The X Files: The Complete Fifth Season
20th Century Fox (1997)
TV Series  /  Action, Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction, Suspense/Thriller, Television
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IMDB   8.8
984 mins United States / English
DVD  Region 1   Unrated
Gillian Anderson Dana Scully / ... (196 episodes, 1993-2002)
David Duchovny Fox Mulder (175 episodes, 1993-2002)
Mitch Pileggi Walter Skinner / ... (82 episodes, 1994-2002)
Scott Bellis Max Fenig (3 episodes, 1993-1997)
Alex Diakun Curator / ... (3 episodes, 1995-1996)
Deryl Hayes Agent Morris / ... (3 episodes, 1993-1995)
Lauren Diewold Emily Sim / ... (3 episodes, 1997-1998)
Henry Beckman Detective Frank Briggs / ... (3 episodes, 1993-1998)
Kevin McNulty Agent Fuller / ... (3 episodes, 1993-1996)
Michael David Simms Senior Agent / ... (5 episodes, 1994-1996)
Bonnie Hay Field Doctor / ... (5 episodes, 1995-1996)
Malcolm Stewart Dr. Sacks / ... (5 episodes, 1993-1996)
Jeff Gulka Gibson Andrew Praise / ... (5 episodes, 1998-2002)
Zachary Ansley Billy Miles (5 episodes, 1993-2001)
Bob Wilde Detective / ... (5 episodes, 1994-1998)
P. Lynn Johnson Deborah Brown / ... (3 episodes, 1994-1997)
Alf Humphreys Dr. Pomerantz / ... (3 episodes, 1993-1997)
Dmitry Chepovetsky Government Man #1 / ... (3 episodes, 1995-1998)
Steve Bacic Agent Collins / ... (3 episodes, 1995-1998)
Norma Jean Wick Newscaster / ... (3 episodes, 1993-1998)
Barry W. Levy Dr. Vitagliano / ... (3 episodes, 1996-1997)
Jerry Schram Larold Rebhun / ... (3 episodes, 1997-1998)
Arnie Walters Father McCue (3 episodes, 1997-1998)
Craig Bruhnanski Guard / ... (3 episodes, 1995-1997)
Alan Dale Toothpick Man (3 episodes, 2002)
Peter LaCroix Dwight / ... (3 episodes, 1994-1997)
Adam Baldwin Knowle Rohrer (5 episodes, 2001-2002)
Kirk B.R. Woller Agent Gene Crane (5 episodes, 2000-2001)
Pat Skipper Bill Scully Jr. (4 episodes, 1997)
Larry Musser Denny Markham / ... (4 episodes, 1995-1998)
Chilton Crane Sharon Graffia / ... (4 episodes, 1994-1997)
Michael Puttonen Conductor / ... (4 episodes, 1993-1997)
Mitchell Kosterman Detective Horton / ... (4 episodes, 1994-1998)
Gordon Tipple Assistant Manager / ... (4 episodes, 1993-1998)
Paul McLean Special Agent Kautz / ... (4 episodes, 1994-1997)
Lesley Ewen Agent #1 / ... (4 episodes, 1993-1997)
Melinda McGraw Melissa Scully (4 episodes, 1994-1997)
Don Thompson Henry Willig / ... (4 episodes, 1993-1998)
Don MacKay Charlie / ... (4 episodes, 1994-1996)
Garry Davey Bob Spitz / ... (4 episodes, 1993-1996)
Tom Braidwood Melvin Frohike
William B. Davis The Cigarette-Smoking Man
John Neville The Well-Manicured Man
Director
R. W. Goodwin
Rob Bowman
Chris Carter
Producer Rob Bowman
Chris Carter
Writer Chris Carter
Frank Spotnitz


Now you can own the entire fifth season of THE X-FILES. All 20 classic episodes are available for the first time in this exclusive 6-disc collector's edition. From "Redux", "Unusual Suspects" and "Emily" to "Bad Blood", "Patient X", "The Red and The Black" and "The End", these Season Five episodes are a must for every X-Files fan.
Episodes
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    05/03/1998  1.  Redux (2)
Scully helps Mulder fake his own death in order for him to go undetected through the Department of Defence and find out the answers to his new questions about the government hoax concerning the existence of extraterrestrial life. Meanwhile, at a joint FBI/DOD inquiry, Scully's attempt to drive out the Conspiracy's informant is halted as her cancer takes a bad turn.
