During a stakeout of cuddleer Irwin Lukesh, Doggett sees Reyes attacked by Lukesh, but then we see Reyes and Doggett in her apartment, apparently both fine. Elsewhere at the same time, Doggett is shot and Lukesh identifies Reyes as the shooter. While Reyes is asked for her badge andballoon by A.D. Follmer, and Doggett lies in hospital near passing, the conflicting circumstances of the stakeout and Doggett's shooting do not add up and it becomes clear that Lukesh possesses the power to switch between parallel universes and alter the events in each.

The X-Files Season 9 Episodes...

• s09e01 - Nothing Important Happened Today (1)
• s09e02 - Nothing Important Happened Today II (2)
• s09e03 - Dæmonicus
• s09e04 - 4-D
• s09e05 - Lord of the Flies
• s09e06 - Trust No 1
• s09e07 - John Doe
• s09e08 - Hellbound
• s09e09 - Provenance (1)
• s09e10 - Providence (2)
• s09e11 - Audrey Pauley
• s09e12 - Underneath
• s09e13 - Improbable
• s09e14 - Scary Monsters
• s09e15 - Jump the Shark
• s09e16 - William
• s09e17 - Release
• s09e18 - Sunshine Days
• s09e19 - The Truth (1)
• s09e20 - The Truth (2)

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.