In their final script for the show, Never Again, even the Mulder and Scully dynamic has become toxic after Scully fails to break away. If their return to The X-Files represented something of a homecoming for Morgan and Wong, Home immediately makes it clear that “home” is not always a pleasant place. Both Home and Never Again portray characters stuck in profoundly dysfunctional relationships. Indeed, looking at the four episodes that the pair produced, it seems like Morgan and Wong were not overjoyed to be returning to The X-Files after their time away. Perhaps the most surprising thing about Home is that it is the most conventional of these four explosive scripts. While not all four scripts are unqualified masterpieces, they each serve to push The X-Files further than it has gone before. Returning from Space: Above and Beyond, the two seemed to be bristling with an electric energy and a palpable frustration. Home is the first of their four scripts for the fourth season of The X-Files, and it sets the mood quite well. Morgan and Wong would produce four episodes of the fourth season of The X-Files and three episodes of the first season of Millennium. Fox had convinced Morgan and Wong to return to Ten Thirteen in return for producing a pilot for The Notorious Seven, one the duo’s long-gestating ideas. With the debut of Millennium looming, the production team on The X-Files was under pressure.
Home also marks the return of writers Glen Morgan and James Wong to the series, following the cancellation of Space: Above and Beyond.
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