Home (episode)

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For the town of the same name, see Home.

After a deformed baby's body is found, Mulder and Scully investigate a family suspected of inbreeding.

[edit] Summary

Mulder and Scully are sent to investigate the finding of a deformed baby's corpse found at home plate by some children's make-shift baseball diamond. The episode starts out with a woman whom is later identified as Mrs. Peacock, giving birth followed by her three sons disposing of the body and burying it in a near by field during a storm. When they arrive at the scene, Scully is already taking notes and Mulder is sniffing a baseball that the children left at the scene. He mentions to Scully a time with Samantha when he and his sister would bike down to the beach and eat bologna sandwiches. He then tells Scully after she comments on how he would go into, "catatonic schizophrenia" with out his cell phone, he tells her it's a town like this he would like to settle down in if not for his job.

While talking to the town Sheriff, Mulder asks whether or not the house nearest to the scene had been questioned about the baby. To which the Sheriff Andy Taylor, tells them that 'the house had been built in the civil war and still does not have electricity, running water or heating.' He also insinuates that they have been inbreeding since the war by saying they, "raise and breed their own stock... if you get what I mean." The Peacock family all the while watches them from their porch.

During the inspection of the corpse, Scully comments, "Mulder... it looks as if this child has been affected by every rare birth defect known to science." They soon discover that their baby suffocated by inhaling dirt. Following the brief autopsy, Mulder and Scully talk outside the Police Station, Scully seems distressed by the abandonment of this child and over the defects presented. They sit down on a bench and Mulder flirts with her suggesting that she find a man with a spotless genetic make-up and a high tolerance for being second guessed to pump out, "über-Scullys."She inquires about about his Family, where Mulder claims his family other than the need for corrective lenses and alien abductions, the Mulder family passes genetic muster. Mulder soon deduces that their case is nothing more than kids disposing of an unwanted birth. Scully, however declares the child is not a result of a freak accident in mating and must have been inbred just like the Sheriff suggested.

Later the Peacocks brutally murder Sheriff Taylor and his wife. They find Deputy Barney horrified smoking a cigarette. They soon stage an assault on the booby-trapped Peacock residence where Deputy Pastor gets decapitated by one such trap at the front door.

This summary is incomplete.

[edit] Background Information

In one scene, Scully mentions the film Babe and imitates a line from the movie.

This episode was infamously banned from network television by Fox, following into original air date, because it was too graphic, but has since been shown several times.

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[edit] References

American Civil War; Babe; Baltimore; Cadillac; Cell phone; Home; Inbreeding; Mayberry; Meckel-Gruber Syndrome; Morgue; Nev-Laxova Syndrome; Peacock family; Pennsylvania; Pittsburgh; Sheriff; Sweetgum Lane; Wonderful, Wonderful

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Series:	The X-Files
Original Airdate:	10-01-1996
Production Number:	4x03
Date(s):	1996
Written by:	Glen Morgan & James Wong
Directed by:	Kim Manners