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24 EPISODE
Plot overview
In the teaser, Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) are sent to investigate the finding of a deformed baby's corpse found by children during an informal baseball game. The episode proper begins with a woman, later identified as Mrs. Peacock, giving birth. This is followed by her three sons disposing of the body and burying it in a nearby field during a rainstorm. The episode then cuts to the baseball diamond, where Scully is already taking notes and Mulder is sniffing a baseball that the children left at the scene. He reminisces about a time when he and his sister Samantha would bike down to the beach and eat bologna sandwiches. When he expresses interest in a simpler life, Scully retorts that he would go into catatonic schizophrenia if not for his cellphone. Mulder jokes that he would be willing to settle down in a town just like the one they are in if not for his job.
While talking to the town sheriff, Mulder asks whether or not the inhabitants of the house nearest to the scene had been questioned about the baby. The Sheriff, Andy Taylor, tells them that that the house dates back to the American Civil War and is still without electricity, running water, or heat. He also insinuates that the family has been inbreeding since the war: "[they] raise and breed their own stock... if you get what I mean." All the while, the Peacock family sullenly watches from their front porch.
During an autopsy, the agents discover that the baby suffocated by inhaling dirt. Mulder and Scully later talk outside the town's police station; Scully seems distressed by the abandonment of this child and over the defects presented. They sit down on a bench and Mulder flirts with her, suggesting that she find a man with a spotless genetic makeup and a high tolerance for being second-guessed to pump out "über-Scullys." She inquires about his family, and Mulder claims that other than the need for corrective lenses and a tendency towards being abducted by aliens, the Mulder family passes genetic muster. He suggests that their case is nothing more than kids disposing of an unwanted birth. Scully, however declares the child is not a result of a freak accident in mating and must have been inbred just like the Sheriff suggested.
Later, the Peacocks brutally murder Sheriff Taylor and his wife. The agents find a shaken deputy smoking a cigarette. The agents and officers decide to stage an assault on the Peacock residence and arrest the Peacocks. At the house, the family members are nowhere to be seen. When Deputy Pastor tries to break down the front door, he is decapitated by a boobytrap. The Peacocks come out of hiding and tear him apart in animalistic fashion. Scully and Mulder decide to lure the Peacocks out by releasing their pigs, and sneak into the house while the boys chase them down.
There, they find Mrs. Peacock, unable to walk, who has been guiding the actions of her sons. It is implied that she has been breeding with her sons for years. The Peacock boys soon realize Mulder and Scully are inside and attack. The two youngest sons survive several gunshots before they are killed, one of them impaled on yet another boobytrap. Afterwards, the agents discover that Mrs. Peacock and her oldest son are gone.
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