Walter Skinner is a fictional character portrayed by Mitch Pileggi in the TV series The X-Files.
In the first episode they appeared in, titled Tooms (season 1), they were 42 years old.
They appear in 91 episodes out of a total of 217 aired and have accumulated 13376 positive votes.
The character of Walter Skinner is mainly associated with Dana Scully, Fox Mulder and John Doggett.
Episodes91
Tooms
episode S1.E21 april 1994Eugene Tooms, a supernatural killer whom Mulder helped incarcerate, is released on parole.
Little Green Men
episode S2.E1 september 1994With the X-Files shut down, Mulder travels to Puerto Rico on a tip from his mentor in the Senate to uncover the reason behind the sudden reactivation of a remote long abandoned SETI-like communications station.
The Host
episode S2.E2 september 1994Mulder pursues a humanoid, parasitic organism that uses sewage systems as its home.
Sleepless
episode S2.E4 october 1994Mulder is on the manhunt for a Vietnam veteran who can project his consciousness into other people's minds to kill them. Mulder and Agent Krycek try to uncover the conspiracy behind the killer's powers.
Ascension
episode S2.E6 october 1994Mulder and Agent Krycek are in a race against time to find and rescue abducted Scully before crazed Duane Barry can take her to what he believes to be his alien puppet masters.
One Breath
episode S2.E8 november 1994Scully's comatose body is discovered at a local hospital and her life is hanging in the balance. When Mr. X shows Mulder the high price he'd have to pay if he truly wants justice for Scully, Mulder must choose between hope and revenge.
Colony
episode S2.E16 february 1995When someone sends Mulder and Scully obituaries showing three separate but identical men apparently having died, the agents investigate, but things take an unexpected turn when Mulder receives a call from his father.
End Game
episode S2.E17 february 1995Mulder is forced to make an impossible choice, when the alien bounty hunter gives him an ultimatum - Scully's life for Samantha's.
F. Emasculata
episode S2.E22 april 1995As Scully investigates the spread of a deadly contagion at a prison, Mulder tracks down two escaped convicts infected with the disease.
Anasazi
episode S2.E25 may 1995Mulder receives an encrypted computer tape containing the defense department's top secret files on extraterrestrial life and becomes a target. Scully takes him to a Navajo family that unearthed a buried secret to decipher the files.
The Blessing Way
episode S3.E1 september 1995A furious pursuit of Agent Mulder is underway, and more importantly, the government wants the data tape he carried. Agent Scully, against all odds, searches to uncover his whereabouts, persisting that he is alive when all others deny it.
Paper Clip
episode S3.E2 september 1995As a government hit squad closes in on the agents, Mulder searches for clues about his father's involvement in a top secret project.
Nisei
episode S3.E9 november 1995An "alien autopsy" videotape and a murder spark Mulder's search for a strange creature. Scully looks for information about her disappearance.
Grotesque
episode S3.E14 february 1996After a serial killer, who claims to have killed people under the influence of a demon, is arrested, the murders continue. Meanwhile Mulder, who believes that the demon might have picked someone new, goes neck-deep in the investigation.
Piper Maru
episode S3.E15 february 1996The agents investigate the mystery surrounding a sunken World War II aircraft.
Apocrypha
episode S3.E16 february 1996Mulder uncovers clues about a cover-up involving an alien entity and a sunken World War II aircraft. Scully pursues the man who murdered her sister.
Pusher
episode S3.E17 february 1996A seemingly unmotivated murderer, who can apparently talk his victims into killing themselves is on the loose and it is up to Mulder and Scully to study the clues left to them by the person and capture him.
Avatar
episode S3.E21 april 1996Skinner, depressed over the fact that his wife is divorcing him, has a one night stand with a stranger who's found murdered in the morning. Mulder tries to prove Skinner's innocence but Skinner refuses to cooperate for some reason.
Wetwired
episode S3.E23 may 1996Mulder and Scully investigate a series of murders linked to a mysterious device that alters television signals causing paranoid hallucinations. One of them falls victim to it.
Talitha Cumi
episode S3.E24 may 1996After his mother suffers a stroke under strange circumstances, Mulder searches for a strange, benevolent alien man that possesses miraculous healing powers.
Herrenvolk
episode S4.E1 october 1996With his mother on deathbed and the alien bounty hunter in pursuit, Mulder decides to put the alien healer in mortal danger for a chance to finally uncover the whole truth behind the alien conspiracy. Meanwhile, Mr. X's cover is blown.
