Aubrey (The X Files)

In the town of Aubrey , Missouri, detective BJ Morrow tells Lieutenant Brian Tillman, with whom she has an affair, about his pregnancy. He asks her to meet him at the motel that evening. Approaching the motel, BJ experiences a vision that brings her to the field, where a woman digs up the remains of a man. Agents Fox Mulder ( David Duchovny ) and Dana Scully ( Gillian Anderson ) are sent to Aubrey to investigate the matter. The remains belong to the FBI agent Sam Cheney, who investigated with his partner Sam Ledbetter three murders in Aubrey in 1942 . Both agents subsequently disappeared. Agents find inconsistencies in BJ's story, but Tillman defends her version. Mulder retells to Scully the materials of the case, which was once investigated by missing agents: three women were raped and killed, the word "Sister" was carved with a razor on each chest. An autopsy on Cheney’s body reveals similar wounds, of which the word “Brother” is formed using a computer program. BJ admits Scully in his romance and pregnancy.

Tillman reports that a new murder was committed in which the word “Sister” is again carved on the woman’s chest. BJ claims to have seen the victim in a dream. She tells the agents about her visions, where there is a man in a rage and a monument that Mulder recognizes as Trilon and Perisphere from the 1939 World's Fair in New York . Looking at old archival photos, BJ identifies the man from her dreams as Harry Cowley, arrested for raping a woman named Linda Tibedo and cutting out the word “Sister” on her chest. Scully believes that BJ unknowingly reproduced the old case, because her father was a policeman and may have talked about Cowley at home. Agents visit the elderly Cowley, who has long been released from prison. Coughley leads a hermit lifestyle and is so weak that he almost cannot exist without an oxygen generator. Coughley insists that he was at home while committing crimes. When Mulder shows him a photograph of young Cheney, Cowley is barely noticeable nervous.

BJ wakes up from a nightmare, the word "Sister" is carved on her bloody chest. She sees a young Cowley in the mirror. A woman goes down to the basement and opens the floorboards, where the body of Agent Ledbetter is discovered. Coughley is being taken into custody, but he denies having attacked Morrow. Scully says the blood on the last victim is the same as Cowley’s blood type. Agents track down Linda Tibedo, who tells them about her rape in the 1940s. Mulder pays attention to the photo where Linda is captured at the 1939 World's Fair amid Trilon and Perisphere. The woman says that after the rape, she had a child, whom she gave for adoption. Agents keep track of a child’s story and find out that they are BJ’s father. This makes Mulder think that the killer is BJ under the influence of his genetic memory.

Agents set off to intercept BJ when she attacks Tibedo, but suddenly stops, she barely sees scars with the word “Sister” on the elderly woman’s chest. Agents discover Tibedo after the BJ has left her, and go to Cowley's house, being sure that he is her next victim. Morrow is already in place and quietly cuts the Cowley respirator with a razor, after which he attacks the old man. Upon arrival of the agents, the BJ rushes at Mulder, but the aggression ceases as soon as Cowley dies. BJ is placed in Shamron's prison for the mentally ill, where she, being pregnant, despite her unsuccessful attempts to provoke a miscarriage, begins to serve her sentence ^{[1] [2]} .

• Gillian Anderson as Agent Dana Scully
• David Duchovny as Agent Fox Mulder
• Terry O'Quinn as Lieutenant Train Tillman
• Deborah Strang as Detective BJ Morrow
• Morgan Woodward as Harry Cowley
• Joy Cohil as Linda Tibedo
• Roby Driscoll as Detective Joe Darnell
• Peter Fleming as a policeman
• Sarah-Jane Redmond as a young mom
• Emanuel Hazhek as the young Harry Cowley

• The episode was written by Sarah B. Sharno, which was her first appearance in the series. Sharno originally planned to develop the story around the 50-year-old killer and the transmission of genetic memory ^[3] . Later, this concept was combined with another - a female serial killer ^[3] . Additional gloss of the series was given by Glen Morgan and James Wong, who wrote many scripts for The X-Files ^[3] . Many scenes were added to the script during the filming, such as a scene with BJ attacking Mulder ^[3] .
• Morgan and Wong offered to try on the role of Harry Cowley Woodward, who had previously worked with them in the series Jump Street 21 ^[3] .
• The actor, who appeared in this series as Lieutenant Brian Tillman, will later appear in the film based on the series , but in the role of another character, as well as in season 9 in the episode “ Trust No One ” ^{[4] [5]} . In addition, he will have the role of the periodic character of Peter Watts in the twin series The X-Files - Millennium ^[6] .
• O'Queen would later be nicknamed “Mr. Ten Thirteen” due to the fact that he often appears in various TV shows and films that are associated with 10 13 Productions, the company that produced the X-Files series ^[7] .

• " Aubrey " on the Internet Movie Database
• Episode "Aubrey" on the site "Russian server" The X-Files ""
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