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|episode= Season 2, Episode 12
|firstaired= January 25, 2007
|director= [[Philip Phil Sgriccia]]
|writer= [[Ben Edlund]]
|imdb= [http://imdb.com/title/tt0942145/ Nightshifter]
|download= [http://itunes.apple.com/us/tv-season/night-shifter/id207595116?i=213965762 iTunes], [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000MYMQ5G/ref=atv_dp_se_2_12/102-6268956-3507308 Amazon.com]
|outline= [[Sam]] and [[Dean]] investigate a string of robberies with a disturbing pattern: In each incident, a trusted employee holds up a bank and then commits suicidekills themself.
|motw= [[Shapeshifter]]
|location= Milwaukee, Wisconsin (City Bank Milwaukee)
43.040182, -87.91448, Milwaukee, WI, USA
</googlemap>
|prevep= 2.11 Playthings
|nextep= 2.13 Houses of the Holy
}}
|Synopsis=
[[Sam]] and [[Dean]] investigate a series of crimes and suicides in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, wherein people are behaving out of character in - stealing from their place places of business and then committing dying by suicide shortly thereafter. During their investigation, they come across [[Ronald Reznick]], a victim who has conspiracy theories about "[[mandroidsMandroids]]." His amateur research reveals to Sam and Dean that the perpetrator of these crimes is in fact a [[shapeshifters|shapeshifter]], as previously seen in [[1.06 Skin]].
Plotting out the path of the shapeshifter in accordance congruence with the city's sewers, Sam and Dean pinpoint the next place of attack - City Bank Milwaukee - and pose as security techs in order to view the bank's security camera footage and locate the undercover shapshifter. They are interrupted when Ronald comes into the bank, chaining the door closed behind him and brandishing a gun. Convincing Ronald that he believes him, Dean helps him lock everyone in the bank into the vault and they seek out the shapeshifter. Unfortunately, the shapeshifter has already changed appearance by this stage, and the tension is increased as it changes appearance multiple times, with Sam, Dean, and Ronald attempting to track it down in order to kill it. Ronald is shot and killed by a police sniper while in pursuit of the shapeshifter.
|Characters=
|Pad_of_Definitions=
* [[Acting in Unison]]
* [[Aliases]]
* [[Cameras]]
* [[Costumes & Disguises]]
* [[Dean's Amulet]]
* [[Donuts]]
* [[Doppelganger]]
* [[Impala]]
* [[Law Enforcement Officers]]
* [[Mandroid]]
* [[Monsters]]
* [[Shapeshifters]]
* [[Star Wars]]
* [[Table of Death]]
* [[Terminator 2]]
* [[Werewolves]]
|Quotes=
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'''Ronald:''' Cops said it was some kind of reflected light. Some kind of "camera flare." Okay? Ain't no damn camera flare. They say I'm a post-trauma case. So what? Bank goes and fires me, it don't matter! The Mandroid is, is still out there. The law won't hunt this thing down -- I'll do it myself. You see, this thing, it, it, it kills the real person, makes it look like a suicide, then it sorta, like, morphs into that person. Cases the job for a while until it knows the take is fat, and then it finds its opening. Now, these robberies, they're, they're grouped together. So I figure the Mandroid is holed up somewhere in the middle, underground, maybe. I dunno, maybe that's where it recharges its, uh, mandroid Mandroid batteries.
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'''Sam:''' Okay. I want you to listen very carefully. Because I'm about to tell you the God's honest truth about all of this. There's no such thing as mandroidsMandroids. There's nothing evil or inhuman going on out there. Just people. Nothing else, you understand?<br>
'''Ronald:''' ...The laser eyes.
}}
'''Dean:''' Nah, I just think it's a little creepy how good of a Fed you are. I mean, come on, we could have at least thrown the guy a bone. He did some pretty good legwork here.<br>
'''Sam:''' Mandroid?<br>
'''Dean:''' Except for the mandroid Mandroid part. I liked him. He's not that different from you or me. People think we're crazy.<br>
'''Sam:''' Yeah, except he's not a hunter, Dean. He's just a guy who stumbled onto something real. If he were to go up against this thing he'd get torn apart. Better to stay in the dark, and stay alive.
