7.16 Out with the Old
Title | Out With The Old |
Episode # | Season 7, Episode 16 |
First aired | March 16, 2012 |
Directed by | John Showalter |
Written by | Jenny Klein and Bob Singer |
On IMDB | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1995109/ |
Outline | After a ballerina dances herself to death, Sam and Dean go to Portland, where they find not only cursed objects, but also a Leviathan plot. |
Monster | Cursed Objects, Leviathans |
Timeline | |
Location(s) | Portland, Oregon |
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Contents
Synopsis
Dean checks in with Frank Devereaux and learns that Dick Roman has a lot of new projects overseas, as well as a new Biggerson's in Butte, Montana. He's more concerned about Bobby's Numbers, but Frank doesn't have any progress on what Dick is doing with the field in Wisconsin. Dean's frustrated, and Sam is sleep deprived because of the disruptive hallucinations of Lucifer he has been having. They decide to take a case a few hours away in Portland, Oregon, where a ballerina named Irina danced herself to death to Swan Lake.
When Sam and Dean arrive at the Portland Police Department, they ask for the crime scene photos. What they see, Irina's feet blown off and her ballet slippers sitting pristine next to her, make them think that this is a case for them. They request the slippers from the officer in the evidence room, but they're missing. The officer tells them that his daughter Tracy, a ballerina, must have grabbed them, and Sam and Dean run for the girl's bathroom. They arrive in time to see the slippers force Tracy to her feet and spin her in a circle, so they grab her and Dean pulls the slippers off her feet before she is injured. Sam, now sure that the slippers are cursed, is careful not to touch them, but when they're in their car the shoes somehow move from the trunk to the back seat. Sam comments that the shoes appear to be Dean's size, and Dean admits that he suddenly has a strong urge to dance ballet.
They head into the shop that sold the slippers, Out With The Old, and demand to know where the shopkeeper got them. He tells them that his mother kept the slippers in a special box, which turns out to be a curse box. Sam quickly puts them back inside it before Dean can put the slippers on his feet. They then flash their fake FBI badges and ask the shopkeeper, Scott Freeman, where his mother got the slippers. He doesn't know, but they were with a lot of other items, all in specially crafted boxes. After his mother sold the shop and passed away, he wanted to get rid of all the strange items she'd been collecting in the large safe in her shop.
Sam and Dean quickly try to track down the other cursed items that Scott sold. They're too late to save a woman who poured boiling water into her mouth from a cursed teakettle, but Sam is able to stop a boy from stabbing his mother after a cursed gramophone hypnotized him, and Dean is "just in time" to collect a cursed "vintage gentleman's magazine." Back at Out With The Old, they put the cursed objects, now safely in their curse boxes, back in Ms. Freeman's sigil-decorated safe.
Scott is shocked to discover that cursed objects are real, but happy to know that his mother wasn't crazy. He regrets pushing her to sell the shop, especially because she seemed so against it. When Dean finds out that Ms. Freeman died in a car accident the day after selling the shop to a pushy real estate agent, he's suspicious. He tells Scott not to feel guilty because it won't bring his mother back, and then he leaves after saying that he and Sam will be back with a U-Haul to take the safe off Scott's hands. Once outside, he sees the real estate agent's sign in the shop window, and then notices that the same sign is on every small shop on the block. He decides to do some research.
Characters
Definitions
Music
The Theme from Swan Lake (featuring the oboe) composed by Pyotr Tchaikovsky plays while the ballerina dances to death.
Bad Moon Rising by Creedence Clearwater Revival is playing in Frank Devereaux's mobile home when Sam and Dean arrive to find it ransacked.
Quotes
Sam: And you would know this how?
Dean: I saw Black Swan. Twice. Hot tutu-on-tutu action. Come on, Sam, what's wrong with you?
Dean: Shut up.
Sam: Wait, a-are you –
Dean: Getting the strong urge to Prince Siegfried myself into oblivion? Yes.
Sam: Pretty sure you don't want to know.
Frank: None taken, Fudge Pop.
Frank: Can a dog play poker?
Dean: I don't...
Barista: How 'bout you eat me?
Trivia & References
Sam: Dude, that's Seattle.
- Seattle, Washington is the coffee capital of the world, and the city of origin of the Starbucks franchise.
Dean: Yeah. Yeah, I'm "pas de done."
- Mikhail Baryshnikov is a Russian born ballet dancer who defected to Canada in 1974.
- Dean's phrase "pas de done" is a play on the ballet term pas de deux.
- In 4.17 It's A Terrible Life, a man committed suicide by stabbing himself in the neck with a pencil.
The woman who dies after drinking boiling water from the cursed kettle, also has some Biggerson's coupons on her counter.
Dean: I don't...
Frank: The answer is "yes."
Minutiae
She also killed Mr Marshall, the hardware store owner, and told George to make it look like he had fallen asleep in bed while smoking a cigar and burned to death.
Sides, Scripts & Transcripts
Promotion
- Episode title
- Episode titles 7.13 to 7.19 (new episode title)
- Plot and character spoilers and new title from Spoiler TV
- Episode promo
- Plot synopsis
- Promo
- Webclip
- Promo pics by TVOvermind
- Bob Singer introduces the episode