High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Conduit" is the fourth episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network on October 1, 1993. It was written by Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon, directed by Daniel Sackheim, and featured a guest appearance by Carrie Snodgress as the mother of an abducted teenager. The episode, although not directly tied to the series` ongoing story arcs, provides more information on how Fox Mulder`s younger sister, Samantha Mulder, had been abducted as a child; a plot thread which would go on to become one of the more prominent of the series.