Supernatural Bloodlines writer teases backdoor pilot, potential crossovers
Supernatural will air the backdoor pilot for its spinoff series, Bloodlines, on Tuesday night in the 20th episode of Season 9. Sam and Dean will head to Chicago, where they will interact with the five ruling monster families in the Windy City.
Bloodlines writer Andrew Dabb spoke to EW.com and previewed Tuesday's episode, which has a loose connection to the final three, mythology-heavy episodes of the season:
"There's a big moment near the end that really acts as a spring board for the next three episodes, but this episode just by its nature - while Sam and Dean are in it and it's great to see the city through their eyes and meet these characters through their eyes - they're sharing screen, essentially, because we do have all these characters to establish. We have this new setting to establish. I would say it's much more like a standalone episode of Supernatural, where Sam and Dean will go off on an adventure and have some serious talks but mostly focus on the standalone, versus a mythology episode, because our last three are really heavy mythology. We have a lot of plot threads this season. We're wrapping a lot of them up, and so this is kind of the last little no-mythology thing we're doing before the end of the season."
Dabb also said the spinoff opens the door for crossover possibilities with the main series:
"This is designed to exist in the Supernatural world, so particularly some of our supporting characters - Castiel, Crowley, Garth, Jody Mills - we would love to have them on the new show for an episode or multiple episodes. In terms of a crossover with Sam and Dean, again, we would love that if the show goes forward. That's harder to do because they've got their own show, so it becomes a scheduling thing. But we've talked internally about some ideas to do that, and some ways that I think will make it a lot of fun."
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