The X-Files: Season 4
20th Century Fox (1996)
TV Series  /  Action, Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller, TV Classics
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17 hr 45 mins USA / English
DVD  Region 1   NR (Not Rated)
David Duchovny Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson Dana Scully
William B. Davis Cigarette Smoking Man
Annabeth Gish Monica Reyes
Robert Patrick John Doggett
Mitch Pileggi Walter Skinner
William B. Davis Smoking Man
Laurie Holden Marita Covarrubias
Brendan Beiser Agent Pendrell
Rubén Blades Conrad Lozano
Vanessa Morley Young Samantha Mulder
Rebecca Toolan Teena Mulder
Tom Braidwood Melvin Frohike
Morris Panych Gray Haired Man
Pruitt Taylor Vince Gerry Schnauz
Mike Kopsa Rick Culver
Chris Owens Young Smoking Man
Nicholas Lea Alex Krycek
Director
Rob Bowman
Chris Carter
Cliff Bole
Producer Rob Bowman
Chris Carter
Writer Chris Carter
Frank Spotnitz
Cinematography Joel Ransom
Jon Joffin
Musician Mark Snow


This long running FOX drama lasted nine seasons and focused on the exploits of FBI Agents Fox Mulder, Dana Scully, John Doggett and Monica Reyes and their investigations into the paranormal. From genetic mutants and killer insects to a global conspiracy concerning the colonization of Earth by an alien species, this mind-boggling, humorous and occasionally frightening series created by Chris Carter has been one of the world's most popular sci-fi/drama shows since its humble beginnings in 1993.
Episodes
Disc 01
 1 hr 0 mins    4/3/1997  1.  Herrenvolk (2)
The continuing search for Jeremiah Smith leads Scully to uncover encrypted data files whose purpose is not yet known. Being closely hunted by an unknown assassin, Jeremiah leads Mulder to a secluded farm in rural Canada while men in suits determine Mrs. Mulder's fate.
Director:  R.W. Goodwin  Writer:  Chris Carter 
Guest starring:  Brian Thompson, Garvin Cross,  Ken CamrouxVanessa Morley, Roy Thinnes, Casey Murphy, Sean Murphy
 1 hr 0 mins    4/6/1997  2.  Home
The remains of an infant suffering from an uncharted amount of birth disabilities are uncovered in a field in rural Home, Pennsylvania. The only suspicious residents are three brothers who have lived on their family farm for twenty-some years. They live there alone. Or do they?
Director:  Kim Manners  Writer:  James Wong  / Glen Morgan 
Guest starring:  Tucker Smallwood, Sebastian Spence, Chris Norris, John Trottier,  Karin Konoval, Judith Maxie, Kenny James,  Lachlan Murdoch, Neil Denis, Cory Frye, Douglas Smith, Adrian Hughes
 1 hr 0 mins    4/13/1997  3.  Teliko
Several African American men in Philadelphia, PA have gone missing, and one of them turned up dead under mysterious circumstances. All pigment in his skin was lost, and the cause of death may have a connection to an ancient African tribal monster who stalks the night for its prey.
Director:  Jim Charleston  Writer:  Howard Gordon 
Guest starring:  Maxine Guess, Michael O'Shea, Don Stewart, Geoffrey Aye-Bonte, Dexter Bell,  Carl Lumbly, Willie Amakye,  Zakes Mokae, Bob Morrisey
 1 hr 0 mins    4/6/1997  4.  Unruhe
An intended passport photo for a missing woman develops warped and twisted, showing her terrified and surrounded by beings. With a little investigation, Mulder develops a theory that the kidnapper of this woman has the power to psychically display his thoughts on film.
Director:  Rob Bowman  Writer:  Vince Gilligan 
Guest starring:  Pruitt Taylor Vince, William MacDonald, Walter Marsh,  Sharon Alexander, Ron Chartier, Michael Cram, Christopher Royal, Michele Melland,  Scott Heindl, Angela Donahue
Disc 02
 1 hr 0 mins    4/13/1997  5.  The Field Where I Died
Agents Mulder and Scully investigate a suspicious religious cult, which inadvertently draws Mulder into recalling a past life, in the field where he died.
