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* Jaime Parker. Beaten with own mace | * Jaime Parker. Beaten with own mace |
Revision as of 01:32, 3 July 2013
Title | LARP and the Real Girl |
Episode # | Season 8, Episode 11 |
First aired | January 23, 2013 |
Directed by | Jeannot Szwarc |
Written by | Robbie Thompson |
On IMDB | LARP and the Real Girl |
Outline | Sam and Dean meet up with Charlie Bradbury again after people in a LARPing community starts to die for real. They now have to fit in between the LARPers to stop the killings. |
Monster | Fairy Human |
Timeline | January 23rd, 2013 |
Location(s) | Farmington Hills, Michigan. |
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Contents
Synopsis
Farmington Hills Michigan
A man enters his apartment talking on the phone. He is having an argument about the game. When he hangs up, he starts getting text messages. Later that night he is asleep in bed and the image of a rooted tree appears on his forearm. He wakes to the sound to horses; and then is drawn and quartered by an invisible force.
Scene opens with Sam and Dean talking about where they are at with the tablet and how to use it. They are frustrated and Dean thinks they need to take a break – have some fun. Garth calls, giving Sam and Dean a case. He had been tracking them and matched them to assign it.
At the crime scene, Sam and Dean split up. Dean uses the EMF and Sam speaks with the sheriff over the body. Sam finds the tree on the victim’s forearm and chainmail armor. The sheriff tells Sam as Dean walks up about the texts the victim received that night. They were strange threats sent by Lance Jacobsen. Sam and Dean take first crack at Lance’s interrogation. He is an emotional mess, but manages to explain to the Winchester about the LARPing game Moondoor. In real life, Lance and Ed were friends. The texts were sent while the men were playing; their characters were angry with each other.
Sam and Dean research the game on its website and see a video of the Queen. She is Charlie Bradbury. Still in the interrogation room, Lance feels a tree symbol appear on his forearm. It is the same one as Ed had. He coughs and vomits blood as his eyes bleed and he dies. Sam and Dean watch the security footage playback and decide to check out the game.
At Moondoor, Boltar the Furious is punishing a Shadow Orc. Sam and Dean interrupt, but Boltar tells them that their FBI role playing isn’t allowed. He knows they have fake badges. Regardless, he takes them to the queen – Charlie Bradbury who is now known as Carrie Heinlein. When the boys find Charlie, she has just won a battle and is speaking about Greyfox and Thargrim’s disappearance. The three of them all head to her tent, and she is angry to be drug back into their world of monsters. Charlie starts to leave but Dean tells her that Ed and Lance are dead.
Going over the details of what happened, Charlie is able to identify the tree on the victims’ forearms as a Celtic magic symbol. Also, other members of her army have been suffering freak accidents. The Shadow Orcs are a common enemy among all people in Moondoor. Charlie shows the boys her map of the game and explains. Dean helps her strategize. Sam and Dean then argue about Charlie’s future involvement, but regardless, she insists on staying to help. Sam gets a phone call from the lab telling them that Lance was killed by belladonna, a poison, but there was no trace of it in his system – just like how there were no ropes found in Ed’s apartment. Sam splits to do research while Dean and Charlie prepare to canvas the area for clues. * Cue the SuperWiki reference line*
Dean tells Charlie about what they have been going through lately, even admitting to the text he sent Sam pretending to be Amelia. Dean and Charlie head out and ask around about the symbol. The last group they need to ask in the Shadow Orcs, so they head to the player Dean saw in stocks when he arrived. He tells Dean the tree is the Shadow King’s family crest.
Sam heads to the technology tent and with help from Maria aka Gholandria the Wicked, finds the other victim profiles. Maria tells him the tree symbol is connected to the Shadow Orcs, and that they are the only group to not be affected by these accidents. Sam finds the tree symbol online. It is part of evil fairy magic. Sam thanks Gholandria for her help, but declines her offer to spend more time together.
Looking for the Shadow Orc King, Dean and Charlie run into Boltar in the woods. He convinces Charlie to head back to camp where it is safer; the two of them will continue the search.
Charlie is kidnapped on her way back to camp by a tall black caped figure with a stag skull head.
Sam and Boltar find nothing and head back to camp. They decide to collect the Shadow Orc prisoner from earlier to use as bait; Dean finds Sam, but not Charlie.