Director:  Kim Manners  / R.W. Goodwin  Writer:  Chris Carter 
Guest starring:  Steve Makaj, Ken Camroux, Barry W. Levy, Julia Arkos
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    10/05/1998  2.  Redux II (3)
The Cigarette-Smoking Man helps Mulder to obtain Scully's cure and also lets him see his real sister who doesn't turn out to be as happy to see Mulder as he would've liked. In return for this, the Cigarette-Smoking Man asks that Mulder quit the FBI and work for him in the Syndicate where he could have power and respect which Mulder turns down, deciding to stay on the side of justice. While Scully's cure appears to have worked, the Cigarette-Smoking Man faces his own enemies and disappears, presumed dead.
Director:  Kim Manners  Writer:  Chris Carter 
Guest starring:  Robert Wright, Ken Camroux, Arnie Walters, Brent Sheppard, Willy Ross, Erin Fitzgerald, Catherine Barroll,  Pat Skipper, Megan Leitch
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    19/04/1998  3.  Unusual Suspects
Set in 1989, the story of the founding of The Lone Gunmen is finally told as we see how a straight-laced federal employee, a sex mad AV expert, and a nerdy computer hacker meet Susanne Modeski, a strange woman with evidence of a government conspiracy. When their plan to expose the conspiracy fails and Susanne is captured by a group of men-in-black, led by none other than X, they soon become a paranoid group of government watchdogs.
Director:  Kim Manners  Writer:  Vince Gilligan 
Guest starring:  Richard Belzer, Signy Coleman, Chris Nelson Norris, Glenn Williams, Stuart O'Connell, Ken Hawryliw
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    12/05/1998  4.  Detour
While on their way to an FBI group communication seminar, Mulder and Scully manage to escape when they come across a situation in the Florida forest area where three men have recently disappeared.
Director:  Brett Dowler  Writer:  Frank Spotnitz 
Guest starring:  Colleen Flynn,  Anthony Rapp, Scott Burkholder, J.C. Wendel, Tyler Thompson, Merrilyn Gann, Alfred E. Humphreys, Tom Scholte, Simon Longmore
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    12/05/1998  5.  The Post-Modern Prometheus
Filmed in glorious black and white with a comic book feel to it, this is a modern retelling of Frankenstein as Mulder and Scully get caught up in a town where the residents live on Jerry Springer episodes and fear a two-faced monster who has been impregnating the women.
Director:  Chris Carter  Writer:  Chris Carter 
Guest starring:  John O'Hurley, Pattie Tierce, Stewart Gale, Chris Giacoletti, Chris Owens, Miriam Smith, Vitaliy Kravchenko, Jerry Springer, Lloyd Berry, Xantha Radley, Jean-Yves Hammel, Jonathan Palis, Dana Grahame, C. Ernst Harth, Andrew Laurenson
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    07/12/1997  6.  Christmas Carol (1)
On her Christmas vacation with her brother's family, Scully receives a mysterious phone call from a familiar voice who says, "She needs your help. Go to her." The phone call leads Scully to a murder case where the victim's 3-year-old adopted daughter bears an uncanny likeness to her sister, Melissa, at that age. The emotional roller coaster that follows has Scully believing that her sister had a baby during a period when she traveled the country and she tries to adopt the child, knowing that caring for the little girl would change her life.
Director:  Peter Markle  Writer:  Frank Spotnitz  / Vince Gilligan 
Guest starring:  Mecca Menard, Melinda McGraw,  Pat Skipper, Karri Turner,  John Pyper-FergusonGerard Plunkett, Lauren Diewold, Patricia Dahlquist, Rob Freeman,  Eric Breker, Stephen Mendel, Walter Marsh, Rebecca Codling, Joey Shea, Ryan de Boer
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    14/12/1997  7.  Emily (2)
DNA testing on Emily reveals that she is actually Scully's daughter and Mulder comes to assist her and to find out where and how the girl was born while Scully tries to help Emily with her own serious illness, a rare form of anemia.
Director:  Kim Manners  Writer:  Frank Spotnitz  / Vince Gilligan 
Guest starring:  David Abbott, Sheila Paterson,  Eric Breker, Stephen Mendel, Tanya Huse,  John Pyper-FergusonPat Skipper, Karri Turner, Bob Morrisey,  Gerard Plunkett, Patricia Dahlquist, Lauren Diewold
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    04/01/1998  8.  Kitsunegari
Pusher returns as Robert Patrick Modell escapes from the mental hospital and the FBI promptly organizes a manhunt, assuming that he will continue where he left off. But is he really trying to get revenge on Mulder, or does he want to warn him of another evil?
