2.19 Folsom Prison Blues

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Title	Folsom Prison Blues
Episode #	Season 2, Episode 19
First aired	April 26, 2007
Directed by	Mike Rohl
Written by	John Shiban
On IMDB	http://imdb.com/title/tt1000536/
Outline	Sam and Dean engineer their own arrest in order to hunt in a haunted prison.
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Synopsis

An old marine buddy of John Winchester, Deakin, asks Sam and Dean for help. Not long after a disused cell block was re-opened, something supernatural started killing people in the Green River County Detention Center.

The boys get themselves arrested so as to get inside the jail, however their arrest is complicated by the arrival of FBI Agent Henrickson, who has continued tracking the boys since the bank heist they were involved in with in Milwaukee. The Public Defender, Mara Daniels, appointed to defend the brothers reviews their case and is immediately suspicious that they have been wrongly accused of many crimes.

Inside the prison, Dean fits right in, drawing on his extensive knowledge of prison life from movies such as The Great Escape. When a fight lands Dean in solitary, he gets to witness the supernatural killer first hand when it attacks another prisoner. Sam discovers that a notorious killer, Mark Moody, was killed in the old cell block and traces of his blood may be tying the spirit to the prison.

After winning cigarettes playing cards, Dean trades them for lighter fluid. Combined with the salt supplied with their meals they have the means to banish the spirit. Dean picks a fit with a con called Tiny, allowing Sam to slip away to the old cell block and torch a blood-soaked mattress.

Recovering from their wounds in the prison infirmary, Dean is attacked by the apparition of a nurse. He manages to ward it off with some salt, but the ghost kills Tiny. Sam and Dean finds out that the ghost belongs to Nurse Glockner, who used to kill prisoners in the infirmary, and who was later killed herself during a riot.

Dean tries to get Mara Daniels to find out where Nurse Glockner is buried, and of his innocence, but she refuses. Dean argues with Sam that they must stay in the prison until they get the information and finish the job, but Sam insists they follow through with their pre-planned escape. They start fighting and one of the guards hauls them away.

The guard turns out to be Deakin. It turns out Mara did the research as Dean requested, and Deacon hands over the information on where she is buried. As arranged, Deakin helps the boys escape to the Impala which is waiting outside the jail.

After the escape, Hendrickson interrogates Deacon and finds out that Daniels passed information to the boys, which she reluctantly reveals. Meanwhile the boys are in a cemetery salting and burning Nurse Glockner’s remains. The FBI arrive, only to find they have been sent to the wrong cemetery.

Characters

• Dean Winchester
• Sam Winchester
• Deakin
• Special Agent Victor Henriksen

Music

• Rooster by Alice in Chains
  
• Green Onions by Booker T and the M.G.'s
  

See the Music page also.

Quotes

Henrickson: You think you’re funny
Dean: I think I’m adorable

Dean: Don’t worry Sam I promise I wont trade you for smokes

Dean: We may not be saints but we’re loyal and we pay our debts. Now that means something to me and it ought to to you.

Dean (trying to pick a fight with Tiny): Just curious? Is it like a thyroid problem or is it some deep seated self esteem issue? Coz you know - they’re just donuts, they’re not love.

Mara:Yes. And considering the charges you're facing, no judge in his right mind is going to grant you bail.
Dean:Yeah, we figured that.

Henrickson:And after Milwaukee your brother is now a suspect in a murder case himself. I’d say for you two, screwed to hell is a major understatement.
Dean:Well where there’s life there’s hope, huh?

Dean(As Henrickson and Reid walk into the room): Oh it’s about time. I’ll have a cheeseburger. Extra onions.

Pad of Definitions

None as of 28 April 2007.

Trivia

• When Sam questions Dean’s description of the prisoners killed by the ghost as innocent victims, Dean responds "Are you from Texas all of a sudden?" a reference to the fact both Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles are from Texas which has the highest rate of executions in the United States.

• Folsom Prison Blues is the name of a Johnny Cash song.

References

Dean (mugging for the police photographer): I call this one my Blue Steel…Who looks better – me or Nick Nolte?”

• Blue Steel was the name of a modeling pose belonging to the really really ridiculously handsome Derek Zoolander in the movie Zoolander.
  
• When in 2002 Nick Nolte was arrested in for drunk driving, his mug shot showed him with wild hair and wearing an Hawaiian shirt.

Lucas: You talking to me? You talking to me? Dean: Okay another guy who’s seen Taxi Driver one too many times.

• You talking to me is a much quoted line from Robert De Niro’s character Travis Bickel in Taxi Driver.

Dean: I wish I had a baseball. You know, like Steve McQueen.

• In The Great Escape, when sent to solitary Steve McQueen’s character Hilts bounces a baseball against the wall.

Dean: That’s the Sammy I know. You’re like Clint Eastwood from Escape from Alcatraz.

• Escape from Alcatraz features Clint Eastwood as Frank Morris who escapes from Alcatraz prison.

Dean: It’s a good thing I’m like James Garner from The Great Escape.

• In The Great Escape, James Garner’s character Hendley is the scrounger who ingeniously gets all the items needed for the escape.

Randall: She did this Charles Bronson thing with a hypodermic.

• A reference to the vigilante role of Charles Bronson in the movie Death Wish.

Sam: Thought we screwed before?
Dean: Hell yeah, I know. We gotta go deep this time.
Sam: Deep Dean? We should go to Yemen.
Dean: Not sure I’m ready to go that deep.

• In the episode 4.15 of Friends The One With All The Rugby, Chandler pretends his company is transferring him to Yemen in order to avoid a scary ex-girlfriend.

Scripts, Sides & Transcripts

• 2.19 Folsom Prison Blues (transcript)