![]() Mulder, who was watching a nature documentary about pack hunters the night before, talks about men regressing to a prehistoric state and attacking those they perceive as taking away their chance for reproduction. Watching from a distance, Mulder and Scully are … curiously calm. What looks like a hammer flies down and thumps him in the head, then the Peacock boys move in and finish him off. Paster approaches the front of the house and walks right into a particularly hideous booby trap at the door. Mulder, Scully, and Paster split up once they arrive. Meanwhile, in the Peacock house, we see the eyeballs again, rasping “I’m hungry” and then “I’m ready.” The boys take off their shirts and file out as the voice warns they have to be ready for what’s coming-that this is their home, and it will stay that way. Paster, feeling bold and vengeful after what happened, accompanies them with several guns. They decide to go and speak to the Peacocks. As they leave, the camera closes in on a pair of eyes hidden behind a wall, and we hear raspy breathing. The house seems deserted, so they decide to do some cross-referencing with the missing persons’ database. There’s blood on the ground and a footprint that matches one lifted from the grave. They head to the house to take a look around. Mulder notes kidnapping is a federal matter, while the case might initially appear not to fall within the FBI’s jurisdiction. Scully says the deformities could stem from years of genetic mutations, and wonders if-given the sheriff said the Peacocks were all boys-a woman was made to give birth against her will. Both she and Mulder seem quick to point out their families have no history of birth defects. She stops herself and wonders aloud if she’s projecting what she would feel in the circumstances. Scully wonders about the mother and what condition she’d be in after seeing this happen to her child. The two of them go outside and discuss the case briefly. The family grow their own food and “breed their own stock,” a turn of phrase exactly as loaded as it sounds. The house was built during the Civil War and has no electricity or running water. He doesn’t know for certain though, because their three sons came and took the bodies away, and no one has seen them in ten years. Saying, “I guess you could call them human,” he reveals the parents were in a bad car wreck several years ago, and it was presumed they died. He looks deeply perturbed at what’s happened (in fairness, who wouldn’t be?) and makes reference to the “sick things” that happen in the outside world suddenly arising in his “home town.” (The episode makes repeated references to “home” and interpretations of same, which I’ll come back to later.) When Mulder asks about the house, Taylor tells them it belongs to the Peacock family. The local sheriff, Andy Taylor, comes to help out. ![]() The infant had been buried alive in the opening scenes by a group of deformed men who wailed and lamented as the grave was filled in. The body is unearthed by a group of children playing baseball, just outside the fences of a large, creepy old house. Mulder and Scully join an investigation into the discovery of an infant’s body in Pennsylvania. ![]()
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