Fox Mulder looks at pictures of his past life. The photographs were created by combining different public domain photographs with computer effects.
Episode no.
Season 4 Episode 5
Directed by
Rob Bowman
Written by
Glen Morgan James Wong
Production code
4X05
Original air date
November 3, 1996 (1996-11-03)
Running time
44 minutes
Guest appearances
Mitch Pileggi as Walter Skinner
Kristen Cloke as Melissa Riedal-Ephesian
Michael Dobson as BATF Agent
Michael Massee as Vernon Ephesian
Les Gallagher as Attorney
Dough Abrahams as Harbaugh
Donna White as Therapist
Anthony Harrison as Agent Riggins
Douglas Roy Dack as Mighty Man[1]
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"The Field Where I Died" is the fifth episode of the fourth season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. It was written by Glen Morgan and James Wong, and directed by Rob Bowman. The episode originally aired in the United States on November 3, 1996, on the Fox network. It is a "Monster-of-the-Week" story, a stand-alone plot which is unconnected to the series' wider mythology. This episode earned a Nielsen rating of 12.3 and was seen by 19.85 million viewers upon its initial broadcast.
The show centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. In this episode, Mulder's search for an informant inside a cult compound leads him and Scully to one of the cult leader's wives. What they soon discover is an unexpectedly close connection with the woman involving reincarnation. Scully discovers that spirits inhabit living beings in order to tell their stories. After Mulder's regression scene, he details all of his past lives.
Morgan and Wong wrote the episode specifically for Kristen Cloke, who had previously been the protagonist of their science fiction series Space: Above and Beyond. The two also wanted to write an episode to challenge Duchovny as an actor. The installment was also inspired by Ken Burns' eponymous Civil War documentary. "The Field Where I Died" received mixed to positive reviews from television critics, with many praising the episode's exploration of loss and grief as well as Cloke's acting. Others, however, felt that the episode was bogged down by its overemotional nature.
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