7.03 The Girl Next Door

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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
Spokane, Washington

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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.

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Trivia & References

The Girl Next Door is a term used to describe a cultural stereotype of a young woman who is good natured and fits accepted cultural norms of femininity. It is the name of many songs and movies, however the one that most closely fits this episode of Supernatural is a Japanese erotic animated movie (ie hentai) of the same name in which a man is haunted by the memory of a young woman who helped him when he was injured as a child. This may be a shoutout to the fact that in 7.02 Hello, Cruel World Dean is watching "Asian cartoon porn"
Jensen announced at Asylum 6 2011 that he would direct an episode Season Seven. As happened in Season 6 when he directed 6.04 Weekend At Bobby's, the episode would be the first one shot, to allow Jensen time to prepare, but would be the second one to air. Pre-production started on June 26th and shooting on July 6th.

• 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 2011
After Jared teased on tweeter that he had the first two scripts for season 7 and asked who wanted him to fax them a copy. @CariAnn923 was the first to respond, and Jared did fax her the front page of the script to be shot by Jensen. Portion of the script Jared faxed to @CariAnn923
Pic of Colin and Jensen during filming tweeted by Colin
This is the fifth episode in which the part of a younger Sam has been played by Colin Ford. The only episodes in which young Sam was not played by Colin were 1.18 Something Wicked, when the character was played by Alex Ferris, and 5.22 Swan Song, when the character was played by Nathan Smith.
Dean: Hey, ground control. Sam! A reference to the David Bowie song, Space Oddity.

Minutiae

A scene from the episode was previewed at the Supernatural Panel at Comic Con 2011

Sides, Scripts & Transcripts

Promotion

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