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* FaceFramedInShadow / HollywoodDarkness: Molly and David's faces are clearly illuminated despite driving along a rural road without the internal car lights on. Molly and Jonah get the same treatment in the hunting shed which is lot by a single candle.

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* FaceFramedInShadow / HollywoodDarkness: Molly and David's faces are clearly illuminated despite driving along a rural road without the internal car lights on. Molly and Jonah get the same treatment in the hunting shed which is lot lit by a single candle.

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* FaceFramedInShadow / HollywoodDarkness: Molly and David's faces are clearly illuminated despite driving along a rural road without the internal car lights on.

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* FaceFramedInShadow / HollywoodDarkness: Molly and David's faces are clearly illuminated despite driving along a rural road without the internal car lights on. Molly and Jonah get the same treatment in the hunting shed which is lot by a single candle.
* FaceRevealingTurn: When Molly enters the hunting shed, Jonah has his back turned towards her. He turns around to reveal his fatal wound.
* GuttedLikeAFish: Jonah has a large gaping abdominal wound from being struck by the car.



* OminouslyOpenDoor: After knocking on the door of the hunting shed in the teaser, Molly tries turns the door knob and finds it is unlocked.



* RustproofBlood: The red blood staining the table in the hunting shed.



* SmashToBlack: After the car smashes into the tree in the teaser, there is black screen which is followed by seeing the crashed car from above.

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* SmashToBlack: After the car smashes into the tree in the teaser, there is black screen which is followed by seeing the crashed car from above. After Molly sees Jonah Greely's abdominal wound and his face rot away in the teaser, there is cut to a black screen.

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* DramaticThunder: A rumble of thunder is heard as Molly approaches the hunting shack in the teaser.



* ALightInTheDistance: Molly sees the candle in the window of the hunting shack.



* ScareChord: Used when Molly gets out of the car and starts calling for her husband.

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* ScareChord: Used when Molly gets out of the car and starts calling for her husband. These increase as she approaches the hunting shack.
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* EstablishingShot: After the car crashes in the teaser, a shot is shown of the car in the snow covered woods from above through the branches of the trees. Then the camera spirals downwards to show the smashed windshield and Molly's face.


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* SmashToBlack: After the car smashes into the tree in the teaser, there is black screen which is followed by seeing the crashed car from above.
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* ScreamingWoman: Molly [=McNamara=].
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* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: Molly [=McNamara=] crashes her car and dies on her wedding anniversary.

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* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: Molly [=McNamara=] crashes her car and dies [[spoiler:and dies]] on her wedding anniversary.
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** Tricia Helfer who plays Molly [=McNamara=] also plays Cylon Number Six on ''[[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined]]''. The original [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMH_yDqrUaA promo]] for "Roadkill" even made a point of making Tricia Helfer's guest appearance the focus. Tricia Helfer also plays Carla on ''[[Series/BurnNotice]]'', Gail on ''[[Series/TwoAndAHalfMen]]'', and Alex Clark on ''[[Series/TheFirm]]''.
** Dan Gauthier who plays David [=McNamara=] also plays Kevin Buchanan on ''[[Series/AllMyChildren]]'' and ''[[Series/OneLifeToLive]]''.

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** Tricia Helfer who plays Molly [=McNamara=] also plays Cylon Number Six on ''[[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined]]''.''Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined''. The original [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMH_yDqrUaA promo]] for "Roadkill" even made a point of making Tricia Helfer's guest appearance the focus. Tricia Helfer also plays Carla on ''[[Series/BurnNotice]]'', ''Series/BurnNotice'', Gail on ''[[Series/TwoAndAHalfMen]]'', ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'', and Alex Clark on ''[[Series/TheFirm]]''.
''Series/TheFirm''.
** Dan Gauthier who plays David [=McNamara=] also plays Kevin Buchanan on ''[[Series/AllMyChildren]]'' ''Series/AllMyChildren'' and ''[[Series/OneLifeToLive]]''.''Series/OneLifeToLive''.

