10.06 Ask Jeeves
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| Title | Ask Jeeves |
| Episode # | Season 10, Episode 6 |
| First aired | November 18, 2014 |
| Directed by | John MacCarthy |
| Written by | Eric Charmelo Nicole Snyder |
| On IMDB | Ask Jeeves |
| Outline | When Dean and Sam discover that Bobby is the beneficiary of a deceased heiress, they pose as Bobby's next of kin and become embroiled in a whodunit murder mystery. |
| Monster | Shapeshifter |
| Timeline | |
| Location(s) | New Canaan, Connecticut |
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Contents
Synopsis
Characters
- Sam Winchester
- Dean Winchester
- Bobby Singer
- Phillip
- Olivia
- Heddy
- Beverley
- Stanton
- Amber
- Dash
- Detective Howard
- Colette
- Bunny LaCroix
Definitions
Music
- "Für Elise" by Ludwig van Beethoven
- (plays when Sam and Dean ring the door bell at Bunny LaCroix's mansion)
- "Travelin' Man" by Bob Seger
- (plays at the end of the episode)
Quotes
Sam: Wow, think we're a little under dressed? I mean the fed threads are in the trunk.
Dean: Are you kidding me, for once we don't have to wear suits. You're lucky my waistband is not elastic.
Dean: Are you kidding me, for once we don't have to wear suits. You're lucky my waistband is not elastic.
Stanton: Beverley saw you sexting at dinner.
Amber: Bev doesn't know what the hell she's talking about, I was texting my Mom.
Stanton: An emoticon of a peeled banana?
Dash: Well Sam, I'll let you in on a little secret. We don't really like each other... But then what family does?
Sam: Mine does. For the most part, it's just my brother and me.
Sam: Mine does. For the most part, it's just my brother and me.
Dean: We're dealing with two vengeful spirits, that Bunny had a bee in her bonnet as well.
Sam: Husband and wife tag-team killer ghosts.
Sam: We're not the bad guys Dash.
Dash: I beg to differ, you're wearing flannel.
Dash: I beg to differ, you're wearing flannel.
Olivia: I'm not the maid.
Heddy: That explains the dust.
Heddy: That explains the dust.
Olivia: After Bobby killed my father, he came after me. Mother pleaded with him to spare me. He agreed under one condition.
Sam: That she keep you locked up.
Sam: Olivia you don't have to do this, being a monster is a choice.
Olivia: That choice was made for me a long time ago.
Olivia: That choice was made for me a long time ago.
Dash: Bobby must have really meant something to Aunt Bunny, how can we ever repay you?
Dean: You know what? Just forget we were ever here.
Dash: You saved our lives, I want everyone to know what heroes you-
Sam: Dean what was that all about back there?
Dean: What are you talking about?
Sam: I mean, all those extra shots after the shifter was already dead. What was that?
Dean: I don't know. Target practice?
Sam: Come on mean, I'm serious. Are you sure it wasn't, I don't know demon residue or something to do with the Mark?
Dean: No none of that.
Sam: Right. Look man I gotta be honest-
Trivia & References
Ask Jeeves was a question/answer based search engine founded in 1995. Jeeves is also a name that is most associated with butlers, the name having become prominent through the series of short stories by P.G. Wodehouse, which were adapted into the ITV series Jeeves and Wooster.
Dean: So, any leads on the scanner or the intraweb?
Sam: Nothing, not even a cat up a tree.
Dean: So right when we're ready to jump back into it goes radio silence.
Sam: Murphy's law.
Dean: Well, Murphy's a douche.
- Murphy's law is the belief that: Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
Dean: Bobby had secrets man, like loving on Tori Spelling. If he only knew Dean cheated on her.
Dean: Charmed, I'm sure. What are these people?
Sam: I think they're called WASPs.
- WASP stands for White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. The term is used to denote wealthy white Americans of English Protestant ancestry.
Dean: Don't worry Alfred, we know which one the shrimp fork is... kind of.
Phillip: I presume you gentleman left something behind, I'll check the front closet for burlap.
Dean: I got news for you Mr. Belvedere, the jacket's canvas.
Sam: I'm sorry to interrupt, but who's guilty?
Heddy: The town slut, Amber. She killed Stanton.
Dash: And what's her motive Murder, She Wrote?
Dean: All right cold spots it is, you stay here and keep an eye on Mrs. Peacock and, uh Colonel Mustard. I'll sniff around.
- Mrs. Peacock and Colonel Mustard are characters from the board game Clue.
Dean comes across a lead pipe and some rope before entering the attic, he ultimately chooses the pipe before entering. The lead pipe and rope are two of the weapons used in Clue.
Sam: Now what does the butler have to do with all this?
Dean: Because he locked them in there. Now I don't know why, but he's covering for the spooks. He's acting as their Renfield.
- Renfield is an antagonist from Bram Stoker's Dracula. In the novel, Renfield is an inmate at the lunatic asylum and under the control of Dracula, and is compelled to do his bidding.
Beverley: Well, well, well what do we have here? What'cha doing snooping these halls? Up to no good? Why don't we get up to no good together? You know they say women just get better with age, like a fine wine or a cheese.
Sam: I-I, um, I'm lactose intolerant.
- Jared Padalecki is actually lactose intolerant.
Dean picks up a monkey wrench when entering Phillip's room. The monkey wrench is another weapon used in Clue.
Dean: Cut the crap Wadsworth. What are you doing hiding dead maids in secret rooms?
- Wadsworth was the name of the butler, played by Tim Curry, in the film adaptation of Clue.
Sam picks up a knife in the kitchen, which is another weapon used in Clue.
When Dean hears a noise in the closet of the bar, he picks up a candlestick which is yet another reference to the weapons in Clue.
Sam: Grey Gardens cleared.
- Grey Gardens is a documentary that follows that lives of reclusive mother and daughter socialites, both named Edith Beale, who lived at Grey Gardens, a derelict mansion East Hampton, New York.
Dean: Well, we got a floater.
Heddy: Amber has motive, she killed the detective because she knew it was just a matter of time before he figured out she killed Stan.
Dash: Bravo Rissoli you solved the case! Wanna weigh in Isles?
Dash: Oh, the old doth protest too much. You're only pointing the finger to distract from your own guilt and you probably got Baby Jane to help.
Dash pulls a revolver on Sam and Dean, the revolver is another weapon from Clue.
Heddy: I knew those boys were trailer trash the moment they rolled up in that American made.
Beverley: Not to mention homosexuals.
Heddy: Homosexual murders -- like Leopold and Loeb.
Beverley: Only hotter.
- Leopold and Loeb were two wealthy University of Chicago students who kidnapped and murdered a 14-year-old boy by the name of Robert Franks in 1924.
Dash: Then where have you been hiding all these years?
Olivia: The attic.
Amber: Like in the movie.
- Reference to Flowers in the Attic. Flowers in the Attic is a story about children born of an incestuous relationship, who are hidden away in the attic of a wealthy relative.
Minutiae
Doug Abrahams, who played Detective Howard, previously played Eddie McGregor in 4.13 After School Special.
The "Then" recap of events for the episode cycles through the various monsters that the Winchesters have fought, foreshadowing the whodunit nature of the episode.
