Long-Distance Call (3x14)

Spot. It might have been just in Bello, but there was a big jump between those episodes and ghost spacers like go spacers didn't air until April and Mystery Spot aired on Valentine's Day. I remember that because Richard Speight, Jr. I'm guessing that big gap is because of the writer's strike that was going on at the time.

Anyway, that was just something I noticed that there's a massive gap here. But on to the episode. This episode shares its name with a Twilight Zone episode from March 31 1961. In the episode, a young boy named Billy communicates with his dead grandmother using a toy telephone that she gave him on his birthday, which is actually kind of a scene that we saw in the episode today. The overall Episode Number of both the Twilight Zone and supernatural episodes is 58. What a

quickening Hmm. The episode also shares its name with a short story by author Richard Matheson, author of I Am Legend, this short story appeared in a collection of short stories called shock. In the story, a woman is called by her deceased husband when a telephone wire is blown down onto his grave. This story was made into the Twilight Zone episode back in 1963. But it was renamed night call, because long distance call had already been used in the 1961 episode that we just talked

about. And last, the episode shares its name with a muddy water song. Nice. Anyway, the episode opens up on a man who's obviously not doing great. He's kind of shaky His face looks really concerned. He's pouring himself an alcoholic beverage. He's not having a good time, ya

know? The phone rings and This obviously stresses him out is zoomed in on the caller ID and it said Shaw 33 which is important for us to know throughout the episode, but it's never really explained how that's popping up on caller ID.

see her desperate. It's really staticky and crackly. He starts getting frustrated to the point that he rips the phone cord out of the wall. And then the phone still rings from Shaw 33 And it's Linda again, being like come see me come see me come see me. And la actually figured it out that she's dead. I did. I just had that feeling. He finally says okay, you when he opens a drawer and pulls out a handgun and takes his own life. Linda got what she wanted. Apparently, we cut to some

university campus. Dean is sitting on a bench by himself hanging up a phone, ending a phone call as Sam comes walking up, saying that this professor he just talked to who doesn't know shit. Dean says, Well, Bobby just told me about this case in Ohio. Why don't we go check this out? Sam was very confused at first. He says, Excuse me. We're already working a case. We're working your case. We need to figure out how we're going to get out of this and Dean finally tells Sam there is

no getting me out of this. Yeah, Ruby lied to you. She can't help us get me out of this. No one can help get me out of this. I'm going to go to hell this is going to happen. Sam is not happy that whatever information it was that he happened to have in his hand from the professor he throws it in the trash can and he's like well then I guess we're going to Ohio. He's really upset. And he

Maleficarum. You've known since then that you were gonna go to hell no matter what. And you haven't told Sam like, no. Secret secrets are no fun. Secret secrets hurt someone. Anyway, they gotta fucking Ohio. Sorry. Yeah. All right about that. They're interviewing the wife of the man that we saw in the beginning. And she's very irritated. She does not want to be talking to them. She says she's already talked to some detectives, and she doesn't know what they want. She's over it.

Yeah, Dean threatens her that he could send her to jail for withholding information or something. And Sam, like fact, checks him is like, yeah, excuse me a days like, Well, I'm sure it's illegal somewhere, to try to just pass it by. So the wife does give them more information that she heard her husband on the phone talking to Linda. And when she picked up the phone, there was nobody on the other end of the line. He was just talking to an empty phone. So

that's what I'm saying. Like, where's the caller ID coming from? There was nobody on the other line is the phone even getting called ghosts number and the phone cord got pulled out of the wall and it's still called and it still goes shit, man. I'm probably thinking to myself, whatever I am. Anyway, Linda was or not Linda. Wifey was really pissed off and saying she had no fucking idea who Linda was. And I said, bullshit. You did. She seemed to upset she knew exactly

who Linda was. And it turns out Linda was a mistress. He was driving in the car with her. They got in an accident. Linda died and the husband survived.

number. Some manager guy named Clark is taking them down to the basement to go meet Stewie, who is like this tech guy down there at his computer station and there's flies everywhere. Still, he has food all strewn about his workstation. There's porn on every single screen down there. It's gross. He's like, I don't know how this stuff got on here. Yeah, and jeans like is that busty Asian beauty stock calm, the Platinum Membership is well

worth it such a creep. So they asked Stewie to run the number and Stewie says, No, there's no point like that's an agent number, nothing's going to come up. It's stupid. And they threatened him again, pull the whole workups you better do what we say kind of stuff. So he ends up running it. And He is surprised to see that 10 households in the area have been contacted by that phone number. He said he can't trace where the

name number came from. But he can tell them that, you know, here are the addresses of these 10 houses that have been contacted by this phone number in the past two weeks, Sam gets a rental car and he and Dean separate. He goes to one of the houses on the address. A dad and a little boy answer the door and he's asking, you know, have you had any disturbances with your phone service lately? Static dropped calls, strange voices, etc. The dad was like, No, I don't know what you're talking

about. But there's a girl standing behind him. Want to say she was probably like, late teens, early 20s. She was on the young side. I'd say like mid teens, mid teens you think? Okay, so teenager, standing back behind the dad. And as Sam is asking these questions, she just looks horrified. Sam kind of makes eye contact with her and sees her so he knows she knows something. He takes his time getting back to the rental. And sure enough, she finds her way outside to go and talk to him

and says No way. You're from the phone company driving a rental and wearing a cheap suit.

