7.07 The Mentalists
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Title | The Mentalists |
Episode # | Season 7, Episode 7 |
First aired | November 4, 2011 |
Directed by | Mike Rohl |
Written by | Ben Acker and Ben Blacker |
On IMDB | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1995122/ |
Outline | Although things are still tense between them, Sam and Dean team up when psychics start dying in Lily Dale. |
Monster | Ghost |
Timeline | A week and a half since 7.06 Slash Fiction |
Location(s) | Lily Dale, New York |
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Synopsis
Dean and Sam have been apart for a week and a half when Dean hears about the weird deaths of two mediums in the famously psychic town of Lily Dale. He drives there in his stolen Dodge Challenger and, posing as an FBI agent, visits the scene of the second murder. Afterwards, he goes to what passes as the town's diner, Good Graces Cafe, and runs into Sam, who's also on the case. Despite Sam's obvious discomfort, Dean takes a seat at his table and talks him into working the case together.
While they're in the cafe a woman sees them and thinks they're the serial killers who went on a crime spree two weeks ago. They assure her that they aren't and her friend, the spoonbender Nikolai Lishin, approaches and tells her that Sam and Dean are obviously FBI agents here to investigate the murders. He gives them his card and tells them to call if they need anything. After they leave, Sam reviews his notes on the case with Dean. Imelda Graven was killed first, brained by her own crystal ball, and then Grandma Goldy was stabbed in the neck by her own planchette during a seance. From the pictures that Sam shows Dean, they can see that both women are wearing the same necklace. Apparently it was willed to Grandma Goldy after Imelda's death.
They go to question the medium Melanie Goldy, Grandma Goldy's granddaughter, and learn that all of Grandma Goldy's personal effects went to Jimmy Tomorrow, the owner of The Emporium. They use their FBI badges and claim that the necklace is state's evidence so that they don't have to pay for it, but Sam quickly deduces that it was made in Taiwan and isn't a cursed object. Before they can come up with a new theory, Nikolai Lishin is killed when he's impaled by a batch of forks and knives that he'd been preparing for his bending trick. When they go to his apartment, Chief Bramberg tells them that the tip line is ringing with people claiming that his killer was a ghost or an ogre. They also learn that before he died, Nikolai claimed to have a vision of his own death. While they're still at the scene, Dean gets a call from Melanie Goldy.
Melanie heard about Nikolai's death vision, and she's just now heard a voice message that her grandmother left her in which she relates her own death vision. In the message, Grandma Goldy said that the lights flickered and the room got cold, and Dean and Sam immediately think that they're dealing with a ghost. When she asks them what's going on, they tell her that ghosts are real and then admit that they're not really FBI agents.
Shortly after this revelation, Melanie's friend Camille Thibideaux has a death vision of her own, and Melanie brings Dean over to her house so that he can help. He notices a hidden camera in her living room, and they watch the footage from when Camille had her vision. On the tape, they can see a ghostly woman appear behind Camille and put her hands on her head, seemingly giving her the vision of her death. Melanie recognizes the woman as someone she's seen in an old photograph at the Lily Dale Museum of Curiosities.
At the museum, they see a picture of Kate and Margaret Fox, and the museum curator tells them that they were among the founders of Lily Dale. According to the curator, Kate was troubled but a great performer who could levitate objects and foretell deaths, while Margaret was not a natural physic and did not have her sister's charisma. Both sisters are buried in the Lily Dale cemetery, and after Sam turns to go, the curator grabs Dean's arm and gives him a message from Ellen. She's concerned about him and wants him to tell someone "how bad it really is," or she'll "kick his ass from beyond."
As they're leaving the museum, Dean confronts Sam about his feelings towards him. Sam is still upset that Dean lied to him and killed his friend Amy, but Dean is adamant that what he did wasn't wrong and that he was only doing what Sam couldn't. He also says that he was going to tell Sam about Amy, but he wanted to wait until Sam was more stable. Sam doesn't say anything, and they go to the cemetery to dig up Kate and burn her bones. After they salt her body, her ghost shows up and tells them that they need to listen to her. Before she can say anything else, though, Sam throws a match in her grave and dispels her spirit.
Characters
- Sam Winchester
- Dean Winchester
- Jimmy Tomorrow
- Melanie Goldy
- Camille Thibideaux
- Kate Fox and Margaret Fox
- Grandma Goldy
- Nikolai Lishin
- Imelda Graven
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Music
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Trivia & References
Missouri was the psychic who first told John Winchester about the existence of the supernatural, and later helped the boys in 1.09 Home.
Minutiae
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Promotion
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- Promo clip and Extended Promo clip
- Webclip
- Sera Gamble introduces the episode