First Aired: October 4, 1996
As Mulder's mother lies dying, he and Scully are given tantalizing glimpses of a plan to secretly catalog-and clone-human beings. Only by putting the pieces together can they hope to save Mrs. Mulder's life.
UNRUHE
First Aired: October 27, 1996
Someone is abducting, mutilating, and murdering the inhabitants of a small town. The primary evidence is a series of photographs depicting the killer's psychotic fantasies.
HOME
First Aired: October 11, 1996
While investigating the death of an infant in a close-knit rural community, Mulder and Scully uncover an even darker family secret.
TELIKO
First Aired: October 18, 1996
African-American men are disappearing. Their bodies, when found, are dead white- drained of pigment. Were they killed by a virulent new disease? Were they murdered? Or does the answer lie elsewhere?
THE FIELD WHERE I DIED
First Aired: November 3, 1996
In an effort to prevent a mass suicide at a fanatical religious cult, Mulder and Scully interrogate one of the wives of the polygamous cult leader. Under hypnosis, her accounts of her past lives-and deaths- are inexplicably tied to the agent's own.
SANGUINARIUM
First Aired: November 11, 1996
At a busy-and lucrative- cosmetic surgery clinic, doctors are murdering patients with the tools of their trade. Several clues point toward demonic possession.
MUSINGS OF A CIGARETTE-SMOKING MAN
First Aired: November 17, 1996
The secret biography of a sinister, all - powerful conspirator. Some old mysteries are cleared up- and some new ones created.
PAPER HEARTS
First Aired: December 15, 1996
Prompted by a series of prophetic dreams, Mulder reopens the case of a convicted child killer. The murderer claims to know the circumstances of Samantha Mulder's abduction.
TUNGUSKA
First Aired: November 24, 1996
Diplomatic couriers are bringing a lethal alien life-form into the United States. Mulder and Scully's investigation points to a high-level international conspiracy beyond even their comprehension.
TERMA
First Aired: December 1, 1996
Stranded in the gulag, Mulder discovers the effects of the alien toxin-firsthand. In Washington, Scully battles a corrupt U.S. senator to keep their investigation alive.
EL MUNDO GIRA
First Aired: January 12, 1997
Fear, jealousy, superstition, and prejudice converge when a young female migrant worker is killed by a mysterious yellow rain.
KADDISH
First Aired: February 16, 1997
Someone-or something- is killing the members of an anti-Semitic gang. To find the truth, Mulder and Scully delve into the ancient canons of Jewish mysticism.
NEVER AGAIN
First Aired: February 2, 1997
On a solo assignment out of town, a lonely Scully meets Mr. Wrong- a single guy who thinks his new tattoo is talking to him.
LEONARD BETTS
First Aired: January 26, 1997
A headless corpse escapes from a hospital morgue. Mulder and Scully investigate; what they find leads them to the jagged dividing line between life and death.
MEMENTO MORI
First Aired: Febrary 9, 1997
Scully learns she has inoperable cancer-of the same type that killed nearly a dozen female UFO abductees. While she undergoes radical treatment, Mulder works desperately to unravel the conspiracy behind her disease.
UNREQUITED
First Aired: February 23, 1997
A Marine Corps prisoner of war, abandoned in Vietnam by his superiors, returns to the United States with a vengeance- and a special talent for hiding in plain sight.
Series 4 Continued