Teliko
episode S4.E3 october 1996Mulder believes a creature from an African folktale may be responsible for the disappearance of several black men in the Philadelphia area.
The Field Where I Died
episode S4.E5 november 1996Agents Mulder and Scully investigate a doomsday religious cult, which inadvertently draws Mulder into recalling a past life and how Scully and others were there with him in the field where he died during the American Civil War.
Tunguska
episode S4.E8 november 1996A tip from Krycek takes Mulder to a gulag in Tunguska, Russia where prisoners are being used for experiments with the black oil alien virus. Meanwhile, Scully's colleague is infected with the same virus which lay dormant in a meteorite.
Terma
episode S4.E9 december 1996Mulder tries to stop a Russian supersoldier from destroying the site in North America where the black oil virus can be excavated. Scully is jailed after she refuses to reveal Mulder's whereabouts at a Senate subcommittee hearing.
Paper Hearts
episode S4.E10 december 1996An incarcerated serial killer claims Mulder's sister was one of his many victims.
El Mundo Gira
episode S4.E11 january 1997A desperate illegal immigrant who can't speak any English becomes patient zero for a mysterious illness and goes on the run from INS, the FBI and his own brother who blames him for the death of his girlfriend.
Memento Mori
episode S4.E14 february 1997Scully attempts to come to terms with her inoperable cancer. Meanwhile Mulder and the Lone Gunmen break into a high-security research lab to find the cure that could save her life.
Unrequited
episode S4.E16 february 1997An embittered Vietnam War veteran who can apparently somehow make himself invisible to everyone around him is murdering military officials. In order to attempt to stop him, Mulder and Scully must first uncover his motives.
Max
episode S4.E18 march 1997Mulder and Scully continue their investigation into what really caused the airliner to crash, as the military insidiously begins to cover up the truth and even tries to murder the agents. Someone close to Scully is killed in the process.
Small Potatoes
episode S4.E20 april 1997Five unrelated women in a small town give birth to babies with small tails. The prime suspect is a man who can shape shift into whomever he wants.
Zero Sum
episode S4.E21 april 1997A swarm of bees mysteriously kill a postal worker in an enclosed restroom. Assistant Director Skinner covers up the evidence. Mulder investigates Skinner's apparent involvement with the crime.
Redux
episode S5.E1 november 1997Mulder accesses a facility that may hold a cure for Scully's illness. Scully performs an experiment in hopes of determining the origin of the disease.
Redux II
episode S5.E2 november 1997Scully is hospitalized after collapsing, while Mulder receives help from a most unlikely source as he continues to search for a cure for Scully's illness.
Kitsunegari
episode S5.E8 january 1998Robert Patrick Modell, aka "Pusher," has recovered from his injuries and escaped from a prison hospital. Mulder and Scully lead the manhunt even as Modell may be using his powerful mind-control capabilities to target Fox for revenge.
Bad Blood
episode S5.E12 february 1998Scully and Mulder each recount their version of events that led Mulder to drive a stake through the heart of a Texas teenager he claims was a vampire.
The Red and the Black
episode S5.E14 march 1998Scully undergoes hypnosis to recall her experiences on the bridge where the group of abductees was burned alive. Krycek provides the consortium with a vaccine for the black oil and tells Mulder of the planned colonization and alien rebels.
The Pine Bluff Variant
episode S5.E18 may 1998Mulder goes undercover to infiltrate a militia group armed with a deadly pathogen and wanted for domestic terrorism. Scully becomes suspicious when Mulder lets a suspect escape but she learns that his assignment may be a suicide mission.
Folie a Deux
episode S5.E19 may 1998Paranoid telemarketer takes his coworkers and Mulder hostage claiming that their boss is a disguised insectoid monster that's literally turning the workers one by one into his zombie drones.
The End
episode S5.E20 may 1998A government assassin is caught trying to kill child chess prodigy Gibson Praise during an international chess tournament. Mulder's old flame Agent Diana Fowley arrives to help on the case but Scully is suspicious of her.
The Beginning
episode S6.E1 november 1998After the events of The X Files (1998) movie, Mulder and Scully's new boss, Kersh, assigns agents Spender and Fowley to work on the X-Files instead of them. Ignoring this, Mulder takes Scully on a hunt for a rampaging alien.
Triangle
episode S6.E3 november 1998Mulder boards the wreck of a legendary missing WWII ship that suddenly appeared in the Bermuda Triangle. The ship turns out to be a time portal. Now Scully must use all of her wits to try and get the unwilling FBI to help her save him.
