5.15 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
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Title | Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid |
Episode # | Season 5, Episode 15 |
First aired | March 25, 2010 |
Directed by | John Showalter |
Written by | Jeremy Carver |
On IMDB | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1588682/ |
Outline | People in Bobby’s town are coming back from the dead, but Bobby insists nothing is wrong. |
Monster | [[|Death|The Black Horseman]] |
Timeline | |
Location(s) | Sioux Falls, South Dakota. |
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Contents
Synopsis
Sam & Dean show up in the town of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 5 miles from Bobby's home, to find that the dead are coming back to life. Bobby tries to convince them that it's nothing, that all of the omens are coincidence, but Dean doesn't fully believe him. One of the dead that has risen, Clay, gets revenge on his killer and then goes home to his family. When Sam and Dean track him down they find that he seems to be a regular guy, and that the local sheriff is in on it.
Bobby shows the boys why he doesn't want them working the case; his dead wife, Karen, has come back. Bobby also tells them that the rising is a product of the horseman Death and the upcoming apocalypse. As Sam and Dean investigate, Sam finds out after being attacked by one of the dead, that about 5 days after rising, the dead begin to turn, starting with a fever, hunger and then the killing and eating of anyone around them. They set out to find everyone who's come back and kill them by shooting them in the head, along with Bobby's wife, and Bobby kicks them out of his house.
Sam goes to talk with the sheriff, and finds that her son, who has come back to life, has already killed her husband. Sam and Sheriff Jodie Mills gather the townspeople in the local jail and prepare them to fight off the dead who've turned. At Bobby's house, Karen beings to turn, and Bobby has no choice but to shoot her, a head-shot. All of the dead arrive at the Singer house and trap Dean and Bobby in the closet, but the Sam and the Sheriff arrive and stop them.
The dead are put to rest in a pyre, but Bobby makes a separate one for his wife. As Sam, Dean and Bobby reflect on the day, Bobby tells them that Karen was brought back with a message for him. She came to warn Bobby, that because he's helping Sam say 'no' to Lucifer, Death has his eye on him.
Characters
Definitions
- Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
- Zombies
- Pie
- The Meaning of Episode Titles
- Hunter's Funeral Pyre
- Dead...or are they?
Music
Quotes
Digger: Who died and made you queen?
Bobby: Take your pick. This Benny Sutton guy was a Grade A son of a bitch. There's a list of the living a year long who wouldn't mind putting a cap in his ass.
Clay: I’m a taxpayer.
Bobby: Karen, my wife.
Dean: Your new wife?
Karen: Thank you, Dean.
Sam: [frowns]
Bobby: Dean, I can explain.
Dean: So what, Death is behind this?
Sam: Death, Death? Like Grim Reaper, Death?
Bobby: Yeah.
Dean: There's nothing to think about. I'm not going to leave Bobby at home with the Bride of Frankenstein.
Sam: So what do you want to do, just walk in there in front of Bobby and blow her skull off?
Bobby: The first one to come up.
Sam: The first one to go bad.
Bobby: Ah, she was always a nutty broad.
Bobby: What do you mean?
Bobby: Yeah, we got plenty. Just run back past the zombies, it's in the van where we left it.
Dean: It's alright, they're idiots. They can't pick a lock. [the zombies stop banging on the door and we start to see the door handle move]
Bobby: Don't you ever get tired of being wrong?
Sam: What do you mean?
Bobby: I know why he took a stroll through a cemetery in the sticks of South Dakota. He came for me.
Dean: What do you mean you?
Bobby: Death came for me. He brought Karen back to send me a message.
Dean: And you? Why you?
Bobby: Because I've been helping you, you sons of bitches. I'm one of the reasons you're still saying no to Lucifer, Sam.
Dean: So this was like a hit on your life?
Trivia & References
Fargo was a 1996 Coen Brothers movie. The reference here is to the character of Sheriff Marge Gunderson, played by Frances McDormand.
Bobby: Playing murder ball.
This is a reference to the airing day of Supernatural, Thursday.
A reference to the classic horror movie of the same name in which the scientist creates a mate for the monster, made from a reanimated female corpse.
Minutiae
Sides, Scripts & Transcripts
Promotion
- Casting spoiler from spoilertv
- Comments from Sera Gamble on this episode (spoilers thru to 5.17 in interview)
- Teaser clip
- Behind the scenes video by Jim Beaver
- Preview clip 1
- Preview clip 2
- Preview clip 3
- Jim Beaver talks about the episode, and rest of the season with movieweb
- Jim Beaver talks about the episode, and rest of the season with the LA times