Episode five – Bloody Mary (Terrore allo specchio)

Toledo, Ohio, and Fort Wayne, Indiana

Soundtrack: Bones to Dust

The journey goes on: Supernatural Idioms – Season One, Episode Five.

A little girl says “bloody Mary” three times in front of a mirror during a “truth or dare” game, and soon afterwards her father dies in a very weird way. Apparently, a spirit is at work. Other deaths follow, and it won’t be so easy for Sam and Dean to find out who this Mary is and why is she killing these people. It certainly has to do with secrets and guilt, whether misplaced or not, and Sam, who is still having nightmares about Jessica, decides that the best way to stop “Mary” once and for all is to evoke the spirit himself, much to Dean’s dismay.

Truth or dare

A game in which each player must choose between answering an awkward question honestly or dealing with a difficult task.

Do you wanna make out with Benjy Swartz?

Make out with someone        kiss or have sex

Lame

boring, uncool

Is that the best you can come up with?

Come up with something       produce, suggest, think of something

You mind keeping it down?

Please be quiet(er)

That’s a first for me

it’s the first time I see/say/do anything like that.

Go right ahead

Do it

See if we can find a Mary who fits the bill

a person who is suitable / exactly right /has the necessary characteristics for a particular situation. In this case, a person who may be the spirit.

I take it back. This will be very annoying

I was wrong (to say that it won’t be annoying). We already know that Sam loves research… but not when the library computers are out of order!

We could use your help

We would like/ we need (also, for instance, “I could use a drink” “their website could use an upgrade”, etc.)

It’s for the greater good

for a good purpose, it will help other people

Beats me

I don’t know, I don’t understand, I don’t get it

He was killed in a hit-and-run

a road accident in which the vehicle involved did not stop

I think I should stick around

Stick around = remain in or near a place

The NCIC         the National Crime Information Center

the United States’ central database for tracking crime-related information.

Now everybody packs it in with a few loose ends

Sam and Dean have gone to talk to the detective who worked on Mary’s case many years before: he says everybody (in the police etc.) leaves something that still needs to be explained or some unsolved cases when they retire.

It still gets me

the detective is saying the case still makes him angry, upset, or moves him after all that time.

I think he cut her up good

the man killed Mary by slashing and stabbing her.

Crazy doesn’t even begin to cover it

Charlie is trying to make her friend believe in the presence of a spirit, even if it “sounds crazy”, and Donna replies that crazy is an absolutely inadequate word/a very weak word, she clearly thinks Charlie has lost her mind.

Mary’s hard to pin down

to pin someone down means to find or get a hold of them

This post is part of the English Language category and of the Nerdy Passions category.

This is all for Supernatural Idioms – Season One, Episode Five. The sixth one, tomorrow!