Home

Internal dating: No date given. Aired October 1996, if that's any help.

Credits roll. This time, "The Truth is Out There".

In Home Pennsylvania, a group of boys are playing baseball in a field, despite some mud problems. One of the boys hits the ball over a fence and it lands in the front yard of the run down farm house. The boys panic. Fortunately, one of the other kids has another ball. As the batter is digging his sneaker into the ground by home plate, blood starts covering his sneaker. He sees it and runs out of the batter box while the catcher also runs away. A little baby hand sticks out of the hole the batter's sneaker made.

A little while later, Mulder is walking around the baseball field. He seems much more preoccupied with the baseball he found than the dead body and the crime scene. Scully, on the other hand, is measuring the hole, looking for footprints, doing her job. Scully is surprised to see Mulder playing with the ball and tries to talk to him, but he's off in his own world. She reads him a list of what she did, but he's a million miles away. When she finally tells him a joke about quitting the FBI, he starts talking about his childhood.

Mulder tells her about playing baseball all day on the Vineyard with his friends and sister -- about a simpler life without modems, fax machine, computers and cell phones. Scully tells Mulder that he'd be in a catatonic, schizophrenic state without his cell phone. Mulder disagrees with Scully, explaining that his job keeps him in a big city, but if it was up to him, he'd live in a small town. Scully makes a remark about living in Mayberry when the sheriff pull up.

The sheriff, an African-American in his late 40's, introduces himself as Sheriff Andy Taylor. "For real" is Mulder's response. The sheriff talks about Home as a small, small town with no crime. The town's two pregnant women are still pregnant, so the baby wasn't their's.

Mulder points to the run down farm and asks if the three men sitting on the porch watching the investigation were questioned. Taylor explains to Mulder and Scully that the farm belongs to the Peacock brothers -- three orphaned men. Their parents are believed dead for 10 years. When Scully asks why they are believed dead, Taylor said there was a car accident but the boys would not allow the parents any medical attention. The Peacock brothers took their parents home so the parents are believed dead.

Scully wanted to know if Taylor questioned the men. He explained that the farm house was built during the Civil War -- had no electricity, no running water, no heat. The brothers grow their own food, breed their own cows, family and pigs. He explains that the men are feeble and simpletons. Any questions would be upset them. They would be scared and unable to help.

The sheriff lamented the change to his home town. He doesn't wear a gun but now with this murder, his town has changed forever. The FBI is involved because he needs the help but wants Mulder and Scully to try to save the lifestyle of this lovely town. The sheriff had to store the baby's body in the courthouse/jail's refrigerator, there was never a murder before so no morgue. The deputy walks in and is introduced to Mulder and Scully as Barney. "Fife?", Mulder asks. "Paster", the deputy replies in disgust.

Mulder and Scully are taken into the bathroom of the sheriff's office. Home has no lab, no place where Scully can work on the body, so she and Mulder are locked into a very small bathroom. Placing the tray where the body is on the bathroom sink, Scully uncovers the body and is shocked. Mouth agape, she tries to explain to a disgusted Mulder that the baby has every birth defect and abnormality she could remember. There is so much wrong with the baby that DNA tests are a must. A shot of the baby shows a very long body, extra long arms, very tiny legs and feet. Mulder thinks the baby, so badly damaged before birth, was still born. Scully is able to remove dirt from the baby's mouth and nose, making it obvious the baby was alive when he or she was buried.

Outside the courthouse/jail, Mulder and Scully have the most amazing conversation sitting on a bench. Scully wonders what it was like for the baby's mother - "Imagine all a woman's hopes and dreams for her child, and then nature turns so cruel. What must a mother go through?" Not much, according to Mulder, if she was able to bury the child alive. Scully admits that she was projecting what she thinks of motherhood on to the dead child's mother. Mulder asks Scully if there are any genetic abnormalities in her family history. No, she replies. Mulder, smiling, suggests that she find a guy with an impeccable genetic make up and "a really high tolerance for being second guessed and start pumping out uber-Scullys". Laughing, she asks Mulder about his family Surprised, he tells her except for the need for corrective lenses and the "tendency to be abducted by extra-terrestrials involved in an international global conspiracy, the Mulder family passes genetic muster", and curls his arms like Popeye.

