The X-Files (season 6)
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| The X-Files Season 6 | |
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| Country of origin |  United States Canada |
| Network | Fox Broadcasting Network |
| Original run | November 8, 1998 – May 16, 1999 |
| No. of episodes | 21 |
| DVD release date | Region 1: November 5, 2002 Region 2: March 17, 2003 Region 4: May 13, 2003 |
| Previous season | Season 5 |
| Next season | Season 7 |
The sixth season of the science fiction television series The X-Files commenced airing on the Fox Broadcasting Network in the United States on November 8, 1998, concluding on the same channel on May 16, 1999, and contained 22 episodes. The series was developed by Chris Carter, who also serves as executive producer. Season six regular cast members include Gillian Anderson as Dana Scully and David Duchovny as Fox Mulder. The sixth season focuses on the Sydnicate and their fight against Mulder and the FBI. The season ends with the destruction of the Old Syndicate by Alien rebels.
Episodes marked with an asterisk (*) are part of the series' mytharc. Episodes with a double asterisk (**) are part of the series' Alien Mythology.
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The episode "Drive" references a real life navy communication project; Project Sanguine under a pseudonym. The opening footage is done in the style of a news report. "Dreamland was the only two part episode of The X-Files not directly related to the myth-arc of the show. The Marx Brothers mirror dance routine from the movie Duck Soup, is acted out by Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Morris Fletcher (Michael McKean). Morris Fletcher makes a cameo appearance later in the season in the episode "Three of a Kind". In "Dreamland II", the U-Haul that Mulder is using to pack Morris's belongings has a picture on the side of it displaying Wapakoneta, Ohio, the birthplace of Neil Armstrong. The Air Force pilot in the cell adjacent to Mulder refers in fighter pilot jargon to his "RIO" or Radar Intercept Officer. In reality, RIO is a Navy acronym. The Air Force terminology is "WSO" or Weapons System Officer.
"How the Ghosts Stole Christmas" has the smallest cast of any episode of the series, with only David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Ed Asner, and Lily Tomlin. The film version of A Christmas Carol that Mulder is watching is the 1951 version starring Alastair Sim. The "glowing milk" scene in the episode "Terms of Endearment" is an homage to Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion. What the mother is supposed to have said while "in a trance" - "Zazas, zazas, nastanada zazas" - are what the occultist Aleister Crowley used to open the 10th Aethyr, that of the Thelemic devil Choronzon. The song that plays several times in the episode is "Only Happy When It Rains" by Garbage.
Some New York scenes from the episode "Tithonus" were filmed on sets from NYPD Blue, whose sets were located just across from The X-Files studios. The hospital billed as NYU Medical Center is actually Massachusetts General Hospital. The name Alfred Fellig is a reference to famous photographer Arthur Fellig, better known as Weegee. The character Tithonus is named after a reluctant immortal from Greek mythology.
"One Son" is the culmination of the work of the Syndicate regarding the alien conspiracy that began in the first season episode, "The Erlenmeyer Flask". This episode also marked the return of Marita Covarrubias, who had vanished since the fifth season episode "The Red and the Black". The title of the episode, "The Unnatural" is an offhand reference to the title of Bernard Malamud's baseball novel The Natural, which was later adapted in 1984 as a film starring Robert Redford. Darren McGavin, who played the first Arthur Dales in two previous episodes, filmed two scenes before illness forced him to step down from the project. M. Emmet Walsh was called in, and the script rewritten, to accept the changes.[citation needed] McGavin’s scenes are included on the DVD. Instead of "The Truth Is Out There", the text that appears at the end of the opening credits is "In The Big Inning".
"Three of a Kind" is a sequel of sorts to "Unusual Suspects", with the episode concluding the story of The Lone Gunmen and Susanne Modeski, the woman who led to the creation of the trio. Also, in "Unusual Suspects", Mulder played a supporting role in the episode, but in "Three of a Kind", the concept reverses, with Scully helping out The Lone Gunmen instead. David Duchovny lent only his voice to this episode, with The Lone Gunmen electronically synthesizing Mulder's voice to convince Scully to travel to Las Vegas.
