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Supernatural-season-8-episode-19-taxi-driver-6episode page.jpg
Title Taxi Driver
Episode # Season 8, Episode 19
First aired April 3, 2013
Directed by Guy Bee
Written by Eugenie Ross-Leming and Brad Buckner
On IMDB Taxi Driver
Outline In order to complete the second trial, Sam must rescue an old friend from Hell.
Monster Crowley
Demons
Vampires
Timeline
Location(s) Kansas City, Missouri source
Warsaw, Missouri
100-Mile Wilderness, Maine
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Synopsis

Characters

Definitions

Music

None

Quotes

Dean: What happened to the hot chicks?
Ajay: Oh Winchester - detach. This is Hell adjacent.
Dean: Look man, other guys got it easy. It's all backyard barbecues and bowling teams. But you and me gotta carry a little extra weight.
Kevin: I'm going to be in my room. Let me know when there's a good day.
Ajay: Smuggling a mortal across the border is risky enough, but gate-crashing a Winchester into Hell seriously blows.
Crowley: Patience isn’t one of my virtues. Well, I don’t have any virtues, but if I did I’m certain that patience wouldn’t be one.
Crowley: Bureaucrat! You’re fighting outside your weight class.
Naomi: Don’t call me a bureaucrat.
Crowley: Something is going on. My hellhound has been killed. Winchester Jumbo-Size is trying to break into the mothership. And that prophet of theirs is madly translating away.
Bobby: Balls.
Crowley: What you people never seem to understand is that you are nothing. Fleeting blips of light. I am forever.
Bobby: Already said goodbye to you Sam, it didn't seem to take.
Crossroads Demon: (referring to a way to sneak into Hell) I can't, its a secret.
Dean: We promise not to tell anyone.

Trivia & References

The episode is named after the 1976 Martin Scorsese film Taxi Driver.
Dean and Sam refer to Ajay as a coyote, a term used to describe people who arrange to get people into the United States without going through official channels, most commonly over the Mexican/American border.
Sam: The Rabbit hole - this is nuts.


Sam is referring to the rabbit hole which Alice falls down to enter the fantasy world in Alice in Wonderland.
In Greek mythology, Charon was the ferryman responsible for transporting the souls of the recently deceased to Hades. A coin was placed in or on the mouth of the dead person to be used to pay Charon's fee.
Katabasis - the epic convention of the hero's trip into the underworld - is a recurring theme in mythologies of multiple cultures and religions. Among the most well known figures in Greek mythology to have to go to the underworld were Hercules, Orpheus, and Odysseus.

Minutiae

There is a bumper sticker on Ajay's cab that reads "How's my driving? Call 1-555-GO2-HELL" source.
As in 7.18 Party On, Garth, Jim Beaver is not listed in the credits, presumably to catch fans by surprise with his return. This was also done with Mark Sheppard in 6.07 Family Matters and 6.19 Mommy Dearest.
It is approximately 1680 miles from where Dean killed Benny in Kansas City to the 100-mile Wilderness in Maine where Sam and Bobby re-emerge from Purgatory. Source

Sides, Scripts & Transcripts

Promotion

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