RECAP

Realtor Wendy Goodson goes to the salon and getting her hair taken care of. She finishes a call to a client and the hairdresser, Chris, sets her up beneath the hairdryer. As Wendy reads, she gets increasingly hotter and finally tries to remove the dyer. It’s stuck and shorts out as she tries to remove it, electrocuting her. Chris returns and screams in horror at the sight.

Dean is trying to sleep and has dreams of Castiel, Sam shooting at him, and finally his killing Amy. He wakes up and sees that Sam has already gotten up and gone running. Dean pours himself a drink and finds a case about two bizarre deaths in Prosperity, Indiana. Sam is more interested in finding out what the matter is with Dean, and Dean explains that he’s still the same no matter how much Sam has changed it. Sam accepts it and goes to shower up.

Chet the Leviathan is tracking the Winchesters and reports into his bosses. He then puts his groceries in the trunk of the car he’s using, where he’s keeping a corpse.to feed on.

Sam and Dean arrive in Prosperity and Sam talks to Wendy’s sister. She explains that everyone loved Wendy, who was in real estate. The other dead man, Carl Dunlap, was an architect but the sister insists that they didn’t know each other. Meanwhile, Dean talks to Chris at the salon and confirms that the hairdryer couldn’t have done what it did. He looks around and finds coin behind the chair, and calls to tell Sam what he’s found. As Dean walks down the street, he notices a bus bench with an advertisement photo of Wendy on it, surrounded by dead plants. Once he brings Sam up to speed, he goes to a liquor store to buy a bottle.

At a construction yard, the owner, Dewey Stevens, goes into a porta potty. As he uses it, an air compressor on a nearby truck starts up despite the fact it’s not plugged in and the nail gun fastened to it rises into the air. It goes to the door and shoots Dewey as he comes out, pinning him to the door. It then moves up to him and fires two more shots through his eyes before dropping to the ground.

Later, Dean talks to the sheriff as he secures the death scene. The sheriff points out that there’s no generator on the truck and they’re not sure exactly how Dewey was murdered. Dean finds another coin inside the porta potty and then goes to Dewey’s office where Sam is checking out the owner’s computer. He’s learned from the e-logs that Dewey, Wendy, and Carl were all working on a mall construction project and it fell through. They were working with a developer, Don Stark, and the brothers determine that he’s a local philanthropist. They figure that he’ll be next. As they discuss the case next to Don’s commemorative bust outside the community center, Sam notices that Dean is now drinking from a flask and points out that he’s drinking on the job. Bobby calls in and tells them that the coin is a Romanian ducat dating back to the 15th century. They notice that the plants around a statue of Don are dying, and Dean remembers the plants around Wendy’s picture.

Chat drives toward Prosperity.

Sam and Dean meet with Don at his home, and he says that the shopping mall project just fell through for no particular reason. His assistant Jenny Klein comes by to take his suits to the dry cleaner. Once she leaves, Sam says that he needs to use the bathroom. While Dean keeps Don distracted, Sam searches Don’s bedroom and finds a box filled with hex tokens and scrolls of spells.

Sam goes back downstairs as Don boasts that everyone admires him. Sam points out that they’ve heard that he and his wife Maggie are getting a divorce, and asks what the issues were between them. Don talks vaguely about it and Dean figures that Maggie caught Don cheating on her with a business associate. Don admits it and dismisses it as a thing, and says that Maggie just needed some time off. The brothers figure that Wendy was the business associate and suggest that he try to make it up to Maggie. Outside, the brothers notice that there are dead plants around the house. Dean calls Bobby and asks him to do some research on witches and how to stop them.

The brothers go to Maggie’s house and makes sure that she’s gone. Once they do, Dean breaks in while Sam stands watch outside. Dean finds a closet filled with blood-smeared photos of the three victims as well as Jenny. Outside, Sam sees Maggie pull up and calls to warn Dean, only to get a busy signal. He approaches Maggie and asks her to talk to him, but she refuses. He sets off the car alarm to warn Dean, who grabs the photo of Jenny and manages to slip out without being seen. He warns Sam that Maggie will soon realize that the photo is gone and they head over to save Jenny.

