Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things



Summary
When the Winchester brothers visit a cemetery to pay their respects to their murdered mother, they find a nearby grave with an eerie power to kill all the life around it.

Recap
NEIL'S HOUSE - Angela is sitting at the table upset and in tears. Neil opens up a couple of bottles to try and cheer her up. She responds simply with an “I’m all right." They’re interrupted by pounding at the front door. It’s Angela’s boyfriend Matt, who barges into the house demanding to talk to Angela, only to find out that Angela has left the house.

ANGELA'S CAR - Angela’s driving down the road heartbroken, unable to concentrate on driving. Her cell phone rings. It’s Matt trying to apologize, causing her to take her eyes completely off the road, driving off the road slamming into a rock-solid wall, glass shattering in every which direction. Zooming back in on the car we see Angela dead with her head laying on the steering wheel and blood flowing out of her mouth, dripping onto her phone, as Matt still on the line cries out, “ANGELA, ANGELA!!”

THE IMPALA - Sam and Dean are driving out to visit their mother’s grave because Sam wants to pay his respects. Dean thinks it’s an irrational thing to do because there were no bones to bury after the fire. All that’s there is a headstone planted by their uncle. Dean shrugs it off and says that they should pass by the Roadhouse and continue their hunt for the demon.

CEMETERY - Despite how Dean feels, the boys visit the cemetery. Kneeling beside their mom’s grave, Sam digs a tiny hole and places two silver dog tags inside, that he feels their dad would’ve have wanted her to have. He then in a shallow tone, replies, “I love you Mom.” Meanwhile Dean’s pacing around the cemetery, not coming within a hundred yards of their mom’s grave. He notices a tree off to the side that appears to be dying. The tree is inside an area of dead grass that’s been cut into a perfect circle. Looking down at the grave beside the tree, he notices a bunch of dead flowers (signs of unholy ground).

Talking to the undertaker at the cemetery, he finds out that the grave belongs to Angela Mason, a student at the local college, whose funeral was three days earlier. Inquiring about the patch of grass, the undertaker says that no one can explain how it happened. Dean insists that they investigate this case. However, Sam finds it weird that Dean would stumble on a hunt like this, especially here of all places. He agrees to go with Dean to talk to Angela’s father, who’s a professor at the college.

DR. MASON'S OFFICE - Sam and Dean approach Dr. Mason, claiming to be friends of Angela’s, who have come to offer their condolences. They don’t gain much information from him, but Dean notices a weird book on ancient Greek mythology. When Dean questions Dr. Mason about the book, he tells Dean that he uses the book to teach a course.

MOTEL - Looking through their dad’s journal back in the motel, Dean is certain that there’s something going on, that they just haven’t found it yet because something turned that grass into unholy ground. Sam bravely confronts Dean, saying that he thinks Dean is imagining a hunt so that he doesn’t have to think about their mom or dad. With his blood pressure rising, Dean grabs his jacket and keys and storms out of the room.

MATT'S APARTMENT - A broken up Matt is lying on the couch, watching old videos of him and Angela. He gets up to grab a beer. Camera zooms in on the plant on the coffee table that suddenly withers and dies. Matt sits back down on the couch and pauses the video on a close-up shot of Angela. Looking into the TV, he sees a white reflection of Angela in back of him. He turns around screaming for help and blood spews on the TV.

ANGELA'S HOUSE - Dean breaks into Angela’s house in search for additional leads. He encounters Angela’s roommate at her house and sits down to talk with her. She tells Dean that Angela and Matt were a happy couple and there was no reason for the two of them to break-up. Now, Matt is dead too. He commited suicide the previous evening, apparently.

MOTEL - Dean walks in on Sam watching Latino Porn on the SKIN channel, quickly shutting off the TV. Dean tells Sam that Matt cut his own throat last night and that he’d been seeing Angela everywhere he went before he died. He checked out Matt’s apartment only to find a bunch of dead plants, just like at the cemetery and a dead goldfish on top of that. The only other clue he has is Angela’s diary, which he stole from her house. The boys decide to talk to more of Angela’s friends to find out what life was like between her and Matt.

NEIL'S HOUSE - Later in Neil’s house Sam and Dean pose as grief counselors from the college. Neil refuses to talk, but tells them that Matt’s death did not occur out of grief, but out of guilt. Angela walked in on Matt having sex with another girl.

