Episode
The X-Files: Two Fathers (1)
Overview
While the Cigarette-Smoking Man recites to an unseen listener everything about the work of the Syndicate involving a global conspiracy in cooperation with an alien species, Cassandra Spender reappears and is pursued by the scientists who would rather kill her than keep her alive. Cassandra runs to Mulder's apartment and demands that he shoot her because she is the culmination of 50 years work - a living alien/human hybrid - and colonization will begin if the aliens find out about her.
Details
- Series
- The X-Files
- Season
- Season 6
- Episode
- Episode 11
- Air date
- 1999-02-07
- Runtime
- 44 min
Episode context
Two Fathers (1) is Episode 11 in Season 6 of The X-Files. It aired on 1999-02-07. The runtime is 44 min.
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Episode 10: Tithonus
Assistant Director Kersh tries to tear Scully and Mulder apart when he partners Scully with a New York agent investigating Alfred Fellig, a freelance police photographer who conveniently shows up to document the scene of a death as soon as it happens.
While the young hotshot agent is convinced that Fellig is murdering the people, Scully has other (paranormal) theories.
Episode 12: One Son (2)
The Cigarette-Smoking Man reveals all the government secrets from the past 50 years in order for his son, Jeffery Spender, to join him in his work. Mulder learns that the final stage of the conspiracy will soon begin with the hybridization of the Syndicate members, and he must stop it from happening. Agent Spender deceives his father and arranges for Mulder and Scully to be reassigned to the X-Files, which doesn't sit too well with the Cigarette-Smoking Man.
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