Title Home
Episode # Season 1, Episode 9
First aired 15 November, 2005
Directed by Ken Girotti
Written by Eric Kripke
Outline Sam and Dean go back to Lawrence following a vision Sam has of their old home.
Monster Poltergeist
Location(s) Lawrence, Kansas
Timeline 27-28 or 29-30 March, 2006 (speculation)
When Sam starts to have nightmares about their old home, he and Dean head back to Kansas. They soon discover that the new owners of their old house are being plagued by a malevolent entity, could it be the same thing that killed their mother many years earlier?
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Music
Trivia
In the promotionals for this episode, this episode was billed
as "The Journey Home."
First appearance of Dean's and Sam's dad. (without counting the
"past" when they escaped the house.)
Loretta Devine, (who guest-stars in "Home") jokes about
Jared and Jensen: "Those guys are just so bad. You never
know what they're going to do, and you can't keep your eyes on
both of them at once!"
Quotes
Dean:
What is all this?
Missouri: Crossroads dirt, few other odds and ends. We're gonna
put them in the west and east sides of the house;it'll repel the
spirit.
Dean: Punching holes in the drywall. Jenny's gonna love that.
Missouri: She'll live.
Dean: All right. I've been cruisin' some websites and I think
I found some candidates for our next gig. A fishing trawler found
off the coast of Cali, its crew vanished. And, uh, we got some
cattle mutilations in west Texas. Hey! Am I boring you with this
hunting-evil stuff?
Sam: No, I'm listening. Keep going.
Dean: And here, a Sacromento man shot himself in the head. Three
times. Any of these things blowin' up your skirt, pal?
Missouri: Sam, oh honey. I'm sorry about your girlfriend. And
your father...he's missing.
Sam: How'd you know all that?
Missouri: Well, you were just thinking it, just now.
Dean: Where is he? Is he okay?
Missouri: I don't know.
Dean: Don't know? Your supposed to be a psychic, right?
Missouri: Boy, you see me sawing some boney tramp in half! You
think I'm a magician. I may be able to read thoughts and sense
energies in a room but I can't pull facts out of thin air.
Missouri: Don't worry about a thing, your wife's crazy about you.
(client leaves) Whoo, poor bastard. His woman is cold-banging
the gardener.
Dean: Why didn't you tell him?
Missouri: People don't come here for the truth, they come for
good news.
Dean: Just slow down would ya. I mean first you tell me that you've
got the Shining, and then you tell me that I've got to go back
home, especially when...
Sam: When what?
Dean: When I swore to myself that I would never go back there.
Dean: (to his Dad's voicemail) Dad, I know I've left messages
before. I don't even know if you get 'em. But I'm with Sam and
we're in Lawrence and there's something in our old house. I don't
know if it's the thing that killed Mom or not...but...(tears up)
I don't know what to do. So whatever you're doing, if you could
get here...please. I need your help, Dad.
Dean: Listen, Jenny, it's important, Ow!
(Missouri hits him on the back of the head)
Missouri: Give the poor girl a break, can't you see she's upset.
(to Jenny) forgive this boy - he means well, he's just not the
sharpest tool in the shed.
Missouri: You sensed it was here, didn't you? Even when I couldn't.
Sam: What's happening to me?
Missouri: I know I should have all the answers but...I don't know.
Missouri: Don’t worry – Dean’s going to clean up
this mess. Well what are you waiting for, boy. Grab the mop. (Dean
glares silently) And don’t cuss at me!
Missouri: Is that an EMF?
Dean: Yeah.
Missouri: Amateur.
Missouri: Boy, you put your foot on my coffee table, I'm going
to whack you with a spoon.
Dean: I didn't do anything.
Missouri: You were thinking about it.
Sarry: I wasn't dreaming. It came to my bedroom and it was on
fire!
Dean: Where's Sam? (frightened)
Sarry: He's inside....something got him!
(the door shuts leaving Sam inside)
Missouri: You two have grown up handsome. (looks at Dean) And
you were a goofy looking kid, too.
References
Dean: First you tell me that you've got the Shining, and then
you tell me that I've gotta go back home?
The Shining (1980) is a feature film by Stanley Kubrick based
on the novel of the same title by Stephen King. The film stars
Jack Nicholson as tormented writer Jack Torrance. Jack's son,
Danny, had creepy visions of impending evil. Another character
referred to this "gift" as The Shining, hence the title.
I will always assume that Dean is referring to the Kubrick film,
not the novel or remake, as he also (in later episodes) makes
several references to Jack Nicholson's role in the film.
Dean: Missouri did her whole Zelda Rubenstein thing. The house
should be clean; this should be over.
Zelda played psychic Tangina Barrons in the 1982 film Poltergeist
and its sequels. There is a scene in the first film where she
does her psychic thing, then proclaims "This house is clean!"
It is not, of course, and much more mayhem ensues.
The cymbal-banging toy monkey is arguably an homage: There is
a short story by Stephen King titled "The Monkey", synopsis
as follows: "The story centers on a toy monkey that is apparently
possessed by evil. The monkey is found by children, and their
parents are, for some reason, freaked out. Periodically, the sinister
monkey comes into motion, predicting the death of someone. In
the end, the monkey is dumped in a lake in a bag full of heavy
stones, thus stopping the deaths."
Scene: Dean chops down a door and his face is framed in the
hole.
This is a visual reference to the 1980 horror film, The Shining.
One of its most famous scenes is Jack Nicholson's face in the
door he chopped up with an axe.
Dean: Any of this blowing up your skirt?
While looking for their next job at the beginning of the episode,
Dean says this to Sam when he realizes Sam isn't paying attention.
It is likely a reference to Marilyn Monroe, who is famous for
her scene in which her dress is being blown up by a vent she is
standing on.