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This is no replica office, either. Each item in the set piece came directly from the Fox Studio in Los Angeles, CA, and has been complemented with additional memorabilia from the personal collection of series creator, writer and director Chris Carter, such as script details and storyboards.

Some items are even available for purchase, and Carter will be in attendance for a meet and greet and autograph session on Saturday, June 30.

(If you meet him, by all means, ask him what he was thinking with that second X-Files movie. Either that, or just continue pretending it never happened.)

Photo by Jason Payne / Vancouver Sun

Carter’s connection to the Back Gallery Project can be traced all the way to the late 90s, when he met a Vancouver barista named Monica Reyes who has designs on opening her own gallery.

You may notice that this is also the name of an X-Files supporting character, the FBI agent played by Annabeth Gish and introduced in the series’ eighth season. That’s not a coincidence. Carter befriended Reyes back during the series’ original run, and later named his character in her honour.

Reyes went on to found the Back Gallery Project, opening the East Hastings gallery in 2008, and Carter has happily donated memorabilia from the show in the years since. In 2016, Carter personally gave her several items, which turned into an exhibition titled The X-Files: The Truth is Here (The Making of Season 10). It featured storyboards, scripts, spaceship blueprints, and other paraphernalia from the six-episode revival series.

But this time around, Reyes has the entire basement. The truth may be out there. But the set is here.

The exhibition, which debuted May 10, is open to the public Wednesdays through Saturdays, from 1-5pm.

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