Title Born Under a Bad Sign
Episode # Season 2, Episode 14
First aired February 8, 2007
Directed by J. Miller Tobin
Written by Cathryn Humphris
Outline After receiving a frantic call from Sam, who has been missing for over a week, Dean races to his brother's side.
Monster Demons
Location(s) Duluth, Minnesota
South Dakota
Sam contacts Dean after being missing for a week. When they reunite, Dean finds Sam covered in blood and with no recollection of what happened.
Music
* Back
on the Road Again - REO Speedwagon
* Crystal Ship - The Doors
* Ashes to Ashes by Tarbox Ramblers
Trivia
When
Dean is on the website to locate Sam via GPS, he is logged in
as "Dean J. MaHogOff.
Quotes
Sam:
By the way, you really look like crap, Dean.
Dean: Yeah, right back at ya.
Sam (possessed): All that I had to hold on to, was that I would
climb out one day, and that I was gonna torture you... nice and
slow, like pulling the wings off an insect. But whatever I do
to you, it's nothing compared to what you do to yourself is it?
I can see it in your eyes Dean, you're worthless. You couldn't
save your Dad, and deep down, you know that you can't save your
brother. They'd been better off without you.
Dean: This guy? (to Sam)) You were drinking malt liquor?
Clerk: Not after he whipped the bottle at my friggin’ head!
Dean: This guy?
Clerk: What, am I speaking Urdu?
Dean: You saw [Sam] smoking?
Clerk: Yeah, guy’s a chimney.
Sam: I don’t wanna hurt anyone else. I don’t wanna hurt
you.
Dean: You won't. Whatever this is, you can fight it.
Sam: I can’t. Not forever.
Manager: It’s past checkout and I’ve got a couple here
who needs a room.
Dean: (looks at hooker and customer in hall) Yeah, I bet they
do.
Bobby: Where’s Dean.
Sam: Holed up somewhere with a girl and a twelve-pack.
Bobby: Yeah? Is she pretty?
Sam: You ask me, he’s in way over his head.
Sam: No matter what I did, you wouldn’t shoot.
Dean: It was the right move, Sam, it wasn’t you.
Sam: Yeah, this time. What about next time?
Dean: Sam, when Dad told me I might have to kill you, it was only
if I couldn’t save you. Now if it’s the last thing I
do, I’m gonna save you.
Jo: (Looking at Sam's burn) That looks like it hurts.
Sam: Nah, just had a run in with a hot stove.
Bobby: Don't try and con a con man.
Bobby: Here, take these.
Sam: What are they?
Bobby: Charms. They'll fend off possession. That demon's still
out there. This'll stop it from getting back up in ya.
Dean: That sounds vaguely dirty, but er, thanks.
Sam: You know when people wanna describe the worst possible thing?
They say it's like hell. (punches Dean) Well, there's a reason
for that. Hell is like, ah... (punch) Well, it's like hell. Even
for demons. (punch) It's a prison made of bone, and flesh and
blood and fear. (punch) And you sent me back there.
Dean: Meg.
Sam: No. Not any more. Now I'm Sam. (punch) By the way, saw your
Dad there, he says "Howdy."
(referring to an old, beat-up car)
Dean: Oh please tell me you didn't steal this.
Dean: Feel like talking now?
Sam: Sam's still my meat-puppet, I'll make him bite off his tongue.
(after arriving at a gas station)
Dean: Alright, receipt's for 10 gallons at pump number 2. (pause)
Getting any goosebumps yet? "God this looks familiar déjà
vu" vibes?
Sam: (in a sing-song voice) My Daddy shot your Daddy in the head.
Dean: I'll call you later.
(Dean leaves)
Jo: No, you won't.
Dean: (talking on the phone) Hi, so sorry to bother you but, my
son snuck out of the house last night and went to a Justin Timberlake
concert.. What?.. uhhh yeah.. Justin's quite the triple threat.
Dean: What's going on with you Sam? hmmm? Smokin... throwin' bottles
at people... sounds more like me than you.
Dean: Okay.. now this is disturbing. (lifts up carton of cigarettes,
Sam stares in shock) C'mon, man, this couldn't have been you,
it had to be someone else, someone who.. uhh.. (smells cigarettes)
...smokes menthols.
Sam: Dean, back from the dead. Getting to be a regular thing for
you, isn't it? Like a cockroach.
Dean: How bout I smack that smartass right out of your mouth?
Sam: Oh, careful now...wouldn't want to bruise this fine packaging.
Dean: You never told me this.
Sam: I didn’t want to scare you.
Dean: Well, bang up job on that.
(Dean chuckles to himself)
Sam: What?
Dean: Nothing.
Sam: Dean, what?
Dean: Dude, you like full-on had a girl inside you for like a
whole week. Thats pretty naughty.
Dean: The room's been quiet, nobody's noticed anything unusual.
Sam: You mean no one saw me walking around covered in blood.
Dean: Mmm-yeah, that's what I mean.
Dean: (to Sam) You checked in two days ago under the name Richard
Sambora. I think the scariest part about this whole thing is that
you're a Bon Jovi fan.
Dean: (holding gun) You know, I've tried so hard to keep you safe.
Sam: I know.
Dean: I can't. I'd rather die. (Puts down gun)
Sam: No. No, Dean, you'll live. (picks up gun) You'll live to
regret this. (knocks him unconscious)
References
Title
Born Under A Bad Sign is the title of an album and song by blues
artist Albert King. The song was notably covered by the band Cream.
Possessed!Sam checked into his motel room as Richie Sambora
band member of Bon Jovi. Dean's comment on being disturbed that
this suggests Sam is a Bon Jovi fan is arguably a reference to
the fact that Jared Padalecki starred in a film with Jon Bon Jovi,
"Cry_wolf".