This week on The X-Files, Aubrey is a town not a person, John Locke is using the pseudonym “Brian” to be a real dickbag around town, Mulder debates nurture vs nature using the hard-to-argue-with cronch of a sunflower seed, we learn that even women named BJ can be treated poorly, and we witness a stunningly accurate doodle of the Trylon and Perisphere. It’s S2E12, “Aubrey.”Producer LaToya Ferguson gives this episode a scary ranking of 2.375/5 Mutator Genes That Have Activated Previously Dormant Genes

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