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Title	Born Under a Bad Sign
Episode #	Flavor 2, Episode 14
Outset aired	February 8, 2007
Directed past	J. Miller Tobin
Written past	Cathryn Humphris
On IMDB	Born Under a Bad Sign
Outline	Subsequently receiving a frantic call from Sam, who has been missing for over a week, Dean races to his brother'south side.
Monster	Meg
Timeline
Location(south)	Twin Lakes, Wisconsin Otter Creek, Iowa Duluth, Minnesota Sioux Falls, Due south Dakota
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Synopsis

The teaser starts with Dean speaking on the phone with Ellen. Sam has been gone for a week. All of a sudden, he gets a phone call from Sam. Dean hurries off and finds Sam dazed and covered in blood. Sam tells Dean the blood isn't his and that he doesn't remember a thing.

Together, the boys follow a string of clues to try and discover what happened to Sam during the missing days. They happen upon a storage unit of measurement for which Sam has the key. When they open it, they find a stolen car, and inside the car, a bloody knife on the floor. Clues lead them onward to a gas station where a startled worker demands that Sam exit. Apparently, while Sam visited during the missing week, he began concatenation smoking and downing beer, fifty-fifty throwing the bottles at the worker's head, a revelation that confuses Dean. The brothers detect themselves at a firm and within they find the corpse of a hunter, Steve Wandell. They picket the security videos in silent horror, seeing Sam grapple with Wandell before slitting his throat.

Dean is thrown off by what has happened, and they worry that Sam might be turning evil. Back at the cabin, Sam asks Dean to brand good his promise to kill Sam should he turn evil. Dean cannot bring himself to kill his brother, proverb, "I'd rather die." To which Sam says, "Y'all'll live to regret it," earlier knocking his brother unconscious. Dean rouses in the morn when the hotel staff kicks him out. He traces Sam's phone to Duluth, Minnesota. Sam has found Jo, in her ain equivalent of a road-house. He starts to come onto her and she resists. He knocks her out.

When she awakes, she is bound to a pillar. Sam tells her that, "My daddy shot your daddy in the caput," in a sing-song voice, revealing that John killed Bill to put him out of his misery. Just before Sam tin can practise any more, Dean bursts in, and Sam pleads again for Dean to impale him, or else Sam will kill Jo. Dean is unable to go through with it, turning abroad from an angry Sam who shouts that Dean would rather permit innocents die than face life without his brother. Dean all of a sudden turns around, splashing the contents of his flask on Sam.

Information technology is holy water and it sears Sam, who is revealed to have been possessed by a demon. Demon-Sam escapes through the window and Dean gives hunt. The demon taunts Dean that its programme all along was to button Dean far enough that he'd kill Sam and that information technology'll utilise Sam'southward torso to notice and impale every hunter it tin. The chase finally ends on a dock, where demon-Sam shoots Dean, who falls into the water. Thinking him dead, demon-Sam leaves.

Jo aimlessly tries Dean'southward cell, earlier finding him wounded but alive. She fixes him upwards, taking the bullet out of his shoulder. Jo quietly asks if demons always tell the truth, to which Dean replies that they can occasionally if they know it volition get to a person, but Jo refuses to reveal annihilation more than that. She offers to help, but Dean forbids her to follow.

Demon-Sam turns upwards at some other hunter'south home, Bobby Singer. Bobby lets Sam in and offers him a beer, toasting to John Winchester. Every bit Demon-Sam drinks up, he all of a sudden collapses, smoke coming out of his mouth. Bobby reveals that he'd mixed the beer with holy water and tells him, "Don't try to con a con man" before knocking him unconscious.

Demon-Sam wakes later to find himself in the center of a devil's trap. Dean is already in that location, and Bobby starts the exorcism. The demon inside Sam snarls viciously at the chant and Dean tells it that no matter what kind of plans that the Yellow-Eyed Demon has in store, Dean will not permit anything happen to Sam. The demon laughs at him and says that information technology being there has nothing to do with the "Chief Plan". Bobby's incantation fails to expel the demon, which gleefully begins its own incantations. Bobby finds a binding link on Sam's arm, which effectively locks the demon inside of Sam and neither he nor Dean know what to do adjacent. Meanwhile, Demon-Sam's incantations affect the devil's trap on the ceiling, cracking it to pieces and finally allowing the demon access to its powers again.

