11.07 Plush
Title | Plush |
Episode # | Season 11, Episode 7 |
First aired | November 18, 2015 |
Directed by | Tim Andrew |
Written by | Eric Charmelo Nicole Snyder |
On IMDB | Plush |
Outline | Sheriff Donna calls on Sam and Dean to help on a case involving people driven to murder after donning costumes. |
Monster | Vengeful Spirit |
Timeline | |
Location(s) | Cottage Grove, Minnesota Lebanon, Kansas |
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Synopsis
Scene opens with a husband, Stan, watching the game while the wife washes dishes. She’s trying to get him to take out the trash, but he wants to wait until a commercial. She takes it out to the cans on the side of the house. There is the suggestion of someone nearby, but when she turns, no one is there. Cut back inside where Stan asks her to bring him a brewskie. A hand reaches in holding a beer, but when Stan turns, it is not the wife, but instead a guy wearing an oversized bunny head mask. Stan is surprised. The bunny head guy smashes the beer bottle over Stan’s head. Cut back to the wife shoving the garbage into the can, mumbling. She makes her way back inside. As she is walking it cuts back to Stan being stabbed over and over by bunnyhead with the broken beer bottle. The wife comes in and sees the stabbing taking place and screams.
Cut to the Bunker. Sam is kneeling in prayer. “I don’t know what’s what. Please. What are you trying to say?” Dean walks by the open bedroom door and comments, “really?” Sam jumps up ‘ever heard of privacy?’ ‘you want privacy, close your door.’
Sam throws a bitchface and the boys make their way through the bunker snarking about whether God will become involved in this battle, since the Darkness is supposed to be his sister.
Dean insists HE didn’t get involved in the Apocalypse, HE isn’t gonna care about this, but Sam isn’t convinced. As they are discussing the pre-biblical lore available, that Cas brought from Gaza, Dean gets a call. It’s Sheriff Donna…. “what do you mean, killer bunny?” Cut to Baby on the open road.
The boys arrive at the Sheiff office and are greeted by a big cheerful hug from Donna. “… been tater tots and lemon drops.” Until the killer Easter Bunny….. They catch up a bit, and she describes the case. Dean gets in a joke … ‘well, if you have a wild hare….’ Getting an awesome sunshine laugh from Donna. Enter Officer Stover, Doug. Donna introduces them all and Dean notices officer Doug’s crush. “I was born at night Dean, not last night.” Sam encourages Donna, but she defers, “…I won’t be once bitten, twice Douged.” Dean asks to see the wascally wabbit.
Donna takes the boys to the cells and there sits the skinny guy in the giant bunny head mask. Just sitting there, bunny mask, buttoned flannel and jeans, no response or indication he even knows they are there. Donna explains that after he killed the man, he just turned and walked away. Officer Doug tells Donna of a call and she leaves the boys alone with bunny head. Dean tries to question him, ‘what’s up doc?’ but no response. Sam tries a Roger Rabbit joke, that Dean gives him the ‘really Sam?’ look for, and while Dean is turned away from bunnyhead, the guy grabs him and pulls him into the bars. He’s more than human strong, and Sam tries holy water, no reaction – not a demon. After finally prying Dean free, the bunnyhead just stands there, arms loose at his side. His flannel has fallen open, revealing his Minnesota Tech T-shirt and a tattoo on his left arm Kylie forever.
Cut to the boys approaching the last Kylie listed in the area. They question her with a photo of bunnyhead and she reveals he is her boyfriend, Mike. They ask if there is any connection between Mike and Stan, and why he might have stabbed Stan. She reveals they bought the mask at a thrift store for an off campus costume party.
Cut back to Donna and Doug transporting bunnyhead, Mike. As they go to put him in the car to take him to the hospital to get the mask cut off, Donna takes insult to Doug offering to lift Mike into the car as he’s been tranquilized and is a dead weight. She tries to do it herself, but he’s way heavier than he looks, and she falls. Doug then tries to help her to lift him, but before they can get him up her phone rings, it’s Dean. She turns to take the call, and Mike stands behind them. Doug notices the movement and alerts Donna. Before they can do anything, Mike throws the Donna aside and hits Doug. He then turns and throws the wheelchair aside and pushes Donna to the ground. He is gonna attack her, but Doug shoots him, heart shot. Immediately, the mask falls away. He’s dead.
