"Audrey Pauley" is the eleventh episode of the ninth season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files.

The show centers on FBI special agents who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files; this season focuses on the investigations of John Doggett (Robert Patrick), Monica Reyes (Annabeth Gish), and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson).

The two, however, soon discover a unique woman, Audrey Pauley, who has the ability to communicate with both those conscious and unconscious.

After driving home from work, Monica Reyes (Annabeth Gish) is struck by a drunk driver and transported to a hospital, where she is received by Dr. Preijers (Jack Blessing) and Nurse Edwards; she soon slips into a coma.

Preijers informs Doggett and Scully that, since Reyes was an organ donor, in a few days her life-support will be pulled and the hospital will harvest her remains.

In the real world, it is revealed that Barreiro, a fellow comatose patient, has had his life support removed by Preijers.

Doggett begins looking into ways to save Reyes, noting an anomaly in her electrocardiograph that suggests stifled brain activity.

He injects the same drug he used to kill Edwards, but Audrey is able to concentrate and move into the floating hospital one last time.

"[4] Robert Patrick, whose friend Ted Demme had recently died, was worried about bringing too much emotion onto the set.

For one shot, in which Audrey Pauley disappears after appearing in front of Gish, Manners had wanted to employ CGI technology.

Eventually, the director decided to use practical effects by "t[ying] the two actresses [Gish and Ellis] together [...] and then [cutting] to Annabeth and in her face there's an 'oh shit' reaction, and then [panning] straight up on a crane, all right, and see that she's completely alone.

Robert Shearman and Lars Pearson, in their book Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen, gave the episode a glowing review and rated it five stars out of five.

[10] Shearman and Pearson ultimately called the end result "clever, thoughtful, […] very moving" and "beautiful".

Crang, in his book Denying the Truth: Revisiting The X-Files after 9/11, praised the performances of Robert Patrick and Annabeth Gish while stating that the visuals in the dream sequences were "pitch-perfect".

[12] Alanna Reid of The Companion wrote that "Reyes' cognisance of her own reincarnated status, her ability to sense the embodiment of evil and comprehend the journey of her own soul between life and death is the mark of a powerful mystic; allowing the show to ... build and play out narratives that would seem more at home in Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Charmed than The X-Files.

Club's Zack Handlen was generally unenthused writing "It’s not a bad episode, exactly, but there doesn’t seem to be a lot of point to it.