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Mar 25, 2010 · Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid: Directed by John F. Showalter. With Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Jim Beaver, Kim Rhodes. Sam and Dean travel to Bobby's hometown to investigate why the dead are rising from their graves. Dean has a strange encounter with Bobby's dead wife.
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- Drama, Fantasy, Horror
- John F. Showalter
- 2010-03-25
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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid is the 15th episode of Season 5. It aired on March 25th, 2010.
Sam and Dean investigate Bobby's home town where the dead are rising from the grave but instead of attacking humans, they are happily reuniting with their families. The brothers turn to Bobby (guest star Jim Beaver) for help but he tells them not to worry about it and to leave town. Suspicious, Dean investigates and comes face to face with Bobby's ...
On a stormy night, a fist punches up through the soil in front of the gravestone of Clay James Thompson and a man drags himself to the surface. Benny Sutton is in his trailer, reclining with cold one and enjoying a nature program featuring wildebeests. He suddenly hears what sounds like someone trying to open his front door. He gets up to check but sees no one. After he returns to his program, his door is violently flung open, seemingly by the storm. Sufficiently spooked, he secures it, then turns to find a man coated in mud silently staring at him. Benny obviously recognizes him and gasps in horror, then fumbles to grab his shotgun. He aims at the man's face and pulls the trigger but nothing happens. The man seizes Benny by the throat and strangles him. Sam and Dean arrive in Sioux Falls, SD and pull up to Roy's Diner as Sam is on the phone making a repeated attempt to reach Bobby at home. Unsuccessful, they decide to proceed without him and join Digger Wells already seated at a table. Sam asks him to describe what he saw, and he tells them that he saw Clay Thompson climb into the window of Benny Sutton's trailer, saw him walk back out a short time later, and then Benny was dead.
Dean produces a copy of Clay's driver license to verify, and Digger confirms that although he was covered in mud at the time, it was definitely Clay he saw. The boys exchange looks, and Sam asks if he is aware Clay Thompson died five years ago. "Yup," he replies. Dean, already a little leery of Digger since learning he made up his own nickname, asks again if he's positive. Digger takes offense at his disbelieving tone, so Sam tries to keep the interview moving by quickly asking if he knows why Clay, regardless of his vital signs, would want to kill Benny. "Hell, yeah," says Digger—Benny killed him first, by shooting him in the back in a "so-called hunting accident." He reckons Clay came back to serve up some payback.Sheriff Mills enters the diner while on her cellphone instructing someone named Owen to choose an apple vs. a cupcake. Digger sees her walk in and they make eye contact; he mutters "uh-oh, Fargo" as a heads-up to the boys as she approaches their table to introduce herself.
She inquires about what FBI Agents Dorfman and Neidermeyer are doing with Digger, who chimes "They're doing their job. They believe me." The sheriff is incredulous that the FBI believes a dead man committed murder, but Sam assures her they are simply asking a few questions. When Dean asks her pointedly who did commit the murder, if not the dead man, she is annoyed and asks him to specify their jurisdiction in the case. Dean smugly retorts that their jurisdiction is wherever the U.S. government sends them. She decides a conversation with their supervisor is in order, and Sam produces a business card. She immediately whips out her cellphone and calls. Bobby answers as "Agent Willis" and she recognizes his voice after hearing him say only three words. Sam and Dean sink in their seats slightly upon hearing her call him out. She hangs up and informs them she knows Bobby by way of "an ass-full of 'drunk and disorderlies' and mail fraud" and makes it clear that whatever they're planning is hereby ended. The boys sheepishly acknowledge her authority.
