5X01 "Unusual Suspects" 11/16/97  Directed By Kim Manners
Its 1989 Baltimore and this episode takes us to the origin of  The Lone Gunmen and how they met Mulder. Plus a few suprises along the way including a visit from Richard Belzer guest stars as Det. Munch, his character from "Homicide: Life on the Street"

5X04 "Detour" 11/23/97
On the way to a Teamwork seminar Mulder, Sculley and two other agents are stopped at a detour in the Florida Everglades and come across an strange abduction of people by what appears to be Moss men

5X06 "Post Modern Prometheus" 11/30/97     Chris Carter Directs Episode Filmed In Black & White
A letter from a single mother brings Mulder and Scully to a small mid-Western town where they pick up the trail of a modern-day Frankenstein

5X05 "Christmas Carol" 12/07/97 Part one
Scully goes home for Christmas, only to recieve mysterious phone calls from what sounds like her dead sister and a murder/suicide of a woman whose daughter bears a striking resemblence to Scully's dead sister when she was little

5X07  EMILY  Part Two  12/14/97 Part two
The daughter turns out to hae the same genetic code as Scully, and the strange treatments the little girl is getting to cure a rare disease is suspicious and look to be endangering what appears to be Scully's daughter.

5X08  KITSUNEGARI   01/04/98    DIRECTED BY: DANIEL SACKHEIM
Mulder and Scully hunt for Robert Modell, a.k.a. PUSHER,after he escapes from prison  The body of the prosecutor who helped convict Modell is discovered in his upscale home, his entire body covered with cerulean blue paint. Surrounding the body is a Japanese ideogram, repeated hundreds of times. The agents summon a Japanese agent to the scene, who translates the ideogram, kitsunegari, as meaning "fox hunt."

5X09 SCHIZOGENY  01/11/98       DIRECTED BY:RALPH HEMECKER
A Teenage boy undergoing psychological counseling becomes the prome suspect in his Stepfather's Murder
Yet stranger things are going on in the orchard where the murrder took place is mother nature finally getting back at us?

5X10 CHINGA 02/08/98
 co-written by Stephen King and series creator Chris Carter." One theory is Carter read King's original script,
, then quickly set to saving his show by adding his own touches. It was an evil-doll/misunderstood-child (please see the "Chucky"  reference Mulder made). Once again Scully tries to get away for a  while, but an X-file inevitably finds her, as does Mulder, who's bored out of his gord while  his partner is away.

5X11 KILL SWITCH 02/15/98
co-written by cyber god William Gibson and sci-fi writer Tom Maddox, At a small diner on the outskirts of D.C. famed computer geek Donald Gelman (a previously unnamed "father of  the internet") is killed during a suspicious gang hit. Why a taller version of Bill Gates would be dead amidst a pile of  crack-peddlers and gangsters prompts Mulder and  Scully to investigate. Mulder finds Gelman's juiced-up laptop and detains it for questioning. Slowly  Mulder and Scully learn that an artificial intelligence project that spawned a living life form; but this life form resides on the Internet and now  it's hunting it's creators.

5X12 BAD BLOOD 02/22/98
Are they a town of  friendly vampires or is it just A Positive thought?

5X13 PATIENT X  03/01/98 PART 1/2
Aliens, Government Conspiracy? Whats happening? Are the ramblings of a lone woman correct? Are they comming back for the ones they previously abducted?  Will Scully be among them?

5X14 THE RED AND THE BLACK 03/08/98 Part 2/2
The Cigarette Smoking Man is back .In "Patient X" we learned that the well-laid, ultra-secretive plans of the Syndicate were going sour.  At the end of "Patient X" Scully is drawn to a dam in Pennsylvania where a whole bunch of other formerly-abducted folks are hanging out, waiting for something big to happen. And happen it does --Scully finally sees one of these behemoth alien ships, but the abductees are set on fire by two beings  "The Black and  the Red" picks up just after the abductee barbecue. Scully is in the hospital, but Cassandra is missing, which gives a lot of credence to all  those abduction stories she was always wining about.

5X15 TRAVELLER 03/29/98
It's 1990 and a senior is about to be evicted  from his  home. A sheriff and the landlord stop by the really nasty residence of Edward Skur, where they find a  corpse.  Eddie Skur jumps out, but the sheriff shoots him and his dying word  is "Mulder."  Back in D.C. Fox Mulder, then a profiler in the violent crimes division, knocks on the door of former FBI agent Arthur Dales. Mulder is clutching a forty-year-old file that has something to do with Edward Skur.  Mulder hopes the former agent on  the case, Art, can give him a little background on this rank old guy and his dying word.  Art (played by Darren McGavin) isn't too keen But finally Art agrees and we go  to 1952 --

5X16 Minds Eye  04/19/98    DIRECTED BY : KIM MANNERS
Mulder Suspects a Blind Woman possesses the ability to see through the eyes of a killer

5X17  All Souls  04/23/98      DIRECTED BY: ROB BOWMAN
Father McCue, the family priest who comforted Scully during her bout with cancer (see episode 5X03), baptizes Dara Kernof, a sixteen-year-old, severely mentally-retarded girl confined to a wheelchair.Who then dies later that night  Father McCue contacts Scully and asks for her help in solving the mystery of the girl's death. At the end of this episode She concludes the incident was about letting go... of Emily.     (Arnie Walters as Father McCue Lauren Diewold as Emily)

5X18 The Pine Bluff Variant  05/03/98 DIRECTED BY: ROB BOWMAN
Mulder goes undercover to infiltrate a militia group armed with a deadly pathogen

