Title Asylum
Episode # Season 1, Episode 10
First aired 22 November, 2005
Directed by Guy Bee
Written by Richard Hatem
Outline Sam and Dean are trapped in an abandoned Asylum with a ghost who causes extreme rage in its victims.
Monster Ghost
Location(s) Rockford, Illinois
Timeline 6-8 April, 2006 (speculation)
When Sam and Dean investigate a mysterious asylum that has a history with abuse, an evil force inside causes Sam to lose his sanity and turn on his brother.
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Music
* Bachman-Turner
Overdrive – Hey You
Trivia
Jensen and Jared had Tom Welling hiding in the back seat of their
car during "Asylum." Tom was filming Smallville near
the Supernatural location work.
Music: Hey You by Bachman Turner Overdrive
The Roosevelt Asylum is a real asylum that is supposed to be haunted
and abandoned, and quarantined due to violent spirit activity.
However, the building on the show is Riverview hospital, in Vancouver,
BC, Canada. Also Often used in Smallville.
Quotes
Dean:
Alright, so either Kelly had some deep-seated crazy waitin’
to bust out or something else did it to him.
(Sam shoves Dean, who leaves)
Off-Duty Cop: You didn't have to do that.
Sam: Yeah of course I did. That guy's a serious jerk.
Dean: (talking about his dad) You know I love the guy but I swear
he writes like freaking Yoda.
Dean: The log book said he had some sort of hidden procedure room
down here somewhere, where he'd work on his patients so I mean,
if I was a patient, I'd drag his ass down here and do some work
on him myself.
Sam: Dean, when are you gonna talk about it?
Dean: Talk about what?
Sam: About the fact that dad's not here.
Dean: Oh..uh, let's see...never.
Dean: Look, you wanna kill me? Here, take this, it'll make it
easier for you.
(Sam tries to fire the gun)
Dean: You didn't seriously think i'd give you a loaded gun, did
you? (knocks him unconscious) Sorry, Sammy.
Dean: (after finding Ellicot's body) Aw, that's just gross.
Dean: What are ya gonna do, Sam? The gun is filled with rock salt.
It's not gonna kill me.
(Sam shoots Dean)
Sam: No, but it'll hurt like hell.
Sam: I told you I looked everywhere. I didn't find a hidden room.
Dean: Well, that's why they call it hidden.
Dean: (after being shot at, heads to the basement to look for
Sam) Basement, huh? Alright. Watch yourselves. And watch out for
me.
Kat: Gavin. Gavin.
Dean: Hey, I gotta question for ya. You seen a lot of horror movies,
yeah?
Kat: Yeah, I guess so.
Dean: Do me a favor, next time you see one, pay attention. When
someone says a place is haunted, don't go in.
Dean: Sam, put the gun down.
Sam: (when he is crazy) Is that an order?
Dean: No, it's more of a friendly request.
Kat: Hey Gavin?
Gavin: Yeah?
Kat: If we make it out of here alive, we are so breaking up.
Dean: The only thing that makes me more nervous than a pissed-off
spirit…is the pissed-off spirit of a psycho-killer.
Dean: It's a text message - it's co-ordinates.
Sam: You think Dad was texting us?
Dean: He's given us co-ordinates before.
Sam: The man can barely work a toaster, Dean.
Sam: Spirits can appear at certain hours of the day.
Dean: Yeah, the freaks come out at night.
Dean: Ghosts are attracted to that whole ESP thing you got goin'
on.
Sam: I told you, it's not ESP, I just have strange vibes sometimes.
Dean: Let me know if you see any dead people, Haley Joel.
Dean: Hey Sam, who do you think is a hotter psychic? Patricia
Arquette, Jennifer Love Hewitt, or you?
Katherine: So how do you guys know about all this ghost stuff?
Sam: It's kind of our job.
Katherine: Why would anyone want a job like that?
Sam: I had a crappy guidance counselor.
Dean: You shoved me kinda hard in there, buddy boy?
Sam: I had to sell it, didn't I?
Gavin: She kissed me.
Sam: Erm, but she didn't hurt you physically?
Gavin: Dude, she kissed me! I'm scarred for life!
Sam: It doesn't matter what Dad wants.
Dean: See, that attitude there... That's why I always got the
extra cookie.
(Sam has woken up after Dean has burned Ellcott's bones)
Dean: You're not gonna try to kill me, are you?
Sam: No.
Dean: Good. 'Cause that would be awkward.
Sam: You shut your mouth!
(talking to Dean with a gun pointed at him)
References
Dean: [to Sam about John] I love the guy, but I swear he writes
like friggin' Yoda.
Yoda is a character in the Star Wars universe (not like anyone
wouldn't know this). Yoda speaks in an unusual manner by placing
verbs (and more frequently, auxiliary verbs) after the object
and subject. In linguistic typology this is the "Object Subject
Verb" format. A typical example of Yoda's speech pattern
is from Return of the Jedi: "When 900 years old you reach,
look as good you will not."
Dean: [to Sam] Let me know if you see any dead people, Haley Joel.
Haley Joel Osment starred in The Sixth Sense, in which he
played 9-year old Cole Sear. Cole has psychic abilities; he "sees
dead people," and is rather emotionally scarred by this ability.
Dean: Hey, Sam, who do you think is a hotter psychic: Patricia
Arquette, Jennifer Love Hewitt, or you?
Arquette plays psychic Allison DuBois in the TV series Medium;
Hewitt plays psychic Melinda Gordon in the TV series Ghost Whisperer.
Dean: Man, electroshock, lobotomies, they did some twisted
stuff to these people. Kind of like my man Jack in Cuckoo's Nest.
Jack Nicholson played Randle McMurphy in the 1975 film One Flew
Over the Cuckoo's Nest (based on the novel by Ken Kesey). McMurphy,
a serial petty criminal who has been sentenced to a fairly short
prison term, decides to have himself declared insane so he'll
be transferred to a mental institution, where he expects to serve
the rest of his time in (comparative) comfort and luxury. Of course,
the institution is a very bad place, and very bad things happen
(all completely "Natural"), but I don't want to spoil
anything. :)
Dean: Spirits driving them insane. Kind of like my man Jack
in The Shining.
Another reference to The Shining, a film in which Dean's Man Jack
(Nicholson) plays a writer driven insane and homicidal by a haunted
hotel
Sam: No, Dean, I mean it was weird that she didn't attack me.
Dean: Looked pretty aggro from where I was standing.
Possible reference to computer gaming: the term "aggro"
is used as a measure of how much hate/aggression a computer-generated
foe holds for a player. The more aggro something has for you,
the more likely it is to attack you. Whether Dean would be familiar
with gaming terms is questionable.
Dean: All work and no play makes Doctor Ellicot a very dull
boy.
Yet another reference to The Shining. This is possibly Dean's
favorite movie. This line refers to a scene in the movie where
Jack Nicholson's character, Jack, has been supposedly writing
for months. His wife has heard him, day after day, pounding away
on his typewriter. Finally, when he is elsewhere, curiousity get
the better of her. She walks to the typewriter, and sees the sheet
in place. Written on it are endless repetitions of the single
sentence "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."
She looks through the stack of papers neatly placed to the side
with increasing horror; the book Jack was working on consists
of only the repetitions and permutations of layout of that same
sentence. Over and over, through hundreds of pages.
Dean: Doctor Feelgood was working on some sort of, like, extreme
rage therapy.
Most likely a reference to the Mötley Crüe album because,
well, it's Dean.