S.R. 819
episode S6.E9 january 1999When Skinner is infected with an unknown disease and receives a mysterious phone call telling him he has 24 hours to live, Scully and Mulder rush to find a cure and those responsible.
Two Fathers
episode S6.E11 february 1999The alien rebels return to kill abductees including Scully and Cassandra Spender. With the Syndicate in shambles, the Cigarette Smoking Man reveals the truth to Agent Spender hoping that he will continue his work.
One Son
episode S6.E12 february 1999Everyone prepares in their own way for the alien rebels' bloody endgame after which nothing will ever be the same again. Mulder and Scully try their best to stop the bloodshed and save Spender's mother.
Monday
episode S6.E14 february 1999A woman desperately attempts to change the outcome of the events of a day she is forced to relive again and again in which her boyfriend explodes a bomb during a failed bank robbery killing everyone inside, including Mulder and Scully.
Field Trip
episode S6.E21 may 1999The skeletal remains of a young couple are found after they have been missing for only three days in an area known for UFO activity. Mulder and Scully have different experiences in the investigation but nothing is quite as it seems.
Biogenesis
episode S6.E22 may 1999Mulder believes metallic objects discovered on the coast of West Africa are proof of the extraterrestrial origin of life on Earth. He falls mentally ill under the apparent influence of the artifact while Scully goes to Africa for answers.
The Sixth Extinction
episode S7.E1 november 1999Scully and a colleague try to decipher the symbols on the spaceship beached in Africa before their rival can take over the dig, but the ship starts recreating the Plagues of Egypt. Skinner and Kritschgau test Mulder's telepathic ability.
The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati
episode S7.E2 november 1999Scully searches for Mulder after the Cigarette Smoking Man takes him from the hospital for unknown purposes. An unconscious Mulder dreams of a better life away from his mission and the X-Files. But perhaps he is being led astray.
Millennium
episode S7.E4 november 1999In this backdoor series finale to Millennium (1996), Mulder and Scully ask Frank Black to help them prevent a zombie apocalypse orchestrated by the rogue members of the now disbanded Millennium Group on the very eve of the new millennium.
Sein und Zeit
episode S7.E10 february 2000The strange disappearance of a little girl leads Mulder to make connections with previous unexplained cases of missing children. Scully believes he is becoming obsessed with the case by associating it with the abduction of his sister.
Closure
episode S7.E11 february 2000With help from a police psychic, Mulder continues to search for clues about Samantha's abduction and ultimately finds the long sought after answers concerning her fate.
En Ami
episode S7.E15 march 2000Agent Scully lets sympathy cloud her better judgment when she accompanies the Cigarette Smoking Man on a road trip and wonders if he's as evil as she always thought.
Chimera
episode S7.E16 april 2000Mulder and Scully are on a stakeout of a female serial-killer of prostitutes. Mulder gets called away from the stakeout by Skinner to investigate the disappearance of federal judge's daughter. The strange appearance of a raven shortly before she went missing leads Mulder to believe this case may have paranormal significance.
Brand X
episode S7.E18 april 2000A potential witness in a high-profile tobacco case under Skinner's supervision is found dead in his bathroom from mysterious circumstances. Skinner asks Mulder and Scully to assist him in the investigation. They find a man who smokes a unique kind of cigarettes, the second-hand smoke of which, has deadly results for the inhaler.
Hollywood A.D.
episode S7.E19 april 2000A screenwriter tags along with Mulder and Scully as they investigate a church bombing. The case becomes the plot of a Hollywood movie, but the agents find their case, and themselves, distorted on the big screen.
Je Souhaite
episode S7.E21 may 2000Two brothers have a less than helpful genie who grants their wishes with disastrous consequences. Mulder comes into possession of the same genie, and his wishes garner similar results.
Requiem
episode S7.E22 may 2000Seven years after their first case, Mulder and Scully return to Bellefleur, Oregon to see Billy Miles and investigate a new series of abductions in the local forest, risking their partnership and lives.
Within
episode S8.E1 november 2000New Deputy Director Kersh has Agent John Doggett investigate the missing Mulder case. Doggett's skeptical treatment of Mulder's disappearance puts a thorn in Scully and Skinner's sides.
Without
episode S8.E2 november 2000Scully leads Skinner and an unhappy Doggett to Arizona to protect child prodigy Gibson Praise from an alien bounty hunter disguised as the missing Mulder.
