14.16 Don't Go in the Woods

Title	Don't Go in the Woods
Episode #	Season 14, Episode 16
First aired	March 21, 2019
Directed by	John Fitzpatrick
Written by	Davy Perez Nick Vaught
On IMDB	Don't Go in the Woods
Outline	While Sam and Dean investigate a a creature killing people in the woods, they leave Jack to his own devices.
Monster	Kohonta
Timeline
Location(s)	Polk City, Iowa Lebanon, Kansas
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Characters

• Sam Winchester
• Dean Winchester
• Jack Kline
• Eliot
• Max
• Stacy
• Sheriff Mason Romero
• Henry Parker

Definitions

• Angel Blade
• Costumes & Disguises
• Curse
• Ghostfacers
• Healing
• Impala
• Kohonta
• Law Enforcement Officers
• Lebanon, Kansas
• Men of Letters Bunker
• Monsters
• Nephilim
• Pie
• Silver
• Shamanism
• Table of Death
• Telekinesis

Music

• "Ghostfacers Theme" by Christopher Lennertz & Ben Edlund

(playing on Eliot's phone as he watches a Ghostfacers video)

Quotes

Dean: What you looking at? Porn? Sex tapes? Nip slips?.

Sam: The Internet is more than just naked people. You do know that, right?

Dean: Not my Internet.

Eliot: Zombies are real?

Jack: Well, no. Not really. It's kinda disappointing. But there are other monsters.
Eliot: Like what?

Jack: Oh, vampires, werewolves, shapeshifters -- I've seen one of those -- djinn, rugaru -- That's a funny name, yeah. Wraiths, sirens, demons, ghouls. All sorts of things.

Eliot: Do demons really look like this?
Jack: No. They don't have horns. They actually look like smoke, unless they've possessed a human, then they can look like me or you or anybody.

Dean: We hunt things. Fight things and kill things people don't understand. So, Kohonta. Talk.
Sheriff Romero: I-I I didn't think it was real. The Kohonta was a tribal legend, an old story. I haven't heard about it since I was a kid. But then I s-saw it the night Barbara was killed.

Sheriff Romero: They say that boy not only ate his family, they said he went mad with hunger. He went after my people, and then when my tribe caught him, they Killing him would have been too easy. They wanted that boy to suffer. For his crimes against our people, crimes against nature. They cursed him. He's doomed to roam the woods always starving. And if he didn't feed his body would eat itself. The Kohonta aren't born. They're made.

Dean: Well, it's a good thing. Like I said, we hunt these things.

Dean: Knowing about monsters and fighting 'em are two different things.

Sheriff Romero: So you make that choice for everybody? Imagine telling them. Imagine the lives you could save.

Dean: No. No. It doesn't work like that. People die. Even when they know how to fight, people still die.

Sheriff Romero: I didn't know what to tell him.
Sam: How about the truth? He's your son. He deserves the truth.

Dean: So, telling the kid -- you think that's the best idea?

Sam: What? You don't?

Dean: It doesn't make his life any better, you know? Do what we always do. When in doubt, lie.

Dean: It was crappy of us not to tell you. You know, we were trying to be nice. 'Cause we care about you. But because we care about you, you deserve the truth.

Sam: You understand that? Jack?

Jack: I understand. I won't use my powers without permission. Promise.

Trivia & References

According to writer Nick Vaught:

• The character Barbra who is killed in the teaser is named after the main character in Night of the Living Dead.
• The bathroom scene where Barbra is killed is a homage to a similar scene in the 2018 movie Halloween, which in itself was an homage to the 1998 Halloween: H20.

Jack: Did you know Article 246 of the Haitian criminal code officially makes it against the law to turn a human into a zombie?

It is in fact illegal in Haiti to turn a person into a zombie:

"It shall also be qualified as attempted murder the employment which may be made against any person of substances which, without causing actual death, produce a lethargic coma more or less prolonged. If, after the person had been buried, the act shall be considered murder no matter what result follows."

Dean: We don't want to leave the Bunker empty. In case, uh, Mom or some of the other hunters call and need help, so And this place is long overdue for a restock. So, uh, your mission, should you choose to accept -- made you a list.

