The midpoint of what would be a nine-season show, the fifth season of The X-Files gives fans a heavy heaping of what they love. For the mythology buffs, riveting episodes from the season bookends "Redux" and "The End" to several episodes in between tease with new revelations about the vast government conspiracies and alien invasion plot lines sketched in earlier seasons.

New chess pieces are introduced, each raising new questions: the clairvoyant child Gibson Praise, Agent Spender, faceless alien resistance fighters with pyromaniacal tendencies, a child who may be Scully's, and Mulder's old flame, agent Diana Fowley (Mimi Rogers). All the time, no one knows who will be assassinated next, who is or isn't dead, just who isn't potentially a child of the Cigarette Smoking Man, and why the base of the neck is everyone's vulnerable spot.

Actors: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson
Writers: Chris Carter
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Language: English
Number of discs: 6
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Run Time: 904 minutes
DVD Release Date: February 3, 2009