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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