[edit] Episodes
| # | Title | Writer(s) | Director | Original airdate | Code |
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| 118-601 | "The Beginning"** | Chris Carter | Kim Manners | November 8, 1998 | 6ABX01 |
| With the X-Files reopened, Mulder and Scully eagerly hunt for a deadly creature in the Arizona desert. What they find seems to support Mulder’s revived belief in aliens, but is discredited when the agents are not reassigned to the X-Files, with Spender and Fowley taking over instead. | |||||
| 119-602 | "Drive" | Vince Gilligan | Rob Bowman | November 15, 1998 | 6ABX02 |
| With Mulder trapped in a car by a seemingly deranged man, Scully races to determine if the man is suffering from a deadly illness — and if Mulder is in danger of becoming the next victim. | |||||
| 120-603 | "Triangle" | Chris Carter | Chris Carter | November 22, 1998 | 6ABX03 |
| Mulder goes in search of a ship that disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle in 1939. But when he gets on board, Mulder finds that he — and all the passengers and crew (as well as some strangely familiar ones) — are still stuck in the past. | |||||
| 121-604 | "Dreamland"(1)* | Vince Gilligan, John Shiban & Frank Spotnitz | Kim Manners | November 29, 1998 | 6ABX04 |
| An anonymous tip finally brings Mulder and Scully to the mecca of all UFO lore — Area 51. But when the agents witness the flight of a mysterious craft, their lives are profoundly — and perhaps irrevocably — altered. | |||||
| 122-605 | "Dreamland"(2)* | Vince Gilligan, John Shiban & Frank Spotnitz | Michael Watkins | December 6, 1998 | 6ABX05 |
| Scully begins to suspect that her partner’s strange behavior is more than it appears to be, while Mulder fights to return his life to normal before it’s too late. | |||||
| 123-606 | "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas" | Chris Carter | Chris Carter | December 13, 1998 | 6ABX08 |
| On Christmas Eve, Mulder convinces Scully to put aside her gift wrapping and stake out a reputed haunted house. But they discover a pair of lovelorn spectres living inside the house who are determined to prove how lonely the holidays can be. | |||||
| 124-607 | "Terms of Endearment" | David Amann | Rob Bowman | January 3, 1999 | 6ABX06 |
| When a mother is accused of killing her unborn child, Mulder and Scully discover that the father has his own secrets, and he’s not the only one. | |||||
| 125-608 | "The Rain King" | Jeffrey Bell | Kim Manners | January 10, 1999 | 6ABX07 |
| In a small town plagued by drought, Mulder and Scully come upon a man who claims to be able to control the weather — at a hefty profit. Yet the agents discover a force of nature at work even more powerful than the weather, and just as unpredictable. | |||||
| 126-609 | "S.R. 819"** | John Shiban | Daniel Sackheim | January 17, 1999 | 6ABX10 |
| Assistant Director Skinner is poisoned. Mulder and Scully have 24 hours to save him, but in order to do so, they must determine who wants him dead, and why. | |||||
| 127-610 | "Tithonus" | Vince Gilligan | Michael Watkins | January 24, 1999 | 6ABX09 |
| Scully learns that she, but not Mulder, is being given a chance to prove her worth at the FBI, and - paired with a new partner - she investigates a crime scene photographer with an uncanny knack for arriving just in time to see his victims final moments. What she does not expect is for Death to play a role himself. | |||||
| 128-611 | "Two Fathers"(1)** | Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz | Kim Manners | February 7, 1999 | 6ABX11 |
| When Cassandra Spender is returned, Mulder, Scully and Agent Spender find themselves facing the exposure of the conspiracy involving extraterrestrials; while the worried Syndicate take evasive measures. | |||||
| 129-612 | "One Son"(2)** | Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz | Rob Bowman | February 14, 1999 | 6ABX12 |
| While Cassandra reveals the truth about the alien conspiracy to Mulder, her ex-husband - the Cigarette Smoking Man - does the same to Agent Spender in an effort to convince him to work with the conspiracy. But even as Mulder is deceived by Agent Fowley, Scully stays true to the investigation, and the two find a surprise ally. Meanwhile, the Syndicate reach the climax of their plans, only to find that the end is not as they expected. | |||||
