Recap of Supernatural
Season 3, Episode 6:
Red Sky At Morning
Sam: So would you please quit worrying about me? I mean that's the whole problem in the first place. I don't want you to worry about me, Dean, I want you to worry about you! I want you to give a crap that you’re dying! So, that's it? Nothing else to say for you?
Dean: I think maybe I'll play craps.
Written by Laurence Andries.
Directed by Cliff Bole.
Airdate: November 8, 2007.
The brothers team up with Bela Talbot to investigate a series of deaths involved with a ghost ship in Sea Pines, Massachusetts
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Body count
For this episode = 3 humans and 2 ghosts.For the series so far = At least 225 humans, 17 ghosts, 8 demons, 6 changelings, 5 vampires, 2 shapeshifters, 2 werewolves, 1 djinn, 1 god, 1 rakshasa, 1 rawhead, 1 shtriga, 1 wendigo, and 1 zombie.
Tropes
- Abhorrent Admirer: Ms. Case, in Sam's eyes. Although she's beautiful for her age, he simply isn't interested and she won't take the hint.
- Anyone Can Die: Body count this episode = 3 humans and two ghosts.
- Badass in a Nice Suit: Sam and Dean at the party. Well, sort of. They don't really do anything badass in this instance (except possibly Dean stealing the Hand of Glory), but they are badasses and they are wearing suits, so...
- Big Eater: Dean is determined enough to get some form of food at the party that he calls the waiter over while Bela lies "fainted" in his arms.[Bela groans and falls into Dean's arms toward the floor. Dean, holding her, kneels down]
Dean: Honey? Honey, are you all right? [looks around, calls a waiter over] Waiter! Hi. Uh, my wife has a severe shellfish allergy. There's no crab in that? Is there?Waiter: No, sir.
Dean: No? [takes an appetizer, shoves it in his mouth] Oh, they're excellent, by the way. - Blatant Lies: Sam and Dean are from the sheriff's department. Not the police department. Different departments.
- Cain and Abel: Namedropped by Sam about a pair of brothers-slash-sailors: one had the other hanged. When their ghosts meet up toward the end of the episode, the hanged brother is furious at the betrayal (which is why he's killing those responsible for the death of a family member) while the other is clearly deeply remorseful. The hanged brother's ghost then seemingly destroys the other and himself along with it, meaning that both brothers are responsible for each other's demise at separate times.
- Can Always Spot a Cop: At the party, Bela and Dean note that the security personnel present look too competent and too vigilant to be simply guards from a private security firm, and are likely cops doing this as a side-job.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Hinted at with Bela.
- Deadpan Snarker: Bela has even Dean beat.
- Debt Detester: When paying Sam and Dean off with cash for saving her, Bela admits to being this trope in general, as she hates to be in anyone's debt.
- Dirty Old Woman: Ms. Case taking every chance she gets to hit on and grope poor, flustered Sam.
- Disproportionate Retribution: The ghost seeking revenge on those who killed their relatives goes after Sheila Case just because her cousin died in a car accident where she was driving, with their aunt's dialogue not giving any sense that Sheila was drunk, reckless, or crashed on purpose.
- Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Ms. Case blatantly sexually harasses Sam, who is clearly very uncomfortable. This is Played for Laughs. If Ms. Case had been a Dirty Old Man feeling up a young woman, the situation would likely have been treated as creepy.
- Fake Faint: Bela pretends to faint to gain access to the upper levels of the museum.
- Fanservice Extra: Sheila has less than two minutes of screen time and no dialogue. In those two minutes, she is seen jogging in short shorts and a sports bra and then gets a shower scene.
- Foreshadowing: There's a great deal of it for Bela's past in this episode.
- Freudian Excuse: Dean lampshades the phenomenon by sarcastically asking Bela if she got to be the way she is because her father didn't hug her enough. This becomes less funny when we learn more about Bela's past later in the season.
- Ghost Ship: People who see it die shortly after.
- Grand Dame: Ms.Case is subverted. While she is rich and elderly, she's closer to the Blanche Devereaux end of the spectrum than the Queen of England
- Hand of Glory: The last remains of the corpse of the hanged sailor. Sam, Dean, and Bela go in to a party at the museum to steal it while undercover, so that they can use it to defeat the ghost of the hanged sailor, but then Bela steals it and sells it — as she had explained earlier, Hands of Glory are powerful mystical objects. They must fetch a pretty nice price.Dean: A Hand of Glory? I think I got one of those at the end of my Thai massage last week.
- He Cleans Up Nicely: Dean makes a tuxedo look good, which doesn't escape Bela's attention as she starts Eating the Eye Candy. Dean himself thinks he looks ridiculous.Dean: All right, get it out—I look ridiculous.
Bela: Not exactly the word I'd use.
Dean: What?
Bela: You know, when this is over, we should really have angry sex.
Dean: [pause, shifts uncomfortably] Don't objectify me. [beat] Let's go. - Hypocritical Humor: Dean objects to Bela objectifying him, after he's objectified women countless times so far.
- Impossibly-Low Neckline: The dress Bela wears to the party shows off an awful lotta cleavage. Not that we're complaining.
- Insistent Terminology: That's Ms. Case to you, Sam.
- Kinslaying Is a Special Kind of Evil: The ghost, having been killed by his own brother, targets people that were involved in the deaths of family members.
- Little Black Dress: Bela wears one at the party.
- Money Fetish: Sam questions how Bela can do such horrible things for money.Sam: How do you sleep at night?
Bella: In silk sheets, rolling naked in money. - Ominous Latin Chanting: When Sam is summoning the spirit.
- Self-Made Orphan: The wealthy brothers who get killed by the spirit are rumored to have murdered their father for the money.
- Shout-Out: Sam refers to Miss Case as Miss Havisham.
- Sorry to Interrupt: How Bela keeps the guard from discovering that Dean isn't in the room.
- They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!: "Call me Gertie."
- Watch the Paint Job: The Impala, of course, which Bela gets towed. Dean is not happy.
- You Look Like You've Seen a Ghost: The brothers say this to Bela after she sees the ghost ship.
