Totally Frakked: Supernatural -- Caprica Six Does Route 66

Supernatural
Episode Title: “Roadkill”
First Aired: 3/15/07
The Winchester Brothers cross paths with the vengeful ghost of a dead farmer in a wonderfully atmospheric installment of Supernatural. Unless Dean and Sam can root out the dead man’s bones before sunrise, Battlestar Galactica’s Tricia Helfer (Caprica Six) will suffer a fate worse than death at Old MacDonald’s blood-drenched hands.

Helfer ditches the platinum dye job and red boob-huggers of outer space to tackle the role of Molly McNamara, a lovely-in-distress who runs afoul of farmer Jonah Greeley on the fateful night of her five-year anniversary to husband David (played by Dan Gauthier, recently late of the ABC sudser, One Life to Live). Molly swerves to avoid Greeley and flies off the remote country road, slamming their car into a tree. When Molly comes to, David is gone, and grisly Greeley has trapped her in the hunting cabin on his vast property -- a creepy hovel complete with gore-soaked counters and an array of sharp utensils perfect for filleting people from top to bottom. Molly barely escapes back to the remote country road in search of help, where she is nearly impaled on the Winchester boys’ famed Impala.

The brothers jump to Molly’s rescue and lay rubber as they race down the road. Molly explains the fight in the car with David that led to the accident.

          Molly: “The only time we ever argue is when we’re stuck in the car.”

          Sam: (laughing) “I know how that goes!”

Dean gives his brother the eyeball, then asks if her attacker looks like he just lost a fight with a lawnmower. The answer becomes obvious when Greeley appears in the road ahead of them, dripping entrails. The Impala barrels through Greeley’s ghost, only to sputter and stall, dead at the side of the road. The angry ghost is not going to let Molly escape his clutches. Her only hope is for Sam and Dean to discover Greeley’s bones before sunrise and do the old salt-and-burn trick.

The brothers open their trunk full of tricks and withdraw the high-yield weaponry -- rifles loaded with rock salt, perfect for stilling a restless spirit. Poor Molly, white as a sheet, has seen enough, and turns to run. Sam soothes her, but the most convincing advocate for staying with the Winchesters is Greeley himself, who tries to grab Molly and receives a chest full of snow-melt for the effort.

Molly and the Winchesters follow a path through the thousand acres of dark, snowy woods to the sagging remains of Greeley’s main house. There, they discover several vital clues among the cobwebs and decay. The first is a scrapbook containing a passionate love letter Greeley wrote to his wife. The other is a hidden attic room, which contains said wife’s time-mummified corpse, dangling from the rafters by a noose. Apparently, the grief of her husband’s death proved to be too much for Ms. Greeley, so she hanged herself after burying her husband’s body somewhere on the property.

In record time, the brothers carve a grave out of the frozen earth and give Mrs. Greeley a proper burial. Farmer Greeley makes several additional grabs at Molly, only to get blasted into vapors by Dean’s salt gun. Eventually, though, he snatches Molly while the brothers are searching the old house. While Greeley slices up Molly in the hunting cabin, Sam makes the necessary connection thanks to a photo in the scrapbook, linking a tree as a grave marker. Dean and Greeley duke it out while Sam unearths the bones, salts them, and then douses the remains with gasoline. Poof. Greeley burns to bits. Case closed.

Or is it?

Turns out, the haunting on Highway 41 is a two-fer. The Winchesters originally set out on the murky night because that stretch of remote road has been the scene of numerous traffic deaths since 1992, when the McNamaras accidentally struck Greeley. People have reported seeing a woman -- Molly -- being chased by a man -- Greeley -- every year on that night since, often with devastating results. David’s not dead, but Molly is, and she and Greeley have been reenacting the same script for fifteen years. The brothers take Molly to David’s house, where he has lived a happy life with his new wife since laying Molly to rest all those years ago (in Gauthier real-time circa 1994, he was playing Sam Lavelle in the classic Star Trek: The Next Generation final season episode, "Lower Decks"). Molly sees the light and passes on, and the Winchester boys motor toward their next encounter.

That upcoming mission, according to the previews, leads the brothers into a hairy sitch with a pack of feral werewolves.

 

 

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Comments

[hermitme]

Great recap there. Actually, reading your recap gave me the heeby-jeebies and I watched the episode already. LOL. This was a good epi and I hope any new comers enjoyed as well. I know the SN fans did.

[kelly]

I love this show, that was a nice review.
The episode was really good!

[immie_8]

Glad you enjoyed this episode of Supernatural; it really is a wonderful show! I look forward to reading more of your recaps of SN in the future!