CEMETERY - The boys go to the cemetery to burn Angela’s remains and put her spirit at rest. They dig up her grave only to discover an empty casket.

NEIL'S HOUSE - Neil goes into his basement and Angela is sitting on a bed down there. She smiles before getting up. She tells Neil she missed him and kisses him. They continue kissing.

CEMETERY - Back at the cemetery, Sam and Dean see a symbol carved inside the casket. Dean says he’s seen these symbols before.

DR. MASON'S HOUSE - In Dr. Mason’s house Sam and Dean visit Angela’s dad questioning him about the symbol. Dean’s angry. Dr. Mason states that these symbols are part of a demonic ritual used for necromancy. Greeks use these symbols for communicating with the dead, even bringing corpses back to life, full zombie action. He accuses Dr. Mason of using this ritual to bring Angela back to life and threatens him saying, “WHAT’S DEAD SHOULD STAY DEAD!” He demands to know where he’s hiding Angela. Dr. Mason runs to call the cops and Sam points out to Dean that Angela is not there because the plants in the house are healthy. Dean storms out of the house with Sam following behind.

Outside Sam once again confronts Dean about the way he’s been acting, trying to find out what the hell is wrong with him. “Dean I don’t scare easy, but man you’re scaring the crap outta me.” Dean refuses to talk about it, saying that he can take care of himself. He admits that he’s being an ass, but that they’ve got more important things to worry about. They’ve got a zombie on their hands and they need to figure out how to kill it.

MOTEL - The boys are trying to figure out a way to kill Angela, but Sam says that it’s impossible because there are hundreds of methods on how to kill the walking dead. They have no idea what’s true and what’s not. Although there’s nothing in common amongst all the methods, a few of them say silver might work. Sam says they need to find the person who brought Angela back to life. Dean believes that Neil’s responsible. According to her diary, Angela wrote, “Neil’s a real shoulder to cry on. He so understands what I’m going through with Matt.” Dean also mentions that Neil is Dr. Mason’s TA and has access to all the same books.

NEIL'S HOUSE - it appears to be empty, but the boys take no chances carrying 9mm’s. They check the basement and realize that Angela has left and that she might be out to kill someone. Dean thinks that if there was anyone that Angela would want to kill, it would be her roommate Lindsey because she might’ve been the one who got it on with Matt because Lindsey was really torn up over Matt’s death.

LINDSEY'S HOUSE - Lindsey is looking at a photo of herself and Matt. She hears a noise at the front door. Angela comes in attacking Lindsey with a scissors. She takes two swings at her and misses both times. Lindsey kicks Angela to the ground causing the scissors to stab right through her breast. Lindsey’s in shock as she turns Angela face up realizing what she’s done. Angela’s eyes pop wide open, grabbing Lindsey by the throat with abundant force and pulling the scissors out of her breast. At that moment, Sam and Dean burst into the room firing three bullets into the back of Angela’s head and one into her chest. She manages to escape out the window. “Damn, that dead chick can run.”

NEIL'S HOUSE - Sam and Dean come storming into the room, tolerating no more of Neil’s crap. They demand to know where he’s keeping Angela. “WHAT’S DEAD SHOULD STAY DEAD!” Sam and Dean tell Neil that they’ve got to perform another ritual, nailing Angela back into her grave bed. Looking at the dead plants on the desk, Dean realizes that Angela’s in the room and advises Neil to get out as quickly as possibly and not to make her mad. Sam and Dean exit the room

When Angela comes out of the closet and shows Neil the wounds on her body, he finally realizes that havoc she’s wreaked on Matt and Lindsey. Angela wants Neil to take her to the cemetery and together kill Sam and Dean so that they can live a life of happiness together. Neil runs out of the room to get the car. It doesn’t take long for Angela to figure out that Neil’s leaving her behind. Angela catches up to him at his car, and breaks Neil's neck, killing him.

CEMETERY - Sam and Dean light candles surrounding her grave bed, waiting for her to arrive. They decide to use Sam as bait to lure her back into her grave. Angela sneaks up behind Sam. Hearing her Sam turns around and fires a direct shot into her forehead. A now extremely pissed off zombie, Angela sprints after Sam trampling him over injuring his hand severely. Dean right behind Sam, fires shots into her chest causing her to fall directly into her grave bed. Dean makes one final stab into her chest with a long metal stake and says once again, “WHAT’S DEAD SHOULD STAY DEAD!”

