Batter
All right, let's play some ball!
Season 4 · Episode 2
Home
Character-labelled dialogue prepared from the official DVD subtitle track.
Production code4X03Original airdate · October 11, 1996
176 dialogue entries
Scene 02
HOME...
[ thunderclap ]
[ screaming ]
[ gasping ]
[ screaming continues ]
[ thunderclap ]
[ screaming ]
[ baby crying ]
[ crying continues ]
[ baby crying ]
[ baby crying ]
[ crying ]
[ crying ]
[ crying continues ]
[ thunderclaps ]
[ continues crying ]
[ child ]
Catcher
Swing it in here. Strike!
Batter
In what league?
Pitcher
Quit complaining. We already had to move home plate 'cause you bitched about the mud.
[ fielder ]
Boy #1
Nice pitch.
Catcher
Come on, let him hear some chin music.
Boy #1
Throw a fastball!
[ grunts ]
Boy #2
Whoa.
Boy #1
Nice hit.
Boy #2
Go get it!
Pitcher
Hey, come on!
Right Fielder
It went on the Peacock's property.
Catcher
Here's another one!
[ pitcher ]
Pitcher
Come on, let's play!
Catcher
Come on, baby, bring it home to mama. Right here. Put it there. Come on, right here. Come on, baby. Bring it home. Come on, right here. That's it. Ease up. Come on.
[ fielder ]
Boy #2
Get to it.
Dana Scully
Compression marks indicate the shovel blade... To be approximately six and three-quarters inches. The angle of movement and deeper indentation on the right side of the mark... Suggests a left-handed individual. I've collected soil specimens, and, uh, although numerous shoe impressions remain from the sandlot game, I think a couple of dental stone casts will prove invaluable... To the investigation. Meanwhile, I've quit the FBI and become a spokesperson for the ab-roller.
Fox Mulder
Smell that. It's perfume. Eau de ball. God, this brings back a lot of memories my sister-- all day pickup games out on the vineyard, ride your bikes down to the beach, eat bologna sandwiches. Only place you had to be on time was home for dinner. Never had to lock your doors. No modems, no faxes, no cell phones.
Dana Scully
Mulder, if you had to do without a cell phone for two minutes, you'd lapse into catatonic schizophrenia.
Fox Mulder
Scully, you don't know me as well as you think you do. My work demands that I live in a big city, but if I settle down, build a home, it'll be a place like this.
[ truck door closes ]
Dana Scully
It'd be like living in mayberry.
Sheriff Andy Taylor
Agents Mulder and Scully? Hi. I'm sheriff andy taylor.
Fox Mulder
For real?
Sheriff Andy Taylor
Can't thank you or the bureau enough for coming out. It's just me and my deputy, and-- hell, we never had anything of this nature.
Dana Scully
Do you have any thoughts or suspects?
Sheriff Andy Taylor
Population of home is only a few hundred. Everybody knows everybody pretty much.
Dana Scully
Were there any local women who were pregnant and now suddenly aren't?
Sheriff Andy Taylor
No. I just saw mary Ellen and nancy. They're both fine.
Fox Mulder
Hey, sheriff, who lives in that house there? Did you question them? They've been watching us the entire time.
Sheriff Andy Taylor
That farm belongs to the Peacock family. Three boys now-- well, men. Guess you could call them human. Their folks were in a bad car wreck. We suppose they died.
Dana Scully
You suppose?
Sheriff Andy Taylor
We tried to administer medical attention, but the boys hauled the bodies away, took them home. They haven't been seen in ten years, so... We suppose they died.
Dana Scully
Have you questioned the men?
Sheriff Andy Taylor
The peacocks built that farm during the civil war. It still has no electricity, no running water, no heat. They grow their own food. They raise their own pigs. They breed their own cows. Raise and breed their own stock, if you get my meaning.
Dana Scully
It is, however, the closest residence to the crime scene.
Sheriff Andy Taylor
Those boys are feeble, agent Scully, and sad. They wouldn't have any idea what you were talking about.
