Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things (Supernatural)
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| “Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things” | |
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| Supernatural episode | |
 Neil and the zombie Angela |
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| Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 4 |
| Guest stars | Jared Keeso Christopher Jacot Tamara Feldman Leela Savasta Serge Houde |
| Written by | Raelle Tucker |
| Directed by | Kim Manners |
| Production no. | 3T5504 |
| Original airdate | October 19, 2006 |
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"Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things" is episode four of the second season of the television series Supernatural. This episode deals with necromancy and zombies.
[edit] Plot synopsis
Dean and Sam Winchester head to Lawrence, Kansas so Sam can visit their mother's "grave"—a headstone erected by an uncle they've never met. While Sam buries their father's Marine dog tags in front of the headstone, Dean notices a grave surrounded by a perfect circle of dead vegetation. Sam thinks Dean is just looking for a hunt, but when they ask around, it turns out that Angela Mason was buried there just three days before. Her father is a professor of Greek history, an expert in their death rituals, and her ex-boyfriend Matt claims to be seeing her everywhere he goes before he suddenly dies at the hands of Angela. His death is ruled a suicide.
Dean visits Angela's roommate, Lindsey, pretending to be Angela's cousin, "Alan Stanwyk." Shaken up by the deaths of Angela and Matt, Dean consoles her and steals Angela's diary. From there, they visit Neil Levine, Angela's best friend, where the brothers learn that Matt cheated on Angela. Thinking Angela has returned as a vengeful spirit, the Winchesters dig up Angela's grave to salt and burn the body, but inside they find an empty coffin with Greek runes carved into the wood. With a possible zombie on the loose, Dean violently confronts Angela's father. But when Sam points out that the house is full of live plants, the boys instead focus on Neil, who is Professor Mason's teaching assistant.
In Neil's home, the boys find a zombie pen. Neil has raised Angela from the dead with necromancy to fulfill his unrequited love for her. With no conclusive leads on how to kill a zombie, Dean and Sam are ill-prepared when they first confront Angela, who is now trying to kill Lindsey, who slept with Matt. She moves fast and is barely harmed by silver bullets, but the boys manage to save her roommate's life. Thinking they must pin Angela back into her coffin, they catch up with Neil at his office to warn him and lure Angela back to the graveyard. But it's too late: when a scared Neil draws away from Angela, she kills him.
In the graveyard, the brothers wait for Angela, luring her into a trap. Sam draws her out into the graveyard, and Dean unloads several rounds of silver bullets into her until she falls into her open grave bed. He then pins her into the coffin, and Angela returns to death. The boys fill in her grave, and leave town the next morning. Sam briefly asks Dean if he wants to stay a while and finally visit his mother's gravestone, but he refuses. On the road, Dean suddenly pulls over his Chevrolet Impala, where he tells Sam of his guilt over their father's sacrifice of his life and The Colt to save Dean. He states that, "I was dead and I should have stayed dead."
[edit] Production notes
- Dean's pseudonym, "Alan Stanwyk," is the name of a character in the 1974 novel Fletch. This is a departure from Dean's usual selection of rock musicians as pseudonyms.
- The title of the episode is a reference to Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things, a 1972 zombie film.
- John Winchester's dog tags read:
- Winchester
- John
- 306-00-3594
- Type - AB
- Non Religious
- After Dean bends over to look at Angela's roses, the viewer can see a stainless steel bead necklace around his neck. It's gone when the camera focuses on the roses and then back on Dean.
- Summer Glau, best known for her role as River Tam on the short-lived Joss Whedon series Firefly, was originally cast to play Angela Mason, but was replaced with Tamara Feldman.[citation needed]
- When Dean asks if they can just "waste it with a head shot," Sam replies that Dean has watched too many Romero flicks, a reference to the zombie-horror director George A. Romero.
- Sam complains that the zombie had hurt his hand. In the following episodes, you see Sam wearing a brace on his hand and forearm. This was written into the script after Jared Padalecki actually broke his arm filming.
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