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The X-Files Classics, Volume 4 by Dwight Jon Zimmerman, John Rozum, Alex Saviuk

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2.0

This was by far the weakest collection, and I can tell why the series was cancelled—none of these really stood out at all or felt very thought out/coherent—in fact, some of these were rather ridiculous.

#30-#31: Surrounded (2 Parts) · ★★½
The FBI surrounds an anti-government militia compound. One of the militia has been skinned and they ask for Mulder and Scully to investigate. An angry geneticist is a member of the militia. Mutant dust mites hungry for human skin cells force the militia from their compound. Mulder and Scully barely escape with their hides intact, but the geneticist escapes with a container of mites.

#32: Crop Duster · ★★★
Fred Glausiusz is arrested for shooting at a police officer. He claims he was trying to kill some of the little green men plaguing him. Scully thinks it's a hallucination. Mulder learns that Fred worked on a classified chemical warfare project called "Crop Duster" and that others have seen the little green men.

#33: Soma · ★★★
Several elderly Indian widows in San Francisco have died violently, apparently by spontaneous combustion. Another woman asks Mulder and Scully for help. She chose not to be cremated when her husband died and now he has come for her.

#34: Skybuster · ★★½
Ravens are killing members of a research facility in Alaska and the locals are ecstatic. Scully and Mulder investigate Project HAARP and the killings.

#35-#36: N.D.E. (2 Parts) · ★★★
A mobster scheduled to testify for the government suffers a Near Death Experience. He claims that it has turned him into a gateway for demons from his personal hell. Mulder and Scully investigate when fellow agents begin to die. Mob informant Lawrence Schiff is convinced that he must remain in total darkness to stay alive, but he's scheduled to testify. Mulder and Scully must determine if mob hitmen or demons are trying to kill Schiff.

#37: The Face of Extinction · ★★★½
Mulder and Scully investigate the murder of a North Carolina businessman by a goatman, a genetically altered goat or perhaps a cloven-hooved satyr.

#38: Cam Ranh Bay · ★★★
Mulder and Scully investigate a dolphin's cry for justice.

#39: Scum of the Earth · ★½
Mulder and Scully investigate a skeleton found in a shower stall.

#40: Devil's Advocate · ★★½
Mulder and Scully investigate the death of a fisherman.

#41: Severed · ★★
Mulder and Scully investigate a serial killer who may be a werewolf.
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