7.07 The Mentalists

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Title	The Mentalists
Episode #	Season 7, Episode 7
First aired	November 4, 2011
Directed by	Mike Rohl
Written by	Ben Acker and Ben Blacker
On IMDB	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1995122/
Outline	Although things are still tense between them, Sam and Dean team up when psychics start dying in Lily Dale.
Monster	Ghost
Timeline	A week and a half since 7.06 Slash Fiction
Location(s)	Lily Dale, New York
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Synopsis

Dean and Sam have been apart for a week and a half when Dean hears about the weird deaths of two mediums in the famously psychic town of Lily Dale. He drives there in his stolen Dodge Challenger and, posing as an FBI agent, visits the scene of the second murder. Afterwards, he goes to what passes as the town's diner, Good Graces Cafe, and runs into Sam, who's also on the case. Despite Sam's obvious discomfort, Dean takes a seat at his table and talks him into working the case together.

While they're in the cafe a woman sees them and thinks they're the serial killers who went on a crime spree two weeks ago. They assure her that they aren't and her friend, Nikolai Lishin, approaches and tells her that Sam and Dean are obviously FBI agents here to investigate the murders. He gives them his card and tells them to call if they need anything. After they leave, Sam reviews his notes on the case with Dean. Imelda Graven was killed first, brained by her own crystal ball, and then Grandma Goldy was stabbed in the neck by her own planchette during a seance. From the pictures that Sam shows Dean, they can see that both women are wearing the same necklace. Apparently it was willed to Grandma Goldy after Imelda's death.

They go to question the medium Melanie Goldy, Grandma Goldy's granddaughter, and learn that all of Grandma Goldy's personal effects went to Jimmy Tomorrow, the owner of The Emporium.

Characters

• Sam Winchester
• Dean Winchester
• Jimmy Tomorrow
• Melanie Goldy
• Camille Thibideaux
• Kate Fox and Margaret Fox
• Grandma Goldy
• Nikolai Lishin
• Imelda Graven

Definitions

• Ghosts
• Vengeful Spirits
• Salt
• Dodge Challenger

Quotes

Waiter: (to Dean) You're a virile manifestation of the divine.

Museum Curator: Those two were the exception actually. The Campbells? Got along famously. Of course that was just a stage name...they weren't actually brothers. That was a cover for their alternative lifestyle.

Museum Curator: (to Dean) I'm sorry I don't normally do this during business hours, but do you know an Eleanor or an Ellen? She seems quite concerned about you. She wants to tell you, pardon me, if you don't tell someone how bad it really is? She'll kick your ass from beyond. You have to trust someone again, eventually.

Sam: He broke my spoon.

Trivia & References

The Mentalists refers to mentalism - the practice of performing what are purported to be psychic acts on stage.

The title is also likely a nod to the CBS series The Mentalist, about a former con man "psychic" who uses his experience to aid police.

The episode is set in a real town – Lily Dale, New York. The town has been the centre for the practice of the Spiritualist religion since the late 19th century, and is reputed to have the highest number of psychics and mediums per capita in the US. Every summer its workshops and festivals attract thousands of visitors.

At the start of the episode Dean has takeout from Fat Mack's Bar-B-Q Rib Shack. Crowley met Sam and Dean at a Fat Mack's in 6.08 All Dogs Go To Heaven

In the Lily Dale Museum there is a poster for the Trocadero Vaudilles which is an actual poster from 1894 advertising a show featuring a strongman (Sandow) and an aerial act produced by Florenz Ziegfeld who became famous for the Ziegfeld Follies.

Dean: When was the last time we saw a real psychic? Pamela? Missouri?

Missouri was the psychic who first told John Winchester about the existence of the supernatural, and later helped the boys in 1.09 Home.

Pamela Barnes of course lost her sight when she saw Castiel's true form and was later killed by a demon in 4.15 Death Takes A Holiday. She was last seen enjoying 'one long show at the Meadowlands' in Heaven.

The last line Forget it, Sam. It's Lily Dale is a shoutout to the movie Chinatown which ends with the line Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.

The scene with Camille Thibideaux and her seance recalls the Whoopi Goldberg character Oda Mae brown from the 1990 Ghost

According to Jim Michaels Camille's house was "quick rework and cover up of Bobby's House

As tweeted by E.P. Jim Michaels "The car Sam gets into outside the class is Kevin Parks actual car. When Jared found out, he accidentally broke the door...The door wouldn't open so Jared climbed through the driver side window... That should make the gag reel..."

At Jensen's suggestion, the salt used in the scene where Margaret Fox is attacking Melanie and Dean, was bottled into jars with labels designed by the Art department and auctioned for charity at Salute to Supernatural Toronto 2011 and Salute to Supernatural Chicago 2011

Minutiae

Sam and Dean had been separated for a week and a half.

Jimmy's address is 809 1/2 main Street, Lily Dale 14752. His business card reads "Private Readings. No future too grim."

Melanie's house also appeared in 3.08 A Very Supernatural Christmas

Imelda Graven was killed by her own crystal ball, called the Orb of Thesulah. The Orb of Thesulah was the same orb used to re-soul Angel in Buffy The Vampire Slayer.

Sides, Scripts & Transcripts

• 7.07 The Mentalists (Transcript)

Promotion

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