The 2016 X-Files miniseries continues tonight with the premiere of Episode 3, “Mulder and Scully Meet The Were-Monster.” Here’s what you need to know to watch tonight’s episode of the 2016 X-Files .

Do I Need To Have Seen The First Two Episodes Of ‘The X-Files’?

The episode is a drastic shift from the previous two episodes of The X-Files miniseries, “My Struggle” and “Founder’s Mutation,” with a humorous focus brought to us by X-Files writer Darin Morgan, who wrote classic X-Files episodes like “ Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose,” “Jose Chung’s From Outer Space,” and “War of the Coprophages.” It stands alone.

Still, “Mulder and Scully Meet The Were-Monster” follows a loose emotional thread established in The X-Files 2016 premiere episode, “My Struggle.” Mulder now believes that much of his work on the original X-Files wasn’t about aliens at all, but about an elaborate man-made government conspiracy that used aliens as a smokescreen for their evildoings.

His worldview overturned, the Mulder at the beginning of “Mulder and Scully Meet The Were-Monsters” is a man in search of his beliefs, distressed that the work of decades amounted to so little in the final summation.

How Can I Watch ‘The X-Files’ If I Don’t Have TV?

If you can’t catch The X-Files episode 3 “ Mulder and Scully Meet The Were-Monster” on TV, your best bet is Fox’s streaming service, Fox Now. It’s available for all the platforms you’d expect, including iOS, Android, Apple TV, Roku and Amazon Fire TV. Episodes go up the day after air.

New episodes of The X-Files also come to Hulu.

Will “Mulder and Scully Meet The Were-Monster” Scare Me?

If your first episode of The X-Files was last week’s “Founder’s Mutation” then you might have been a bit shocked. Full of messed-up mutant kids, an icepick shoved in a dude’s ear, and a fetus slashing open its own mother and crawling out, “Founder’s Mutation” was worthy of Hannibal in the gore department. The X-Files has been shocking and dark before (in eighth season episode “ Roadrunners” Scully gets a giant slug carved out of her back with a knife), but “Founder’s Mutation” was definitely on the bleeding edge of X-Files episodes when it comes to bleeding edges.

“Mulder and Scully Meet The Were-Monster” is nothing like that. There’s some blood and very strange peeping tom jokes, but is otherwise tame.

The official description for the new X-Files episode reads, “When a dead body is found in the woods, Mulder and Scully are called in to investigate whether it was an animal attack, a serial killer or just maybe a strange creature as described by eyewitnesses.” But that hardly does justice to the strangeness in store throughout “Mulder and Scully Meet The Were-Monster.”

There’s no point in spoiling any plot points now, but it is worth keeping an eye open for “Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster’s” guest appearances. The episode is loaded with comedic talent, including Kumail Nanjiani (whose podcast The X-Files Files is partially credited with bringing renewed attention to the show), Rhys Darby (Flight of the Conchords), Tyler Labine and Nicole Parker-Smith.

“Mulder and Scully Meet The Were-Monster” airs at 8 p.m. Monday on Fox and brings us to the halfway point in the six episode 2016 X-Files miniseries.