Safe House
Episode 11.17: Red Meat
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Episode Title: Safe House
Air date: March 23, 2016
Directed by: Stefan Pleszczynski
Written by: Robbie Thompson
In this wonderful flashback episode, we see Bobby and Rufus work a case, while Sam and Dean pursue the same creature years later.
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- Rufus: "Even if we find a way to keep the world spinning, not everyone's gonna be on that bus ride home."
- Rufus: (About Bobby's car) "Would it kill you to at least wash this dam**d thing? It smells like road kill casserole in here."
- Dean: Let's get drunk and not think about this ever again."
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Jim Beaver (Bobby Singer) | Steven Williams (Rufus Turner) |
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Jane McLean (Naoki Himura) | Emily Delahunty (Kat) |
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Holly Elissa (Mary Henderson) | Michele Scarabelli (Dr. Richards) |
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- Did Dean and Bobby really see each other in the nest, or were they both hallucinating?
- Is the soul eater Bobby hunted in Tennessee still alive?
- How can Bobby and Rufus use a backhoe to dig up graves in a cemetery without getting caught?
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- Bobby and Rufus once hunted a baku in Alaska
- Bobby and a hunter named Harvey once hunted a soul eater in Tennessee
- According to Rufus, the oldest rule of hunting is that you can't save everybody; but he tells Bobby to dismiss that rule where the Winchesters are concerned.
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- The house's address in this episode was 207 Oak Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
- The bottle of Johnny Walker Blue that Bobby finds in his car is the same bottle Jody Mills and Sam find and drink together in season 7 "Time After Time".
- We saw Bobby and Rufus use a backhoe to dig a grave in "Weekend at Bobby's" (season 6)
- Holly Elissa (the actress who played Mary Henderson in this episode) also played the shapeshifter/bar waitress "Lucy" in season 4 "Monster Movie"
- At the end of the episode, the disc jockey who announces the Allman Brothers' song is Bob Singer.
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- Bobby introduces himself and Rufus as Special Agents Riggs and Murtaugh. Those characters are police detectives from the "Lethal Weapon" movies, played by Mel Gibson and Danny Glover.
- Bobby and Rufus once hunted a baku in Alaska. Traditionally, the baku is a spirit creature that eats nightmares; but if it remains hungry, it can also devour ones desires and hopes.
- Dean's quip about Rufus and Bobby being "grumpy old Men of Letters" is a reference to the film "Grumpy Old Men" starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau.
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- "Night Life" by Willie Nelson (plays when Dean and Sam, and Bobby and Rufus are doing research)
- "Midnight Rider" by The Allman Brothers (plays when Bobby drives away at the end of the episode. It also plays when Dean and Sam drive away.)
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