The X-Files "HOME" episode
Billie - AGC Queen
the regular FOX station..it's on tonight.....
The X-Files
Home - Mulder and Scully discover evidence of an unspeakable crime in a bucolic
small town. Stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson. 9:00 p.m. (ET/PT) FX
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series. Disturing images and twisted humor. Considered to be so intense FOX
ordered Chris Carter to trim some of the violence down. I've heard there is the
TV equivalent of a director's cut available but haven't seen it in any video
stores I've been to.
Does anybody know more about this?
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AMYSA
>TV equivalent of a director's cut available but haven't seen it in any video
>stores I've been to.
it was released in the last wave of xfiles tapes. it's for sale and i've seen
it in several blockbusters, so i assume the whole chain stocks it.
i haven't bought that set yet, so i don't know if there is added footage, but
i'm sure that in the little pre-show interviews chris has something to say
about it. :-)
amy
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RTurner606
Truly the scariest thing on television I've ever seen. An X-Files episode that
actually scared you instead of delving into all that messed-up alien mythology
crap that Chris Carter makes up at the top of his head and expects everybody to
believe.
Billie - AGC Queen
> I've heard there is the
>TV equivalent of a director's cut available but haven't seen it in any video
>stores I've been to.
>>
I've seen both the episode when it originally aired and my daughter has the
video, which I watched about a month ago...they are the same.
Billie...truly one of the scariest, sickest things I've ever seen...I loved it!
It was the first XF show I'd ever seen...and I was hooked...however, nothing
has ever come up to the standard set by that show...IMO.
DJarest
Jenni
>What is this episode about? Someone please email me and tell me? Thanks.
HOME: All you need to know is that you don't want to meet the Peacocks. ;) Or
maybe you do, depends on your outlook.
Stormy Spice...Keeper of Sam Waterston and Kate Winslet...
"There's nothing wrong with being a bitch...but you'll burn in hell if you're a
stupid bitch." ~~ Words of Puzz
"It was scary. When I looked up, she wasn't wearing many clothes."~~ Tiger
Woods
RTurner606
Chris Carter has it ingrained in his head that the "mythology" crap is behind
the X-Files success and not the well-written, quirky episodes that pop up every
once in awhile.
"Millenium" was driven into the ground because Carter insisted on it being a
mythology/conspiracy driven show even though it's best episodes were the quirky
ones (Devils in Coffe Shop; Singing Kevorkian; Dr. Jung, etc.)
And it looks like Chris Carter's new series "Harsh Realm" is going to be just
as lame.
Billie - AGC Queen
episode by Glen Wong and James Morgan
summary by MaraKara
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Internal dating: No date given. Aired October 1996, if that's any help.
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Late one night, in the pouring rain, a woman gives birth to a baby in a rundown
farm house. The farm house has no lights, no electricity. The umbilical cord is
cut by a pair of scissors. There are three men in the room as the woman gives
birth. The room seems to be full of junk and is a mess. Several minutes later,
the three men walk across their farm land and into a field, carrying the baby.
It is still pouring. One of the men is crying, as is the baby. While one man
holds the baby, another takes a shovel and starts to dig in the mud. The third
man continues to weep. The baby is placed in a shallow grave. The man digging
now buries the baby while the man who was carrying the child comforts the
crying man.
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.