Discussion of 1.13 "Route 666" - 1/31/06 (WB-US)

[Vilandra]

Sam and Dean head to Mississippi to investigate mysterious car accidents involving black men.

Source: TV.com (http://www.tv.com/supernatural/show/30144/episode_guide.html)

[prydain]

You know, when I wrote that description I left out a crucial bit of information just because it sounded so....stupid.

The episode revolves around...a haunted TRUCK! Can you believe it?! A truck!

[Vilandra]

Oh not...is this a Carrie-inspired one? lol

Sorry mate - I always forget that you write them :D

[prydain]

lol only when I get to the contribute button first. I'll go find a long recap someone wrote and post it. i dont think they mind as long as you link back.

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Source: Jensen Ackles Forum (http://loyalfans.net/j-forum/viewtopic.php?t=231)

Written by VALJEAN:

We start off in Pauley, Mississippi where there have been two deaths on the same stretch of road -- car accidents involving black men, one of whom is Martin, the father of Cassie Robinson. Cassie is an old acquaintance of Dean’s whom he originally met in Ohio -- a newspaper reporter. They were lovers approximately two years before but broke up when Dean told Cassie the truth about his eccentric profession. She didn’t believe him, thought he was lying to get out of their relationship, and dumped him. However, she believes there was something supernatural about Martin’s death. Her father had been seeing a ghostly truck with a driver who’d been dead for 40 years just before the accident. So, she contacts Dean.

Dean and Sam head to Mississippi. Sam is finding it hard to believe Dean actually told the family secret to a girl after only dating her a few times, yet his father and brother had been so adamant that he, himself, never tell the truth. He tells Dean that he kept the secret from Jessica for a year and a half, and that he can’t believe Dean blabbed it that easily. “Yeah,” is all Dean says in response to that. Later, Sam realizes that his brother was actually in love with this girl, and begins to understand.

Cassie, meanwhile, is having a hard time convincing the town mayor, a man named Dodd, that the accidents weren’t accidents. It seems Dodd has a stake in a new housing development going up (where have we heard this story line before?) and he doesn’t want even the hint of a scandal leaking out. Dean and Sam show up at the paper, catching Cassie by surprise and making for an awkward moment between the two former lovers. However, Cassie accepts their help and takes them home to meet her mother, Audrey. Audrey’s too upset to talk to Dean and Sam, however.

Later, Dean is alone at Cassie’s house (well, her mother’s in another room), and says to Cassie that she seems to find it harder to talk to him without Sam along ... that when it’s just the two of them it’s more difficult than when there are three. They then get into an argument about who broke up with whom and who got hurt the most that ends up in Cassie’s bedroom with both of them naked and falling onto her bed. (And if they show this scene on TV I’ll be astonished. We’ll probably only get the bedroom door closing, then cut to a commercial.)

Somewhere during the episode another close friend of Cassie’s -- a reporter named Jimmy -- also gets run off the road, and Mayor Dodd also apparently gets killed while out at his future housing development. Dean and Sam are trying to figure out the motive of the truck and driver, and find out from Audrey that it has something to do with a racist named Cyrus Dorian who disappeared 40 years earlier. Turns out Audrey was dating him, but then fell in love with Cassie’s father. Cyrus went nuts with jealousy and began killing and torturing black people in his truck, and on the day that was supposed to have been Audrey and Martin’s wedding he burned down the church where they were going to be married, killing a lot of choir children. Eventually, he tried to kill Martin, Audrey’s father, but Martin killed him instead. A number of the black community helped hide the crime and dumped cyrus Dorian’s body in the swamp which is now the site of the new housing development (retread idea from “Bugs?”). Even Dodd, who eventually became mayor, was in on the coverup. Now, Cyrus is out for revenge and Cassie and Audrey are apparently marked for death.

There are scenes missing where I’m sure the Winchester brothers confront the ghostly truck. At the end of the episode Dean tells Cassie that maybe their separation this time won’t be quite so permanent as before. Cassie, however, tells him she doesn’t see a lot of hope for their relationship, that she’s a realist. Dean replies that he’s not (a realist) and that a lot of things aren’t as unreal as they seem. (I’m sorry, this is dreck.) “Goodbye, Cassie. I’ll see ya. I will.” And they drive off into the sunset. Oh, in the car Sam tells Dean he likes Cassie and asks him if it’s worth putting everything on hold to do what they do. Dean just “smiles enigmatically,” pulls a baseball cap over his eyes and tells Sam to wake him when it’s his turn to drive.

