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Supernatural, Season 1
Episode 14, “Nightmare”
Written by Sera Gamble and Raelle Tucker
Directed by Philip Sgriccia
This is the first of many Supernatural episodes that were directed by the talented Phil Sgriccia. His cinematic style made for many visually memorable episodes, and this is no exception. It contains a number of dramatic, not to mention shocking, images - but we'll get to those . . . Paired with the writing team who already brought us "Dead in the Water" and "Faith", we can expect this to be another emotionally intense, character driven episode.
It begins with the supernatural murder of one Jim Miller. Locked in his car and inside his garage by some unseen force, he's unable to escape when exhaust smoke starts pouring through the dashboard vents and he consequently dies of asphixiation and CO2 poisoning.
I've heard if you're ever in this position, and you have headrests on your seats, you can pull them off and use them to smash the windows. So I guess our victim of the week died of a lack of headrests.
For those who watched the aired episode (or the DVD), and are very familiar with Bob Seger's songs, there may have been an early clue to the identity of the perpertrator in the track that was playing as Jim drove up to the house and into his garage; the first verse of Seger's "2+2=?" begins "yes, it's true I am a young man/but I'm old enough to kill."
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