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The Best Episodes of The X-Files Season 2

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The X-Files Season 2 Episode 25 - Anasazi (1)
    9.1/10(6570 votes)

    S2:E25

    Mulder receives an encrypted computer disk containing the defense department's top secret files on extraterrestrial life and becomes a target. Scully takes him to a Navajo family that unearthed a buried secret to decipher the disk.

    Director:R. W. Goodwin
    Writers:Chris Carter, David Duchovny

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  2. The X-Files Season 2 Episode 16 - Colony (1)
    8.7/10(6214 votes)

    S2:E16

    After the obituaries of four identical men are e-mailed to Mulder, the agents are contacted by a shadowy CIA agent who tells them about a bounty hunter sent to wipe out the beginning of a colony of clones. Meanwhile Mulder is distracted by the sudden reappearance of his sister Samantha.

    Director:Nick Marck
    Writers:Chris Carter, David Duchovny

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  3. The X-Files Season 2 Episode 17 - End Game (2)
    8.7/10(6066 votes)

    S2:E17

    The alien bounty hunter kidnaps Scully and wants to trade her for Mulder's sister, who is revealed to be a clone herself. After the trade goes badly and Mulder discovers the truth about Samantha, he tracks the bounty hunter to his ship buried in the arctic ice and demands the whereabouts of his real sister.

    Director:Rob Bowman
    Writer:Frank Spotnitz

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  4. The X-Files Season 2 Episode 5 - Duane Barry (1)
    8.6/10(6874 votes)

    S2:E5

    Mulder is called to a hostage situation involving Duane Barry, a former FBI Agent who claims to be an alien abductee and wants to get back to the abduction site with someone who will be taken instead of him. Unfortunately, the someone he eventually chooses is Scully.

    Director:Chris Carter
    Writer:Chris Carter

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  5. The X-Files Season 2 Episode 6 - Ascension (2)
    8.6/10(6564 votes)

    S2:E6

    When Mulder finds out that Scully was kidnapped by Duane Barry, he risks the wrath of his superiors and the annoyance of Agent Krycek in order to do whatever it takes to find her. Meanwhile, Krycek is found to be reporting Mulder's activities to the Cigarette-Smoking Man.

    Director:Michael Lange
    Writer:Paul Brown

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  6. The X-Files Season 2 Episode 20 - Humbug
    8.5/10(7132 votes)

    S2:E20

    Mulder and Scully travel to Gibsonton, Florida, a town built and populated by circus and sideshow performers to investigate the death of Jerald Glazebrook, The Alligator Man. While searching for leads on the killer, the agents come across many bizarre characters including the local sheriff who was once known as Jim Jim, the Dog-Faced Boy.

    Director:Kim Manners
    Writer:Darin Morgan

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  7. The X-Files Season 2 Episode 8 - One Breath
    8.3/10(6386 votes)

    S2:E8

    Scully mysteriously appears in a Washington hospital, alive but in a coma, and Mulder must fight to keep her alive in order to find out what happened to her and who did it to her. Meanwhile, Scully fights her own personal battle as she decides whether to stay or go on to the next world.

    Director:R. W. Goodwin
    Writers:James Wong, Glen Morgan

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  8. The X-Files Season 2 Episode 2 - The Host
    8.2/10(7195 votes)

    S2:E2

    A.D. Skinner sends Mulder to investigate a body which washed into the New Jersey sewer from the ocean. Mulder believes that the basic blue-collar assignment is punishment, but by Skinner's own admission, what he discovers is a true X-File.

    Director:Daniel Sackheim
    Writer:Chris Carter

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  9. The X-Files Season 2 Episode 14 - Die Hand Die Verletzt
    8.1/10(6524 votes)

    S2:E14

    The ritualistic murder of a teenager in a small town gets Mulder and Scully caught up in a secret occult practice within the local school's PTA and a substitute teacher with strange powers.

    Director:Kim Manners
    Writers:James Wong, Glen Morgan

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  10. The X-Files Season 2 Episode 1 - Little Green Men
    8.0/10(6680 votes)

    S2:E1

    With the X-Files closed, Scully has been assigned as an instructor at the FBI Academy while Mulder is doing menial surveillance work. After meeting with Senator Matheson, one of his supporters in regards to the X-Files, Mulder disobeys orders and heads to an abandoned SETI site in Puerto Rico which has inexplicably reactivated itself and could provide proof of contact with extra-terrestrial life.

    Director:David Nutter
    Writers:James Wong, Glen Morgan

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  11. The X-Files Season 2 Episode 13 - Irresistible
    8.0/10(6348 votes)

    S2:E13

    A mortuary worker who gets his thrills from collecting hair and fingernails from the dead begins killing his soon-to-be collectibles himself and sets his seriously disturbed sights on Scully.

    Director:David Nutter
    Writer:Chris Carter

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  12. The X-Files Season 2 Episode 22 - F. Emasculata
    8.0/10(5540 votes)

    S2:E22

    When a plague-like illness kills ten men inside a maximum security prison, Scully tries to get into the quarantine site and discover the cause and origin of the contagion, while Mulder and a group of US Marshals track two escapees who may be infected.

