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5	'''[[Recap/{{Supernatural}} Recap]] of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'''''\
6	'''Season 3, Episode 14:'''
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8	!Long-Distance Call
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10	->'''Dean:''' I wanted to believe so badly that there was a way outta this. I mean I'm staring down the barrel at this thing. You know, Hell. For real, forever, and I just...
11	->'''Sam:''' Yeah.
12	->'''Dean:''' I'm scared, Sam. I'm really scared.
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14	Written by Jeremy Carver.
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16	Directed by Robert Singer.
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18	Air Date: May 1, 2008.
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20	Sam and Dean go to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan%2C_Ohio Milan, Ohio]], where the residents are getting calls from their deceased loved ones. The situation intensifies when Dean gets a call from their father, who tells him he knows a way around Dean's contract with the demon.
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22	!!Body count
23	For this episode = 2 humans and 1 crocotta.
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25	For the series so far = At least 250 humans (of which 3 were witches), 9 demons, 19 ghosts, 10 vampires, 6 changelings, 3 gods, 2 shapeshifters, 2 werewolves, 1 crocotta, 1 djinn, 1 rakshasa, 1 rawhead, 1 shtriga, 1 wendigo, 1 zombie.
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27	!Tropes
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30	* BatmanGambit: The crocotta's MO, especially in regards to Dean.
31	* BigEater: Dean when talking to Sam about the case, and later at the phone company
32	-->'''Dean:''' Yes well the main office mentioned that there would be a lunch.
33	* BloodFromTheMouth: Stewie and the crocotta.
34	* BondVillainStupidity: It sure was nice of the crocotta to exposite for a while so that Sam could loosen his bonds.
35	* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: The phone tech is caught [[TheInternetIsForPorn surfing the Internet for porn]] during working hours.
36	* CreepyChild: The crocotta impersonates someone's dead daughter.
37	* DivingSave: Sam saves a kid from being run over by a truck.
38	* FunnyBackgroundEvent: When Dean says the line "It totally rocked my understanding of the word 'necrophilia'," a passing woman shoots him a look of disgust. He then checks her out as she passes.
39	* GoryDiscretionShot[=/=]WhiteShirtOfDeath: Blood splatters on the white phone of the suicide victim.
40	* HopeSpot: For part of the episode, it looks like there's a way out of Dean's deal...turns out it was all just a trick.
41	* IsItSomethingYouEat:
42	-->'''Dean:''' What is that, a sandwich?
43	* ItWontTurnOff: One of the crocotta's victims [[CutTheJuice rips the telephone out of its socket]] and smashes it on the ground and it [[EvilPhone still keeps ringing]].
44	** Lanie shuts off her computer only to have it turn back on.
45	* LetsYouAndHimFight: The crocotta convinces Dean that a grieving father is the demon who owns his soul, and the father that Dean killed his daughter, and waits for one of them to kill the other.
46	* MadnessMantra: Come to me. Come to me. Come to me.
47	* NewhartPhonecall: A woman walks by as Dean is mentioning necrophilia on the phone with Sam.
48	** The widow of the first victim heard her husband talking to a woman and listened in, thinking he was having an affair, but all she could hear was her husband's voice.
49	* PhoneCallFromTheDead: The MonsterOfTheWeek lures its victims by faking phone calls (and other messages) from dead loved ones.
50	* ShoutOut:
51	** "So why use that number to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T reach out and touch someone]]?"
52	** "Then believe it! if we get this sucker, it's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_Brewing_Company Miller Time]]"
53	* SupernaturalPhone: The brothers originally think that the calls are caused by a supernatural phone Edison tried to build.
54	* TogetherInDeath: The crocotta [[InvokedTrope invokes]] this to kill its victims.
55	* WaitHere: Sam asks this of Dean, and it works about as well as expected.
56	* WholePlotReference: The episode shares several similarities with [[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E22LongDistanceCall an episode]] of ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' of the same name-- both feature communication with the dead, both have a scene where a child talks to a dead relative on a phone, and both are even the 58th episode of their respective series.

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