2.06 No Exit
Screencap from No Exit | |
Title | No Exit |
Episode # | Season 2, Episode 6 |
First aired | 2 November, 2006 |
Directed by | Kim Manners |
Written by | Matt Witten |
On IMDB | http://imdb.com/title/tt0855641/ |
Outline | Sam and Dean investigate the brutal slayings of blond women from the same apartment building and discover that the demon responsible is the ghost of the country's first serial murderer, H. H. Holmes. |
Monster | Dr. H.H. Holmes, ghost |
Timeline | |
Location(s) | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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Contents
Synopsis
The boys take on a case Jo has researched in Philadelphia where blonde girls in an apartment building are disappearing. The boys discover ectoplasm in the apartment of the latest victim, a sign of strong supernatural manifestation. As they search the building they run into Jo who has followed them from the Roadhouse. Jo explains that Ash has laid a false trail so that Ellen won’t know where she is.
With Sam covering part of the building, Jo and Dean scan the other part with EMF meters looking for supernatural activity. They argue as Dean criticizes her for pursing hunting, when she has other options in her life. Jo’s EMF meter starts registering activity, and within a wall vent they find a clump of hair from one of the victims. Unknown to them, at the same time another woman is abducted.
The next morning, while researching the case Jo shares with Dean that the reason she hunts is because it makes her feel connected to her father. They discover that the apartment building was erected over the place Dr. H.H. Holmes, America’s first serial killer, was executed and that he may be holding his latest victim in a hidden room.
While searching for the hidden room, Jo is captured by the spirit of Dr. H.H. Holmes. As Sam and Dean try to work out where Jo is being held, Ellen calls, having worked out that Jo is in Philadelphia with them. Dean confesses to her that Jo has being kidnapped and she declares she is catching the first plane there.
Sam works out that the spirit may be holding his victims in an old sewer system beneath the apartment building. Jo is indeed being held there, along with the previous victim Teresa. She manages to hold to spirit at bay with her father’s iron blade, until Sam and Dean discover an entrance and rescue them both.
In order to trap he spirit, Jo acts as bait to draw him out. When Dr. H.H. Holmes reappears, a contraption releases salt to line the perimeter of the underground chamber, trapping him inside it. As an added precaution, Dean uses cement to seal the chamber, and H.H. Holmes in it.
Ellen catches up with the boys and Jo, and there is a long uncomfortable drive back to the Roadhouse. Angry at the danger the boys put Jo in, Ellen reveals to Jo that her father was killed while on a hunt with John Winchester.
Characters
- Dean Winchester
- Sam Winchester
- Jo Harvelle
- Ellen
- Theresa (other abducted woman)
- Dr. H.H. Holmes (spirit of 'multi-murderer')
- See also William Anthony Harvelle
Definitions
- Harvelle's Roadhouse
- Ectoplasm PoD
- Moyamensing Prison PoD
- Dr. H.H. Holmes PoD
- Holmes Murder Castle PoD
- EMF PoD
- Iron PoD
- Salt PoD
- Ghost
Music
- Dean's cell phone ringtone Smoke on the water- Deep purple
- Foreigner - Cold As Ice (played after the awkward silence in the car while driving back with Ellen and Jo)
- Cheap Trick – Surrender (played as Sam and Dean are driving to Philadelphia over the opening credits)
Quotes
Sam: Girl gotta name?
Dean: Katie Holmes
Dean: No, but your mom might.
Sam: Dean, I've only seen this stuff like twice. I mean to make this stuff, you have to be one majorly pissed off spirit.
Jo: Working at the Roadhouse.
Dean: Hunters don't tip that well.
Jo: You love the job.
Dean: Yeah, but I'm a little twisted.
Jo: Well, except for all the pee-your-pants terror, yeah sure. But that Teresa girl's going to live a life because of us. It's worth it, isn't it?
Trivia & References
The Stay Puft Marsmallow Man was the mascot of the fictitious Stay Puft Corporation in the movie Ghosbusters
Jo's comment to Teresa is a direct quote from Luke to Leia in Episode IV: A New Hope.
Minutiae
- Sam's email address is swinchester@mail.srv. He has had frequent contact with Ash, someone named Ross (about something 'Important' and something 'WTF'), and dwinchester@mailer.srv, and received email from a few other addresses, including lgsprime@mail.srv, hellhounds@remailer.jpgsrv, sateyns_@2noob.srv, and prg_34@mail.srv. There are also multiple account service notices, and he either gets a lot of spam or doesn't bother clearing out his spam folder.
Sides, Scripts & Transcripts
Promotion
- Episode Promo: 2.06 No Exit
- The promo for this episode "Tunnel", won two awards at the Promax/BDA Promotion and Marketing Awards in June 2007.
- Drama Program Promotion - "Supernatural" "Tunnel" :30 (GOLD)
- Sound Design - "Supernatural" "Tunnel" - Sound :30 (GOLD)