Director:  Rob Bowman  Writer:  James Wong  / Glen Morgan 
Guest starring:  Donna White,  Doug Abrahams, Anthony Harrison,  Michael Dobson, Les Gallagher, Douglas Roy Dack, Kristen Cloke,  Michael Massee
 1 hr 0 mins    4/20/1997  6.  Sanguinarium
The bizarre, perhaps ritualistic death inside Greenwood Memorial Hospital's Aesthetic Surgery Unit is cause for alarm. Though head practitioners are at first unwilling to help Mulder and Scully with their investigation, several more 'possession killings' force them to.
Director:  Kim Manners  Writer:  Valerie Mayhew  / Vivian Mayhew 
Guest starring:  O-Lan Jones,  Richard Beymer, Arlene Mazerolle, Gregory Thirloway, John Juliani, Martin Evans, Paul Raskin,  Andrew Airlie, Marie Stillin, Norman Armour, Nancy J. Lilley, Celine Lockhart,  Nina Roman
 1 hr 0 mins    4/27/1997  7.  Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man
Mulder and Scully are called to meet with The Lone Gunmen. It is there that Frohike reveals an uncovered history of the infamous Cigarette-Smoking Man. The story told involves his desperate attempts to live a worthy life while continuing to conceal and change American history.
Director:  James Wong  Writer:  Glen Morgan 
Guest starring:  Paul Jarrett, Dan Zukovic, Peter Hanlon, Dean Aylesworth, David Fredericks, Laurie Murdoch, Michael St. John Smith, Marc Baur, Jude Zachary, Gonzalo Canton, Steve Oatway,  Colin Lawrence, Anthony Ashbee, Pete Mele, Morgan Weisser
 1 hr 0 mins    5/30/1997  8.  Tunguska (1)
When a man carrying a sample of the mythical black oil into the US is detained and the sample is released, the hierarchy involved in its concealment must act. Led by a revived and vengeful Krycek, Mulder and Scully seek to find its origin, its purpose, and perhaps its cure.
Director:  Rob Bowman  Writer:  Chris Carter  /  Frank Spotnitz 
Guest starring:  Malcolm Stewart, David Bloom, Campbell Lane, Stefan Arngrim,  Brent StaitFritz Weaver
Disc 03
 1 hr 0 mins    5/30/1997  9.  Terma (2)
Called upon to disclose Agent Mulder's current whereabouts, Scully must stall the hearings until further understanding of the mysterious "black cancer" is revealed. Mulder, in the mean time, must escape a Russian prison camp, or be subjected to the "testing" until he dies.
Director:  Rob Bowman  Writer:  Chris Carter  /  Frank Spotnitz 
Guest starring:  Jessica Schreier,  Brent Stait, Malcolm Stewart, Campbell Lane, Robin Mossley, Brenda McDonald, Pamela MacDonald, Eileen Pedde, Stefan Arngrim, Jan Rubeš,  Fritz Weaver
 1 hr 0 mins    4/27/1997  10.  Paper Hearts
A recurring dream of Mulder's leads him to discover the 14th victim of a serial killer whom he caught years before as a detective. The murderer takes heart-shaped fabric from each of his young girl victims' clothing, and insists Mulder go on a goose-hunt to find the final two missing girls - one of which may be his sister.
Director:  Rob Bowman  Writer:  Vince Gilligan 
Guest starring:  Vanessa Morley, Byrne Piven, Jane Perry, Edward Diaz, Paul Bittante, Carly McKillip,  Tom Noonan, Jenny-Lynn Hutcheson
 1 hr 0 mins    5/4/1997  11.  El Mundo Gira
White flashes of lightning followed by yellow rain in southern California north of the border give new life to an old Mexican folk-tale of El Chupacabra, a gray-skinned being whose victims decompose fast. Are the stories true, or is there simply a new viral pathogen in the world?
Director:  Tucker Gates  Writer:  John Shiban 
Guest starring:  Pamela Diaz, Susan Bain, Robert Thurston, Michael Kopsa, Markus Hondro, Janeth Munoz, Fabricio Santin, Jose Vargus, Tony Dean Smith,  Rubén BladesRaymond Cruz, Jose Yenque, Simi, Lillian Hurst
 1 hr 0 mins    5/25/1997  12.  Leonard Betts
After an ambulance accident leaves Pittsburgh, PA's EMT of the Year Leonard Betts without a head, and what's left of his body seems to walk right out of the morgue, Mulder and Scully investigate. They find what may be evidence of evolution from man to something... cancerous.
