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[[Sam]] and [[Dean]] bust into a house, guns drawn, and fan out to quickly cover the premises. In the main room, there's a dead body covered by a bloody sheet and someone else's body is in pieces, blood spattered across the floor and walls. An iPod is hooked up to speakers and playing a song on repeat, and Dean pulls the iPod off its dock to tell Sam, who's been examining the bodies, that the rest of the house is clear. | [[Sam]] and [[Dean]] bust into a house, guns drawn, and fan out to quickly cover the premises. In the main room, there's a dead body covered by a bloody sheet and someone else's body is in pieces, blood spattered across the floor and walls. An iPod is hooked up to speakers and playing a song on repeat, and Dean pulls the iPod off its dock to tell Sam, who's been examining the bodies, that the rest of the house is clear. | ||
| − | Sam tells Dean that he can't identify the covered body, not to mention whoever was torn to shreds. Then he notices a sticky note on a laptop nearby: it says "PLAY ME." They open the laptop and click on a file in the center of the desktop screen. It's a movie file, and when it starts the words "This should have never ended this way" flash across the screen. | + | Sam tells Dean that he can't identify the covered body, not to mention whoever was torn to shreds. Then he notices a sticky note on a laptop nearby: it says "PLAY ME." They open the laptop and click on a file in the center of the desktop screen. It's a movie file, and when it starts the words "This should have never ended this way" flash across the screen. What follows is a movie cut together with footage from a variety of handheld, hidden, and web cameras, taken largely by amateur filmmaker [[Brian Wilcox]]. |
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| + | The first scene of the movie is in a coffeehouse, and playing in the background is the song that was on repeat when Sam and Dean entered the house. Brian has a new camera, and he's testing it out with his friend [[Michael Wheeler]] when he notices a beautiful girl. Her name is [[Kate]], and when she sees them filming her and her friends, she gets up to confront them with a camera of her own in hand. Despite Michael's lack of knowledge about cameras and film, they hit it off, flirting while Brian watches. | ||
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Revision as of 03:00, 14 November 2012
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| Title | Bitten |
| Episode # | Season 8, Episode 4 |
| First aired | October 24, 2012 |
| Directed by | Thomas J. Wright |
| Written by | Robbie Thompson |
| On IMDB | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2323362/ |
| Outline | Sam and Dean, in the course of investigating a bizarre murder, bust into a house to find two dead bodies and a laptop cued up to disturbing video footage taken by three college students. |
| Monster | Pureblood Werewolves |
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Contents
Synopsis
Sam and Dean bust into a house, guns drawn, and fan out to quickly cover the premises. In the main room, there's a dead body covered by a bloody sheet and someone else's body is in pieces, blood spattered across the floor and walls. An iPod is hooked up to speakers and playing a song on repeat, and Dean pulls the iPod off its dock to tell Sam, who's been examining the bodies, that the rest of the house is clear.
Sam tells Dean that he can't identify the covered body, not to mention whoever was torn to shreds. Then he notices a sticky note on a laptop nearby: it says "PLAY ME." They open the laptop and click on a file in the center of the desktop screen. It's a movie file, and when it starts the words "This should have never ended this way" flash across the screen. What follows is a movie cut together with footage from a variety of handheld, hidden, and web cameras, taken largely by amateur filmmaker Brian Wilcox.
The first scene of the movie is in a coffeehouse, and playing in the background is the song that was on repeat when Sam and Dean entered the house. Brian has a new camera, and he's testing it out with his friend Michael Wheeler when he notices a beautiful girl. Her name is Kate, and when she sees them filming her and her friends, she gets up to confront them with a camera of her own in hand. Despite Michael's lack of knowledge about cameras and film, they hit it off, flirting while Brian watches.
