High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Milagro" is the eighteenth episode of the sixth season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. It originally aired on the Fox network on April 18, 1999. The episode`s teleplay was written by Chris Carter from a story by John Shiban and Frank Spotnitz, and directed by Kim Manners. The episode is a "Monster-of-the-Week" story, unconnected to the series` wider mythology. "Milagro" earned a Nielsen household rating of 9, being watched by 15.2 million people upon its initial broadcast. The episode received mixed reviews from television critics; while many approved of it, others felt that it used a stereotype to portray Scully as weak-minded.