History Recap / ConstantineS1E1NonEstAsylum

%%* Bigger OnTheInside: The old mill.
%% * Berserk Button: Don't call Astra "the girl". John won't like it.

%% * Broken Bird: ''Everyone'' who was involved in the Newcastle incident.
%% * Brutal Honesty: John to his therapist.

%% * Deadpan Snarker: John. Manny gets some moments, too.

* DraggedOffToHell: Astra's fate.

%% * Good ThingYouCanHeal: Chas. We learn why later.
%% * Harmful ToMinors: Poor, ''poor'' Astra.

%% * Magic Mirror: The mill has one of these.

* ThereAreNoTherapists: Averted. It's more a case of AllTherapistsAreMuggles.

* BiggerOnTheInside: The old mill.
* BerserkButton: Don't call Astra "the girl". John won't like it.

* BrokenBird: ''Everyone'' who was involved in the Newcastle incident.
* BrutalHonesty: John to his therapist.

* DeadpanSnarker: John. Manny gets some moments, too.

* GoodThingYouCanHeal: Chas. We learn why later.
* HarmfulToMinors: Poor, ''poor'' Astra.

* MagicMirror: The mill has one of these.

* {{Seer}}: Liv can see spirits. It's InTheBlood; her father could do it, too. Also Zed, but we don't learn that until the next episode.

!Non Est Asylum

!Tropes present in this episode include:

* CallingTheOldWomanOut: Liv briefly calls out her mother for hiding the fact that her father was alive until last year from her (and for never talking about him).

* BedlamHouse: Averted. Any harm done to John by Ravenscar is self-inflicted; only does John willingly check himself in, he also signs up for ''shock therapy'', and desperately tries to believe his therapist when he's being told that there are no such things as demons. The worst thing that can be said about them is that they could stand to do something about the lighting.

* MythologyGag: Demon!John pops up as a trick of Furcifer's.

** Much of Zed's art consists of {{Hellblazer}} covers.

* HeHadAName: Constantine gets angry when the victim he failed to save is repeatedly refers to as "the girl".
-->'''Constantine:''' Astra! Her name... was Astra.

* YouShouldHaveDiedInstead: Ritchie thinks this of John, only it's more that he wishes John had been DraggedOffToHell instead.

** The shiny helmet Liv picks up in the old mill bears quite the resemblance to one worn by another [[{{ComicBook/DoctorFate}} magic-wielding DC hero]].

* IronicEcho: [[CallForward Not yet]], but John's "Make it nice and tight, love" comes up later.

* TellMeABoutMyFather: Liv wants to know about Jasper. Her mother doesn't really want to talk about it, but Chas and John are (slightly) more accommodating.

-->'''Furcifer:''' In this place, ''I'm God'''!

* GoodIsNotNice: John's a JerkAss who has exactly zero issues with callously insulting people around him and blackmailing his old friend, Ritchie.
* GoodThingYouCanHeal: Chas. We learn why later.
* IgnoredEpiphany: Zed reacts to her MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment by... promptly [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere bailing]] and never being heard from again. In her defense, she ''does'' leave John the map, which she had used her BloodMagic on.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: John realizes that he's been wasting his time in the hospital and bails.

* ThereAreNoTherapists: Averted. It's more a case of AllTherapistsAreMuggles.

John Constantine has been having a hard time lately. So much so, in fact, that he's decided to check himself into an insane asylum. Whilst dealing with shock therapy (that he volunteers for), therapists who won't believe him (and vice-versa), and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick a demon possession a woman in the art room]], he struggles to come to terms with something terrible that happened to Astra, a little girl. It's not her ''death'' that troubles him so much as her ''damnation''. As it turns out, John had been showing off while attempting to exorcise her - and in the process, damned her to {{Hell}}. He'll be following her due to his role, but not just yet. Trying to forget doesn't come about the way John hopes it will, though - as he finds out, he has work to do...

* DemonicPossession: The patient that John exorcises. Also, Talia, Liv's friend.

* {{Seer}}: Liv can see spirits.

John Constantine has been having a hard time lately. So much so, in fact, that he's decided to check himself into an insane asylum.

* BedlamHouse: Averted. Any harm done to John by the hospital is self-inflicted; only does John willingly check himself in, he also signs up for ''shock treatment'', and desperately tries to believe his therapist when he's being told that there are no such things as demons.

* DullSurprise: Liv, which contributed greatly to her status as TheScrappy, which resulted in her being DroppedAfterThePilot.

In the series premiere, occult detective John Constantine battles a demonic entity when it threatens the life of his friend's daughter.