Via Negativa
episode S8.E7 december 2000While Scully tends to her secret, Doggett and Skinner team up to find and somehow stop a cult leader who can kill people in their dreams.
The Gift
episode S8.E11 february 2001Skinner and Doggett investigate a case Mulder was working on before he disappeared involving a family and a monster straight from Native American lore.
Per Manum
episode S8.E13 february 2001Scully stumbles upon a woman whose abductee experience and symptoms are amazingly similar. The fear now is that both their upcoming births will be to non-human offspring.
This Is Not Happening
episode S8.E14 february 2001Jeremiah Smith appears out of nowhere and formerly dead abductees are coming back to life, giving Scully and Skinner the idea that Mulder may have a shot at still being alive.
Deadalive
episode S8.E15 april 2001Three months after Mulder's funeral, another dead alien abductee comes back to life. Skinner exhumes Mulder hoping that he too can be revived. Skinner faces an impossible decision when Krycek offers him a vaccine that can save Mulder.
Three Words
episode S8.E16 april 2001Mulder requests reassignment to the X-Files but is denied by Kersh. When a man with information about an alien invasion is killed on the White House lawn, Mulder conducts his own investigation to find further evidence of colonization.
Vienen
episode S8.E18 april 2001Doggett and Mulder unwillingly team up investigating an oil rig where some mysterious murders have happened and the possibility of the Black Oil being involved is a haunting reality.
Alone
episode S8.E19 may 2001A bizarre reptilian creature captures Doggett and his new Mulder-obsessed partner underground and only an X-Files deposed Mulder can help them.
Essence
episode S8.E20 may 2001The X-Files team must protect Agent Scully and her unborn child as groups of Super Soldiers try to stop her pregnancy.
Existence
episode S8.E21 may 2001Agents Mulder, Doggett and Skinner investigate (along with Alex Krycek) the Super Soldier conspiracy, while Scully goes into hiding to have her child.
Nothing Important Happened Today
episode S9.E1 november 2001While Doggett's investigation of Deputy Director Kersh hits difficulties, the agents encounter a beautiful woman with the ability to remain submerged underwater.
Nothing Important Happened Today II
episode S9.E2 november 2001Doggett attempts to uncover the truth about a woman with superhuman abilities who is somehow connected to scientific experiments being conducted in a lab aboard a secret ship that stays at sea year round.
4-D
episode S9.E4 december 2001Agent Dogget has been shot and hospitalized. The only suspect is his partner. However, she was 14 miles away when the shooting occurred. The team sticks together to solve the case of being in two places at one time.
John Doe
episode S9.E7 january 2002Doggett wakes up in Mexico and can't remember his name or what he is doing there. His only clues are small flashbacks of a child (his son) and two mysterious marks on his head.
Provenance
episode S9.E9 march 2002A man is chased from the Canada/US border and reportedly burned alive though his body is not found. Meanwhile, in the burned remains, the FBI finds papers with the same UFO markings Scully found in Africa.
Providence
episode S9.E10 march 2002Scully's baby becomes a bargaining chip for a psychotic UFO cult that feels the baby is ultimately connected to a UFO they have uncovered.
Jump the Shark
episode S9.E15 april 2002The Lone Gunmen, with the (unwanted) aide of Morris Fletcher, must stop a destructive virus from entering the populace.
William
episode S9.E16 april 2002A disfigured man attacks Doggett trying to retrieve X-Files for Mulder...but he might be Mulder himself.
Sunshine Days
episode S9.E18 may 2002Reyes and Doggett investigate two murders revolving around a house that is, at some points in time, identical to the Brady Bunch house.
The Truth
episode S9.E19 may 2002Mulder's return leads to him being tried for murder before a military tribunal where he seeks to prove the very existence of an alien conspiracy and justify the maintenance of the X-Files.
My Struggle
episode S10.E1 january 2016After the collapse of their relationship, former FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully are reunited by a TV host who promotes conspiracy theories about the government and believes that alien abductions are actually false flag operations.
Founder's Mutation
episode S10.E2 january 2016A scientist working for the DOD commits suicide. Mulder and Scully start an investigation only to discover a secret mutation experiment.
Babylon
episode S10.E5 february 2016When a terrorist ends up in a coma, a pair of younger FBI agents ask Mulder and Scully for help communicating with the man, resembling them when their adventure first began and reminding them of just how far they have come.
My Struggle II
episode S10.E6 february 2016Mulder and Scully uncover a shocking truth with global ramifications.
