| | Credits | |

Writer: Moira Kirkland Dekker & Charles H. Eglee
Director: Les Landau

Regulars: Jessica Alba as Max Guevara
Michael Weatherly as Logan Cale
Jensen Ackles as Alec
Martin Cummins as Ames White
Kevin Durand as Joshua
Richard Gunn as Sketchy
J.C. MacKenzie as Normal
Valarie Rae Miller as Original Cindy
Ashley Scott as Asha Barlowe

Guest Stars:
Sarah Carter as Katarina
G. Michael Gray as Dieter
Kris Pope as Rafer
Todd Stashwick as Sally
Jillian Marie Hubert as Trina
Deanne Henry as Serena

Other Cast:
Travis MacDonald as Bum
Leslie Jones as Waitress
Rob Deleeuw as Man
Jana Ritter as Asha Look-A-Like
Jaron Albertin as Logan Look-A-Like
Angelika Baran as Pretty Redhead
French Tickner as Father McAllister
Brian Jensen as Cop

| | Synopsis | |

On Halloween night, Max finds her "normal" world turned upside down when the creatures she let out of Manticore are able to walk the streets freely without fear of exposure. As she and Joshua, with a crazy band of characters, race against time to find a headless body before it carries out its intended lethal mission, Max is faced with the reality that Asha and Logan are getting closer than ever.

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| | Tricks and Treats | |

Traditions - PARTIES: The gang's local hang out throws a Halloween celebration. Max: "I gotta jet. What are you doing later on? There's a party at Crash. It's Halloween."

Traditions - COSTUMES: Normal posts a sign behind his desk that reads: "NO HALLOWEEN COSTUMES DURING BUSINESS HOURS." But it doesn't seem like the sign was too effective. Workers are dressed in an assortment of costumes, one is even dressed as Normal. Normal: "Great. I'm talking to myself."

Costumes - Sketchy is dressed as a vampire. Normal: "Take off that getup. You look like a weirdo." Sketchy: "For your information, I am the shape of things to come. Demons, mutants, monsters, creatures out of this world walking among us."

Traditions - PRANKS: Max threatens Normal that if they can't all leave work early for the day-there will be hell to pay the next day. Max: "I mean, you're gonna lose half a day tomorrow easy, just getting the toilet paper off the building."

Costumes - Original Cindy decides to dress up as Rick James. Max: "So what are you gonna go as tonight?" Original Cindy: "Either Snow-Ho and the Seven Little Pimps, or Rick James. I'm thinkin' Superfreak, but it depends on how much curl activator I can get."

Quip - Girl (to a frightened Joshua): "Trick or treat. Did I scare you?" Original Cindy (pats Joshua's hand): "Why they call it Halloween, boo."

Traditions - PRANKS: Kids come up to Joshua's house and threaten to egg it if he doesn't give them candy. Girl: "So, you got candy? 'Cause me and my crew here got a carton of eggs." Max: "Here's five bucks. Beat it."

Quip - Joshua: "Halloween." (Imitating the girl) "'Cool costume, mister.'"

Quip - Joshua: "Tonight up-here people look like Joshua. Tonight...safe." Original Cindy: "Man's got a point. Halloween's the one night when he can get his swerve on." Joshua: "Get my swerve on. Tricks and treats."

Quip - Max: "Look, all I wanna be is a nice, normal girl...and have a nice, normal Halloween."

Costumes - Rafer: "Hey. No costume?" Max: "I don't really do Halloween." Max may not have thought she was wearing a costume but the whole night she was trying to be 'normal' so that was her costume.

Costumes - Rafer dresses up as a Manticore refugee. Rafer: "I'm a, uh, genetically-engineered killing machine escaped from a government lab."

Costumes - Rafer's mom dresses up as a gypsy. Rafer's Mom: "Oh, come. Let me tell your fortune."

Traditions - FORTUNE TELLING: Rafer takes Max to meet his mom who wants to tell her fortune. Rafer's Mom: "But no matter where you run, there is danger. I see danger all around." (Breathing heavily) "And then I see...I see...nothing. Except...a face!" Max: "Whose face? Is it a guy?" (She shakes her head.) "A girl, then. With blond hair, right?" Rafer's Mom: "It is neither man nor woman. It is the face of...death!"

Traditions - PRANKS: Some boys are throwing firecrackers around which makes Sally's body freak out and run off. Sally: "Incoming!"

Traditions - COSTUMES: The transgenics are able to go out in public for one night without causing public hysteria because they finally fit in with everyone else. Rafer: You know, I thought his costume was great, but you guys are tight."

Quip - Joshua: "Tricks and treats." Rafer: "Hey. Cool costume."

Traditions - SCAVENGER HUNT: In order to use Rafer's transportation to find Sally's body, they disquise their mission as a scavenger hunt. The two things they tell Rafer they are looking for is a 14th century Royal Chinese saxaphone and a rifle. Max: "See, it's like a tradition in Germany this time of year to look for stuff."

