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| + | A man, Travis Johnson, walks into Rooster’s Sunrise Motel and asks to rent room 214, telling the receptionist it was ‘doctors orders. When she asks, he tells the receptionist he’s been there before, a very long time ago. He walks into the room, telling himself ‘you can do this’. Travis sits anxiously on the bed, drinking whiskey straight from the bottle and holding on to a ring on a chain around his neck, saying to himself ‘it's not real, it was never real’. Suddenly, a small boy appears and says, ‘remember me?’. Travis scrambles of the bed, dropping the bottle and yelling ‘you’re not real’. The boy picks up the jagged bottle and points it at Travis. Travis’ screams are heard as we look at the outside of the door to room 214. | ||
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| + | The death is deemed a suicide, but Travis’s sister, Caitlin, doesn’t agree. So, she calls Sam and Dean and asks them to come and help. As they’re driving, Dean is questioning why they're going to the funeral of a friend they haven't seen in 25 years. Sam suggests they have nothing else to do, which leads him to question why Cass just left, asking Dean ‘he didn’t say anything to you?’ Dean denies knowing anything about it. | ||
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| + | Sam and Dean meet up with Kaitlyn. They talk about the issues Travis had in his life and how he seemed to be getting better with therapy. Kaitlyn tell them that his doctor suggested he go back to the hotel and ‘face his fears’, and then adds, ‘I think she’s back’. | ||
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| + | In a flashback to January 1993, the Impala pulls up to the motel. John drops Sam and Dean off out front and drives away. Sam and Dean are also staying in 214. After unpacking Dean goes to get/steal a candy bar from the vending machine, and meets a boy and girl, Travis and Caitlyn. (Travis is the boy who appeared to adult Travis years later.) | ||
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| + | In the hallway, Travis is trying to get a candy bar from the vending machine the way Dean showed him. He pushes the two numbers and bangs the side of the machine, but the candy doesn't drop. As he starts to walk away, he hears the whirring of the coils in the vending machine and the candy drops. He goes back to put his hand into the slot to grab the candy and a large, green, ancient hand with a red ring grabs his hand. As he screams for Caitlyn, he looks up into the vending machine. All the candy falls and there is a witchy looking woman inside the machine. He screams again and as the others come running the woman disappears and all the candy is back in place in the machine, as if nothing happened. | ||
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| + | Back in their hotel room Sam and Dean talk with Travis about what happened. They tell him they believe him and ask if any strange things have been happening in hotel or in the area. They learn that three children have gone missing in the recent past. Sam and Dean investigate and think they find the central location where the ‘thing’ might be hiding, it’s ‘nest’. While Dean and Kaitlyn check it out, Sam and Travis stay in the room and play Boogle. All the words coming up are related to ‘kill’ or ‘death’ and then the letter cubes begin to shake and erupt all over the room. The lights go out and the ‘thing’ appears behind Travis and grabs him. Dean and Kaitlyn happen to come into the room and Dean shoots at the ‘thing’. There is no effect so he grabs his knife, cutting off her fingers and sending them flying under a table. He then stabs her in the stomach, and she vaporizes. The fingers also vaporize, leaving her ring on the floor under the table. | ||
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| + | Present Time-Adult Dean is walking down the hall in the hotel and is confronted by a dead looking version of himself when he was at the motel as a kid. Dead kid Dean tells adult Dean ‘We’ve been waiting for you. You know what you have to do’, gesturing to Dean’s hand, which is now holding a knife. Dead kid Dean also says, ‘you failed’, while Dean drops to his knees, turning the knife towards his stomach. Sam comes across Dean, alone, kneeling knifeless on the floor and Dean now realizes that the ‘thing’ is back. | ||
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| + | While out at a diner ordering food, Billie/Death visits Dean and advises him that Chuck has destroyed the last world and that the Earth is next. She also says that she visited Jack and gave him his orders to destroy Chuck and that this is the last time she will visit. She asks Dean if there will be a problem destroying Chuck (knowing that it will kill Jack). | ||
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| + | Sam researches and finds out that the ‘thing’ is a ‘Baba Yaga’ that feeds on children. She wears a ring that is her heart, the source of her power from. Kaitlyn recognizes it as Travis’s ring that he wore on his neck. She goes out to her car to retrieves the ring but can’t find it. She closes the trunk and dead adult Travis is there, holding out the ring right before he attacks her. | ||
