8.01 We Need to Talk About Kevin

From Super-wiki
Revision as of 03:58, 6 October 2012 by Missyjack (talk | contribs)
Jump to: navigation, search


801promoepsiodeentry.jpg
Title We Need To Talk About Kevin
Episode # Season 8, Episode 1
First aired October 3, 2012
Directed by Robert Singer
Written by Jeremy Carver
On IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2373078/
Outline
Monster Demons
Crowley
Timeline
Location(s) 110-mile Wilderness, Maine (where Dean returns from Purgatory)

Clayton, Louisiana (where Benny is buried)
Kermit, Texas (where Sam is living) Whitefish, Montana (Rufus' Cabin) Centreville, Michigan (where Channing goes to college)

[[{{{prevep}}}|« Previous Episode]] | [[{{{nextep}}}|Next Episode »]]

Synopsis

A year has passed since Dean and Castiel killed Dick Roman, the head of the Leviathans, and then disappeared in a cloud of black goo, leaving Sam alone. Somewhere in Maine's 100-Mile Wilderness, there is a flash of light and Dean emerges, covered in grime with a crude weapon in hand. He frightens two sleeping campers and demands to know where he is. They don't answer right away, so he pulls his gun on them and asks where the road is. They point him in the right direction, and he takes one of their backpacks before fleeing.

Characters

Definitions

Music

Jethro Tull - Locomotive Breath plays during The Road So Far

Styx - Man In the Wilderness plays over the montage of Dean post-Purgatory

Quotes

Dean: C'mon. let's do this.
Sam: I don't know whether to give you a hug or take a shower.
Sam: Dude, you're figging alive! What the hell happened?
Dean: I guess standing to close to exploding Dick sends your ass straight to Purgatory.
Sam: So Cas is dead? You saw him die?
Dean: I saw enough.
Dean: So you turned tail on the family business?
Sam: Nothing says family quite like the whole family being dead.
Dean: Did you look for me Sam?

Sam: ...
Dean: Good. No that's good. We always told each other not to look for each other. That's smart. Good for you. Of ocurse we always ignored that becasue of our deep abiding love for each other. But not this time, right Sammy?
Sam: I'm still the same guy.

Dean: Well bully for you. I'm not.
Dean: The rules are simple, Sam. You don't take a joint from a guy named Don and there's no dogs in the car!
Dean: It was bloody, messy. 31 flavours of bottom dwelling nasties. Hell most days felt like 360 degree combat. But there was something about being there...it felt pure.
Crowley (to Kevin): Now, remember. Feel like a winner. Be a winner.
Amelia: Maybe if you were such an upstanding guy you wouldn't have hit him in the first place?

Kevin: Fine. I'll take him.

Amelia: There's my hero.
Crowley: Chin up, gentleman. I'm a professional.

Dean: This ain't over by a long shot, Crowley.

Crowley: Really, Dean, who writes your stuff? A marshmallow?
Channing: Kevin...what's going on?
Kevin: There is a demon in you and you're going to your safety school.

Trivia & References

The episode title is a reference to the book We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver and later made into a movie. The book is based around a series of letters from a woman to her husband, about her concerns about their son Kevin who eventually commits mass murder at his high school.
This is the first episode to be written by Jeremy Carver since 5.18 Point Of No Return. Jeremy left Supernatural at the end of Season 5 to write and produced the US version of Being Human with wife Anna Fricke. It was announced on April 4, 2012 that Jeremy would return to Supernatural as co-showrunner with Bob Singer, to replace Sera Gamble who left Supernatural to develop her own series. source.
This was the 150th episode of Supernatural to air. However it was the 151st episode to shoot, as epsiode 3 for the season, again directed by Jensen, was shot first for the season.
Sam: I guess something happened to me this year too. I don't hunt anymore.

Yeah and Sasha Grey's gone legit.
Sam: Huh.
Dean: What?
Sam: Nothing...she did a Soderbergh film...

[en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasha_grey Sasha Grey] is famous hard core porn star. Her first non-porn feature was The Girlfriend Experience by removed director Steven Soderbergh in 2009.
The scene in which Dean stands transfixed in front of a vending machine, and two boys run past pretending to shoot each other, is a shout out to the final scenes in the movie The Hurt Locker, where a bomb disposal expert finds it hard to adjust to civilian life after coming home from Afghanistan. He finally admits to his family that "there is only one thing I love" and returns to the adrenaline charged life on the front lines.
Sam: You know, it get's better
.

Kevin: You know I'm not gay, right?

This is a reference to the campaign in support of LGBT Youth "It Gets Better." The campaign was created in response to a number of students taking their own lives after being bullied in school in September 2010.
Although unnamed in the episode the dog will be called Riot source.

Minutiae

A Winchester demonstrating that were not supernatural using Holy Water, Silver etc was also seen in 4.01 Lazarus Rising when Dean sees Bobby after returning from Hell and in 6.01 Exile On Main St when a soulless Sam reunites with Dean.
This is the sixth time we have seen the Winchesters hug. The others were seen in 2.22 All Hell Breaks Loose: Part Two, 3.11 Mystery Spot, 4.01 Lazarus Rising, 6.01 Exile On Main St, and 6.12 Like A Virgin.

Sides, Scripts & Transcripts

Promotion

Retrieved from "http://supernaturalwiki.com/index.php?title=8.01_We_Need_to_Talk_About_Kevin&oldid=82043"