High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "The Truth" is the collective name for the 201st and 202nd, and final, episodes of the science fiction television series The X-Files. They first aired in the United States on May 19, 2002 on Fox in the United States and Canada. "The Truth" subsequently aired in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It was written by creator and executive producer Chris Carter and directed by Kim Manners. The episode acts as a series finale for the show, concluding many long-time story arcs while creating new ones for a possible film franchise. Chris Carter has expressed an intent to make a third X-Files feature film that would focus on the impending alien invasion revealed in this episode, depending on the success of the 2008 film The X-Files: I Want to Believe.