Title Nightshifter
Episode # Season 2, Episode 12
First aired January 25, 2007
Directed by Philip Sgriccia
Written by Ben Edlund
Outline Sam and Dean investigate a string of robberies with a disturbing pattern: In each incident, a trusted employee holds up a bank and then commits suicide.
Monster Shapeshifters
Location(s) City Bank Milwaukee
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
The Winchesters investigate a series of crimes where robbers with no criminal past commit suicide after the hold-ups.
Music
Styx
- Renegade (closing scene)
Rock You Like A Hurricane by The Scorpions
Trivia
The
episode opens with a “Breaking News” television report,
which actually breaks into the opening recap, just as a real “Breaking
News” report would.
In-joke: The "ManDroid" on the cover of Fortean Times
is a Cyberman from the new series of the British science fiction
show Doctor Who, shown on BBC1 in England and Sci-Fi in America.
The issue is FT 209 from May 2006.
Jared Paladecki's cast over his wrist and arm has been taken off.
Quotes
Henricksen:
I know about your dad.
Dean: You don't know crap about my dad.
Henricksen: Ex-marine, raised his kids on the road, cheap motels,
backwood cabins, real pair of military-survivalist type. I just
can't get a handle on what type of wacko he was. White supremest?
Tomatoe, tomahto.
Dean: You got no right, talkin' about my dad like that. He was
a hero.
Sherri: (about Dean) Who is that man?
Sam: He’s my brother.
Sherri: He is so brave! (Sam rolls eyes)
Dean: Are you nuts?
Ronald: That’s just it, I’m not nuts. I mean, I was
so scared that I was losing my marbles, but this is real! I mean,
I was right! Except for the mandroid thing, thank you.
Dean: Yeah, don’t mention it.
(Dean opens vault where hostages are being hidden)
Sherri: Oh my god! You saved us. You saved us!
Dean: Actually, I just met some more. (ushers more hostages in)
Lt. Robarts: (about the Feds taking over the situation) Let me
guess. You’re lead dog now, but you would just love my full
cooperation.
Hendrickson: I don’t give a rat’s ass what you do. You
can go get a donut and bang your wife for all I care.
Ronald: This is not a robbery! Everybody on the floor, now!
Sam: Shapeshifter. Just like back at St. Louis. Same retinal reaction
to video.
Dean: Eyes flare at the camera. I hate those freaking things.
Sam: You think I don't?
Dean: Well yeah, but one didn't turn into you and frame you for
murder.
Ronald: Chinese been working on 'em for years, and the Russians
before that. Part man, part machine, like the Terminator, but
the kind that can change itself, make itself look like other people.
Dean: (enthusiastic) Like the one from T2?
Ronald: Exactly! See, so not just a robot, more of a... a... a
Mandroid.
Sam: A Mandroid?!
Ronald: The thing I let into the bank... wasn't Juan. I mean,
it had his face, but it wasn't his face. Ah, every detail was
perfect but too perfect, you know, like if a dollmaker made it,
like I was talking to a big Juan doll.
Sam: A Juan doll?
Dean: Well, thanks, Frannie, I think that's all I need.
Frannie: Really? I mean, 'cause I've got more. You know, if you
wanted to interview me some time, in private...?
Dean: Yeah... Yeah, I think that's a good idea. You're a true
patriot, you really are. Why don't you write your number down
there for me, that'd be good. (edit)
Frannie: So, what's it like, being an FBI guy?
Dean: Well, it's dangerous, yeah. And the secrets we gotta keep,
oh God, the secrets. But mostly it's... it's lonely.
Ronald: Get on the floor, now!
Dean: Okay, we're doing that. Just don't shoot anybody, especially
not us.
Ronald: I knew it, as soon as you two left. You ain't FBI. Who
are you? Who are you working for, huh? The Men in Black? You working
for the Mandroid?
Sam: We're not working for the Mandroid!
Ronald: You shut up! I ain't talking to you. I don't like you!
Sam: Fair enough.
(talking to Dean on the phone)
Hendrickson: It's my job to bring you in, alive's a bonus but
not necessary.
Dean: Woah, kind of harsh for a federal agent, don'tcha think?
Hendrickson: Well, you're not the typical suspect, are you Dean?
I want you and Sam out here, unarmed or we come in. And yes, I
know about Sam too, Bonnie to your Clyde.
Dean: Yeah, well, that parts true...but how'd you know we were
here?
Dean: Looks like Mr. Okey Dokey is okey dokey.
Dean: I'm not just gonna walk in here naked!
Dean: We are so screwed.
Dean: I like (the bank guard). He says "okey dokey."
Sam: What if he's the shifter?
Dean: We follow him home, put a silver bullet in his chest.
Sam: What, are you pissed at me or something?
Dean: No, I just think it's creepy how good of a Fed you are.
I mean, come on, we could have at least thrown the guy a bone.
He did some pretty good leg work here.
Sam: (laughs) Mandroid?
Dean: Except for the Mandroid part.
Dean: Friggin' cops.
Sam: They're just doing their job.
Dean: No, they're doing our job, only they don't know it so they
suck at it. (edit)
References
Dean: I don’t
think he likes you Agent Johnson.
Dean is referring to Sam as Agent Johnson from The Matrix Reloaded,
the second installment of The Matrix series, written and directed
by the Wachowski brothers.
FBI Badges
When Sam and Dean present their fake FBI badges for Ronald to
inspect, Sam's badge reads "Han Solo," and Dean's reads
"Jack Ryan." Han Solo is the character played by Harrison
Ford in the Star Wars films, and Jack Ryan is a fictional CIA
officer created by writer Tom Clancy. Harrison Ford also played
Jack Ryan in Patriot Games (1992) and Clear and Present Danger
(1994).
Ronald: ...like the Terminator, but the kind that can change
itself, make itself look like other people.
They are referring to the 1991 film, Terminator 2: Judgement Day.
The Terminator that can change forms is the T-1000, played by
Robert Patrick, who is the antagonist of the film.
Ronald: I knew it, as soon as you two left. You ain't FBI.
Who are you? Who are you working for, huh? The Men in Black?
Referencing the 1997 movie Men in Black starring Will Smith and
Tommy Lee Jones as government agents dedicated to dealing with
alien menaces.
Ronald brandishes Fortean Times, on which the cover story is an
article on Cyberman, a reference to the popular television series
Doctor Who.
"He's
the Bonnie to your Clyde"
Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were notorious robbers and criminals
who traveled the central United States during the Great Depression.