Jenny is making cupcakes in her kitchen, unaware that Maggie is using her blood to cast a spell on another photo of Jenny. Jenny samples one of her cupcakes but then realizes that the cupcake is oozing blood from a small beating heart inside of it. She drops it and starts choking, vomiting up blood. Dean and Sam burst in and search for the coin, and Sam finds and destroys it just in time. Jenny demands to know what happened and they explain that she was hexed. The brothers tell her to get out of town and stay away from Don, but she says that she isn’t involved with Don. Jenny insists that he’s her boss and nothing else.

Maggie is preparing for an art auction at the community center and her friend Sue apologizes for telling her about Don and Wendy. Don arrives and accuses Sue of spreading lies, but Sue says that he’s a serial philanderer. Maggie comes back and Don talks to her, insisting that none of it was he fault and that Maggie was the one who was never there for him. He tells her that she’s had her fun with Wendy and it’s time to stop. Maggie blames Don and his ego, and he points out that two FBI agents came by. She knows that the Winchesters are hunters and tells her husband that she’ll take care of them, but Don says that it stops, now.

Don goes outside and notices the dead plants around his statue. The ground shakes and his statue cracks in half. The Winchesters pull up and notice the destruction, and Don sees them. The brothers figures that Maggie will destroy the town in her anger. Bobby calls and gives them the ingredients for the anti-witch spell.

That night, Maggie rehearses her speech for the art auction while Sue applauds her. She tells Maggie that everything’s perfect and touches Maggie’s shoulder, and Maggie says that she’s remembered that she has to take care of the finger sandwiches.

Sam returns to the motel with the chicken feet that the spell requires. He says that the butcher’s freezer is out and that the townspeople are having a run of bad luck.

At the art auction, Maggie and Sue share a drink but Sue discovers that there’s an eyeball in her martini. The paintings start to melt and Maggie realizes that Don is responsible. Sue wonders how he did it but Maggie says that that it doesn’t matter. Her friend says that Maggie has friends that love her… and a tray levitates across the room and decapitates her. Don drives away, smiling, and Maggie vows war.

Sam and Dean arrive at the hall and discover that the police are there cleaning up after Sue’s death. They realize that Don must be responsible and they’re dealing with two witches, not one. They drive off, unaware that Chet is watching them.

The brothers park outside of Don’s house, figuring that the couple will confront each other directly since they’ve killed each other’s toys. Maggie arrives and storms in, saying they’re going to have it out. The brothers arrive and cast the spell, but nothing happens and Maggie points out that they didn’t properly chill the chicken feet. As the couple casts a joint spell of destruction, Sam says that they have to go to Plan B; counseling. Dean steps forward and says that they must value what they had and want to keep things going. He suggests that they have something erotic going, and Sam steps in. Maggie points out that Don had an affair on her, but Sam says that there might be blame on both sides. Maggie strikes him down and Dean tries to appeal to her, and Don strikes him down.

The couple start arguing about all of their issues over the centuries and the affairs that both of them have had. Don finally says that he didn’t do anything with Jenny, and Dean confirms that it’s true. As the couple start to talk, Sam says that’s all they needed. Don creates a horde of bees to attack Dean, and then admits to Maggie that she’s all that he’s ever wanted. Maggie admits she could never murder him either and they kiss.

Later, Sam and Dean return to their motel room and Dean drinks again. He then complains that Sam is judging him. Chet is waiting for them and tells them that they’ll be dead in a minute. Dean shoots him without effect and they realize that he’s a Leviathan. He grabs both of them and starts choking them, but Don arrives and brings him down with a magic spell. They thank him and he wonders what it is, and says that his spell will only last for a couple of days. Don then removes one of Maggie’s hex coins from beneath their bed, pointing out that they did try to kill her and she still wants revenge.

The brothers toss Chet in the trunk and call Bobby to say that they’ll be making a delivery. As they prepare to leave, Sam asks if Dean listened to the Starks. He talks about how they opened up and that it worked, and that Dean should do the same. Dean says that there’s always something eating at him but Sam figures there’s something specific going on. He asks if they’re good and Dean says that they are and gets in the Impala without another word.

