1,439
edits
Changes
From Super-wiki
|location= Broward County, Florida
|timeline=
|prevep= 3.10 Dream a Little Dream of Me
|nextep= 3.12 Jus in Bello
}}
In the diner, the pancake man leaves, and Sam goes after him. He corners him in the alley and holds a wooden stake to his neck, telling him he finally figured out why he’s repeating Tuesdays and watching Dean die everyday. Dean stands off to the side confused by what is happening. Sam says that they’ve killed one of his kind before, and the man turns into the [[Trickster]] and tells Sam they didn’t. The Trickster admits it’s been fun killing Dean every day, but that this time, the joke's on Sam, so he’ll finally get the point that he can’t save his brother. Sam threatens to kill him, but the Trickster says the joke is off and takes them to Wednesday with a snap of his fingers.
Sam wakes to a different song, "Back in Time" by Huey Lewis and the News, and is elated to see Dean alive and that it's Wednesday. They pack up to leave, and Dean goes out to the car first where he’s held up at gunpoint by Cal, a mugger who was one of the diner patrons. Sam hears the gunshot and rushes outside to see Dean on the ground, shot in the chest and dead. He holds Dean in his arms and closes his eyes, dismayed when nothing changes, before starting to sob.
A very dark montage starts with Sam driving the [[Impala]], a distant look on his face. He’s shown hunting alone across the country, pulling off some big kills, while [[Bobby]] leaves him a set of messages asking him to call, mentioning that he hasn’t heard from Sam in three months and is worried. Sam arrives at a motel and the weapons in the Impala are now all organized in foam casing (à la [[John Winchester]]). Without expression, Sam fixes his own gunshot wound inside the room, cutting off his shirt, picking out the bullet, and stitching himself up. He eats alone, cleans a gun while examining with a cold stare the set of pictures on the wall tracking the Trickster, and makes the bed in meticulous fashion after waking. He brushes his teeth and stares in the mirror at a reflection that is defeated and emotionally dead inside. Finally, a message from Bobby plays in the background, claiming that he has found the Trickster.
* [[Mystery Spot]]
* [[Pig in a Poke]]
* [[Resurrection]]
* [[Sammy]]
* [[The Shining]]
:''In 1980 at Uluru (Ayers Rock), Lindy and Michael Chamberlain claimed a dingo took their baby, Azaria, from her tent. The claim was widely ridiculed and Lindy was later convicted of murder, and Michael as an accessory. Although a body was never found, new evidence indicating a dingo was probably responsible led to both sets of charges being overturned in 1988. The line has become a part of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingoes_ate_my_baby pop culture]. It was a line in an episode of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seinfeld Seinfeld] as well as a [http://buffy.wikia.com/wiki/Dingoes_Ate_My_Baby band] in the show [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer Buffy the Vampire Slayer].''
}}
{{TriviaQuote |Text=
[[File:Phil's Diner Mystery Spot.png|right|300px]]
'''Dean:''' Okay. Okay. I'm listening. So, so – you think that you're in some kind of a what again?<br>
'''Sam:''' Time loop.<br>
'''Dean:''' Like Groundhog Day.
:''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundhog_Day_%28film%29 Groundhog Day] was a 1993 movie starring Bill Murray, where his character relives the same day over and over. Other references to ''Groundhog Day'' include Sam waking to the same song every morning, though in ''Groundhog Day'' the song is "I Got You Babe" by Sonny and Cher. The diner the boys eat in is called Phil's Diner after Punxsutawney Phil, the groundhog in the movie, and it features a groundhog on the menu. The waitress has the same name as the waitress in ''Groundhog Day'': Doris.''<br clear ="all">
}}
{{TriviaQuote |Text=
{{TriviaQuote |Text=
Sam and Dean's hotel room has flamingo wallpaper and a flamingo room divider.
}}
{{TriviaQuote |Text=
After Dean's "real" death, a pirate theme is seen with Sam at the Bounty Inn motel, which is next to the "Buck & Ear" (Buccaneer) bar.
}}
* [http://ew.com/article/2016/09/22/supernatural-jared-padalecki-mystery-spot/ Jared talks about filming Mystery Spot].
}}
==Episode Meta==
*[https://bardicvoice.livejournal.com/22548.html 3.11 Mystery Spot: Dean’s Your Weakness. The Bad Guys Know It, Too.] by bardicvoice (February 2008); [https://web.archive.org/web/20190816011142/http://bardicvoice.livejournal.com/22548.html archive link], [https://spn-heavymeta.livejournal.com/140789.html spn-heavymeta]
*Bond, Silvia. 2008. Sam of a Thousand Tuesdays: "Mystery Spot" Season 3, Episode 11. ''Pink Raygun'', February 19; [https://web.archive.org/web/20120326112136/http://www.pinkraygun.com/2008/02/19/supernatural-mystery-spot/ archive link]
[[Category:Canon]][[Category:Episodes|0311]][[Category:Season 3]]
