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| series = [[Supernatural (U.S. TV series)|Supernatural]] |
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| first = "[[Supernatural (season 5)#ep97|Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid]]" (5.15) <br> March 25, 2010 |
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| portrayer = [[Kim Rhodes]] |
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| species = Human |
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| gender = Female |
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| spouse = Sean Mills (deceased) |
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| children = Owen Mills (deceased) <br> [[List of Supernatural characters#Alex Jones|Alex Jones]] (adoptive) <br> [[List of Supernatural characters#Claire Novak|Claire Novak]] (adoptive) |
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| occupation = [[Sheriff]] <br> Hunter |
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'''Sheriff Jody Mills''' is a [[fictional character]] on the American drama television series ''[[Supernatural (U.S. TV series)|Supernatural]]''. She is portrayed by [[Kim Rhodes]]. |
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She is one of the longest-running recurring characters on the show and has appeared in every season since her introduction.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0722476/|title=Kim Rhodes|website=IMDb|accessdate=7 January 2018}}</ref> Jody is one of the stars of the [[Supernatural (season 13)|season thirteen]] episode titled "[[Supernatural (U.S. TV series)#Wayward Sisters|Wayward Sisters]]," a [[backdoor pilot]] for a proposed [[spin-off (media)|spin-off]] series of the same name.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://deadline.com/2017/06/supernatural-spinoff-wayward-sisters-kim-rhodes-the-cw-backdoor-pilot-season-13-1202116253/|title='Supernatural' Spinoff 'Wayward Sisters' Starring Kim Rhodes Set As Backdoor Pilot For Season 13 Of CW Series|work=Deadline Hollywood|date=June 20, 2017|first=Nellie|last=Andreeva|accessdate=June 21, 2017}}</ref> |
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==Storylines== |
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Jody is from [[Bobby Singer]]'s hometown of [[Sioux Falls]], [[South Dakota]]. Being the sheriff, she originally had quite a hostile relationship with "town drunk" Bobby. However, when the town's deceased, including Jody’s son and Bobby's wife, rise in [[Supernatural (season 5)|season five]]’s "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid," this changes her perspective on him. She attempts to prevent [[Sam Winchester|Sam]] and [[Dean Winchester]] from investigating, but when her zombified son, Owen, kills her husband, Sean, she works with Sam to kill the remaining zombies. |
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In the [[Supernatural (season 6)|season six]] episode "Weekend at Bobby's," Jody shows up with an FBI agent looking for [[List of Supernatural characters#Rufus Turner|Rufus Turner]]. She attempts to distract the agent and later in the episode extradites Rufus so he can escape custody and assist Bobby in retrieving his soul. |
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In [[Supernatural (season 7)|season seven]], Jody is recovering from an appendectomy in Sioux Falls General in "Hello, Cruel World" when the Leviathans take control. She informs Bobby and he rescues her. In "Slash Fiction," Jody accidentally and unintentionally aids Bobby into discovering the one thing (sodium borax) that brings severe harm to the Leviathans. Meanwhile, she also starts developing an attraction toward Bobby. She later contacts the Winchesters in "Time After Time" to warn them about supernatural killings she's gotten wind of and teams up with Sam to bring Dean back to the present. She is referred to in "There Will Be Blood" when Sam and Dean give her number to a girl named Emily who was kidnapped by vampires twelve years before, telling her to call Jody if they don't come back and that Jody would take care of her. |
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In [[Supernatural (season 8)|season eight]]’s "Sacrifice," Jody goes on a date with what she thinks is a man named Roderick, but is actually [[Crowley (Supernatural)|Crowley]]. He reminds her of her dead son and husband and she starts crying and goes into the bathroom to calm down. Crowley casts a spell to make her start choking on her own blood, threatening her life in order to force Sam and Dean to agree to a deal: stop the trials and exchange the demon tablet for the angel tablet. Once they agree and surrender, Crowley lets Jody live. |