Cut to Donna and the boys burning the mask. Donna is upset. A 19yr olf boy is dead, for no real reason. The boys reassure her that it is not her fault, or Doug’s. She is saddened by the needless loss of the curse and Sam tries to encourage her, letting her light the mask. They watch it burn.
Cut to a weight lifter and his coach spotting him at the gym. Coach tells him to lay off the ‘roids, and leaves the boy to solo lift, with his headphones. Coach goes into his office. The boy is lifting in front of the mirror with his music blaring in his ears and doesn’t notice the frosted breath as he exhales, nor the school mascot Jester coming into the gym in costume, picking up a deadweight and going into coach’s office. Mascot Jester swings the weight at Coach. Blood splatters the room, and Coach falls into the wall. Weightlifter hears the scuffle and breaks it up, tackling Mascot Jester.
Scene opens with the boys and Donna at the crime scene. Coach is in a coma and Officer Doug is floored. Donna comes up with copycat killer as the motive for this one. “damn social media” Dean comments. The boys question the weightlifter, Brock. He tells them the mascot was bashing Coach. Sam ask who is the mascot, and Brock responds with an arrogant, “how would I know, I’m the quarterback. Besides, the mask wouldn’t come off.” He was floored with how strong the mascot was, matching his own strength. The boys question about electrical flux or temperature changes and the boys says yes, the gym was very cold before the attack.
Cut back to the boys and Donna at the cell with mascot jester. They use the EMP meter and determine ghost possession. Donna is flustered, and wants to know how you can unpossess someone. Dean explains they hate iron and salt so ‘spook the spook’ with some salt and maybe it’ll let loose so they can get the mask off. Donna rummages in her fanny pack and pulls out a salt shaker, ‘diet secret – one bite of desert, then dump salt on it…. Works on everything except salted caramel’ Dean instead pulls out a shotgun, loaded with salt pellets and shoots the mascot. Turns out it’s a young, petite girl.
With the girl cuffed at the desk for questioning, Donna again expresses frustration that this girl is a victim too. Sam tells her to let her go. Dean suggests saying she was a drifter who overpowered Donna and escaped. Donna’s not happy with how incompetent she’ll come across but agrees she cant book the poor girl for attempted murder. They talk with her a bit and learn the mask overtook her as soon as she put it on. She knew Coach, but doesn’t remember attacking him, and didn’t wish him any harm. She tells them the mask was donated to the highschool.
Cut to Donna and the boys questioning a woman, Rita Johnson. Donna takes her son, Max, out to look at the cruiser. The boys go inside with Rita. They learn the masks belonged to her brother, Chester. He was a performer, kids parties, etc. She shows a picture of him in his clown costume, and Sam quickly pushes it across the table to Dean. Rita explains that Chester was depressed, and killed himself by jumping from a bridge a few months back. Max had begged her to keep his uncle’s costumes, as he was close to his uncle and liked them. But she was sad and got rid of them, to the thirft shop, schools etc. The boys ask for a list of all the costumes, and whether Chester had any history with Stan or Coach. She says no, he didn’t even know
Cut to the boys and Donna talking outside. She remembers Chester’s suicide and wonders how to stop this possession thing. They explain usually you burn the bones, but Chester was cremated. Donna asks if they are up a creek, but Sam explains that it seems Chester is tied to the costumes, so if they can gather all the costumes and burn them, that should stop Chester. Donna is happy as she already has Doug gathering the other costumes from the highschool. Sam gives her the list of all the donated costumes and she and Doug are to gather them all. Dean explains he and Sam will try to find out what Chester’s beef was with Stan and Coach – usually ghost possession is because of revenge, or unfinished business. Sam tells Dean he’ll take the hospital and check on Coach and Dean says he will check on Stan’s widow.
