History Recap / SupernaturalS02E11Playthings

&& LonelyDollGirl

* Heroic Sacrifice: Rose Thompson allows herself to die to be with her older sister, Maggie, so she can have someone to play with and stop Maggie from harming her family and other people.

* LonelyDollGirl

* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: The first deaths--a lady drowning in a bathtub and a man falling down the stairs.

-->'''Susan:''' Well, let me guess. You guys are here...antiquing?\\

%%* NotSoImaginaryFriend: Maggie.

--->'''Susan:''' Tyler, enough. [[TheReveal Maggie is imaginary]]. You are too old for imaginary friends, and I am ''done'' pretending.

--->'''Maggie:''' [[ImpliedDeathThreat I don't like her]].

* NoExceptYes:
-->'''Dean:''' That car didn't try to run you over by itself. Well, ''technically'' it ''did''...
* NotSoImaginaryFriend: Maggie.

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!Tropes:

-->'''Dean:''' Dude, this is sweet. I never get to work jobs like this.
-->'''Sam:''' Like what?
-->'''Dean:''' Old-school haunted houses, you know? [[OminousFog Fog]], and [[BookcasePassage secret passageways]], [[EvilBrit sissy British accents]]...

-->'''Sherwin:''' Every hotel has its spilled blood. If people only knew what's gone on in some of those rooms they've checked into.
-->'''Dean:''' You know a lot about the place, don't you?
-->'''Sherwin:''' Down to the last nail.
-->'''Dean:''' I'd love to hear some stories.
-->'''Sherwin:''' Boy, you should never say that to an old man.

-->'''Susan:''' Well, congratulations, you could be some of our final guests.
-->'''Dean:''' Sounds vaguely ominous.

-->'''Dean:''' Of course, the most troubling question is why do these people assume we're gay?
-->'''Sam:''' Well, you are kinda butch. Probably think [[CompensatingForSomething you're overcompensating]].

-->'''Dean:''' You know, there's a really good hangover remedy: it's a greasy pork sandwich served up in a dirty ashtray.
-->'''Sam:''' ''[groaning]'' I hate you.

-->'''Sam:''' You're bossy. And short.
-->'''Dean:''' Are you drunk?
-->'''Sam:''' Yeah. So? Stupid.

-->'''Susan:''' Well, let me guess. You guys are here...antiquing?
-->'''Dean:''' ''[thinks, shrugs, rolls with it]'' How'd you know?
-->'''Susan:''' Oh, you just look the type. So, a king-sized bed?
-->''[a bit later]''
-->'''Susan:''' You'll be staying in room 237. Sherwin, could you show these gentlemen to their rooms?
-->'''Sherwin:''' Let me guess. Antiquers?

-->'''Sherwin:''' Miss Susan tried to make a go of it, but the guests just don't come like they used to. Still, it's a damn shame.
-->'''Sam:''' Oh, yeah.
-->'''Sherwin:''' It may not look it anymore, but this place was a palace. Two different vice presidents laid their heads on our pillows. My parents worked here, I practically grew up here. Gonna miss it. Here's your room.

-->'''Dean:''' I just figured after Ava there'd be, uh, you know, [[{{Wangst}} more angst and droopy music and staring out the rainy windows]], and...yeah, I'll shut up now.
-->'''Sam:''' Look. I'm the one who told her to go back home. Now her fiancé's dead and some demon has taken her off to God-knows-where. You know? But we've been looking for a month now, and we've got nothing. So, I'm not giving up on her, but I'm not going to let other people die either. We've got to save as many people as we can.
-->'''Dean:''' Wow. That attitude is just way too healthy for me, and I'm officially uncomfortable now. Thank you.

* TheReveal: "Maggie is imaginary. You are too old for imaginary friends."

For this episode = [[spoiler:3 humans]]

* MagicalNegro:
** Dean figures white people in Connecticut wouldn't practice hoodoo.
--->'''Dean:''' Don't you think this place is a little too, uh, whitemeat for hoodoo?
** When Dean sees a photo of Rose's black nanny, Marie, wearing a necklace with a five-point on it, he thinks she might have taught Rose hoodoo.

-->'''Susan:''' Well, let me guess. You guys are here antiquing?

-->'''Sam:''' ''[to Dean, who wants to check whether Rose really had a stroke]'' What do you want to do, poke her with a stick? ''[Dean nods]'' Dude, you're not gonna poke her with a stick!

People keep dying in odd accidents at an inn in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornwall,_Connecticut Cornwall, Connecticut]], run by a single mother who has a daughter with an imaginary friend.

