HOME (THE X-FILES)

"'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'. With no other suitable female, they have amputated all the limbs off their own mother and are attempting to father new children with her. In the end two of them are killed while the third escapes with his mother. The final scene implies that in the night, on the road, the son dutifully carries out what he may feel is his duty to keep the family line going.

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★ This is the only X-Files episode to garner a TV-MA rating due to references to incest, and was banned from American network television, only re-aired years afterwards late at night on cable TV.

★ 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.

★ This is considered to be the most disturbing of all ''X-Files'' episodes.

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★ Home at TV.com