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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''The X-Files'' (Season 9)}}
{{Infobox season
|name = ''{{preview|show|txf}}'' Season 9
|image = TXFS9DVD.jpg
|episodes = 20
|premiere = "{{preview|episode|nothingimportant}}"
|finale = "[[The Truth]]"
|home video = [[TXF Season 9 DVD]]
|airdate = November 11, 2001 – May 19, 2002
|previous={{preview|season|txf Season 8}}
|next=''[[The X-Files: I Want to Believe|I Want to Believe]]''<br />{{preview|season|txf Season 10}}
|rt={{season rating|rts9|rt1=22|rt2=55|season=s09}}
|meta={{season rating|metacritic|m1=??|m2=6.9}}
}}
The '''ninth season''' of ''{{preview|show|txf}}'' in the original run commenced on {{preview|other|FOX network}} airing in the United States on November 11, 2001 before concluding on May 19, 2002. The storyline for season nine focused on a government conspiracy resulting in the creation of [[Super-soldier|super soldiers]].

{{preview|actor|Mitch Pileggi}} is promoted to regular cast member, having been recurring in the role as {{preview|character|Walter Skinner}} since near the end of {{preview|season|txf season 7}}. [[Annabeth Gish]] is promoted to regular as {{preview|character|Monica Reyes}}, having appeared in a recurring role in the previous season.

This season features the absence of {{preview|actor|David Duchovny}} as {{preview|character|Fox Mulder}}, although he reprised the role for the two-part season finale ''{{preview|episode|thetruth}}''.

Although this ended up becoming the last season of the original run, it was originally intended for it to carry on but with {{preview|character|John Doggett}} and Reyes as the main characters replacing Mulder and Scully.

But ''The X-Files'' franchise wouldn't return until 2008 with the second feature-length film ''{{preview|episode|iwanttobelieve}}'', which eight-years later would be followed by a {{preview|season|txf tenth season}} - 14 years since the show last broadcast on television.

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==Episodes==
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! style="background-color:#008080;" |No.
! style="background-color:#008080;" |Episode Name / Summary
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|[[Image:Shannon McMahon hides in water.jpg|150px]] || 9ABX01
|'''"[[Nothing Important Happened Today]]"‡'''
Although Scully has returned to her teaching position at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Agent Doggett asks for her help as he investigates the death of an EPA official who died after his car was forced off a bridge by a woman he picked up.(Part 1 of 2)
|-
|[[Image:Monica Reyes aboard USS Valor Victory.jpg|150px]] || 9ABX02
|'''"[[Nothing Important Happened Today II]]"‡'''
Scully, Doggett and Reyes are led to a ship where they find evidence of experimentation on human embryos.(Part 2 of 2 )
|-
|[[Image:Josef Kobold is visited by John Doggett and Monica Reyes.jpg|150px]] || 9ABX03
| '''"[[Dæmonicus]]"'''
Scully helps Reyes and Doggett investigate a series of bizarre killings that seem to be due to demonic possession but which Doggett believes is a hoax.
|-
|[[Image:John Doggett with Lightwriter.jpg|150px]] || 9ABX04
|'''"[[4-D]]"'''
When Doggett is shot and hospitalized with severe injuries, all evidence points to Reyes as his attacker.
|-
|[[Image:Dylan Lokensgard covered in flies.jpg|150px]] || 9ABX05
| '''"[[Lord of the Flies]]"'''
When an amateur stunt performer is killed while performing a daring act for a local cable reality show, Scully, Doggett and Reyes discover that the culprit was apparently a swarm of killer flies hidden in the victim's brain.
|-
|[[Image:Dana Scully awaits Fox Mulder.jpg|150px]] || 9ABX06
|'''"[[Trust No 1]]"‡'''
Scully tries to arrange Mulder's return but learns that the forces against them are unrelenting.
|-
|[[Image:John Doggett imprisoned and confused.jpg|150px]] || 9ABX07
|'''"[[John Doe]]"'''
Reyes and Scully struggle to locate Doggett after he wakes up in Mexico with no memory of who he is or how he got there.
|-
|[[Image:Lisa Holland skinned alive.jpg|150px]] || 9ABX08
|'''"[[Hellbound]]"'''
Reyes discovers she is somehow connected to a series of murders in which each victim is skinned alive.
|-
|[[Image:Reyes with item.jpg|150px]] || 9ABX09
|'''"[[Provenance]]"‡'''
Scully, Doggett and Reyes find evidence of a dangerous UFO cult which has found a second spacecraft similar to one Scully studied in Africa two years ago. Misled by the FBI, the agents enlist the help of the Lone Gunmen to protect Scully's son after they learn that the UFO cult apparently intends to kill the child. (Part 1 of 2)
|-
|[[Image:UFO and Josepho.jpg|150px]] || 9ABX10
|'''"[[Providence]]"‡'''
As Doggett recovers from injuries in hospital, Reyes and the Lone Gunmen help Scully in an effort to recover her baby. (Part 2 of 2)
|-
|[[File:Audrey Pauley with hospitalized Monica Reyes.jpg|150px]] || 9ABX11
|'''"[[Audrey Pauley (episode)|Audrey Pauley]]"'''
After Reyes is involved in a serious car accident and subsequently hospitalised, Doggett meets a woman who works at the hospital who claims that she can contact his seemingly deceased partner.
|-
|[[File:John Doggett is taken hostage by Robert Fassl.jpg|150px]] || 9ABX12
|'''"[[Underneath]]"'''
Doggett struggles to accept new evidence which seems to suggest that a man he arrested as a killer thirteen years ago was actually innocent.
|-
|[[Image:Mr. Burt dances as Dana Scully and Monica Reyes play checkers.jpg|150px]] || 9ABX13
|'''"[[Improbable]]"'''
While investigating a serial killer who uses numerology to choose his victims, Reyes and Scully meet an unusual man who may prove more of a hindrance than a help.
|-
|[[Image:Tommy Conlon draws Leyla Harrison with bloodied eyes.jpg|150px]] || 9ABX14
|'''"[[Scary Monsters]]"'''
Leyla Harrison, an FBI agent with a passion for the X-Files that Mulder and Scully investigated, alerts Scully, Doggett and Reyes to a case she believes is an X-File involving a young boy with an overactive imagination.
|-
|[[Image:The Lone Gunmen with John Doggett, Monica Reyes and Morris Fletcher.jpg|150px]] || 9ABX15
|'''"[[Jump the Shark]]"'''
When former Area 51 Man-in-Black Morris Fletcher appears, claiming that a female friend of the Lone Gunmen is actually a super-soldier, Doggett and Reyes attempt to locate her but find that the situation is graver than they first expected.
|-
|[[Image:Baby William with Jeffrey Spender.jpg|150px]] || 9ABX16
|'''"[[William (episode)|William]]"‡'''
Scully, Doggett and Reyes find a disfigured man whose DNA results say that he is Mulder, but other details is completely different. They soon learn he is actually Jeffrey Spender, returning from a bunch of tests on him.
|-
|[[Image:Rudolph Hayes thinks.jpg|150px]] || 9ABX17
|'''"[[Release]]"'''
A particularly adept student from Scully's class at the FBI Academy helps to finally solve the murder of Agent Doggett's seven-year-old son.
|-
|[[Image:Oliver Martin with investigators.jpg|150px]] || 9ABX18
|'''"[[Sunshine Days]]"'''
Scully, Doggett and Reyes find a man who seems obsessed with ''The Brady Bunch'' and has extraordinary mental powers.
|-
|[[Image:Fox Mulder on trial.jpg|150px]] || 9ABX19
9ABX20
|'''"[[The Truth]]"‡'''
Mulder is discovered looking for classified information at an army base and, after allegedly killing an apparently indestructible super-soldier, he is placed on trial to defend the X-files.
|}