Dana Scully
They could have witnessed--
Sheriff Andy Taylor
Look, this town is my home. I love it. It's quiet... Peaceful. I don't even wear a gun. I've seen and heard some of the sick... And horrible things that go on outside my home. At the same time, I knew we couldn't stay hidden forever, that one day the modern world would find us... And my hometown would change forever. And when I saw... It... In the ground, I knew that day had come. Now I want to find whoever did this. But in doing so, I'd like it if the way things are around here didn't have to change. I know this is iffy bureau jurisdiction, but I didn't know where else to turn. So I called the bureau in pittsburgh, and when I described the victim, they said I should see you.
Fox Mulder
Maybe we should take a look at the victim then.
Scene 03
POLICE STATION · HOME, PENNSYLVANIA
Sheriff Andy Taylor
We don't have a lab or a morgue. I've got a room down here, might be a bit cleaner. By the way, this is my deputy, barney.
Fox Mulder
Fife?
Deputy Barney Pastor
Pastor.
[ phone ringing ]
Dana Scully
I could use a bit more elbow room.
Sheriff Andy Taylor
The thing is, see, folks have been dropping in to ask about the case, and I wouldn't want anybody to pop in and see this.
Fox Mulder
You could just lock the door to the office.
Sheriff Andy Taylor
Folks know I never lock the door. They'd start rumors.
Dana Scully
Oh, my god. Mulder, it looks as if this child... Has been afflicted by every rare birth defect known to science. I mean, I'm going to have to order DNA typing from the crime lab, but there appears to be abnormalities associated with... Neu-laxova syndrome, meckel-gruber syndrome, atrophy of the cloaca. I don't even know where to begin.
Fox Mulder
I guess we can rule out murder as the cause of death, huh?
Dana Scully
I don't know about that. There's evidence of occlusion due to dirt in the nose and mouth, indicating the dirt has been inhaled.
Fox Mulder
There's something rotten in mayberry.
Dana Scully
Imagine all a woman's hopes and dreams for her child... And then nature turns so cruel. What must a mother go through?
Fox Mulder
Apparently not much in this case, if she'd just throw it out with the trash.
Dana Scully
I-I guess I was just projecting on myself.
Fox Mulder
Well, just find yourself a man with a spotless genetic makeup... And a really high tolerance for being second-guessed... And start pumping out the little uber-scullys.
Dana Scully
What about your family?
Fox Mulder
Hmm? Well, aside from the need for corrective lenses... And a tendency to be abducted by extraterrestrials... Involved in an international governmental conspiracy, the Mulder family passes genetic muster. Scully, that child inside is a tragedy. Some young parents, probably scared kids, disposed of an unwanted birth. In a very certain sense, infanticide is involved, but this is not an FBI matter.
Dana Scully
But from what I know about genetic defects, Mulder, it's unlikely that child is the result of a single polygenic mating.
Fox Mulder
We should let local authorities investigate that.
Dana Scully
Those defects, Mulder, are autosomal-dominant disorders, and from the degree, I'd say, mutations that go back many generations.
Fox Mulder
Scully, sheriff taylor implied that the boys in that family... Were not really the type that could easily get dates.
Dana Scully
But he also implied that they practice inbreeding. Now, we all have a natural instinct to propagate--
Fox Mulder
Do we?
Dana Scully
There are theories which pose that our bodies are... Simply vehicles for genes needing to replicate.
Fox Mulder
Yeah, but there's no sister. The mother's been dead for ten years.
Dana Scully
But if that instinct and the need is strong enough, they will answer it any way that they can. Now, a woman gave birth to that child, Mulder, and, my guess is, against her will.
Fox Mulder
And kidnapping is a bureau matter. Scully... I never saw you as a mother before.
[ fly buzzing ]
Scene 04
PEACOCK RESIDENCE · HOME, PENNSYLVANIA
Dana Scully
No, there's no probable cause. They match. This room alone should convict them.
Fox Mulder
Yeah, if we can find them. They probably bolted when they saw us coming. We'll alert sheriff taylor to issue a warrant for the brothers' arrest, put out a county-wide a.p.b.
Dana Scully
And check any prior missing persons for a woman... And check the vehicle identification number on that cadillac.
Fox Mulder
If the mother's alive, they probably took her with them.