Director:  Kim Manners  Writer:  Frank Spotnitz  /  Vince Gilligan 
Guest starring:  Paul McCrane, Jennifer Clement, Marjorie Lovett,  Sean Campbell, David Hurtubise, Peter Bryant,  Laara Sadiq, J. Douglas Stewart, Lucia Walters, Ken Jones, Greg Newmeyer, Don Ackerman,  Brad Loree
Disc 04
 1 hr 0 mins    5/18/1997  13.  Never Again
Agent Mulder has taken a week-long vacation and it's up to Scully to track several Russian war veterans in Philadelphia, PA. She arrives, upset and disturbed, but soon is distracted by a single man with a tattoo. The tattoo, unfortunately, has a cynical mind that is eager to kill.
Director:  Rob Bowman  Writer:  James Wong  / Glen Morgan 
Guest starring:  Rodney Rowland,  Jodie FosterBill Croft, Jay Donohue, B.J. Harrison, Jillian Fargey, Jan Bailey Mattia, Igor Morozof, Ian Robison
 1 hr 0 mins    6/1/1997  14.  Memento Mori
The horrible truth behind Scully's illness is revealed: she has cancer and may die. Such has been the fate of a dozen other women who, last year, introduced themselves as abductees and made claims of being with Dana on an alien space ship. Mulder must find a cure, and fast.
Director:  Rob Bowman  Writer:  Chris Carter  /  Frank Spotnitz 
Guest starring:  Sean Allen, Julie Bond, David Lovgren,  Gillian Barber, Casey Murphy
 1 hr 0 mins    5/11/1997  15.  Kaddish
Three teenage murder suspects involved in the death of a Jewish store clerk in Brooklyn, New York, are in danger, for it seems that the murder victim himself is vengefully claiming their lives. Mulder and Scully work to solve the case, but their suspect may not be alive enough for them to take in, or stop.
Director:  Kim Manners  Writer:  Howard Gordon 
Guest starring:  Justine Miceli, David Groh, Harrison Coe, Jabin Litwiniec, David Wohl,  Jonathan Whittaker, Timur Karabilgin, George Gordon, Murrey Rabinovitch, David Freeman, Channon Roe
 1 hr 0 mins    1/11/1998  16.  Unrequited
The execution of an honored military general by a seemingly invisible assailant receives the attention of Assistant Director Skinner and a special task force including Mulder and Scully. The feds have less than twelve hours to find the mysterious man before more generals are killed.
Director:  Michael Lange  Writer:  Chris Carter  / Howard Gordon 
Guest starring:  Larry Musser,  Lesley Ewen, Ryan Michael, Allan Franz, Jennifer Jasey, Mark Holden, Don McWilliams, Peter LaCroix, Scott Hylands, William Taylor, William Nunn
Disc 05
 1 hr 0 mins    11/3/1997  17.  Tempus Fugit (1)
Mulder and Scully investigate a plane crash in New York state. The crash appears to be UFO caused because one of the passengers was Max Fennig, an alien abductee, who Mulder and Scully know from a previous encounter. The agents work against the military which attempts to cover up what really happened to that flight.
Director:  Rob Bowman  Writer:  Chris Carter  /  Frank Spotnitz 
Guest starring:  Joe SpanoTom O'BrienScott Bellis, Chilton Crane, Greg Michaels, Robert Moloney, Felicia Shulman, Rick Dobran, Jerry Schram,  David Palffy, Mark Wilson, Marek Wiedman, Maria Luisa Cianni
 1 hr 0 mins    11/3/1997  18.  Max (2)
The investigation continues for agents Mulder and Scully of the apparent downing of Flight 549 by a UFO. They encounter deadly opposition from the military which continues to cover up the truth of incident.
Director:  Kim Manners  Writer:  Chris Carter  /  Frank Spotnitz 
Guest starring:  Greg Michaels, John Destry, Rick Dobran, Jerry Schram,  David Palffy, Mark Wilson,  Joe SpanoTom O'BrienScott Bellis, Chilton Crane
 1 hr 0 mins    11/3/1997  19.  Synchrony
A mysterious old man is killing scientists working on the development of a cryobiologic compound. He freezes them to death with this same compound that doesn't even exist yet.
