Appeared in: Season 4, Episode 2 - "Home" "Home" was the only episode of The X-Files to actually be banned from television for a while: a self-imposed ban by the FOX network, to be fair, but it did not air again for years. Generally considered to be one of the scariest and most disturbing episodes of the series, "Home" touches on themes of incest, small town life, and the encroachment of urban city centres on rural areas - in essence, the loss of a simpler way of life. It also plays up the old stereotype that "small towns have their secrets." At the centre of all this is the horrifically inbred Peacock family, three brothers (and later, we learn, a severely injured mother) living together on a small farm at the edge of town. "Everyone" knows about the Peacocks, and how they "keep to themselves" (a sly reference to their habit of inbreeding), yet no one wants to suspect them, at least at first, when the body of an infant is found buried in a makeshift baseball diamond at the sandlot next to their farm. Buried alive, based on the dirt inhaled by the small corpse. Of course, not knowing about the mother's existence initially, it's easy to see why you wouldn't suspect three brothers of somehow giving birth to a newborn - but the Peacock's were so creepy that Mulder and Scully should have just known (and soon enough, they do - but not before the boys murder the likeable local sheriff). Because of the incest/inbreeding angle, things here were creepy enough, but the deformities of the boys, and the condition of their mother - kept under a bed at their dilapidated home - takes this one over the top.
Primarily covering the sport of MMA from Ontario, Canada, Jay Anderson has been writing for various publications covering sports, technology, and pop culture since 2001. Jay holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Guelph, and a Certificate in Leadership Skills from Humber College.
