The X-Files Season 4 Episode Guide

401 - "Herrenvolk"
Score: 8/10
Original Airdate: 10/4/96

Episode Type: Mythology
Skippable: No

Recurring Secondary Characters: Skinner, Cigarette-Smoking Man, First Elder, Alien Bounty Hunter, Mr. X, 
Notable Guess Stars: None

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402 - "Home"
Score: 10/10
Original Airdate: 10/4/96

Episode Type: Monster-Of-The-Week
Skippable: YesShould You Skip It: Only if you can't handle gore and taboo subject matter 

Recurring Secondary Characters: None
Notable Guess Stars: None

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403 - "Teliko"
Score: 4/10
Original Airdate: 10/18/96

Episode Type: Monster-Of-The-Week
Skippable: YesShould You Skip It: Yes 

Recurring Secondary Characters: Skinner, Marita Covarrubias
Notable Guess Stars: None

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404 - "Unruhe"
Score: 7/10
Original Airdate: 10/27/96

Episode Type: Monster-Of-The-Week
Skippable: YesShould You Skip It: No 

Recurring Secondary Characters: None
Notable Guess Stars: None

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405 - "The Field Where I Died"
Score: 3/10
Original Airdate: 11/3/96

Episode Type: Mythology
Skippable: YesShould You Skip It: Yes 

Recurring Secondary Characters: Skinner
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406 - "Sanguinarium"
Score: 8/10
Original Airdate: 11/10/96

Episode Type: Monster-Of-The-Week
Skippable: YesShould You Skip It: Only if you are bothered by gore or witchcraft

Recurring Secondary Characters: None
Notable Guess Stars: None

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407 - "Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man"
Score: 10/10
Original Airdate: 10/18/96

Episode Type: Mythology
Skippable: No

Recurring Secondary Characters: Cigarette-Smoking Man (who will be called Spender from now on), Deep Throat, The Lone Gunmen
Notable Guess Stars: None

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408 - "Tunguska"
Score: 7/10
Original Airdate: 11/24/96

Episode Type: Mythology
Skippable:No

Recurring Secondary Characters: Skinner, Spender, Krycek, Well-Manicured Man, Marita Covarrubias
Notable Guess Stars: None

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409 - "Terma"
Score: 8/10
Original Airdate: 12/1/96

Episode Type: Mythology
Skippable: No

Recurring Secondary Characters: Skinner, Spender, Krycek, Well-Manicured Man
Notable Guess Stars: Jan Rubes

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410 - "Paper Hearts"
Score: 8/10
Original Airdate: 12/15/96

Episode Type: Mythology
Skippable:No

Recurring Secondary Characters: Skinner
Notable Guess Stars:Tom Noonan

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411 - "El Mundo Gira"
Score: 6/10
Original Airdate: 1/12/97

Episode Type: Monster-Of-The-Week
Skippable: Yes
Should You Skip It: Either Way

Recurring Secondary Characters:None
Notable Guess Stars: Ruben Blades

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412 - "Leonard Betts"
Score: 8/10
Original Airdate: 1/26/97

Episode Type: Monster-Of-The-Week
Skippable: Technically Yes, but there is an important reveal in the climax, but one that revelaed again in a forthcoming episode
Should You Skip It: No

Recurring Secondary Characters:None
Notable Guess Stars: None

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413 - "Never Again"
Score: 7/10
Original Airdate: 2/2/97

Episode Type: Monster-Of-The-Week
Skippable: Yes
Should You Skip It: No

Recurring Secondary Characters: None
Notable Guess Stars: Jodie Foster

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414 - "Memento Mori"
Score: 7/10
Original Airdate: 2/9/97

Episode Type:Mythology
Skippable: No


Recurring Secondary Characters:Skinner, Spender, The Lone Gunmen
Notable Guess Stars:None

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415 - "Kaddish"
Score: 2/10
Original Airdate: 2/16/97

Episode Type: Monster-Of-The-Week
Skippable: Yes
Should You Skip It: Yes

Recurring Secondary Characters:
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416 - "Unrequited"
Score: 4/10
Original Airdate: 2/23/97

Episode Type:Monster-Of-The-Week
Skippable: Yes
Should You Skip It: Yes

Recurring Secondary Characters:Skinner, Marita Covarrubias
Notable Guess Stars: None

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417 - "Tempus Fugit"
Score: 7/10
Original Airdate: 3/16/97

Episode Type:Mythology
Skippable: No

Recurring Secondary Characters:None
Notable Guess Stars:None

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418 - "Max"
Score: 7/10
Original Airdate: 3/23/97

Episode Type:Mythology
Skippable: No


Recurring Secondary Characters: Skinner
Notable Guess Stars: None

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419 - "Synchrony"
Score: 8/10
Original Airdate: 4/13/97

Episode Type:Monster-Of-The-Week
Skippable: Yes
Should You Skip It: No

Recurring Secondary Characters: None
Notable Guess Stars: None

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420 - "Small Potatoes"
Score: 9/10
Original Airdate: 4/20/97

Episode Type: Monster-Of-The-Week
Skippable: Yes
Should You Skip It: No

Recurring Secondary Characters:Skinner
Notable Guess Stars:None

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421 - "Zero Sum"
Score: 9/10
Original Airdate: 4/27/97

Episode Type:Mythology
Skippable: No


Recurring Secondary Characters: Skinner, Spender, Marita Covarrubias, First Elder
Notable Guess Stars:None

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 422 - "Elegy"
Score: 7/10
Original Airdate: 5/4/97

Episode Type: Monster-Of-The-Week
Skippable: Yes
Should You Skip It: No

Recurring Secondary Characters: None
Notable Guess Stars: None

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423 - "Demons"
Score: 7/10
Original Airdate: 511/97

Episode Type: Mythology
Skippable: No


Recurring Secondary Characters: None
Notable Guess Stars: None

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 424 - "Gethsemane"
Score: 7/10
Original Airdate: 5/18/97

Episode Type:Mythology
Skippable: No

Recurring Secondary Characters: None
Notable Guess Stars: None

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