"Your mission should you choose to accept it" is a line from the Mission: Impossible series used when agents are assigned their missions.

Max: Is that what's his name? Bambi?

Bambi is a wide-eyed innocent baby deer from the Disney movie of the same name. Eliot previously referred to Jack as "Bambi" in 13.13 Lebanon.

Stacy: I feel bad for him.

Max: Same. I mean, living with a bunch of dudes. Their whole place must smell like beer, Kleenex, and... Old Spice.

Kleenex is the brand name for a type of facial tissue, in this case the reference is to their use to clean up ejaculate following masturbation. Old Spice is an aftershave.

Max: Do you ever, like, hangout?

Jack: Well, we have movie nights on Tuesdays. Dean usually picks. I've seen Lost Boys like 36 times.

The Lost Boys is a 1987 horror comedy about two brothers who encounter a gang of vampires, and the brothers who hunt them.

Jack: I like The Who.

Stacy: Who?
Max: Oh, my aunt listens to them. They're old.
Jack: Well, Dean says any music made after 1979 'sucks ass.'

The Who is an English rock band that was formed in 1964. In 7.03 The Girl Next Door, a young Sam tells Amy Pond that his dad "doesn't listen to anything recorded after 1979." A sentiment also held by series creator Eric Kripke.

Max: So, how do you use it?

Jack: Well, there are standard hand-to-hand combat moves. Like a lightsaber. Or you can throw it, like this.

A lightsaber is a prominent weapon from Star Wars. Jack was seen watching Star Wars: Clone Wars in 13.04 The Big Empty and in 13.23 Let the Good Times Roll, Lucifer said he and Jack could go anywhere in the Universe "like Star Wars" and he could even make him a I can make you a lightsaber.

Eliot: Dude, are you like a Jedi or something?

Jack: Kinda.

Jedi are an ancient order in the Star Wars universe who wield much power. When watching Star Wars: Clone Wars Jack commented that he didn't like Anakin, who was a young Jedi who turned to evil and became Darth Vader.

Dean: So what the hell is this thing?

Sheriff Romero: It's not a what. Who. The Parker family, they were some of the first white settlers around here. They set a homestead up in these woods -- the cabin.
Sam: And then?
Sheriff Romero: Things went bad. It was a hard winter. Their oldest son, Henry, survived but he did things.
Dean: What kind of things? Like Donner Party?

The Donner Party was a group of American pioneers which became famous for engaging in cannibalism to survive. The Donner Party was also mentioned in 1.02 Wendigo as an example of how a wendigo is made. One member appeared in the novel Supernatural: Fresh Meat as a wendigo.

Dean: Whoa. That was like full-on "Raiders."

A reference to the climax of the 1981 Indiana Jones movie Raiders of the Lost Ark, when the Ark of the Covenant is opened and causes all the Nazis to liquefy, just as the Kohonta does.

Dean: This Hunt, we, we didn't want you coming along because we didn't want you using them.

Sam: Not yet. Not for now. You know, you just got 'em back, Jack. We want to make sure you're comfortable with them again before you.

Dean: Before you go all X-Men.

Minutiae

This episode had a number of firsts for the Supernatural crew. It is the first story credit for writer's assistant Nick Vaught, the first directing credit on the show for editor John Fitzpatrick and the first episode of scripted TV to be edited by assistant editor Marty Skibosh and Jessica Chandler stepped in as assistant editor.

Patrick Roccas, who played Deputy #2, previously played Angel #2 in 7.21 Reading Is Fundamental.

The Ghostfacers video Eliot is watching appears to be the same one from 4.17 It's a Terrible Life.

While talking with Max, Stacy and Eliot, Jack references Buddy the shapeshifter from 13.04 The Big Empty, and Dagon when he mentions having killed a demon.

The story behind the creation of the Kohonta is similar to the creation story for a wendigo told in 1.02 Wendigo though with the difference of the kohonta being cursed.

Sides, Scripts & Transcripts

• 14.16 Don't Go in the Woods (transcript)

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