6.13 Unforgiven

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Title Unforgiven
Episode # Season 6, Episode 13
First aired February 7, 2011
Directed by David Barrett
Written by Andrew Dabb and Daniel Loflin
On IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1627710/
Outline An anonymous text message sends Sam and Dean to investigate disappearances in a town where Sam and his grandfather worked a case a year earlier.
Monster Arachne
Timeline
Location(s) Bristol, Rhode Island
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Synopsis

A year ago in Bristol Rhode Island, Samuel and Sam hunted an Arachne - a spider-like monster - that was taking men in thirties, and poisoning them in order to turn them into arachne. They confided their true identity as hunters Sheriff Roy Dobbs and his wife Brenna. On Sam's suggestion they use Roy as bait. When he is taken by the Arachne, they follow her to her lair where they find the kidnapped men bound in web and poisoned. Sam kills the Arachne by decapitating her. He then declares the poisoned men beyond help, and shots them all before he and Samuel burn the building. On their way out of the town, Deputy Atkins stops them, doubting their cover as FBI agents and demanding to know where the Sheriff is. Sam beats the deputy unconscious and they leave. Unknown to them, the poisoned men who had turned into arachne, have survived and escaped.

In the present day, Sam receives a text message with the coordinates of Bristol, and some research uncovers the disappearance of three local women. Dena is reluctant to go on the hunt, but Sam insists. When they arrive in the town, a woman recognizes Sam, and he flashes back to having sex with her. He starts to remember pieces of the original hunt. Dean who is concerned that if Sam starts remembering the past year, he will also remember his time in hell, with possibly dire consequences.

Sam goes to the police station to get information on the latest disappearances, but is recognised by Deputy Atkins - now the sheriff - who throws him in jail. Brenna Dobbs visits Sam demanding to know what happened to her husband. She believes Sam when he says he doesn't remember anything, and releases him so he can work on the case. She shares the case files from the previous disappearances with him, and Sam remembers more, including the identity of the monster.

Dean meanwhile is talking to witnesses and deduces that all the women who have disappeared slept with Sam the last time he was in town. Brenna Dobbs calls and asks Sam to come over and when Sam adn Dean arrive, they are taken prisoner by Sheriff Roy Dobbs. Now an arachne, he binds them with web. Dobbs reveals he lured Sam back with the coordinates and by taking woman that Sam slept with, in order to exact revenge. He has turned these women into arachne. Dean manages to escape his web and attack the arachne, and brenna helps Sma escape. Sam kills Dobbs by decapitating him.

As they prepare to leave town, Sam is feeling guilty about what he did in the time he was without his soul despite Dean's argument that it wasn't really him. Suddenly Sam falls to the floor convulsing, as he remembers burning in Hell.

Characters

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Music

Quotes

Dean: Sam there is a reason hunters don't hit the same town over again. Because we have a habit of leaving messes behind.

Sam: Right, I agree

Dean: One of Dad's rules - you never use the same crapper twice.
Dean: How would you characterize their relationship?

Flatmate: Oh no, they weren't having...
Dean: Just the tone or the nature of their conversation?

Flatmate: Well, loud and... athletic.
Dean: Can I get you anything?

Sam: What are you now my waitress?
Dean:I’m just trying to make you feel better, don’t be a bitch.

Sam: Yeah. I'm fine.

Trivia & References

The episode title Unforgiven comes from the 1992 Western of the same name directed by Clint Eastwood. The film centres on the story of an outlaw gunslinger who has retired to live a quiet life, who is drawn back to his old life for one last job.
Sam and Samuel use the aliases Roark and Wyman. Sam's alias (H.Roark) is a reference to the main character - Howard Roark - in Ayn Rand's novel The Fountainhead which embodied the philosophy of objectivism, where individual self-interest was held as the purpose of one's life (and so it is interesting that this is associated with soulless Sam). Samuel's alias Wynand refers to Gail Wynand, another character in the book
Sam: Mel Gibson really took a turn this past year huh?

Dean: or he's possessed.

A reference to Mel Gibson's numerous instances of bad behaviour in 2010 which included release of an abusive ophone call to his girlfriend, allegations of domestic abuse and a serious of instances of racist, ant-Semitic and homophobic statements.
Woman: where's your partner? The big blad guy? Agent Wynand?

Sam:' Agent Wynand, right.'
Dean: Sex rehab. You've heard of plushies right?

A plushie or plushophile is someone with a sexual fetish related to stuffed toys.
The fannish axiom "Sleep with Sam Winchester and die" was borne out in this episode. The phrase was coined after the episode 2.17 Heart as Sam's sexual partners - Jess, Madison and later Ruby - all die. It was adopted as the name of the Sam thread on Television Without Pity.

Minutiae

The sign on the way into the town of Bristol has the ironic phrase "Where Memories Are Made"

Sides, Scripts & Transcripts

Promotion

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