"Home" is the second episode of season four of The X-Files. A newborn's corpse is found in a shallow grave with a large number of birth defects. Mulder and Scully travel to the rustic small town of Home, Pennsylvania, where they find evidence of an unspeakable crime. Three brothers who live on their family farm are the products of a century of constant inbreeding by their family in an attempt to remain 'pure'. The mother, who lost her limbs in a car accident, continues to try and breed with her sons in an attempt to keep the family line going. In the end, two of the sons are killed while the third escapes with his mother. The final scene, along with a voiceover of the mother, emphasizes that despite all that has happened, the son and mother will continue trying to rebuild the Peacock family.
Trivia
- After its original airing, Fox Network chose not to air the episode again due to the disturbing theme. It was re-aired only once, on October 31, 1999 as a special Halloween showing. On its re-airing, it featured a TV-MA rating, the only X-Files episode to be rated as such.
- The song playing on the car radio during the Peacock's killing spree and at the end of the episode is "Wonderful! Wonderful!," a song originally sung by Johnny Mathis but covered here by a sound-alike.
- Mrs. Peacock has a southern accent and refers to the U.S. Civil War as the War of Northern Aggression, despite her family's living in Pennsylvania, a Northern State during the war.
- Mulder jokingly refers to Deputy Barney Paster as Deputy Barney Fife from The Andy Griffith Show, in which Andy Griffith plays a sheriff named, as is the one in this episode, Andy Taylor.
- While in a pig pen on the farm property Agent Scully whispers "baa-ram-ewe" to a passing pig. This is a reference to the movie Babe and is actually the password to talk to sheep rather than pigs.
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