- Severe
- Nearly all of the violence is implied or off-screen.
- At the beginning of the episode, parturition is seen. The baby in question is then brought out to the side of the house and is buried alive. We see a POV shot from the baby's perspective as it's buried. Later, a group of elementary school kids play sandlot ball where the baby was buried, unbeknownst that the dead baby is underneath. The soil gradually loosens as the game progresses, and a puddle of blood surrounds one of the kids' foot.
- Mulder and Scully later observe the body of the dead baby in a confined bathroom. We get a pretty detailed shot of the corpse, including its deformities as a result of incest. Scully explains that the baby died as a result of suffocation (from the soil it was buried in) rather than as a result of it's deformities.
- Mulder and Scully search the Peacock house for connection to the burial. They find shovels and other items covered in blood.
- The Peacock boys break in to the sheriff's house. His wife hides under their bed as the sheriff prepares to shoot them. The bullets, however, are ineffective and the boys begin to beat him to death, leaving a pretty big puddle of blood that goes under the bed, right in the face of the sheriff's wife. The boys the pull the bed over, revealing the wife, and proceed to beat her to death, too, though this is mostly off-screen.
- A deputy gets his head smashed in as a result of a booby trap.
- Two of the mutants die. One as a result of multiple shootings, the other having accidentally triggered their own booby trap.The latter is pretty graphic.