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Revision as of 03:58, 8 October 2011
Title | The Girl Next Door |
Episode # | Season 7, Episode 3 |
First aired | October 7, 2011 |
Directed by | Jensen Ackles |
Written by | Andrew Dabb and Daniel Loflin |
On IMDB | |
Outline | |
Monster | Leviathans |
Timeline | Immediately following 7.02 Hello, Cruel World |
Location(s) | Sioux Falls, South Dakota Whitefish, Montana |
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Contents
Synopsis
Directly following 7.02 Hello, Cruel World, Dean wakes up in Sioux Falls General Hospital just as his broken leg is being set. He tells the nurse that he and his brother have to leave as soon as possible, but she tells him that he's not going anywhere. Dean struggles, but falls unconscious.
When Dean next wakes up, his right leg is in a cast, and Bobby is entering his hospital room. Dean remembers the nurses saying that Sam was being taken for an MRI, so Bobby goes to find him while Dean gets dressed. Their plan is to meet at the ambulance dock. Dean, though he's high on morphine, stumbles there on crutches, narrowly avoiding the Leviathans that are there posing as staff. The Leviathan impersonating Dr Gaines receives a call alerting him to the Winchesters' arrival at the hospital, but he is too late to stop Bobby from driving away in a stolen ambulance with Dean and an unconscious Sam.
Three weeks later, Dean and Sam are in Whitefish, Montana, in an old cabin that belonged to Rufus. Bobby brings Dean the keys to the Impala and then tells them both that a lot of hunters have been encountering the Leviathans. They're like Shapeshifters, but they bleed black goo and like to eat people, and so far nobody's found anything that can kill them. While they talk, Sam spaces out, but grabs his scarred palm to snap himself out of it. Dean is concerned that Sam's not all there, but Bobby tells him that his brother is healing and that he has to trust him. He leaves to go round up a couple of book stashes that he had hidden outside his house, and Dean sends Sam out for food and snacks.
At the general store, Sam notices a newspaper with the headline Ice Pick Killer Strikes Again. He adds the paper to his purchase and charges it all to a credit card with the name Lemmy Kilmister. Meanwhile, at the credit card company, an employee is alerted to the transaction. He immediately calls Edgar and alerts him that Sam and Dean have made a purchase in a shop in Montana.
Back at the cabin, Sam waits until Dean is asleep to read the newspaper story about the "ice pick killer." He flashes back to 1998, when he was doing research and advising Dean and his father, John, over the phone about a kitsune in Lincoln, Nebraska. Apparently, kitsune look human, but sprout claws so that they can tear into their victims behind their ears and feed on their brains. They need a steady diet of human pituitary glands to survive. Something similar is killing people nearby, all low-life scumbags, and Sam decides to investigate it on his own. When Dean wakes up, Sam is gone in the Impala. Dean calls Bobby, who tries to calm him down, but Dean is frantic. He saws off his cast early so that he can go after him.
Near Bozeman, Montana, Sam sits in the Impala in a parking lot by a park. Another car pulls up and parks nearby. As he waits, he remembers meeting a young girl, Amy, at the library where he was researching kitsune back in 1998. She rebuffed his advances until he fought off two other boys who were harassing her. She then invited Sam back to her house, where she examined his swollen eye and then brought him a cold beer. In the fridge, unseen by Sam, were jars holding brains. As they talked, Sam and Amy found that they both had a lot in common, and they kissed. Back in the present time, Sam stalks a young woman as she moves through the woods. She seems to be stalking someone herself, and Sam grabs her before she can attack. It's Amy. She remembers him and tries to defend herself, but Sam is sure that she's the "ice pick killer" and that he just interrupted her hunt. She won't explain herself, and Sam is unwilling to trust her, but before he can do anything she uses her superior strength to knock him unconscious.
As they struggled, Sam was able to grab a few things from her pockets and learn her full alias, Amy Pond. He tracks her to her house and finds her packing a bag, fresh blood on her hand. He tells her that he has to kill her because she's a monster, but she reveals that she's been living a normal life up to now. A mortician, she only feeds on the dead, but her son got sick eating dead flesh and had to have fresh meat to get better. She promises that she's done killing people because her son is better.
Dean is following Sam's trail, and learns that Sam is after a kitsune. He catches up to Sam and is waiting for him in his motel room when he gets back from Amy's house. Sam tells Dean that the kitsune is taken care of, but when pressed admits that he didn't kill her. Dean is skeptical that the kitsune won't kill again, so Sam tells Dean about what happened back in 1998. Apparently, Amy's mom was the kitsune that John and Dean were after, and she rushed home with them on her trail. Amy tried to hide Sam from her, but she found him and was going to kill him when Amy stabbed her through the heart, killing her. Because she killed her own mother protecting Sam, he's willing to believe her when she says she won't kill anyone else. He asks for Dean's trust, and Dean says that he believes him and that they can leave the kitsune alone.
Characters
Definitions
Music
Quotes
Trivia & References
• Jensen talks about directing the episode at Comic Con 2011
• Jared talks about being directed by Jensen (at around 13.40) at Nerd HQ at Comic Con 2011A reference to the David Bowie song, Space Oddity.
Chuck called a Mistress Magda in 5.22 Swan Song.
Minutiae
A commerical for this movie plays while dean is asleep on the couch. Jensen played Tom Hanniger in My Bloody Valentine 3D
Jensen Ackles voiced Red Hood in Batman: Under The Red Hood.
Sides, Scripts & Transcripts
Promotion
- Title and character spoilers from SpoilerTV
- Casting news by Zap2it
- Jewel Staite confirmed as guest star by TV Overmind
- Filming location identified by @susangittins
- On Set pics of Jensen and guest star by Susan Gittens
- Tweet from a Colin Ford
- Photos of Jared and Jensen on set
- Interview with Jewel Staite
- Fan report of her day on the set by Janine Shahinian
- Picture of Colin Ford with Jensen
- official Synopsis
- Promo pics from ksitetv
- Promo clip, Webclip #1 and Webclip #2
- Interview with Jewel Staite about the episode by TV Guide
- WinchesterBros exclusive interview with Leslie Hopps DeSchutter (Amy's mom), WinchesterBros exclusive behind the scenes photos