5.20 The Devil You Know
Title | The Devil You Know |
Episode # | Season 5, Episode 20 |
First aired | April 29, 2010 |
Directed by | Robert Singer |
Written by | Ben Edlund |
On IMDB | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1599805/ |
Outline | Crowley offer to help the Winchesters. |
Monster | Brady |
Timeline | two months since the events of 5.10 Abandon All Hope, prob March/April 2010 |
Location(s) | West Nevada |
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Contents
Synopsis
Characters
Definitions
- Demon Killing Knife
- Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
- Goblet of Blood
- Horsemen's Rings
- Lucifer's Cage
- Hellhounds
- Idjit
- Croatoan virus
- Colt
- Magical Coin
- Hex Bag
- Demonic Possession
- Vessel
- Meatsuit
- Devil's trap (symbol)
Music
Quotes
Crowley: After what I did to you? I gave you the Colt!
Sam: Yeah, and you knew it wouldn't work against the Devil!
Crowley: I never!
Dean: [sees guards' corpses on the floor] You killed them?
Dean: Not for me, you son of a bitch!
Crowley: Went over to a demon's nest, had a little massacre. Must be losing my touch, though. Let one of the little toads live. Oops! Also might have given said toad the impression that you left your post last night because you and I are...wait for it... Lovers in League Against Satan. Hello darling. So now death is off the table. Now you get to be on the boss's eternal torment list with little old me.
Crowley: I'm invested. [Hellhound growls] Stay!
Dean: You can control them?!
Dean: All those angels, all those demons, all those sons of bitches, they just don't get it, do they Sammy?
Sam: No they don't, Dean.
Trivia & References
A reference to the late Michael Jackson, and the fact that he was known for wearing surgical masks out in public.
A crying statue is a supernatural religious phenomenon in which a statue begins to weep tears of blood, oil or scented liquids. Weeping statues are most often of the Virgin Mary, and are often followed by claims of Marian apparitions. A statue of the Virgin Mary crying blood was seen in 4.09 I Know What You Did Last Summer.
In British jargon [and in this particular context], fag is slang for a cigarette.
A reference to Pestilence using the character of Sneezy from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The story and character of Snow White was previously referred to in 3.05 Bedtime Stories.
This is a direct line from the Spider-Man comic books, TV shows, and movies. It is a phrase of encouragement by Peter Parker's girlfriend/wife Mary Jane Watson.
In this context [after Dean has been beat up by Brady and after Crowley has knocked Brady out after repeatedly hitting him with a crowbar], this could be a reference to the Stanley Kubrick movie A Clockwork Orange, which is famous for (among other things) this beating scene.
A reference to the cliche that musicians at the Grammys and other awards shows thank God during their acceptance speeches.
Sam, and fans, had assumed that he had killed Jess himself, rather than Brady, albeit on Azazel's instructions. Although the vision of Jess had in 5.03 Free To Be You And Me , Sam had in said "I was dead from the moment we said hello."
Originally the studio bosses wanted Kripke to write Jessica as an ongoing character, but Eric just thought it wouldn't work, and he suggested to kill her off, which they liked. Then the studio urged Kripke to make Jessica an evil demon character, who was planted into Sam's life with purpose, and whose betrayal drives him on the road as he realizes, demons are closer to him than he thought.S1Com, p. 13. The development in this episode revives a version of this idea.Minutiae
The symbol Crowley carves into Brady's chest, appears similar to the one's painted on the walls through Crowley's house. Meg used a similar Binding Link to stay inside Sam. 2.14 Born Under a Bad Sign
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