The Cigarette-Smoking Man helps Mulder to obtain Scully's cure and also lets him see his real sister who doesn't turn out to be as happy to see Mulder as he would've liked. In return for this, the Cigarette-Smoking Man asks that Mulder quit the FBI and work for him in the Syndicate where he could have power and respect which Mulder turns down, deciding to stay on the side of justice. While Scully's cure appears to have worked, the Cigarette-Smoking Man faces his own enemies and disappears, presumed dead.

The X-Files Season 5 Episodes...

• s05e01 - Redux (2)
• s05e02 - Redux II (3)
• s05e03 - Unusual Suspects
• s05e04 - Detour
• s05e05 - The Post-Modern Prometheus
• s05e06 - Christmas Carol (1)
• s05e07 - Emily (2)
• s05e08 - Kitsunegari
• s05e09 - Schizogeny
• s05e10 - Chinga (orig.
• s05e11 - Kill Switch
• s05e12 - Bad Blood
• s05e13 - Patient X (1)
• s05e14 - The Red and the Black (2)
• s05e15 - Travelers
• s05e16 - Mind's Eye
• s05e17 - All Souls
• s05e18 - The Pine Bluff Variant
• s05e19 - Folie à Deux
• s05e20 - The End

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.