Mulder then tells Scully that the child's death, while a tragedy is not an FBI matter. It is local law enforcement's responsibility. Scully disagrees. The child had way too many abnormalities which would be the rare alone, but are almost unnatural in combination. Mulder brings up the Peacocks, and Scully thinks they are a suspect too -- the sheriff, she said, mentioned inbreeding. Mulder couldn't figure who would be the child's mother is if the brothers did this. Their own mother was dead, there are no sisters. Scully told him the child was born to a woman -- a woman the boys could be keeping hostage. This fact made it an FBI case. The two decide to continue their investigation.

As Scully walks to the car, Mulder comments to her that until that moment, he never thought of her as a mother before. Scully gives him an odd smile.

At the farm house, Mulder and Scully have no probable cause to go in, so Mulder shines his flashlight into the kitchen to see if he can find anything. A table covered in blood has the two FBI agents searching the room. As Mulder bags the scissor which were on the bloody table, Scully sees a bloody foot print. The footprint matches a picture she has of a cast taken by the dead baby's grave. The two do a real quick search of the house -- its full of flies and is really dark. The brothers are gone, they conclude and probably with the woman they think the men are holding. There is a pair of eyes watching them, hiding in a bedroom.

That night, the Sheriff tells Scully over the phone that he has put out an APB on the three men -- 42 year old Edmund, 30 year old George and 26 year old Sherman. Scully, who is sitting at a table in Mulder's hotel room, is having a hard time hearing the sheriff. Mulder is whacking the heck out of the TV, trying to get some better reception. Scully wants the sheriff to trace any abandoned vehicles over the last 12 months for kidnapping victims as well. After they finish, the sheriff thinks about taking his weapon to bed, but won't.

The Peacocks, however, have plans. They go to one of the abandoned cars in the front of their yard and syphon gas to start an old Caddy.

Back in Mulder's room, he still can't get the TV to work. Scully teases him about still being interested in living in a small town. Mulder tells her no cable, no Knicks, no small town. As she leaves, he calls "Good night Mom" to her, and gets a strange look. Mulder's doorknob is broken and she can't lock his door. He jokes about the safety of a small town and not needing to lock the doors, but wedges a chair under the door after she leaves.

The boys, who look kinda weird (they still haven't been shown in full face or in a good light), have started their old Caddy with Johnny Mathis's "Wonderful Wonderful" playing on the radio, and are on the move.

Sheriff Taylor and his wife Barbara (Bee?) are off to bed, as is Scully. Mulder is watching some Nature special about wild animals killing their prey. With Johnny Mathis's "Wonderful, Wonderful" in the background, the Peacocks pull up in front of Sheriff Taylor's house. Before Taylor can get his gun, the Peacocks have walked in his unlocked front door. He finds a bat and returns to his bedroom. Mrs. Taylor hides under the bed. The boys walk in and boy are they genetic freaks in the dark-- funny looking foreheads, real cavemen types. As Sheriff Taylor swings the bat at one of them, one brother gets the bat and beats Sheriff Taylor to death. They find Mrs. Taylor under the bed and kill her as well. All the time, "Wonderful, Wonderful" is playing.

The next morning, Deputy Barney is sitting, smoking on the Sheriff's porch. He's really upset, but fairly competent. He tells Mulder and Scully that they were able to trace some of the cars from the Peacocks field and had a list of recent missing persons. He also had a FEDEX for Scully from the DNA lab. Mulder and Scully examine the crime scene and gives a really gross description of it. Scully opens the FEDEX package and is really ticked. The results are all screwy, with three different genetic makeups for the baby. Mulder doesn't think the tests are wrong, the child may have had three fathers -- the Peacock brothers. Scully gives Mulder a sex ed lesson about how babies are made, -- one egg, one sperm.