Costumes - 'Dieter' is dressed as a football player. Rafer: "What are you supposed to be? Some kind of desert-acclimated combat soldier?" Dieter: "Wide receiver."

Costumes - Normal dresses in a kilt with accessories but its not in celebration of Halloween. Joshua: "Cool costume." Normal: "It's not a costume. It's for haggis night. Le spécialité de maison."

Traditions - PRANKS/CONTROVERSY: They save the priest who Sally is supposed to assasinate but should have let him believe his original suspect. McCallister: "So this was some kind of a--a drunken Halloween fraternity prank?" Max: "Apparently so, Your Worship. That hooligan was intending to egg you as part of a pagan initiation ritual."

Quip - Original Cindy: "What are you gonna be for Halloween? A prune?"

Other costumes seen throughout the episode include - At Jam Pony: skeletons, a boxer, a mexican, demons, grim reaper, a fire fighter, and a clown. On the streets: witches, a prisoner, a pirate, an angel, a cat, faires, demons, a ninja, knife victim, princess, a headless person and the Scream killer. At Crash: Cesaer, a pumpkin, saloon girl, butterfly, a guy dressed as a fairy, a lizard, Lucy, devil, a guy dressed as a hula girl and crash employees seen earlier.

| | Dialogue To Die For | |

Original Cindy: "So Blondie was there at eight A.M."
Max: "Gotta get up pretty early to save the world."

Normal: "You have an ass where your head should be. Now bip bip bip."

Rafer's Mom: "I see secrets...dark secrets...wrapped in mystery...shrouded in illusion...You are not what you seem!"
Max: "Guess you busted me on my push-up bra."

Joshua: "Lay low 'til you say so." Max: Here's the deal. Under no circumstances do I want that guy to know he's rolling with a bunch of transgenics. Mess up and your mutant asses will be kicked.
Joshua (punching his palm): Yeah.

Dieter: "You remind me of my friend Chad."

| | Dialogue To Bury | |

Because I am a girl and that just made my skin crawl.
Sally: "Matter of fact, yes. But I still got mad skills, sugar."
(Audibly waggles his tongue.)

| | Pop! Goes the Culture | |

Original Cindy: "Either Snow-Ho and the Seven Little Pimps ..."
Original Cindy's quote is a spoof of Walt Disney's first animated full length film made in 1937. In the film, a jealous queen tries to have her stepdaughter murdered, but instead the girl is given shelter by seven dwarves who live deep in a forrest. The movie was adapted from the fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm.

Original Cindy: "... or Rick James. I'm thinkin' Superfreak, but it depends on how much curl activator I can get."
Rick James is a funk and soul recording and performing artist. He came into popularity during the late 1970's and early 1980's, and is most famous for his 1981 hit 'Superfreak'. He is a singer, keyboardist, bassist, producer, arranger and composer.

Joshua: "Read Father's books. Little Women...woo-hoo."
The book, Little Women, is an 1868 autobiographical novel by Louisa May Alcott. It is about the lives and loves of four sisters growing up durring the American Civil War. Including the latest in 1994, Little Women has been adapted into a film 11 times.

Sally: "Okay, Lassie, you align the receiver to my ear so I can communicate verbally with the person who's going to answer on the other end."
Lassie is a super-intelligent Rough Collie who is owned by a boy named Timmy and they live with his family on a farm. Lassie has become world famous just by rescuing Timmy from all the difficult scrapes he seems to get into. The character was created by author Eric Knight in his 1940 novel, 'Lassie Come Home'. Since then, the character has been in several movies, tv shows and books. Lassie is so popular that it is one of only two dogs awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Rafer: "So Joshua, um...you're, what, a Wookiee?"
A Wookie is a fictional race of hairy bipeds in the Star Wars universe. Supposedly they are the descendants of tree-climbing mamnalians and are covered with a mid-length coat of hair. The most famous Wookie is Chewbacca, a companion to Han Solo who was killed while trying to save Solo's son.

Rafer: "A Planet of the Apes guy?"
Planet of the Apes is a 1968 science fiction film in which an astronaut finds himself 2,000+ years in the future stranded in a place where humans are enslaved by apes.

Character : Reagan Ronald - Name
Reagan Ronald is a play on the name of the US's 40th President, Ronald Reagan (2/6/11 - 6/5/04). His term of office ran from 1981 to 1989, but before becoming President, he was an actor and the 33rd Governor of California.

Joshua (playing charades): "My Girl."
My Girl is the 1991 film about Veda Sultenfuss (Anna Chlumsky) who is obssessed with death. Her mother is dead and her father (Dan Aykroyd) runs a funeral parlor from their home. When he hires a new make-up artist (Jamie Lee Curtis) and begins to fall in love with her, Veda does everything she can to break them up.

Katarina (playing charades): "Breakfast at Tiffany's."
Breakfast at Tiffany's is the 1961 film staring Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly, a high-priced escort looking for a rich, older man to marry who befriends a young man (Geroge Peppard), new to her apartment building. He himself is being kept by a wealthy, older woman - but he wants to be a writer.

