2.02 Everybody Loves a Clown
Title | Everybody Loves a Clown |
Episode # | Season 2, Episode 2 |
First aired | 5 October, 2006 |
Directed by | Philip Sgriccia |
Written by | John Shiban |
On IMDB | http://imdb.com/title/tt0829062/ |
Outline | After listening to a message on John's cell phone from a woman named Ellen, Sam and Dean decide to track her down. |
Monster | Rakshasa |
Timeline | mid November 2006? |
Location(s) | Nebraska Sioux Falls, South Dakota Medford, Wisconsin |
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Contents
Synopsis
Dean and Sam cremate their father’s remains on a funeral pyre. As they say farewell to him, Sam asks Dean whether John had any final words. After a pause, Dean lies and says no.
While staying with Bobby, Dean is consumed with repairing the Impala, and refuses to discuss John’s death. Sam finds an old message on John’s cell phone and they track it down to an address. The boys borrow a Dodge Caravan from Bobby and go to Harvelle’s Roadhouse. Here they meet Ellen Harvelle and her daughter Jo who, to the boys’ surprise, knew their father and know all about demons. The Roadhouse is a regular haunt of hunters, and Ellen’s deceased husband, Bill was also a hunter. Another regular at the Roadhouse, Ash, offers to help analyze John’s research on the Yellow-Eyed Demon.
While waiting for Ash to complete his work, the boys investigate a series of murders that have occurred while a circus is in town. A clown has been seen in the vicinity of the deaths. The boys get jobs working at the circus, but continue to clash over how they are dealing with their grief.
When their suspicions are aroused after a little girl sees a clown her parents can’t see, they stake out the girl’s house, and manage to save her from a clown, who disappears as they shoot at it.
Sam calls Ellen, who tells the boys the creature is a Rakshasa that must be killed with a brass dagger. Suspecting Mr Cooper, the carnival owner, the boys return to the circus. The real culprit is the blind knife thrower, who attacks the boys and traps them in the funhouse. Sam manages to kill the Rakshasa with a brass pipe from the organ.
The boys return to the Roadhouse where Ash has set up a computer program to alert them to appearances of the Yellow-Eyed Demon. Ellen offers them her spare room, but they return to Bobby’s place.
Back at Bobby’s, Sam admits he is not dealing with John’s death, but charges that Dean isn’t either. As Sam walks away, Dean picks up a tire iron and with rage and grief smashes into the Impala.
Characters
Definitions
- Pyre PoD
- Coulrophobia PoD
- Rakshasa PoD
- Macabre PoD
- Clowns
- John's Cell Phone
- Harvelle's Roadhouse
- Singer Salvage Yard
- Star Wars
- X-Files
- See also Jo's Blog
Music
- The Chambers Brothers - Time Has Come Today
- Three Dog Night - Shambala
- Captain & Tennille - Do That To Me One More Time
- Bad Poodle - Mudd Walk (according to S2Com)
Quotes
Sam: And apparently clowns kill!
Trivia & References
Sam: And apparently clowns kill!
- This conversation is a reference to Dean's fear of flying, as shown in 1.04 Phantom Traveler.
Minutiae
Sides, Scripts & Transcripts
Sides
- Ellen (PDF)
- Alex (later renamed as "Jo") (PDF)
- Alex (revised) (PDF)
- Alex (revised again) (PDF)
- Miles (later renamed as "Ash") (PDF)
- Miles (revised) (PDF)