Line #17 Recap/SupernaturalS08E03Heartache


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5	'''[[Recap/{{Supernatural}} Recap]] of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'''''\
6	'''Season 8, Episode 3'''
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8	!Heartache
9	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/spn803clips-post_1007.jpg]]
10	[[caption-width-right:300:“Really? Our [[BigBad king daddy monster]] is a [[StripperIffic stripper]]?” '''-Dean''']]
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12	->'''Dean:''' Wow, [[StrangerInAFamiliarLand guy goes to Purgatory for a year, and all hell breaks loose]]. Check this out. A jogger in Minneapolis gets [[BeatStillMyHeart his heart ripped out]].
13	->'''Sam:''' I'm guessing [[NotHyperbole literally]].
14	->'''Dean:''' [[MarriedToTheJob Only way that interests me]].
15
16	Written by Brad Buckner and Eugenie Ross-Leming.
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18	Directed by Creator/JensenAckles.
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20	Air Date: October 17, 2012.
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22	Dean catches wind of a case where victims' hearts have been ripped out in a ritualistic manner. The brothers find that a suspect is already in custody, but mumbling and seemingly in a trance.
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24	!!Body Count:
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26	For this episode = 5 humans.
27
28	For the series so far = At least 823 humans (of which 6 were witches), 106 demons, 58 angels, 47 ghosts, 36 Jefferson Starships, 28 vampires, 19 zombies, 19 gods, 9 hellhounds, 7 skinwalkers, 6 changelings, 5 shapeshifters, 4 ghouls, 4 Leviathan, 3 djinn, 3 dogs, 2 Amazons, 2 arachnes, 2 kitsunes, 2 rugarus, 2 vetalas, 2 werewolves, 1 crocotta, 1 dragon, 1 fairy, 1 Khan worm, 1 lamia, the Mother of All, 1 okami, 1 phoenix, 1 Purgatory creature, 1 rakshasa, 1 rawhead, 1 reaper, 1 shojo, 1 shtriga, 1 siren, 1 wendigo, 1 whore of Babylon, and 1 wraith.
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30	!!Tropes
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32	* {{Acrofatic}}: The runner from the beginning is a larger man, but easily outran a younger, more fit looking runner.
33	* AndAnotherThing: Subverted
34	-->'''Sam:''' Just one more question...
35	-->'''Woman:''' There is always one more question in life, isn't there? That's what I find. ''(ushers them out)''
36	* AndShowItToYou: Which is apparently BetterThanSex.
37	* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: ''K'uhul ajaw, Cacao, shi-jiiy. K'uhul ajaw, Cacao, shi-jiiy''. Doesn't cacao mean "chocolate"?
38	* BabelFish: SubvertedTrope, as Dean's translation app does not recognize the Ancient Mayan language.
39	* BadassTransplant: ...at a cost.
40	* BloodKnight: Dean enthuses to Sam about being back on the road hunting demons together. Sam however feels differently.
41	* CannibalismSuperpower: Randa is shown eating a heart.
42	* ContinuityNod:
43	** The detective mentions that Paul Hayes, the last person to see the jogger alive, is not [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]]. This recalls {{Mjolnir}} from the auction in [[Recap/SupernaturalS08E02WhatsUpTigerMommy "What's Up, Tiger Mommy?" (S08, E02)]].
44	** Dr. Morrrison, who translates the Ancient Mayan, previously translated a Greek script in [[Recap/SupernaturalS07E13TheSliceGirls "The Slice Girls" (S07, E13)]].
45	* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Brick assumed [[EveryCarIsAPinto his body would burn up in the crash]], but it didn't.
46	* DyeOrDie: Brick bleached his hair to form a new personality.
47	* ExpositionOfImmortality: Brick's letters show that he was alive at least 50 years ago, in the 1940s.
48	* EyeScream: The scene where Arthur [[FamilyUnfriendlyViolence carves out his eye]] was filmed, but deemed [[{{Gorn}} too gory]].
49	* {{Filler}}: Besides Sam's conversation with Dean about wanting out, nothing plot-important really happens in this one.
50	* FromNobodyToNightmare: The BigBad of the episode, a stripper who received Brick's heart and is the ringleader of the transplant recipients, mentions that before she got his heart she was just a sweet, demure Georgia girl with a heart problem.
51	* HeartTrauma: Randa's [[LiteralChangeOfHeart heart transplant]] leaves her a different person.
52	%%* HumanSacrifice
53	* IJustWantToBeNormal: Having tasted a normal life, Sam wants it back.
