5.02 Redux I ~ Redux

Yeah, the death was faked. Mulder hangs out in Scully's dark bedroom and she starts to take off her shirt. Lots of voiceovers testify to the love and respect which the partners feel for each other, even though Scully is doing boring medical procedures in a lab and Mulder is walking through very long hallways listening to the history of the cold war, complete with flashbacks. Scully lies for Mulder, and Mulder acknowledges that finding a cure for Scully is what he wants most desperately. Scully collapses, and Skinner is a lit-tle bit too hovering for my comfort.

5x03 Redux II ~ Redux II

Mulder and Scully choose a swamp and each other over a cushy hotel and a bunch of other agents. Scully comes dangerously close to scaring Mulder with innuendo. She holds him tenderly through a long, difficult, shockish night, and even sings him a beautiful lullabye. There is talk of sleeping bags, and of getting lucky.

5x05 Emily I ~ Christmas Carol

Scully is hanging out with a handsome San Diego police officer name Kresge, while visiting the ever-grimacing Bill. There's this little girl who turns out to be Scully's blood-kin, only since Mulder's not around it's hard to be interested in her.

5x06 Der große Mutato ~ Post-Modern Prometheus

Mulder and Scully hang out in a very strange town, where they are unconscious together on the floor for some unspecified length of time. "Walking in Memphis" inspires hyperventilation and fainting spells across the country. We are gifted with the most smitten of Mulderfaces.
 

5x07 Emily II ~ Emily

Now Mulder is on the scene, and he is a Very Good Boy. Utter respect, sympathy, and concern for Scully and her situation are evident. Mulder is in great pain because Scully is in great pain. And he even stoops so low as to stay at the home of Bill Scully, Jr., in order to provide more emotional support to Scully. And he makes a Mr. Potato Head face.

5x08 Kitsunegari ~ Kitsunegari

Modell is back - or is it his sister who's calling the shots? Never mind. Mulder thinks he sees Scully's death, and he has a brief moment of unadulterated terror and pain as he tries to take in the greatest loss of his life. He is mute with grief. And even when he knows Scully is alive, he is numb and inconsolable. Scully must never die, or there will be no painless place on this earth for Mulder.

5x09 Die Wurzeln des Bösen ~ Schizogeny

There are a bunch of trees or some mud or a psychotherapist killing people. Mulder climbs into a tree to impress Scully, and she checks his muddy form out at the end.

5x10 Ein Spiel ~ Chinga

Oh - as if they could ever go a whole weekend without talking to each other! Mulder pines away, while Scully hangs out in Maine in February in a t-shirt (but leaves her cell phone suspiciously on). Mulder proposes.

5x11 Kill Switch ~ Kill Switch

Scully has to disconnect Mulder from some horrific virtual reality world in which he thinks that she doesn't care that he's had his arms amputated! Seeing Mulder tormented makes Scully's voice go gruff and breathless.

5x12 Böses Blut ~ Bad Blood

Mulder is Mr. Skeptic. Meanwhile, Scully is feeling tugs from her implant. Quiet Willy reappears, and meets Scully on a bridge and we don't know what's happened to them at the end!

5x14 Cassandra II ~ The Red and the Black

Poor Mulder thinks Scully is dead, too, for a minute there, but she's only toasted. Mulder is stricken when Scully says she won't follow him, but he holds her hand through a traumatic hypnoregression session. In the end neither agent knows anything except that it's good to be in a truck together, alive, and to hold hands.

5x15 Gute Patrioten ~ Travelers

Some stuff about McCarthyism and Roy Cohn. Darrin McGavin is there. And spiders. Mulder is younger and (for some reason I can't fathom) keeps brushing his hair off his forehead. I will not look more closely at his hand.

5x16 Das innere Auge ~ Mind's Eye

There's a blind girl who can see through the eyes of a killer. Mulder bonds with her. But it's an "Oubliette" kind of bond - not like the one he has with Scully.

5x17 Alle Seelen ~ All Souls

Scully sees visions of Emily, which scares her. Mulder picks up on her vulnerability and tells her that it scares him. When Scully admits her visions, Mulder leans in really close and talks in a deep, pained voice. Later, he calls Scully's name a lot of times as she's witnessing a seraphim or something.

5x18 Die Pine-Bluff-Variante ~ The Pine Bluff Variant

Mulder goes undercover with some terrorists and doesn't tell Scully! Still, he can't lie to her, and she figures it out pretty quickly. Too late! Mulder's been tortured and his pinky finger has been broken. Scully waits around his darkened apartment until he comes home, and then puts ice on his finger while he whines a little. Mulder almost gets executed by terrorists, but survives to find his way back to Scully.

5x19 Folie à deux ~ Folie a Deux

Mulder is taken hostage by a wacko telemarketer. Upon his release, Scully sidles up to him and brushes her body against his. Mulder seems to go over the edge, so Scully visits him in the mental hospital. He tells her "You're my one in five billion." So she willingly walks into his delusion and shoots a large grasshopper shadow.

5x20 Das Ende ~ The End