History Recap / SupernaturalS01E01Pilot

* AnyoneCanDie: Body count at humans and ghosts, starting the Supernatural tradition off with the death of one of a LoveInterest and a Parent.

* BigBrotherInstinct:

* RainOfBlood

* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: A double-whammy: it's Halloween (October 31st) and later on the anniversary of their mother's death (November 2nd, which is also All Souls day or the Day of the Dead).

Twenty-two years ago, Mary Winchester was killed in the family home by an unknown supernatural creature, in front of her husband John and her sons, Dean and Sam. In the present day, Sam is a law student at Standford University with a loving girlfriend named Jessica and a promising career--until Dean arrives, asking for help in tracking down their father. John has been on one of his frequent "hunting" trips, where he tracks down and kills supernatural creatures: John and the boys have been doing this since their mother's death, but Sam left the hunting life after a falling out with his father. John hasn't returned from his latest trip, and Dean is worried. Sam agrees to help Dean look for their father.

* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: A double-whammy: it's Halloween (October 31st) and later on the anniversary of their mother's death (November 2nd).

Twenty-two years ago, Mary Winchester was killed in the family home by an unknown supernatural creature, in front of her husband John and her sons, Dean and Sam. In the present day, Sam is a law student at Standford University with a girlfriend and a promising career -- until Dean arrives, asking for help in tracking down their father. John has been on one of his frequent "hunting" trips, where he tracks down and kills supernatural creatures: John and the boys have been doing this since their mother's death, but Sam left the hunting life after a falling out with his father. John hasn't returned from his latest trip, and Dean is worried.

Sam agrees to help Dean look for their father. They manage to come across the last creature he was hunting, a Woman in White, and destroy her. They also find John's journal, full of all his information on various creatures as well as the record of his hunt for the creature that killed Mary, but they can't find John. Sam returns to Stanford, but when he returns to his dorm, he finds his girlfriend suspended on the ceiling, bleeding and consumed by fire: the exact same way his mother died. Now that it's personal, Sam agrees to partner up with Dean and return to hunting, hoping that along the way they can find their father and finally destroy the creature that killed their mother.

* BlueEyes: Mary and Jessica
* CreepyChild: Constance's children

* DrivenToSuicide: Constance Welch
* {{Foreshadowing}} / HarsherInHindsight: Sam and Jess' seemingly-innocuous little exchange:
---> '''Sam''': What would I do without you?
---> '''Jessica''': Mm, crash and burn.
---> ''(they kiss)''

* HairOfGold: Mary and Jessica

--> '''Sam''': You know, Sammy is a chubby twelve-year-old. It's Sam, okay?
* KilledOffForReal: Mary Winchester and Jessica Moore

* SacrificialLamb: Mary and Jess

* StuffedInTheFridge / DisposableWoman

* WomanInWhite: The ladies in this episode start the fine Supernatural tradition of white dresses showing that the character wearing said dress is either evil, dead, or both.
* YourCheatingHeart: The MonsterOfTheWeek's M.O. is to target men who are cheating on their significant other. Subverted when she targets [[NiceGuy Sam]] anyway with the funky ghost logic that [[RapeAsDrama she'll ''make'' him unfaithful]].

* RapeIsOkayWhenItsFemaleOnMale: Averted, the hitchhiking ghost forcefully tries to take Sam when he resists her seductions.

* RainOfBlood
* RapeIsOkayWhenItsFemaleOnMale: Averted, the hitchhiking ghost forcefully tries to take Sam when he resists her seductions.

* Killed Off for Real: Mary Winchester and Jessica Moore

* SentinentVehicle: The ghost possesses the Impala and uses it to chase down the Winchesters and force them off the bridge.

* HairOfGold: Mary and Jessica.

* WomanInWhite

* WomanInWhite

* TheLostLenore: Sam is haunted by Jessica's death for a noticeably long time.