Title Faith
Episode # Season 1, Episode 12
First aired January 17, 2006
Directed by Allan Kroeker
Written by Raelle Tucker
Sera Gamble
Outline Dean is mortally wounded; Sam takes him to a faith healer in Nebraska that turns out to be another hunt.
Monster Reaper
Location(s) Nebraska
Dean is near-fatally wounded in a hunting accident and has weeks to live, so Sam takes matters into his own hands and brings Dean to a faith healer. When Dean is (reluctantly) healed, the brothers learn something is not right with the blind Reverend's methods. Further investigation reveals that the Reverend's wife, Sue Ann, has bound a Reaper with black magic, and is using the Reaper to take the lives of those she feels are immoral and give them to the sick and disabled churchgoers, one of which, brain tumor-stricken Layla, Dean feels a particular connection with. Dean and Sam put a stop to Sue Ann's preying on innocent people, but at the cost of leaving other innocents such as Layla to die of their afflictions.
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Music
* Blue
Öyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reaper
Trivia
When a victim of the Reapers is going to die, it's all over in
two seconds (Sue-Anne, unnamed athlete). But when someone who
isn't going to die is attacked, it takes forever (Dean, protester).
In this episode, it is revealed Dean is 27, but in "Pilot,"
he says he is 26. That means he has had a birthday, but they haven't
mentioned it.
Quotes
Dean:
Man, you're a lying bastard. I thought you said we were going
to see a doctor.
Sam: I believe I said a specialist.
Dean: You're not gonna let me die in peace, are you?
Sam: I'm not gonna let you die period.
Dean: It must be rough, to believe in something so much and have
it disappoint you like that.
Layla: You wanna hear something weird? I'm okay, really. I guess
if you're going to have faith you can't just have it when the
miracles happen, you have to have it when they don't.
Dean: So what now?
Layla: God works in mysterious ways. Goodbye Dean.
Dean: Hey, um, you know, I'm not much of the praying type. But
I'm gonna pray for you.
Layla: Well, there's a miracle right there.
Sam: You know this whole "I laugh in the face of death"
thing is crap, I can see right through it.
Dean: Yeah, whatever. Have you even slept? You look worse than
me.
Dean: Look, Sammy, what can I say, man, its a dangerous gig. I
drew the short straw. That's it, end of story.
Sam: Don't talk like that, all right? We we still have options.
Dean: What options? You have burial or cremation?
References
Dean: You ever actually watch daytime TV? It's terrible.
This is an in-joke to the fact that (Jensen Ackles) used to
play Eric Brady on the soap opera Days of Our Lives.
Dean: That fabric softener teddy bear. Ooh, I wanna hunt that
little bitch down.
Snuggle Fabric Softener uses a disgustingly cute and possibly
possessed Teddy Bear puppet in its commercials.
Dean: Look, no disrespect, but I’m not exactly a believer.
Reverend Roy: You will be, son. You will be.
Yoda's words to Luke in The Empire Strikes Back:
Luke: I'm not afraid.
Yoda: You will be. You will be.