Sam and Dean have been unsuccessfully investigating [[Characters/SupernaturalSpecialChildren Ava Wilson's]] [[Recap/SupernaturalS02E10Hunted disappearance]] in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoria,_Illinois Peoria, Illinois]] for the last month. Ellen calls Sam with a possible case: mysterious deaths at Pierpont Inn in Cornwall, Connecticut, and the Winchester brothers decide to check into the inn. They find out that the inn is about to be closed and is owned by Susan Thompson. Susan has a daughter, Tyler, and a mother, Rose. Rose recently suffered a stroke. They also have an extensive doll collection, including a dollhouse replica of the inn. Tyler has an imaginary friend, another young girl named [[Characters/SupernaturalGhosts Maggie]].

A lawyer from the company who bought Pierpont Inn and is planning to demolish the inn is staying overnight in one of the rooms. He is found by one of the maids dead, hanging from a ceiling fan, which is eerily mirrored by one of the dolls in the dollhouse. Dean returns to the hotel room to tell Sam about the recent death and finds Sam drunk. Sam reveals his guilt about Ava's disappearance and his desire to save people in order to keep himself from becoming evil and joining the Yellow-Eyed Demon. He makes Dean promise to kill him if it becomes necessary.

The brothers see five-points in the inn and think the deaths may be the result of a Hoodoo curse, but when the brothers find out Rose had a sister named Margaret who died in drowning accident, they realize that Maggie is a [[Characters/SupernaturalGhosts vengeful spirit]] that Rose had been controlling with Hoodoo. Now that Rose is debilitated by a stroke, Maggie has been killing people to keep the inn from closing. The brothers save Susan when the ghost tries to run her over with a car, but then Maggie tries to drown Tyler in the pool so that Tyler will stay and play with her "forever and ever and ever". While Maggie is holding Tyler under the water, Maggie seems to hear someone calling her and disappears, allowing Sam to rescue Tyler. Rose communicates to Maggie that [[HeroicSacrifice she will stay with her]] if she lets Susan and Tyler go, and Maggie agrees. Susan finds her mother Rose dead, but Tyler is no longer seeing Maggie.

!Tropes appearing in this episode:

* AffectionateNickname[=/=]InSeriesNickname[=/=]ProductionNickname: [[TheNicknamer Dean]] calls Sam [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti Sasquatch]] because of [[TheBigGuy Sam's height]]. This nickname was also used by ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' cast and crew, especially [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Manners Kim Manners,]] for Creator/JaredPadalecki.

* {{Catchphrase}}: Maggie and Tyler borrow Dean's "son of a bitch" at the beginning of the episode.

** The episode opens with the brothers trying to find Ava Wilson who disappeared in [[Recap/SupernaturalS02E10Hunted "Hunted" (S02, Ep10)]].
** The brothers are MistakenForGay, which is RunningGag previously seen in [[Recap/SupernaturalS01E08Bugs "Bugs" (S01, Ep08)]] and [[Recap/SupernaturalS01E18SomethingWicked "Something Wicked (S01, Ep18)]].
** The brothers are staying in [[Film/TheShining room 237]], which was the hospital room Dr. Kripke was called to in the episode [[Recap/SupernaturalS02E01InMyTimeOfDying "In My Time of Dying" (S02, Ep01)]].
** A deer's head is seen on the wall of room 237. This deer's head was also seen in [[Recap/SupernaturalS01E14Nightmare "Nightmare" (S01, Ep14)]], [[Recap/SupernaturalS01E15TheBenders "The Benders" (S01, Ep15)]], [[Recap/SupernaturalS01E21Salvation "Salvation" (S01, Ep21)]], and [[Recap/SupernaturalS02E02EverybodyLovesAClown "Everybody Loves A Clown" (S02, Ep02)]].
** When Sam insists that Dean must kill him if Sam becomes evil, Sam refers to the last words their father whispered to Dean in [[Recap/SupernaturalS02E01InMyTimeOfDying "In My Time of Dying" (S02, Ep01)]].
** Sam saves a child from drowning after another adult sacrifices themselves to the vengeful spirit of a child, just as we saw in [[Recap/SupernaturalS01E03DeadInTheWater "Dead In The Water" (S01, Ep03)]].

* GenderBlenderName: One of the girls is named Tyler.

-->'''Dean:''' Old school haunted houses, you know? [[OminousFog Fog]], and [[BookcasePassage secret passageways]], [[EvilBrit sissy British accents]]...

** Dean thinks white people in Connecticut wouldn't practice Hoodoo.
-->'''Dean:''' Don't you think this place is a little too, uh, whitemeat for hoodoo?

* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: The first deaths--a lady drowning in a bath tub and a man falling down the stairs.

** Several to ''Film/TheShining''. A creepy hotel, the two little girls, low tracking shots in the hallways...

*** Plus, Sam and Dean stay in room 237, a significant room ''The Shining''.

-->'''Dean:''' Might even run into Fred and Daphne while we're inside. ''[closes eyes briefly]'' Mmm. [[PerverseSexualLust Daphne. Love her.]]
** When Dean sees a hungover Sam, he references [[http://porksandwichdirtyashtray.ytmnd.com/ Chet's line]] from ''Film/WeirdScience''.

* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Maggie and then Tyler say "son of a bitch", and they hadn't even met Dean yet. Maggie is also the one killing everyone, although there it's played with as she appears to use the dolls to kill them somehow.

** A doll in the dollhouse version of the Pierpont Inn is found with his neck twisted by the stairs, just before the body of a man who came to take things to Goodwill is found in a similar position.

* WhamLine: This actually goes for ''the audience'' because of TheReveal:
-->'''Susan''': Tyler, enough. [[TheReveal Maggie is imaginary]]. You are too old for imaginary friends, and I am ''done'' pretending.

-->'''Maggie''': [[ImpliedDeathThreat I don't like her]].
* WorstAid: When Sam rescues Tyler from the pool, everyone stands around gawking until she starts breathing again.

-->'''Sam:''' Well, you are kinda butch. Probably think [[CompensatingForSomething you're overcompensating]].
* HeyItsThatGuy: Susan is played by Annie Wersching, probably best known for the role of Renee Walker in the final two seasons of ''TwentyFour''.

* GeometricMagic: Sam notices a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincunx quincunx]], a five-spot, engraved in a urn outside the inn.

-->'''Sam:''' ''[to Dean, who wants to check whether Rose really had a stroke]'' What do you want to do, poke her with a stick?...Dude, you're not gonna poke her with a stick!

For this episode = [[spoiler:3 humans.]]

* AffectionateNickname / InSeriesNickname / ProductionNickname: [[TheNicknamer Dean]] calls Sam [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti Sasquatch]] because of [[TheBigGuy Sam's height]]. This nickname was also used by ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' cast and crew, especially [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Manners Kim Manners,]] for Creator/JaredPadalecki.
* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: Rose does not respond to the brothers and appears tremulous and in a wheelchair, but it is unclear how Sam concluded she had a stroke.

* DiesWideOpen: The man who came to pick up items from Good Will and fell down the stairs.

* GeometricMagic: Sam notices a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincunx quincunx,]] a five spot, engraved in a urn outside the inn.

-->'''Dean:''' Old school haunted houses, you know? [[OminousFog Fog]], and [[BookcasePassage secret passageways]], [[EvilBrit sissy British accents]].

* HollywoodVoodoo: The five=points through the house.

-->'''Dean:''' You know there's a really good hangover remedy, it's a greasy pork sandwich served up in a dirty ashtray.

** When Dean sees a photo of Rose's black nanny, Marie, he thinks she might have taught Rose hoodoo.
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: The first deaths - a lady drowning in a bath tub and a man falling down the stairs.

-->'''Dean:''' How'd you know?

-->"That car didn't try to run you over by itself. Well, it ''did'' ..."
* NotSoImaginaryFriend: Maggie

* TheReveal: "You are too old for imaginary friends."
* SavingTheOrphanage: Or in the case the Pierpont Inn.

* SchoolUniformsAreTheNewBlack: Maggie and Tyler wear identical black jumpers with white peter pan collars and red cardigans.

** Several to ''Film/TheShining''. A creepy hotel, the two little girls, low tracking shots in the hallways ...
*** Also notable is [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNvGyNrWZG0 the bar scene]] - down to the choice of liquor.

-->'''Dean:''' Might even run into Fred and Daphne while we're inside. (closing his eyes briefly) Mmm. [[PerverseSexualLust Daphne. Love her.]]

* TakeMeInstead: Rose does this for Susan and Maggie.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Maggie and then Tyler say, "Son of a bitch", and they had not even met Dean yet.

** A doll in the dollhouse version of the Pierpont Inn is found with his neck twisted by the stairs, just before the body of a man who came to take things to Good Will is found in a similar position.

-->'''Dean:''' I just figured after Ava there'd be, uh, you know, [[{{Wangst}} more angst and droopy music and staring out the rainy windows]], and ... Yeah, I'll shut up now.
-->'''Sam:''' Look. I'm the one who told her to go back home. Now her fiancé's dead and some demon has taken her off to God knows where. You know? But we've been looking for a month now, and we've got nothing. So I'm not giving up on her, but I'm not going to let other people die either. We've got to save as many people as we can.

