Traveling to the small isolated town of Home, Pennsylvania, the pair meet the Peacocks, a family of deformed farmers who have not left their house in a decade. In this episode, Mulder and Scully investigate the death of a baby born with severe physical defects. Mulder is a believer in the paranormal the skeptical Scully was initially assigned to debunk his work, but the two have developed a deep friendship.
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The series centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder ( David Duchovny) and Dana Scully ( Gillian Anderson), who work on cases linked to the paranormal, collectively called " X-Files".
Some reviewers felt the violence was excessive. Critics were generally complimentary, and praised the disturbing nature of the plot several made comparisons to the work of director Tobe Hooper. "Home" would be the only episode of The X-Files to carry a TV-MA rating upon broadcast and the first to receive a viewer discretion warning for graphic content if the system had been present at the time the TV Parental Guidelines rating system would be introduced two months later, on December 19, 1996. Watched by 18.85 million viewers, the initial broadcast had a Nielsen rating of 11.9. "Home" is a " Monster-of-the-Week" story, unconnected to the overarching mythology of The X-Files. Directed by Kim Manners, it was written by Glen Morgan and James Wong. " Home" is the second episode of the fourth season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files, which originally aired on the Fox network on October 11, 1996.
Tucker Smallwood as Sheriff Andy Taylor.