Special Agent Dana Scully                                        Special Agent Fox Mulder

In its first season, THE X-FILES established itself
as a cult hit. In its second season, its ratings grew
faster than any other series on television and it won
the Golden Globe and was nominated for an Emmy
Award for Best Television Drama. During its third
season, it was the No. 3 ranked drama on television (A18-49) and
moved to No. 2 in its fourth, in addition to picking up another Golden
Globe Award for Best Drama. Now the phenomenon enters its fifth
season with 12 Emmy nominations (including Best Drama, Best Actor
and Best Actress) and production of the first feature film complete.

The show chronicles the work of two FBI agents who investigate
the bureau's "X-Files," unsolved cases which involve paranormal or
unexplained phenomena. Agent Mulder (David Duchovny) believes
"the truth is out there," and works with his scientifically trained
partner, Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson), to find it. Scully, a medical
doctor, was initially assigned to work with Mulder to debunk his
outlandish theories. But as their partnership has progressed, even
Scully has had a hard time explaining some of the
bizarre happenings they have encountered in their
investigations. Working above them is Assistant
Director Skinner (Mitch Pileggi), who walks a line
between loyalty to Mulder and Scully's work and
accountability to the larger forces in the government who seek to
control it.

The two were at first an unlikely pair. Mulder is a
former FBI fast-tracker whose preoccupation with
things paranormal stalled his meteoric rise through
the agency. Scully, on the other hand, as a medical
doctor, trained to draw conclusions based on fact.
Still, as their professional relationship progresses, even the skeptical
doctor has had more than one experience that defies scientific
explanation.

As the pair works to solve these unexplained cases, Mulder's strong
belief in the forces of the unknown continues to challenge Scully's
rational mind. Their relationship grows more complex with each
case and slowly emerges as a heady mix of professional
competitiveness, witty repartee and a personal intimacy due to the
intensity of their job and the close proximity in which they work.

Among the cases the pair has investigated are a violent, unseen
force surrounding a young girl that kills those who threaten her; a
series of bizarre deaths thought to be the work of a
genetically-mutated serial killer who emerges every 30 years from
hibernation to eat five human livers; the mysterious demise of a
research team drilling for prehistoric ice core samples at an Arctic
research facility; and an unorthodox government research project in
which human subjects are injected with alien DNA.

The show returns this season to continue chronicling
the lives of the two disparate FBI agents. "The truth
is out there," declares the show's main title, and this
season, Agents Mulder and Scully will again work to
uncover that which is true.

THE X-FILES has long been one of the most talked-about television
series on the Internet. Now the show has its own official site on the
World Wide Web, located at http://www.foxworld.com. The show's
fans, who call themselves "X-philes," can log onto the site to keep
current with each new episode.

Chris Carter is the creator and executive producer
of THE X-FILES, which is produced by Twentieth

Television in association with Fox Broadcasting

Company. Robert Goodwin also serves as an
executive producer; J.P. Finn, Kim Manners, Vince
Gilligan and Paul Rabwin, producers and Lori Jo Nemhauser and
John Shiban, co-producers.