Title Roadkill
Episode # Season 2, Episode 16
First aired March 15, 2007
Directed by Charles Beeson
Written by Raelle Tucker
Outline Sam and Dean set to rest two ghost who have been haunting the same stretch of highway for 15 years.
Monster Ghosts
Location(s) Highway 41 in Nevada
Timeline February 20, 2007
A woman named Molly and her husband are driving down the highway and swerve to miss a farmer who's walking down the road. Their car hits a tree and when Molly wakes up her husband is missing. Sam and Dean discover Molly and find out that the farmer haunts the highway and Molly is most likely his next victim. Sam and Dean set off to stop the farmer before he can claim her.
Music
* The
House of the Rising Sun - The Animals
Trivia
* This
episode is written by the same person who wrote Hunted.
* The conversation Sam has with Molly at the end is very similar
to the conversation the Reaper and Dean had toward the end of
"In My Time of Dying."
* Much of the advertising for this episode focused on the fact
that it guest starred Trisha Helfer.
Quotes
Molly:
Isn’t this argument a little archaic? Men can ask directions
these days.
David: Oh, no we can’t. It’s against our genetic code.
Look, I know exactly where we are.
Molly: We’re nowhere.
David: Highway 99, all right? It cuts right through….. (trails
off as they pass a sign marking Highway 41)
Molly: I know about your wife, hurting me won’t bring her
back.
Farmer: My wife is gone. All I got left’s hurting you.
Molly: Please, just let me go.
Farmer: Go? You’re not gonna leave. You’re never gonna
leave.
(Molly screams)
Molly: What happens if you burn their bones?
Sam: My dad always said it's like death for spirits. But the truth
is, we never know.
Sam: Now you can walk in there, and we're not gonna stop you.
Dean: Yeah, but you are gonna freak him right out.. for life.
Dean: Did he look like he lost a fight with a lawnmower?
Molly: Yeah, how'd you know?
Dean: Lucky guess.
References
Dean: Follow
the creepy brick road.
This is a reference to the movie The Wizard of Oz where Dorothy
and her friends follow a yellow brick road to reach the Wizard.
Dean: Sammy's always gettin' a little J. Love Hewitt when it
comes to this.
Reference to actor Jennifer Love Hewitt whom portrays Melinda
Gordon in the TV drama The Ghost Whisperer, in which she discovers
she has the ability to communicate with the recently deceased.
This is the second time Jennifer Love Hewitt got mentioned in
reference to Sam. The first time being in the episode Asylum.
Dean: Well all right, Haley Joel.
Reference to Haley Joel Osment who is an Academy Award-nominated
American actor that came to fame with his starring role in the
1999 thriller, The Sixth Sense.
Molly: So this is really what you guys do. You're like Ghostbusters.
Reference to the hit 1984 movie starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd,
Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson.