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If you watched Monday night’s episode of The X-Files on Fox, you likely noticed a ton of Bucks County references, including a mention of Pennsbury High School.
The episode, titled “Home Again,” is the fourth of the miniseries season that follows 10 previous seasons and a several movies. Although filmed in the Vancouver, the episode was set in Philadelphia and parts of Bucks County.
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Veteran TV scribe Glen Morgan directed and wrote the episode, which garnered an audience of 8.25 million viewers at the time it aired Monday night, according to TVByTheNumbers.com.
The plot of the episode involves the “monster of the week.” This week’s featured baddie is known as the “Band-Aid Man.” He travels in the back of a trash truck and rips his victims apart in a violent manner. The Band-Aid Man kills those who are working to kick homeless residents out of the streets of Philadelphia and moving them to the fictional Franklin Hospital in Bucks County. In the end, FBI Agents Fox Mulder and Dr. Dana Scully got to the bottom of the mystery and murders.
During the course of the episode, we learn that the fictional Franklin Hospital is “just two blocks” from Pennsbury High School. In reality, the closest hospital to the high school is Aria Health’s Bucks County campus several miles away off Oxford Valley Road.
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A member of the fictional Central Bucks School Board, which Pennsbury High School apparently falls in, mentions in the episode that she needs the homeless removed from a Philadelphia building because the 10-story structure needs to be renovated to “kick start gentrification.” A federal housing official tells her he will get the homeless on buses and ship them to Franklin Hospital. The school board member fires back that a judge has put an order in place that would stop the buses if they went to the hospital, adding Bucks County Sheriffs will turn the buses away.
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A short while later, the school board member drives a brand new Ford Expedition to her lavish Bucks County home. While in the house alone, Band-Aid Man arrived on his trash truck and sneaks his way inside. After a tense sequence, Band-Aid Man rips apart the school board member who shows little regard for the homeless while Petula Clark’s “Downtown” plays in the background.
While the episode could have been set anywhere within traveling distance of Philadelphia and still have worked, it’s pretty cool to hear some local references in a hit TV show.
The episode is currently available OnDemand and on Hulu.