Director:  Jim Charleston  Writer:  David Greenwalt  / Howard Gordon 
Guest starring:  Joseph Fuqua, Susan Lee Hoffman, Michael Fairman,  Jed ReesHiro Kanagawa, Jonathan Walker, Alison Matthews, Norman Armour, Patricia Idlette, Brent Chapman, Terry Arrowsmith, Aurelio Dinunzio, Austin Basile
 1 hr 0 mins    1/18/1998  20.  Small Potatoes
Five unrelated women in a small town give birth to babies with small tails. The prime suspect is a man who can shape shift into whomever he wants.
Director:  Clifford Bole  Writer:  Vince Gilligan 
Guest starring:  Robert Rozen,  Paul McGillion, Jennifer Sterling, David Cameron,  Forbes AngusPeter Kelamis, P. Lynn Johnson, Carrie Cain Sparks, Darin Morgan,  Christine CavanaughLee de Broux
Disc 06
 1 hr 0 mins    2/1/1998  21.  Zero Sum
A swarm of bees mysteriously kill a postal worker in an enclosed restroom. Assistant Director Skinner covers up the evidence. Mulder investigates Skinner's apparent involvement with the crime.
Director:  Kim Manners  Writer:  Frank Spotnitz  / Howard Gordon 
Guest starring:  Lisa Stewart, Nicolle Nattrass, Fred Keating, Addison Ridge, Barry Greene, Paul McLean, Allan Gray, Christopher J. Newton, Sterling McKay
 1 hr 0 mins    2/8/1998  22.  Elegy
Several women are killed in the same manner within blocks of each other. One of the dead women's ghost is seen by the proprietor of a bowling alley attempting to communicate. The cryptic message "She is me" is found where the apparition appeared. It's also apparently the dying woman's final words.
Director:  Jim Charleston  Writer:  John Shiban 
Guest starring:  Stephen M. Porter, Alex Bruhanski,  Sydney LassickNancy Fish, Daniel Kamin,  Lorena Gale, Michael Puttonen,  Christine Willes, Ken Tremblett, Gerry Nairn
 1 hr 0 mins    2/15/1998  23.  Demons
Mulder wakes up in a strange motel room with blood on his shirt and not knowing how he arrived there. A double murder has been committed with Mulder's gun. Mulder and Scully attempt to clear Mulder's name while finding out what is causing Mulder's memory lapses and blackouts.
Director:  Kim Manners  Writer:  R.W. Goodwin 
Guest starring:  Jay AcovoneMike NussbaumChris OwensVanessa Morley, Andrew Johnston, Terry Jang Barclay,  Eric Breker, Rebecca Harker, Shelly Adam, Dean Aylesworth, Alex Haythorne
 1 hr 0 mins    4/26/1998  24.  Gethsemane (1)
Mulder is given an opportunity to obtain irrefutable proof of the existence of extra-terrestrial beings. At the same time, Scully deals with her cancer. Michael Kritschgau, a Department of Defense employee, later gives Mulder information that turns Mulder's beliefs about extra-terrestrial life upside down.
Director:  R.W. Goodwin  Writer:  Chris Carter 
Guest starring:  Matthew Walker, James Sutorius,  Pat Skipper, John Oliver, Steve Makaj, Nancy Kerr, Barry W. Levy, Arnie Walters,  Rob Freeman, Craig Brunanski
Edition Details
Edition Season 4
Series X-Files
Distributor 20th Century Fox
Release Date 3/28/2006
Packaging Custom Case
Screen Ratio Fullscreen (4:3)
Subtitles English; English (Closed Captioned); Spanish
Audio Tracks Dolby Digital Stereo [French]
Dolby Digital Surround [English]
Layers Single Side, Dual Layer
No. of Discs/Tapes 6

Features
Disc 01 "The Truth About Season Four" Documentary 8 Special Effects Clips with Commentary by Producer Paul Rabwin 9 Deleted Scenes with Optional Commentary by Chris Carter Episode Commentary from "Memento Mori" by Writer/Producer Frank Spotnitz Episode Commentary from "Small Potatoes" with Writer/Producer Vince Gilligan 13 "Behind-The-Truth" Spots From F/X 48 Promotional Television Spots All New DVD-ROM Game "Urbs Tertia"
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