Bible Entry 1x12: Faith

Original Air Date: 1/17/2006

Writers: Raelle Tucker, Sera Gamble

Director: Alan Kroeker

Guest Players

Roy Le Grange: Kevin McNulty
Sue Ann Le Grange: Rebecca Jenkins
Layla Rohr: Julie Benz
Mrs. Rohr: Gillian Barber

• The doctor tells Sam that they “can’t work miracles” when he tells him about Dean’s condition. Nice foreshadowing for later in the episode.
  
  • Contacts in John’s journal: Sam mentions to Dean that he called them all. One guy Joshua, called him back, telling him about Roy Le Grange
  
  • The first sign outside the healing tent says: The Church of Roy Le Grange, - Faith Healer – Sundays 11 AM & 2 PM, Witness the Miracle. It’s hard to tell which service Sam and Dean went to since the day is cloudy, windy and raining (lovely Vancouver weather)
  
  • Second sign outside of tent says: Welcome All Faiths, True Believers Revival
  
  • Dean notes once they get inside the tent. “Yeah, peace, love and trust all over" and points to the security camera.
  
  • Third sign inside of tent: For I will restore health unto the [sic], & the [sic] heal thee of thy wound. – Jeremiah 30:17
  
  • Fourth sign inside of tent: Jesus Christ maketh thee whole… - Acts 9:34
  
  • Fifth sign in tent: The Healing Church of Roy Le Grange, Minister. I am the Lord who healeth thee – Exodus 15:26
  
  • When Roy calls Dean up to be healed you can see the look of disappointment on Layla’s mother’s face
  
  • Everyone in the tent seems to close their eyes when Roy says ‘pray with me’ but Sam keeps his open and trained on Dean and Roy the whole time
  
  • Yay, continuity! Sam makes reference to his visions in the doctor’s office. “Don’t you think I would’ve seen it too (the Reaper). I mean I’ve been seeing an awful lot of things lately…”
  
  • “I saw a young man with an important purpose, a job to do… and it isn’t finished.” – Roy’s explanation of why he picked Dean to heal. Does Roy have some powers of his own? Or is this just lucky guess (or heavy-handed writing?)
  
  • Clock in pool froze at 4:17, same time as Dean was healed – so I guess answers the question which service the boys had gone to, probably the 2:00 one.
  
  • Roy healed six people over the past year (2005)
  
  • First time in the series when they bring up killing a human being instead of a ‘monster’. (Dean suggests killing Roy, Sam says if they do that they’re no better than he (Roy) is.
  
  • Ford City Tribune: ‘Openly Gay Teacher Wins Lawsuit’, Local Abortion Rights Advocate Calls For End of Violence Against Women’ ‘Wright – Local Church a Cult’
  
  • David Wright is the name of the man Sam and Dean manage to save from the reaper
  
  • More signs in the tent: ‘He sent his word and healed them – Psalms 103:3. ‘He forgiveth all injuries, healeth all diseases. – Psalms 103:3-4.
  
  • Items noted on Sue Ann’s Black Altar: human hand, blood, red candles, horned skull, crystal beads, Dean’s picture (obtained when?) with a red X through his face. First time Sam overturns a Black Altar, second time is in Shadow.
  
  • Language Sue Ann is summoning the Reaper in- maybe latin, but it would make more sense if it were Aramaic or Coptic.
  
  • When Sam smashes Sue Ann’s cross, red liquid comes out of it. Blood, maybe?
  
  • While Sam was against killing Roy, he doesn’t seem to have any problem standing by while the reaper kills Sue-Ann
  
  • Layla always wears a golden necklace with a pendant on it. I’m thinking it might be a Saint Christopher medallion?

• 
  Rawhead: (also known as 'Tommy Rawhead') - a sort of troll/boogeyman that eats children
  
  Reaper (also known as 'Grim Reaper' - Personification of Death.
  
  Early Christian Church.
  
  Coptic Christianity/Coptic Cross: (See also Ankh) - Early form of Christianity in Egypt and Ethiopia
  
  Necromancy - Wkipedia has it as "is a form of divination in which the practitioner seeks to summon the spirits of the dead in order to gain knowledge of future events from them." Not quite the same practices that Sam was talking about, but close enough.

• Insurance Card: Mr. Berkowitz (Sam) I couldn't find any significance to the name. ETA: siberian_skys mentioned that the name might be in reference to David Berkowitz, the serial killer also known as 'The Son of Sam'.


• Sam/Sammy Battle: No 'Sammy' this time around.

• the big one: Dean is shocked with a 100,000 volt gun.
  
• He also almost dies when the Reaper comes for him at the end of the episode.

The Bad, the Ugly, and the Dead:
- the rawhead that Dean killed at the beginning of the episode (shocking himself while doing so)
- Sue Ann Le Grange, after she loses control of the reaper

Metallicar Watch: She's fine! (Except for a lot of Nebraska mud!)

Zippo Count: None. :(

Sacrificed on the Altar of Whoops!

• As far as I can know (from Standard First Aid courses) you should never just go directly to a victim who's been electrocuted, especially if they're still in water, like Dean was. Sam really risked electrocuting himself when he ran to help Dean
  
  
• The RV Dean is hiding on when on the run from the cops has a big Maple leaf on it. Canadians in Nebraska, maybe?



• Although the services that Roy conducts start at 11 and 2, Dean is healed at 4:17 pm. It doesn't really seem like it was two and a bit hours from when Roy started his service and when he healed Dean.
  
  
• briarwood noticed another gaff- 'Sam finds Sue-Ann's book with the dark magic ritual in it, and alongside there are all those incriminating news articles. And he still doesn't catch on that the bad guy isn't Roy: why would a blind man collect news clippings? Sam's smarter than that, isn't he?'
  

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