Title Houses of the Holy
Episode # Season 2, Episode 13
First aired February 1, 2007
Directed by Kim Manners
Written by Sera Gamble
Outline Sam and Dean investigate the murders of several people by individuals who claim they were visited by an angel and were carrying out God's will.
Monster vengefull angels
Location(s) Providence, Rhode Island
Timeline Winter, after New Year
An angel causes people to cheerfully go out to murder, and when the Winchesters investigate one of them falls under its sway.
Music
* Jamie
Dunlap - Down On Love
* Bob Dylan - Knockin' On Heaven's Door
Trivia
* Dean's
phone displays the song he's listening to as: led zepllin - kashmir.
Arguably, however, this isn't the song we can hear playing through
his headphones. The actual song playing is "Down on Love"
by Jamie Dunlap.
* Dean's phone is the new Verizon Chocolate.
Quotes
Sam:
And this angel…
Gloria: Spoke God’s word.
Sam: And the word was… to kill someone?
Sam: So, no disturbances lately?
Gloria: You mean am I stark raving cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs?
Sam: Dean, I saw an angel! (Dean offers him flask) I don’t
want a drink.
Sam: It appeared before me and I just... this feeling washed over
me. Like peace. Like grace.
Dean: Okay, ecstasy boy. Maybe we’ll get you some glow sticks
and a nice Dr. Seuss hat.
Father Reynolds: What are you doing? What is this?
Sam: Father, please, I can explain. Um... actually, maybe I can’t.
Um, this is, uh, a séance.
Father Reynolds: A séance? Young man, you are in a house
of God!
Sam: It’s based on early Christian rites if that helps any.
Sam: I don’t know, Dean, I just, uh, I wanted to believe
so badly. It’s so damned hard to do this, what we do. All
alone, you know. And…there’s so much evil out in the
world, Dean, I feel like I could drown in it. And when I think
about my destiny, when I think about how I could end up…
Dean: Yeah, well, don’t worry about that, all right? I’m
watching out for you.
Sam: Yeah, I know you are. But you’re just one person, Dean.
And I needed to think that there was something else watching too,
you know? Some higher power, some greater good. And that maybe
I…
Dean: Maybe what?
Sam: Maybe I could be saved.
Sam: You know, Gloria said the guy was guilty to the deepest foundation.
Dean: You think she literally meant the foundation?
(Sam enters the motel room, while Dean is sitting on the bed listening
to the police radio)
Dean: Did you bring quarters?
Sam: Dude, I'm not enabling your sick habit. You're like one of
those lab rats that pushes the pleasure button instead of the
food button until it dies.
Dean: What're you talking about, I eat.
Dean: Man, you have got to try this because there really is magic
in the magic fingers.
Sam: Dude. You're enjoying that way too much. It's kinda making
me uncomfortable.
Father Reynolds: So, you're interested in joining parish?
Dean: Yeah, well you know, we just don't feel right unless we
hit church every Sunday.
Father Reynolds: So where'd you say you lived before?
Sam: Uh...
Dean: (interrupting) Freedmont, Texas.
Father Reynolds: Really? That's a nice town. St. Theresa's parish.
You must know the priest there.
Dean: Sure, yeah... no, it's Father... O'Malley.
Father Reynolds: I know a Father Shaughnessy.
Dean: Shaughnessy. Exactly...what did I say?
Sam: Why would you do that?
Gloria: Because it was God's will.
Sam: Did God talk to you?
Gloria: I get the sense God's a little busy for house calls.
Sam: Dude, all right, I'll admit, we've gone pretty ghetto with
spellwork before, but this takes the cake! I mean, a Spongebob
placemat instead of an altar cloth?!
Dean: We'll just put it Spongebob-side down
Dean: If Father Gregory's spirit is around, the seance will bring
him right to us. If it's him, we'll put him to rest.
Sam: What if it's an angel? It won't show, nothing will happen.
Dean: Exactly. It's one of the perks of the job, Sam, we don't
have to operate on faith. We can know for sure. Don't you want
to know for sure?
Dean: What's next, you're going to start praying everyday?
Sam: I do pray.
Dean: What?
Sam: I do pray everyday, I have for a while.
Dean: Things you learn about a guy.
Sam: Dean, what did you see?
Dean: I don't know, maybe... God's will.
Dean: I'll tell you who else had faith like that. Mom. She used
to tell me when she tucked me in that angels were watching over
us. In fact, that was the last thing she ever said to me.
Sam: You never told me that.
Dean: What's to tell? She was wrong. There was nothing protecting
her.
Dean: (talking to Sam) Well I learned a valuable lesson here...always
take down your Christmas decorations after New Year's, or you
might get filleted by a hooker from God.
Dean: (sarcastically) That lore about unicorns is true too. I
hear they ride on silver moonbeams, and shoot rainbows out of
their ass.
Sam: Wait... there's no such thing as unicorns?
Dean: That's cute.
References
Dean: We
just need a few odds and ends and that séance ritual in
Dad's journal.
Sam: Sounds great, I hope Whoopi's available.
This is a reference to the 1990 film, Ghost. In the movie, Whoopi
Goldberg plays a psychic medium who communicates with ghosts.
Dean: Yup, Roma Downey made him do it.
This is a reference to the TV show, Touched by an Angel, in which
Roma Downey plays an angel named Monica who helps people.
Dean: We'll just put it Spongebob-side down.
Referencing the popular Nickelodeon animated TV show, SpongeBob
SquarePants, and the main character, a yellow sponge that wears
pants, works as a fry cook, and lives in a pineapple under the
sea.
Dean: Since when are you all Mr. 700 Club?
The 700 Club is the longest-running Christian programs beginning
in 1966 and hosted by Pat Robertson. It is a mixture of news,
commentaries and interviews about Christian life.
Title
Houses Of The Holy is the title of a Led Zeppelin album and is
also the title of a song off of the album Physical Graffiti. (1973)
“You mean, am I stark-raving cuckoo for coco puffs?”
“I'm cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs!” is one of the taglines
used in commercials for the breakfast cereal Coco Puffs
“But she seriously believes that she was...'touched by
an angel?'”
Dean refers to Touched by an Angel, a TV series in wich 4 Angels
help down-on-their-luck people, wile bringing a message of God.
“You just got to wait for some divine bat signal. Is that
it?”
The Bat-Signal is used by the Gotham City Police Department as
a method of contacting and summoning Batman to their assistance.
“Look, I'll admit, I'm a bit of a skeptic, but since when
are you all Mr. "700 club?”
700 Club is a news talk show with a religious focus.
Sam performs the seance on a Spongebob Squarepants placemat
The movie 'Ghost' is referenced when Sam mentions Whoopi when
the boys discuss doing a seance.