5.15 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

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Title Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Episode # Season 5, Episode 15
First aired March 25, 2010
Directed by John Showalter
Written by Jeremy Carver
On IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1588682/
Outline People in Bobby’s town are coming back from the dead, but Bobby insists nothing is wrong.
Monster Death
Timeline
Location(s) Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
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Synopsis

Sam & Dean show up in the town of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 5 miles from Bobby's home, to find that the dead are coming back to life. Bobby tries to convince them that it's nothing, that all of the omens are coincidence, but Dean doesn't fully believe him. One of the dead that has risen, Clay, gets revenge on his killer and then goes home to his family. When Sam and Dean track him down they find that he seems to be a regular guy, and that the local sheriff is in on it.

Bobby shows the boys why he doesn't want them working the case; his dead wife, Karen, has come back. Bobby also tells them that the rising is a product of the horseman Death and the upcoming apocalypse. As Sam and Dean investigate, Sam finds out after being attacked by one of the dead, that about 5 days after rising, the dead begin to turn, starting with a fever, hunger and then the killing and eating of anyone around them. They set out to find everyone who's come back and kill them by shooting them in the head, along with Bobby's wife, and Bobby kicks them out of his house.

Sam goes to talk with the sheriff, and finds that her son, who has come back to life, has already killed her husband. Sam and Sheriff Jodie Mills gather the townspeople in the local jail and prepare them to fight off the dead who've turned. At Bobby's house, Karen beings to turn, and Bobby has no choice but to shoot her, a head-shot. All of the dead arrive at the Singer house and trap Dean and Bobby in the closet, but the Sam and the Sheriff arrive and stop them.

The dead are put to rest in a pyre, but Bobby makes a separate one for his wife. As Sam, Dean and Bobby reflect on the day, Bobby tells them that Karen was brought back with a message for him. She came to warn Bobby, that because he's helping Sam say 'no' to Lucifer, Death has his eye on him.

Characters

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Quotes

Dean: You gave yourself your own nickname? You can’t do that.
Digger: Who died and made you queen?
Sam: So who killed the guy?
Bobby: Take your pick. This Benny Sutton guy was a Grade A son of a bitch. There's a list of the living a year long who wouldn't mind putting a cap in his ass.
Dean: You’re a zombie.
Clay: I’m a taxpayer.
Dean: Who is that?

Bobby: Karen, my wife.
Dean: Your new wife?

Bobby: My dead wife.
Dean: [eating pie] This is incredible, Mrs. Singer.

Karen: Thank you, Dean.
Sam: [frowns]

Dean: What? It is.
Dean: Are you crazy? What the hell?

Bobby: Dean, I can explain.

Dean: Explain what? Lying to us, or the American Girl zombie making cupcakes in your kitchen?
Bobby: [quoting from the Bible] "And through the fire stood before me a Pale Horse, and he that sat atop him carried a Sycthe. And I saw since he had risen, they too shall rise, and from him and through him."

Dean: So what, Death is behind this?
Sam: Death, Death? Like Grim Reaper, Death?
Bobby: Yeah.

Dean: Awesome. Another Horseman. Must be Thursday.
Sam: So what do you think?

Dean: There's nothing to think about. I'm not going to leave Bobby at home with the Bride of Frankenstein.
Sam: So what do you want to do, just walk in there in front of Bobby and blow her skull off?

Dean: If she decides that Bobby's face is a Blue Plate Special, I'd like to be there.
Dean: Who's Old Lady Jones?

Bobby: The first one to come up.
Sam: The first one to go bad.
Bobby: Ah, she was always a nutty broad.

Dean: Nutty how, nutty like the way she ate her husband's stomach? Was that the little nutty she was in life?
Karen: When I came back, there was a man.

Bobby: What do you mean?

Karen: At the grave. He was so thin, like a skeleton. He told me to give you a message.
Sam: The last time I checked, the sheriff was pretty pro-zombie.
Bobby: She was the love of my life. How many times I gotta kill her?
Dean: You got anymore ammo? I'm low...

Bobby: Yeah, we got plenty. Just run back past the zombies, it's in the van where we left it.

Dean: A simple no would have been fine.
Bobby: [in the closet after Dean locks the door as zombies are banging on the door] Kind of a tight fit, don't you think?

Dean: It's alright, they're idiots. They can't pick a lock. [the zombies stop banging on the door and we start to see the door handle move]
Bobby: Don't you ever get tired of being wrong?

Dean: I'm making this stuff up as I go. Sue me.

Trivia & References

The episode title “Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid” is a reference to the 1982 movie of the same name. In this film, Steve Martin interacts with (now dead) stars of 40s and 50s noir movies through use of clips from their movies. Interestingly, this technique was used in a 2009 episode of the television show Medium, in which Alison DuBois interacts with characters from the classic 1968 zombie movie Night of the Living Dead.
Dean and Sam use the aliases " Agents Dorfman and Neidermeyer” a reference the characters of Kent Dorfman and Douglas Neidermeyer from the 1978 John Belushi movie National Lampoon's Animal House.
The opening image of the hand rising from the grave recalls an image from Night of the Living Dead.
Digger: heads up, Fargo.
Fargo was a 1996 Coen Brothers movie. The reference here is to the character of Sheriff Marge Gunderson, played by Frances McDormand.
Dean: Where have you been?

Bobby: Playing murder ball.

Murderball is the nickname for a type of extreme wheelchair rugby. It featured in an Oscar nominated documentary Murderball.
On his Facebook, Jim Beaver said "Just finished two days of filming the two most difficult, saddest scenes I have ever shot. Thank goodness tomorrow we can relax and just kill monsters". He also made a short video behind the scenes.
This was the first episode of Supernatural to be directed by John Showalter.
The name of the sheriff, Sheriff Mills, may be a shout out to Jim Beaver's character on Harper's Island, also named Sheriff Mills.
Jim Beaver confirmed on his Twitter it was being filmed before 5.14 My Bloody Valentine. It started filming on 3 December, 2009. At Salute to Supernatural L.A. 2010, Jim confirmed the airing order of the episodes was changed because of the extended hiatus due to the Winter Olympics.
Dean: Awesome. Another Horseman. Must be Thursday.
This is a reference to the airing day of Supernatural, Thursday.
Dean: I'm not going to leave Bobby at home with the Bride of Frankenstein.
A reference to the classic horror movie of the same name in which the scientist creates a mate for the monster, made from a reanimated female corpse.

Minutiae

Total zombie count in this episode, based on how many are shown killed onscreen: 20 (Karen, the sheriff's son, and Old Lady Jones are killed individually by Bobby and Sam. Dean and Bobby kill six in the junkyard and two more inside the house. Sam and the sheriff kill the remaining nine outside the closet.) However, this might not have been all of them. In a later scene Dean says "If there's any zombies left out there, we can't find them."

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