The X-Files In 97 Episodes Worth Watching, #5: Nothing Important Happens This Season

I started the X-Files Headcanon project during the pandemic and ended up being distracted by a thousand other things.

We're considering watching this Headcanon in a couple of months when we wrap up our watchthrough of The Stargate Headcanon. It will be a fun tonal shift, as the last season of Stargate was pretty bleak, and the X-Files goes from "just spooky" to "occasionally very silly" pretty early in its run.

41. Paper Hearts
(Mulder, Scully, Skinner, Samantha Mulder, Teena Mulder)

The whole root of Mulder's obsession with aliens began when his sister was abducted by aliens. But what if she wasn't abducted by aliens but by a serial killer.


42. Never Again
(Mulder, Scully)

Did you ever get a really bad tattoo? Not just poorly drawn but one that speaks to you and leads you to to commit crimes? Me, neither.


43. Momento Mori
(Mulder, Scully, Skinner, Smoking Man, The Longe Gunmen, Grey Haired Man, Margaret Scully)

What if there was a type of cancer caused by alien abduction? Would that mean that Scully has that type of cancer? Mulder hires The Longe Gunmen to find some answers.


44. Small Potatoes
(Mulder, Scully, Skinner)

A series of babies are born with tails. This seems very alieny.


45. Zero Sum
(Skinner, Smoking Man, Grey Haired Man, Mulder, Scully, First Elder, Marita Covarrubias)
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The bees from Season Four are back! Also, Skinner is definitely up to something that Mulder and Scully might want to be aware of.


46. Demons
(Mulder, Scully, Smoking Man, Samantha Mulder, Teena Mulder)

Mulder wakes up with a headache and missing time. Did he kill someone during that time?


47. The Unusual Suspects
(The Lone Gunmen, X, Mulder)

The Lone Gunmen are caught running from a box containing a naked Mulder. They're caught by the police from the show Homicide: Life From The Street, which means Lieutenant Munch from Law & Order and a billion other shows, also exists in the X-Files Universe.


48. The Post-Modern Prometheus
(Mulder, Scully)

The monster of the week is a Frankenstein in a comicbook style story. 


49. Kill Switch
(Muder, Scully, The Lone Gunmen)

Artificial Intelligence is the center of an episode written by famed Cyberpunk writer, William Gibson. 


50.Bad Blood
(Mulder, Scully, Skinner)

We're just over halfway through this Headcanon, and we're just now encountering the possibility of vampires? Well, Mulder and Scully aren't fully convinced they've encountered vampires and decide to get their stories straight before getting Skinner involved.