Cut to the hospital. A Super creepy clown, with a bouquet of balloons, slowly makes his way into the coach’s room. Coach is on a ventilator and in a coma. Clown pulls out a knife and cuts Coach’s throat, then stands there watching him suffocate.
Scene opens to the clown wandering down the hall of the hospital, covered in blood splatter, knife dripping in his hand. He pushes the elevator button and there is Sam, who tenses at the sight. Clown gets in elevator with Sam and selects a floor. He turns to face Sam, who takes a deep breath, visibly centers himself and attacks clown. Clown fights back and begins to overpower Sam. Sam pulls a railroad tie from his pocket and presses to Clown’s neck, causing a grey smoke to fly up and away. Sam turns back to Clown and removes the mask, revealing a shaken, confused old man.
Cut to coroner wheeling Coach’s body away from the hospital room as Donna watches. Sam enters with the Clown mask, and explains to Donna that the old man had put on the costume for his granddaughter’s party, didn’t even know how he’d got to the hospital. Sam admits the old man ‘escaped’ too, and Donna moans she is so losing her job… Doug enters the room, that he had got the call about Coach while on his way to pick up another costume. He is not buying the copycat killers story, but goes off to get the other costume. Sam confronts Donna with not giving new Doug a chance, and she tells him to mind his own beeswax.
Cut to Dean at the widow’s home. She tells them Stan and Coach were best friends and like brothers. He asks if they knew Chester. She is disgusted at the mention of him and tells Dean how she despises him.
Cut to Dean taking to Sam on the cell as he walks out to Baby. Sam tells him of the killer clown, and Dean tells Sam that the victims had accused Chester of crossing the line with their kids. They went to confront Chester on their own instead of going to police, but Rita was the one that answered the door and told them to leave him alone. After hearing about what they were accusing him of, before they could confront him, Chester killed himself, leading to his now vengeful spirit. Dean wonders though, maybe it wasn’t suicide….
Cut to Dean at Rita’s door. Max answers. Mom isn’t home. Max invites Dean in. Dean notices Max playing with cards, learning magic tricks his Uncle Chester taught him. Max was close to Chester, and tells Dean what the men said about him wasn’t true. Rita comes storming in, followed by Sam, angry Dean is with Max without her there. Sam tells her they know the victims accused Chester. She is angry that it doesn’t matter and has nothing to do with anything. Sam tells her those men were murdered, and like it or not, Chester is connected. She asks how, he killed himself. Dean asks if she is sure about that… The boys tell her she and Max may be in danger.
She admits the story, tells them Chester was like a dad to Max and she told Stan and Coach to go to police and leave them alone. But they had no evidence. Awhile after they left, she began to doubt. Chester was … different, sweet, caring, loved kids, but… Anyway, she began to worry. So she wondered, maybe he was too close to Max. So, she began to believe it. She called Stan back and told them where Chester was doing a show, as a deer. They ambushed him, took him out to the bridge and ‘scared’ him. They told her they would just scare him, not hurt him. But instead, things went bad as Chester struggled and he fell from the bridge.
Stan told her if she reported it, they and her would all go to jail and she couldn’t risk Max losing her too after he’d already lost his dad and now his uncle. “Fear cripples you, makes you do nothing, or worse, it makes you do something you regret.”
Sam’s phone rings. Donna tells him they have tracked down and are burning every costume. Sam asks if there was a deer head. ‘deer head?’ Donna asks. Just then, Max comes out from the room, wearing the deer head and throws Dean across the room. ‘there was no deer head on the list,’ Donna says.
Scene opens with Max approaching Rita. Sam tries to take him, but he tosses Sam into the china cabinet. Dean comes to as she is being choked and rushes Max, pressing his railroad spike against Max’s back. Chester’s spirit smokes out and Max is scared. Sam jumps up from the broken glass and Dean tosses him the mask to go burn outside. Sam rushes out to Baby’s trunk and Dean gets Rita and Max into a salt circle in the living room.