| 130-613 | "Agua Mala" | David Amann | Rob Bowman | February 21, 1999 | 6ABX14 |
| Mulder and Scully are looking forward to cases again. Instead, Arthur Dales, now living in a Florida trailer park, calls the agents for help when a neighbouring family disappears; and, with a hurricane approaching, Mulder and Scully find themselves trapped with a group of residents in a building where there is something in the water. | |||||
| 131-614 | "Monday" | Vince Gilligan & John Shiban | Kim Manners | February 28, 1999 | 6ABX15 |
| The world is trapped in a time loop, and only one woman seems to know. A bank robbery is committed over and over again until Mulder and Scully can make it go right. | |||||
| 132-615 | "Arcadia" | Daniel Arkin | Michael Watkins | March 7, 1999 | 6ABX13 |
| Several disappearances at an idyllic planned community lead Mulder and Scully to go undercover as a married couple. However, what they soon discover is that the ruler of this small community enforced his rule with an Übermenscher (technically a Tulpa creature from Tibet.) | |||||
| 133-616 | "Alpha" | Jeffrey Bell | Peter Markle | March 28, 1999 | 6ABX16 |
| An Asian dog, called the Wanshang Dhole, thought to be extinct is blamed for several killings. Mulder and Scully join an obstinate Sheriff, a seemingly eccentric hunter, and a reclusive canine expert to find it. However, there is more mystery to the expert than meets the eye. | |||||
| 134-617 | "Trevor" | Jim Guttridge & Ken Hawryliw | Rob Bowman | April 11, 1999 | 6ABX17 |
| After a prison camp is destroyed by a tornado, an escaped inmate is suspected of killing the warden. As the inmate hunts down his old girlfriend, he finds out where his child is and attempts to take him back. Mulder and Scully set out to find him and discover that he has the ability to pass through solid matter. | |||||
| 135-618 | "Milagro" | Chris Carter, Story by John Shiban & Frank Spotnitz | Kim Manners | April 18, 1999 | 6ABX18 |
| A series of murders takes place where the heart has been removed from the victims. A writer that lives next door to Mulder is writing a novel about the murders before they actually happen. Scully finds herself confused and drawn to the writer, who has a romantic interest in her. | |||||
| 136-619 | "The Unnatural" | David Duchovny | David Duchovny | April 25, 1999 | 6ABX19 |
| While working in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947, young cop Arthur Dales (the brother of the Arthur Dales who started the X-Files) stumbles across a “negro” baseball player who is actually an alien with a love of the game hiding among humans. | |||||
| 137-620 | "Three of a Kind" | Vince Gilligan & John Shiban | Bryan Spicer | May 2, 1999 | 6ABX20 |
| While at a conference in Las Vegas, The Lone Gunmen run into the enigmatic Susanne Modeski. After deceiving Scully into joining them the trio soon find out that Susan’s new fiancé is planning to use her new brainwashing drug for political assassinations. | |||||
| 138-621 | "Field Trip" | Vince Gilligan & John Shiban, Story by Frank Spotnitz | Kim Manners | May 9, 1999 | 6ABX21 |
| The skeletonized remains of a young couple are found in the fields of North Carolina. When Mulder and Scully go to investigate, they find that a giant fungal life form releases an LSD-like drug into the air with spores, and then slowly digests its victims. Mulder and Scully fall into its trap and are not sure of what is reality and what is fantasy. | |||||
| 139-622 | "Biogenesis"(1)** | Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz | Rob Bowman | May 16, 1999 | 6ABX22 |
| A bizarre rock inscribed with Navajo writing is found in Côte d’Ivoire, and its discovery is closely followed by the death of the African scientist involved. While its appearance in Washington begins to affect Mulder’s mental health, leading him to turn to Agent Fowley for help; a disturbed Scully - determined to disprove the theory that life on Earth began with aliens - heads to New Mexico and finds a dying Albert Hosteen - who has discovered that the rock includes passages from the Bible, and a map of the human genome. While Mulder breaks down in a mental institution, Scully journeys unexpectedly to Africa. | |||||
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