Title Phantom Traveler
Episode # Season 1, Episode 4
First aired 4 October, 2005
Directed by Robert Singer
Written by Richard Hatem
Outline Sam and Dean board a flight doomed to crash to exorcise a disaster-causing demon.
Monster Demon
Location(s) Catasauqua, Pennsylvania
Nazareth, Pennsylvania
Lehigh Valley Airport
Timeline 19-25 November, 2005 (speculation)
December 5th, 2005 according to Episode 2.20
Sam and Dean are called in to investigate when a plane crashes under mysterious circumstances. Their investigation leads them to the conclusion that a demon is possessing people and causing them to crash the plane they are on. Things become more urgent when they discover that the demon is going after the 7 survivors of the first crash, including the pilot and a stewardess.
Music
* Black Sabbath - Paranoid
* Rush – Working Man
Trivia
* Dean is humming Metallica's "Some Kind of Monster"
on the plane to calm himself down.
* Christo is Latin not for "God" but for "Christ."
Moreover, it should be "Christus" or "Christe"
- "Christo" is in either the dative or ablative case,
and therefore means something like "to Christ" or "by
Christ".
* When you called Dean's 866-907-3235 number given on this episode
briefly after it aired, you'd get the following message: "This
is Dean Winchester. If this is an emergency, please leave a message.
If you are calling about 11-2-83, page me with your coordinates."
11-2-83 is the date of Mary Winchester's death. tv.com
* If you watched the version of this episode that aired on December
13, 2005, you heard the number they showed in closed captioning
for Dean's cell number. They changed it from the original airing.
They also changed the message you will hear if you call the original
number that John said. If you call 866-907-3235 now, you will
hear "Dad? We really need to hear from you. Leave me a message,
text me, check your jwinchester1246 gmail. Anything. We have new
info. " tv.com
* In the close captioning the number given was: 785-555-0179.
Presumably the original script, from which the caption text was
derived, had the 555- number but then they changed it for the
actual on-screen dialogue. 785 is the Kansas area code.
Quotes
Dean: Did you get any sleep last night?
Sam: Yeah, I grabbed a couple of hours.
Dean: Liar. 'Cause I was up at three, and you were watching the
George Foreman infomercial.
Sam: Hey, what can I say? It's riveting TV.
Dean: Come on,
that can't be normal!
Sam: Hey, hey, it's just a little turbulence.
Dean: Sam, this plane is going to crash, OK? So quit treating
me like I'm friggin' four.
Sam: You need to calm down.
Dean: Well, I'm sorry, I can't.
Sam: Yes, you can.
Dean: Dude, stow the touchy-feely, self-help yoga crap. It's not
helping!
Dean stops running
Sam: What, what is it?
Dean: I kind of have a problem with.. *flaps his hand to indicateflying*
Sam: what, flying? You're joking!
Dean: Do I look like I'm joking?! Why do you think I drive everywhere
Sam!
Sam: Okay, uh.. I'll go on it myself.
Dean: what are you nuts?!
Sam: Well I can go on myself or that plane is gonna crash, I'm
not really seeing a 3rd option here.
Dean: Really? *imapatient* man..
References
Sam: Yeah, he told me. It was a poltergeist?
Man: Poltergeist? Man, I loved that movie!
Dean: Man,
I look like one of the Blues Brothers.
The
Blues Brothers were a comedic R&B duo comprised of John Belushi
and Dan Akroyd that originated on the late night sketch show Saturday
Night Live and later made several movies. The pair's usual attire
were black and white suits, ties, hats and sunglasses.
Dean: Yeah,
but this goes way beyond floatin' over a bed or barfin' pea soup.
References to the films The Exorcist, in which a little girl is
possessed by a demon. Among her afflictions are bed-floating and
projectile vomiting. Could also be a reference to Ghostbusters
in which a woman is possessed and floats above her bed.
Dean: Miss
Walker. Hi, this is Dr. James Hetfield from St. Francis Memorial
Hospital.
Another classic/mullet rock star alias: James Hetfield is the
lead singer of Metallica.