11.02 Form and Void
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| Title | Form and Void |
| Episode # | Season 11, Episode 2 |
| First aired | October 14, 2015 |
| Directed by | Phil Sgriccia |
| Written by | Andrew Dabb |
| On IMDB | Form and Void |
| Outline | While Sam continues to deal with the "rabids" situation and his own deteriorating state, Dean is called back by Jenna when baby Amara begins exhibiting dangerous traits. |
| Monster | The Darkness Rabids |
| Timeline | Immediately after 11.01 Out of the Darkness, Into the Fire |
| Location(s) | Superior, Nebraska Cedar Rapids, Iowa Lebanon, Kansas |
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Synopsis
In Superior, Nebraska, Sam raids an abandoned hardware store and builds himself a taser. He uses it to capture another infected person, and he takes him back to the hospital, where he handcuffs him to a bed. He questions the man and attempts to learn more about the rabid virus, to try and find a cure.
Meanwhile, Castiel, who is still suffering the effects of Rowena's attack-dog spell, has been captured by the angels Efram and Jonah. They have tied him up, and are torturing him for information on Metatron's whereabouts. Castiel tries to tell them that he doesn't know where Metatron is, but the angels don't believe him. After leaving Deputy Jenna Nickerson and baby Amara at Jenna's grandmother's house, Dean heads back toward the hospital in Superior where Sam is dealing with the rabids. However, when he gets a call from Jenna about how Amara is able to make objects fly, he turns the Impala around and returns to help her.
Back at the hospital in Superior, Sam has not been having much luck—the man he had taken prisoner lies dead on the floor, having succumbed to the infection. He continues to search for a cure when, suddenly, he hears a woman's voice singing. Grabbing his gun, he goes to investigate and finds that the voice belongs to a reaper. She tells him she has a message for him—that with Death now gone, the times of Sam and Dean dying and then coming back to life are over. If one of them dies now, the reapers will toss them into what she calls the Empty, and no one comes back from there. She then adds that she knows that he is dying, and that he is unclean, in the Biblical sense. As she leaves, she reveals her name is Billie.
The angels continue to torture Castiel until Hannah arrives, who tells them "Enough!" and to get out. The others leave and Castiel and Hannah are left alone. As Sam's rabid infection worsens, he goes to the hospital's chapel to pray to God for help, and to give him a sign. Afterward, he experiences several visions of himself being tortured. Shaken, he yells out in exasperation, "What does that mean?" Dean arrives back at Jenna's and is surprised to find Crowley there, posing as a priest.
Hannah goes to unchain Castiel but he tells her to leave them on, saying that it's safer that way. Castiel asks if she can heal him and remove the spell's effects, but she is unable to. Castiel tells her that the spell is affecting him deeper and deeper, even though he is doing his best to fight it. Hannah asks if that has anything to do with the events in Superior. He is surprised that Hannah knows about it, and she tells him that alarms have gone off—alarms that hadn't gone off in years. Castiel tells her that the alarms are for the Darkness—that it has been released. Hannah wants to know where the Darkness is, and then realizes that the Winchesters are the ones who would likely know. She demands that Castiel tell her where she can find them. He doesn't know, and starts to become suspicious about her questioning. He figures out that the whole thing was a setup, with Hannah coming in to "save" him from Efram and Jonah. The plan was that Castiel would be grateful enough that he would then tell Hannah all that the angels wanted to know. Efram and Jonah return, and when Castiel still refuses to give up the Winchesters' location, they shrug it off and tell him that it doesn't matter, because they'll just hack into his brain with torture.
Dean and Crowley go outside to talk. Dean asks if he thinks there is a demon, and Crowley replies, "Not even a little bit." Whatever is in that house is very powerful, so powerful that Crowley can feel it radiating from within. They hear a scream and run back inside to find Jenna's grandmother dead on the floor.
Efram and Jonah continue to torture Castiel until Hannah tries to stop them, unable to watch anymore. They get into a fight and, as they beat Hannah, Castiel manages to escape from the chair and kills one of the angels. Before he can get to the other one, Hannah is stabbed and killed. He and the remaining angel fight, ending with Castiel stabbing him.