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Jody returns in the [[Supernatural (season 9)|season nine]] episode "Rock and a Hard Place" where she calls Sam and Dean about a bunch of mysterious disappearances of virgins in [[Hartford, South Dakota]]. She works the case with Sam and figures out that they are dealing with [[Vesta (mythology)|Vesta]], the Roman goddess of the hearth. Jody helps Sam figure out where the kidnapped Dean is and when they need the blood of a virgin to kill Vesta, Jody punches one in the nose to get the blood when she refuses to help. During the confrontation with Vesta, Jody uses her knowledge of the goddess' true nature to catch her off guard and tries to kill her while she is distracted. Jody fails and is non-fatally wounded thanks to Sam, but kills Vesta from behind while she is distracted talking to Sam. Sam and Jody rescue Dean and the other surviving victims and Jody, who has her arm in a sling from her injury, thanks Sam and Dean before leaving. In "Alex Annie Alexis Ann," Jody saves a young woman named Alex from a vampire and calls Sam and Dean for help. Knowing there will be more vampires coming for Alex, Jody takes Alex to her family cabin to protect her while Sam and Dean hunt the nest. That night, Dean calls Jody to warn her about Alex and the fact that the nest are coming, but it is too late as the vampires arrive, having beaten the location out of Jody's deputy Frank. They knock Jody out and flee back to their nest in Nebraska. In the morning Sam and Dean return and warn Jody that Alex acts a lure for victims for the nest and that they intent to raid the nest and kill all the vampires, Alex included if needed. Jody insists on going with them and at the nest finds Alex who has been turned into a vampire. Jody is knocked out by the "mother" of the "family" of vampires, Celia, who tries to get Alex to feed on her. Jody, admitting that she sees Alex as a way to deal with her family's loss, realizes that Celia kidnapped Alex for similar reasons: she lost a daughter of her own and tried to replace her. Celia admits it, but tries to kill Jody. Jody is saved by Alex who injects Celia with dead man's blood. Telling Alex to turn away, Jody decapitates Celia and is joined by Sam and Dean who took care of the other vampires. As Alex didn't feed, Sam and Dean are able to cure her and Jody decides to take care of Alex as she has no family left. Jody promises to be there for Alex and offers understanding at Alex having lost her whole family, having gone through it herself, something Alex understands and acknowledges. |
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In "Hibbing 911" of [[Supernatural (season 10)|season ten]], Jody, who has adopted a rebellious Alex, goes to a sheriff's retreat in [[Hibbing, Minnesota]] where she meets overeager Sheriff Donna Hanscum of Stillwater, Minnesota who becomes her partner for the weekend and neither one knows of the other’s connection to the Winchesters. Jody becomes aware of mysterious deaths where all of a victim is consumed but their bones and after alerting Sam and Dean, tries to investigate without getting Donna involved. However, Donna sees another sheriff, Len Cues over another victim and learns the truth along with the fact that they are dealing with vampires. Sam, Dean, Jody and Donna team up take down the vampires who are revealed to have been taught to consume everything of a victim. Dean kills most of the vampires but one goes after Jody. Donna saves her and kills the vampire, impressing Jody. In the aftermath, Jody promises to teach Donna how to hunt, an idea she likes. |
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Jody eventually returns in the [[Supernatural (season 11)|season eleven]] episode "Don't You Forget About Me," where she continues to look after Alex and now [[List of Supernatural characters#Claire Novak|Claire Novak]], who frustrates Jody by seeing hunts everywhere when there is none. To Jody's shock, Claire proves to be right about a possible hunt in town, what turns out to be a vampire seeking revenge against Alex. Jody, Claire and Alex are kidnapped and nearly killed, but Sam and Dean rescue them and Dean and Claire kill the two vampires. Jody injures her leg again the process and is cooked breakfast by Claire and Alex who finally start to bond over the experience. Claire later tells Dean that Jody has promised to teach her how to hunt properly and she now understands what she has with Jody: a real family. |
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In "Celebrating the Life of Asa Fox" in [[Supernatural (season 12)|season twelve]], Jody is enjoying a day off while Claire and Alex are at a concert when the Winchesters drop by for a visit on their way home from a hunt. Jody then gets a call that Asa Fox, a hunter she was in a relationship with, is dead and travels with the Winchesters to [[Canada]] for his wake. Jody is shocked to discover that [[List of Supernatural characters#Mary Winchester|Mary Winchester]] is alive and offers Dean some advice on how to handle the situation. When the sadistic Crossroads Demon Jael starts killing hunters, he possesses Jody and reveals that she had fantasized about a life with Asa and that Asa's best friend Bucky killed him. As Jael focuses on Bucky, the other hunters perform an exorcism on Jael in sequence as he takes out each one after a few lines. Finally, Jael is exorcised from Jody and sent back to Hell. Jody survives the possession and exorcism and the next morning offers Mary advice mother to mother on dealing with her sons. |
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[[Category:Female characters in television]] |
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