Director:  Daniel Sackheim  Writer:  Vince Gilligan  / Tim Minear 
Guest starring:  Scott Oughterson,  Ty Olsson, Kurt Evans, Donna Yamamoto, Stuart O'Connell, Richard Leacock, Michael Dobson, Michelle Hart, Steven Jones, Clare Lipinskie, Gail Anderson, John Dadey, Jill Krop, Mark Holden,  Diana Scarwid
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    11/01/1998  9.  Schizogeny
A therapist working with children from abusive families is found to be implanting them with the memories of her own abuse suffered at the hands of her late father, when one of her patients tries to kill his stepfather.
Director:  Ralph Hemeckler  Writer:  Jessica Scott  / Mike Wollaeger 
Guest starring:  Chad Lindberg, Sarah Jane Redmond,  Katharine Isabelle, Cynde Harmon, George Josef, Myles Ferguson, Bob Dawson, Laurie Murdoch, Kate Robbins, Gardiner Miller, Christine Anton
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    08/02/1998  10.  Chinga
Master of Horror Stephen King's first effort at an X-File sees Scully's well deserved vacation going terribly wrong and landing her in a small Maine town where one of the residents is believed to be a witch, and her autistic daughter's doll has frighteningly evil powers.
Director:  Kim Manners  Writer:  Chris Carter  / Steven King 
Guest starring:  Susannah Hoffman,  Larry Musser, William MacDonald, Dean Wray, Gordon Tipple, Harrison Coe, Ian Robison, Elizabeth McCarthy, Tracey Lively, Sean Benbow, Jenny-Lynn Hutcheson, Henry Beckman, Carolyn Tweedle
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    15/02/1998  11.  Kill Switch
A super-intelligent virus program is let loose on the internet and begins to grow and expand by itself, eventually killing its creator when he tries to eradicate it.
Director:  Rob Bowman  Writer:  William Gibson  / Tom Maddox 
Guest starring:  Kristin Lehman, Kate Luyben, Patrick Keating, Rob Daprocida, Jerry Schram, Steve Griffith, Dan Weber,  Peter Williams
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    22/02/1998  12.  Bad Blood
After Mulder chases down and kills a young man who he believes to be a vampire, the agents return to DC aware of the mistake they just made. Faced with a lawsuit from the family of the man, they recount each of their sides to the story leading up to the event. In the extremely humorous stories that follow we see how Scully and Mulder both perceive each other.
Director:  Clifford Bole  Writer:  Vince Gilligan 
Guest starring:  Forbes Angus, Brent Butt,  Luke Wilson, Patrick Renna, Arlene Pileggi
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    01/03/1998  13.  Patient X (1)
Mulder and Scully meet Cassandra Spender, a woman who claims to be a multiple abductee and wants to deliver a positive message about the aliens. Mulder's new found disbelief in extraterrestrial activity is enhanced while Scully forms a special bond with the woman. A series of group attacks against abductees take place and the shadowy Syndicate believes that a rebel alien resistance is attempting to destroy all their work.
Director:  Kim Manners  Writer:  Chris Carter  / Frank Spotnitz 
Guest starring:  Brian ThompsonVeronica Cartwright, Alex Shostak Jr, Ron Halder, Kurt Max Bunte, John Moore, Raoul Ganeev, Max Wyman, Barbara Dyke, Bruno Verdoni, Andrew Star, Anatol Rezmeritsa, Oleg Feoktistov, Willy Ross, Allen Franz
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    08/03/1998  14.  The Red and the Black (2)
After the gathering at the abduction site where everyone is killed by the rebel bounty hunters, Cassandra Spender disappears and Mulder is blamed by her son, Jeffrey, who is an up-and-coming FBI agent. Meanwhile, the Syndicate is continuing their tests to create a vaccine for the Black Cancer and Marita Covarrubias becomes an unwilling test subject.
