Ghouli

"**Ghouli**"
"Ghouli"
The X-Files episode
Episode no.	Season 11; Episode 5
Directed by	James Wong
Written by	James Wong
Production code	2AYW05
Original air date	January 31, 2018
Running time	43 minutes
Guest appearances
	William B. Davis as Cigarette Smoking Man; Miles Robbins as Jackson Van De Kamp / William; Madeleine Arthur as Sarah Turner; Sarah Jeffery as Brianna Stapleton; Louis Ferreira as Detective Costa; Ben Cotton as Mr. Paulsen; Zak Santiago as Mr. Green; François Chau as Peter Wong;
Episode chronology
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"Ghouli" is the fifth episode of the eleventh season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. The episode was written and directed by James Wong. The tagline for this episode is "You see what I want you to see". Though not originally billed as a mythology episode, "Ghouli" helps to explore the series' overarching mythology and serves as the second of three mythology episodes of the season following the season premiere.

The show centers on FBI special agents who work on unsolved paranormal cases called X-Files, focusing on the investigations of Fox Mulder (David Duchovny), and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) after their reinstatement in the FBI. In this episode, A pair of teenage girls attack one another, each believing the other to be a monster, known as "Ghouli." Mulder and Scully find that their investigation leads back to their long-lost son, William.