Title Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things
Episode # Season 2, Episode 4
First aired 19 October, 2006
Directed by Kim Manners
Written by Raelle Tucker
Outline Dean and Sam investigate the murder of a college student who has come back from the dead seeking revenge on those who mistreated her while she was alive.
Monster Zombies
At Sam’s insistence, the brother’s travel to their mother’s grave, where Sam buries his father’s dog tags. Dean notices a circle of dead plants over a nearby grave belonging to a girl called Angela, killed recently in a car accident.
As they investigate the circumstances surrounding Angela’s death, Dean becomes aggressive and upset as he suspects someone has raised her from the dead. He denies Sam’s accusations that he is acting out of his unresolved grief.
Finally the boys lure the undead Angela to the cemetery, where Dean stakes and kills her – with the words “what’s dead should stay dead”.
On a lonely stretch of mountain road, Dean pulls the Impala over. He admits to Sam that he feels responsible for John’s death as he believes that somehow John traded his life for Dean’s.
Music
Trivia
Trivia: When
Sam deposits his father's dog tags at his mother's tombstone it
can be read in them:
"Winchester
John
306-00-3594
Type - AB
Non Religious"
* The voiceover
on the porn Sam is watching in the motel room is "Next on
the Skin Channel, Casa Erotica Four. A tale of two Latin beauties..."
Quotes
Dean: Neil it's your greif counselors we’ve come to hug.
Dean: Sam, you
bring Dad's death up one more time, I swear...
Sam: Please, Dean, it's killing you. Please. We've already lost
Dad, we've lost Mom, I've lost Jessica and now I'm gonna lose
you too.
Dean: We better get out of here before the cops come. I hear you,
okay? I'm being an ass and I'm sorry. But right now, we got a
freaking zombie running around, and we need to figure out how
to kill it. Right?
Sam: Our lives are weird, man.
Dean: You're telling me. Come on.
Dean: We can't just waste it with a head shot?
Sam: Dude, you've been watching way too many Romero flicks.
Dean: So you're telling me there's no lore on how to smoke 'em?
Sam: No, Dean, I'm telling you there's too much! I mean there's
a hundred different legends on the walking dead but they all have
different methods for killing them. Some say setting them on fire,
one said... where is it? Right here: feeding their hearts to wild
dogs--that's my personal favorite!
Sam: So, what do you want to do?
Dean: Keep digging, talk to more of her friends.
Sam: You get any names?
Dean: You kidding me? I have her "bestest friend in the whole
wide world." (throws Sam the diary)
Dean: I never should have come back, Sam. It wasn’t natural
and now look what's come of it. I was dead and I should have stayed
dead. So tell me, what could you possibly say to make that all
right...
References
Title
Referencing
a 1972 zombie movie in which a group of actors lead by their director,
Alan, performs a black magic ritual on a island graveyard and
causes the dead to rise and kill them all. A remake of the movie
is apparently in the works for sometime in late 2006.
Dean: Naw, she went out to rent Beaches.
Beaches (1988 movie) staring Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey,
who have a lifelong friendship which is depicted in various stages
including their love for the same man.
Dean: My name's Alan, Alan Stanwick.
Referencing the movie "Fletch". Dean presents himself
to Lindsey as Alan Stanwyck: this is the name of a character in
the movie "Fletch". In this movie Chevy Chase is an
ace reporter who is able to create "instant aliases"
as Dean and Sam do.
Dean: What you brought back isn’t even your daughter anymore.
These things are vicious, they’re violent, they’re so
nasty they rot the ground around them. I mean come on, haven’t
you seen Pet Sematary?
Referencing the 1989 Stephen King movie Pet Sematary, which
was from the 1983 Stephen King book Pet Sematary. In the movie
and the book, if something (pet or human) was buried in the Pet
Sematary they would come back to life as an evil zombie. Jud Crandall
warns the father, Louis Creed early on in the movie and the book
that what comes back is not human anymore.
Dean: It's got unrequited "Duckie" love written all
over it.
This is a reference to the movie Pretty in Pink. In the movie
Jon Cryer plays Duckie, who spends the whole movie pining over
his best friend played by Molly Ringwald.