'The X-Files' Episode 'Home' Sequel Shut Down by Fox

The X-Files' Season 4 episode "Home," which first aired in 1996, remains one of the series' most notorious entries. The story centers on Mulder and Scully investigating the Peacock family after the discovery of a malformed infant, with the plot anchored by an inbred clan led by a limbless matriarch.

Writers Glen Morgan and James Wong found themselves under heavy scrutiny after the episode aired; Warner recalled a producer telling them, "You guys are sick!" The uproar kept the episode off the air until 1999, when it returned with a TV-MA advisory and was shown only on Halloween, its promotional push leaning into the controversy.

Morgan and Wong later ran the sister series Millennium and proposed a sequel that would have sent Lance Henriksen's Frank Black after the surviving Peacocks. The idea, partly meant to boost Millennium's low ratings, was approved internally until Fox intervened with a directive that "Those characters never appear on television again," and the pitch was dropped.

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