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[[Sam]] and [[Dean]] investigate a series of mysterious deaths at the Pierpont HotelInn. The hotel inn is run by a single mother (Susan) who is planning to sell the hotelinn. Also living at the hotel inn is the manager's young daughter ([[Tyler]]), Susan's mother (Rose), and the elderly bellboy (Sherman). Tyler has an imaginary friend named Maggie.
While they are there, another murder causes Sam intense guilt, and he gets drunk and makes Dean promise to fulfil John's final order - to kill Sam should he turn evil.
While investigating, Sam and Dean at first suspect Rose of engineering the murders using [[Voodoo]], after discovering voodoo symbols on the property and evidence that she had come in contact with such folklore. However, when they sneak into the upper levels of the hotel inn to speak with Rose, they discover she has suffered from a stroke and therefore doesn't possess the faculties to practice Voodoo. Discovering Sam and Dean in her mother's room, Susan demands they leave the hotelinn.
Sam and Dean return to the hotel inn in secret, however, saving Susan's life and convincing her there is something supernatural going on when she nearly becomes a victim herself. They discover that Maggie is in fact a ghost of Susan's aunt, Margaret, who drowned in the hotelinn's pool when she was a girl. The mysterious deaths started occuring when Rose had a stroke, and thus was no longer able to keep Maggie's ghost from the hotel inn using Voodoo protection.
Maggie's motives appear to be that she doesn't want the family to leave the hotelinn, as it means she will no longer have Tyler as a play mate, and to keep Tyler with her together, attempts to drown Tyler in the hotelinn's swimming pool. Before she can complete the murder, Maggie is called away from the pool by Rose, who trades her life for Tyler's, offering instead to stay and be a ghost also and playmate for her sister instead.
Sam rescues Tyler from the pool, and shortly thereafter they discover Rose dead, having made the deal with Maggie.
[[Jared Padalecki]] stated that he and [[Jensen Ackles]] were somewhat freaked out by the room of blank-staring dolls in this episode. They kept daring each other to "poke" one particular eyeless doll in the eye sockets or to stand alone in the room. The pranks escalacted slightly when Jared put a few of the dolls in Jensen's trailer "just to freak him out".}}
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There are multiple references to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shining_%28film%29 The Shining] throughout the episode. Dean and Sam stay in room 237, the low tracking throughout the hotelinn's halls are redolent of similar cinematography, and the scene in which Dean wanders into the hotel inn bar to talk to Sherwin is reminiscent of a scene in the film. The room number 237 was also referenced in [[1.18 Something Wicked]].}}
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Many of the low tracking shots of the hotelinn's halls are reminiscent of cinematography used in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shining_%28film%29 The Shining]}}
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This is the last episode in which Sam is seen wearing the cast for his broken wrist, which was first seen in [[2.05 Simon Said]])}}
