14.16 Don't Go in the Woods
Title | Don't Go in the Woods |
Episode # | Season 14, Episode 16 |
First aired | March 21, 2019 |
Directed by | John Fitzpatrick |
Written by | Davy Perez Nick Vaught |
On IMDB | Don't Go in the Woods |
Outline | While Sam and Dean investigate a a creature killing people in the woods, they leave Jack to his own devices. |
Monster | Kohonta |
Timeline | |
Location(s) | Polk City, Iowa Lebanon, Kansas |
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Synopsis
Inside a car parked in Big Creek State Park, Barbara and Tom are making out, when Barbara hears whistling. Tom assures her it’s just the wind, when suddenly the car door is opened. It’s Sheriff Mason Romero -- the boy’s father -- and they start arguing. Barbra goes to the nearby toilet block to give them space. As Barbara sits down in a cubicle, she hears whistling and a monstrous hand appears over the top of the door.
Her screams alert father and son. Not finding her in the bathroom, the sheriff looks in the woods. He thinks he sees a human-like shape, but trips and hits his head while giving chase.
When he wakes up, he hears Tom's screams. He has found Barbara dead from a horrific bite on her neck.
At the Bunker, Sam is researching at the kitchen table when Dean comes in for coffee. Sam tells him about the case of Barbara's death and that a lot of people go missing in the park where she died. They agree to take on the case. Dean tell's Sam that Castiel has taken some time away from the Bunker. Sam suggests they take jack, but Dean expresses concern due to Jack’s nearly returned powers.
When they go tell Jack, Sam wants to tell him of their concerns, but instead Dean comes up with the excuse of not leaving the Bunker unattended and also asks Jack to go shopping for supplies.
In Pol City, Sam and Dean pose as FBI agents with the Sheriff and get access to Barbara's body. Sam notices that the marks aren’t consistent with the coyote story. and they also notice burns around the wounds. They under take some research and Sam discovers it’s a Kohonta -- twisted creature cursed to crave human flesh. The burns on the body are because the creature is so hungry, it vomits up stomach acid.
Meanwhile in Lebanon, Jack arrives at the mini mart, but it’s closed. Stacy, Max, and Eliot, who is watching the Ghostfacers, pull up. They greet Jack and as Eliot talks about the Ghostfacers, the trio let Jack know that they are aware of the existence of monsters. Jack is relieved, because he says he hates lying. Stacy has the keys to open mini-mart as she works there, so they let Jack in. Eliot keeps peppering Jack with questions about monsters, he’s obsessed, but Jack doesn’t mind answering. Stacy and Max then invite Jack to hang out with them later at an old farmhouse.
In Big Creek State Park, a couple is walking in the woods at night when they hear odd whistling. They turn to see a creature and start running. The guy trips and falls. The monster is upon him quickly, his stomach acid dripping to burn the guy as he screams.
At the Sheriff's office, Tommy comes into talk to his dad about hunting the "coyote" because it could hurt others and he feels the need to do something. Right then, a deputy comes in to relay the news of the missing hiker.
In the woods, Sam and Dean are already talking to the surviving hiker, who tells them about the whistling. The sheriff arrives and orders everybody out -- including Sam and Dean.
At the farmhouse, Stacy and Max are studing nad making out, and Eliot is studying a book on monsters, when Jack arrives with a backpack full of books on lore from the Bunker. They talk and the conversation turns to monsters. Jack talks about having killed a demon. Outside Jack shows the others his angel blade. He tries to show them how to throw it into a tree, but misses despite repeated attempts. Finally, Jack uses his powers to show off, sending the blade first into the tree and then, after retrieving it, causing it to fly around in the air. As the weapon zips around them, the kids get frightened, but despite repeated please, Jack refuses to stop. Unfortunately, Stacy steps into the path of the blade and gets stabbed deeply in her abdomen. Max tries to comfort her while Eliot calls 911. Jack intervenes and uses his power to heal Stacy. However, the damage is done - Max, Stacy and Eliot tell a confused Jack to leave and stay away.
While Sam and Dean are hunting in the forest for the Kohonta, they hear the ominous whistling that the victims have reported. They look around for the monster, only to have the sheriff press his shotgun into Dean’s neck. They quickly come to the realization that the sheriff knows something, so Dean disarms him.
Upon questioning, the Sheriff tells them the story of a white family of colonizers that experienced a hard winter, and the oldest son survived by eating his family. Driven mad with hunger, he attacked the nearby Native American tribe, so they cursed him and made him into the Kohonta. They had bound him to the forest, but over time people forgot and forgot to be cautious.
The sheriff them gets a call from Tommy, to say he's going after what he thinks is the coyote. The sheriff is frantic to save his son, so the Winchesters offer to help. They ask if he knows how to kill the monster, which turns out to be a silver knife to the heart, which Sam has.
Tommy gets attacked in the cabin, and the sheriff arrives in time to save him. While he fights the monster, Dean carries Tommy out. The Kohonta is getting the upper hand when Sam comes in, shooting it. It then attacks Sam. Dean comes back and gets its attention. He then draws it out and the sheriff stabs it in the heart. As Dean and the Sheriff watch, the monster melts into a puddle of goo. The sheriff checks on Tommy, who is alive.
