Lazarus (S1 Episode 15)

2025-08-20

Jessica and Dini travel back to February 4, 19994! Join us as we discuss our top 5 favorite moments from S1 EP15, Lazarus. This episode was written by Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon. Directed by David Nutter. An FBI agent and former boyfriend of Scully’s, Jack Willis, is shot during a bank robbery. At the same moment, the robber is also fatally shot. In the hospital, Willis is revived—but begins to exhibit the personality and behavior of the dead criminal. Mulder believes that the criminal’s consciousness has transferred into Willis...

An FBI agent and former boyfriend of Scully’s, Jack Willis, is shot during a bank robbery. At the same moment, the robber is also fatally shot. In the hospital, Willis is revived—but begins to exhibit the personality and behavior of the dead criminal. Mulder believes that the criminal’s consciousness has transferred into Willis’s body. As Willis becomes increasingly erratic and obsessed with unfinished criminal business, Scully is caught between loyalty to her old partner and the unsettling truth of what may have happened.

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