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Revision as of 23:32, 23 May 2016
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| Title | Salvation |
| Episode # | Season 1, Episode 21 |
| First aired | April 27, 2006 |
| Directed by | Robert Singer |
| Written by | Sera Gamble Raelle Tucker |
| On IMDB | Salvation |
| Outline | The Winchesters attempt to deal with demons and prevent the murder of another mother the way Mary died. |
| Monster | Demons |
| Timeline | Immediately after 1.20 Dead Man's Blood |
| Location(s) | Blue Earth, Minnesota Manning, Colorado Salvation, Iowa Lincoln, Nebraska |
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Contents
Synopsis
In Blue Earth, Minnesota, a priest is reading the Bible at his altar when Meg enters, ostensibly seeking solace. The priest encourages her as “Salvation is there for all who seek it,” but when she reveals her black eyes the priest retreats in horror to an underground office fitted out with the tools of a Hunter, with research and runes spanning the walls. Meg follows him, kicking in the barred doors. He demands, “What do you want?” and she demands the location of John Winchester, who he refuses to betray. She slits his throat.
Back in Manning, Colorado, John is sharing his research of the last 20 years with Sam and Dean. He explains the trail he has followed and the telltale signs. Sam’s guilt at being the cause of the death of both Mary and Jess turns into anger and pain. But neither John nor Dean allow him to wallow. John sees the signs starting again in Salvation, Iowa and is intent on saving another family from the pain and loss suffered by the Winchesters.
On the road, John receives the news that Pastor Jim Murphy, the priest from the opening, has been murdered, probably by demons. John feels the pressure to hurry, to find the next family on the demon's list. In despair, John mourns his friend and states “This ends… now… I’m ending it. I don’t care what it takes.”
Overcome by the size of their task, they split up to cover more territory and research all infants turning 6 months old in the coming week. As Sam leaves the medical center where he has been reviewing birth records, he has a vision of the demon's next target. Following the signs in his vision, he meets the young mother Monica and her daughter, Rosie. Unable to warn her, he returns to Dean and John. John is angry that the boys hadn’t told him before about Sam’s visions. Dean points out John's unresponsiveness and angrily states he would have had better luck winning the lottery than reaching his father on the phone. John agrees reluctantly. Interrupting, Sam’s phone rings and Meg, who they thought dead, demands to speak with John. She informs him that she murdered Jim Murphy and today she is with another friend, Caleb. She wants the Colt.
In desperation, John plays dumb and Meg promptly kills Caleb. She will keep killing all his friends until he hands over the Colt. Capitulating, John agrees to meet her in Lincoln at midnight for the trade. The boys protest handing the gun over, but John has a plan: they will use a substitute gun since Meg doesn't know what the real one looks like. In an emotional revelation, he admits again that he needs this job to finally be over. When Dean returns with the fake colt, he pleads with John to not throw his life away, as he’s no good to them dead. John tells them to do the same. He hands over the real Colt and the task of killing the demon to the boys, finishing the job he started.
John arrives in Lincoln to meet Meg. He cases the territory for escape routes and traps and finds a reservoir to bless. While the boys stand watch over Monica and her family, John confronts Meg. She is joined by a demon named Tom. John hands the gun to Meg and she in turn hands it off to Tom, asking if he thinks it’s the real thing. Without warning, he shoots Meg. She's pissed but she doesn't die. In shock and anger, Meg rounds on John now that it is obvious the gun isn’t the real Colt. He runs and deters them by releasing a valve, thereby spraying them with the Holy Water he prepared earlier. Outside the building, John finds his truck’s tires have been slashed. Running, he finds himself in a dead end and trapped.
Meanwhile, recognizing the signs, the boys break into the house in attempt to save Monica and Rosie. Racing to the nursery Sam faces the demon over Rosie’s crib and after hesitating for a second fires off a shot, but the demon vanishes too fast. Grabbing Monica as Dean saves Rosie, they race them from the burning house. Dean stops Sam from trying to reenter the burning building to reach the demon.