Scene 05
SHERIFF TAYLOR'S RESIDENCE · 3 SWEETGUM LANE
[ raspy breathing ]
Sheriff Andy Taylor
I've issued descriptions and arrest warrants for george Raymond Peacock, approximate age: 30, sherman nathaniel Peacock, approximate age: 26, and edmund creighton Peacock, 42.
Dana Scully
What about missing persons reports?
Sheriff Andy Taylor
Deputy pastor's on it right now.
Dana Scully
Do you recall over the last eight to ten months... Any vehicles you found and considered to be abandoned, but which might actually belong to kidnap victims? We saw a white cadillac in the peacocks' front yard.
Sheriff Andy Taylor
We get so many of those, agent Scully. A car breaks down, people move on.
Dana Scully
Well, we'll check on those in the morning. You get some sleep, sheriff.
Sheriff Andy Taylor
You too, miss Scully. Good night.
[ sighs ]
Scene 07
MULDER'S HOTEL ROOM
Fox Mulder
Whoa! Don't move, don't move. Damn.
Dana Scully
You still planning on making a home here?
Fox Mulder
Not if I can't get the knicks game.
Dana Scully
Just as long as a brutal infanticide doesn't weigh into your decision. Good night, Mulder.
Fox Mulder
Good night, mom.
Dana Scully
Mulder, this lock is broken.
Fox Mulder
You don't have to lock your doors around here.
Scene 09
SHERIFF TAYLOR'S RESIDENCE · 3 SWEETGUM LANE
♪♪
Music (radio)
♪ sometimes we walk ♪ ♪ hand in hand by the sea ♪ ♪ and we breathe in the cool ♪ ♪ salty air ♪
Barbara Taylor
Andy... What are you doing?
Sheriff Andy Taylor
Taking one good last look around... Before it all changes.
Barbara Taylor
[ sighs ] oh, honey, come to bed, huh? It will still be here in the morning. [ sighs ] come on, honey.
Music (radio)
♪ you turn to me ♪ ♪ with a kiss in your eyes ♪
Scene 11
SHERIFF TAYLOR'S RESIDENCE · 3 SWEETGUM LANE
Music (radio)
♪ and my heart feels a thrill ♪ ♪ beyond compare ♪ ♪ then your lips cling to-- ♪ ♪ it's wonderful, wonderful ♪ ♪ oh, so wonderful, my-- ♪
[ TV narrator ]
Man on TV
The eldest dominate male in the pack moves in... To insure that the prey has been killed. Encircling the prey is a signal to the others it is safe to--
♪♪ [ man singing, indistinct ]
[ car approaching, idling ]
Music (radio)
♪ what a moment to share ♪ ♪ it's wonderful, wonderful ♪ ♪ oh, so wonderful, my love ♪
Barbara Taylor
Andy, what is it?
Sheriff Andy Taylor
Hide, under the bed. I'm going for the gun.
Music (radio)
♪ but they wouldn't have much meaning without you ♪ ♪ some quiet evening I sit by your side ♪ ♪ and we're lost in a world of our own ♪ [ raspy breathing ] ♪ you turn to me ♪ ♪ with a kiss in your eyes ♪ ♪ and my heart feels a thrill beyond compare ♪ ♪ then your lips cling to mine ♪ ♪ it's wonderful, wonderful ♪
[ footsteps approaching ]
Music (radio)
♪ oh, so wonderful, my love ♪ ♪ sometimes we stand ♪ [ footsteps continue, louder ] ♪ on the top of a hill ♪
[ raspy breathing ]
[ door creaking ]
[ men grunting, groaning ]
[ grunting ] [ groaning ]
[ grunting ]
[ gasps ]
[ gasps ]
[ brothers panting ]
[ grunting, sniffing ]
[ whimpers ]
[ shouting ]
[ grunting, blows landing ]
[ car radio ]
Music (radio)
♪ I feel the glow ♪ ♪ of your unspoken love ♪ ♪ I'm aware ♪ ♪ of the treasure that I own ♪ ♪ and I say to myself ♪ ♪ it's wonderful, wonderful ♪ ♪ oh, so wonderful, my love ♪ ♪ and I say to myself ♪ ♪ it's wonderful, wonderful ♪♪
Fox Mulder
Big american car.