==Cast==
===Main cast===
*{{preview|actor|Gillian Anderson}} as {{preview|other|specialagent}} {{preview|character|Dana Scully}} (20/20 episodes)
*{{preview|actor|Robert Patrick}} as {{preview|other|specialagent}} {{preview|character|John Doggett}} (20/20 episodes)
*[[Annabeth Gish]] as {{preview|other|specialagent}} {{preview|character|Monica Reyes}} (20/20 episodes)
*{{preview|actor|Mitch Pileggi}} as {{preview|other|Assistant Director}} {{preview|character|Walter Skinner}} (11/20 episodes)
*{{preview|actor|David Duchovny}} as [[Special Agent|former Special Agent]] {{preview|character|Fox Mulder}} (2/20 episodes)

===Recurring cast===
*[[James Pickens, Jr.]] as [[Deputy Director]] {{preview|character|Alvin Kersh}} (7/20 episodes)
*{{preview|actor|Nicholas Lea}} as {{preview|character|Alex Krycek}} (2/20 episodes)
*[[Cary Elwes]] as {{preview|other|Assistant Director}} [[Brad Follmer]] (6/20 episodes)
*[[Tom Braidwood]] as {{preview|character|Melvin Frohike}} (5/20 episodes)
*[[Bruce Harwood]] as {{preview|character|John Fitzgerald Byers}} (5/20 episodes)
*[[Dean Haglund]] as {{preview|character|Richard Langly}} (5/20 episodes)
*[[Alan Dale]] as [[Toothpick Man]] (4/20 episodes)
*[[Adam Baldwin]] as [[Knowle Rohrer]] (3/20 episodes)
*[[Jeff Gulka]] as [[Gibson Praise]] (2/20 episodes)
*[[Sheila Larken]] as [[Margaret Scully]] (2/20 episodes)
*[[Lucy Lawless]] as [[Shannon McMahon]] (2/20 episodes)
*[[Chris Owens]] as {{preview|character|Jeffrey Spender}} (2/20 episodes)

=== Guest Appearances ===
*{{preview|actor|William B. Davis}} as {{preview|character|Cigarette Smoking Man}} (1/20 episode)

== External links ==
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[[Category:Seasons]]
[[Category:The X-Files episodes|TXF episodes]]
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