mulder and Scully search for two girls who disappeared after their fathers were murdered in an identical fashion.

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Cecil L'Ively

1x11 Fire

Written by Chris Carter
Directed by Larry Shaw
Airdate: 17 December 1993

Mulder and Scully join forces with an Inspector from Scotland Yard when a man with pyrokinetic
powers stalks members of the British aristocracy.

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Luther Lee Boggs

1x12 Beyond the Sea

Written by Glen Morgan and James Wong
Directed by David Nutter
Airdate: 7 January 1994

Scully believes that the psychic predictions of a death row inmate are the only hope in
apprehending a vicious murderer.

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Female Marty

1x13 GenderBender

Written by Larry Barber and Paul Barber
Directed by Rob Bowman
Airdate : 21 January 1994

A religious sect member capable of changing gender becomes the prime suspect in a murder
spree.

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'Jack Willis' with Scully

1x14 Lazarus

Written by Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon
Directed by David Nutter
Airdate: 4 February 1994

The consciousness of a dangerous criminal possesses an FBI agent who is also Scully's
ex-boyfriend.

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Deformed hand

1x15 Young at Heart

Written by Scott Kauffer and Chris Carter
Directed by Michael Lange
Airdate: 11 February 1994

A criminal believed to have died in prison years earlier wages a vendetta against Mulder.

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Deep Throat and Mulder

1x16 E.B.E.

Written by Glen Morgan and James Wong
Directed by William Graham
Airdate: 18 February 1994

Mulder and Scully become the focus of a misinformation campaign when they attempt to trace the government's secret transport of an alien life form.

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Reverend Calvin Hartley, Samuel and Leonard Vance

1x17 Miracle Man

Written by Howard Gordon and Chris Carter
Directed by Michael Lange
Airdate: 18 March 1994

The agents investigate a ministry led by a man whose son possesses the power to heal - and
to kill - with a touch of his hand.

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Wolf-like creature

1x18 Shapes

Written by Marilyn Osborn
Directed by David Nutter
Airdate: 1 April 1994

The agents track a wolf-like creature linked to Native American legend.

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Cocooned corpse

1x19 Darkness Falls

Written by Chris Carter
Directed by Joe Napolitano
Airdate: 15 April 1994

A group of loggers working in a remote forest unearth thousands of deadly insect-like creatures
that paralyze - and then cocoon - their victims.

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Eugene Tooms

1x20 Tooms

Written by Glen Morgan and James Wong
Directed by David Nutter
Airdate: 22 April 1994

Eugene Tooms, whom Mulder helped incarcerate, is released on parole.

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Fish and toy diver in aquarium

1x21 Born Again

Written by Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon
Directed by Jerrold Freedman
Airdate: 29 April 1994

An eight-year-old girl is the prime suspect in a series of bizarre, seemingly unrelated deaths.

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Dr Surnow in wind tunnel

1x22 Roland

Written by Chris Ruppenthal
Directed by David Nutter
Airdate: 6 May 1994

When top scientists at an aeronautics research lab die under mysterious circumstances, the
agents suspect a mentally-challenged janitor may somehow be the culprit.

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Alien fetus

1x23 The Erlenmeyer Flask

Written by Chris Carter
Directed by R W Goodwin
Airdate: 13 May 1994

Deep Throat tips off Mulder to a critically important case involving a missing fugitive and the cloning of extraterrestrial viruses.

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Commentary by R.W. Goodwin