Halt & Catch Fire
- Episode aired Feb 10, 2015
- TV-14
- 42m
IMDb RATING
7.2/10
3.5K
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To take his mind off of the Mark of Cain, Dean goes hunting. They track down a ghost that is killing college students through electronics and the internet.To take his mind off of the Mark of Cain, Dean goes hunting. They track down a ghost that is killing college students through electronics and the internet.To take his mind off of the Mark of Cain, Dean goes hunting. They track down a ghost that is killing college students through electronics and the internet.
Willa Milner
- Delilah Marian
- (as Ali Milner)
Madison Ryne Smith
- Billy Bass
- (as Madison Smith)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaSam and Dean go by the aliases Agent Cobain and Agent Grohl when they meet the girl named Janet Novoselic. This is a reference to the band Nirvana as frontman Kurt Cobain, drummer Dave Grohl and bassist Krist Novoselic.
- GoofsAccording to the episode, the ghost of Andrew can move through wireless signals and haunt anything that is connected to them. The term "WiFi" is used generally throughout the episode. Although it's convenient for the show's rules and lore, it's not accurate. WiFi isn't a signal that floats around anywhere for any device to connect (that's what a cellular network is, and even that isn't open to just any device, and it comes from cell towers which are way more few and far between than the access points shown) as portrayed by the episode. WiFi connects devices that can access the Internet wirelessly to a wired Internet network, that's all. It would have been made more sense (according to the show's lore) if, in addition to the power line, a phone or cable TV line hit the car as well. As far as keeping Delilah safe goes, Dean wouldn't have to bring her to the basement, in fact, it's unlikely that she wouldn't get a WiFi signal down there (although cellular network signals would be fuzzy at best). Simply going to the network room and cutting the building's coaxial or Ethernet feed would've cut Internet access for the entire building and kept Andrew out.
Additionally, the wireless speakers would be connected to Bluetooth from the stereo or two independent analog channels, not WiFi or cellular. They couldn't even connect to the Internet.
- Quotes
Dean Winchester: A café Au lait for the lady. For me-...
Sam Winchester: [Looks at his loaded tray] A heart attack?
Dean Winchester: This is unreal. Look at this. I got Italian. I got Chinese. Serve-yourself froyo. College is better than Vegas.
- ConnectionsFeatures TMZ on TV (2007)
- SoundtracksHead Full of Doubt / Road Full of Promise
Written by Bob Crawford, Scott Avett and Seth Avett
Performed by The Avett Brothers
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Too many discrepancies
There are many discrepancies in this episode. When Sam and Dean get to campus, the young college student they interrogate says she has finals the next day. However later in the episode the detective in Julie's bedroom says that most students are gone for spring break. That means they would have been taking midterms since it's the middle of the semester. Another thing is when Julie starts freaking out over her computer talking to her she unplugs the power cord but the computer would still have a charge even without the power plug hooked in and would not turn off automatically. Not to mention all the weird things the college students are saying that does not seem real to me for the day in age we live in. This episode was okay because we'll Sam and Dean still make the show. But the plot points were severely lacking.
- jessicaelwell-50190
- Apr 29, 2019
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