Constance Welch
| Constance Welch | |
|---|---|
| Supernatural character | |
| First appearance | "Pilot" |
| Last appearance | "Pilot" |
| Created by | Eric Kripke |
| Portrayed by | Sarah Shahi |
| Information | |
| Nickname | Woman in White |
| Species | Ghost |
| Gender | Female |
| Children | Two |
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Constance Welch was a fictional character of the American drama television series Supernatural. Welch was a ghost who plagued a highway as a Woman in White. She is the first supernatural enemy the Winchester brothers (Sam and Dean) are faced with in the series.
She was portrayed by Sarah Shahi.
Background[edit]
For the role of Constance Welch—the Woman in White—production set out to find the "perfect actress". Nutter, a fan of The L Word, had watched an episode featuring actress Sarah Shahi one night during the casting process. He felt she was "really sharp" and a "fine actress", with a "seductive quality about her". Surprised when she came in to audition the following day, he knew she "had the job when she walked in the door".[1]
Character biography[edit]
Story[edit]
In 1981, twenty-four year old Constance Welch drowned after she jumped off Sylvania Bridge near the Centennial Highway in Jericho, California. An hour previously, she had called 911 and reported that her two children drowned in the bath after she briefly left them unattended. In reality, she went insane and drowned her children after finding out her husband Joseph Welch (Steve Railsback) had been unfaithful. After her death, she was buried behind her home in Breckenridge.
Since her death, she haunted the highway, appearing as a hitchhiker to young men. Constance would beg to be taken home, but once on arrival to an old abandoned house, she'd protest that she could never go home. She would then kill the young men after she tempted them into being unfaithful. Ten men died in the last twenty years on the same five mile stretch of highway, with the first case in 1982.
Solution of the case[edit]
John Winchester had left to investigate the road in Jericho, California. Due to being out for a few days without notice, Dean convinces Sam to go in search of their father. On the voicemail message John leaves Dean, there is electronic voice phenomenon of Constance saying "I can never go home."
After passing through friends of Troy Squire (Ross Kohn) – Constance's last victim – to talk with his girlfriend Amy Hein (Elizabeth Bond), they discover by Rachel (Miriam Korn) – Amy's friend – that there is a local legend of a girl was murdered in Centennial decades ago. When Sam and Dean settle in a small road hotel, they find out their father was there. When they invaded the room he was in, they discovered that he had already found out about Constance, also finding on the walls reports of other missing men, such as "Scott Nifong" and "William Durell."
After asking a couple of questions to Joseph Welch – Constance's husband –, Sam revealed that he was suspicious of "White Woman" being Joseph's wife; "It's a ghost story, a kind of phenomenon, which is actually spirits. They've been seen for hundreds of years in dozens of places like Hawaii, Mexico, lately, in Arizona, Indiana. When they saw what they had done, they killed themselves. Now their spirits are cursed walking on highways and roads. If they find an unfaithful man, they kill him. When they live, their husbands were unfaithful, then suffering for temporary insanity, they killed their children. The man's body is never seen again."
Constance tries to make Sam unfaithful by kissing him forcibly. When she tries to kill him, Dean appears to save him by shooting her. However, the bullets could not stop Constance. Sam quickly sped the car into Constance's old house, forcing her to enter the home, where the ghosts of her two children appeared. They embraced their mother and her spirit was dragged into the afterlife. Welch was afraid to face his children.
Weaknesses[edit]
- Her children
Trivia[edit]
Constance's misery over her husband's unfaithfulness and her subsequent killing of unfaithful men as a ghost is similar to Isabella.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ Various (September 5, 2006). Supernatural season 1 DVD commentary for the episode "Pilot" (DVD). Warner Brothers Video.
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