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GUEST STARS

	James Marsters	…	Don Stark
	Charisma Carpenter	…	Maggie Stark
	Sean Owen Roberts	…	Chet / Leviathan
	Meredith McGeachie	…	Sue
	Cindy Busby	…	Jenny Klein
	Jason Bax	…	Dewey Stevens
	Tanya Hubbard	…	Wendy’s Sister
	Nils Hognestad	…	Chris
	Aly Purrott-Armstrong	…	Wendy Goodson (as Alycia Purrott)
	Michael Patric	…	Deputy
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
	Misha Collins	…	Castiel (archive footage)
	Jewel Staite	…	Amy Pond (archive footage)

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TRAILER/CLIPS

Trailer – Clip 01 – Clip 02 – Preview – Funny Deleted Scene

MUSIC

“Salon Music” by Watt Son
(plays in the hair salon)

“See the Funny Little Clown” by Bobby Goldsboro
(plays over the scene of Chet driving)

“Alegretto” (Opus 1 Music)
(plays during the auction)

Murmures de la Seine, Nocturne in E-flat, Opus 9 No. 2 by Frederic Chopin
(playing in Maggie and Don’s house when Sam and Dean show up)

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QUOTES

Dean: (to Sam) Somebody better be chasing you.

Dean: All right, so – so, you might see things different now, uh – call it a runner’s high or some crap – but that doesn’t mean that something’s going on with me, okay?
Sam: Yeah, okay.
Dean: No, don’t say ‘yeah, okay,’ like [mocks him] ‘Yeah, okay.’
Sam: Yeah, okay.

Jenny: There were tiny beating hearts in my cupcakes. There were hearts in my cupcakes, hearts in my cupcakes! [becoming hysterical] That’s never happened before! Hearts in my cupcakes!

Dean: Look – obviously, you two are capable of wiping each other out, right? But you haven’t, huh? Which means that you two – you still value whatever it is you got. A-and you want keep that dance going. Maybe it’s – maybe it’s punishment. Maybe it’s – it’s sick, messed-up, erotic, kinky, clamps and feathers kind of love.

TRIVIA

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The episode title “Shut Up, Dr Phil” is a reference to TV personality and relationships advice guru Phil McGraw.

 
Dr. Phil was also referenced in 6.04 Weekend at Bobby’s when Bobby said to Crowley: “Do I look like Dr. Phil to you?”

 
Charisma Carpenter and James Marsters both appeared in the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. See the entry Buffy for other connections between these series and Supernatural.

 
Wendy’s Sister: If they had worked together, I would’ve heard the name. Agent Sambora… If someone did this to my sister, find out who.

Richie Sambora is the guitarist for the band Bon Jovi.

Dean: Don Stark. Why do I know that name?

Dean might know the name if he’s a fan of That ’70s Show. Don Stark is the actor who plays Donna’s father, Bob Pinciotti. Stark also happens to appear briefly in 2.18 Hollywood Babylon, as producer Jay Wiley.

Sam: Really? From a freaking flask? What are you – Bad Santa?

Bad Santa is a black comedy starring Billy Bob Thornton about an alcoholic who works as Santa, and each year robs the mall he’s working.

Dean: It’s kind of like Bewitched. Don’s Darrin, doesn’t even know it, lots of laughs until you cheat on your wife
Sam: A Bewitched reference. Really?
Dean: Hey, Nicole Kidman was in the remake. Redhead, hello!
and
Sam: Bewitched just got a lot less funny.
Dean: It’s like when they switched Darrins.

Bewitched was a 1960s sitcom about an average suburban couple – Darren and his wife Samantha, who is a witch. A film adaption starring Nicole Kidman was made in 2005. On the original show, the actor who played Darrin fell ill and was abruptly replaced by another actor. Dean’s reference to this leads one to believe that he is in fact a fan of the original.

Dean: So, we need our kind of Terminix.

Terminix is the world’s largest pest control company.

Dean: That means we got not just one pissed-off witch. We’ve got two. It’s full-on “War of the Roses.”

The War of the Roses was a series of civil wars fought in England in the 15th century between two branches of the Royal bloodline, the House of Lancaster, and The House of York. However, Dean is likely referring here to the 1989 black comedy featuring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner as a wealthy divorcing couple who sabotage each other’s lives in various and outrageous ways.

