Title No Exit
Episode # Season 2, Episode 6
First aired 2 November, 2006
Directed by Kim Manners
Written by Matt Witten
Outline Sam and Dean investigate the brutal slayings of blond women from the same apartment building and discover that the demon responsible is the ghost of the country's first serial murderer, H. H. Holmes.
Monster Ghost
Location(s) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The boys take
on a case Jo has researched in Philadelphia where blonde girls
in an apartment building are disappearing. Jo, without Ellen’s
permission, follows the boys to join them on the hunt.
While researching the case Jo shares with Dean that the reason
she hunts is because it makes her feel connected to her father.
They discover that the apartment building is built over the place
H.H.Holmes, America’s first serial killer, was executed and
that he may be holding his latest victim in a hidden room.
While searching the building, Jo gets captured by the spirit of
H.H. Holmes. Sam and Dean rescue her and then use her as bait
to trap him.
Ellen catches up with the boys and Jo, and there is a long uncomfortable
drive back to the Roadhouse. We find out that Ellen believes John
Winchester was responsible for her husband’s death.
Music
* Dean's
cell phone ringtone: Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water
* Foreigner - Cold As Ice
* Cheap Trick - Surrender
Trivia
When Sam is researching H.H Holmes, we see an old photo of a dead woman. This is in fact a photo of one of Jack the Ripper's victims, Annie Chapman, not one of Holmes.
The episode
is named after a play by Jean-Paul Satre. The best know line from
this play is Hell…is other people. In the play, three people
are locked in a windowless room expecting to be tortured. No-one
arrives, but by probing each other's sins, dark secrets and thoughts
– they torture each other
Jo and Ellen's last name is Harvelle and the saloon is called
Harvelle's Roadhouse. The word "roadhouse" had been
the only part of the sign that was legible in episodes past.
Trivia: Jo's middle name is Beth.
Quotes
Dean:
A young girl been kidnapped by an evil cult?
Sam: Girl gotta name?
Dean: Katie Holmes
Sam: That’s funny! But for you - so bitchy
Dean (to Jo): Sweetheart, this ain't gender studies. Women can do the job fine. Amateurs can't.
Dean (to Jo): I was six or seven, and he took me shooting for the first time. You know, bottles on a fence, that kind of thing. I bulls-eyed every one of them. He gave me this smile, like... I don't know.
Sam: So? Is
this job as glamorous as you thought it would be?
Jo: Well, except for all the pee-your-pants terror, yeah sure.
But that Teresa girl's going to live a life because of us. It's
worth it, isn't it?
Jo: (about school)
I didn't belong there! I was a freak with a knife collection!
Jo: What are you going to do? Going to chain me up in the basement?
Ellen: You know what? You've had worse ideas than that recently.
Dean: My dad started me in this when I was so young, I wish I
could do something else.
Jo: You love the job!
Dean: Yeah, But I'm a little twisted.
Jo: You don't think I'm a little twisted too?
Jo: Take it, I won't bite.
Dean: No, but your mom might..
Jo: You ripped off a cement truck?
Dean: I'll give it back.
Sam: So, is this as glamorous as you thought it would be?
Jo: Except for all the pee-your-pants scares, yeah.
Jo: (on the phone) Thanks, Ash, and if you breathe a word of this
to Mom… that’s right. I will. With pliers. (edit)
Dean: We rarely drink before 10, anyway.
Sam: Where’d you get all that money?
Jo: Working at the Roadhouse.
Dean: Hunters don’t tip that well.
Jo: Well, they’re not that good at poker, either.
Dean: (answers the phone) Yeah.
Ellen: You lied to me. She’s there.
Dean: Ellen
Ellen: No, Ash told me everything. The man’s a genius, but
he folds like a cheap suit. Now you put my damn daughter on the
phone.
Dean: She’s gonna have to call you back, she taking care
of... feminine business.
Ellen: Yeah, right. Where is she? Where is she?!?
Dean: Look, we’ll get her back.
Ellen: Get her back? Back from what?
Dean: The spirit we’re hunting, it took her.
Ellen: Oh my God.
Dean: She’ll be okay, I promise.
Ellen: You promise. That is not the first time I’ve heard
that from a Winchester.
Jo: So you gonna buy me dinner?
Dean: What are you talking about?
Jo: It’s just if you’re gonna ride me this close, it’s
only decent you buy me dinner.
Dean: Oh, that’s hilarious. (edit)
References
Dean: I think
I know what we're dealing with here. It's the Stay Puft Marshmellow
Man.
Referring to the 1984 film Ghostbusters, in which the final battle
was against a giant marshmellow man.
Dean: Katie Holmes
When Katie Holmes started showing interest in boyfriend Tom Cruise's
religion, Scientology, it was negatively noted by many, some suggesting
she had been coerced or "brainwashed" into it.
"That's
ectoplasm. Well, Sam, I think I know what we're dealing with here.
It's the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man"
Stay Puft Marsmallow Man was the mascot of the fictitious Stay
Puft Corporation in the movie Ghosbusters
I’m here to rescue you - from Jo to Theresa
Is another Star Wars reference. direct quote from Luke to Leia
in Episode IV: A New Hope.