-->'''Susan''': Tyler, enough. [[TheReveal Maggie is imaginary.]] You are too old for imaginary friends, and I am done pretending.

-->'''Maggie''': [[ImpliedDeathThreat I don't like her.]]
* WorstAid: When Sam rescues Tyler from the pool, everyone stands around gawking until she starts breathing again.

'''Season 2, Episode 11''':

[[caption-width-right:300:I mean, he loves them. He's not gonna tell you this, but he's, he's always dressing 'em up in these little outfits and, um, you'd make his day. - Dean about Sam]]

-->'''Sam to Dean who wants to check whether Rose really had a stroke:''' What do you want to do, poke her with a stick? ... Dude, you're not gonna poke her with a stick!

People keep dying in odd accidents at an inn in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornwall,_Connecticut Cornwall, Connecticut,]] run by a single mother who has a daughter with an imaginary friend.

Sam and Dean have been unsuccessfully investigating [[Characters/SupernaturalSpecialChildren Ava Wilson's]] [[Recap/SupernaturalS02E10Hunted disappearance]] in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoria,_Illinois Peoria, Illinois,]] for the last month. Ellen calls Sam with a possible case, mysterious deaths at Pierpont Inn in Cornwall, Connecticut, and the Winchester brothers decide to check into the inn. They find out that the inn is about to be closed and is owned by Susan Thompson. Susan has a daughter named Tyler and a mother, Rose, who recently suffered a stroke. They also have an extensive doll collection including a dollhouse replica of the inn. Tyler has an imaginary friend, another young girl named [[Characters/SupernaturalGhosts Maggie]].

For the series so far = At least 170 humans; 11 ghosts; 5 vampires; 1 demon; 1 god; 1 rakshasa; 1 rawhead; 1 shapeshifter; 1 shtriga; 1 wendigo; and 1 zombie.

* DeggansRule: Failed.

* TheBechdelTest: Passed. Susan talks to Tyler. [[spoiler:Maggie's conversations with both Tyler and Rosie might count, too.]]

<<|Recap/{{Supernatural}}|>>

* MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome: We see a Missing Person poster for Ava Wilson, which describes her as 5'5" and 108 lbs with blue eyes and brown hair.

* WhamLine: This actually goes for ''the audience'' because the TheReveal:

* TheReveal: [[spoiler:"You are too old for imaginary friends."]]

The brothers see five-points in the inn and think the deaths may be the result of a Hoodoo curse, but when the brothers find out Rose had a sister named Margaret who died in drowning accident, they realize that Maggie is a [[Characters/SupernaturalGhosts vengeful spirit]] that Rose had been controlling with Hoodoo. Now that Rose is debilitated by a stroke, Maggie has been killing people to keep the inn from closing. The brothers save Susan when the ghost tries to run her over with a car, but then Maggie tries to drown Tyler in the pool so that Tyler will stay and play with her "forever and ever and ever". While Maggie is holding Tyler under the water, Maggie seems to hear someone calling her and disappears, allowing Sam to rescue Tyler. Rose communicates to Maggie she will stay with her if she lets Susan and Tyler go, and Maggie agrees. Susan finds her mother Rose dead, but Tyler is no longer seeing Maggie.

Sam and Dean have been unsuccessfully investigating [[Recap/SupernaturalS02E10Hunted Ava Wilson's disappearance]] in Peoria, Illinois, for the last month. Ellen calls Sam with a possible case, mysterious deaths at Pierpont Inn in Cornwall, Connecticut, and the Winchester brothers decide to check into the inn. They find out that the inn is about to be closed and is owned by Susan Thompson. Susan has a daughter named Tyler and a mother, Rose, who recently suffered a stroke. They also have an extensive doll collection including a dollhouse replica of the inn. Tyler has an imaginary friend, another young girl named Maggie.

People keep dying in odd accidents at an inn run by a single mother who has a daughter with an imaginary friend.

!Tropes

* AnyoneCanDie:
** Body count this episode = [[spoiler:3 humans]].
** Body count for the series so far = At least 170 humans; 11 ghosts; 5 vampires; 1 demon; 1 god; 1 rakshasa; 1 rawhead; 1 shapeshifter; 1 shtriga; 1 wendigo; and 1 zombie.

-->'''Dean:''' Old school ha>unted houses, you know? [[OminousFog Fog]], and [[BookcasePassage secret passageways]], [[EvilBrit sissy British accents]].

!!Tropes