been having phone sex. And he said got a he said something about I have a whole new view on necrophilia and some girl walking past I'm like turned around and looked at him like what the fuck? So of course, Dean turned around and checked out harass, of course, as Dean is getting in the Impala after he hangs up with Sam. His phone rings, and it's from Shaw 33. He answers and it's John Winchester. They meet back up at the hotel, the cute little 50s a motel. And Dean is telling Sam

about the call. And he's really excited. And he's like, What should I say if he calls back and you can tell Sam isn't really buying that it's John. So Sam just says I mean, you could just say hello. And Dean is not happy with this response at all. It's unacceptable. It is an unacceptable suggestion that he just say hello when he answers the phone. So he gets frustrated and leaves

kind of distracting. But otherwise they wait for the tour group to move on to your group tour group to move on. And they're checking out the phone. It's not plugged in. It's not really functional. So Dean is thinking, Oh, this must somehow be working. It really is dad who's calling me, Sam, yet again, is still being really skeptical that he doesn't think that this is the answer. So they're kind of butting heads here. Sam's using his EMF around

it. I mean, he is trying to like, see if this could be something but he's just not seeing the hard evidence that proves these phone calls are actually coming from people who've passed away. We come back to the motel. And Sam is asleep in his bed with a shirt on. Dean in the meantime, is sitting at the cute little kitchenette table, drinking coffee, purposely trying to stay awake and has his phone out on the table. As soon as it rings. We see the caller ID says Sha 33.

He answers it right away. It's John again. He lets Dean know that he knows about the demon deal. And he's so disappointed in Dean because this is not what he wants from him. And he also tells him that he knows how to get Dean out of the deal, that the demon who holds his contract is actually there in town. Meanwhile, Lainey the girl that Sam spoke to earlier at the other house is sitting at her

computer. And she starts getting Iam messages from her mom that are saying really similar things to what Linda was saying earlier like I want to see you come to me Come see me all of this kind of stuff. The screen goes black and her I think it was her webcam that came on because it was way too clear of an image to be just a reflection. Yeah. And you see this like ghost figure walking up behind her and putting a hand on her shoulder Lainey is freaking the fuck out.

Me too. She ends up contacting Sam at some point and letting him know what's going on and that she's really upset and she wants to tell him what happened. Back in the motel. Sam and Dean are both awake. And Dean is telling Sam that there have been electrical storms and all these things going on at every location that they've been to

over the past two weeks. And Sam yet again is saying I don't recall seeing any of this stuff in any of the places that we've been dean is really upset because How dare Sam not believe him? That this is true that this is going on? This demon is here in town. Their dad is calling them like Dean wants to believe all of this is real so badly. It's almost heartbreaking. Yeah. Sam tells Dean about Laney that he needs to go and talk to her. Dean gives him a hard time teases him about what is it To

Catch A Predator? Like we'll keep an eye out for Chris Chris Hanson. Isn't that who it was? So a little throwback joke there. And Sam just says, Listen, just don't do anything until I get back. You know, I'm not saying you're wrong. There's just not any hard evidence right now. So just please stay here. Don't do anything until I get back. I'm just gonna go talk to Laney dean of course does not

listen to this. He has been told that this exorcism spell that he has been provided is going to kill the demon that holds his contract despite the fact that Sam Atos told him that both him and Bobby couldn't find any evidence of that being true. Dean's like No, fuck you. Dad gave me this. He actually was in hell. So surely he knows something more than me, you or Bobby? I'm gonna listen to dad. I think that this is going to work. While Sam is talking to Laney Dean goes and breaks into

this house. And we don't really know what's going on. At first. We're like, Why is he in this house? It's not an abandoned house. It's actually quite nice. Looks very much lived in good furniture, what have you. And he has this jug of water that he drops, like beans in.

you to come to her. Sam somehow puts two and two together that this entity that was trying to get Lainey to off herself just like the guy at the beginning of the show is not these dead people. He's figured out who it is. I don't know what the connection And as maybe you can tell me in the war in the meantime, we see another guy who's also getting a phone call. And this was so sad. It was from a little girl. Oh, I know. And it was his daughter. Oh, it was

so sad. And she's telling him that the man who killed her is in their house right now. Sam calls Dean and tells him it's a Karrakatta. And Dean mentions that they live in what filth? I think he's so yeah, you know, they live in filth or whatever. And they kind of think, oh, yeah, all the flies at the phone company. And so they're thinking it's that Stewie guy who was watching the porn and had food everywhere. Sam goes to the phone company to confront

