The American Indians, as in many other cultures, have a belief that restless souls can infect living people. One of the illusive ailments became the motive for creating the sixth series in the show “Supernatural-4”. The scriptwriters of the episode D. Loflin and E. Dubb in a creative tandem with the director Phil Sgrichch, thoroughly reworking the mythical foundation, created one of the most memorable series of the project.
Ailment and panacea
They endowed yellow fever with symptoms such as depression, anxiety, hallucinations, unmotivated fear, a painful perception of reality, nightmares that smoothly flow into bouts of paranoia in reality. In addition to the unfortunate “civilians,” the creators deliberately infected one of the central actors, Dean Winchester, with an ailment. And right after the premiere in the fourth season of “Supernatural. Yellow Fever "E. Kripke assured fans that Dean was infected, not because" he is an asshole. " It's all about the gloomy secret that he keeps in his heart and about which fans can only find out in the tenth episode. Agree, this is an ideal advertising move.
Like a cold, the yellow fever in the “Supernatural” spreads by airborne droplets or through a close touch, like a handshake. There is a cure for a phantom ailment. The disease is regarded as part of the ghost that lingers in the victim's body, so you can find the remains of the phantom, sprinkle with salt and burn. However, if they are not, then you can use the ghost itself. You can only kill fear by scaring it.
Short storyline
The Winchesters, upon learning of the sudden death of three healthy men in the city of Rock Ridge, who allegedly sprawled freely in the vastness of the state of Colorado, decide that these cases were not without the intervention of supernatural forces, and go to the scene.
The local sheriff Frank and the forensic doctor are helping the brothers in the investigation. All the tragedies are united by the strange behavior of the victims before their death - they began to fear everything in the world. In the process of clarifying the circumstances, Dean begins to be frightened of elementary familiar things. Bobby discovers that he, too, is infected by a ghostly affliction.
The brothers try to unravel the matter as soon as possible, so they go to the sawmill, where they encounter the ghost of Luther Garland, who, being alive, was in love with the sheriff's wife. When she disappeared, Frank suspected Luther and, tying the unfortunate man with chains to a company car, he dragged along the road until he passed away. Then the hunters decide to do the same with the phantom in order to break the chain of deaths and save Dean. They succeed.
Hilariously funny
There are a lot of wonderful moments in the episode, starting from the very beginning Dean runs away from a tiny decorative dog that he sees as a hell of a dog, the scene in which Winchester screeches hysterically piercingly, frightened by a cat, and ending with a masterpiece surprise in the closing credits, a clip by Jensen Ackles under Eye of the Tiger Survivor.