7.12 Time After Time
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Title | Time After Time |
Episode # | Season 7, Episode 12 |
First aired | January 13, 2012 |
Directed by | Philip Sgriccia |
Written by | Robbie Thompson |
On IMDB | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1995105/ |
Outline | |
Monster | Chronos |
Timeline | Present day, November 5, 1944 |
Location(s) | Canton, Ohio |
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Contents
Synopsis
Characters
Definitions
Music
This is the first time both Supernatural composers - Jay Gruska and Christopher Lennertz have worked together on an episode, bringing in musicians specially for the score source.
Quotes
Sam: I can't believe I am about to say this but I hope you're watching cartoon smut because reading Dick Roman crap over and over again is just self punishment.
Dean: It's called anime. And its an artform.
Dean: It's called anime. And its an artform.
Sam: What, you going to look at more anime or are you strictly into Dick now?
Dean: Does this mean that I'm an Untouchable now?
Sam: What's the plan here?
Dean: Don't die.
Eliot: Why do you think I went after Capone in the first place? Guy made the best hooch in Chicago.
Eliot: Let's go kill that bastard. Because that..
Dean: Is the Chicago way. (Imitating Sean Connery.) Eliot: Chicago way? Who the hell talks like that?
Dean: Sean Connery.Eliot: Boo hoo, cry me a river you nancy! Tell me are all the hunters as soft as you in the future?
Eliot: Enjoy it while it lasts kid, because hunting's the only clarity you are going to find in this life and that makes you luckier than most.
Chronos: You want to know your future? I know your future. It's covered in thick black ooze. It's everywhere. They're everywhere. Enjoy oblivion.
Trivia & References
The episode title plays of the phrase "time after time", which has been used for a number books, TV shows and films about time travel. It was also the title of Cyndi Lauper's 1984 smash hit song.
In an interview with the LA Times, Sera Gamble said that Chronos was inspired by the 2003 novel "The Time Traveler’s Wife," Audrey Niffenegger, about a man with a genetic condition that causes him to time travel. Gamble said the show’s writers found "a compelling starting point in the notion of time jumping that can’t be controlled."
Eliot Ness was a real law enforcement officer who joined the U.S. Treasury Department in 1927, working with the Bureau of Prohibition, in Chicago. He was involved in targeting gangster Al Capone. His refusal to accept a bribe, led to Ness' team becoming known as "The Untouchables"
Other Supernatural episodes to involve time travel are:
- 4.03 In The Beginning
- 5.04 The End (although strictly speaking this is an alternate reality)
- 5.13 The Song Remains The Same
- 6.17 My Heart Will Go On
- 6.18 Frontierland
Nicholas Lea, who plays Eliot Ness, worked with Kim Manners when he played Alex Krycek on the X-Files.
Dean: It's called anime. And its an artform.
5.05 Fallen Idols, which featured the god Leshii, was also set in Canton, Ohio.
Dean: Nothing that turns a dude into a Cryptkeeper.
The Cryptkeeper was the wizened zombie host of the horror TV show Tales from the Crypt. "Kripkeeper" is also a fandom nickname for Eric Kripke.
The Cryptkeeper was the wizened zombie host of the horror TV show Tales from the Crypt. "Kripkeeper" is also a fandom nickname for Eric Kripke.
Dean: "How does paper beat a rock? It's stupid."
Sam and Dean play "Rock, Paper, Scissors" to decide who gets the bedroom in the house they're squatting in. Traditionally, Sam always wins because Dean only throws 'scissors' (as seen in 2.17 Heart and 4.19 Jump The Shark; in the alternate reality of 6.17 My Heart Will Go On Sam's losing is an indicator of history having changed. This time, Sam appears to study Dean's face carefully before choosing; we don't see the actual throw, but the next scene clearly indicates that Sam predicted Dean would use "rock" for the first time ever.
Sam and Dean play "Rock, Paper, Scissors" to decide who gets the bedroom in the house they're squatting in. Traditionally, Sam always wins because Dean only throws 'scissors' (as seen in 2.17 Heart and 4.19 Jump The Shark; in the alternate reality of 6.17 My Heart Will Go On Sam's losing is an indicator of history having changed. This time, Sam appears to study Dean's face carefully before choosing; we don't see the actual throw, but the next scene clearly indicates that Sam predicted Dean would use "rock" for the first time ever.
Dean: Alright, well I am twelve monkeyed no matter what I say so here goes.
Dean: I gotta tell you Untouchables is like one of my favorite movies ever. I must've seen it like 50 times.
The episode played with the evolution of slang to illustrate the differences between the time periods. Dean kept using the word awesome to indicate approval, or that soemthing was good, whereas in the 1940s, the term was used more literally to describe something that inspired awe (i.e. reverence or fear). Dean also confused Ness when he said "talk to me" to mean "tell me what you've learned".
The characters from 1944 also used vernacular that is not in use anymore:
- Jerry and Kraut were terms for Germans during Word War 2. The police officer users "kraut-muncher" also to imply Dean is a German spy.
- Bunny means idiot or fool.
- Ness says dean "looks like some kind of bindlestiff. Bindlestiff is another word for a hobo.
- "Take a powder" means to go away, to get lost.
- Ezra asks "Whats the rumpus, Eliot?" meaning "what's going on?"
- Ness uses "lettuce" to refer to money.
- Ness: I'm gonna stay here and keep my peepers on the Sheik and the Sheba.
Sera Gamble said of Dean in this episode: "For such a practical, down-to-earth, macho hunter, he is a tiny bit of a clotheshorse." source.
Ezra: So what bucket of syrup did you two idjits step into?
Bobby's Storage Unit, which Sheriff Mills collects all the boxes from, was last seen in 7.04 Defending Your Life.
Dean: He's using the Biff strategy...Chronos is betting on races he already knows the outcome of.
Dean: Back to the Future 3! I'm going to need some paper.
The spell Sam recites to summon Chronos is
- O Krone, parakaloumen se, thespizein hemin hronon ton mellonta.
- O Kronos, we beg you, foretell the future for us
Tweets from @TheJimMichaels during the episode.
Minutiae
Sam and Dean drink Margiekugel beer from Wisconsin, which is named after Production Designer Jerry Wanek's mom.
Sides, Scripts & Transcripts
Promotion
- Front cover of script showing title tweeted by Jim Michaels
- Episode description by TVLine
- Guest star
- Guest star by TVLine
- Plot synopsis
- Episode Stills
- Promo video #2
- Webclip
- Extended promo
- Webclip #2
- Interview with Sera about the episode