15.04 Atomic Monsters
Title | Atomic Monsters |
Episode # | Season 15, Episode 4 |
First aired | November 7, 2019 |
Directed by | Jensen Ackles |
Written by | Davy Perez |
On IMDB | Atomic Monsters |
Outline | Sam and Dean hunt a monster that's targeting cheerleaders. Meanwhile, Chuck turns to an old friend for comfort. |
Monster | Vampire God |
Timeline | |
Location(s) | Lebanon, Kansas Beaverdale, Iowa Wisconsin |
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Contents
Synopsis
Characters
- Sam Winchester
- Dean Winchester
- Chuck Shurley / God
- Becky Rosen
- Benny Lafitte
- Billy Whitman
- Janet and Henry Whitman
Definitions
- Aliases
- Alcohol
- Alternate Universe
- Cameras
- Costumes & Disguises
- Dead Man's Blood
- Demonology
- Demon Blood
- Food
- Impala
- Leviathans
- Men of Letters Bunker
- Monsters
- Sammy
- Season 15 Callbacks
- Specialty Bullets
- The Supernatural Books
- Table of Death
- Telekinesis
- Vampires
Music
- "Sounds of Someday" by Radio Company
- (plays over the montage of Billy Whitman accepting his death)
Quotes
Sam: Of course not. That's our job. We keep them from dealing with the truth, with what's out there, and we carry the weight. It's great. Meanwhile, they get to go back to living in their white picket fence bubbles.
Dean: You know, ever since you were a kid, you wanted to live in a town like this. Lame, normal
Chuck: Your own... "Supernatural"?
Becky: Where the guys didn't have to hunt monsters all the time. They just sit around and do laundry and talk, you know? I mean, that's what people like the most, anyway.
Chuck: Well, I mean, people like monsters.
Chuck: I know. You don't need me. No one does. I'm happy for you Becky, that you like yourself. Because I kind of hate me right now.
Dean: You were gonna let me just cut off your head.
Becky: B-But it's so dark.
Chuck: But great, right? I can see it now "Supernatural: The End". And the cover is just a gravestone that says "Winchester". The fans are gonna love it. Well?
Becky: It's awful! Horrible. It's hopeless. You can't do this to the fans. What you did to Dean? What you did to Sam?
Becky: What are you. No. You bring them back. You bring them back! Please you can't do this.
Sam: Yeah. Yeah, lucky them.
Dean: No, man, that's not what I'm talking about.
Sam: I know, I know, I know. I'm sorry. I know. But... But what I'm saying is that I don't feel free. What we've done, what we've lost, right now, that is what I'm feeling, and and sometimes it's Sometimes it's like I-I-I can't even breathe. But maybe tomorrow. You know, maybe I'll I'll feel better in the morning.
Dean: And what if you don't?
Trivia & References
Dean: Yeah, it does.
- Sarah McLachlan is a Canadian singer-songwriter, however she no longer claims to be a full vegetarian or vegan.
- A "Meat Man" is a "man with a big ass dick" or literally a man made out of meat. It is uncertain which definition Dean is aware of.
Becky: My maquettes.
Chuck: You make them?
Becky: I run the most successful Etsy site for unofficial "Supernatural" merchandise in the country.
Probably the world.
- A maquette is a scale model of a sculpture, building or, in TV and movies, a set.
- Etsy is an e-commerce website to specializes in handmade items.
- In the adult entertainment industry, a fluffer is someone whose job it is to get the male participant erect before a scene starts.
- A "AU" in fanfiction take a number of forms. They include stories that have one or two major points of divergence from canon, for example a world where John was killed by a demon, and Mary raised Sam and Dean as hunters. The other main group of stories takes characters from canon and places them in totally different lives - for example a story set around Sam, Dean, and Cas as college students, or pirates, or burlesque performers on a space freighter.
- Ted Bundy was a notorious serial killer who targeted and murdered young women.
Minutiae
- Per Variety: In it, Ackles directed himself in hand-to-hand combat and stunts, as well as a couple of key emotional moments, including bringing back “a character who’s one of my favorite characters of all time,” Ackles says. “It wasn’t even on the page. I said, ‘Can we make this character this person?’ And they were like, ‘If you can get this person — I believe they’re working right now.’ I made the call. He was literally working one day, had the next day off, so he flew in, did one scene, flew out and was working on his other project the next day.”
- “To be honest our editor inquired about it. He said, ‘I know you did some music over the break, do you think we could take anything and plug it in?’ I wasn’t angling for that, I wasn’t pushing that, and in fact we didn’t even tell Bob or Andrew or anybody. We just floated it in there and waited to see if anybody said, ‘I don’t really care for that song, I don’t know who that is,'” Ackles says. “And nobody said that.”
In addition to “Sounds of Someday” Ackles says he had a few other music cues in his director’s cut, including a big one at the end.
- “Two of the three got taken out; mine was the last one standing,” he says of his new single. “That was a small victory. That was a nice vote of confidence, especially from a show that prides itself on music so much.”
- Becky is referencing the plot to 7.08 Season Seven, Time for a Wedding! in which she drugged Sam with a love potion and married him in Las Vegas.
The Supernatural merchandise in Becky's house was a combination of commercial Supernatural merchandise, items made by fans, and some made by the show. The plaid quilt and other sewn items were made by Stef aka @arachnobite who also made Jensen's Red Hood and Batman costumes. A carved Supernatural themed chess set in the living room was gifted to Jared at the EyeCon in September 2008 by by Sandra Echeverri (@Sanpao19).
Chuck: You want jeopardy? You want danger? Move! I'll give you danger.
- Becky's notes about Chuck's new manuscript can be seen as a meta commentary on the episode itself. Many of her notes such as there being no classic rock and neither Sam nor Dean mentioning Castiel and a cornered Sam and Dean listening to the "villain's" monologue happen in the episode. Her claims of low stakes cause Chuck to write a new dark ending, which is mirrored in the episode when he disintegrates Becky and her husband.