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* HeyItsThatGuy: The original [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMH_yDqrUaA promo]] for "Roadkill" even made a point of making Tricia Helfer's guest appearance the focus.

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* HeyItsThatGuy: HeyItsThatGuy:
** Tricia Helfer who plays Molly [=McNamara=] also plays Cylon Number Six on ''[[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined]]''.
The original [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMH_yDqrUaA promo]] for "Roadkill" even made a point of making Tricia Helfer's guest appearance the focus. Tricia Helfer also plays Carla on ''[[Series/BurnNotice]]'', Gail on ''[[Series/TwoAndAHalfMen]]'', and Alex Clark on ''[[Series/TheFirm]]''.
** Dan Gauthier who plays David [=McNamara=] also plays Kevin Buchanan on ''[[Series/AllMyChildren]]'' and ''[[Series/OneLifeToLive]]''.


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* SimilarlyNamedWorks: The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadkill_%281989_film%29 Bruce McDonald film]] inspired by the band A Neon Rome.

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* HollywoodDriving: SubvertedTrope, with Molly's teasing and glances towards to her husband contributing the the accident. Too bad she did not have Dean's skills.

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* HollywoodDriving: SubvertedTrope, with Molly's teasing and glances towards to her husband contributing the to the accident. Too bad she did not have Dean's skills.


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* NoisyNature / StockSoundEffects: After the car crashes in the teaser, we here crickets chirping and owls trilling.


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* ScareChord: Used when Molly gets out of the car and starts calling for her husband.

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* FaceFramedInShadow / HollywoodDarkness: Molly and David's faces are clearly illuminated despite driving along a rural road without the internal car lights on.



* HollywoodDriving: SubvertedTrope, with Molly's teasing and glances towards to her husband contributing the the accident. Too bad she did not have Dean's skills.
* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: Molly [=McNamara=] crashes her car and dies on her wedding anniversary.



* OminousFog:

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* OminousFog: The fog along Route 44.


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* SnowMeansDeath: The snow along the sides of the road where the car crashes.
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** Body count this episode = [[spoiler:2 humans and 2 ghosts, although the ghosts that die are also the same 2 humans that died in the teaser].

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** Body count this episode = [[spoiler:2 humans and 2 ghosts, although the ghosts that die are also the same 2 humans that died in the teaser]. teaser.]]

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** Body count this episode = [[spoiler:2 humans. The two women and the psycho killer that the Trickster created also vanish upon his staged death, but they were more projections than real entities]].
** Body count for the series so far = At least 178 humans; 12 ghosts; 5 vampires; 2 shapeshifters; 1 demon; 1 god; 1 rakshasa; 1 rawhead; 1 shtriga; 1 wendigo; and 1 zombie.

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** Body count this episode = [[spoiler:2 humans. The two women humans and 2 ghosts, although the psycho killer ghosts that the Trickster created die are also vanish upon his staged death, but they were more projections than real entities]].the same 2 humans that died in the teaser].
** Body count for the series so far = At least 178 180 humans; 12 14 ghosts; 5 vampires; 2 shapeshifters; 1 demon; 1 god; 1 rakshasa; 1 rawhead; 1 shtriga; 1 wendigo; and 1 zombie.zombie.
* TheBechdelTest: Failed.


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* DeggansRule: Failed.
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Dean and Sam help a woman who seems to have been in a car crash caused by a ghost.

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Dean and Sam are driving along Route 44 in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada Nevada.]]
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* NoSenseOfDirection: David [[=McNamara=]] has managed to get them lost despite having a map. He believes they are on Route 99, when they are actually on Route 41.

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* NoSenseOfDirection: David [[=McNamara=]] [=McNamara=] has managed to get them lost despite having a map. He believes they are on Route 99, when they are actually on Route 41.
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* NoSenseOfDirection: David McNamara has managed to get them lost despite having a map. He believes they are on Route 99, when they are actually on Route 41.