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'''Dean:''' Okay, let's get something straight. It's, it's not a mandroidMandroid. It's a shapeshifter.<br>
'''Ronald:''' Shapeshifter?<br>
'''Dean:''' Yeah. I mean, it's human, more or less. Has human drives -- and in this case it's money. But it generates its own skin, it can shape it to match someone else's features, you know, taller, shorter, male, -
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'''Henriksen:''' I don't give a rat's ass what you do, you can go get a donut and bang your wife for all I care. What I do need is your SWAT team locked and loaded.
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'''Ronald:''' Chinese've been working on 'em for years. And the Russians before that. Part men, part machine. Like the Terminator. But the kind that can change itself, make itself look like other people.
'''Dean:''' Like the one from T2.
:''Ron Ronald likens his theory of theoretical [[mandroidsMandroids]] to that of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-1000 T-1000] from [[Terminator 2]].''
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'''Ronald:''' I knew it, as soon as you two left. You aren't FBI. Who are you? Who are you working for, huh? The Men in Black? You working for the Mandroid?
'''Sam:''' We're not working for the mandroidMandroid!
:''In popular culture the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_in_Black Men in Black] are thought to be government agents to threaten and harass people who have seen UFOs.''
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''' Henriksen:''' And yes, I know about Sam, too. Bonnie to your Clyde.
'''Dean:''' Yeah, well, that part's true, but how'd you even know we were here?<br>
'''Henriksen:''' Go screw yourself, that's how I knew. It's become my job to know about you, Dean. I've been looking for you for weeks now. I know about the murder in St. Louis, I know about the Houdini act you pulled in Baltimore. I know about the desecrations and the thefts. I know about your dad.<br>
'''Dean:''' Hey, you don't know crap about my Dad.<br>
'''Henriksen:''' Ex-marine, raised his kids on the road, cheap motels, backwood cabins. Real paramilitary survivalist type. I just can't get a handle on what type of whacko he was. White supremacist, Timmy McVeigh, to-may-to, to-mah-to.<br>
'''Dean:''' You got no right talking about my Dad like that. He was a hero.<br>
'''Henriksen:''' Yeah. Right. Sure sounds like it. You have one hour to make a decision or we come through those doors full automatic.
:''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_and_Clyde Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow] were notorious robbers and criminals who traveled the central United States during the Great Depression. The line 'He's the Bonnie to your Clyde' was originally in the script for [[The Usual Suspects]], but never made it to the final cut.''
:''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Houdini Harry Houdini] was a famous magician and escape artist.''
:''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_McVeigh Timothy McVeigh] was an American terrorist convicted and executed for his part in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_bombing Oklahoma City bombing] in 1995.''
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[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0687999/ Roman Podhora], who played Lieutenant Robarts, also played the Sheriff in [[6.19 Mommy Dearest]].}}{{TriviaQuote |Text=Although the [[shapeshifter]] had been dressed as a man, when the shifter turned into a woman, somehow it acquired a woman's slip. Without without having taken the actual clothes from its likeness.
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|Sides_Scripts_Transcripts=
* [[2.12 Nightshifter (transcript)]]
* [https://www.slideshare.net/JulesWilkinson/supernatural-22-nightshifter Nightshifter Script] (Blue Revisions)
* [https://www.slideshare.net/JulesWilkinson/supernatural-212-nightshifter-casting-sides-for-agent-henriksen-5pgs Casting Sides] for [[Victor Henriksen]]
* [https://www.slideshare.net/JulesWilkinson/supernatural-212-nightshifter-casting-sides-for-ronald-11pgs Casting sides] for [[Ronald Reznick]]
|Promotion=
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb2EIublL6k Episode Promo: 2.12 Nightshifter]* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVEEblzahxs "Cut You Down" Promo]
}}
==Episode Meta==
*[[SPN Heavy Meta]] Season Two Meta Index
*[https://bardicvoice.livejournal.com/8347.html 2.12 Nightshifter: We Are So Screwed …] by bardicvoice (January 2007); [https://web.archive.org/web/20190816011142/http://bardicvoice.livejournal.com/8347.html archive link]
*Bond, Silvia. 2008. Requiem for Ronald Reznick: "Nightshifter" Season 2, Episode 12. ''Pink Raygun'', August 5; [https://web.archive.org/web/20120326112136/http://www.pinkraygun.com/2008/08/05/supernatural-nightshifter/ archive link]
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