Best to Worst - X-Files Episodes (Season 2)

by wglass-57063 | created - 22 Apr 2019 | updated - 22 Apr 2019 | Public

My ranking of the X-Files episodes from Season 2.

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1. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: Anasazi (1995)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Mulder receives an encrypted computer tape containing the defense department's top secret files on extraterrestrial life and becomes a target. Scully takes him to a Navajo family that unearthed a buried secret to decipher the files.

Director: R.W. Goodwin | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Peter Donat, Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman

Votes: 5,501

2. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: End Game (1995)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Mulder is forced to make an impossible choice, when the alien bounty hunter gives him an ultimatum - Scully's life for Samantha's.

Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Steven Williams, Peter Donat

Votes: 5,018

3. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: Colony (1995)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When someone sends Mulder and Scully obituaries showing three separate but identical men apparently having died, the agents investigate, but things take an unexpected turn when Mulder receives a call from his father.

Director: Nick Marck | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Peter Donat, Brian Thompson

Votes: 5,144

4. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: Duane Barry (1994)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A former FBI agent who claims he was abducted by aliens takes several people hostage. Mulder agrees to be the negotiator.

Director: Chris Carter | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Steve Railsback, Nicholas Lea

Votes: 5,649

5. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: Ascension (1994)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Mulder and Agent Krycek are in a race against time to find and rescue abducted Scully before crazed Duane Barry can take her to what he believes to be his alien puppet masters.

Director: Michael Lange | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Steve Railsback, Mitch Pileggi

Votes: 5,364

6. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: Humbug (1995)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The agents search for a killer in a Florida town inhabited by sideshow performers.

Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Jim Rose, Wayne Grace

Votes: 5,908

7. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: One Breath (1994)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Scully's comatose body is discovered at a local hospital and her life is hanging in the balance. When Mr. X shows Mulder the high price he'd have to pay if he truly wants justice for Scully, Mulder must choose between hope and revenge.

Director: R.W. Goodwin | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Sheila Larken, Melinda McGraw

Votes: 5,218

8. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: The Host (1994)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Mulder pursues a humanoid, parasitic organism that uses sewage systems as its home.

Director: Daniel Sackheim | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Darin Morgan

Votes: 5,865

9. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: Die Hand Die Verletzt (1995)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The agents investigate a murder in a small town populated by devil worshippers.

Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Dan Butler, Susan Blommaert

Votes: 5,328

10. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: Little Green Men (1994)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

With the X-Files shut down, Mulder travels to Puerto Rico on a tip from his mentor in the Senate to uncover the reason behind the sudden reactivation of a remote long abandoned SETI-like communications station.

Director: David Nutter | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Mike Gomez

Votes: 5,429

11. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: Irresistible (1995)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Scully and Mulder hunt down a fetishist who collects pieces of the dead.

Director: David Nutter | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Bruce Weitz, Nick Chinlund

Votes: 5,200

12. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: F. Emasculata (1995)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

As Scully investigates the spread of a deadly contagion at a prison, Mulder tracks down two escaped convicts infected with the disease.

Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Charles Martin Smith, Dean Norris

Votes: 4,579

13. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: Our Town (1995)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Reports of foxfire on a field in Dudley, Arkansas lead Mulder and Scully to a bizarre situation regarding the townsfolk. Employees of the Chaco Chicken Corporation are displaying bizarre behavior, and the death rate is slowly increasing.

Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Caroline Kava, John Milford

Votes: 4,578

14. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: Soft Light (1995)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Scully's former student, Det. Kelly Ryan, asks the agents to help her catch a runaway government scientist responsible for several mysterious disappearances. Mulder realizes that the man is deathly afraid of his shadow for some reason.

Director: James A. Contner | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Tony Shalhoub, Kate Twa

Votes: 4,643

15. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: Red Museum (1994)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A vegan religious cult is accused of kidnapping local teenagers for some type of ritual. Mulder and Scully begin to suspect that a different kind of conspiracy is at play when Scully sees Deep Throat's killer in town.

Director: Win Phelps | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Paul Sand, Steve Eastin

Votes: 4,908

16. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: Sleepless (1994)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Mulder is on the manhunt for a Vietnam veteran who can project his consciousness into other people's minds to kill them. Mulder and Agent Krycek try to uncover the conspiracy behind the killer's powers.

Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Nicholas Lea

Votes: 5,082

17. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: Blood (1994)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Mulder and Scully investigate a series of violent killings committed by seemingly normal residents of a small town.

Director: David Nutter | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, William Sanderson, John Cygan

Votes: 5,175

18. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: Død Kalm (1995)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The crew of a U.S. military ship that disappeared in the Norwegian Sea is found dead from what seems to be rapid aging. Thinking it's another Philadelphia Experiment, Mulder boards the ghost ship along with Scully and a local skipper.

Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, John Savage, David Cubitt

Votes: 4,645

19. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: Aubrey (1995)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A pregnant police woman experiences visions that lead her to the remains of two FBI agents who went missing in the 1940s while on the trail of a serial killer that later got caught. The killings begin again but the only suspect is now 77.

Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Terry O'Quinn, Deborah Strang

Votes: 4,625

20. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: The Calusari (1995)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The agents investigate when a young boy's family is plagued by a series of tragic accidents.

Director: Michael Vejar | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Helene Clarkson, Joel Palmer

Votes: 4,607

21. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: Firewalker (1994)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

At a remote outpost, scientists watch as their camera picks up a moving shadow on the inside of a smoldering hot volcano, too hot for any living creature to survive. Mulder and Scully arrive and notice that everyone is acting strangely.

Director: David Nutter | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Bradley Whitford, Leland Orser

Votes: 4,799

22. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: Fresh Bones (1995)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The death of a Marine, who allegedly committed suicide, unearths a disturbing truth at a Haitian refugee camp.

Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Bruce A. Young, Daniel Benzali

Votes: 4,433

23. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: Excelsis Dei (1994)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Mulder links a series of violent attacks at a convalescent home, including the brutal rape of a nurse, to angry spirits beyond the grave.

Director: Stephen Surjik | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Teryl Rothery, Sab Shimono

Votes: 4,703

24. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: Fearful Symmetry (1995)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In a small town in Idaho, a man is killed by what seems to be an invisible elephant. Mulder's investigation into the local zoo, its owners and a local animal rights group uncovers evidence of insidious alien experiments.

Director: James Whitmore Jr. | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Jayne Atkinson, Lance Guest

Votes: 4,485

25. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: 3 (1994)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

While Agent Scully is still missing, Agent Mulder embarks upon an investigation involving vampires in Los Angeles, subsequently becoming involved with a sultry female vampire who yearns to escape her lifestyle.

Director: David Nutter | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Justina Vail, Perrey Reeves

Votes: 5,115



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