5X19 Folie A Deux  05/10/98   DIRECTED BY: ROB BOWMAN
Mulder is taken hostage by a mna who claims his Boss is inreality a bug eyed monster One morning, Skinner summons Mulder and Scully to  his office. He explains that the company Gary works for, VinylRight, received an anonymous, audio-taped manifesto, on which a man threatens to commit a violent act. As a result, the company wishes to have the threat investigated. Mulder is puzzled as to why Skinner is sending he and Scully to investigate. Skinner then explains that the maker of the tape spoke of a monster threatening employees.  Somewhat irked, Mulder tells Scully he will handle the case alone, labeling himself "Monster Boy."
Mulder cannot dismiss what he saw inside the office complex. After performing additional research, Mulder determines that five previous X-Files cases involve monster that went unnoticed by all accept the claimant. Scully reacts with incredulity when Mulder suggests that Gary was not insane, but actually saw the creature he described. Scully attributes Mulder's behavior to "folie à deux," a madness shared by people under tense conditions.
 
5X20 The End  05/17/98    DIRECTED BY: R.W. GOODWIN  WRITTEN BY:  CHRIS CARTER

A Boy posessing psychic powers may hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of the X-files.  Inside a sports arena, two chess masters, a Russian man and an odd-looking 12-year-old boy named Gibson Praise, engage in a battle of the minds as an audience sits in reverential silence. High above the crowd, on a catwalk overhanging the arena, a sniper aims his rifle towards the back of the child's head. As the gunman slowly squeezes the trigger, the little boy announces "checkmate," and slides back in his chair. A gunshot rings out... and the Russian falls to the floor, dead.
     Meanwhile, two armed, masked figures close in on the cabin where the Cigarette-Smoking Man has holed up. A sensor alerts the Cigarette-Smoking Man to their presence, and he manages to kill one of them before making his escape into the woods. The second masked gunman gets the drop on his prey... and reveals himself as Alex Krycek.
     The case was assigned to Agent Spender, who specified that Mulder be excluded from the investigation. Despite this, Mulder and Skinner crash Spender's briefing. While viewing videotape of the assassination, Mulder reaches the conclusion that the shooter's target was Gibson--not the Russian--as the boy reacted in an almost precognitive fashion moments before the shot rang out. Spender disagrees with the theory. Agent Diana Fowley, an attractive woman in her thirties, opines that Mulder is correct. Spender rewinds the tape... and forms the same conclusion.
     The Cigarette-Smoking Man meets with the Syndicate Elders. Labeling Gibson a threat, they ask for the Cigarette-Smoking Man's help in orchestrating his elimination.
     Mulder, Scully and Diana Fowley visit Gibson inside a psychiatric hospital. The boy declines Mulder's invitation to match wits against a cheap chess computer... giving credence to Mulder's suspicion that the boy is not a chess master, but a mind reader. Tests on the child's brain reveal that Gibson is, indeed, clairvoyant. Later, Mulder visits the shooter in his cell. He offers him immunity from prosecution in exchange for his cooperation.
     Scully cannot help but notice chemistry between Mulder and Fowley. She pays the Lone Gunman an unexpected visit. She gives them data from the tests performed on Gibson, and asks that it be analyzed. Scully also asks for information on Diana Fowley. The three men confirm that she and Mulder were an item back when Mulder graduated from the Academy and first discovered the existence of the X-Files. Scully returns to the psychiatric hospital intending to show Mulder the data she has accumulated. But when she approaches the observation room, she notices Mulder and Diana inside... and Diana holding Mulder's hand. Scully, a confusion of emotions, both personal and professional, leaves the hospital. When Mulder enters the
 hospital's parking garage to retrieve his car, he notices Spender talking to the Cigarette-Smoking Man. Mulder pushes Spender hard in the chest, demanding to know his business. Spender explains that he does not know the identity of the mysterious man. He then reveals that the shooter wishes to speak with Mulder.
    Scully meets with Skinner and Mulder to reveal the results of the psychiatric tests on Gibson. It turns out that an area of the child's brain, dubbed the "God Module" by neurophysicists, exhibits extraordinary activity. Mulder believes the child's life is in danger because of his gift, as it might be the key to solving the unexplained phenomena contained within the X-Files. He also suspects that the assassin holds the key to the vast conspiracy working against him. Skinner points out that the very existence of the X-Files would be put at risk if he asks the Attorney General to grant immunity to the assassin.
     The Cigarette-Smoking Man puts his plan in motion. The assassin is murdered inside his cell. Shortly thereafter, a bullet strikes Fowley as she stands watch over Gibson. The Cigarette-Smoking Man delivers the child to the Well-Manicured Man and Krycek.
     That night, the Cigarette-Smoking Man sneaks into Mulder's office and steals a file on Samantha Mulder. He then addresses Spender face-to-face. He informs him that he is his father. Suddenly, a fire alarm sounds and agents make their way into the hallway. The Cigarette-Smoking Man disappears into the crowd.
                                                      CAST:
DAVID DUCHOVNY as Special Agent Fox Mulder     GILLIAN ANDERSON as Special Agent Dana Scully

                                             GUEST CAST:
Mitch Pileggi as Assitant Director Walter Skinner ,Mimi Rogers as Agent Diana Fowley
William B. Davis as the Cigarette-Smoking Man       Chris Owens as Agent Spender
John Neville as the Well-Manicured Man ,Bruce Harwood as Byers,Tom Braidwood as Frohike, Dean Haglund as Langly, Nick Lea as Agent Krycek ,Jeff Gulka as Gibson ,Martin Ferraro as Shooter ,Don S. Williams as 1st Elder ,George Murdock as 2nd Elder ,John Moore as 3rd Elder