While being loaded into the ambulance, Tommy asks if they got it. The sheriff says yes. Before they leave, Sam suggests the Sheriff tell Tommy the truth.
On the way home, Sam tell Dean that he shouldn’t have lied to Jack and they need to be honest with him. Dean retorts that Jack said he was fine, but Sam points out that when they were kids they said the same thing to their Dad, just to keep him happy.
When they arrive at the Bunker, Dean comes clean with Jack that they are worried about his powers. Jack promises not to use his powers without permission. Sam asks if anything happened while they were gone, and Jack lies and says that nothing did.
Characters
- Sam Winchester
- Dean Winchester
- Jack Kline
- Eliot
- Max
- Stacy
- Sheriff Mason Romero
- Henry Parker
- Tom Mason
- Barbara Wallace
Definitions
- Angel Blade
- Costumes & Disguises
- Curse
- Ghostfacers
- Healing
- Impala
- Kohonta
- Law Enforcement Officers
- Lebanon, Kansas
- Men of Letters Bunker
- Monsters
- Nephilim
- Pie
- Queer and Gender Diverse Characters
- Silver
- Shamanism
- Table of Death
- Telekinesis
Music
- "Ghostfacers Theme" by Christopher Lennertz & Ben Edlund
- (playing on Eliot's phone as he watches a Ghostfacers video)
Quotes
Sam: The Internet is more than just naked people. You do know that, right?
Jack: Well, no. Not really. It's kinda disappointing. But there are other monsters.
Eliot: Like what?
Jack: No. They don't have horns. They actually look like smoke, unless they've possessed a human, then they can look like me or you or anybody.
Sheriff Romero: I didn't think it was real. The Kohonta was a tribal legend, an old story. I haven't heard about it since I was a kid. But then I saw it the night Barbara was killed.
Sheriff Romero: So you make that choice for everybody? Imagine telling them. Imagine the lives you could save.
Sam: How about the truth? He's your son. He deserves the truth.
Sam: What? You don't?
Sam: You understand that? Jack?
Trivia & References
- The character Barbara who is killed in the teaser is named after the main character in Night of the Living Dead.
- The bathroom scene where Barbra is killed is a homage to a similar scene in the 2018 movie Halloween, which in itself was an homage to the 1998 Halloween: H20.
- It is in fact illegal in Haiti to turn a person into a zombie:
- "It shall also be qualified as attempted murder the employment which may be made against any person of substances which, without causing actual death, produce a lethargic coma more or less prolonged. If, after the person had been buried, the act shall be considered murder no matter what result follows."
- "Your mission, should you choose to accept it" is a line from the Mission: Impossible series, used when agents are given their assignments.
- Bambi is a wide-eyed innocent baby deer from the Disney movie of the same name. Eliot previously referred to Jack as "Bambi" in 14.13 Lebanon.
Max: Same. I mean, living with a bunch of dudes. Their whole place must smell like beer, Kleenex, and... Old Spice.
- Kleenex is the brand name for a type of facial tissue, in this case the reference is to their use to clean up ejaculate following masturbation. Old Spice is an aftershave.
Jack: Well, we have movie nights on Tuesdays. Dean usually picks. I've seen Lost Boys like 36 times.
- The Lost Boys is a 1987 horror comedy about two brothers who encounter a gang of vampires, and the pair of brothers who hunt them.
Stacy: Who?
Max: Oh, my aunt listens to them. They're old.
Jack: Well, Dean says any music made after 1979 'sucks ass.'
- The Who is an English rock band that was formed in 1964. In 7.03 The Girl Next Door, a young Sam tells Amy Pond that his dad "doesn't listen to anything recorded after 1979." this sentiment is also held by series creator Eric Kripke.
Jack: Well, there are standard hand-to-hand combat moves. Like a lightsaber. Or you can throw it, like this.
- A lightsaber is a prominent weapon from Star Wars. Jack was seen watching Star Wars: Clone Wars in 13.04 The Big Empty and in 13.23 Let the Good Times Roll, Lucifer said he and Jack could go anywhere in the Universe "like Star Wars" and claimed he could even make him a lightsaber.
Jack: Kinda.
- Jedi are an ancient order in the Star Wars universe who wield much power. When watching Star Wars: Clone Wars, Jack commented that he didn't like Anakin, who was a young Jedi who turned to evil and became Darth Vader.
Sheriff Romero: It's not a what. Who. The Parker family, they were some of the first white settlers around here. They set a homestead up in these woods -- the cabin.
Sam: And then?
Sheriff Romero: Things went bad. It was a hard winter. Their oldest son, Henry, survived but he did things.
Dean: What kind of things? Like Donner Party?
- The Donner Party was a group of American pioneers which became famous for engaging in cannibalism to survive. The Donner Party was also mentioned in 1.02 Wendigo as an example of how a wendigo is made. One Donner Party member appeared in the novel Supernatural: Fresh Meat as a wendigo.
- A reference to the climax of the 1981 Indiana Jones movie Raiders of the Lost Ark, when the Ark of the Covenant is opened, causing all the Nazis to liquefy, just as the Kohonta does.
Sam: Not yet. Not for now. You know, you just got 'em back, Jack. We want to make sure you're comfortable with them again before you.
Dean: Before you go all X-Men.
- In Marvel comics, The X-Men get their abilities from a gene mutation, known as the X gene.