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− | While mimicking Bobby, [[Chet]] reveals that he had lots of issues with his father, and his favourite singer is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joni_Mitchell Joni Mitchell]. | + | While mimicking Bobby, [[Chet]] reveals that he had lots of issues with his father, who was also a drunk, and that his favourite singer is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joni_Mitchell Joni Mitchell]. |
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Michael Hogan who plays [[Sheriff Osborne]] played [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Tigh Saul Tigh] in Battlestar Galactica - who was actually a cylon impersonating a human!}} | Michael Hogan who plays [[Sheriff Osborne]] played [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Tigh Saul Tigh] in Battlestar Galactica - who was actually a cylon impersonating a human!}} | ||
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− | Bobby putting Chet's severed head in a box could be a reference to the movie [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_%28film%29 Se7en]. | + | Bobby putting Chet's severed head in a box could be a reference to the movie [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_%28film%29 Se7en] which famously ends with Gwentyh Patrow's head in a box. |
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− | Leviathan!Sam and Leviathan!Dean's crime spree and media blitz | + | Leviathan!Sam and Leviathan!Dean's crime spree and media blitz calls to mind Mallory and Micakey in the film [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Born_Killers Natural Born Killers]. In [[6.06 You Can't Handle The Truth]] [[Veritas]] to Dean :So Sam walking back into your life must've been a relief. Mallory to your Mickey. |
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Revision as of 21:26, 29 October 2011
Title | Slash Fiction |
Episode # | Season 7, Episode 6 |
First aired | October 28, 2011 |
Directed by | John Showalter |
Written by | Robbie Thompson |
On IMDB | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1995121/ |
Outline | |
Monster | Leviathans |
Timeline | |
Location(s) | Whitefish, Montana Jericho, California |
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Contents
Synopsis
Dean and Sam return to Rufus's old cabin in Whitefish, Montana, with a chained up Chet. The Leviathan is still under the influence of the witch Don Stark's spell and is unable to break free of his bonds. Bobby takes the opportunity to test as many means of killing supernatural creatures on him as he can, but none of the basics (eg, holy water) seem to work. Despite the fact that Chet doesn't seem bothered by any of Bobby's attempts at torture, he reveals that Edgar is still alive. He also tells them that he found them using an algorithm to track their known aliases. When the Leviathans were inside Castiel's body, they "got the download" and learned everything that Castiel knew about them, including their aliases. When they ask Chet why he's telling them anything, he laughs and says that not only is he not scared of them, but they also have more important things to worry about, which they'd know if they'd watched the news.
Just that morning, two Leviathans in the guise of Sam and Dean Winchester held up the First Bank of Jericho in California. During the robbery, they forced all of their hostages to enter the vault and then opened fire, killing them all. The Winchester brothers, who had been presumed dead for years, are now the subjects of a manhunt throughout the state of California. After watching the news, Sam wonders how the Leviathans were able to clone them, and a helpful Chet reveals that the Leviathans got their DNA from hair they left in a motel shower drain.
Sam and Dean are determined to go directly for the Leviathans that are imitating them. Bobby thinks they're being stupid, but sends them to an old friend, Frank Devereaux, who's an expert in going off the grid. On their way, they stop at a gas station and Sam's goes into the convenience store for snacks. When the clerk recognizes Sam from the news, however, they leave in a hurry.
Meanwhile, Leviathan!Dean and Leviathan!Sam have been busy, hitting up a convenience store in Black Water Ridge, Colorado, and another bank in Manitoc, Wisconsin. Because they've initiated a crime spree across state lines, they quickly climb the FBI's most wanted list, and two agents, Agent Morris and Agent Valente, are on their trail. While in Manitoc, the agents get a report that Sam and Dean were spotted at a gas station 1,000 miles away. They're not sure how they traveled so far so quickly, but they leave to follow up on the lead.
Dean and Sam arrive at Frank's house, but it appears empty. They go inside, looking for Frank, and find him sitting in a room with a gun held on them. He recognizes them from the news and gives them his condolences regarding the doppelgangers. They tell him that Bobby sent them and that they need his help, and Frank reluctantly agrees after they remind him that he owes Bobby for saving his life in Port Huron. Once Frank starts talking, it becomes clear that he's an unstable government conspiracy theorist, but he is very thorough in his approach to making Sam and Dean disappear. He shreds all their credit cards and takes their old IDs, then tells them that they have to stop using rock star aliases: they're going to be Tom and John Smith from now on. He also tells them to use cash only, change their phones frequently, and stay off of cameras, before smashing Sam's old laptop and giving him a new one. He then demands $5,000 cash for his services before getting out a camera and taking Dean and Sam's pictures for their new IDs as "Mr and Mr Smith." Included among the new IDs are passports, Pennsylvania driver's licenses, and government IDs. Before they leave, Frank also gives them a map with the locations that the Leviathans have committed their crimes circled so that they can search for a pattern.