Characters
Definitions
Music
- What's the Matter by Milo Green - plays when Kate and Michael meet
- Barricades by The Outdoors - plays as Kate and Michael pack to leave
Quotes
Michael: In a world where nothing is as it seems, one brave, shockingly handsome, virile young man, and his faithful, learning-disabled, robotic man-servant must battle through waves of cybernetic ass-hats in order to sexually liberate the women of...
Michael: Is it just me or are you getting a workplace romance vibe from those two?
Kate: Those guys aren’t FBI. I’m pretty sure that FBI agents don’t say ‘awesome’ that much.
Brian: They just sat and talked about how they’ve been apart for a year. You were probably right about that whole office romance thing.
Kate: I’ve never hurt anyone. Nobody human, anyway. I didn’t choose this. Please. Please give me a chance.
Dean: Awesome
Trivia & References
While found footage style movies have been a horror genre staple since the 1999 classic The Blair Witch Project, this episode is particularly inspired by the 2012 movie Chronicle. This film follows three friends who develop superpowers and how this impacts their relationships.
In a departure from the usual episode format, there was nearly 20 minutes before the commercial break. While the Title Card was show the usual opening credits were not played until the end of the episode. This device was also used in the other episode featuring handheld camera footage - 3.13 Ghostfacers. There was also no original score throughout the episode, only three pieces of indie pop music.
Michael: Hey Christopher Nolan - lens cap.
Kate: ...of the two I prefer "Last year at Marienbad".
Michael: Please tell me you taped it.
Brain: C'mon who loves you?
Michael: I wish I could quit you.
Sam: Dude, two burgers?
Dean: Hey, I didn't eat at Big P's for at least a year, okay? Clear eyes and clogged arteries--can't lose.
Brian: Look, look! Starskey and Hutch.
Michael: Rizzoli and Isles.
Sam: Special Agent Rose. This is Special Agent Hudson.
The addition to Werewolf lore in this episode is that werewolves who are within four generations of an Alpha, "are less feral and can turn before during or after the lunar cycle."
The scenes shot with the handheld camera with night vision are reminiscent of The Blair Witch Project. Even the structure of the episode - Sam and Dean watching a recap of events on found footage - is also a parallel to the movie's format.
Michael: I am a golden god. I am a golden god!
This line is from a scene in the movie Almost Famous. The quote was originally coined by Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant.
This line is from a scene in the movie Almost Famous. The quote was originally coined by Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant.
In the Harry Potter books, the term "pure-blood" refers to witches and wizards from families of purely magical heritage, without any Muggles in their family lineage.
Brian asks both Michael and Professor Ludensky to turn him into a werewolf. In the book and movie Interview with the Vampire, the interviewer asks the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac to turn him into a vampire, a request he angrily refuses.
Brian repeatedly refers to not wanting to be Piggy, a reference to a character in the book that is being taught in Professor Ludensky's curriculum, Lord of the Flies by William Golding. Piggy is smart but considered weak and is unable to adapt to the extreme circumstances he faces.
Minutiae
A poster for the indie horror movie Coven is at Michael and Brian's house. This also appeared at the at the Ghostfacer's base in 3.13 Ghostfacers and appeared framed at Charlie's apartment in 7.20 The Girl with the Dungeons and Dragons Tattoo.
David Lewis who played Professor Ludensky, appeared as three different characters in three episodes of the X-Files.
Sides, Scripts & Transcripts
Promotion
- Title and plot points by SpoilerTV
- Official Synopsis by KSiteTV
- Description of the plot and different filming approach in the episode by Zap2It
- Promo pics by TVOvermind
- Promo clip
- Sneak peek clip
- Leigh Parker talks about filming the episode
- Onset pics Brit and Jensen, Brit, Jensen and Jared, Brit, Leigh and Brandon, Brit, Leigh and Brandon, Jared and Jensen, Brit, Leigh and Brandon and Jim Michaels, Brandon and Leigh on set, Leigh on set, Brandon, Leigh and Brit, Brandon, Leigh and brit on set, At WB to do ADR for the episode