Sam turns back to Dean, optics now blackness, and flings both him and Bobby using telekinesis. He pulls himself free from the chair and starts to requite Dean a beating, punching him viciously and squeezing his injured shoulder. The demon reveals itself to be the same one that possessed Meg, who has crawled out of hell, bent on getting her revenge. One thousand thousand tells Dean that no thing how much she tortures him, it's nothing compared to the way Dean tortures himself over losing their father and over potentially losing Sam. Before she can strike Dean again, Bobby grabs Demon-Sam'due south arm and burns the mark on Sam's forearm with a hot iron rod, destroying the link. Sam screams as the demon exits him and escapes via the fireplace.

Later, the two are sitting at Bobby's place nursing their wounds when Bobby informs them that Steve Wandell has been murdered and that his hunter comrades are out looking for blood. He tells the boys to continue their mouths close well-nigh information technology. Bobby besides gives the brothers charm amulets to forestall future possessions before Sam and Dean hit the road once more. Along the road, Sam reveals to Dean he was awake for some of the things that 1000000 did in his body; he was even awake to watch Steve Wandell being murdered by his own two hands. He also rebukes Dean for not taking activeness and killing him when asked, as this could have been the moment their begetter warned Dean about before his death. Dean tells him that John told him he'd either have to salvage Sam or impale him and he will definitely find a way to salvage Sam in the finish.

Characters

• Sam Winchester
• Dean Winchester
• Bobby Singer
• Jo Harvelle
• One thousand thousand
• Steve Wandell

Definitions

• Alcohol
• Bounden Link
• Bobby's Hats
• Charm Amulet
• Dean's Amulet
• Dean'southward Cell Telephone
• Deer's Head
• Demon Smoke
• Demonology
• Devil's Gate Reservoir
• Devil's Trap
• Evil!Sam
• Fights
• Hellspawn
• Holy Water
• Holy Water in the Face
• Possession
• Richard (Richie) Sambora
• Sammy
• Sam'southward Prison cell Phone
• Singer Salvage One thousand
• Table of Death
• Telekinesis
• Unconscious

Music

• "Ashes to Ashes" by Tarbox Ramblers

(plays when Demon!Sam enters the bar)

• "The Crystal Ship" past The Doors

(plays while Demon!Sam talks to the tied upwards Jo)

• "Back on the Road Again" by REO Speedwagon

(plays at the end of the episode, while they talk about everything that has happened)

Quotes

Dean: Sam, what the hell happened?
Sam: Dean. I don't recall anything.

Sam: What if this is what Dad warned you near?

Dean: Hey, whoa, whoa, come on homo, let's not leap the gun here. Nosotros don't know what happened. We've merely got to treat this like, like any other job. What'southward the final thing you lot remember?
Sam: But me and you, but, in that cabin room in West Texas, going out to catch some burgers, and...
Dean: Due west Texas? That was, that was over a calendar week ago.

Sam: That'south it. Adjacent thing I knew I was sitting here. Encarmine. Felt like I'd been comatose for a month.

Dean: What's going on with you, Sam? Hm? 'Cause smoking, throwing bottles at people, I hateful, that sounds more similar me than you.

Sam: Dean, the yellow-eyed demon, you know he has plans for me. And nosotros both know that he's turned other children into killers before, too.
Dean: No 1 can control yous but you.

One thousand thousand/Sam: Well, Dean's more similar my father than I am, simply h... Boy. You're actually carrying a torch for him, aren't you? I'll take that as a yes. It's likewise bad. (SAM is grin tightly.) 'Cause see, Dean, he likes yous, sure, but not in the style you'd desire. I mean, perhaps as kind of a... a little sis, you know? Just -- romance, that's but out of the question, he -- he kind of thinks you're a schoolgirl, you know? I'm non trying to hurt you, Jo, I -- I'm telling you 'cause I care.
Jo: That'south real kind of yous, Sam.

Jo: Our Dads were in California: Devil's Gate Reservoir. They were setting a trap for some kind of hellspawn. John was hiding, waiting, and my Dad was bait.

Sam: That's just similar John. Oh, I'll bet he dangled Pecker like meat on a claw. And then what?
Jo: The affair showed up. John got too eager, jumped out besides before long, got my Dad exposed, out in the open. The thing turned effectually ... and killed him.

Sam: Hmm. Not quite.

Sam: You run into, Bill... was all clawed up. Was holding his insides in his easily. He was gurgling and... praying to see you and Ellen 1 more than time. And so my Dad... killed him. Put him out of his misery similar a sick dog.

