mulder using the memory of waking up at night, as a scared child, and hearing his dad eating sunflower seeds in the living room, as proof of genetic predisposition... and it's season 2, so they maybe aren't thinking about mulder's paternity; but the fact that mulder's love of sunflower seeds probably isn't genetic at all; it's him searching for little bits of comfort leftover from growing up in a cold household, a household where he lost his sister -- but a household, still, where the sound of his father crunching sunflower seeds was proof that he wasn't all alone in the universe
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