The X-Files, season 10
6 episodes · 6h · 2 kept in The Essentials
Season 10 recap
Fourteen years later the story comes back, and its own explanation is the first thing it overturns.
They are both out. Scully is practising medicine; Mulder is in a house with the blinds down. What brings them back is a broadcaster with a conspiracy theory and a woman who says she was taken repeatedly, and the theory the season builds from her is a straight repudiation of the last one: no colonists, no bargain, no timetable. Men took the technology from a crash decades ago and have been using it on their own population ever since, and the alien invasion was the cover story rather than the plot.
Mulder accepts this quickly and Scully does not, and the argument between them is the best thing in the six hours.
Between the two halves the show goes back to what it always did well — a research facility hiding children who should not exist, a monster who turns out to be more reasonable than the people investigating him, a grief that has nothing supernatural in it until it does.
The end is an epidemic. Immune systems collapse across the country in days, and the cause is in everyone already, put there by something as ordinary as routine vaccination. Scully works out that her own altered DNA is the basis for a cure. She is standing on a bridge with the cure in her hand and her partner dying in a car when the sky opens above them.
Safe if you have finished season 10. Nothing here refers to anything after it — checked, not assumed.
Every episode
Thirteen years after the original series run, the next mind-bending chapter of the thrilling series THE X-FILES has arrived. Fox Mulder and Dana Scully have been contacted by Tad O'Malley, a popular conspiracy theorist web-TV show host who believes he has uncovered a significant government conspiracy. With the assistance of FBI Asst. Dir. Walter Skinner, O'Malley seeks to enlist the help of former X-Files agents Mulder and Scully, who have since severed ties with the FBI. Through O'Malley they are introduced to Sveta, a possible alien abductee who shares shocking information with them that will challenge everything that Mulder has ever believed about the existence of aliens and the government's role in covering them up.
When a scientist suddenly kills himself, Mulder and Scully's investigation leads to a laboratory where extreme genetic experimentation has been breeding subjects with dangerous powers.
Witnesses claim a strange creature was responsible for killing a person in the woods; Mulder confronts some of his own demons.
Mulder and Scully are sent to investigate the murder of a city official, which it seems no human could have committed. Meanwhile, Scully deals with a personal tragedy, which brings up many old feelings about the child she gave away for adoption
When an art gallery that's showing potentially offensive artwork is bombed, Mulder and Scully seek some way to communicate with the comatose bomber in order to prevent a future attack. Meanwhile, a pair of younger FBI agents on the case push Mulder and Scully to examine their own beliefs as Scully seeks answers from neuroscience and Mulder from mysticism.
The investigations that Mulder and Scully previously began with conspiracy theorist and web-TV show host Tad O'Malley seem to have awakened powerful enemies. A widespread panic begins as people all over the country suddenly start falling gravely ill, and Scully must look within to try and find a cure. Meanwhile, Mulder confronts the man whom he believes to be behind it all, but another figure from Mulder and Scully's past may prove to be the key to their salvation.