Director:  Chris Carter  Writer:  Chris Carter  / Frank Spotnitz 
Guest starring:  Brian Thompson, John Moore, Chapelle Jaffe, Michal Suchanek, Klodyne Rodney, Jenn Forgie, Derek Thomas Versteeg, Jack Finn, Willy Ross,  Veronica Cartwright, Jim Jansen, Alex Shostak Jr
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    29/03/1998  15.  Travelers
In 1990 Agent Fox Mulder visits an aging FBI Agent named Arthur Dales. He listens to a story of the agents assigned to a would-be X-File in the Cold War era of the 1950's and how Mulder's father was connected to a series of strange deaths.
Director:  William Graham  Writer:  Frank Spotnitz  / John Shiban 
Guest starring:  Fredric LehneGarret DillahuntBrian LecknerDavid Moreland, Eileen Pedde, Dean Aylesworth, David Fredericks, Mitchell Kosterman, Roger Haskett, Jane Perry, J. Douglas Stewart, Cory Dagg, Eric W. Gilder, Darren McGavin
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    19/04/1998  16.  Mind's Eye
Mulder and Scully try to get answers out of a stubborn blind woman found at a murder scene who may have the ability to look through the killer's eyes in her mind.
Director:  Kim Manners  Writer:  Tim Minear 
Guest starring:  Blu Mankuma, Richard Fitzpatrick,  Henri LubattiPeter Kelamis, Jason Diablo, Veronica Stocker, Dallas Blake, Joe Pascual, Laurie Brunetti, Rick Dobran, Ralph Alderman, Colin Lawrence, Henry O. Watson,  Lili Taylor
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    26/04/1998  17.  All Souls
Scully faces her Catholic faith and the loss of her daughter Emily when she is asked to help a family whose adopted daughter was found dead in a position that looked like she was struck down by God himself.
Director:  Rob Bowman  /  Allen Coulter  Writer:  Frank Spotnitz  / John Shiban 
Guest starring:  Arnie Walters,  Glenn MorshowerJody Racicot, Emily Perkins, Lauren Diewold,  Eric Keenleyside, Patti Allan, Lorraine Landry, Tracy Elofson, Bob Wilde, Tim O'Halloran, Joseph Patrick Finn
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    03/05/1998  18.  The Pine Bluff Variant
Scully fears that Mulder has gone to the other side when she sees him assisting a federal suspect escape custody. In truth he has infiltrated a terrorist group testing a deadly biological weapon that can eat through a person's flesh.
Director:  Rob Bowman  Writer:  Frank Spotnitz  / John Shiban 
Guest starring:  J. B. Bivens, Douglas Arthurs, John B. Lowe, Ralph Alderman, Dean McKenzie, Kate Braidwood, Armin Moattar,  Daniel von Bargen, Michael McRae, Sam Anderson
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    10/05/1998  19.  Folie à Deux
Mulder is held hostage inside an office where a man claims his boss is a monster and has clouded all their minds while he turns them into zombies one by one, which is disbelieved until Mulder opens his mind and allows himself to see it too.
Director:  Rob Bowman  /  Kim Manners  Writer:  Vince Gilligan 
Guest starring:  Roger R. Cross, Leslie Jones,  Dmitry Chepovetsky, Brenda McDonald, Robert Luft, Tim Bissett, Norma Wick, Grant Gladish,  Steve Bacic, Nancy Kerr, Owen Walstrom,  Brian Markinson, John Apicella,  Cynthia Preston
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    17/05/1998  20.  The End
The Cigarette-Smoking Man returns as Mulder investigates the attempted assassination of a young boy with psychic powers who may be the proof that he has looked for all his life.
Director:  R.W. Goodwin  Writer:  Chris Carter 
Guest starring:  Martin Ferrero, Michael Shamus Wiles, John Moore, Patrick Phillips, Paul Moniz de Sa, John Trottier, Orest Blajkevitch, Erika Krievins, Sabrina Krievins
Edition Details
Edition The Complete Fifth Season
Series X-Files, The
Release Date 14/05/2002
Packaging Custom Case
Screen Ratio 1.78:1
Subtitles English; Spanish
Audio Tracks French Dolby Surround 4.0
English Dolby Surround 4.0
Layers Single Side, Dual Layer
No. of Discs/Tapes 6
Personal Details
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Features
Disc 01 » Audio commentary from creator Chris Carter and John Shiban on certain episodes» 'The Truth About Season 5' featurette (46 mins)» Special effects clips with audio commentary» Deleted scenes with optional audio commentary from creator Chris Carter with 'White Rabbit' branching option» 'Behind The Truth' TV spots» Promotional TV spots» International clips» Alternative audio tracks» 'Inside The X-Files' documentary