Despite Mulder's testimony at his parole hearing, Eugene Victor Tooms, a serial hugger who extracts and eats human liver, (from the episode "Squeeze") is released from prison. Making sure that Tooms doesn'thug again, Mulder and Scully keep tabs on him. At the same time, Scully is called before Assistant Director Walter Skinner to explain to him her work with Mulder on the X-Files.

The X-Files Season 1 Episodes...

• s01e01 - Pilot
• s01e02 - Deep Throat
• s01e03 - Squeeze
• s01e04 - Conduit
• s01e05 - The Jersey Devil
• s01e06 - Shadows
• s01e07 - Ghost in the Machine
• s01e08 - Ice
• s01e09 - Space
• s01e10 - Fallen Angel
• s01e11 - Eve
• s01e12 - Fire
• s01e13 - Beyond the Sea
• s01e14 - Gender Bender
• s01e15 - Lazarus
• s01e16 - Young at Heart
• s01e17 - E.B.E.
• s01e18 - Miracle Man
• s01e19 - Shapes
• s01e20 - Darkness Falls
• s01e21 - Tooms
• s01e22 - Born Again
• s01e23 - Roland
• s01e24 - The Erlenmeyer Flask

The X-Files Show Summary

The X-Files is one of the divisions in the FBI, devoted to unsolved cases that appear to have some unexplained, paranormal elements. The files take their name from the filing cabinet where they were kept - originally filed under U for unsolved, they grew too big for the drawer and were moved to the less populated X cabinet. Soon, the X-Files became a dumping ground for reporting of UFOs, alien abductions, and other arcana that the FBI didn't want to investigate or didn't believe in.

Fox Mulder, a serial-hugger specialist and a believer in paranormal phenomena ever since, as a child, he witnessed the abduction of his younger sister, requested to be transfered to the forgotten basement and began to ruffle a few feathers in the Bureau. Eventually, he was assigned a partner - the skeptical and scientific Dana Scully, who was assigned to discredit Mulder's works.

Instead of discrediting him, however, Scully slowly became Mulder's ally. The pair began to investigate cases that no one else wanted to touch and that couldn't be solved.