Title Pilot
Episode # Season 1, Episode 1
First aired September 13, 2005
Directed by David Nutter
Written by Eric Kripke
Outline Dean and Sam are reunited, investigating supernatural deaths in Jericho on the path to finding their missing father, John.
Monster Woman in White
Location(s) Lawrence, Kansas
Palo Alto, California
Jericho, California
Timeline November 2, 1983 (flashback)
October 30 (Dean arrives)
October 31 (in Jericho)
November 2, 2005 (Jess dies)
Sam is about to graduate from college and has an interview set up to join one of the most prestigious law schools in the country. His brother Dean, whom he has not seen since he went to college, shows up in the middle of the night and tells him their father is missing while on a hunting trip. Leaving his girlfriend behind to find their dad, Sam joins Dean in an effort to find their father in a little town called Jericho, where unmarried men disappear without a trace.
Music
* Classic -
What Cha Gonna Do
* Eagles of Death Metal - Speaking In Tongues
* Allman Brothers Band - Ramblin' Man
* AC/DC - Back in Black
* AC/DC - Highway to Hell
* The Living Daylights - Gasoline
* Kid Gloves Music - My Cheatin' Ways
Trivia
* The episode
first premiered on Yahoo!TV on 09/06/2005. The pilot could also
be seen on the internet weeks before the airing.
* The premiere of the Pilot episode ran an extra 7 minutes (9:00
to 10:07 EST), bringing the total run time to 67 minutes.
* A deleted scene shows the reason Dean returned to save Sam from
his burning bedroom: his watch stopped, the car radio send static
and that's why he turned the car around, sensing something was
wrong. Later on, we learn that in the days before the fires, signs
crop up in an area, cattle deaths, temperature fluctuations, electrical
storms.
Quotes
Sam: What the
hell are you doing here?
Dean: I was looking for a beer.
Sam: Dean... what the hell are you doing here?
Dean: Okay, all right. We gotta talk.
Sam: Um... the phone?
Dean: If I would've called you, would you have picked up?
Dean: I love
the Smurfs. You know I gotta tell you, you are completely out
of my brother’s league.
Jess: Just let me put something on.
Dean: No no no. I wouldn’t dream of it... seriously.
Dean: Dad hasn’t
been home in a few days.
Sam: So he’s working overtime on a Miller Time shift. He’ll
stumble back in sooner or later.
Dean: Dad’s on a hunting trip, and he hasn’t been home
in a few days.
Sam: I swore
I was done hunting for good.
Dean: Come on, it wasn’t easy, but it wasn’t that bad.
Sam: Yeah? When I told dad when I was scared of the thing in my
closet he gave me a 45.
Dean: Well what was he supposed to do?
Sam: I was 9 years old! He was supposed to say “Don’t
be afraid of the dark.”
Dean: Don’t be afraid of the dark? What are you kidding me,
of course you should be afraid of the dark! You know what’s
out there!
Dean: So what
are you gonna do? Just live some normal, apple pie life? Is that
it?
Sam: No, not normal. Safe.
Dean: And that’s why you ran away?
Sam: I was just going to college!
Dean: I can’t
do this alone.
Sam: Yes you can.
Dean: Yeah, well... I don’t want to.
Dean: House rules, Sammy. Driver picks the music, shotgun shuts
his cakehole.
Sam: So what’s
the theory?
Ranger Wilkinson: Seriously? We don’t know. Serial murder,
kidnapping ring...
Dean: Well, that’s exactly the kind of crack police work
I’d expect outta you guys.
Dean: You can
pretend all you want, Sammy. But sooner or later you're going
to have to face up to who you really are.
Sam: Who is that?
Dean: One of us.
References
Sam: We’re
not exactly the Bradys.
Friend: And I’m not exactly the Huxtables.
Sam
is referring to the family in the TV show The Brady Bunch, a large
patchwork family that stands for the ultimate American middle
class family. His friend mentions the Bradys' 80’s african-american
equivalent from The Cosby Show, the Huxtables.
It is also likely that Sam is referring to the Brady family from
the American soap opera, Days of our Lives, on which Jensen Ackles
played Eric Brady.
Dean: [referring
to Jessica's t-shirt] I love the Smurfs.
The Smurfs was a cartoon series about little blue creatures living
in mushroom houses in the woods. There was only one female smurf,
Smurfette, who was rather slutty in appearance and behavior. Dean,
however, is likely referring not to the pair of smurfs on Jessica's
shirt, but to the pair underneath the shirt.
Sam: So he’s working over-time on a “Miller Time”
shift; he’ll stumble back in sooner or later.
&
Sam: Yeah, he’s just deer hunting up at the cabin and he’s
probably got Jim, Jack, and Jose along with him. We’re just
gonna go bring him back.
All references to alcohol: Miller (beer), Jim Beam (bourbon),
Jack Daniels (whiskey), and Jose Cuervo (tequila).
Dean: [to
two FBI Agents] Agent Mulder, Agent Scully.
Fox Mulder and Dana Scully are the two FBI Agents on the popular
sci-fi/horror series The X-Files who investigate cases involving
paranormal phenomenon.
Dean: Okay,
thank you Unsolved Mysteries.
A TV show that featured re-enactments of unsolved crimes filmed
in documentary style, with actors portraying the victims, perpetrators
and witnesses. Many of these stories hinted at paranormal phenomenon.
Policeman:
So you want to give us your real name?
Dean: I told you, it’s Nugent. Ted Nugent.
A 1970's
musician "the nudge" best known for guitar riffing songs
like Stranglehold, Cat Scratch Feever, & Motor City Madman.
Stranglehold is also featured as one of the later opening songs.
Policeman:
I'm not sure you realize just how much trouble you're in here.
Dean: We talkin', like, misdemeanor kind of trouble, or uh, "squeal
like a pig" trouble?
"Squeal
like a pig" is a reference to a scene in the 1972 horror
film Deliverance, in which a suburban man is told to "squeal
like a pig" then brutally raped by crazed mountain men while
on a fishing trip. The scene has been listed as one of the 100
Scariest Movie Moments (#63).
Sam: What
were you thinking shooting Casper in the face, you freak?
Title character in the famouse cartoon series Casper, the Friendly
Ghost in which Casper was, indeed, a friendly ghost, unlike the
Woman in White.