3.09 Malleus Maleficarum
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Title | Malleus Maleficarum |
Episode # | Season 3, Episode 9 |
First aired | January 31, 2008 |
Directed by | Robert Singer |
Written by | Ben Edlund |
On IMDB | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1032141/ |
Outline | Sam and Dean investigate a coven of witches. |
Monster | Witches and Demons |
Timeline | Ruby says that Dean has "a few months" left until his deal is up. |
Location(s) | |
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Contents
Synopsis
Characters
- Sam Winchester
- Dean Winchester
- Ruby
- Tammi (demon)
- Janet Dutton (first murdered woman)
- Paul Dutton (Janet's widower)
- Mrs. Renee Van ? (head of the coven)
- Elizabeth
Definitions
See also:
Music
- Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn -plays on the radio when the Paul Dutton is in the car
- Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put A Spell On You - plays right after the Poison song, when the radio goes wacky, and plays again when Paul Dutton starts choking
Quotes
Ruby: You need to help me get him ready for life without you. To fight this war on his own.
Dean: Ruby? Why do you want us to win?
Ruby: Isn't it obvious? I'm not like them. I wish I was, but I'm not. I remember what it's like.
Dean: What what's like?
Trivia & References
Malleus Maleficarum means Hammer of the Witches in latin, and it was the title for a fifteenth century treatise on witches. It was used to support argue the nature and reality of witchcraft and was used in the persecution and murder of women accused of witchcraft across Europe in in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Dean: So are we looking for some craggy old Blair bitch in the woods?
A reference to the movie The Blair Witch Project.
A reference to the movie The Blair Witch Project.
Dean: It’s like Fatal Attraction all over again.
Fatal Attraction was a 1987 movie starring Glenn Close and Michael Douglas. After a brief affair while his family is away, Michael Douglas’ character wants no more to do with Glenn Close. She starts stalking and terrorising him and his family, and in a famous scene, kills the family’s pet rabbit, and leaves it boiling on the stove for them to find.
Fatal Attraction was a 1987 movie starring Glenn Close and Michael Douglas. After a brief affair while his family is away, Michael Douglas’ character wants no more to do with Glenn Close. She starts stalking and terrorising him and his family, and in a famous scene, kills the family’s pet rabbit, and leaves it boiling on the stove for them to find.
Sam: I’m Detective Bachman. This is Detective Turner.
A reference to the 1970s Canadian rock band Bachman Turner Overdrive, which featured three Bachman brothers and Fred Overdrive.
A reference to the 1970s Canadian rock band Bachman Turner Overdrive, which featured three Bachman brothers and Fred Overdrive.
Ruby: It’s called witchcraft shortbus
Dean: You’re the shortbus…shortbus
Tammi: Nice dick work, Magnum
Thomas Magnum was a private investigator who lived in Hawaii in the 1980's show Magnum P.I.. 'dick' is slang for investigating.
Thomas Magnum was a private investigator who lived in Hawaii in the 1980's show Magnum P.I.. 'dick' is slang for investigating.
Tammi: That’s what happened when you get voted off the island.
A reference to the system of contestant elimination on the reality TV show Survivor
A reference to the system of contestant elimination on the reality TV show Survivor
Tammi: What did you think it was? Make believe? Positive thinking? The Secret?
The Secret is a self help film and book, which claims to teach people who to attract good things into their lives.
The Secret is a self help film and book, which claims to teach people who to attract good things into their lives.
Tammi:You really telling me you threw your chips in with Abbott and Costello here?
Abbott and Costello were slapstick comedians popular in the first half of the twentieth century.
Abbott and Costello were slapstick comedians popular in the first half of the twentieth century.
Ruby says she has been a demon since "the plague was big", referring to the bubonic plague - known as The Black Death - that swept Europe between 1347 and 1351.
Dean: I saw Hellraiser, I get the gist.
Ruby: Actually, they got it pretty right, except for all the custom leather.
Hellraiser was a 1987 horror movie, based on a novel by Clive BarkerMinutiae
- The boys are staying in room 5 of The Conquistador Motel
- Paul Dutton was listening to frequency 101.1 FM on his car radio