The X-Files · Season 3 · Episode 1

“The Blessing Way”

Aired Saturday 23 September 1995

Scully finds her career with the FBI in jeopardy as Mulder is still missing and The Cigarette Smoking Man is pursuing the stolen files. The Navajo elders find Mulder's body in a cave and perform an ancient ceremony to call the spirit back to the empty vessel.

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