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| + | Sam and Dean separate and search around the motel for the Baba Yaga’s nest, hoping to find Caitlin. Dean goes back to room 214 and the door swings open. As he enters, the door slams behind him and the room is now the Baby Yaga’s nest from 1993. Dead Travis/Baba Yaga is waiting for him. Dan shoots him but nothing happens. | ||
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| + | Sam enters room 214 (which is now a motel room again) and sees Caitlin lying unconscious and Travis/Baba Yaga choking Dean. Sam stabs her in the back and she turns from Travis into the actual Baba Yaga. She stands up and throws him across the room. Dean takes advantage of the distraction and pulls her ring off her finger, throwing her across the room. He then smashes the ring with the end of his gun and the Baba Yaga bursts into flames and evaporates. | ||
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| + | Dean and Caitlin are walking across the hotel lobby, talking about what just happen and when they were kids which leads Kaitlyn to say “what do they say about getting older? You tell the truth more because you know that lies, they don’t make anything better’. | ||
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| + | While Sam and Dean are driving back home, Dean tells Sam about his visit from Billie and that God will be here soon. During this discussion, Dean also tells Sam about Jack dying in the process of killing God and Amara. Sam figures out that Dean has known about this for a while and gets mad, telling Dean that he thought they were past this kind of thing. Dean tells him that withheld the information because he didn’t think Sam could handle it and that Sam would try to alter the plan. The boys argue some more. Dean tries to apologize but Sam doesn’t want to hear it. | ||
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Revision as of 03:15, 29 October 2020
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| Title | Drag Me Away (From You) |
| Episode # | Season 15, Episode 16 |
| First aired | October 22, 2020 |
| Directed by | Amyn Kaderali |
| Written by | Meghan Fitzmartin |
| On IMDB | Drag Me Away (From You) |
| Outline | After an old childhood friend dies, Sam and Dean realize they are dealing with a creature they thought they had killed years ago. |
| Monster | Baba Yaga |
| Timeline | January 1993 (flashback) |
| Location(s) | Wadsworth, Ohio |
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Contents
Synopsis
A man, Travis Johnson, walks into Rooster’s Sunrise Motel and asks to rent room 214, telling the receptionist it was ‘doctors orders. When she asks, he tells the receptionist he’s been there before, a very long time ago. He walks into the room, telling himself ‘you can do this’. Travis sits anxiously on the bed, drinking whiskey straight from the bottle and holding on to a ring on a chain around his neck, saying to himself ‘it's not real, it was never real’. Suddenly, a small boy appears and says, ‘remember me?’. Travis scrambles of the bed, dropping the bottle and yelling ‘you’re not real’. The boy picks up the jagged bottle and points it at Travis. Travis’ screams are heard as we look at the outside of the door to room 214.
The death is deemed a suicide, but Travis’s sister, Caitlin, doesn’t agree. So, she calls Sam and Dean and asks them to come and help. As they’re driving, Dean is questioning why they're going to the funeral of a friend they haven't seen in 25 years. Sam suggests they have nothing else to do, which leads him to question why Cass just left, asking Dean ‘he didn’t say anything to you?’ Dean denies knowing anything about it.
Sam and Dean meet up with Kaitlyn. They talk about the issues Travis had in his life and how he seemed to be getting better with therapy. Kaitlyn tell them that his doctor suggested he go back to the hotel and ‘face his fears’, and then adds, ‘I think she’s back’.
In a flashback to January 1993, the Impala pulls up to the motel. John drops Sam and Dean off out front and drives away. Sam and Dean are also staying in 214. After unpacking Dean goes to get/steal a candy bar from the vending machine, and meets a boy and girl, Travis and Caitlyn. (Travis is the boy who appeared to adult Travis years later.)
In the hallway, Travis is trying to get a candy bar from the vending machine the way Dean showed him. He pushes the two numbers and bangs the side of the machine, but the candy doesn't drop. As he starts to walk away, he hears the whirring of the coils in the vending machine and the candy drops. He goes back to put his hand into the slot to grab the candy and a large, green, ancient hand with a red ring grabs his hand. As he screams for Caitlyn, he looks up into the vending machine. All the candy falls and there is a witchy looking woman inside the machine. He screams again and as the others come running the woman disappears and all the candy is back in place in the machine, as if nothing happened.
