History Recap / SupernaturalS02E01InMyTimeOfDying

* DontFearTheReaper: And this [[ShoutOut isn't the first time]] [[ComicBook/TheSandman we've seen a pretty, dark-haired, pale young woman who tells dying souls not to fear before beckoning them encouragingly towards the afterlife]].

* {{Expy}}: Tessa resembles Death from ''ComicBook/TheSandman''.

** When Spirit Dean manages to cause a glass of water to break while upset because Sam and John are arguing, he makes a reference to ''Film/{{Ghost}}''.

After the semi-truck crashes into the Impala, the Winchesters are taken to hospital with Dean in a coma, on the verge of death. In that state, he has an out-of-body experience and wanders around the hospital until he meets [[Characters/SupernaturalReapers Tessa, a Reaper]]. She tells Dean that if he doesn't accept his impending death, he'll become the kind of vengeful ghost that he frequently hunts and kills. Sam and John emerged from the accident relatively unharmed, and Sam gets the Colt from the Impala, which was totaled with a bent frame and ruined engine. Despite the state of the Impala, Sam insists Bobby tow it to his salvage yard, so Dean can fix it when he recovers. Desperate to save Dean, John summons the [[Characters/SupernaturalDemons Yellow-Eyed Demon]] and makes a deal, offering the Colt in exchange for Dean's life. The Yellow-Eyed Demon is willing to accept, but he wants more: John's soul. John agrees, and finds that Dean has recovered. John tries to make peace with his sons and then asks Sam to get him a cup of coffee. John uses Sam's absence to tell Dean he needs to take care of Sam and whispers an additional comment to Dean, which is not heard by the viewers but visibly surprises Dean. When Sam returns with a cup of coffee, he finds their father dead on the floor and the Colt gone.

* YouWouldntShootMe: The demon truck drives says this, knowing the Colt has OneBulletLeft which they need to kill the Yellow-Eyed Demon. Fortunately the demon flees when Sam makes it clear he will shoot to protect his family.

* DemonicPossession[=/=]GrandTheftMe: The Yellow-Eyed Demon briefly takes over Tessa's body, [[FridgeLogic even though she's incorporeal]].

* DramaticDrop[=/=]SlowMotionDrop: Sam drops the coffee cup and it falls to the floor in slow motion at the end of the episode when he comes back and finds John dead. The camera doesn't move, but the cup is what's in focus.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Sam and Dean discuss the presence of a reaper leading Dean to say "You can't kill death." Death would later enter the series as a character and following his controversial exit, fans still argue if this statement is true or not.

* {{Irony}}[=/=]{{Foreshadowing}}: "You must have some kind of angel watching over you, kid."

* WomanInWhite: In her true form, Tessa is a transparent white phantom-like figure.

-->--'''Tessa'''

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!Tropes:

-->'''Spirit Dean:''' You ever heard of an out-of-body experience?
-->'''Tessa:''' What are you, some {{New Age}}-y guy?
-->'''Spirit Dean:''' You see me messing with crystals or listening to Yanni? It's actually a very old idea. Got a lot of different names: bilocation, crisis apparition, fetches...I think it's happening to us. And if it is, it means that we're spirits of people close to death.

-->'''John:''' Hey. How stupid do you think I am?
-->'''Yellow-Eyed Demon:''' You really want an honest answer to that?

-->'''Tessa:''' I just think, whatever's gonna happen is gonna happen. It's out of my control, it's fate.
-->'''Spirit Dean:''' Huh. Well, that's crap. You always have a choice. You can either roll over and die or you can keep fighting, no matter what--

-->'''Spirit Dean:''' Dude, I full-on [[Creator/PatrickSwayze Swayze'd]] that mother.

* YouWouldntShootMe: The demon truck drives says this, knowing the Colt has OneBulletLeft which they need to kill the Yellow-Eyed Demon. Fortunately the demon flees when Sam makes it clear he will shoot to protect his family.

* ConsummateLiar: John tells Sam he doesn't know what the Yellow-Eyed Demon meant when the demon said he has plans for Sam and the children like Sam, but Dean knows his father is hiding something and later John admits to the Yellow-Eyed Demon that he knows his plans for the special children.

* WomanInBlack: Tessa in her human form, after she gave up disguising herself with a light T-shirt and white-and-blue drawstring hospital scrub pants.

* YouWouldntShootMe: The demon truck drives says this, knowing the Colt has OneBulletLeft which they need to kill the Yellow-Eyed Demon. Fortunately he flees when Sam makes it clear he will shoot to protect his family.

* YouWontShootMe: The demon truck drives says this, knowing the Colt has OneBulletLeft which they need to kill the Yellow-Eyed Demon. Fortunately he flees when Sam makes it clear he will shoot to protect his family.

* GenreSavvy: It takes Dean all of a minute, tops, of screen-time and one non-responsive nurse to realize he's having an OutOfBodyExperience, rather than the seemingly requisite five minutes of screen-time it would take a character in another work.

-->--'''Tessa the Reaper'''

* GrandTheftMe[=/=]DemonicPossession: The Yellow-Eyed Demon briefly takes over Tessa's body, [[FridgeLogic even though she's incorporeal]].

* InJoke: We hear Dr. Kripke called overhead to Room 237 for a code blue, a reference to ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' creator and executive producer Eric Kripke.

** When Tessa accuses Dean of being "New Age-y", Dean references the Greek keyboardist, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanni Yanni]].

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** Spirit Dean: ''[to Sam]'' "Come on, you're the psychic. Give me some [[Series/GhostWhisperer ghost whispering]] or something!"

* WomanInBlack: Tessa in her human form, after she gave up disguising herself with a light pink T-shirt and white-and-blue drawstring hospital scrub pants.