2.04 Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things
Title | Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things |
Episode # | Season 2, Episode 4 |
First aired | 19 October, 2006 |
Directed by | Kim Manners |
Written by | Raelle Tucker |
On IMDB | http://imdb.com/title/tt0837741/ |
Outline | Dean and Sam investigate the murder of a college student who has come back from the dead seeking revenge on those who mistreated her while she was alive. |
Monster | Zombie |
Timeline | end of Aug, 2006 |
Location(s) | Greenville, Illinois |
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Contents
Synopsis
At Sam’s insistence, the brother’s travel to Greenville Cemetary to visit their mother’s grave, where Sam buries his father’s dog tags. Dean notices a circle of dead vegetation around a nearby grave belonging to a girl named Angela Mason, killed recently in a car accident. Dean suspects there may be something supernatural at work, but Sam charges that is simply part of Dean’s on-going refusal to deal with his grief over their father’s death.
Sam agrees to investigate Angela’s death, but a visit to Angela’s father doesn’t provide any clues as to what may be going on. After an argument with Sam, Dean goes on his own to Angela’s apartment. Her roommate Lindsay is distraught - not only over Angela’s death, but also over the death of Angela’s boyfriend Matt, who apparently slit his own throat the previous night.
Dean manages to pilfer through Angela’s diary, which reveals she had a confidante called Neil. He and Sam visit Neil who reveals that Matt was having an affair, which Angela discovered on the night of her death. Returning to her grave, the boys disinter her coffin not only to find it empty, but with Greek symbols engraved inside it.
Suspecting that her father, a classics professor, may have constructed a ritual to raise her from the dead, the boys visit him again. Dean becomes aggressive and upset with Dr Mason, although he continues to deny Sam’s accusations that he is losing control.
Dean decides Neil may have had a crush on Angela and raised her as a zombie. On returning to Neil’s house, they found no one home, but there are signs of a recent supernatural presence. They return to Angela’s apartment just in time to save Lindsay, who had been having the affair with Matt, from being killed by Angela, who escapes.
Sam and Dean find Neil, and explain they have a plan to return Angela to the dead. Angela overhears, and after the boys leave, she kills Neil and pursues the boys to the cemetery.
At the graveyard, Sam lures her to the grave, where Dean stakes her inside her coffin.
The boys leave town, but on a lonely mountain road, Dean stops the car. He apologizes to Sam for the way he has been acting. Dean is upset because he is convinced that John exchanged his life, and the Colt, for Dean’s life, and he is struggling to cope with feeling responsible for John’s death.
Characters
- Dean Winchester
- Sam Winchester
- Angela Mason (undead woman)
- Dr Mason (Angela's father, professor of Ancient Greek)
- Neil (Angela's friend)
- Matt (Angela's boyfriend)
- Lindsey (Angela's roommate)
Definitions
Music
Supergrass - Sad Girl
Quotes
Dean: So?
Dean: You're telling me?
Sam: Dude, you've been watching way too many Romero flicks.
Dean: You're telling me there's no lore on how to smoke 'em?
Sam: No, Dean. I'm telling you there's too much. I mean there's a hundred different legends on the walking dead, but they all have different methods for killing them. Some say setting them on fire, one said...where it it... right here, feeding their hearts to wild dogs. That's my personal favorite. But who knows what's real and what's myth?
Dean: Is there anything they all have in common?
Dean: Yep.
Sam: How'd you come up with that?
So tell me. What could you possibly say to make that all right?
Trivia & References
A reference to the Stephen King novel and film, Pet Sematary, in which a grieving father buries his young son's body in an ancient Indian burial ground and it comes back as a zombie.
This is a reference to George Romero, director of many zombie films including the "Night of the Living Dead" series.
A reference to the movie Pretty in Pinkwhere the character Duckie pines for his best friend Andie.
Dean: Nah, I think she went out to rent Beaches.
Minutiae
- The announcer on the TV Sam is watching in the motel room says "Next on the Skin Channel, Casa Erotica Four. A tale of two Latin beauties..."
- The close-up of Angela's phone after the crash shows the date to be "TUE 22 AUG 06". When Dean and Sam arrive, Angela has been buried for 3 days as Dean says, "Angela Mason. She was a student at the local college; funeral was three days ago." The next day, Sam points out that she died a week ago, "Burn the bones? Are you high? Angela died last week!" The temporary grave marker for Angela further confuses things, as it reads "DATE COMPLETED: 12/08/07. MONUMENT COMPLETED: 19/09/07."
Sides, Scripts & Transcripts
Promotion
- Episode Stills
- Episode Promo: 2.04 Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things
- The tagline for the promo for this episode was "true love never dies".