Back in their hotel room Sam and Dean talk with Travis about what happened. They tell him they believe him and ask if any strange things have been happening in hotel or in the area. They learn that three children have gone missing in the recent past. Sam and Dean investigate and think they find the central location where the ‘thing’ might be hiding, it’s ‘nest’. While Dean and Kaitlyn check it out, Sam and Travis stay in the room and play Boogle. All the words coming up are related to ‘kill’ or ‘death’ and then the letter cubes begin to shake and erupt all over the room. The lights go out and the ‘thing’ appears behind Travis and grabs him. Dean and Kaitlyn happen to come into the room and Dean shoots at the ‘thing’. There is no effect so he grabs his knife, cutting off her fingers and sending them flying under a table. He then stabs her in the stomach, and she vaporizes. The fingers also vaporize, leaving her ring on the floor under the table.
Present Time-Adult Dean is walking down the hall in the hotel and is confronted by a dead looking version of himself when he was at the motel as a kid. Dead kid Dean tells adult Dean ‘We’ve been waiting for you. You know what you have to do’, gesturing to Dean’s hand, which is now holding a knife. Dead kid Dean also says, ‘you failed’, while Dean drops to his knees, turning the knife towards his stomach. Sam comes across Dean, alone, kneeling knifeless on the floor and Dean now realizes that the ‘thing’ is back.
While out at a diner ordering food, Billie/Death visits Dean and advises him that Chuck has destroyed the last world and that the Earth is next. She also says that she visited Jack and gave him his orders to destroy Chuck and that this is the last time she will visit. She asks Dean if there will be a problem destroying Chuck (knowing that it will kill Jack).
Sam researches and finds out that the ‘thing’ is a ‘Baba Yaga’ that feeds on children. She wears a ring that is her heart, the source of her power from. Kaitlyn recognizes it as Travis’s ring that he wore on his neck. She goes out to her car to retrieves the ring but can’t find it. She closes the trunk and dead adult Travis is there, holding out the ring right before he attacks her.
Sam and Dean separate and search around the motel for the Baba Yaga’s nest, hoping to find Caitlin. Dean goes back to room 214 and the door swings open. As he enters, the door slams behind him and the room is now the Baby Yaga’s nest from 1993. Dead Travis/Baba Yaga is waiting for him. Dan shoots him but nothing happens.
Sam enters room 214 (which is now a motel room again) and sees Caitlin lying unconscious and Travis/Baba Yaga choking Dean. Sam stabs her in the back and she turns from Travis into the actual Baba Yaga. She stands up and throws him across the room. Dean takes advantage of the distraction and pulls her ring off her finger, throwing her across the room. He then smashes the ring with the end of his gun and the Baba Yaga bursts into flames and evaporates.
Dean and Caitlin are walking across the hotel lobby, talking about what just happen and when they were kids which leads Kaitlyn to say “what do they say about getting older? You tell the truth more because you know that lies, they don’t make anything better’.
While Sam and Dean are driving back home, Dean tells Sam about his visit from Billie and that God will be here soon. During this discussion, Dean also tells Sam about Jack dying in the process of killing God and Amara. Sam figures out that Dean has known about this for a while and gets mad, telling Dean that he thought they were past this kind of thing. Dean tells him that withheld the information because he didn’t think Sam could handle it and that Sam would try to alter the plan. The boys argue some more. Dean tries to apologize but Sam doesn’t want to hear it.
Characters
Definitions
Music
- "If I Didn't Care" by The Ink Spots
- (playing in the motel as Travis is checking in)
- "Gone Again" by Robin Loxley & Smudge Mason (Extreme Music)
- (playing in the bar where Sam, Dean, and Caitlin get a drink and talk)
Quotes
Dean: Not really.
Sam: And you guys didn't get into a fight or something?
Young Sam: Pretty sure that's illegal.
Sam: Well, we help people, you know? Save them. Just sorry we couldn't save Travis.
Dean: Always am.
Caitlin: You have changed. The old you never would have admitted that.
Young Sam: Yeah, we do.
Trivia & References
- "It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you. There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do."
- The Goonies is a 1985 movie about a group of kids who call themselves "the Goonies" who find an old treasure map that takes them on an adventure.
- Knight Rider was an '80s TV show about Michael Knight who solved crimes and drove a car with an A.I. called KITT. The car was, as Caitlin correctly identified, a 1982 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am.
- Sam and Travis play Boggle, a game where players try and make words out of letters on adjacent dice.
Sam: I think so, yeah.
- "Precious" is what Gollum called the powerful One Ring in the fantasy novel and later film series The Lord of the Rings. Like in this episode, the One Ring had to be destroyed in order to permanently defeat its owner, Sauron.
Minutiae
- As revealed in 11.08 Just My Imagination, Sam's imaginary friend is the zanna Sully.