Cut to Sam, as he lifts the fuel from the trunk, Chester comes from behind and knocks him out.
Cut to inside the house. Dean explains stay inside the circle and tells Rita that Chester is a ghost and Chester comes up behind Dean, throwing him into the other room.
Cut to Sam stirring awake
Cut to Chester stalking to Dean, Max calls out to Chester, and he pauses, but then pushes Dean against the wall, choking him
Cut to Sam dousing the deer head in fuel, and torching it
Cut to Chester flaming out, dropping Dean who shares a look with Rita and Max.
Scene opens to the boys and Donna at the scene. The boys are ready to go. Donna tells them to come back for better reasons some time, and sympathizes with Sam and Dean, trying to tell who is possessed, who isn’t. “you’re life’s one big poop storm.” Dean tells her, spoken like a true hunter. She is surprised, but Sam agrees- with three cases now, she’s earned it. She breaks out in that sunshine smile and bear hugs the, both. Dean grins and the boys make their way out. Officer Doug approaches her and Donna apologizes for the recent way she’s treated him. Doug offers to let her call him by his middle name, Lonnie. But she says Doug is just fine.
Cut to Baby on the road. The boys in the front seat and Sam tells Dean he is praying because if it is God giving him the visions, maybe it’s not, but maybe it is, but he doesn’t know what to do with the info he’s getting. Dean asks what he’s seen and Sam admits it’s the cage. He is scared. What if it means he has to go back there to get the answer, to beat this. Dean tells him no. That is suicide. “No, just not gonna happen.” Sam agrees “okay.”
Fade to black….
Characters
Definitions
- Aliases
- Alcohol
- Clowns
- EMF
- Ghost
- Holy Water
- Hugs
- Hunters
- Iron
- Men of Letters Bunker
- Possession
- Salt
- Table of Death
- Unconscious
- Vengeful Spirit
Music
- "Hell to Pay" by Five Finger Death Punch
- (playing on Brock Buckner's iPod)
Quotes
Sam: Yeah, we did, Dean. But why's it so hard to believe God could be sending me visions about the Darkness?
Dean: Damn social media.
Dean: Right. So, whoever possesses the object...
Dean: They hate iron and salt, so all we gotta do is spook the spook with a little salt and, uh, maybe we could pry it off.
Sam: No Dean, I'm joking. Because clowns are really funny to me.
Dean: Spoken like a true hunter.
Dean: What?
Sam: The Cage.
Dean: Lucifer's Cage?
Sam: Yeah. What if He's telling me I have to go back, what if He's saying that's where the answer is to defeating the Darkness?
Trivia & References
- "Wild hare" is a pun on the term "wild hair," which refers to a person who does something sudden or unexpected. It is derived from the expression "to have a wild hair up one’s ass" or various variations of the phrase.
Donna: He is! But he's a cop... named Doug. I mean, clearly, I have a type, but no, thank you, ma'am. Won't be once bitten, twice Doug'd.
- A reference to the idom, "once bitten, twice shy."
- "Wascally wabbit" is a catchphrase used by Elmer Fudd.
- "What's up, Doc?" is a catchphrase used by Bugs Bunny.
- "Molly" is a slang term for MDMA or ecstasy.
- A reference to Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
- CrossFit is an exercise program that combines aerobics, calisthenics, and weight lifting.
- "Hulking out" refers to the transformation of Bruce Banner into the Incredible Hulk, as well as a person reaching a level of anger where they are liable to do something rash.
- Bozo the Clown was a popular TV clown during the 1960s.
- Multi-instrumentalist singer-song writer Prince is a native of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Cheese curds are a regional delicacy in the Midwestern United States.
Minutiae
Sides, Scripts & Transcripts
Promotion
- Livetweets from cast and friends during the episode
- Synopsis via ksitetv
- Photos via ksitetv
- Promo
- CHCH Promo
- Sneak Peek
- Sneak Peek #2 via EW
- Producer's Preview