5.06 I Believe the Children Are Our Future
Title | I Believe the Children Are Our Future |
Episode # | Season 5, Episode 6 |
First aired | October 15, 2009 |
Directed by | Charles Beeson |
Written by | Daniel Loflin Andrew Dabb |
On IMDB | I Believe the Children Are Our Future |
Outline | A young boy connected to mysterious deaths and injuries is revealed as important in the Apocalypse. |
Monster | Antichrist Demons |
Timeline | 2009 |
Location(s) | Alliance, Nebraska Elk Creek, Nebraska |
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Contents
Synopsis
In Alliance, Nebraska, people are being killed by practical joke devices such as itching powder and joy buzzers. On top of that, a very odd looking Tooth Fairy extracts a man's teeth. It turns out that an eleven-year-old boy named Jesse Turner is the reason for all of this. Everything he believes becomes reality.
After searching his birth records, Sam and Dean find out that the boy was adopted. They visit his biological mother, Julia Wright, who lives across the state. She tells the brothers that she got pregnant from a demon possessing her and gave up her child for adoption after giving birth to him. Castiel informs the Winchesters that Jesse is a Cambion/Antichrist, a being half human, half demon, imbued with essentially unlimited powers. Therefore, an Antichrist could be Lucifer's special weapon in the war against Heaven and, as a serious threat, needs to be eliminated.
Despite Castiel's reservations, Sam and Dean believe that Jesse won't turn evil if he's taken somewhere safe. When they try to convince Jesse to come with them, the demon that conceived him interferes and pins them to the wall. It is again possessing Jesse's biological mother. After listening to the demon, Jesse renders it unable to speak in order to hear what Sam has to say. Sam tells Jesse that he has a choice and that it will haunt him forever if he makes the wrong decision. After that, Jesse exorcises the demon from his mother. Pretending he wants to say goodbye to his adoptive parents, he goes upstairs and vanishes into thin air, protected by his powers, which make it impossible to track him down.
Characters
- Sam Winchester
- Dean Winchester
- Castiel
- Jesse Turner
- Julia Wright
- Julia Wright!Demon
- Lucifer (unseen)
Definitions
Music
None
Quotes
Sam: Yeah, close. He wrote up a description. 5'10", 250 pounds, wings and a pink tutu. Said it was the tooth fairy.
Dean: So he's obviously whacked out on painkillers.
Sam: Maybe. Whatever it was got past locked doors and windows without triggering the alarm.
Dean: Come on, the tooth fairy?
Dean: And the sense of humor of a nine year old.
Dean: We don't have a fridge!
Dean: I got bored. That nurse was hot.
Castiel: You didn't. And I can't take that chance.
Sam: Yeah, me too.
Trivia & References
- Mr. Wizard aka Don Herbert hosted children's science programs on TV.
- Dynasty was an '80s soap opera about the Carringtons, a wealthy Colorado oil family.
- A line from the Australian movie Babe, about a pig that learns to be a sheepdog. In the final sheep trial, Babe gets a perfect score, and Farmer Hoggett says to him "That'll do, Pig. That'll do."
- "Cavity Creeps" were the baddies in tooth decay, in Crest toothpaste commercials in the '70s and '80s.
- A reference to the character created by Roald Dahl who runs a chocolate factory.
- Dean likens the Tooth Fairy to actor John Belushi, who starred in The Blues Brothers and Animal House
- X-Men were created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby for Marvel Comics, featuring people with genetic mutations that resulted in them having super powers. Professor Xavier, the character in a wheelchair Bobby is compared to, runs a school to train young mutants to use their powers for good.
- A reference to Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page and vocalist Robert Plant.
Minutiae
Sides, Scripts & Transcripts
Promotion
- Casting call incs plot and title spoilers by spoiler tv
- Official description
- "Soon" promo contains spoilers for 5.06, 5.07 and 5.08
- Promo pics from sfuniverse
- Promo clip "Win or Lose" - song is "Gong" by Kickland and Wood
- Director's cut promo clip
- Space TV promo
- Fan report from watching filming by sn-mistress
- Photos behind the scenes on Supernatural 5.06 by Bardicvoice