Deputy Barney Pastor
I, uh-- I came over to give him these reports and, uh... And found them. The, uh... Owner of the cadillac was-- was found and contacted in Baltimore. She ran out of gas and just left the car on the 119. Other, uh... Possible missing persons are in the file... And, uh... This came from the federal crime lab overnight.
Fox Mulder
Where are they?
Deputy Barney Pastor
They're, uh... Inside.
Fox Mulder
His chest is one big hematoma. There's wood shavings embedded in what's left of the cranium. They really went caveman on them.
Dana Scully
Damn it. The lab screwed up the DNA test on the infant. Multiple maldistribution, chromosomal breakage, maldivision of the centromere.
Fox Mulder
You expected these abnormalities.
Dana Scully
Yeah, but this shows far too many gene imbalances. It would have to be a lab error. This child's cells would have had to divide triple-fold in cell metaphase.
Fox Mulder
Triple? Hey, Scully, what if each of the Peacock brothers was the father of that child?
Dana Scully
Only one sperm in thousands from a single individual can penetrate an ovum membrane, let alone from three separate males.
Fox Mulder
What if generations of autosomal breeding could produce such a mutation?
Dana Scully
No, for that to even be remotely possible, there would have to be a weakening of the ovum, and that would have to come from a female member of the Peacock family, and there aren't any left.
Fox Mulder
Well, in any case, they haven't ventured too far from home. We should request backups from pittsburgh and go pick them up.
Dana Scully
That would take a whole day. I think they may have a woman captive up there... Who may have sustained life-threatening injuries while giving birth. Who knows what those men have done to her. I think we should go there now.
Fox Mulder
Yeah, but we're outnumbered. We could further endanger the victim by doing that.
Deputy Barney Pastor
I'll take you out there. Then it's three against three. And this-- this should give us the advantage.
Fox Mulder
That was just a little bit too chuck bronson for me.
Dana Scully
Hang on a second. Why-- why would the peacocks kill sheriff taylor? He didn't even question them about a buried child.
Fox Mulder
They probably heard about the warrants issued for their arrest.
Dana Scully
But how would they know? He issued the warrants by phone. Unless they overheard us talking about it, how would they know?
Fox Mulder
We searched that house, Scully. They weren't home.
Dana Scully
Exactly. How could they know?
Scene 12
PEACOCK RESIDENCE · HOME, PENNSYLVANIA
Sherman Peacock
I'm hungry.
[ flies buzzing ]
[ regurgitating ]
Sherman Peacock
All right. I'm ready. You look fine. They'll be coming now. We knew this day was gonna happen. That they'd try to change the way things are. All we can do about changing things... Is be ready for it, be ready for them. [ fly buzzing ] let them know... This is our home... And this is the way it's gonna stay.
Dana Scully
Yep, they're up there.
Deputy Barney Pastor
I'll take the front. Their attention will be taken by the uniform. You two can approach around back.
Dana Scully
Are these vests absolutely necessary, deputy?
Deputy Barney Pastor
I've seen them fire muskets before. I, for one, am not getting taken out by some antique. This is pastor. I'm at the front of the house.
Fox Mulder
We're getting into position.
Dana Scully
I don't see anybody inside.
Deputy Barney Pastor
I'm going in.
Dana Scully
Pastor, no!
[ screams ]
Dana Scully
Pastor's dead. The brothers moved in like a pack of animals.
Fox Mulder
The eldest will move in to assure the prey has been killed. Encircling the prey is a signal to the others that it's safe to approach. What we're witnessing is undiluted animal behavior. Mankind-- absent its own creation... Of civilization, technology and information, regressed to an almost prehistoric state, obeying only the often savage laws of nature. We're outsiders invading the den, trying to take away... Their one chance at reproducing, which we're gonna do.
Dana Scully
Even though we have the firearms, I imagine the place is rigged with traps.
Fox Mulder
Yeah, but we can try to divert them out of the house. Scully, would you think less of me as a man... If I told you I was kind of excited right now? Is there some secret farmer trick to getting these things moving?
Dana Scully
I don't know. Nah-ram-ewe.
[ bleating ]
Dana Scully
Nah-ram-ewe.
Fox Mulder
Yeah, that'll work.
Dana Scully
I baby-sat my nephew this weekend. He watches babe 15 times a day.
[ door opens ]
Fox Mulder
And people call me spooky.
