7.14 Plucky Pennywhistle's Magical Menagerie
Title | Plucky Pennywhistle's Magical Menagerie |
Episode # | Season 7, Episode 14 |
First aired | February 10, 2012 |
Directed by | Mike Rohl |
Written by | Andrew Dabb and Daniel Loflin |
On IMDB | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1995107/ |
Outline | Sam is forced to confront his childhood fear of clowns when he and Dean investigate a rash of strange murders centered around Plucky Pennywhistle's Magical Menagerie. |
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Location(s) | Wichita, Kansas |
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Synopsis
Now
Sam is running from a deranged clown with red eyes when he finds an auto shop to hide in. He barricades the door, but the clown busts through and advances on him. He turns to run, but is stopped short by a second red-eyed clown grinning at him.
60:00:00 Earlier
Dean answers a ringing pay phone with the code phrase "I am the egg man." It is Frank Devereaux, and he reports that he doesn't have any leads on Dick Roman or what he's doing in the field in Wisconsin. Dean hangs up and asks Sam if they have anything on the Amazons who escaped them in the last episode. Sam says no, then tells Dean that he has a new case in Kansas. Dean agrees to take it and they head to Wichita in two separate cars.
At the morgue in Wichita, they examine the body of a man who appears to have been killed by a 30-foot giant Pacific octopus with vampire teeth. They don't learn anything from the victim's widow, but she tells them to talk to Stacey, their nanny. While Sam stays to watch the house, Dean goes to question the nanny and finds out that the victim's daughter, Kelly, was very upset the night of the attack. She'd had a birthday party at Plucky Pennywhistle's Magic Menagerie, but her mother was out of town and her father only showed up briefly before going back to work. Dean asks Stacey if she noticed anything weird in the house that night, and she says no, but that Kelly thinks there's a monster in her closet. Dean calls Sam and tells him to talk to the daughter alone if he can.
Sam can see Kelly drawing on the sidewalk with chalk, so he goes up to her. She tells him that her mom is mad at her because of what she told the police: that she warned her dad that the monster would get him. Before she can say anything else, her mom calls her inside, and Sam sees what she's been drawing on the sidewalk: an octopus with vampire teeth.
Now
Sam, confronted with two evil clowns, pulls out his gun and shoots one of them. Instead of seeing sprays of blood, however, he sees glitter explode from the clown's unmarked chest. While he stares in shock, one clown knocks the gun out of his hand and they both start wailing on him.
36:36:06 Earlier
The next victim of weird circumstances is a man who seems to have been gored by someone riding a horse. When Dean questions the victim's widow, he learns that the man was also at Plucky Pennywhistle's the night he died. Not believing it to be a coincidence, he sends Sam to check out the location while he goes to talk to the victim's son, Billy.
Apparently, Dean used to drop Sam off at a Plucky Pennywhistle's whenever he wanted to pick up girls, and Plucky the clown still really freaks Sam out. Still, he goes to the location alone to question the employees, and he learns from the shift manager, Jean Holliday, that they've started an exercise where they ask kids to draw their worst fear so that they can "watch their fear disappear." He also learns that Billy's dad made an embarrassing scene when they were at Billy's friend's birthday party the night before. Just as he's going to leave, a janitor named Saul beckons him over and says that he has something to tell him if he comes back after closing.
Back at their motel, Sam tells Dean that Kelly and Billy drew their fears and that their drawings were on display, but are now missing. Dean tells him what he learned: that Billy is afraid of unicorns and his father was apparently killed by one. They go back to Plucky Pennywhistle's that night so they can talk to Saul, but they're too late: Saul has been killed by a shark in the ball pit and another drawing is missing from the wall.
Characters
- Sam Winchester
- Dean Winchester
- Frank Devereaux
- Howard
- Jean Holliday - the manager
- Saul - the janitor
- Libby
- Tyler
- Cliff
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Music
Quotes
Trivia & References
Hermano is Spanish for brother.
Minutiae
Sides, Scripts & Transcripts
Promotion
- #ClownsKill and #RightFrigginNow trended worldwide on Twitter during the episode
- Episode Title
- plot spoiler by TVLine
- Guest star
- Spoiler pic from the set
- Synopsis
- Promo clip
- Webclip
- Bob Singer introduces the episode
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