Stewie. And while he's doing that Clark was should have known it was manager comes up from behind Sam and knocks his ass out with a baseball bat. And while Stewie is like, Yeah, you don't fuck with the phone company, Clark Knox Dewey's is out to he takes them down to like the basement area where the flies were and everything and he has Sam and Stewie both tied up in these two different chairs. And he's got this like, really cool dagger, triangle looking

dagger thing. He stabs Stewie, like right in the heart, and then reveals that he's got these crazy spiky teeth, like opens his mouth really wide. It was kind of like the mummy, you know? Oh, yeah, it was it was like unnaturally wide. Oh, yeah, mouth, your jaw would break. I thought he was about to like do like a snake and eat stewing, too. Because his mouth was just so wide. Like I totally thought that's what was gonna happen. But instead what happened is he

just kind of sucked. And we saw this white light come out of Stewie and into Clark so we're guessing he ate sushi soul or something? We don't know. It wasn't really explained. You know they're doing the whole villain is caught monologue kind of speech thing going on where he's explaining everything to Sam about how he can call anybody and he did very good

evil stuff. Like he went over to that the phone board and put his hand on it and the way he like turned his head back like it was almost sultry, almost feminine, but not quite. Like it just made him seem kind of seductive, seductive, animalistic. Just, yeah, I liked what the actor was doing with his body. It was very

subtle. But I liked how he was moving around and doing things during this whole scene when he was explaining that he can call anyone, am I calling your brother and telling him to kill himself? Or am I calling someone else? What am I doing? Ooh. Turns out the house that Dean had broken into was the house of the poor man with the daughter who had been murdered. So the man comes in believing Dean is the man who killed his daughter. Dean believes the man is the

demon who holds his contract. So their fighting Dean gets him in the double strap pulls out his sheet of paper to read the special exorcism that he got from his dad. And the guy just walks out of the devil's trap like nothing. And it's just asking Dean over and over. Why'd you kill my daughter? Why did you do it? And Dean realizes his mistake, and he beat the

How many times has Sam been tied up in this show? So far? So many? So many?

fucking scared. He's going to hell, there is no way out of this. And he was really hoping that there was going to be something to stop him, but that he has to accept. Dad's not going to save him. No one's going to be able to save him. You know, I was happy. He was like, you know, I'm scared. And I'm the only person who might be able to get me out of this. And Sam goes, and me, Dean, give some shit that like I just poured my soul out to you. And all you have to say back to me

is and me. Like that's it. Sam asks, did you want to poem? Dean hands, Sam a beer cracks one open himself. They just turn on the TV. And that's the end of the episode. Yeah. It was written by Jeremy Carver and directed by Robert singer. These two also wrote Sin City together. Not a lot of gore. I would say not any horror. Really? No. I mean, we got that blood splurge. But it was so it was a minimal minimalist, minimalist bloods splooge. Big one

and dogs to their death. I don't like it.

that metabolism. Oh, shall we, according to many tales of Kolkata is also a genderless being which is able to shift between the genders at will. It's an intelligent being that mimics the the wails of a distressed dog in order to lower them to their death real nice. It also has the ability to imitate human voices calling out the names of the people who wander in the forest by themselves, and then leading them into troubled times. It says things more than troubled

times. It's widely accepted that the Kolkata is actually a result of society's first attempts to describe the spotted hyena which is a species of hyena native to Sub Saharan Africa. descriptions of the animal became embellished over time, which gave rise to exaggerated depictions of what eventually became this mythical

Karrakatta. The spotted hyena even takes its Biden binomial name Kukuda Crow, coot Kuta, from the mythical creature, so it says how do you kill the CRO kata because that's what we're all wondering. Right? Killing a CRO Kata is difficult and not fun. Any tales in Indian or Ethiopian folklore, tell of stories where humankind comes out the victor against these mythical beasts.

disrupt their attack. This could also be one of the croquetas weaknesses clearly. So some crow kata sightings, many have been reported sightings of the Kolkata throughout history. According to the Roman historian Cassius do, the Kolkata was brought to fight in the Roman arenas by Septimus Severus, like his name, Severus Snape, yeah,

Septimus Severus Snape. And then the Roman author Pliny the Elder, like his name to suggest that the crow Kata is an Ethiopian beast that is the offspring of the mythical lioness and the lucro kata. This gave rise to many tales within Ethiopian folklore that refer to the Kolkata with many believing to have cited the beast over the years. Anyway, my whole point is that I'm confused. Like, first of all,

wise to its kind tricks. And he was lucky to get two souls a year or so. Yeah, like it's admitting that he this is talking about the character from the show. The true appearance of the Takata is unknown. It can appear human but when it feeds it unhinge is its jaw and its large, sharp teeth are visible again. I think this is talking more about their version. Right

ricotta? Yeah. Powers and abilities soul devouring, voice mimicry, shape, shifting, invulnerability, super strength, super speed, longevity, electronic manipulation. And none of these sound anything like a wolf dog. Right? I guess they just decided to change it up. Right? Just borrow the name and change it up.

literally That's it. No. Everything else in the episode I could have done without saying.