    Director:Rob Bowman
    Writers:Chris Carter, Howard Gordon

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  13. The X-Files Season 2 Episode 23 - Soft Light
    7.8/10(5586 votes)

    S2:E23

    An experiment in dark matter accidentally turns a scientist's shadow into a deadly weapon that can unzip a person's molecules if they are touched by it.

    Director:James A. Contner
    Writer:Vince Gilligan

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  14. The X-Files Season 2 Episode 24 - Our Town
    7.7/10(5483 votes)

    S2:E24

    After several disappearances in a small town, Mulder and Scully investigate and find hundreds of human bones in the river. They discover that the man behind the town's main source of wealth, a chicken processing plant, has found a way to prolong his life through cannibalism.

    Director:Rob Bowman
    Writer:Frank Spotnitz

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  15. The X-Files Season 2 Episode 4 - Sleepless
    7.6/10(6254 votes)

    S2:E4

    Mulder reluctantly accepts a new partner, Agent Alex Krycek, and they investigate the deaths of several Green Beret soldiers who participated in a sleep deprivation experiment during the Vietnam war.

    Director:Rob Bowman
    Writer:Howard Gordon

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  16. The X-Files Season 2 Episode 10 - Red Museum
    7.5/10(6006 votes)

    S2:E10

    While investigating the connection between the abduction of several teenagers and a rural religious cult, Mulder and Scully discover a secret test being performed on the children using the "Purity Control" alien DNA from 'The Erlenmeyer Flask' which leads Mulder to "the crew-cut man", Deep Throat's murderer.

    Director:Win Phelps
    Writer:Chris Carter

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  17. The X-Files Season 2 Episode 3 - Blood
    7.4/10(6345 votes)

    S2:E3

    When several violent deaths in a small farming community are connected by the destruction of digital devices, Mulder believes that people are being driven to kill by the use of subliminal messages in the digital readouts.

    Director:David Nutter
    Writers:James Wong, Glen Morgan

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  18. The X-Files Season 2 Episode 19 - Død Kalm
    7.4/10(5665 votes)

    S2:E19

    When half the crew of a Navy ship abandon their boat in a life raft and are rescued 18 hours later looking about 60 years older than they should be, Mulder suggests that the ship is caught in a time field which is speeding up their aging.

    Director:Rob Bowman
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. The X-Files Season 2 Episode 21 - The Calusari
    7.4/10(5575 votes)

    S2:E21

    The agents investigate when a young boy's family is plagued by a series of tragic accidents.

    Director:Michael Vejar
    Writer:Sara B. Cooper

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  20. The X-Files Season 2 Episode 12 - Aubrey
    7.3/10(5669 votes)

    S2:E12

    When a detective mysteriously uncovers the remains of an FBI agent who disappeared in the 1940s while investigating a similar murder case to one she is now on, Mulder and Scully believe that the original killer had passed his genetic trait of violence to his grandchild.

    Director:Rob Bowman
    Writer:Sara B. Cooper

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  21. The X-Files Season 2 Episode 9 - Firewalker
    7.1/10(5896 votes)

    S2:E9

    Mulder and Scully, reunited at last, head for an active volcano under a geological study and find a deadly life form that can survive in the searing heat of the crater and is killing the scientists to avoid being discovered.

    Director:David Nutter
    Writer:Howard Gordon

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  22. The X-Files Season 2 Episode 15 - Fresh Bones
    7.1/10(5417 votes)

    S2:E15

    While investigating several deaths and murders within a Haitian refugee camp, Mulder and Scully get caught in the middle of a secret war between the camp commander and a Voodoo priest.

    Director:Rob Bowman
    Writer:Howard Gordon

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  23. The X-Files Season 2 Episode 11 - Excelsis Dei
    6.9/10(5750 votes)

    S2:E11

    Mulder and Scully uncover strange occurrences in an elderly care home when one of the nurses is attacked by an unseen force she claims to be one of the 90 year old residents.

    Director:Stephen Surjik
    Writer:Paul Brown

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  24. The X-Files Season 2 Episode 18 - Fearful Symmetry
    6.4/10(5433 votes)

    S2:E18

    In a small town in Idaho, a man is killed by what seems to be an invisible elephant. Mulder's investigation into the local zoo, its owners and a local animal rights group uncovers evidence of insidious alien experiments.

    Director:James Whitmore Jr.
    Writer:Steve De Jarnatt

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  25. The X-Files Season 2 Episode 7 - 3
    6.3/10(6279 votes)

    S2:E7

    Mulder, back on the X-Files but alone for the first time, investigates a series of vampire-like murders in Los Angeles and finds himself falling for the one woman that may be the prime suspect.

    Director:David Nutter
    Writers:James Wong, Glen Morgan, Chris Ruppenthal

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Anasazi (1)" is the best rated episode of "The X-Files" season 2. It scored 9.1/10 based on 6570 votes. Directed by R. W. Goodwin and written by Chris Carter, David Duchovny, it aired on 5/19/1995. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Colony (1)".