Sam and Dean finally find Bobby at home and give him an earful for not answering/returning their calls. Dean also catches a whiff of April-freshness as they enter his house and accuses him of having cleaned. Bobby is unapologetic and says he's been busy working on a way to stop Lucifer. The boys think they are alerting him of the case in his own backyard, but he informs them that he has already checked out "the Benny Sutton thing" and found nothing there. They beg to differ, pointing out that a witness saw dead Clay Thompson at the murder scene. Bobby says he knows all about their witness, Digger Wells, and considers him a drunk. Sam tells him they have also tracked lightning storms in the area that could be apocalyptic omens, but Bobby says such stormy weather is not so unusual for South Dakota in February. When they ask for his thoughts on who he thinks killed Benny, he says Benny Sutton was a seasoned S.O.B. whom a significant number of living townspeople in Sioux Falls would've been willing to cap. Bobby's final take on the case is that the boys have wasted a tank of gas in pursuit of it.
Dean, not satisfied with the state of the case despite Bobby's offerings, stops at St. Anthony's Cemetery on their way out of town. He convinces Sam they should explore the possibility that Bobby could be wrong. They seek and find the grave of Clay Thompson and agree that it looks freshly overturned, despite being five years occupied. When they excavate and discover Clay's body is not there, they are even more confused. They break into the Thompson residence under cover of darkness to search for clues. Clay appears and tries to take Dean out with a baseball bat, believing he is a burglar. When Dean overpowers him, terrified Clay begs him not to shoot and declares there's money in the safe.
Aware that Clay Thompson is dead and missing from his grave but confused by his cowering position, Sam asks him who he is, just to verify. Clay is also confused when he asks his name, so then wants to know who they are. After Sam sputters "um... FBI," Clay realizes "Oh, my God... this is about Benny." Dean prompts him to keep talking, and he confesses to killing Benny because he couldn't let him get away with shooting him in the back. Clay is not what they have come to expect in the undead, as he's behaving relatively normally and actually says he is not sure whether he is dead or not. His wife enters and tells him that she's called 9-1-1. Clay assures her he's okay and that the 'agents' have come about Benny. He says he'll go with them to jail, but asks that they go quietly so they don't wake his kids.
Main Cast
•Jared Padalecki as Sam Winchester •Jensen Ackles as Dean Winchester
•Archangel (Lucifer, mentioned only)
•Horseman (Death, unseen)
•Revenant (mentioned only)
•Zombies
•When Dean and Sam are informed by Bobby that the reason for 15 people rising from their graves could be the Horseman Death, Dean said "Great, must be Thursday." It's a joke because Supernatural airs on Thursdays.
•The name of this episode Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid is also the name of a 1982 movie starring Steve Martin. The movie is a spoof of the old detective movies from the 1940s.
•This episode breaks the fourth wall when, during the gunfight, blood splatters the camera. This was deliberate, as the blood was CGI.
•The aliases Dean and Sam give the Sheriff, agents "Dorfman and Neidermeyer", are references to the movie Animal House.
•Death's human form (offscreen)
•Karen Singer (mentioned only)
•Zombie Karen Singer
•Benny Sutton
•Clay Thompson (mentioned only)
•Zombie Clay Thompson
•"Lovin' the Sin I'm In" by Terry Campbell
•Dean: Mr. Wells, why don't you tell us what you saw in your own words.
•Digger: Call me Digger.
•Dean: Digger? Who gave you that name?
•Digger: I did.
•Dean: You gave yourself your own nickname? You can't do that.
•Digger: Who died and made you queen?
Mar 26, 2010 · Half of "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" is an examination of another tragic chapter in Bobby Singer's life, and the other half of the episode is chock full of all the exploding zombie...
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"Supernatural" Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (TV Episode 2010) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Sam and Dean investigate Bobby's home town where the dead are rising from the grave but instead of attacking humans, they are happily reuniting with their families. The brothers turn to Bobby for help but he tells them not to worry about it and to leave town.
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid is a 1982 American neo-noir mystery comedy film directed, co-written by, and co-starring Carl Reiner and co-written by and starring Steve Martin. Co-starring Rachel Ward, the film is both a parody of and a homage to film noir and the pulp detective films of the 1940s.
Mar 25, 2010 · It's hard to imagine anything worse than being broken that way. Plot-wise, "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" wasn't anything revelatory or new. Dead people come back, are pleasant enough for a while ...
