1.16 Shadow

Title Shadow
Episode # Season 1, Episode 16
First aired 28 February, 2006
Directed by Kim Manners
Written by Eric Kripke
Outline Meg lures Sam and Dean to Chicago in order to set a trap for John.
Monster Daeva
Location(s) Chicago, Illinois
Timeline two days between 8-15 June, 2006 (speculation)

Sam has a reunion with a girl he once met, Meg - but it turns out that she is using the brothers to lure their father John to his doom.

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Music

* Little Charlie and the Nightcats - You Got Your Hooks In Me
* The Vue – Pictures of Me

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Trivia
John drives a GMC Sierra Grande, registration number CSG 8R3.

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Quotes
Dean: Hey, Sam, don't take this the wrong way, but your girlfriend is a bitch.

Sam: You killed those two people for nothing.
Meg: Baby, I'd kill a lot more for a lot less.

Sam: Yeah, this is... my brother Dean.
Meg: Oh, this is Dean.
Dean: (smiles) So you've heard of me.
Meg: Oh yeah, I've heard of you. Nice... the way you treat your brother like luggage.
Dean: (late to react) Sorry?

Sam: I thought I'd never see you again.
Meg: Well, I'm glad you were wrong.
(Dean does a fake cough, trying to get attention)
Meg: Dude, cover your mouth.

Meg: Sam! Is that you? Oh my god! (smiles and goes and hugs him) What are you doing here?
Sam: I'm just in town visiting friends.
Meg: (looks around) Where are they?
Sam: Well... they're not here right now.

Sam: All right, Dean. This is the place.
Dean: You know, I’ve gotta say Dad and me did just fine without these stupid costumes. I feel like a high school drama dork. What was that play that you did? What was it, uh – our Town. Yeah, you were good, it was cute.

Dean: What are you gonna do?
Sam: I’m gonna watch Meg.
Dean: (laughing) Yeah, you are.
Sam: I just wanna see what’s what. Better safe than sorry.
Dean: All right, you little pervert.

Dean: So Sammy's got a thing for the bad girl.

Sam: I'm just saying, there's something about this girl I can't quite put my finger on.
Dean: But I bet you'd like to. Maybe she's not a suspect, maybe...maybe you've got a thing for her. Maybe you're thinking a little too much with your upstairs brain.

John: I got there just in time to see the girl take the swan dive. (pause) She was the bad guy, right?
Sam and Dean: (in unison) Yes, sir.

(bound up by Meg)
Sam: Wanna have fun? Go ahead. I'm a little tied up right now.

Sam: I thought you were going to California.
Meg: I did. I came, I saw, I conquered.

Sam: How'd you figure that out?
Dean: Give me some credit, man. You don't have a corner on paper chasing around here.
Sam: Oh yeah? Name the last book you read.
Dean: Ah, I called dad's friend, Caleb. He told me, all right?

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References
Dean: I feel like a high school drama dork.
This is a reference to the two stars. Jared had taken drama lessons since he was twelve and Jensen took drama as his arts elective in high school, which led to him starring in a play and being noticed by an LA manager.

Zoroastrianism
Before Zoroastrianism the Devas were actually benevolent spirits, as they are in the theology of Hinduism. It was only after the introduction of Zoroastrianism that the theology was reversed and they became malevolent.

Meg: Oh, and I met what's-his-name, something Michael Murray - at a bar.
Referring to Chad Michael Murray, with whom Jared Padalecki was a rival love interest for Rory Gilmore's affections on Gilmore Girls. They also worked together on House of Wax