The X-Cast: An X-Files Podcast

THE X-CAST continues with guest host Carl Sweeney investigating Season 2 Episode 24, 'Our Town'... After the disappearance of a health food inspector in the town of Dudley, Arkansas, Mulder takes Scully to the small town in the hopes of discovering strange demons linked to foxfires. What he and Scully find is a strange conspiracy of silence, extra-marital affairs, and something potentially quite d...

THE X-CAST continues with guest host Andrew Brooker investigating Season 2 Episode 23, 'Soft Light'... When a man disappears in a hotel in what first appears to be a locked room mystery, Mulder and Scully are soon placed on the hunt for Dr Chester Ray Banton, a physicist working for Polarity Magnetics and a man involved in experiments involving light, shadow and dark matter, that have turned deadl...

THE X-CAST takes a break from episodes this week as Tony Black invites back on the show Matthew Dow Smith, IDW Publishing artist involved in The X-Files ongoing series, to discuss the extended comics universe. Matthew talks about the second series of his spin-off comic, The X-Files Origins: Dog Days of Summer, written alongside Jody Houser, which continues the story of teenage Mulder & Scully. We...

THE X-CAST continues with Tony Black investigating Season 2 Episode 22, 'F. Emasculata'... Assigned to help investigate the escape of two criminals from a maximum security prison, Mulder and Scully soon realise they are embroiled in the release of a seemingly deadly, unexplained contagion. As Mulder helps US Marshals hunt down the prisoners before they can spread the pathogen, Scully begins to exp...

THE X-CAST continues with guest host Carl Sweeney investigating Season 2 Episode 21, 'The Calusari'... After the tragic accidental death of a little child, Mulder and Scully investigate the Holvey family as accusations of possible child abuse circle around the parents. Mulder has evidence suggesting a poltergeist may be connected to the death of young Teddy, but as they come to discover the family...

THE X-CAST continues with guest host Carl Sweeney investigating Season 2 Episode 20, 'Humbug'... Following the trail of an almost thirty year long series of attacks on circus sideshow performers in Florida, Mulder & Scully arrive to investigate a very eccentric sideshow community made up of colourful characters. As the deaths continue, and both Mulder & Scully become increasingly connected to thes...

THE X-CAST takes a break from episodes this week as Tony Black interviews Joe Harris, writer of The X-Files Season 10/11 comics from IDW Publishing, the event series continuation comics, and the Audible Cold Cases audio drama. In this conversation, Joe discusses his X-Files fandom by answering the Five Questions of X, talks the origins and genesis of the Season 10/11 comics, why Season 11 ended ea...

THE X-CAST continues with guest host Sarah Blair investigating Season 2 Episode 19, 'Dod Kalm'... After a group of US Navy sailors appear in ocean having aged rapidly, Mulder & Scully find themselves on a salvage mission to a Naval vessel which disappeared several years before. Along with a Norwegian salvage captain, they explore this strange vessel which Mulder believes may have been connected to...

THE X-CAST continues with host Tony Black going in depth on Jonathan Maberry's 2017 The X-Files: Origins prequel book, 'Devil's Advocate'. In the spring of 1979, fifteen-year-old Dana Scully has bigger problems than being the new girl in school. Dana has always had dreams. Sometimes they've even come true. Until now, she tried to write this off as coincidence. But ever since her father's military...

THE X-CAST continues with host Tony Black investigating Season 2 Episode 18, 'Fearful Symmetry'... When a seemingly invisible elephant tramples to death a construction worker in Idaho before dying, Mulder & Scully begin investigating the troubled Fairfield Zoo where animals are disappearing and then reappearing. As the agents come into contact with a passionate zoo worker looking to adopt a gorill...

THE X-CAST continues with host Tony Black investigating Season 2 Episode 17, 'End Game'... After Scully is abducted by the Alien Bounty Hunter, while pretending to be Mulder, it's left to Mulder--alongside his sister Samantha, having inexplicably returned as an adult--to seek out the help of Skinner in rescuing her from mortal danger. What he discovers is a shocking truth about Samantha, about wha...

THE X-CAST continues with host Tony Black investigating Season 2 Episode 16, 'Colony'... Following the death of multiple identical men working as abortion doctors, Mulder and Scully investigate and find themselves embroiled in a case which connects to a ruthless bounty hunter on a mission of assassination. As Scully discovers science which may be extra-terrestrial, Mulder unexpectedly faces a fami...

THE X-CAST continues with guest host Carl Sweeney introducing the second Roundtable episode, featuring fans and guests of the podcast. Joined by previous guest Sarah Blair, Carl invites for the first time Sam Turton, Andrew Blaker and Russell Hugo, as they discuss The X-Files Episode Tournament underway on Twitter, and put forward their arguments for four episodes, as voted by you, which will go h...

