Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 11, 2021

"Home" is the second episode of the fourth season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files, which originally aired on the Fox network on October11, 1996. Directed by Kim Manners and written by Glen Morgan and James Wong, it is a "monster-of-the-week" story, unconnected to the overarching mythology of The X-Files. Watched by 18.85 million viewers, the initial broadcast had a Nielsen rating of 11.9. The series centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson), who work on cases linked to the paranormal. In this episode, Mulder and Scully investigate the death of a baby born with severe physical defects. While in the isolated town of Home, Pennsylvania, they meet a family of deformed farmers who have not left their home in a decade. "Home" was the first episode of the series to receive a viewer discretion warning for graphic content.