Charlie wakes up on a bed in a new tent. The stag skull figure is there. She tries to leave but real magic will not let her. The figure comes closer to her and Charlie screams that she just wants her old life back! This make the figure stop and she removes the stag skull head. The figure is a beautiful woman – a fairy, and she tells Charlie that she too just wants her old life back. Sparks fly.
Sam, Dean, Boltar, and the prisoner Shadow Orc head back into the woods and draw out the Shadow Orc King. Dean becomes frustrated waiting for information and pulls out his gun, threatening the king player. The Shadow Orc King turns out to have the tree on his forearm, he was the first victim, and still has no idea where Charlie is. The prisoner Shadow Orc, now realizing the real severity of the situation, pipes up to say he noticed a new tent earlier on the path that they hadn’t checked.
Gilda tells Charlie she was summoned by a spell, brought to do her master’s bidding, and is forced to hurt people. In order to break Gilda free of the spell, someone must take her master’s book of magic and destroy it.
Sam, Dean, and Boltar head to the tent. They walk in on Charlie and Gilda making out. Gilda reacts – Boltar is her master. Gilda is commanded to destroy Sam and Dean’s guns. They turn to feathers. Boltar explains himself. He compelled Gilda to help him win the Moondoor battle and convince the Queen to make him her king. Gilda forms a sword for Boltar, and they all being to fight. Dean fights Boltar when Sam is strangled by a knight. Charlie finds and destroys the book of magic, freeing Gilda and rendering Boltar powerless.
Charlie says goodbye to the Winchesters. She offers to help them if they ever need her. She is ready to stop running and face reality, even if it includes monsters.
Dean asks Sam what they should do next. He understands that Sam needs time after giving up Amelia. Sam responds that that is true, but having fun will help both of them. Sam and Dean head in to the battle. Dean readies the troops with an inspiring speech and they fight. The Queen of Moons is victorious.
Characters
- Sam Winchester
- Dean Winchester
- Charlie Bradbury
- Gerry/Boltar the Furious
- Gilda
- Sheriff Jake Miller
- Garth
- Ed Nelson
- Lance Jacobsen
Definitions
Music
- "China Grove" by The Doobie Brothers
- (plays in the beginning when Sam and Dean talk in the car)
Quotes
Dean: Did you really think that sentence was gonna clear things up?
Dean: You love it.
Trivia & References
- Ed Nelson 31, Insurance claim adjuster. Lives alone. Game name: Thargrim the Difficult. Drawn and quartered.
- Lance Jacobsen 30s, Accountant. Lives alone. Game name: Greyfox the Mystic. Poisoned by belladonna.
- Phyllis Morton. Hobbled
- Jaime Parker. Beaten with own mace
- Max Hilby. Attorney. Game name: King of the Shadow Orcs. Became sick
- Michelle Bump
- Matt Karlson
- John Fraser
- Jennifer Robinson
Charlie and Dean: The porn star?
Sam: The poison.
Charlie: What? I can’t shut this down. It’s good to be queen.
This saying indicating annoyance or frustration was popularized by Tina Fey's character of Liz Lemon on the TV series 30 Rock.
Monster Magnet is the name of a band.
LARPer: I love you.
Charlie: I know.
The lines are spoken between Leia and Han Solo as he is about to be frozen in carbonite at the end of The Empire Strikes Back. Watch it here. It is also said between Charlie and one of her co-workers in 7.20 The Girl with the Dungeons and Dragons Tattoo.
Also
Dean refers to Charlie as "Your Worshipfulness" which is a Han Solo line from Star Wars, where he says to Leia "Look, Your Worshipfulness, let's get one thing straight. I take orders from just one person: me." to which she replies "It's a wonder you're still alive!"
Also
Charlie: My name's Charlie. I'm here to rescue you.
Charlie is referring to a number of tabletop role-playing games, which are played with a multi-sided dice. In 7.20 The Girl with the Dungeons and Dragons Tattoo, Charlie revealed that she had a Princess Leia in her slave girl bikini astride a 20-sided die, which she got at Comic Con.
Minutiae
Sides, Scripts & Transcripts
Promotion
- Robbie Thompson answers fan questions about the episode.
- Felicia Day's live vlog during the episode
- Episode Title
- Plot line by Zap2it
- Actor tweets about their return to the show #1 and #2
- Plot teaser by TVLine
- Official Plot synopsis
- Extra plot info by TVLine
- Promo pics by TVLine
- Episode promo
- Episode sneak peek
- Jeremy Carver introduces the episode
- CHCH promo
- Guest actor talks about the episode by TVLine
- Winchester Radio podcast with Felicia Day