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These are not the best episodes, but the ones most important for catching up with the X-Files mythology.
With The X-Files coming back to TV in the not-too-distant future, I figure people are going to start watching
the series to catch up. It's a long series with a complicated plot, and only some of the episodes are about
that plot. So for those wanting to rewatch the show but not sift through the entire series, these are the
essential episodes of The X-Files.
Ones with a * are not essential mythology episodes, but connect to the mythology. Ones with ** are the
best episodes of the series, but not part of the mythology. The first movie takes place between seasons
five and six is and important. The second movie takes place after the series (and may or may not be
important to the new series).
Season One
Pilot
Deep Throat
*Squeeze
*Conduit
*Fallen Angel
*Eve
E.B.E.
*Tooms
Season Two
Little Green Men
The Host
Sleepless
Duane Berry
Ascension
One Breath
*Red Museum
**Irresistible
Colony
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End Game
**Humbug
Anasazi
Season Three
Paper Clip
**D.P.O.
Nisei
731
**Syzygy
Piper Maru
Apocrypha
**Pusher
Talitha Cumi
Season Four
Herrenvolk
**Home
Tunguska
Terma
**Never Again
*Leonard Betts
Momento Mori
*Tempus Fugit
*Max
Zero Sum
Gethsemane
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Season Five
Redux
Redux II
*Unusual Suspects
**Post-Modern Prometheus
Christmas Carol
Emily
**Bad Blood
Patient X
The End
Season Six
The Beginning
**Triangle
**Dreamland
**Dreamland II
S.R. 819
Two Fathers
One Son
**Arcadia
**The Unnatural
*Three of a Kind
Biogenesis
Season Seven
The Sixth Extinction
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Amor Fati
**Orison
Closure
**X-Cops
*En Ami
Requiem
Season Eight
Within
Without
Per Manum
Dead Alive
Three Words
Vienen
Essence
Existence
Season Nine
Trust No 1
Provenance
Providence
William
Release
The Truth
The Truth II
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Season Ten
My Struggle I
*Founder's Mutation
My Struggle II
Season 11
My Struggle III
Ghouli
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