2.17 Heart
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| Title | Heart |
| Episode # | Season 2, Episode 17 |
| First aired | March 22, 2007 |
| Directed by | Kim Manners |
| Written by | Sera Gamble |
| On IMDB | http://imdb.com/title/tt0959976/ |
| Outline | Sam and Dean track down a werewolf that has made San Francisco its hunting ground. |
| Monster | werewolf |
| Timeline | (estimated) Week leading up to either March 3, or April 2, 2007 (full moons after prior episode date) |
| Location(s) | San Francisco, California |
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Contents
Synopsis
Sam and Dean travel to San Francisco to investigate violent deaths that they suspect are due to a werewolf.
They visit Madison, a lawyer's secretary, whose boss was the latest victim. She admits that he would hit on her occasionally, and that the night of his death she spotted her violent ex-boyfriend Kurt watching them at a bar.
The boys find signs of werewolf activity near Kurt’s apartment, and discover the body of a dead police officer in a nearby alley. Fearing for Madison’s safety they decide she needs protection, a job for which each brother is keen to volunteer. A game of rock, paper, scissors results in Sam being left to guard Madison, while Dean is out investigating Kurt. There is an obvious attraction between Sam and Madison, and while Madison flirts, Sam is shy and they spend the evening watching TV until Madison goes to bed. During the night, unnoticed by Sam, Madison transforms into a werewolf and sneaks out to kill Kurt. Dean bursts in on her and manages to nick her with a silver blade before she knocks him out.
Sam interrogates Madison and figures out that Madison was infected when she was bitten during what she thought was a mugging a month previously. Sam finds lore in his father’s journal that suggests that if the “sire” of someone who is a werewolf is killed, they will be released from the curse.
While Sam guards Madison, Dean visits the area of town where the previous victims were attacked. He saves a young woman from an attack by a werewolf, which he kills. As it dies it is reverts to human form and is revealed as Madison’s neighbor Glen.
Sam and Dean stay with Madison through the next night, but she doesn’t transform, and they assume she has been cured. Buoyant at this outcome, Sam and Madison consummate their attraction with a session of passionate lovemaking. But that night, as the full moon rises, Sam witnesses Madison become a werewolf again before she flees the apartment.
The next day, Madison calls Sam, scared and confused. When Dean confirms that they have no way to cure her, Madison begs Sam to kill her, because she doesn't want to live as a monster. While distraught and reluctant, when there appears no alternative Sam, despite Dean's offer to do it instead, kills Madison.
Characters
Music
- "Smoking Gun" by Kip Winger
- "Down in the Street" by The Stooges
- "Look at You" by Screaming Trees
- "Silent Lucidity" by Queensrÿche: played at the end of the episode
See the Music page also.
Pad of Definitions
Additional definitions provided by fans
- Rock, Paper, Scissors
Sam: Dean, always with the scissors.
Rock, Paper, Scissors is a game played between two people in order to choose which person will do or receive something. It differs from other simple decision making methods like tossing a coin, in that it is not random. One player can use knowledge of the other to anticipate which "sign" the other will make. Rock, paper, scissors is now played as a comptetive sport. For more information visit the World RPS Society.
It appears that from long experience Sam has learned that Dean exclusively throws "scissors".
Quotes
Sam: Month after month all the murders happen in the week leading up to the full moon.
Dean: Which is this week, right?
Sam: Hence the lawyer.
Dean: {gleefully} Awesome.
Sam: Dean, could you be a bigger geek about this?
Dean: I'm sorry, man, but what about a human by day, a freak animal killing machine by moonlight don't you understand. I mean werewolves are badass, we haven’t seen one since we were kids.
Sam: {sarcastically} Okay, sparky, and you know what, after we kill it we can go to Disneyland.
Sam: What were you doing with Kurt?
Madison: I don’t know. I mean, it’s not like he introduced himself like, “Hi, I’m possessive and controlling and I like to punch people, wanna be my girlfriend?”
Dean: I found him.
Sam: Good, don't keep your eyes off him.
Dean: {looks at stripper} Oh, my eyes are glued. Look Sammy, I gotta let 'cha go, I, uh {clears throat} I don't wanna miss anything.
Sam: Maybe she doesn't really know she's changing. You know maybe, maybe when the creature takes over she blacks out.
Dean: Like a really hot Incredible Hulk.
Trivia & References
- Madison is the 2nd love interest of Sam's to die (the first being his girlfriend, Jessica, who is killed by the yellow-eyed-demon in the pilot).
- Madison's request to Sam to kill her because she doesn't want to live as a monster, closely echoes the plea evil!Sam made to Dean in 2.14 Born Under a Bad Sign.
- Dean: Like a really hot Incredible Hulk?
- Incredible Hulk: In this comic, TV series and movie a mild mannered scientist gets really big (and green) when he’d angry.
- Dean: I'd say Kurt's looking more and more like our Cujo.
- Cujo: A Stephen King book and later movie about a rabid St Bernard called Cujo that drools a lot.
- Dean introduces he and Sam as detectives Dante and Landis. Joe Dante is the director of The Howling, John Landis directed American Werewolf in London- both werewolf horror films.
- When Sam and Madison are watching TV together, they mention Kendall and Ethan, both characters on the soap opera "All My Children".
