THE X-FILES RECAPS
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RECAPS BY SEASON

SEASON 1

SEASON 2

SEASON 3

SEASON 4

SEASON 5

FIGHT THE FUTURE

SEASON 6

SEASON 7

SEASON 8

SEASON 9

STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION, check out the Updates section Below "Introduction" for recent updates to this project! 


INTRODUCTION

It was the usual story: believer meets skeptic; believer and skeptic chase liver-eating mutants, aliens, and various other baddies of the paranormal persuasion; believer and skeptic may or may not fall in love and possibly have sex, or not, and sort of have a baby that may or may not have alien powers, or something. It was a show called The X-Files, and in its twilight years Television Without Pity blessed us by sending Jessica to recap it. Her recaps were snarky and hilarious and full of action-figure shenanigans, and X-Philes everywhere loved them. But then the show ended, with so many episodes sadly still un-recapped. So the TWoP X-Philes decided to pick up where Jessica had left off and recap the remaining episodes in her honor. We're no Jessicas, but we hope you'll enjoy them regardless.


SPOILER POLICY

All recaps are written assuming you have watched all 9 seasons of The X-Files, or do not mind being spoiled. No additional spoiler warnings will be posted. Consider yourself warned!


UPDATES

04.25.08: Added 5x08: Kitsunegari

03.30.08: Added 6x05: Dreamland II, 1x21: Born Again, 1x06: Ghost in the Machine

03.01.08: Added 1x08: The Jersey Devil, 2x08: One Breath, and 6x04: Dreamland I

02.21.08: Added 1x08: Space, 6x21: Field Trip, 2x03: Blood, 1x03: Conduit

02.02.08: Added 1x11: Fire, 7x22: Requiem, 3x14: Grotesque, and 7x19: Brand X. Also made some minor corrections to things.

01.16.08: Added 1x09: Fallen Angel, 6x08: Rain King, 6x11: Two Fathers, and 6x12: One Son

01.11.08: Added 4x08: Paper Hearts, 1x14: Lazarus, 3x24: Talitha Cumi.

01.04.08 (wee hours of the morning): Added 1x19: Darkness Falls and 1x05: Shadows.

01.03.08: Added 6x22: Biogenesis and 7x02: The Sixth Extinction: Amor Fati. This will be an all-nighter for me: 3 recaps down, 7 more to go!

12.31.07: Happy New Year's Eve! Instead of drinking champagne, I am updating recaps! Added 7x01: The Sixth Extinction.

12.10.07: Redesigned Fugues Main and Fugues Fiction Updates! Regarding recaps, I added 4x23: Demons and 3x17: Pusher. Also, updated the alternate title for Terms of Endearment. (Whew! Finally, I can go to bed!)

11.24.07: Instead of working on grad school applications, I am updating this site feverishly. Today I fixed some minor link issues, as well as added two more recaps: THE BEGINNING and DRIVE. I also added some alternate titles and quips, but I am still missing some episode quips.

11.23.07: Okay, it may look like this place hasn't been updated in a while, but actually I've been doing little bits and things here and there. But nothing terribly substantial. Anyways, the biggest new thing that happened here prior to today is that I copy and pasted lots of episode quips (written by Raceguy) and alternate titles into all of the recap pages, so it looks less like under construction. These are "placeholder" episode quips, and the author of the recap has the opportunity to replace the quip with their own.

Today, I added the Season 6 page, as well as recaps for TERMS OF ENDEARMENT and THE GOLDBERG VARIATION.

09.21.07: I've been updated over the last few days, but finally finished today. Recaps are added for season 2x04 (Sleepless), 2x05 (Duane Barry), and 2x06 (Ascension). Also added are recaps for 5x10 (Chinga) and 7x05 (Millenium). The season pages for Season 5 and Season 7 are also up.

09.08.07: Added the above "Introduction" blurb as written by As An Amoeba. Also added a very lame "Spoiler Policy" notice. Fixed some typos in Season 4 recaps page and subsequent pages: It's "Memento Mori" and not "Momento Mori." *facepalm.* Also, fixed As An Amoeba's episode blurb. For future self-reference, the Season 3 quip will be "Mulder comes back (for the first time) from the dead, negative energies, auto-erotic asphyxiation, smart brings sexy back and bleepin' ticking time bombs of insanity," that is, for when I finally get cracking on more season banners.

09.07.07: Added to Season 1 Recaps with 1x01 Deep Throat by As An Amoeba, and 1x12 Beyond the Sea by Adrienne (Starbucket). Also updated Season 1 Recaps page with links to TWOP's Season 1 recaps by Jessica. I also updated the banners on all of the season 1 pages with one specifically made for Season 1. I plan on doing this for all of the seasons, but so far, I have been slow with the banner-making for other seasons.

To the Season 4 Recaps, I added Buffangel's 4x15 - Momento Mori recap.

To the Season 3 main Recap page, I updated Jennifer's 2Shy recap with her episode blurb.

To the Season 2 main Recap page, I changed the banner to one specifically designed for Season 2, and I also replaced the general banners on all of the season 2 recaps to use the same banner. I also linked to Jessica's season 2 episode recaps.

Did I miss any recaps? That should be all the recaps so far. My apologies for being slow in updating.

08.31.07: Updated Season 1 Recaps with Adrienne's (Starbucket) 1x06: Ice recap. Created Season 3 Recaps main, and added Jennifer's 3x06: Shy recap. Created Season 4 Recaps main, and added Gryffindork's 4x20: Small Potatoes recap.

08.30.07: Updated Season 2 Recaps with ejluther's 2x10: Red Museum recap.