Back at the hotel room, while Dean is anxiously trying to contact John, Sam is angry that Dean stopped him from going after the Demon. Dean confronts him about his desire for revenge and self sacrifice, stating that if it means Sam getting himself killed, he hopes they never find it. Sam’s anger boils over and he pushes Dean into an emotional confession. Shocking Sam into the present, his focus shifts back to John. Dean tries his father’s phone again, it is answered by Meg and to their horror she promises they will never see their father again…
To Be Continued…
Characters
- Sam Winchester
- Dean Winchester
- John Winchester
- The Demon
- Meg
- Tom
- Pastor Jim Murphy
- Caleb
- Monica Holt
- Charlie Holt
- Rose Holt
Definitions
- Aliases
- Carry On Wayward Son
- The Colt
- Dean's Amulet
- Deer's Head
- Demonology
- Fictional Locations
- Fights
- Holy Water
- Hunters
- Impala
- John's Cell Phone
- Salvation
- Mandaic Amulet
- Rosary
- Sulfur
- Talking in Unison
- Tongues
- Visions
Music
- "Carry On Wayward Son" by Kansas
- (plays during "The Road So Far" recap of events)
Quotes
Pastor Jim: I know what you are. You can't be here. This is hallowed ground.
Dean: And that's when you took off.
John: Yeah. That's right. The demon must have come out of hiding, or hibernation.
Dean: All right so what's this trail you found?
John: There's signs. It took me a while to see the pattern but it's there in the days before these fires signs crop up in an area. Cattle deaths, temperature fluctuations, electrical storms. And then I went back and checked... and...
Dean: These things happened in Lawrence.
Meg: Yeah, no thanks to you. That really hurt my feelings by the way.
John: I'm gonna kill you, you know that?
John: What's that.
Dean: This thing goes south just... get the hell out. Don't get yourself killed all right, you're no good to us dead.
John: Same goes for you... All right listen to me. They made the bullets special for this Colt. There's only four of them left. Without them this gun is useless. You make every shot count.
Sam: Yes sir.
Dean: Yeah and how many times has that actually worked for us?
Sam: Yeah. We could always tell 'em the truth.
John: I've never used the gun. How could I know it wouldn't work?
Meg: I'm so not in the mood for this. I've just been shot
John: Well then I guess you're lucky the gun wasn't real.
Sam: That thing killed Jess. That thing killed mom.
Dean: You said yourself once, that no matter what we do, they're gone, and they're never coming back.
Sam: Don't you say that, not you! Not after all this don't you say that.
Dean: Where is he?
Trivia & References
- When Sam and Dean are waiting in the car before the Demon attacks baby Rose, this can be heard on the radio. KJCM was a fictional radio station used in the TV Show Midnight Caller about a radio host called Jack Killian whose sign-off was always "Good Night, America, wherever you are."
Minutiae
In John's motel room, among various maps and notes:
- Handwritten note:
- TEMPERATURE -
- DIFFERENCES RANGE
- BY SEVERAL DEGREES
- DEMON ALTERS TEMP
- AS IT ENTERS AN
- AREA. SOMEHOW IT
- MANFIESTS IT SELF
- AS COLD SPOTS OR<
- A...
- A map of the U.S., with X's marked in Southwest Pennsylvania, northern North Carolina, and eastern Tennessee, circled, arrow pointing northwest.
- Sleep (^un) Easy Motel notepad
- With doodle of figure, dark head and shoulders, halo, holding circular object.
- 555-0918
- Gerry
- Doodle in a rough gun shape
- "Sam," in a box, circled.
- Small rectangular paper with drawing of window, with fire coming out, and a dark silhouette
- (...) ABOUT THAT
- THAT NIGHT IN
- NIGHT MARY DIED
- DEMON MOST
- IT DID TO MY
- (...) FEELINGS
- TO KEEP MAJOR (...)
- BROTHER. WE MUST
- FOR THE SAKE OF
- CAN'T FALL APART
- Newspaper article. headline: USA WEATHER REPO..
- STORM OVER MID W..
- in the text of the article, "rapidly into a powerful cyclone," has been marked with a box.
- (picture of tropical storm)
- (...)
- (...)
- DISTURBANCES
- TYPICAL
- OF MANIFESTATION
- Books:
- Butler - Igloo Killinek
- Air Force One Is Haunted
- Danielle Steel - Secrets (HAH HAH)
- Sticky note on typewritten paper : SULPHER TRACE (sic)
- Road map of the U.S., with map, two hand drawn X's shown: one in California near Palo Alto, one in Arizona.
