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Revision as of 20:33, 8 February 2019
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| Title | Simon Said |
| Episode # | Season 2, Episode 5 |
| First aired | October 26, 2006 |
| Directed by | Tim Iacofano |
| Written by | Ben Edlund |
| On IMDB | Simon Said |
| Outline | Sam and Dean meet Andy, a slacker who has psychic powers of persuasion that he uses to gain favors from people. |
| Monster | Special Children Ansem Weems / Weber |
| Timeline | |
| Location(s) | Nebraska Guthrie, Oklahoma |
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Contents
Synopsis
After Sam has a vision of a man committing suicide, he and Dean travel to Harvelle's Roadhouse and seek help from Ash. Using a logo Sam remembers from a bus in his vision, Ash helps him determine that the events in his vision took place in Guthrie, Oklahoma. Sam asks Ash to see if there are any records of a fire starting in a nursery in 1983. Ash finds that Andy Gallagher lost his mother in a fire when he was six months old, in a close parallel to Sam’s own history. Jo asks to accompany the boys, but Dean, admitting he is scared of Ellen, refuses.
Once in Guthrie, Sam and Dean track down Andy, but when they search Andy's van they find nothing to suggest he is the killer. While Dean keeps an eye on him, Sam follows the man he saw in his vision. Sam manages to stop the events of his vision, only for the man to die after walking in front of a bus. Andy uses his power of mind control to get Dean to give him the Impala, and later to get Dean to speak truthfully about what he and Sam are doing. Sam, however, is immune to Andy’s power and starts interrogating him, when he has another vision of a woman dousing herself in gas before setting herself on fire. While Sam talks to Andy, Dean follows the sound of police sirens and finds a woman has just died in the way Sam foresaw.
When they discover that it was Andy’s adoptive mother who died when he was six months old, the boys search the birth records and discover Andy’s birth mother was the woman who just set herself on fire – and that he has a twin brother, Ansem. They are further surprised when it turns out that Ansem is actually a guy that Andy knows as Weber, who has recently befriended him.
Ansem has tracked Andy down, and has been killing people important to Andy. He is about to kill Andy’s ex-girlfriend Tracy when Sam and Andy confront him. Just as Ansem is about to make Dean shoot himself, Andy kills him. Sam is distressed that the children with abilities like him seem destined to become killers. Back at the Roadhouse, Ellen confronts them to reveal the truth of Sam’s abilities, which they do. They also reveal the disturbing news – Ansem’s mother didn’t die when he was six months old, thus breaking the pattern and leaving them unable to track all of the Special Children.
Characters
- Sam Winchester
- Dean Winchester
- Ellen Harvelle
- Jo Harvelle
- Ash
- Andy Gallagher
- Ansem Weems / Weber
- Tracy
- Dr. Jennings
Definitions
- Andy's van
- Costumes & Disguises
- Dean's Amulet
- Dean's Leather Jacket
- Dean's Movie & TV references
- Drugs
- Harvelle's Roadhouse
- Impala
- Mind Control
- Premonition
- Special Children
- Star Wars
- Table of Death
- Visions
Music
- "Women's Wear" by Daniel May
- (plays while Doc looks at guns, then kills the shop owner, Dennis)
- "Tired of Crying" by Lil' Ed & the Blues Imperials
- (plays when Dean and Sam look for 'Dr. Badass' at the roadhouse)
- "Uncle John" by Eric Lindell
- (play when Sam is asking Ash to search for house fires)
- "Can't Fight This Feeling" by REO Speedwagon
- (the song Jo plays at the Roadhouse that Dean scoffs at; Dean later sings it in the car)
- "Stonehenge" by Spinal Tap
- (played when we first see Andy Gallagher's van)
- "Fell on Black Days" by Soundgarden
- (plays as the episode closes, as Ellen gets whiskey for the boys)
Quotes
Ash: Sam? Dean? Sam and Dean.
Sam: Hey Ash. Um. We need your help.
Dean: I'm sure you could. But we've got to handle this one ourselves. Besides, if I ran off with you I think your mother might kill me.
Jo: You're afraid of my mother?
Dean: Yeah. You know, I just rebuilt her, too.
Andy: Yeah?
Dean: Yeah, can't let a car like this one go.
Andy: Damn straight! Hey, can I have it?
Sam: Well, we're lawyers. See, a relative of yours has passed away...
Andy: Tell the truth!
Sam: That's what I'm -
Dean: We hunt demons.
Andy: What?
Sam: Dean!
Dean: Demons and spirits. Things your worst nightmares wouldn't even touch. Sam here, he's my brother...
Sam: Dean, shut up!
Dean: I'm trying. He's psychic. Kind of like you. Well, not really like you, but see, he thinks you're a murderer, and he's afraid that he's going to become one himself, 'cause you're all part of something that's terrible. And, I hope to hell that he's wrong, but I'm starting to get a little scared that he might be right.
Andy: Okay, you know what? Just leave me alone.
Andy: Who?
Weber: The man with the yellow eyes.
Andy: What are you talking about?
Dean: You be good, Andy. Or we'll be back.
Dean: That was mind control! I mean, it's like, that's like being roofied, man, that doesn't count.
Sam: What?
Dean: No. I'm, I'm calling do-over.
Trivia & References
Sam: 'Cause there's a PBR in it for ya.
- PBR stands for Pabst Blue Ribbon, a popular American beer.
Jo: Damn right REO. Kevin Cronin sings it from the heart.
Dean: He sings it from the hair. There's a difference.
- After hearing REO Speedwagon's "Can't Fight This Feeling" on the jukebox (a tune picked by Jo, possibly as a subtle flirtation), Dean is singing the song as he and Sam drive off. Jensen Ackles has sung back-up vocals on tracks by his friends musicians Steve Carlson and Jason Mann. He also sang "Crazy Love' with Jason at the Asylum Convention in 2007.
- Aerosmith is an American rock band, originally formed in 1964.
- Obi-Wan Kenobi is a character from Star Wars who can use the Force for telekinesis as well as mind control (Jedi mind tricks).
- A reference to the character Samantha Stephens from the TV series Bewitched who had to twitch her nose to perform magic.
Dean: He just doesn't seem like the stone-cold killer type, that's all. You know. And O.J. was guilty.
- A reference to the O.J. Simpson murder case, in which he infamously led authorities on a chase for hours on Southern California highways while riding in a white Ford Bronco.
- Reference to serial killer John Wayne Gacy who painted pictures of clowns while incarcerated. Gacy would later appear as a ghost in 14.13 Lebanon.
Dean: Yeah, and uh, and Moby Dick's bong.
- According to the books Sam finds in the Andy's van, Andy is a big fan of German philosophers Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Immanuel Kant, and Ludwig Wittgenstein.
- This is a reference from the first Star Wars. The words are muttered by Obi-Wan Kenobi while doing a Jedi mind trick to a security guard when he and Luke Skywalker (accompanied by the droids R2D2 and C-3PO) try to get into the town of Mos Eisley.