54	* IfItTastesBadItMustBeGoodForYou: Paul Hayes's green smoothie.
55	%%* {{Immortality}}
56	* JoggersFindDeath: The runner in the opening scene.
57	* KarmaHoudini: Despite Eleanor admitting that she was fully aware of Brick's human sacrifices for decades and ''didn't'' care, Sam and Dean don't even give her a slap on the wrist for being an accessory to murder.
58	%%* LifeDrinker
59	* LiteralMinded: Dean does this to troll Sam.
60	-->'''Dean:''' ''(looking at his smartphone)''' Son-of-a-bitch!
61	-->'''Sam:''' Don't tell me someone had his heart cut out here in Boulder?
62	-->'''Dean:''' All right, I won't tell you.
63	* LoveLetterLunacy: The brothers find a collection of letters, written across the span of many years, from Brick to his sweetheart, Betsy.
64	* MadEye: Arthur, the police officer chanting in Ancient Mayan, has an enlarged left pupil and heterochromia.
65	* MadnessMantra: While Arthur's chanting is initially written off as nonsense, the brothers soon discover it's actually Ancient Mayan.
66	* MarriedToTheJob: Eleanor initially says Brick was, to cover the fact that he married ''her'' when she was young enough to not have to pose as his mother.
67	* MayflyDecemberRomance
68	* {{Mayincatec}}:
69	** The Mayan language is spoken by millions of people today, and could hardly be described as a dead language.
70	*** To be fair, they describe it as ''Ancient'' Mayan. However, it's also not technically just one language as it has several branches of dialect that stem from Proto-Mayan.
71	** Sam describes "[[TheSavageIndian torturing and killing everyone in sight]]" as one of the most important things to the Mayans.
72	** Dean describes the Mayans as a 1000-year-old culture. Mayan civilization spans thousands of years, with clearly Mayan settlements established in 1800 BC.
73	* MinnesotaNice: The runner in the opening scene congratulates and offers a handshake to the heavier runner who outran him.
74	* MonsterOfTheAesop: Brick was torn between his need to be the perfect warrior/athlete and his desire to be a lover, just like Sam and Dean are torn between their conflicting desires.
75	* MonsterOfTheWeek: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Sam, who points out they should be [[StoryArc looking for Kevin and the tablet]] instead of hunting monsters.
76	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After ripping out one of the victim's hearts, Arthur realized what happened and [[{{Understatement}} didn't take it very well]].
77	* NoOntologicalInertia: Stabbing the heart kills off every other person with Brick's organs.
78	* OnceASeason: This is the third season where the first episode shot was [[DirectedByCastMember directed by Jensen Ackles]]. The others include [[Recap/SupernaturalS06E04WeekendAtBobbys "Weekend at Bobby's" (S06, E04)]] and [[Recap/SupernaturalS07E03TheGirlNextDoor "The Girl Next Door" (S07, E03)]].
79	* ParentalIncest: Subverted. Sam and Dean break into the dead Brick Holmes' house and discover, to their disgust, that he apparently shared the same bed with his mother Eleanor. She was only posing as his mother. Brick Holmes (born as a Mayan named Inyo) was an immortal man who met Eleanor when she was still a young woman. She continued to age while he remained young.
80	* Really700YearsOld: Along with WhoWantsToLiveForever.
81	* RunningGag: Morrison's help still comes with a price tag.
82	* ResurrectedRomance: Brick's heart may have driven Randa to Boulder to be near his love, but Mrs. Holmes does not seem to embrace the [[OneTrueThreesome OT3]].
83	* ShoutOut:
84	** Dean says he prefers the Music/KeithRichards version when Sam plays his recording of Arthur's chant.
85	** Randa says she became [[Series/XenaWarriorPrincess Xena, freaking warrior princess]] after the transplant.
86	** Brick in his past identities competed against [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Prost Alain Prost]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_Ray_Robinson Sugar Ray Robinson]], the [[UsefulNotes/MajorLeagueBaseball Boston Red Sox, the Brooklyn Dodgers, and the Philadelphia Phillies]].
87	* TemptingFate: When spitballing ideas what might be behind the attacks, one suggestion is werewolves. Cue the menace in the very ''next'' [[Recap/SupernaturalS08E04Bitten episode]].
88	* ThemedAliases: Agent Sambora, as in Richie Sambora, the guitarist in Music/BonJovi.
89	* WhoWantsToLiveForever: When it became clear that his lover was nearing the end of her life, Brick Holmes [[NothingLeftToDoButDie purposefully drove his car off a bridge]].

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