When Sam and Dean are staking out the Stark’s mansion and Maggie pulls up, Dean signals Sam to hide by saying, “screens up, Captain!” This may be a botched Star Trek reference. On Star Trek, a captain might order their cloaking device raised in order to hide from an enemy ship. Under other circumstances, a subordinate might inform his captain that he has raised the ships shields by saying “shields up, Captain!” However, these don’t hide the ship, but rather protect it from harm.

 
Don: Does 1492 ring any bells?
Maggie: The man was about to set sail! He could possibly fall off of the edge of the earth. I took pity. So, what’s your excuse?

Maggie is referring to Christopher Columbus.

Don: I told you – nothing happened with the Medici chick!

The House of Medici was a wealthy and highly influential dynasty in Italy in the 14th century, and played an important part in fostering the Italian Renaissance.

Sam: Dean, like it or not, the stuff you don’t talk about doesn’t just go away. It builds up, like whatever’s eating at you right now.
Dean: There’s always something eating at me. That’s who I am. Something happens, I feel responsible, all right? The Lindbergh baby – that’s on me. Unemployment – my bad.

In 1932, the infant son of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh was abducted from the family home. The child’s body was recovered two months later. The ensuing trial and conviction of suspect Richard Hauptmann was referred to as one of the trials of the century.

Following Amber Benson’s appearance as Lenore in 2007, executive producer Bob Singer said: “I thought Buffy had a great cast, and we used Amber Benson. I’d like to get Spike [James Marsters] on our show. I never thought I would particularly like Buffy, but my wife got me hooked on it, and I was hooked on him. Plus, that series was so well written. It was so smart.”
Bees featured significantly in the episode 1.08 Bugs. See The Bee Story for stories from Jared and Jensen about working with them.

Trivia tweeted by Jim Michaels during the episode:

Port a John — the name of the portable toilet where the nail gun death occurs – is an inside joke referring to John Marcynuk
The bust of Don Stark was made by Mary Ann Liu
James paid to ship one of the extra busts to his home in Los Angeles
One of the paintings in the exhibition is of Jerry Wanek Supernatural production designer and his dog Tula

The symbols Maggie drew on the photos of her victims are somewhat similar to the Blue Oyster Cult symbol used in 1.17 Hell House.

 
The cupcake scene may cause some viewers to think of the infamous and gory My Little Pony fanfic, Cupcakes, by Sergeant Sprinkles, in which Pinkie Pie makes Rainbow Dash into cupcakes. The studios for Supernatural and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic are both in Vancouver.

 
When Don and Maggie are preparing to cast a spell and kill Sam and Dean, James Marsters cups his hands in a position reminiscent of the Kamehameha attack used in the anime Dragon Ball Z. Marsters is a long-time fan of the anime, and starred as Lord Piccolo in 2009’s Dragonball Evolution.

 
Sculptor Mary Ann Liu who made the bust of Don Stark has collaborated on artistic projects with Cyrus Yavneh who used to be a Vancouver-based producer for Supernatural. Source Mary Ann Liu was also the Staff Reporter of the online article about Carl Dunlop.

 
Dean’s user name on the newsstatsearch.com website is PURENEGATIVE. On the same site when Dean switches to the entry detailing Carl Dunlop’s death, the article states “he [Carl] died in a hot tub from hypothalmia.” However, hyperthermia would be the correct term here, telling us Carl died of an elevated body temperature. Hypothalmia appears to be a condition caused by the hypothalamus gland, but there is little information available on its specifics.

 
The Starks’ cars have license plates with their last name consecutive numbers, i.e. “Stark 1” and “Stark 2”. This may be a reference to the movie Iron Man, in which the billionaire Tony Stark has multiple cars with license plates labeled in the same way.

 
The port-a-potty was made by BM Disposals. BM stands for Bowel Movement.

 
The bedspreads in Sam and Dean’s motel room are the same as those in the motel room they stayed in 3.09 Malleus Maleficarum – another episode about Witches.

 
The writing team Brad Buckner and Eugenie Ross-Leming last worked on Supernatural in season one when they wrote 1.13 Route 666.

 
Don Stark’s assistant is named Jenny Klein. At the time of this episode’s airing, Jenny Klein was a writer’s assistant on Supernatural. She was promoted to staff writer as well as executive story editor in season nine, before leaving the show after season eleven.

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