Homecoming is the sixth episode of the first season of Masters of Horror. It originally aired in North America on December 2, 2005. It is loosely based on the 2002 short story "Death & Suffrage" by Dale Bailey. An unnamed president is running for reelection during a divisive war, and one of his speech writers, David Murch , goes on TV to speak with talk show host Marty Clark and strident right-wing sexpot Jane Cleaver . Another guest is Janet Hofstader , the Cindy Sheehan-like mother of a dead soldier, who demands to know what her son died for. Murch gets a bit teary-eyed and explains... that he lost his older brother Philip in Vietnam. "Believe me," he tells the grieving mom, "if I had one wish, I would wish for your son to come back, because I know he would tell us how important this struggle is." Cleaver is so impressed with Murch's handling of the situation that she takes him out for a drink later, picks his brain, and eventually seduces him.
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| Release date: | 2005 |
| Directed by: | Joe Dante |
| Runtime: | 58 Minutes |
| Producer: | Lisa Richardson, Tom Rowe |
| Editor: | Marshall Harvey |
| Music by: | Hummie Mann |
| Cinematography: | Attila Szalay |
| Screenplay by: | Sam Hamm, Mick Garris |