Title Something Wicked
Episode # Season 1, Episode 18
First aired ? April, 2006
Directed by Whitney Ransick
Written by Daniel Knauf
Outline Dean and Sam face an unvanquished foe from their childhood - a creature that sucks the life force from children.
Monster Shtriga
Location(s) Fitchburg, Wisconsin
Fort Douglas, Wisconsin
Timeline 10-24 September, 2006 (speculation)
Sam and Dean battle a Shtriga, a witch that sneaks into childrens' bedrooms and sucks the lives out of them. Dean must relive his childhood when he remembers that he encountered the Shtriga years ago.
Music
* UFO
– Rock Bottom
* Ozzy Osbourne – Road to Nowhere
Trivia
Quotes
Sam:
Are you sure you got the coordinates right?
Dean: Yeah, I double-checked. It's Fitchburg, Wisconsin. He wouldn't
have sent us coordinates if it wasn't important, Sammy.
Sam: Well I'm telling you, I looked. And all I could find was
a big, steamy pile of nothing! If Dad's sending us hunting for
something, I don't know what.
Dean: Well maybe he's gonna meet us there.
Sam: (sarcastic chuckle). Yeah, because he's been so easy to find
up to this point.
Dean: Well you're a real smartass, you know that?
Michael: I thought
I was having a nightmare.
Dean: I'd give anything not to tell you this, but sometimes nightmares
are real.
Sam: You're
getting wise in your old age, Dean.
Dean: Damn right.
Dean: Dad never
spoke about it again. I didn't ask. But he, uh, he looked at me
different, you know. Which was worse. Not that I blame him. He
gave me an order and I didn't listen, and I almost got you killed.
Sam: You were just a kid.
Dean: Don't. Don't. Dad knew this was unfinished business for
me. He sent me here to finish it.
Michael: King
or two queens?
Dean: (asking for a room) Two queens
Michael: Ya, I bet.
Dean: What'd you say?
Michael: Nice car.
Sam: (Michael'll)
always know there are things out there in the dark, never be the
same, you know? Sometimes I wish that...
Dean: What?
Sam: I wish I could have that kind of innocence.
Dean: If it means anything, sometimes I wish you could, too.
Dean: You’ve
heard a gun shot before?
Michael: Like in the movies?
Dean: It’s going to be a lot louder then in the movies.
Sam: I don’t
know why you didn’t shoot him right then and there.
Dean: Yeah, Well. First of all I’m not going to open fire
in a friggin' pediatric ward.
Sam: Good call.
Dean: Second, it wouldn’t have done any good cause the bastard’s
bulletproof unless he’s chowing down on something. And third,
I wasn’t packing. Which is probably a really good thing cause
I probably would have just burned a clip in him off of the principle
alone.
Sam: Hey Dean, I'm sorry.
Dean: For what?
Sam: You know, I've really given you a lot of crap for always
following Dad's orders. But I know why you do it.
Dean: Oh god, kill me now.
Sam: An old
person, huh?
Dean: Yeah.
Sam: In the hospital? Whew, better call the Coast Guard!
Sam: It got away?
Dean: Yeah, Sammy, it happens.
Sam: Not very often.
Dean: Well I don't know what to tell you, I mean, maybe Dad didn't
have his Wheaties that morning.
Sam: Dude, dude,
I am not using this ID.
Dean: Why not?
Sam: Because it says Bikini Inspector on it!
Dean: Don't
worry, I'm sure there's something in Fitchburg worth killing.
Sam: Yeah, what makes you so sure?
Dean: Well, because I'm the oldest, which means I'm always right.
Sam: No it doesn't.
Dean: Yeah, it totally does.
References
Quote:
Now I lay me down to sleep
Pray the Lord my soul to keep
If I die before I wake
Pray the Lord my soul to take
This is a well-known Christian bedtime prayer that dates back
hundreds of years. It has also become well-known from the song
'Enter Sandman' by Metallica.
Title
Something Wicked this Way Comes is a 1962 story written by Ray
Bradbury involving children involved with the supernatural. Bradbury
was inspired by the line "By the pricking of my thumbs, something
wicked this way comes," from Shakespeare's MacBeth. Bradbury's
novel was made into a movie in 1983, starring Jason Robards and
Jonathan Pryce. The title of the episode could also be a reference
to a line in the play Macbeth, "By the pricking of my thumbs,
something wicked this way comes."
Sam says to Dean, "Same deal. Before that, there was Ogdenville. Before that, North Haverbrook and Brockway. Every fifteen to twenty years, it hits a new town." – Ogdenville, North Haverbrook and Brockway are all fictional towns from the animated sitcom The Simpsons
The old woman in the hospital is warded in room 237. In the movie The Shining, room 237 is the mystery-shrouded room, where Jack encounters the ghost of a young woman that turns into an old woman. This is Supernatural's one of many references to The Shining throughout the series.