Back in Rufus' cabin, Bobby is still struggling to find something that will hurt Chet. Finally, frustrated by Chet's commentary, he cuts off his head with a machete. When he doesn't immediately heal himself, Bobby is relieved. He takes a break from the experiments and is upstairs when someone knocks on the door.
He opens the door to Sheriff Jodie Mills, who tracked him to this cabin after learning that his house had burned down. She has food and beer and tells him that she wanted to come thank him for saving her from the Leviathans at the hospital. She's determined to do what she can to pay him back, so she offers to cook and help him to clean up the cabin, then insists that he call her Jodie. Bobby goes down to the basement just in time to see Chet's head reattaching itself to his body. Chet mocks him, and Bobby picks up the machete and chops his head off again.
Dean and Sam leave Frank's house in a Ford Pinto, and Dean is grumpy about having to leave the Impala behind. While he drives, Sam is examining the map that Frank gave them. He realizes that the Leviathans are visiting all of the places where they worked cases in order, starting with when Sam left Stanford, so they head to the next place where the Leviathans should appear, St. Louis, Missouri. Dean looks forward to visiting Conner's Diner, which apparently has the best burgers in Missouri. Unfortunately, Leviathan!Dean and Leviathan!Sam are already at the diner, where they force a teenage boy to record them on his phone as they kill everyone inside. Agents Morris and Valente arrive on the scene and are shown the video, in which Leviathan!Dean reveals that they're going to be in Iowa next.
Dean and Sam are still driving when Bobby calls to tell them that decapitating the Leviathans won't kill them, but will slow them down. He also gives them the news about the killings in Conner's Diner, so Sam thinks back over their past cases and figures out that their next stop should be Ankeny, Iowa.
Characters
- Sam Winchester
- Dean Winchester
- Bobby Singer
- Sheriff Jodie Mills
- Sheriff Osborne
- Crowley
- Frank Devereaux
- Chet - The Leviathan
- Agents Morris and Valente
- Dick Roman
- Leviathan!Sam and Leviathan!Dean
Definitions
Music
- Air Supply - All Out of Love (plays in the car while Dean silently sings along)
Quotes
Leviathan!Sam: (pushing away his own plate) Dead plants with creamy goo. It's like eating self-righteousness.
Leviathan!Dean: Yeah?
Leviathan!Sam: You know what I did?
Leviathan!Dean: Mmm?
Leviathan!Sam: I ate him.
Leviathan!Dean: No, I like this one's hair better. You can stay in the big one.
Crowley: 100% organic baby's uvulas. Gluten free.
Trivia & References
Slash fiction is also the name of a genre of fanfiction which pairs two characters of the same gender in a sexual relationship – see Slash for more information. There are a couple of references in the episode that compare Sam and Dean to a couple - Honey Bunny and Pumpkin from Pulp Fiction, as well as Mr and Mr(s) Smith. And the final scene was one that Jensen mentioned at Salute to Supernatural Chicago 2011 as one that both he and Jared thought made Sam and Dean sound too much like a married couple, so they rewrote a couple of the lines.
Mensa is an organization for people who score within the upper two percent of the general population on an approved intelligence test.
Leviathan!Dean: Anybody moves and I'll execute every last one of you!
Dean: Rhymes with sing songs!
Blue Steel was the name of a signature modeling pose belonging to the really really ridiculously handsome Derek Zoolander in the movie Zoolander. See Blue Steell for numerous references in the show, and by Jensen and Jared, to the look.
Sam: You know that's a line from...
Dean: Swayze movie! Swayze always gets a pass!
This line is a meta dig at the fact that Sam and Dean keep coming back from the dead. As Ben Edlund said at Comic Con 2010 "...these creatures, these poor men, cannot die. The cruel universe that will not let them die...That’s TV. TV will not let people die. "
In music, the greatest hits are considered the artist's signature songs. The B-sides are songs released to accompany singles, usually an outtake or a live performance. Deep cuts tend to be more obscure songs from full-length albums which don't get as much airplay or recognition as the singles.
Donna Summeris a signer/songwriter best known for several hit songs during the 1970s.
Chet is citing a lyric from the Diana Ross song "Touch Me in the Morning."
This is similar to Arnold Schwarzenegger's famous line from the movie Predator: "If it bleeds, we can kill it."
Minutiae
Sides, Scripts & Transcripts
Promotion
- Returning character
- Title and Synopsis
- Tweet from Jim Beaver about the guest star
- Guest stars on this episode
- Night shooting on location via @jzindel
- Pics on location by forthereis
- Episode Description from official press release
- Promo pics
- Promo clip
- Teaser clip #1 and Extended Clip