High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Talitha Cumi" is the twenty-fourth episode and third season finale of the science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network on May 17, 1996 in the United States. The teleplay was written by Chris Carter, and directed by R. W. Goodwin. The episode is one of several that explored the series` overarching mythology. "Talitha Cumi" achieved a Nielsen household rating of 11.2, being watched by 17.86 million people in its initial broadcast. The episode received mostly positive reviews from critics.