What is X-588?

X-588 (originally called ‘Assignment X’) is a challenge I’ve set for myself. I recently began re-watching the popular ’90s show, X-Files, and it occurred to me that the episode titles were great titles for photographs (well, most of them anyway). So I’ve challenged myself to create an X-588 photo collection, filling in as many titles as I can with corresponding photographs.

I’ve included the full episode list below, and will fill in links to the photos as they are completed. Some titles will be excluded due to the nature of their names.

Why X-588?

Very simple. The X was what I originally called the assignment, and 588 is simply the page ID this page has within the WordPress system. So I pulled the two together to create my very own “X case”.

Episode list/Titles:

Season 1:

001: “Pilot”
002: “Deep Throat”
003: “Squeeze”
004: “Conduit”
005: “The Jersey Devil”
006: “Shadows”
007: “Ghost In The Machine”
008: “Ice”
009: “Space”
010: “Fallen Angel”
011: “Eve”
012: “Fire”
013: “Beyond The Sea”
014: “GenderBender”
015: “Lazarus”
016: “Young At Heart”
017: “EBE”
018: “Miracle Man”
019: “Shapes”
020: “Darkness Falls”
021: “Tooms”
022: “Born Again”
023: “Roland”
024: “The Erlenmeyer Flask” (Excluded)

Season 2:

025: “Little Green Men”
026: “The Host”
027: “Blood”
028: “Sleepless”
029: “Duane Barry” (Excluded)
030: “Ascension”
031: “3″
032: “One Breath”
033: “Firewalker”
034: “Red Museum”
035: “Excelsis Dei” (Excluded)
036: “Aubrey”
037: “Irresistable”
038: “Die Hand Der Verletz” (Excluded)
039: “Fresh Bones”
040: “Colony”
041: “End Game”
042: “Fearful Symmetry”
043: “Død Kalm”
044: “Humbug”
045: “The Calusari” (Excluded)
046: “F Emasculata” (Excluded)
047: “Soft Light”
048: “Our Town”
049: “The Anasazi” (Excluded)

Season 3:

050: “The Blessing Way”
051: “Paper Clip”
052: “DPO”
053: “Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose” (Excluded)
054: “The List”
055: “2Shy”
056: “The Walk”
057: “The Oubliette” (Excluded)
058: “Nisei” (Excluded)
059: “731″
060: “Revelations”
061: “War of the Coprophages” (Excluded)
062: “Syzygy” (Excluded)
063: “Grotesque”
064: “Piper Maru” (Excluded)
065: “Apocrypha” (Excluded)
066: “Pusher”
067: “Teso dos Bichos” (Excluded)
068: “Hell Money”
069: “Jose Chung’s ‘From Outer Space‘”
070: “Avatar”
071: “Quagmire”
072: “Wetwired”
073: “Talitha Cumi” (Excluded)

Season 4:

074: “Herrenvolk” (Excluded)
075: “Unruhe” (Excluded)
076: “Home”
077: “Teliko” (Excluded)
078: “The Field Where I Died”
079: “Sanguinarium” (Excluded)
080: “Musings Of A Cigarette Smoking Man”
081: “Paper Hearts”
082: “Tunguska” (Excluded)
083: “Terma” (Excluded)
084: “El Mundo Gira” (Excluded)
085: “Kaddish” (Excluded)
086: “Never Again”
087: “Leonard Betts” (Excluded)
088: “Memento Mori”
089: “Unrequited”
090: “Tempus Fugit” (Excluded)
091: “Max”
092: “Synchrony”
093: “Small Potatoes”
094: “Zero Sum”
095: “Elegy” (Excluded)
096: “Demons”
097: “Gethsemane” (Excluded)

Season 5:

098: “Unusual Suspects”
099: “Redux”
100: “Redux II” (Excluded)
101: “Detour”
102: “Christmas Carol”
103: “Post-Modern Prometheus” (Excluded)
104: “Emily”
105: “Kitsunegari” (Excluded)
106: “Schizogeny” (Excluded)
107: “Chinga”
108: “Kill Switch”
109: “Bad Blood”
110: “Patient X”
111: “The Red And The Black”
112: “Travellers”
113: “Mind’s Eye”
114: “All Souls”
115: “The Pine Bluff Variant” (Excluded)
116: “Folie À Deux”
117: “The End”

Season 6:

118: “The Beginning”
119: “Drive”
120: “Triangle”
121: “Dreamland”
122: “Dreamland II”
123: “Terms Of Endearment”
124: “Rain King”
125: “How The Ghosts Stole Christmas”
126: “Tithonus” (Excluded)
127: “SR 819” (Excluded)
128: “Two Fathers”
129: “One Son”
130: “Arcadia” (Excluded)
131: “Agua Mala” (Excluded)
132: “Monday”
133: “Alpha”
134: “Trevor” (Excluded)
135: “Milagro” (Excluded)
136: “Three Of A Kind”
137: “The Unnatural”
138: “Field Trip”
139: “Biogenesis”

Season 7:

140: “Hungry”
141: “The Goldberg Variation” (Excluded)
142: “The Sixth Extinction”
143: “The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati” (Excluded)
144: “Millennium”
145: “Rush”
146: “Orison” (Excluded)
147: “The Amazing Maleeni” (Excluded)
148: “Signs & Wonders”
149: “Sein Und Zeit” (Excluded)
150: “Closure”
151: “X-Cops”
152: “First Person Shooter”
153: “Theef”
154: “En Ami”
155: “Chimera” (Excluded)
156: “all things”
157: “Hollywood AD”
158: “Brand X”
159: “Fight Club”
160: “Je Souhaite” (Excluded)
161: “Requiem”

Season 8:

162: “Within”
163: “Without”
164: “Patience” – Link
165: “Roadrunners”
166: “Invocation”
167: “”Redrum”
168: “Via Negativa”
169: “Surekill”
170: “Salvage”
171: “The Gift”
172: “Badlaa” (Excluded)
173: “Medusa”
174: “Per Manum” (Excluded)
175: “This Is Not Happening”
176: “DeadAlive”
177: “Three Words”
178: “Empedocles” (Excluded)
179: “Vienen”
180: “Alone”
181: “Essence”
182: “Existence”

Season 9:

183: “Nothing Important Happened Today”
184: “Nothing Important Happened Today II”
185: “Dæmonicus”
186: “Hellbound”
187: “4-D”
188: “Lord Of The Flies”
189: “John Doe”
190: “Trust No 1″
191: “Underneath”
192: “Provenance”
193: “Providence”
194: “Scary Monsters”
195: “Audrey Pauley” (Excluded)
196: “Improbable”
197: “Jump The Shark”
198: “Release”
199: “William”
200: “Sunshine Days”
201: “The Truth”
202: “The Truth II”