[historylover]

"Things are not as unreal as they seem"? C'mon, Dean! You can do that better than that! Please say you can do better than that!

I'm looking forward to seeing this relationship between Cassie and Dean, though!

I'm still expecting an episode a little like the movie "Duel." How cool would that be!?

Kat

[Mother]

....Why am I so defensive of a fictional character? *&#^!* >.< I just want to smack that girl! I mean, I understand that it would be difficult to accept something like "I'm a Supernatural Hunter" and it is unfair for me to hold the fact she couldn't handle it against her, but damn it, if he really loves her and she really loves him, shouldn't he be worth it? Worth sticking it out with? I mean...if she isn't willing to do that then Dean deserves someone better!!! Maybe the whole "Dean having sex" wasn't the problem after all. ( For those of you not involved with TV.com, I had a major issue with this "sex" deal ) I just don't think she is good enough for him. My god...my user name finally fits me. HA! It all comes down to "Why isn't my boy good enough for you!?!?!"

I should probably fix myself a drink and reevaluate my life now. I get way to worked up over things like this.

[historylover]

I thought this episode was a let down, to be honest. Not much in the way of humor, although Dean, of course had some great lines (I loved the "She's an old friend" "What's an 'old' friend?" "Not a new one."):teeth0: I also loved "'I hadn't thought about that.' I'm gonna kill him."

Didn't Dean pay any attention to history? Did he even take history? Why didn't she call the cops? Can we say "lynch mob"?

I wasn't impressed with Cassie. Was it just me or did she not have any chemistry with JA?

Kat

[prydain]

I'm watching it right now...so far it's pretty lame. Not as lame as "Bugs" though!

And is it in Mississippi or Missouri? I mean...the sides supposedly said MS, the press releases say MS, The WB's site says Mississippi...

And people were saying it was brave for them to do an "interracial" relationship (on TV.com), but I was thinking about that...lots of shows do it. It's not really bravery, just trying to be politically correct, I think. *shrug* I don't really care though. She's cute.

[goldenboy]

The combination of the ghost truck and the interracial conflict didn't really gel in a meaningful way. It could have been a ghost truck and any other revenge story. But it was nice to see that Dean is capable of becoming attached to someone...besides family.

"Duel" woulda been cool, heh. Where the ghost truck would basically just be chasing them for the entire episode. Then they'd have to figure out a way to solve the problem from inside Dean's car, while they're driving, or something...I dunno. 24 has me stuck on the "in real time" concept, lol.

[Mother]

Well...guess I can't be disappointed by this episode considering I had no expectations for it what so ever. *sigh* I also think it was a political correctness move as well, expecially since the "racism" stuff was shoved down our throats the whole time. I really get annoyed by that because I don't see the point of every single show on television at one point or another reminding me that there are racists in the world. It's like putting them in the spot light and saying "We see you! We acknowledge you!" as opposed to rising above them. *shrugs* This is coming from a person who doesn't believe in "hate crime" just "Crime!" Color, Sex, Sexual Orientation, that's a characteristic of the victim, not the crime. It's not really equality when there is a special crime classification JUST for you because you are gay, black, or a woman. Or...straight, white, and a man...just to be "politically correct" Whoo! I'm worked up today now aren't I. I got WAY off topic. o.o

[Angels baby101]

i liked this episode i was all siked cause i've been on route 666 me and my dad both and some wierd stuff happened on that route...

Anyways i loved the bit of dean history there though i didn't like cassie too much i dunno. I loved the little qoute towards the end after the truck vanished... and sam told dean that he hadn't given much thought to what if it didn't work and Dean kinda mocks sam "what if it didnt work.... I'mma kill him." i dunno i loved that qoute it was cute...

[historylover]

Yeah, I love Dean's "'Honestly I hadn't thought about that.' I'm gonna kill him!" LOL!

Still think taking off "Duel" would have been better. I like what goldenboy said: it would have been better if the truck was chasing them, and they had to deal with the problem from inside the car.

Although, I pretty much said the same thing Dean said when the killer truck crashed into his car. Poor baby!

Kat

[prydain]

Hey, I just realized the girl who plays Cassie (aka the girl Dean gets physical with) is the girl who plays Isabelle on The 4400...I *thought* she seemed familiar (as I was watching The 4400, that is).