From Ruben Blades to the Chupacabra: These are the 6 Most Latino Episodes of ‘The X-Files’

“Mulder, I know you’re not going to like this, but I think the aliens in this story are not the villains, they’re the victims.” The line, from a season four episode of the worldwide hit The X-Files, sums up one of the many ways in which the little green men of the FOX series functioned as metaphors for many of the 1990s issues that the show tackled. Ideas of foreigners — and Others who could infiltrate our world and threaten it easily — were central to the David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson sci-fi show. Yes, Agents Mulder and Scully rarely ventured outside of the United States, but the complicated plot lines and secret conspiracies that littered every episode knew no national boundaries. That seemed to work very well for the show which was a global hit during its run with its two standalone films actually making more money abroad than they ever did in the United States.

Ahead of The X-Files‘ return to television, we’re counting down the handful of episodes that had Mulder and Scully dealing with everything from the chupacabra to Ecuadorian jaguar spirits, and from migrant workers and to Haitian refugees.

The brand new six-episode miniseries of The X-Files premieres on Sunday, January 24, 2016 at 10 p.m. ET (7 p.m. PT) on Fox.