The problem is that method X is a remote invocation into another system that has different change-control procedures, a different ticketing system, and a different release schedule.
I'd use a gateway class and intention-revealing method names, even if all that method was doing was casting a value. I'd call it ".edge_case_fix", (but described better than "edge case") and do the same for every weirdness in the external system that requires workarounds.
