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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_%28film%29 Memento] is a movie written and directed by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Nolan Christopher Nolan] about a man who suffers from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterograde_amnesia anterograde amnesia] and can't remember anything after the event that caused the amnesia. Sam on the other hand, has [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrograde_amnesia retrograde amnesia] where he can't remember anything before the event that caused the amnesia [in his case, getting his soul back]. The way the episode unfolds is similar to the movie - with the present in color and the flashbacks in black and white, eventually building to the point where both narratives converge to reveal the final truth about what happened. The movie was also referenced in the previous episode [[6.12 Like A Virgin]]. | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_%28film%29 Memento] is a movie written and directed by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Nolan Christopher Nolan] about a man who suffers from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterograde_amnesia anterograde amnesia] and can't remember anything after the event that caused the amnesia. Sam on the other hand, has [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrograde_amnesia retrograde amnesia] where he can't remember anything before the event that caused the amnesia [in his case, getting his soul back]. The way the episode unfolds is similar to the movie - with the present in color and the flashbacks in black and white, eventually building to the point where both narratives converge to reveal the final truth about what happened. The movie was also referenced in the previous episode [[6.12 Like A Virgin]]. | ||
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Revision as of 13:24, 12 February 2011
Title | Unforgiven |
Episode # | Season 6, Episode 13 |
First aired | February 7, 2011 |
Directed by | David Barrett |
Written by | Andrew Dabb and Daniel Loflin |
On IMDB | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1627710/ |
Outline | An anonymous text message sends Sam and Dean to investigate disappearances in a town where Sam and his grandfather worked a case a year earlier. |
Monster | Arachne |
Timeline | |
Location(s) | Bristol, Rhode Island |
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Synopsis
A year ago in Bristol Rhode Island, Samuel and Sam hunted an Arachne—a spider-like monster—that was taking men in their thirties, and poisoning them in order to turn them into arachne. They confided their true identity as hunters to Sheriff Roy Dobbs and his wife Brenna. On Sam's suggestion they use Roy as bait. When he is taken by the Arachne, they follow her to her lair where they find the kidnapped men bound in web and poisoned. Sam kills the Arachne by decapitating her. He then declares the poisoned men beyond help, and shots them all before he and Samuel burn the building. On their way out of the town, Deputy Atkins stops them, doubting their cover as FBI agents and demanding to know where the Sheriff is. Sam beats the deputy unconscious and they leave. Unknown to them, the poisoned men who had turned into arachne, have survived and escaped.
In the present day, Sam receives a text message with the coordinates of Bristol, and some research uncovers the disappearance of three local women. Dean is reluctant to go on the hunt, but Sam insists. When they arrive in the town, a woman recognizes Sam, and he flashes back to having sex with her. He starts to remember pieces of the original hunt. Dean who is concerned that if Sam starts remembering the past year, he will also remember his time in hell, with possibly dire consequences.
Sam goes to the police station to get information on the latest disappearances, but is recognized by Deputy Atkins—now the sheriff—who throws him in jail. Brenna Dobbs visits Sam, demanding to know what happened to her husband. She believes Sam when he says he doesn't remember anything, and releases him so he can work on the case. She shares the case files from the previous disappearances with him, and Sam remembers more, including the identity of the monster.
Dean meanwhile is talking to witnesses and deduces that all the women who have disappeared slept with Sam the last time he was in town. Brenna Dobbs calls and asks Sam to come over and when Sam adn Dean arrive, they are taken prisoner by Sheriff Roy Dobbs. Now an arachne, he binds them with web. Dobbs reveals he lured Sam back with the coordinates and by taking women that Sam slept with, in order to exact revenge. He has turned these women into arachne. Dean manages to escape his web and attack the arachne, and Brenna helps Sam escape. Sam kills Dobbs by decapitating him.
As they prepare to leave town, Sam is feeling guilty about what he did in the time he was without his soul despite Dean's argument that it wasn't really him. Suddenly Sam falls to the floor convulsing, as he remembers burning in Hell.
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Quotes
Sam: Right, I agree
Flatmate: Oh no, they weren't having...
Dean: Just the tone or the nature of their conversation?
Sam: What are you now my waitress?
Dean:I’m just trying to make you feel better, don’t be a bitch.
Trivia & References
Dean: Or he's possessed.
Sam:' Agent Wynand, right.'
Dean: Sex rehab. You've heard of plushies right?
Memento is a movie written and directed by Christopher Nolan about a man who suffers from anterograde amnesia and can't remember anything after the event that caused the amnesia. Sam on the other hand, has retrograde amnesia where he can't remember anything before the event that caused the amnesia [in his case, getting his soul back]. The way the episode unfolds is similar to the movie - with the present in color and the flashbacks in black and white, eventually building to the point where both narratives converge to reveal the final truth about what happened. The movie was also referenced in the previous episode 6.12 Like A Virgin.
Minutiae
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