Now morning, Sam and Dean finish reburying Angela’s corpse. As they head back to the Impala, Dean glances for a second at their mom’s grave.

THE IMPALA - On the road Dean unexpectedly pulls off to the side of the road, gets out of the car and sits on the hood. For the first time, he opens up to Sam and tells him what he’s feeling. He tells Sam he believes he should have died at the hospital after the crash, and that John somehow changed places to bring him back. “So tell me, what could you possibly say to make that all right?”

Featured Supernatural Being
Zombie

Featured Music
"Sad Girl" by Supergrass

Continuity

 * Jared broke his arm doing a stunt before the filming of this episode. He had to go without a cast for the rest of the filming for continuity's sake, and then his broken arm had to be written into several subsequent scripts. In the final cemetery scene, as Sam carries a shovel over his shoulder, he is actually using the shovel to keep his arm stable and immobile.

Quotes
Dean: "Neil, it's your grief counselors. We've come to hug."

Dean: "It takes two to... you know... have hardcore sex."

Sam: "Dean, what is it?"

Dean: "I'm sorry."

Sam: "You...? For what?"

Dean: "The way I've been acting." (long beat) "And for dad. I mean he was your dad too, and it's my fault that he's gone."

Sam: "What are you talking about?"

Dean: "I know you've been thinking it, so have I. It doesn't take a genius to figure it out. Back at the hospital, full recovery. It was a miracle, and five minutes later dad's dead and The Colt's gone."

Sam: "Dean..."

Dean: "You can't tell me there's not a connection there. I don't know how the demon was involved. I don't know how the whole thing went down exactly, but dad's dead because of me and that much I do know."

Sam: "We don't know that, not for sure."

Dean: "Sam, you and dad, you're the most important people in my life. And now... I never should have come back Sam, it wasn't natural, and now look what's come of it. I was dead and I should've stayed dead. You wanted to know I was feeling, well thats it. So tell me, what could you possibly say to make that alright?"

Dean: "What's dead should stay dead - didn't you see Pet Sematary?"

Dean: "Sam, if you bring up dad's death one more time, I swear..."

Sam: "Please, Dean, it's killing you, please. We've already lost dad, we've lost mom, I've lost Jessica. And now I'm gonna lose you too?"

Dean: "We better get out of here before the cops come. I hear you, okay? Yeah, I'm being an ass and I'm sorry."

[Sam nods]"

Dean: "But right now we got a freaking zombie running around, we need to figure out how to kill it." (Sam smiles.) "Right?"

Sam: "Our lives are weird, man."

Dean: "You're telling me. Come on."

Dean: "Damn, that dead chick can run!"

(Dean and Sam are discussing how to kill a zombie.)

Dean: "We can't just waste her with a headshot?"

Sam: "Dude, you've been watching way too many Romero flicks."

Dean: "You're telling me there's no lore on how to smoke 'em?"

Sam: "No, Dean, I'm telling you there's too much. I mean there's a hundred different legends on the walking dead, but they all have different methods for killing them. Some say setting them on fire, one said... Where is it? Right here: Feeding their hearts to wild dogs. That's my personal favorite. But who knows what's real and what's myth?"

Dean: "Is there anything they all have in common?"

Sam: "No, but a few said silver might work."

Sam: "Silver bullets?"

Dean: "I've got enough to make her rattle like a change purse."

(Re-burying Angela's corpse.)

Sam: "Rest in peace."

Dean: "For good this time, okay?"

Sam: "Do you think she's in?"

Dean: "Nah, I think she went out to rent beaches."

Sam: "Look, smart ass, she might kill someone."

Sam: "Did we have to use me as bait?"

Dean: "I figured you were more her type. She had pretty crappy taste in guys."

International Titles

 * Finnish: Kielletyt leikit (Forbidden Games)


 * French: Vengeance d'outre-tombe (Vengeance from beyond the grave)


 * German: Spiel nicht mit toten Dingen (Don't play with dead things)
 * Polish: Dzieci nie powinny bawić się, tym co martwe (Children shouldn't play with things that are dead)