2.05 Simon Said
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| Title | Simon Said |
| Episode # | Season 2, Episode 5 |
| First aired | 26 October, 2006 |
| Directed by | Tim Iacofano |
| Written by | Ben Edlund |
| On IMDB | http://imdb.com/title/tt0851031/ |
| Outline | Sam and Dean meet Andy, a slacker who has psychic powers of persuasion that he uses to gain favors from people. |
| Monster | Special Children |
| Timeline | |
| Location(s) | Nebraska Guthrie, Oklahoma |
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Contents
Synopsis
After Sam has a vision of a man committing suicide, he and Dean travel to the Roadhouse and seek help from Ash. Using a logo Sam remembers from a bus in his vision, Ash helps him track determine the events in his vision took place in Guthrie Oklahoma. Sam asks Ash to see if there are any records of a fire starting in a nursery in 1983. Ash finds that Andrew Gallagher lost his mother in a fire when he was six months old, in a close parallel to Sam’s own history. Jo asks to accompany the boys, but Dean, admitting he is scared of Ellen, refuses.
Once in Guthrie, Sam and Dean track down Andy, but when they search Andy's van they find nothing to suggest he is the killer. While Dean keeps an eye on him, Sam follows the man he saw in his vision. Sam manages to stop the events of his vision, only for the man die after walking in front of a bus.
Andy uses his power of mind control to get Dean to give him the Impala, and later to get Dean to speak truthfully about what he and Sam are doing. Sam, however, is immune to Andy’s power and starts interrogating him, when he has another vision of a woman dousing herself in gas before setting herself on fire. While Sam talks to Andy, Dean follows the sound of police sirens and finds a woman has just died in the way Sam foresaw.
When they discover that it was Andy’s adoptive mother who died when he was six months old, the boys search the birth records and discover Andy’s birth mother was the woman who died that day – and that he has a twin brother, Ansem. They are further surprised when it turned out that Ansem is actually a guy that Andy knows as Webber, who has recently befriended him.
Ansem has tracked Andy down, and has been killing people important to Andy. He is about to kill Andy’s ex-girlfriend Tracey when Sam and Andy confront him. Just as Ansem is about to make Dean shoot himself, Andy kills him.
Sam is distressed that the children with abilities like him seem destined to become killers. Back at the Roadhouse, Ellen confronts them to reveal the truth of Sam’s abilities, which they do. They also reveal the disturbing news – Ansem’s mother didn’t die when he was six months old, thus breaking the pattern and leaving them unable to track the Special Children.
Characters
- Dean Winchester
- Sam Winchester
- Ellen
- Jo
- Ash
- Andrew (Andy) Gallagher (good twin)
- Webber/Ansem Weems (evil twin)
- Dr Jennings (hit by a bus)
- Tracey (Andy's girlfriend)
Definitions
Music
- Spinal Tap - Stonehenge
- REO Speedwagon - Can't Fight This Feeling
- Soundgarden - Fell on Black Days
Quotes
Ash: Sam? Dean? Sam and Dean.
Sam: Hey Ash. Um. We need your help.
Jo: Damn right REO. Kevin Cronin sings it from the heart.
Dean: That was mind control! I mean, it's like, that's like being roofied, man, that doesn't count.
Sam: What?
Dean: No. I'm, I'm calling do-over.
