Title Folsom Prison Blues
Episode # Season 2, Episode 19
First aired April 26, 2007
Directed by Mike Rohl
Written by John Shiban
Outline Sam and Dean engineer their own arrest in order to hunt in a haunted prison.
Monster Spirit
Location(s) Green River County Detention Center
Sam and Dean allow themselves to be arrested in order to investigate a series of murders inside a penitentiary. However things get complicated when FBI agent Henricksen shows up to take over their case.
Music
* Green
Onions by Booker T and the M.G.'s
* Rooster by Alice in Chains
Trivia
In the
beginning of the episode, Dean is seen without his amulet and
ring. This is the first episode in which he does not have these
two belongings. This is because of the fact that all belongings
are taken away from an individual as soon as he or she steps into
the prison, and Dean planned ahead.
* When Sam questions Dean’s description of the prisoners
killed by the ghost as innocent victims, Dean responds "Are
you from Texas all of a sudden?" a reference to the fact
both Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles are from Texas which has
the highest rate of executions in the United States.
* Folsom Prison Blues is the name of a Johnny Cash song.
* Obviously anticipating his belongings being confiscated in prison, Dean is not wearing his amulet or rings when arrested.
* When Dean stands up, hands full of cigarettes, ready to trade them for a lighter, he shouts out "Hey fellas, who's running a deal?". You can see Jared grinning and mouthing the lines with Jensen.
Quotes
Dean:
(As Henrickson and Reid walk into the room): Oh it’s about
time. I’ll have a cheeseburger. Extra onions.
Henrickson: You think you’re funny
Dean: I think I’m adorable.
Henrickson: And after Milwaukee your brother is now a suspect
in a murder case himself. I’d say for you two, screwed to
hell is a major understatement.
Dean: Well where there’s life there’s hope, huh?
Hendrickson: See, that’s what I kept thinking as I was searching
for your asses all over hell and gone.
Mara: Yes. And considering the charges you're facing, no judge
in his right mind is going to grant you bail.
Dean: Yeah, we figured that.
Dean: Don’t worry, Sam - I promise I won't trade you for
smokes.
Dean: We may not be saints, but we’re loyal and we pay our
debts. Now that means something to me and it ought to to you.
Sam: You sure it's him?
Dean: Pretty sure.
Sam: Considering our circumstances, I'm gonna need a little bit
better than "Pretty sure".
Dean: Really pretty sure.
Dean: (trying to pick a fight with Tiny): I wanted to ask you,
because I couldn't help but notice that you are two tons of fun,
just curious: Is it like a thyroid problem or is it some deep
seated self-esteem issue? 'Cuz you know - they’re just donuts.
Not love.
Randall: No, it's still kinda foggy.
Sam: {about the cigarettes} Give it to him.
Dean: {stubbornly} I earned these.
Sam: {exasperated} Dean-
Dean: Are you
sure about this?
Sam: Pretty sure.
Dean: Yeah, well, considering the circumstances I'd like a little
better then pretty sure.
Sam: Okay, really pretty sure.
Sam: You've
heard in the yard?
Dean: Yeah.
Sam: Dean, does it bother you at all, how easily you seem to fit
in here?
Dean: No, not really.
References
Dean (mugging
for the police photographer): I call this one my Blue Steel…Who
looks better – me or Nick Nolte?”
* Blue
Steel was the name of a modeling pose belonging to the really
really ridiculously handsome Derek Zoolander in the movie Zoolander.
* When in 2002 Nick Nolte was arrested in for drunk driving, his
mug shot showed him with wild hair and wearing an Hawaiian shirt.
Lucas: You talking to me? You talking to me?
Dean: Okay another guy who’s seen Taxi Driver one too many
times.
* You talking to me is a much quoted line from Robert De Niro’s
character Travis Bickel in Taxi Driver.
Dean: I wish
I had a baseball. You know, like Steve McQueen.
* In The Great Escape, when sent to solitary Steve McQueen’s
character Hilts bounces a baseball against the wall.
Dean: That’s
the Sammy I know. You’re like Clint Eastwood from Escape
from Alcatraz.
* Escape from Alcatraz features Clint Eastwood as Frank Morris
who escapes from Alcatraz prison.
Dean: It’s
a good thing I’m like James Garner from The Great Escape.
* In The Great Escape, James Garner’s character Hendley is
the scrounger who ingeniously gets all the items needed for the
escape.
Randall:
She did this Charles Bronson thing with a hypodermic.
* A reference to the vigilante role of Charles Bronson in the
movie Death Wish.
Sam: Thought
we screwed before?
Dean: Hell yeah, I know. We gotta go deep this time.
Sam: Deep, Dean? We should go to Yemen.
Dean: Not sure I’m ready to go that deep.
* In
the episode 4.15 of Friends The One With All The Rugby, Chandler
pretends his company is transferring him to Yemen in order to
avoid a scary ex-girlfriend.