Live Free and Twihard

• Why did Sam let Dean get turned?

• Who is the vampire Alpha, and what is his plan?

• What was Dean's weird vamp dream all about? And what happened in Aurora, IL?

• The vampires are building an army -- and they're not afraid of hunters anymore.

• Dean is more suspicious of Sam than ever.

• The Campbells have an old cure for vampirism, if the newly turned vamp does not drink human blood

• At the start of the episode, Kristen shows a fake ID at the bar, and it's that of an Asian girl named Emily Fang from Limestone, IL (Limestone is a real, very small town -- about 1500 pop. -- west of Kanakakee).

• Title: References the vampire-themed Twilight.
• Title: The term "twihard" refers to "diehard" fans of the Twilight series
• Title: Referencing the 2007 action-adventure movie Live Free or Die Hard.

Twilight allusions

• The young emo couple reciting teen-angst dialogue at the start of the episode are named Kristen and Robert, named after Twilight stars Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson.
• The dialouge in the beginning of the episode contains lines taken directly from Twilight.
• Kristen claims she's very clumsy when she gets a paper cut, and Bella Swan in Twilight is notoriously clumsy.
• In Kristen's room, Dean and Sam try both Lautner and Pattinson as her computer password.
• When Dean tries to say goodbye to Lisa, he realizes that he's being a lot like Pattinson's character Edward Cullen.

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