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.
- Directed by
- Peter Markle
- Written by
- Vince Gilligan, John Shiban, Frank Spotnitz
Guest stars
John Pyper-Ferguson
Det. John Kresge
Stephen Mendel
Dark Suited Man #2
Pat Skipper
Bill Scully Jr.
- L
Lauren Diewold
Emily Sim / Young Melissa Scully
- P
Patricia Dahlquist
Susan Chambliss
- D
Dan Shea
Deputy (uncredited)
Melinda McGraw
Melissa Scully
Sheila Larken
Margaret Scully
Karri Turner
Tara Scully
Rob Freeman
Marshall Sim
All episodes — Season 5
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S5 E1Redux (2)
Nov 2, 19977.845 min
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,
S5 E2Redux II (3)
Nov 9, 1997847 min
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
S5 E3Unusual Suspects
Nov 16, 19977.945 min
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
S5 E4Detour
Nov 23, 19977.645 min
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.
S5 E5The Post-Modern Prometheus
Nov 30, 19977.347 min
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 ha
S5 E7Emily (2)
Dec 14, 19977.246 min
DNA testing on Emily reveals that she is actually Scully's daughter and Mulder comes to assist her. While Mulder is looking for any information about where and how the girl was born, Scully searches for a cure to Emily's strange illness.