1.02 Teach Your Children Well
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| Title | Pilot |
| Episode # | Season 1, Episode 2 |
| First aired | October 18, 2022 |
| Directed by | John Showalter |
| Written by | Robbie Thompson David H. Goodman |
| On IMDB | Teach Your Children Well |
| Outline | |
| Monster | Zombies La Tunda |
| Timeline | |
| Location(s) | Topeka, Kansas Savannah, Georgia Lawrence, Kansas |
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Contents
Synopsis
Dean: The ties that bind a family together can be complicated. parents raise you, teach you what's right and wrong. And in some instances, how to kill monsters. But no matter who you are there comes a time you have to break from them and make your own way. And if you're not careful, things can get pretty ugly.
Characters
- Mary Campbell
- John Winchester
- Carlos Cervantez
- Latika Dar
- Ada Monroe
- Millie Winchester
- Dean Winchester
Definitions
- Akrida
- Aliases
- Carlos' Van
- Food
- Men of Letters Clubhouse
- Mimic
- Monster Box
- Monsters
- Pizza
- Shapeshifters
- Shapeshifting
- Table of Death
- Winchester Garage
- Zombies
Music
- "Altitude" by Claude Perraudin
- (playing during the opening party)
- "Aquarius (From "Hair")" by Ronald Dyson
- (plays as the "core four" prepare themselves for the commune)
- "Teach Your Children" by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
- (plays over the closing montage)
Quotes
John: I’m just not sure about this part. Think I prefer the simpler, less talky, punching side of hunting.
Carlos: Lata we're not here to play with zombies.
Lata: It's dead. Twice over, actually. Look, it's jaw can dislocate, for bigger bites i presume.
John: In the war, I was a scout. My job was to find things. I was good at that. Striking out the last couple of weeks looking for your dad. I started to get worried.
Mary:About
John:That my dad left me that letter because he wanted me to follow in his footsteps, but i don't know how.Millie: We had a deal. You promised to come home, instead it's your dad all over again. You disappear for a week and when you finally do come back you're covered in blood!
John: It's not my blood.
Carlos: I want to find Samuel. I do. But im used to being the only one on stage, you know.
Lata:No I don't I've never been on stage.
Carlos:Yeah cause your built for a band Lata, Im not.Especially when Mary's on lead vocals. She only knows how to sing Samuel's song.
Ada:John just needs time. He'll go to his corner, come back when he's ready.
Millie:You learn all that from one week on the road with my son?
Trivia & References
"Teach Your Children Well" is a lyric in the song "Teach Your Children", released in 1969 by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
Barry: My thirds eye is open after todays circle. I can see everything.
Barry: We’re like dolls -- y’know, the Russian ones? Trapped inside our parents, and our parents’ parents...
- Russian dolls – also known as Matryoshka or nesting dolls – are a Russian toy dating from1890. They feature a series of hollow wooden dolls which each fit inside the larger one. Traditionally they are styled as Russian peasants, although today they are decorated in range of characters – including those from Supernatural.
John: You cant be serious. I’m Mick Fleetwood?
Mary: Well its nice to meet you Mick, I’m Christine McVie. Come on. Now how about you “show me a smile”.
John: You really want me to “lay it all down”?
Mary: Now, you’re in character. Let’s go.
- John and Mary use the aliases Mick Fleetwood and Christine McVie who are members of the band Fleetwood Mac. Sam and Dean always used male members of rock bands as their Aliases, while Castiel preferred female pop stars.
- “Show me a Smile” and “Lay it All Down" are both songs from Fleetwood Mac's 1971 Future Games album.
Minutiae
The plot of the episode in many ways mirrors 1.02 Wendigo, the second episode of Supernatural in that in both episodes people follow clues left by their missing parent (John/Samuel) that lead to a hunting job.
Clyde's necklace, as identified by Lata was a Triskelion. The three interlocking spirals can be traced back to Neolithic times, including the famous Newgrange tomb in Ireland built around 3200 BCE. Its name comes the greek "Trisekis" meaning three legs, and while it has many meaning it is, as is stated in the episode associated with cycles and change and transformation.
The two bands featured in this episode - Fleetwood Mac and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young - often had tensions and break-ups (both personal and professional) which are mirrored in Mary's relationships with her friend in the episode.
A 1964 Impala was spotted twice in the episode.
