Home (11 Oct. 1996)
"The X Files" Home (original title)

Scully and Mulder investigate the death of a newborn child found in a shallow grave on the outskirts of a small town. Mulder loves the locale and thinks it's small-town America at its best.... See full summary »

Director:

Kim Manners

Writers:

Chris Carter (creator), Glen Morgan,

Stars:

David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Tucker Smallwood

Cast

Episode cast overview:
David Duchovny	...	Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson	...	Dana Scully
Tucker Smallwood	...	Sheriff Andy Taylor
Chris Nelson Norris	...	Edmund Peacock
Adrian G. Griffiths	...	Sherman Peacock (as Adrian Hughes)
John Trottier	...	George Peacock
Karin Konoval	...	The Peacock Mother
Sebastian Spence	...	Deputy Barney Paster
Judith Maxie	...	Mrs. Barbara Taylor
Kenny James	...	Radio Singer
Lachlan Murdoch	...	Right Outfielder
Neil Denis	...	The Catcher
Cory Fry	...	Batter
Douglas Smith	...	The Pitcher

Storyline

Scully and Mulder investigate the death of a newborn child found in a shallow grave on the outskirts of a small town. Mulder loves the locale and thinks it's small-town America at its best. It even has a sheriff by the name of Andy Taylor. Sheriff Taylor is highly reluctant to investigate the family nearest where the baby was found however. He tells the agents that the three brothers who live there are all simple, the product of generations if inbreeding in the Peacock family. When the Sheriff is killed, all evidence points to the Peacocks and the FBI agents are shocked at what they find in the house.

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Plot Keywords:

inbreeding | playing baseball | rubbing hands with dirt | pig pen | incest overtones | 

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Genres:

Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Certificate:

TV-MA

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

11 October 1996 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Stage 2, North Shore Studios, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company Credits

Production Co:

20th Century Fox Television, Ten Thirteen Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

60 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

This episode is one of the few X-Files episodes to contain mass media songs in it. During the primal beating of the deputy sheriff and his wife, the radio inside the Peacock family vehicle prominently plays the song "Wonderful! Wonderful!" by Johnny Mathis.

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Quotes

Scully: What about your family?
Fox Mulder: Well, aside from the need for corrective lenses and a tendency to be abducted by extraterrestrials involved in an international governmental conspiracy, the Mulder family passes genetic muster.

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Connections

References Babe (1995)

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Soundtracks

"Wonderful! Wonderful!"
Performed by Kenny James

User Reviews

You Can't Go Home Again

After the exciting season opening Herrenvolk, the MOTW episodes open with a bang with Home. Home is dark, gritty, violent, disturbing episode that was banned from network TV reruns for awhile because of its content. It's a very good episode that shows some excellent directing by Kim Manners. The set design of the Peacock's house couldn't have been better. You felt that someone was going to jump out and grab Mulder and Scully whenever they entered that creepy house. Although there is no paranormal aspect to this episode, the story and character still grip your attention. The dark story is even interlaced with some light moments between Mulder and Scully to help alleviate the mood a little. Besides the excessive violence which turned me off a little, the only other complaint of this episode is right after Deputy Pastor gets killed by the Peacocks. Scully observes it through binoculars and then, Mulder starts soliloquizing about how the Peacocks have reverted back to animal instincts. His lines are quite out of place for that scene. Spoken later, it would have been all right. If you want a good scare, watch Home alone, at night, around Halloween time. It will deliver.