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* NoSenseOfDirection: David McNamara [[=McNamara=]] has managed to get them lost despite having a map. He believes they are on Route 99, when they are actually on Route 41.
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* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: There is no Highway 99 or Highway 44 in Nevada. There was a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_State_Route_485 State Route 44]] prior to 1976, but these road signs were removed long before 1992.
* NoSenseOfDirection: David McNamara has managed to get them lost despite having a map. He believes they are on Route 99, when they are actually on Route 41.


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* POVCam: The teaser has a few shots showing the view from the point of view from someone inside the car, including the headlights on the wet asphalt, the car radio dial, the trees through the windshield as the careen off the road, and the smashed wind shield.
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* BroadcastingInTheUnitedStates: The digital radio in Molly and David's car is tuned into 1250 on the AM dial. They may have been listening to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KELK KELK.]]
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* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: "The House of the Rising Sun" by The Animals plays on the car radio, first when Molly is driving before the accident, and again when Sam and Dean are driving. It also plays on the radio in Jonah Greely's house.

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* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: "The House of the Rising Sun" by The Animals Music/TheAnimals plays on the car radio, first when Molly is driving before the accident, and again when Sam and Dean are driving. It also plays on the radio in Jonah Greely's house.
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* AnyoneCanDie:
** Body count this episode = [[spoiler:2 humans. The two women and the psycho killer that the Trickster created also vanish upon his staged death, but they were more projections than real entities]].
** Body count for the series so far = At least 178 humans; 12 ghosts; 5 vampires; 2 shapeshifters; 1 demon; 1 god; 1 rakshasa; 1 rawhead; 1 shtriga; 1 wendigo; and 1 zombie.

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* DeadAllAlong

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* DeadAllAlongCounterpartComparison: Molly to the main character of the ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' "The Hitch-Hiker", Nan, a woman who [[spoiler: [[DeadAllAlong died in a car accident]], but didn't realize it and is still able to interact with the living.]] They also spent most of the episode trying a get away from a ghost, though in "The Hitch-Hiker," it actually turns out to be [[spoiler: TheGrimReaper]].
* [[spoiler: DeadAllAlong]]



* TooDumbToLive -- Molly [[spoiler: Good thing she's already dead because this woman is asking for it. Repeatedly and plaintively.]]

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* TooDumbToLive -- Molly [[spoiler: Good thing she's already dead because because]] this woman is asking for it. Repeatedly and plaintively.]]
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* HeyItsThatGuy: The original [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMH_yDqrUaA promo]] for "Roadkill" even made a point of making Tricia Helfer's guest appearance the focus.

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* OnceMoreWithClarity



* ShoutOut: To ''Film/TheSixthSense''.




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* UnfinishedBusiness
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-->'''David:'''' No, we can't. It's against our genetic code. Look, I know exactly where we are.

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-->'''David:'''' -->'''David:''' No, we can't. It's against our genetic code. Look, I know exactly where we are.
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* BloodFromTheMouth: Jonah Greely when he turns around in the teaser.


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* NightmareFace: After Jonah Greely turns around in the trailer, his face seems to rot away.
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* BewareOfHitchhikingGhosts

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* BewareOfHitchhikingGhostsBewareOfHitchhikingGhosts: The variation where the ghost appears in front of a moving car.
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* DirectionlessDriver: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Molly.
-->'''Molly:''' Come on. Isn't this argument a little archaic? Men can ask directions these days.
-->'''David:'''' No, we can't. It's against our genetic code. Look, I know exactly where we are.


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* ShortcutsMakeLongDelays: David insists they are not lost and the route they are taking is a shortcut.
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* OminousFog:
* RulesOfTheRoad: The episode opens with a close up on road sign showing a vehicle tipping over.
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* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: "The House of the Rising Sun" by The Animals plays on the car radio, first when Molly is driving before the accident, and again when Sam and Dean are driving. It also plays on the radio in Jonah Greely's house.

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* TooDumbToLive -- Molly [[spoiler: Good thing she's already dead because this woman is asking for it. Repeatedly and plaintively.]]
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* BewareOfHitchhikingGhosts

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