Dana Scully
Federal agents! Is anybody in here? FBI! Is anybody in this house? Is there anybody in here?
Fox Mulder
Oh, no.
[ squeaking ]
Mrs. Peacock
No! Get out of here! Go away!
Fox Mulder
It's all right, ma'am. We're federal agents. We're here to help you.
Mrs. Peacock
Get out! Go away! Go away! Get away!
Dana Scully
Let's move the bed.
Mrs. Peacock
Get away! Get away!
Fox Mulder
They've got her strapped to some kind of board or something.
[ woman continues screaming ]
Fox Mulder
Take it easy, ma'am. It's all right. It's all over.
[ crying hysterically ]
Fox Mulder
We're from the FBI we're here to help. We're gonna make sure that you're safe.
[ woman sobbing ]
Fox Mulder
We're gonna make sure that you get home.
[ crying continues ]
Dana Scully
Mulder, she already is home. It's mrs. Peacock. She's their mother.
[ hisses ]
[ yelling ]
[ yelling continues ]
[ sobbing ]
[ pigs grunting ]
Dana Scully
Mulder, where are you going?
Fox Mulder
The others may have heard the screams. I'm going to check on their position.
Dana Scully
What about her?
Fox Mulder
She's not gonna go anywhere.
Dana Scully
We may not be able to remove her, Mulder. She doesn't appear to be held against her will. I mean, she appears to be, but I don't believe she is.
Fox Mulder
I'm sure she's an accessory. At least she aided and abetted.
Dana Scully
We're only assuming. We can't prove anything. The way I think it goes here... Is that edmund is the brother and father of the other two.
Fox Mulder
Which means that when edmund was a kid, he could ground the other two for playing with his things? The brothers killed three people, Scully. Tell her we're gonna bring them in, and try convincing her... That she's the one way they can get out of this without any of her boys getting hurt. All right, I'm gonna keep an eye on them. Scully, watch your step. This place is rigged.
Dana Scully
Mrs. Peacock? Mrs. Peacock, you are in immediate need of medical attention. Agent Mulder and I are here to help you.
Mrs. Peacock
This is our home. Why leave it?
Dana Scully
Whatever pain you may be in--
Mrs. Peacock
Don't feel pain. Runs in the family. Have to check the boys, see if they hurt themselves.
Dana Scully
What about you? Even after the accident?
Mrs. Peacock
Right arm was torn off. Saw it sitting there across my dead husband's lap. Boys took me home... Sewed me up just like the family learnt... In the war of northern aggression. Whole time, felt the same as if been making breakfast. They're such good boys.
Dana Scully
Mrs. Peacock, they murdered sheriff taylor and his wife and deputy pastor.
Mrs. Peacock
I can tell you don't have no children. Maybe one day you'll learn the pride... The love... When you know your boy will do anything for his mother.
Fox Mulder
Scully. Federal agent! I'm armed! Stop or I'll fire! [ grunting ]
Dana Scully
Mulder!
[ glass shatters ]
Dana Scully
I've got the mother!
[ yelling ]
[ glass shattering ]
[ grunting ]
[ fires gun ]
[ brother groans ]
Fox Mulder
Where's the other brother? Edmund?
Dana Scully
Mulder, look. Marks on the floor. All right, thank you.
Fox Mulder
I looked everywhere. They're both gone.
Dana Scully
I've notified the state police and the highway patrol. They've put out an a.p.b. On the peacocks... And are setting up a roadblock over a 30-mile radius. In time, we'll catch them.
Fox Mulder
I think time already caught them, Scully.
Scene 13
HOME, PENNSYLVANIA
♪♪
[ mrs. Peacock ]
Mrs. Peacock
There, there. Sherman and george were good boys. We should be proud. And you got to know, edmund, you can't keep a Peacock down. There'll be more. One day, there'll be more. Now we have to move on... Start a new family; one we'll be proud of. Find a new place to call ours; a new home, a brand-new home.
[ car radio ]
Music (radio)
♪ wonderful, wonderful ♪ ♪ oh, so wonderful, my love ♪ ♪ and I say to myself ♪ ♪ it's wonderful, wonderful ♪ ♪ oh, so wonderful ♪ ♪ my love ♪♪
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