Title Nightmare
Episode # Season 1, Episode 14
First aired February 7, 2005
Directed by Philip Sgriccia
Written by Sera Gamble
Raelle Tucker
Outline Sam's visions lead Sam and Dean to a murderous telekinetic boy whose mother shared the same fate as Mary.
Monster PsyKid
Location(s) Saginaw, Michigan
Unknown town 2 hours out of Saginaw
Timeline Between 15-22 May, 2006 (speculation)
Sam starts having seemingly random premonitions of an invisible killer murdering members of the Miller family. When the brothers investigate, they discover that the killer is son Max, who was abused as child by his father and uncle and is now seeking revenge on them using his newfound telekinetic abilities.
After a third vision, this time of Max killing his stepmother for not doing anything to stop the beatings, Sam goes to the Miller home to stop the premonition from happening. Though Dean insists on bringing a gun, Sam tries diplomacy first by trying to talk Max out of the murder, and in the course of the conversation Max discloses that just like Sam, his mother died pinned to the ceiling in a nursery fire, and six months ago he discovered he had psychic abilities.
Sam is stunned but unable to change Max's mind and ends up trapped in a closet while Max leaves to deal with Dean and his stepmother. Inside the closet, Sam has a vision of Max shooting Dean in the head, and in seeing this horrifying image, a new psychic power is revealed as Sam inadvertently moves the cupboard blocking the closet door. Sam is able to save Dean, but not before Max turns the gun on himself.
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Music
* Bob
Seger – 2+2=?
Trivia
* you
may have reconized Beth Broderick (Alice Miller), as Zelda Spellman
on Sabrina: The Teenage Witch.
Quotes
Sam:
Don’t look at me like that.
Dean: I’m not lookin’ at you like anything. Though I
gotta say, you look like crap.
Dean: Our family’s not cursed. We just have our dark spots.
Sam: [laughing bitterly] Our dark spots are pretty dark.
Dean: [attempting a comeback] You’re....dark.
Sam: Aren't
you worried, man? Aren't you worried that I could turn into Max
or something?
Dean: Nope. No way. You know why?
Sam: No, why?
Dean: Because you've got one advantage that Max didn't have.
Sam: Dad? Because Dad's not here, Dean.
Dean: No, me. As long as I'm around, nothing bad is gonna happen
to you.
Sam: We're not gonna kill Max.
Dean: Then what? Hand him over to the cops and say, "Lock
him up, Officer. He kills with the power of his mind."
Sam: When Max locked me in that closet, that big cabinet against
the door, I moved it.
Dean: You have a little bit more upper body strength than I give
you credit for!
Sam: Well, I’ll tell you one thing. We’re lucky we had
Dad.
Dean: I never thought I’d hear you say that.
Dean: I know what we need to do about your premonitions. I know
where we have to go.
Sam: Where?
Dean: Vegas. (Sam ‘harrumphs’ and walks out) What? Come
on man! Craps table? We’d clean up!
Sam: You can’t tell me this doesn’t freak you out.
(long pause)
Dean: This doesn’t freak me out.
Sam: Well, I know one thing I have in common with these people.
Dean: What's that?
Sam: Both our families are cursed.
Dean: Our family’s not cursed…we've just had our dark
spots.
Sam: (chuckles) Our dark spots are pretty dark.
Dean: You’re...dark.
Max: All these people kept coming with, like casserole. I finally
had to tell them all to go away. Because nothing says “sorry”
like a tuna casserole.
References
Priests
When Dean & Sam are dressed as priests, Dean introduces
them as Father Simmons and Father Frehley. Gene Simmons and Paul
"Ace" Frehley were two of the founding members of the
rock band KISS.
Dean: So, he’s psychic? He’s a spoon-bender?
&
Dean: [holding up a spoon to Sam] Bend this.
Spoon-bending was the signature feat of famous self-described
"psychic" Uri Gellar. Gellar claimed one of his first
telekinetic acts was accidently breaking a spoon during a meal
when he was 4, and several televised recordings of his performances
showed him bending spoons, among other tricks.
Others...
* When Sam is calling in the license plate he saw in his nightmare,
he identifies himself as "Detective McCreedy." This
is possibly a reference to one of the characters in the infamous
B-horror movie Hobgoblins, a low-budget rip-off of Gremlins best
known for being brutally mocked on the television show Mystery
Science Threater 3000.