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Certification
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Sex & Nudity
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- Incest and inbreeding is a theme of this episode.
Violence & Gore
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- Nearly all of the violence is implied or off-screen.
- At the beginning of the episode, parturition is seen. The baby in question is then brought out to the side of the house and is buried alive. We see a POV shot from the baby's perspective as it's buried. Later, a group of elementary school kids play sandlot ball where the baby was buried, unbeknownst that the dead baby is underneath. The soil gradually loosens as the game progresses, and a puddle of blood surrounds one of the kids' foot.
- Mulder and Scully later observe the body of the dead baby in a confined bathroom. We get a pretty detailed shot of the corpse, including its deformities as a result of incest. Scully explains that the baby died as a result of suffocation (from the soil it was buried in) rather than as a result of it's deformities.
- Mulder and Scully search the Peacock house for connection to the burial. They find shovels and other items covered in blood.
Profanity
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- One use of bitchin', damn, and hell.
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
Frightening & Intense Scenes
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- The episode is very intense and lots of fun. Fans of the show often cite it as the most gruesome episode. While later episodes came that further upped the gruesomeness of the show, at the time of it's first airing, Home arguably was the most gruesome X-Files episode to have aired, and people viewing the show for the first time in chronological order may have a similar reaction to those who first viewed the episode for the first time in 1996.
- The implication of a baby being buried alive, along with accompanying POV shot of the baby being buried, is very intense, as well as the knowledge the viewer has during the sandlot scene that the baby is underneath the earth that the game is happening on. The puddle of blood from the baby's body that seeps onto the field and onto the kid's shoe is disturbing.
- The body abnormalities, acquired from a bloodline of incest, are disturbing as well as the actual implications of incest, themselves.
- Some of the deaths may disturb some people.
Spoilers
Sex & Nudity
- Mulder and Scully ponder the possibility of the birth of the baby. They figure that the Peacock boys must have kidnapped and raped a woman. This doesn't turn out to be true.
- It's later found out that the eldest Peacock son and his mother conceived his two younger brothers, making them both the eldest son's sons and brothers.
- Mulder and Scully discover Mrs. Peacock (who has been presumed to have been dead for over a decade) underneath the bed of the house. First they presume that she was kidnapped and, presumably, raped by the Peacock boys. However, when they find she is their mother, they're able to explain the genetic problems earlier discovered in the episode. This implication of incest and inbreeding may be too much for some people.
- The Peacock boys strip (take off their shirts and pants) for their mother. She comments on how they look, and they put their clothes back on.
- The eldest son and his mother get away. At the end of the episode, the two are heard talking. The mother implies that they're going to try again to reproduce.
Violence & Gore
- The Peacock boys break in to the sheriff's house. His wife hides under their bed as the sheriff prepares to shoot them. The bullets, however, are ineffective and the boys begin to beat him to death, leaving a pretty big puddle of blood that goes under the bed, right in the face of the sheriff's wife. The boys the pull the bed over, revealing the wife, and proceed to beat her to death, too, though this is mostly off-screen.
- A deputy gets his head smashed in as a result of a booby trap.
- Two of the mutants die. One as a result of multiple shootings, the other having accidentally triggered their own booby trap.The latter is pretty graphic.
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
- A deputy smokes a cigarette after being visibly anxious at the discovery of the sheriff's death.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
- The scene where the Peacocks break in to the sheriff's house and kill him and his wife is very intense and gruesome.
