Phantom Traveler

Season 1, Episode 4, Aired
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A friend of Dean's calls him up when a plane crashes under mysterious circumstances. Dean and Sam soon discover a flight attendant who was on the plane but they do not realize her full connection to the crash until they are on board another flight with her.moreless
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    9.0
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    By cavanagh15, Oct 14, 2011 Report Abuse
    A friend of Dean's calls him up when a plane crashes under mysterious circumstances. Dean and Sam soon discover a flight attendant who was on the plane but they do not realize her full connection to the crash until they are on board another flight with her.

    A step up from the previous two episodes since the pilot. The case in each episode is going to heavily weigh into how good the episode is, given the structure of the show. I did like how the Phantom Traveler mentioned something about Sam's late girlfriend to get him going a little bit again. I feel like that storyline won't be explained for a while, which is why I want him to really show that it still bothers him. About 3-4 months have passed now since the start of the show, which means the show takes big leaps in between episodes (which I find interesting).moreless

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  • Fight or flight, what's it gonna be?

    7.0
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    By MovieMark, Oct 14, 2011 Report Abuse
    It's funny that Dean is the one afraid of flying and his reaction to the turbulence was brilliant. I have a friend or two not so comfortable with flying, so I related to Sam's smugness about being calm and collected. The episode itself was just okay, with a weak start it failed to hook me into the storyline. The last quarter of the episode picked up some steam, and how the demon mocked Sam about his late girlfriend, telling him that she's still burning, highlighted briefly how dark and chilling the show can be. I found it a little odd though that Dean could hold down a demon who we saw previously open a two ton pressurized door. Oh well, maybe the holy water had something to do with it. The episode looked sharp, it had Supernatural's usual sprinkle of humorous dialogue and Eastwick's Jaime Ray Newman gave a great performance. A step up from previous episodes.moreless

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  • Dean gets a call from a guy he and his dad once saved during a case. He is the lead mechanic on United Britannia Airlines, and one of the planes went down under mysterious circumstances.The brothers agree to see him at Pittsburgh Int. Airport.moreless

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    By beauregardlover, Oct 14, 2011 Report Abuse
    There were seven surviors. But going over the recording stated "No surviors." They talk to a survior who checked himself into a psych facility, and the man tells them he saw a passenger with black eyes open the plane's pressure sealed hatch..and fall to his death. How about that? Next they talk to the widow of the man who caused the crash, and leave with the impression that he was likely possessed. Okay long story short, Sam and Dean board the plane and try to exorcise the demon. They do of course, and we learn something about Mr. Tough: Dean is terrified of flying!! The screaming had me laughing so hard. This tough guy afraid of flying?? LOL. I love that Dean made his EMF meter out of a busted up walkman and IS so proud of it. Go Dean!moreless

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  • Pretty good.

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    By ZaleIsBackAgain, May 31, 2010 Report Abuse
    A pretty good episode, but what this is missing that made just the episode before it a step up to the first two episodes is the great character development. Here no new characters were really introduced and the writing and dialogue between Dean and Sam wasn't all too interesting. However, this episode is engineered by the intrigue of the case that it is based on. Demonic possession is kind of a tricky case, and this episode handled it pretty well. What in particular made this so intriguing is how the demon would sabotage the plain at exactly 40 minutes after take off. And then there's also the info on how the demon has Intel on Sam's girlfriend's killer. Overall a pretty good episode.moreless

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  • this was another good ep for the first season

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    By cube2k8, May 09, 2010 Report Abuse
    in this ep dean and sam get a phone call from a old friend and he wants them figure out what happen on a flight that crashed and killed people on board. supposively the cargo door was ripped off and everyone died. they go inpersanate the fcc which is very funny. and then sam and dean find sulfer on the door of the plane. it turns out there is a nother plane that goes down at like 40 mins just like the first one did and everyone died it was a smaller one. and it was one that was flying the plane dean and sam due reasearch and find out that it is phantom travler that is going around trying to kill everyone that survide the first flight and that it has been a pattern over a number of years. and they are onboard a plane trying to find the perso that is going to bring down the plane. and it is the captain sam and dean stop the flight and save everyone and at the end they ask the old friend how he got incontact with them and he says i called your father but it says just to call dean.moreless

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    • When the plane first takes off with Sam and Dean on it, we hear it lift off the ground and the tires go up. The tires would never have gone up that early and would have been down for a couple thousand feet at least as a safety precaution. Edit
    • Near the beginning, when Sam and Dean are talking, if you look close you can see Sam chewing on something. But, we never see him eat anything. It is revealed on the commentary by Jared and Jensen that they had Sam eating a donut, but they never got the donut in the shot. So, it appears that Sam is just chewing on nothing. Edit
    • Why are none of the passengers alarmed by the shouting and snarling coming from the room the co-pilot just went into? They would definitely hear what was going on, the only thing between them is a thin curtain. Edit

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    • According to Supernatural: The Official Companion - Season 1, the EMF meter built by prop master Chris Cooper was actually made out of a real Walkman, as Dean states in the episode. Edit
    • International Airdates: Denmark: January 29, 2006 on TV3 France: December 11, 2006 on TF6 Italy: March 6, 2007 on RaiDue Portugal: October 30, 2007, on AXN Germany: November 5, 2007 on ProSieben Netherlands: July 27, 2008 on Net 5 Edit
    • "A Day in the Life of Jensen and Jared", featured in Season 2's bonus features on the boxset, shows both actors going into the trailer to record the commentary for this episode. Jared Padalecki jokingly points out that it was filmed about six months previously, something which made a detailed commentary difficult. Edit

  • Quotes

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    • Dean: Maybe the thing's just not on the plane. Sam: You believe that? Dean: Well, I will if you will. Edit
    • Dean: Yeah, a middle-aged dentist with an ulcer's not exactly evil personified. Edit
    • Sam: Homeland Security. It's pretty illegal, even for us. Dean: Yeah, well, it's something new. You know, people haven't seen it a thousand times. Edit

  • Allusions

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    • Flight 401: Sam and Dean make several references to Flight 401, a plane that crashed in the Everglades in December of 1972 and its parts were re-used in other planes. In the planes with 401's parts, sightings of the ghosts of the pilot and the co-pilot were often reported. Edit
    • Dean: All right, this is gonna sound nuts, but we just don't have the time for the whole the-truth-is-out-there speech so... Referring to The X-Files, which ran from 1993 to 2002. "The Truth is Out There" is the phrase shown at the end of the opening credits, and is basically the motto for the whole show. Edit
    • Dean: This goes way beyond floating over a bed or barfing pea soup. Referring to the 1973 horror movie The Exorcist, in which a young girl is possessed by a demon. The movie was written by William Peter Blatty, who also wrote the novel it was based upon. Edit

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