Joshua (playing charades): "Pretty Woman."
The original title of for this 1990 romantic comedy starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere was $3000. It is about a wealthy business man who falls in love with the escort he hires to attend social events with.

Katarina (playing charades): "Tokyo Decadence."
Tokyo Decadence is the USA title for the 1992 film Topazu about and S&M call girl working the Tokyo elite and her unrequited love for a married gallery artist.

Joshua (playing charades): "Idle Hands."
Idle Hands is the 1999 horror comedy starring Jessica Alba, Devon Sawa and Seth Green. It's about 17 year old slacker, Anton Tobias (Sawa) who wakes up to discover that his right hand has been possessed and is wreaking havoc wether he likes it or not.

Asha (playing charades): "Born Free. Born Free."
Born Free is the 1966 film about a human raised lion who must be released back into the wild upon reaching maturity. The film was adapted from the book written by Joy Adamson.

Katarina (playing charades): "Faster, Pussycat! Kill, Kill, Kill!"
This 1965 film directed by Russ Meyer is about three thrill seeking strippers who hold a girl hostage and then start scheming to get a tidy sum of money from a crippled old man. Unbeknownst to the girls, he has a few sinister intentions of his own.

Katarina (playing charades): "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."
This 1975 film produced by Monty Python is (mostly) a parody of Arturian legend that loosely follows the adventures of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table across England in their search for the Holy Grail.

Asha (playing charades): "The Voyage Home."
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) is the fourth movie based on the science fiction television series and is directed by Leonard Nimoy. In it, the crew of the Enterprise returns home from their mission saving Spock on the Vulcan planet only to find that an alien vessel has arrived on Earth and is wreaking havock.

Logan: "Bingo." Max: "You found something?" Logan: "No, I got bingo."
Bingo can be traced back to a game called lotto, played in Italy in 1530. The bingo name comes from a corruption of the name Beano, the name of a form of bingo played in the US in the 1920's. It was called beano because beans were used to cover the numbers on the playing cards.

| | Goofs, Gaffes and Nitpicks | |

There are several scenes when the face on Sally's decapitated head just looks off, kinda like it's melting. Also it doesn't always look centered properly.

It just looks so fake when Sally's head is sitting on the table at the end and the bag 'falls' down to his chin. It looks like someone is inching it down with their fingers.

Original Cindy: "But the worst part wasn't some talking head in a bag, or anomalies eatin' haggis, or even Joshua gettin' hauled off by the po-pos." Well, they never actually were served the haggis at the restaurant so the nomalies didn't eat any haggis.

| | Creep Show | |

Jessica Alba is the damsel in distress in the campy horror flick, Idle Hands. The big ending takes place durring a Halloween dance at the high school, she dresses up as an Angel. They reference this movie during the charades game.

Jensen Ackles, who plays Alec was both in this Halloween episode and Dawson's Creek's Halloween episode, Living Dead Girl.

Kevin Durand, who plays Joshua, was also in ER's Halloween episde, Mars Attacks.

Sarah Carter (Katerina) has been in two horror films, Final Destination 2 and Wishmaster 3.

Deanne Henry, who is seen as Serena, Rafer's mom played Tammy Fae Baker in Scary Movie 3.

| | Misc Notes | |

The German title for this episode is Halloween Albtraum.

Murray: "Hey, I ever tell you ladies the one about the priest, the minister, and the rabbi?"
Original Cindy: "Ooh. Every day, Murray, every day."
There are lots of Priest, Minister and Rabbi jokes out there, I've selected a few for your enjoyment and have them available here.

Rafer: "Kind of like an Oktoberfest thing." Oktoberfest is a two-week beer festival that has been held in Munich, Bavaria, Germany since 1810. It takes place during late September and early October and is the world's largest fair - in 2002, some 6 million people attended. Other cities across the world also hold fairs called Oktoberfest.

| | Music | |

THEME: Public Enemy and MC Lyte
SCORE: Joel McNeely?

"Clint Eastwood" by Gorillaz
Album: Gorillaz, Virgin Records, 2001
Website: Official Website
Scene: When Max and Original Cindy are at the street crossing and the song continues to the scene at Joshua's front door with the trick or treaters and it ends after the girls and Joshua enter his house.

"Wrong Girl" by Latrelle
Album: Dirty Girl Wrong Girl Bad Girl, Arista, 2002 (cancelled)
Scene: When Max takes a bath and as her dream begins and the song ends when Rafer and Max get to his mom's house.

"Fight Music" by D12 & Eminem
Album: Devil's Night, Interscope Records, 2001
Website: Official Site
Scene: The song begins when Max and the transgenics walk into Crash and continues into the chase scene with the scavenger gang after Sally's body.

"Mystikal Fever" by Mystikal
Album: Let's Get Ready, Jive, 2000
Website: Official Site
Scene: When Max fights Sally's body.