Home, Pennsylvania.
An idyllic small town is the last place anyone would expect to find a hideously malformed
newborn buried in a shallow grave. This gruesome discovery is enough for the local sheriff,
Andy Taylor, to call in the FBI. Although the child’s deformations indicate multiple genetic
abnormalities, neither Mulder nor Scully believe this local tragedy is a matter for the X-Files:
until they learn more about Home’s reclusive Peacock clan.
For over a century, this farm family has lived on the outskirts of town…and the outskirts
of civilization. Generations of inbreeding have deformed their bodies and their souls into
something less than human, and more than animal. Now that the family has dwindled down
to three brothers, Mulder and Scully suspect that the Peacocks have devised a grotesque
plan to propagate their species…by forcing a kidnapped woman into involuntary pregnancy.
While someone (or something) watches unseen, Mulder and Scully explore the Peacock
farm and find the bloody evidence of a recent birth. Before they can arrest the Peacocks, the
family strikes back. Later that night, the Peacock boys massacre the sheriff and his wife. As
Mulder says, “They went caveman.”
Fearing for the life of the Peacocks’ prisoner, Scully and Mulder courageously invade the
farmhouse with only the local deputy as back-up. When they discover the hiding place of the
clan matriarch, they finally comprehend the appalling truth. Mrs. Peacock, a multiple
amputee, is the mother of the murdered infant. And also the proud mother of three sons
who’ll do anything for mom.
With guile, luck, and firepower, Mulder and Scully manage to kill two of the rampaging
Peacocks. In the confusion, the oldest boy and Mrs. Peacock escape in their long white
Cadillac. Mother and son drive off in search of a new place to call Home.
THE X-FILES “HOME” #4X02
Original Air Date: 10/11/96
CAST:
DAVID DUCHOVNY as Special Agent Fox Mulder
GILLIAN ANDERSON as Special Agent Dana Scully
GUEST CAST:
TUCKER SMALLWOOD as Sheriff Andy Taylor
SEBASTIAN SPENCE as Deputy Barney Paster
JUDITH MAXIE as Mrs. Barbara Taylor
CHRIS NORRIS as Edmund Peacock
JOHN TROTTIER as George Peacock
ADRIAN HUGHES as Sherman Peacock
KARIN KONOVAL as the Peacock mother
CORY FRYE as the batter
NEIL DENIS as the catcher
DOUGLAS SMITH as the pitcher
WRITTEN BY:
GLEN MORGAN AND JAMES WONG
DIRECTED BY:
KIM MANNERS
