The X-Files Predicted Mulder & Scully's Ultimate Fate Back in Season 4
Home, one of the Season 4 episodes of The X-Files, has become the scariest one in the whole franchise.
It was so disturbing that it had to be pulled off air for being too gruesome for TV viewers to watch. The fact is the episode was the first in America to receive a TV-MA rating (so, mature audience only). At the same time, Home was the cornerstone for building the relations between agent Scully and agent Mulder.
The episode is all about violence and incestual relationship of repulsive brothers with their mother. It started with a discovery of a deformed newborn buried next to the Peacocks' home in a tiny Pennsylvania town.
The agents launch their investigation only to find out that the baby was buried alive and that it shows all the characteristics of being a product of inbreeding. Mulder and Scully believe that the Peacock brothers raped a woman. It takes them some time to find a female with amputated limbs under the bed in the Peacocks' home.
She turns out to be the brothers' mother – the one they have incestual relationship with. But before the agents have found her and arrived at their conclusions, several law-enforcers are brutally killed.
This distressing background offers the agents an opportunity to dive into discussing the problems of parenthood, as Scully expresses her fears of being a mother. What if something goes wrong?
Mulder has a plan – she just need to find a man with perfect genes and for Scully this very man is Mulder. The exchange goes on and Scully does not mince her words when she asks her partner if his family's genetic history was clean.
This is when he utters: "the Mulder family passes genetic muster." This looks like a done deal for Scully, after all, the phrase sounds as if Mulder believes that he is the perfect match for her.
The otherwise horrifying episode takes on a flirty flavor as the way the characters interact suggests there's some chemistry between them. So, it does look as if they may have a baby one day. Something which the agents talked over the corpse of the deformed newborn materializes in the final episode of Season 7 when Scully says she is pregnant. The next season offers sort of an explanation – it is Mulder who Scully had chosen as a sperm donor for her IVF. And when she delivers a baby, William, in the end of Season 8 she is pretty sure it is Mulder who is the dad.
The most terrifying circumstances kickstarted Fox's and Dana's relationship. The scenes they witness in Home would haunt them for months should they be just ordinary people. The conception of the baby is also shrewd in mystery. But the fact that it took the storyline some four seasons to build up and culminate in Season 8 is what we love about The X-Files among other things.