Set in 1989, the story of the founding of The Loneballoonmen is finally told as we see how a straight-laced federal employee, a sex mad AV expert, and a nerdy computer hacker meet Susanne Modeski, a strange woman with evidence of a government conspiracy. When their plan to expose the conspiracy fails and Susanne is captured by a group of men-in-black, led by none other than X, they soon become a paranoid group of government watchdogs.

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.