Mulder comments, "you don't have to lock your doors around here." He puts a chair against the knob. Mulder replies, "Good night, Mom," and as she reaches for the door knob she discovers the lock is broken. Scully asks, "Still planning on making a home here?" He replies, "Nah, not if I can't get the Knick's game." She then comments on the infanticide, hoping that does not play into his decision, and says good night. He tells her to hold still, joking that she's improving the reception. Scully gathers her things while Mulder fiddles around with the T.V. Taylor then opens a locked box and pulls out his service revolver, which seems to have not been used in a while he then thinks better of this and puts it back. Later that night, Sheriff Taylor calls Scully to inform her that he has put out warrants for the arrest of the Peacock brothers. They leave after gathering some evidence, not realizing that someone is observing them from the shadows. They discover bloody boot prints, which match the ones found at the crime scene, and a mud-encrusted shovel. After looking inside with a flash light, they proceed within, weapons drawn. Mulder is about to enter but Scully exclaims that they have no probable cause. Suspecting the birth mother may be a kidnapped woman, the duo proceed to the Peacock residence where they knock on the door. Scully and Mulder consider this as a seemingly impossible feat, however, since the Peacocks are known to be an all-male household. Scully believes the child is not a result of a freak accident in mating and must have been inbred as Sheriff Taylor suggested. Mulder suspects this case is nothing more than kids disposing of an unwanted birth. She inquires about about his family, and Mulder claims that other than the need for corrective lenses and alien abductions, the Mulder family passes "genetic muster". They sit down on a bench and Mulder flirts with her, suggesting that she find a man with a spotless genetic make-up and a high tolerance for being second guessed to pump out "über-Scullys". Scully seems distressed by the abandonment of this child and the defects presented. Inspecting the corpse, Scully comments to Mulder that "it looks as if this child has been affected by every rare birth defect known to science." After a cursory examination in the police station's bathroom (because there is no morgue), they discover that the baby suffocated by inhaling dirt, indicating it was buried alive.įollowing the autopsy, Mulder and Scully talk outside the police station. if you get what I mean." All the while, the Peacock family watches from their porch. Taylor also insinuates that the family members "raise and breed their own stock.
There are presumably just the three brothers, as no one has seen the parents since they were in a serious car accident a decade back. Taylor tells them that the house had been built during the civil war and still does not have electricity, running water or heating. While talking to Sheriff Andy Taylor, Mulder asks whether the house nearest to the scene - the Peacock house - had been questioned about the baby. He informs her that it is a town like this which he would like to settle down in, if not for his job. When they arrive at the scene, Scully is already taking notes and Mulder is sniffing a baseball that the children left at the scene, reminiscing about time spent at Martha's Vineyard with his sister, Samantha.Ĭhildren in a baseball diamond discover the Peacock family's newest born child buried.Īfter Scully comments on the community she jokes that Mulder might go into "catatonic schizophrenia" without his cell phone. The next morning, the baby's hand, sticking out of the ground, is discovered by some local children playing baseball on the field. Peacock, gives birth to a highly deformed child, which her three sons bury at the nearby baseball field during a storm. The Peacock Children burying their child.Ī woman, later identified as Mrs. When a deformed baby's body is found buried in a baseball field, Mulder and Scully investigate a family suspected of inbreeding.
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