I've always figured that dreams are answers to questions we haven't figured out how to ask yet.
“Aubrey” · Season 2, Episode 12
In this episode: Fox Mulder (5), Dana Scully (4)
Mulder, I don't think BJ was in the woods that night because of engine failure.
What are you talking about?
Well, the Motel Black would have been a perfect meeting place. Away from town, away from his wife.
What do you mean?
It's obvious BJ and Tillman are having an affair.
How do you know?
A woman senses these things.
What's your interest in this case?
During their time, Chaney's and Ledbetter's ideas weren't very well received by their peers. Using psychology to solve a crime was something like, um ...
Believing in the paranormal?
Exactly. There's another mystery.
Which is?
Well, I'd like to know why this policewoman would suddenly drive her car into a field the size of Rhode Island and for no rhyme or reason dig up the bones of a man who's been missing for fifty years. I mean, unless there was a neon sign saying "Dig Here" --
I guess that's why we're going to Aubrey.
Yes, and also I've always been intrigued by women named B.J.
Well, on a basic cellular level, we're the sum total of all our ancestors' biological matter. But what if more than biological traits get passed down from generation to generation? What if I like sunflower seeds because I'm genetically predisposed to liking them?
But children aren't born liking sunflower seeds. Environments shape them; behavior patterns are taught.
There are countless stories of twins separated at birth who end up in the same occupation, marrying the same kind of people, each naming their child Waldo.
Waldo?
Jung wrote about it when he talked about the collective unconscious. It's genetic memory, Scully.
Listen to this, Scully. "One must wonder how these monsters are created." Chaney wrote this. "Did their home life mold them into creatures that must maim and kill, or are they demons from birth?"
Well, that's poetic but it doesn't help us much. What did he say about the 1942 homicides?
Well, the press called the murderer "The Slash Killer." His three victims were all young women aged twenty-five to thirty. He disabled them with a blow to the head. He would carve the word "SISTER" on their chests and paint it on the wall with their blood.
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