My Struggle III
episode S11.E1 january 2018Mulder and Scully learn that they aren't the only ones desperately searching for their long-lost son, William. The very fate of the world may depend on the outcome.
This
episode S11.E2 january 2018A chilling secret is revealed when an old friend reaches out to Mulder and Scully in a seemingly impossible way.
The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat
episode S11.E4 january 2018Exploring the idea of The Mandela Effect, in which large groups of people remember an alternate history, Mulder and Scully find out how the X-Files themselves may really have originated.
Ghouli
episode S11.E5 january 2018When a pair of teenage girls attack one another, each believing the other to be a monster, Mulder and Scully find that their investigation could possibly lead back to their long-lost son, William.
Kitten
episode S11.E6 february 2018Skinner goes AWOL when his past comes back to haunt him. As Mulder and Scully try to track him down, their growing mistrust of him reaches its apex.
My Struggle IV
episode S11.E10 march 2018Mulder and Scully rush to find an on-the-run William while the Cigarette Smoking Man pushes forward with his ultimate plan.
- Tooms
- Little Green Men
- The Host
- Sleepless
- Ascension
- One Breath
- Colony
- End Game
- F. Emasculata
- Anasazi
- The Blessing Way
- Paper Clip
- Nisei
- Grotesque
- Piper Maru
- Apocrypha
- Pusher
- Avatar
- Wetwired
- Talitha Cumi
- Herrenvolk
- Teliko
- The Field Where I Died
- Tunguska
- Terma
- Paper Hearts
- El Mundo Gira
- Memento Mori
- Unrequited
- Max
- Small Potatoes
- Zero Sum
- Redux
- Redux II
- Kitsunegari
- Bad Blood
- The Red and the Black
- The Pine Bluff Variant
- Folie a Deux
- The End
- The Beginning
- Triangle
- S.R. 819
- Two Fathers
- One Son
- Monday
- Field Trip
- Biogenesis
- The Sixth Extinction
- The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati
- Millennium
- Sein und Zeit
- Closure
- En Ami
- Chimera
- Brand X
- Hollywood A.D.
- Je Souhaite
- Requiem
- Within
- Without
- Via Negativa
- The Gift
- Per Manum
- This Is Not Happening
- Deadalive
- Three Words
- Vienen
- Alone
- Essence
- Existence
- Nothing Important Happened Today
- Nothing Important Happened Today II
- 4-D
- John Doe
- Provenance
- Providence
- Jump the Shark
- William
- Sunshine Days
- The Truth
- My Struggle
- Founder's Mutation
- Babylon
- My Struggle II
- My Struggle III
- This
- The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat
- Ghouli
- Kitten
- My Struggle IV
Best moments10
- A swarm of bees mysteriously kill a postal worker in an enclosed restroom. Assistant Director Skinner covers up the evidence. Mulder investigates Skinner's apparent involvement with the crime.
- Skinner, depressed over the fact that his wife is divorcing him, has a one night stand with a stranger who's found murdered in the morning. Mulder tries to prove Skinner's innocence but Skinner refuses to cooperate for some reason.
- When Skinner is infected with an unknown disease and receives a mysterious phone call telling him he has 24 hours to live, Scully and Mulder rush to find a cure and those responsible.
- Skinner goes AWOL when his past comes back to haunt him. As Mulder and Scully try to track him down, their growing mistrust of him reaches its apex.
- An embittered Vietnam War veteran who can apparently somehow make himself invisible to everyone around him is murdering military officials. In order to attempt to stop him, Mulder and Scully must first uncover his motives.
- As a government hit squad closes in on the agents, Mulder searches for clues about his father's involvement in a top secret project.
- A potential witness in a high-profile tobacco case under Skinner's supervision is found dead in his bathroom from mysterious circumstances. Skinner asks Mulder and Scully to assist him in the investigation. They find a man who smokes a unique kind of cigarettes, the second-hand smoke of which, has deadly results for the inhaler.
- Mulder is forced to make an impossible choice, when the alien bounty hunter gives him an ultimatum - Scully's life for Samantha's.
- A screenwriter tags along with Mulder and Scully as they investigate a church bombing. The case becomes the plot of a Hollywood movie, but the agents find their case, and themselves, distorted on the big screen.
- The agents investigate the mystery surrounding a sunken World War II aircraft.
- Zero Sum
- Avatar
- S.R. 819
- Kitten
- Unrequited
- Paper Clip
- Brand X
- End Game
- Hollywood A.D.
- Piper Maru