THE X-CAST continues with host Tony Black investigating Season 2 Episode 15, 'Fresh Bones'... When a former US Marine dies suspiciously, Mulder & Scully investigate when suggestions are made that he was involved with voodoo practices that lead back to a Haitian refugee camp, where the agents discover a sinister history of riots, potentially concealed deaths, and a powerful voodoo priest who may, i...

 THE X-CAST continues with host Tony Black investigating Season 2 Episode 14, 'Die Hand Die Verletzt'... In the town of Milford Haven, Massachusetts, following the ritualistic murder of a teenager, Mulder and Scully arrive to investigate and discover a town riven with legend, hysteria, and belief in occult conspiracy. As they seek to understand why the boy was murdered, the PTA group at the local...

THE X-CAST continues with host Tony Black investigating, in the first Spotlight episode on one of The X-Files' writers, Chris Carter's recent 2014 pilot, The After... A group of strangers become trapped in a parking lot lift in Los Angeles on what appears to be a normal day, until upon working together to escape they emerge into a world devastated by some kind of unknown event which has caused mas...

THE X-CAST continues with host Tony Black investigating Season 2 Episode 13, 'Irresistible'. After a series of corpse mutilations in Minneapolis, Mulder and Scully arrive to investigate what Mulder soon comes to believe is an 'escalating fetishist', someone with a powerful compulsion to desecrate the dead who may be preparing for his first kill. At the same time, the fetishist--seemingly normal de...

THE X-CAST continues with host Tony Black going in depth on Kami Garcia's 2017 The X-Files Origins prequel book, 'Agent of Chaos'. In the spring of 1979, seventeen-year-old Fox Mulder has bigger problems than applying for college. Five years ago, his younger sister disappeared from their home and was never heard from again. Mulder blames himself, and his mother blames his father, who has retreated...

  THE X-CAST continues with host Tony Black looking back at The X-Files Season 2 episode 12 - 'Aubrey', written by Sara B. Charno, and directed by Rob Bowman. In the small town of Aubrey, Missouri, a detective named BJ Morrow in a delirious outburst uncovers the long buried remains of two FBI agents missing since the 1940's. Mulder & Scully arrive to investigate BJ's strange discovery, and how it...

  THE X-CAST takes a break from episodes this week as Tony Black interviews, for the very first time, an actor who has appeared on The X-Files - guest star Scott Bellis, aka Max Fenig from S1's 'Fallen Angel' & S4's 'Tempus Fugit' & 'Max'. In this conversation, Scott discusses how he came to be cast on The X-Files during the early days of its production, his working dynamic with David Duchovny & G...

    THE X-CAST continues with host Tony Black looking back at THE X-FILES Season 2 episode 11 - 'Excelsis Dei', written by Paul Brown, and directed by Stephen Surjik. Following the violent sexual attack on a nurse by what seems to be some kind of spirit being, Mulder and Scully head for the Excelsis Dei elderly care home after the nurse files a lawsuit against the Federal government, alleging one...

THE X-CAST continues with host Tony Black looking back at the very first published novel in THE X-FILES world - 'Goblins', published by Harper Collins in 1994 and written by Charles Grant. In the small town of Marville, after a spate of seemingly unrelated deaths, Mulder & Scully are ordered by new FBI Section Chief Arlen Douglas to investigate. Joined by green junior agent Hank Webber and his tou...

THE X-CAST continues with host Tony Black looking back at THE X-FILES Season 2 episode 10 - 'Red Museum', written by Chris Carter, and directed by Win Phelps. In the small town of Delta Glen, Wisconsin, Mulder and Scully investigate the mysterious disappearance of a teenage boy who reappeared bearing the words 'HE IS ONE' on his back, who the local sheriff believes may have been possessed. Drawn i...

THE X-CAST takes a break from episodes this week as Tony Black interviews New York Times best-selling author Jonathan Maberry, the mastermind behind the three X-Files prose anthology books. In this conversation, Jonathan discussed how Trust No One, The Truth Is Out There & Secret Agendas anthologies came to be, including how they're recognised canon by Chris Carter, and talks about the newly relea...

THE X-CAST brings you a very special episode to see out 2016, as Tony Black hosts the very first X-Quiz mega episode. Ten rounds of questions devoted to The X-Files and its cast & crew, from across the entire series run to date, with two teams in competition - Team QUIZQUEG aka Carl Sweeney & Sarah Blair, and Team THE GHOSTS WHO STOLE QUIZMAS aka Baz Greenland & in her debut on the show, Amy Walke...