Title The Usual Suspects
Episode # Season 2, Episode 7
First aired 9 November, 2006
Directed by Mike Rohl
Written by Cathryn Humphris
Outline Sam and Dean investigate the murders of a lawyer and his wife who, right before they died, claimed to have seen a ghost.
Monster Death Omen
Location(s) Baltimore, Maryland
Sam and Dean investigate the murders of a lawyer and his wife who claimed to have seen a ghost right before they died. However, after local detectives Ballard (guest star Linda Blair) and Sheridan (guest star Jason Gedrick) uncover the Winchesters' records, they arrest the brothers for a double homicide before they are able to find the ghost. When the ghost begins to visit Ballard, she begins to wonder if the tale Sam and Dean are telling her could be true, and if she might be the next to die.
Music
Trivia
This is the
first episode in which the Impala does not appear.
Linda Blair is credited as Special Guest Star.
Quotes
Dean:
Did she look familiar to you?
Sam: No, why?
Dean: I don't know. Anyway, are you hungry?
Sam: No.
Dean: For some reason I could really go for some pea soup.
Dean: My favorite
kind. What do you think, Scully? You wanna check it out?
Sam: I'm not Scully, you're Scully.
Dean: No, I'm Mulder. You're a red-headed woman.
Sam: I needed
some time off. To deal. So I'm taking a road trip with my brother.
Ballard: How's that going for you?
Sam: Great. I mean... we saw the second largest ball of twine
in the continental US. Awesome.
Dean: My name
is Dean Winchester. I'm an Aquarius. I enjoy sunsets, long walks
on the beach, and frisky women. And I did not kill anyone. But
I know who did. Or rather what did. Of course it can't be for
sure, because our investigation was interrupted. But our working
theory was that we're looking for some kind of vengeful spirit.
Ballard: Excuse me?
Dean: You know, Casper the bloodthirsty ghost? Tony Giles saw
it. I'll bet you cash money Karen did too. But see, the interesting
thing is the word it leaves behind. For some reason it's trying
to tell us something. But communicating across the vale, it ain't
easy. You know, sometimes the spirits, they, they get things jumbled.
You remember "REDRUM". Same concept. You know, it's,
uh, maybe word fragments... other times, it's anagrams. See, at
first we thought this was a name, Dana Shulps. But now we think
it's a street. Ashland. Whatever's going on, I'll bet you it started
there.
Sheridan-You murdered them in cold blood just like that girl in
St. Louis.
Dean: Oh, yeah. That wasn't me either. That was a shape-shifter
creature that only looked like me.
References
* The title
is a reference to the movie The Usual Suspects.
* Dean and
Sam fight over who is "Mulder" and who is "Scully"
Mulder and Scully being the leading duo of The X-Files.
* At the
end of the episode, Dean's mention of feeling in the mood for
"pea soup"
reference to The Exorcist, the film guest star Linda Blair is
best known for.
* Dean's
note to Sam - addressing him as "Hilts" and signing
off as "McQueen"
reference to The Great Escape - Steve McQueen played the lead
character, Captain Hilts.
* Sam and
Dean's practice of picking the first motel in the yellow pages
and signing in as "Jim Rockford".
Jim Rockford is a fictional private investigator from the 1970s
TV series, The Rockford Files.
* Dean referred
to The Shining twice - when he was 'confessing'
he talked about messages from spirits being jumbled, a la 'Redrum'.
When he and Sam were looking at a page of 'danashulps', Dean said
"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy".
* Both Sam
and Dean jokingly call their lawyer "Matlock".
Matlock was a TV legal drama that ran in the late 1980s-early
'90s, 'Matlock' being the name of the defense attorney the series
focused on.