Folsom Prison Blues (Supernatural)
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"Folsom Prison Blues" is episode nineteen of the second season of the television series Supernatural.
Plot summary
Template:Spoiler Sam and Dean allow themselves to be arrested in order to investigate a series of murders inside a penitentiary. However, things get complicated when FBI Agent Henricksen shows up to take over their case.
Dean and Sam are asked by their father's friend Deacon to investigate the mysterious deaths of prison inmates at an Arkansas detention center. After being deliberately arrested for breaking and entering a museum, the brothers meet FBI Agent Henricksen who wants to charge them with murder. The hunters have only a week to find their ghost at the county jail while awaiting extradition to other states.
In solitary confinement after an altercation with another prisoner, Dean witnesses the typical eerie signatures of a haunting and hears the bloodcurdling screams of the inmate in the next cell as he is being killed. All clues point to a convict who died after being brutally beaten by prison guards 30 years ago. While Dean creates a diversion by taunting another inmate, Sam steals away to the dead convict's cell and burns his blood stained mattress.
Dean's antics land him and his adversary in the infirmary where the older Winchester is attacked by the spirit of a nurse. He escapes by throwing salt from his meal tray at her but the other inmate is killed. Sam and Dean find out that the ghoulish nurse was possibly a vigilante who murdered inmates but who was herself killed during a prisoner uprising.
The brothers escape from jail with the help of the fatherly Deacon who turns out to be a prison guard. With Henricksen hot on their trail, they track down the fiend's grave using information provided by their female public defender. As the two hunters watch the nurse's remains go up in flames, Henricksen and his team find themselves at the wrong cemetery, having been intentionally misled by the lawyer. The Winchester brothers and their Impala drive away into deep hiding.
Featured music
Notes
- The title of the episode alludes to the song of the same name by Johnny Cash.
- Dean:"Great, another guy who's seen Taxi Driver one too many times, Yeah! I'm talking to you!".
- Dean compares the avenging spirit to Charles Bronson, whose Death Wish series is about a vigilante.
- The scene where the guard tells the inmate to turn off the light is not a true situation. In all prisons (county, state, etc.) prisoners aren't allowed near anything that can come close to being used as a weapon. This case being electricity.
- Dean: "Are you from Texas all of a sudden?" This is an inside joke since Jensen and Jared are both from Texas, and because Texas supports the death penalty.
- Classic prison break movies The Great Escape starring Steve McQueen and James Garner and Escape from Alcatraz starring Clint Eastwood are referenced.
- While getting his mugshot taken, Dean says, "I call this one my Blue Steel." This is a reference to Zoolander--"Blue Steel" is the titular character's signature pose.
- Dean mentions Nick Nolte as he is being photographed, referring to Nolte's infamous mugshot following his arrest in 2002.
External links
When Dean and Sam are online at the jail to be checked in, Dean asks when he will be getting his tear drop tattoo, that is in reference to the movie Cry-Baby starring Johnny Depp, it is also a soon to be broadway musical.
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