Jo: Y'all're lying.
Sam: I'1000 non. It'southward true. My Daddy shot your daddy in the head...
Jo: How could you know that?

Sam: I hear things.

One thousand thousand/Sam: How? You can't hurt me. Non without hurting your little blood brother. See, I think you're gonna die, Dean. You and every other hunter I can find. One look every bit Sam's dewy, sensitive eyes? They'll allow me right in their door.

One thousand thousand/Sam: What'd you do?!
Bobby: A piddling holy water in the beer. Sam never would take noticed. But then, you're not Sam are you. Don't endeavour to con a con man.

Dean: Dude, y'all -- you like, full-on had a girl within you for like a whole week. That'southward pretty naughty.

Trivia & References

"Built-in Under a Bad Sign" is a reference to the vocal and anthology of the same proper noun by blues musician Albert King.

Dean: You checked in two days ago under the name Richard Sambora. Of grade, I think the scariest part almost this whole matter is the fact that you're a Bon Jovi fan.

Demon-Sam checked into his motel room as Richard Sambora - a reference to Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora. Dean's annotate on being disturbed that this suggests Sam is a Bon Jovi fan is arguably a reference to the fact that Jared Padalecki starred in a film with Jon Bon Jovi, Cry Wolf. Though he mocks the thought of Sam listening to Bon Jovi, Dean later admits in 3.16 No Rest for the Wicked that "Bon Jovi rocks - on occasion."

Clerk: What, am I speaking Urdu?

Sam: Look, I'm really sad if I did annihilation --
Clerk: Tell your story walkin', pal. Popo will be hither in five.

Urdu is a language historically associated with the Muslims of the region of Hindustan. Popo is slang for law officer.

Dean: Holy... Either this guy's a Unabomber...

Sam: Or a hunter. Dean, I call back I killed a hunter.

The Unabomber (existent proper name Ted Kaczynski) was infamous for his mail bombings that he sent to several universities and airlines from the 1970's to the 1990's.

Dean: Hi, um, so sorry to bother you, but uh, my son snuck out of the house last dark and, uh, went to a Justin Timberlake concert. (pause) What? Yep. No, Justin is quite the triple threat. Uh, anyway, he's non back yet, and, and I'grand just, I'm starting to worry.

Justin Timberlake: Renaissance human who is "quite the triple threat" e.grand. sings, dances, acts. The phrase originated in football where it refers to a histrion who excels at running, passing, and kick.

Dean's account with the A-line Mobile Phone Service is under the name Dean J. Mahogoff. "Jack Mahogoff" is a wordplay related to masturbation used in pranks (sound information technology out real slow!), according to Urban Dictionary. This is the same alias as Dean'south credit card in 2.11 Playthings.

Throughout the dock scene of this episode the telephone call of a loon can be heard. The loon is the Minnesota official Land Bird.

Dean mocks Jo for playing REO Speedwagon in 2.05_Simon_Said (because the lead singer "sings from the pilus") yet REO Speedwagon is playing on the radio afterward he says cheerio to her at the end of this case.

Minutiae

I of the driving shots during this episode seems to be the aforementioned footage used in 1.04 Phantom Traveler with digital alterations.

Screencaps from one.04 (top) & ii.fourteen (bottom)

Sam was in room number 109 of the motel.

Steve Wandell had a daughter who, presumably, didn't live with him.

Jo is working at "The Sandpiper" bar in Duluth.

As far as Jo is aware, John and Bill were in California. Nib was bait for the hellspawn and when John got likewise eager, the hellspawn killed Nib. Sam tells her that Bill was injured, just non dead, and John killed him to put him out of his misery. Whether this is truthful or not is unclear.

When Dean'south cell phone rings, of course it has a classic-rock-song-mode ringtone. The song that plays sounds quite similar to the intro of the 1967 song Sunshine of Your Love, by the band Cream.

Sides, Scripts & Transcripts

• ii.14 Born Nether a Bad Sign (transcript)

Promotion

• Promo

Episode Meta

• SPN Heavy Meta Season Two Meta Index
• 2.14 Born Under a Bad Sign: Messing With Your Caput past bardicvoice (February 2007); archive link
• Bail, Silvia. 2008. The Devil Yous'd Like To Know: "Born Under a Bad Sign" Season 2, Episode fourteen. Pink Raygun, August 19; archive link

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