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Revision as of 09:33, 25 March 2012


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Title The Born-Again Identity
Episode # Season 7, Episode 17
First aired March 23, 2012
Directed by Robert Singer
Written by Sera Gamble
On IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1995109/
Outline
Monster Lucifer
Demons
Timeline
Location(s) Colorado, Northern Indiana.
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Synopsis

Characters

Definitions

Music

Turn into Earth by The Yardbirds plays during Castiel's flashback montage.

Quotes

Hallucifer: Tell the nice tweaker you’d be sleeping right now if the devil would leave you alone...
Dean: If I don't find something...

Sam: Then I'll die.

Hallucifer: Oh - you're upsetting me!
Emmanuel/Castiel: Your friend's name was Cas? That's an odd name.
Marin: I saw you yesterday, you didn’t look too happy with your in flight meal.
Meg: You're an angel.
Castiel: I'm sorry - is that a flirtation?
Dean: This ain’t going to go well.
Meg: I dunno, I believe in the little tree topper.

Trivia & References

The episode title "The Born-Again Identity" is a play on the 2002 spy thriller movie The Bourne Identity (which was based a novel of the same name by Robert Ludlum). In the film, the main character Jason Bourne, played by Matt Damon, finds himself suffering from amnesia, and his attempts to discover who he is. Along the way he finds he has a number of skills – speaking multiple languages, proficiency in hand-to-hand combat – that give him clues to his identity.
Hallucifer: Tell the nice tweaker...
Tweaker is a slang term for someone who is addicted to crystal meth.
The bar through the windscreen is reminiscent of the death scene in 2.13 Houses of the Holy where a pole bounces through a windscreen and impales a man.
Doctor: You're Sam Smith's brother?
Dean and Sam are using the aliases given to them by Frank in 7.06 Slash Fiction.
Dean: It's not like the guy's freaking Norman Bates.
Norman Bates was the serial killer in the Hitchcock movie Psycho, who killed his mother, kept her corpse in his house and assumed her identity. Previously mentioned in 5.19 Hammer Of The Gods.
Dean: Quit being Dalai-friggin-Yoda about this. Get pissed!
Dean has mashed up the names of two individuals known for their equanimity in the face of challenges - the spiritual leader of Tibet Dalai Lama (whose name he mispronounces) and Jedi master Yoda.
Sam: It's all snake oil.
Snake oil is a derogatory term used to describe fraudulent medical practices.
Sam: Last faith healer we hooked up with had a reaper on a leash.
Sam is referring to the events of 1.12 Faith.
Hallucifer: Narcissistic personality disorder. Okay, now this one I could have.
In 5.11 Sam, Interrupted which took place in a mental hospital, Dean's hallucinated doctor tells him he is "paranoid schizophrenic with a narcissistic personality disorder and religious psychosis".
While Dean is trying to find help for Sam, Bobby's journal inexplicably falls on the floor, and a card for "Mackey's Taxidermy" falls out. Mackey in turn leads Dean to Castiel. This is the third time such an event has occurred - a possible hint that Bobby's ghost is around. The other two events were Dean's beer disappearing in 7.11 Adventures In Babysitting and a helpful paper moving to the top of a pile in 7.13 The Slice Girls.
Emmanuel's wife Daphne may be a reference to Daphne from Scooby-Doo. Dean mentioned her in 2.11 Playthings.
Emmanuel:(about a demon) I saw his face. His real face.
In 3.16 No Rest For The Wicked, Dean, in the last 24 hours of the year he was given after his crossroads deal, could see demons' real faces:
Dean: I could see its face, its real face, under that one.
Meg: Dean, Dean, Dean. You got some 'splaining to do!
"Lucy, you've got some 'splainin to do!" was a catchphrase of Lucy's husband Ricky Ricardo in the 50/60s sitcom I Love Lucy starring Lucille Ball.
Luci is a fandom nickname for Lucifer, also used by Gabriel is 5.19 Hammer Of The Gods.
One of Sam's hallucinations is that his sandwich is full of maggots.
In 3.09 Malleus Maleficarum, a witch's target nearly chokes to death after discovering that his burger is full of maggots.
Marin, the patient who is being haunted by her brother, is played by Kacey Rohl, the daughter of Mike Rohl who had directed ten episodes of Supernatural at the time of airing.
Meg: (to Cas) That was beautiful, Clarence.
A reference to angel Clarence from It's A Wonderful Life. The name was previously used by Meg in 5.10 Abandon All Hope.
Hallucifer: (about The Three Little Pigs) I see that third little pig was smart. Went out and got some bricks.
In 3.05 Bedtime Stories, a man survived an attack that killed his two brothers by hiding next to some concrete blocks in a violent recreation of the Three Little Pigs.
Doctor: Welcome to the team, Nurse Masters.
Meg is using the name of her season 1 meatsuit, Meg Masters.
Tweets from producer Jim Michaels during the episode.

Minutiae

#WelcomehomeMisha trended on Twitter before the episode source
In the beginning of the episode, Hallucifer says that Sam has been awake for five days.
Dean's phone number is 785-555-0128.
Emmanuel lived in Colorado.
Emmanuel said he got his name from bouncingbabynames.com. Attempting to access the website will give you a 403 error from the Web Server at GISHWHES.

Sides, Scripts & Transcripts

Promotion

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