The two disagree about whether to go after the brothers. After the overkill in the Sheriff's bedroom, Mulder wants lots of back up. Scully is more concerned about a potential hostage. The deputy comes in like Rambo and wants to go after the Peacock brothers now. The agents agree, but Mulder thinks Barney is "a little too Chuck Bronson". Scully wonders why the Peacocks would kill the Sheriff, since he did not question them and only had recently phoned in a warrant. She wondered if the brothers overheard the two of them while they searched the house. Mulder said no, they were alone.

Back at the Peacocks, a much closer look at the brothers has them as modern day cavemen: slopping foreheads, unibrows, odd hair. Someone calls for the boys for food. The voice is understandable, but the gender is hard to determine. The voice then asks the brothers to him or her for the once over. The men strip -- mercifully the room is dark -- and show themselves to the voice. The voice warns the brothers that "they" are coming and to get ready. The men put their clothes back on and start to work. One of the brothers chews some bread for the voice under the bed, spits it out and passes it to the under bed dweller.

Mulder, Scully and the Deputy arrive at the farm. Barney's got all his deputy toys ready ... bulletproof vests, ear pieces and mikes like Judy the Time/Life operator uses ... but Mulder and Scully think this is a bit much. The men have muskets, according to Barney. The two reluctantly agree to go in through the back while Deputy Barney goes to the front door.

Deputy Barney does not do that well at the front door. He loses his head, literally, to a booby trap axe that swings down when the door is opened. Scully got to see all this through her Deputy Barney binoculars. The brothers pop out and start beating the dead deputy. Mulder starts repeating the stuff he learned the night before on TV about how animals kill their prey. Agreeing the house is probably booby trapped up the to hilt, Mulder and Scully try to get the brothers out of the house so they can carefully go in.

Moving into the pig pen, Mulder and Scully try to move the animals. Mulder jokes about being excited about the farm animals while Scully tries to get them to move the way "Babe" the pig did in the movie. (Baa-ram-ewe!) "Yeah, that'll work," says Mulder. Scully explains "I babysat my nephew this weekend. He watches "Babe" 15 times a day!" Mulder: "And people call ME spooky." When one of the brothers, who in the light of day is a prehistoric looking guy, comes out to wash Deputy Barney's blood off his hands, the pigs are running wild through the farm.

Mulder and Scully carefully go into the house while the brothers run after the pigs. As they search the house, they find really scary pictures on the wall. The family has been genetically screwy for years. Noticing scratch marks on the floor, Mulder and Scully look under the bed and find someone under there. The screaming woman they pull from under the bed has no arms, no legs and is strapped to a dolly. Screaming and yelling, she's of little help to them.

Scully notices one of the pictures on the wall. The woman is the believed dead Mrs. Peacock. Mulder goes to look for the brother's position. Scully is worried about Mrs. Peacock but notices more of the pictures. Edmund, the oldest, is the father of the two other brothers and probably the dead baby. Mrs. Peacock is their mom.

Scully tries to get Mrs. Peacock to talk the boys into surrendering. She won't leave and neither will the boys. She talks about how she lost her limbs in the accident. She then talks about how she loves her boys but Scully talks about their misdeeds. Mrs. Peacock taunts Scully about having no children and how if she did, she'd understand a mother's pride in how they protected her from the Sherriff. She also explains that genetically the boys can't feel pain, so although they'll die of wounds or sickness, they'll never feel a thing. That was why she had to check them for wounds after the assault on the Sherriff.

The Peacock boys return to the home. They attack Mulder. Scully has to wait before the can shoot at the men because they are all over Mulder. Finally, Scully is able to kill one while Mulder struggles with him. Scully tries to get to the mother, but one of the brother goes after Scully. He misses her and falls into one of the bobby traps, killing himself. Mulder and Scully go to get Mrs. Peacock but she's gone, as is the remaining Peacock brother.

Scully and Mulder put out an APB on them, but they are gone. As "Wonderful, Wonderful" plays, the Caddy sits on a rural road. Mrs. Peacock is telling her surviving son about how much she'll miss the other boys, but she will make more with him. The son then crawls out of the trunk and wishes Mom a good night and drives off into the night.

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