Title Route 666
Episode # Season 1, Episode 13
First aired January 31, 2006
Directed by Paul Shapiro
Written by Eugenie Ross-Leming
Brad Buckner
Outline An old flame of Dean's calls Sam and Dean in to help her with a haunted truck killing off people in her town.
Monster Ghost
Location(s) Cape Girardeau, Missouri
Timeline four days between April 25-May 05, 2006 (speculation)
An "old
friend" of Dean's calls the brothers about some suspicious
car accidents in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. It turns out the old
friend is Dean's ex-girlfriend Cassie, who dumped him when he
revealed to her that he hunts supernatural phenomena. It seems
that the car accident victims, all African American and one of
whom was Cassie's father, are all being haunted by a phantom truck
that is driving the victims off the road and causing them to crash
without leaving any traces of itself behind.
After several more killings and Cassie herself being attacked,
they find out that when her mother was young, she used to date
a racist arsonist/murderer named Cyrus, and when she left him
for Cassie's father, he attacked the father on the same stretch
of road where today's victims were being killed. The fight turned
against Cyrus when Cassie's father got the upper hand -- he ended
up killing Cyrus and he and his friends dumped the body and the
truck in the nearby lake. The ghost of Cyrus and his truck were
now picking off all the people involved in the incident one by
one.
Eventually, Dean and Sam dispatch the phantom truck by dragging
it and its owner out of the lake, burning the body, and leading
the ghost truck to the hallowed ground of an old church that incidentally
Cyrus had burned to the ground during his racist reign of terror.
Meanwhile, Dean and Cassie fight, reconcile, have hot sex, and
break up again.
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Music
* The
James Gang - Walk Away
* Bad Company - She Brings Me Love
* Blind Faith - Can't Find My Way Home
Trivia
Quotes
Dean:
Yeah I guess. Who knows what ghosts are thinkin' anyway.
Sam: You know we're going to have to dredge that body up from
the swamp right?
Dean: (little laugh) You said it.
Sam: Where are you going?
Dean: I’m going for a little ride.
Sam: What?
Dean: I’m gonna lead that thing away. (pointing to the truck)
That rusted piece of crap, you’ve gotta burn it.
Sam: How the hell am I supposed to burn a truck, Dean?
Dean: I don’t know. Figure something out.
Dean: Don't leave the house.
Cassie: Don't go getting all authoritative on me, I hate it.
Dean: Don't leave the house, please?
Sam: (over a cellphone) Where are you?
Dean: I'm in the middle of nowhere with a killer truck on my ass!
Sam: You mean you dated someone? For more than one night?
Dean: Am I speaking a language you're not getting here?
Sam: You told her? The secret? Our big family rule number one:
we do what we do, and we shut up about it. For a year and a half
I do nothing but lie to Jessica, and you go out with this chick
in Ohio a couple of times and you tell her everything? [Dean says
nothing] Dean!
Dean: Yeah, looks like.
Cassie: We should fight more often.
Dean: Absolutely.
Cassie: (laughs) Actually, we were always pretty good at fighting.
Dean: Mm.
Cassie: (about the sex) This we were good at. It’s all the
other stuff….not so much.
Sam: And you think this vanishing truck ran him off the road?
Cassie: (embarrassed) Oh, when you say it aloud like that.
Cassie: The guy I’m with, the guy I’m hoping might be
in my future, tells me he professionally pops ghosts.
Dean: That’s not the words I used.
Cassie: And that he has to leave to go work with his father.
Dean: I did.
Cassie: Whenever we get, what's the word, "close," anywhere
in the neighborhood of emotional vulnerability, you back off or
make some joke or find any way to shut the door.
Dean: (laughs) That's hilarious. See, I'm not the one who took
that big final door and slammed it behind me. I'm not the one
who took the key and buried it.
Cassie: Are we done with that metaphor?
Sam: I figured maybe that would get rid of it.
Dean: Maybe?! Maybe?!? What if you were wrong?
Sam: Honestly that thought hadn't occured to me.
Dean: (mimicking Sam) "Well that honestly didn't occur to
me." I'm gonna kill him.
Sam: By old friend you mean…
Dean: Friend that’s not new.
Sam: Yeah, thanks.
Sam: (talking about Dean and Cassie) What's interesting is that
you guys never really look at each other at the same time. You
look at her when she's not looking. She checks you out when you
look away. It’s just an interesting observation, in a, you
know, observationally interesting way.
Sam: I’m guessing you guys were working things out.
Dean: We’ll be working things out when we’re 90.
Sam: Occasionally I miss boring.
Dean: So this killer truck...
Sam: I miss conversations that didn't start with "this killer
truck."
Sam: So burning the body had no effect on that thing?
Dean: Sure it did – now it’s really pissed.
References
Sam: Yeah, kinda like that theatre in Illinois.
Most likely referring to The Lincoln Square Theatre in Decatur,
Illinois. The theatre tells a story about One-armed Red. He is
said to be the ghost of stagehand who was killed tragically during
a performance. It's also said that apparitions have been reported
since the theatre was burned and partly rebuilt in March 1960.
Title
In the Bible the number 666 refers to the Beast, also known as
the Antichrist. This also refers to Route 66, a road that goes
across America. There also was a Route 666 in the Four Corner
area of the U.S, but its name was changed to Route 491 in 2003.