Episode
The X-Files: Firewalker
Overview
Mulder and Scully, reunited at last, head for an active volcano under a geological study and find a deadly life form that can survive in the searing heat of the crater and is killing the scientists to avoid being discovered.
Details
- Series
- The X-Files
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 9
- Air date
- 1994-11-18
- Runtime
- 46 min
Episode context
Firewalker is Episode 9 in Season 2 of The X-Files. It aired on 1994-11-18. The runtime is 46 min.
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Episode 8: One Breath
Scully mysteriously appears in a Washington hospital, alive but in a coma, and Mulder must fight to keep her alive in order to find out what happened to her and who did it to her. Meanwhile, Scully fights her own personal battle as she decides whether to stay or go on to the next world.
Episode 10: Red Museum
While investigating the connection between the abduction of several teenagers and a rural religious cult, Mulder and Scully discover a secret test being performed on the children using the "Purity Control" alien DNA from 'The Erlenmeyer Flask' which leads Mulder to "the crew-cut man", Deep Throat's murderer.
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