Sam's condition has started to deteriorate rapidly and, as his vision blurs and he struggles to remain upright, he remembers the words Billie said—that he was Biblically unclean. As a last resort, he looks up Biblical purification, and finds that it can be done with burning holy oil. Stumbling over to the duffel bag, he pulls out the holy oil and soaks a piece of gauze in it. He then lights the gauze on fire and uses tongs to hold it up to the black veins which have crawled their way up his neck. To his great relief and astonishment, they disappear and he is cured. Sam comes up with a plan to cure all of the rabids, and starts luring them into holy fire traps, curing them.
Dean and Crowley find Amara in a crib, and when Dean goes in for a closer look, he realizes that she has the Mark of Cain on her shoulder. They look for Jenna and find her in her grandmother's room. She is different, and Crowley reveals that she no longer has a soul. She attacks Dean, and they fight, until Crowley kills her. Dean tells Crowley that he thinks Amara is the Darkness and they argue, which ends with Dean pinning Crowley to the wall by stabbing an angel blade through his hand. He goes back to where he'd left Amara, but she has disappeared, as has Crowley.
The brothers return to the bunker where they find Castiel on the floor in a terrible state, pleading with them for help. Meanwhile, on a street somewhere, Amara, who has grown into a child, is seen walking along a sidewalk wearing a pink dress. A black van pulls up next to her. Crowley gets out, opens the sliding door to reveal a kidnapped family, and asks her if she would like some "candy". Her face breaks out into a smile.
Characters
- Sam Winchester
- Dean Winchester
- Castiel
- Crowley
- Hannah
- Deputy Jenna Nickerson
- Amara
- Efram
- Jonah
- Billie
- George
Definitions
- Angel Blade
- Angel Cuffs
- The Darkness
- Deities
- Demon-Killing Knife
- Demonology
- The Empty
- Flashbacks
- Healing
- Hell
- Hugs
- Holy Oil
- Hoodoo
- Impala
- Law Enforcement Officers
- Lucifer's Cage
- Mark of Cain
- Men of Letters Bunker
- Mind Hacking
- O Death
- Prayer
- Queer and Gender Diverse Characters
- Rabids
- Reaper
- Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
- Soul
- Spells
- Table of Death
Music
- "O Death" by Lisa Berry
- (sung by the reaper Billie)
- "Sugar Shack" by Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs
- (playing in the hospital as Sam lures the rabids to the chapel)
Quotes
Jenna: Yeah, I pretty much grew up here. Learned to ride my bike down the road, had my first kiss at that blue house over there, lost my virginity up there.
Dean: I'll bet blue house was pissed.
Dean: Well for us the bar is pretty low, heh.
Dean: Or the kid got infected by something, you know, who knows what was in that giant crazy fart?
Sam: What's over?
Crowley: I'm sorry 'agent pathetic has-been rock star,' did I offend your delicate sensibilities? Where have you been? Your brother and that idiot angel, do you know what they have been doing?
Hannah: God help us.
Dean: Yeah, weird with a weird cherry on a weird top. We gotta get a maid. You know, one with a little uniform and really big . . . .
Trivia & References
- "And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep."
Efram: And I asked for a vessel without psoriasis. Crap happens.
- Psoriasis is a skin condition that causes a scaly rash.
Dean: Ghostbusters. Jenna, hey. Whoa, whoa, whoa, slow down. What's wrong?
- "Who ya gonna call?" is the catchphrase from the 1986 comedy Ghostbusters.
- Based on the book by William Peter Blatty, the 1973 movie The Exorcist is about the demonic possession of a young girl, played by Linda Blair. Linda has also appeared as Detective Diana Ballard in 2.07 The Usual Suspects.
- Zombieland is a 2009 comedy zombie movie.
Billie: Think you mean what? Here's a hint. You and your brother been real good for business lately.
Sam: You're a reaper.
Billie: The circle gets the square.
- "Circle gets the square" was a phrase commonly used on the game show Hollywood Squares.
- Mark 9:49:
- "Everyone will be purified by fire as a sacrifice is purified by salt."
- Psalm 89:20:
- "I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him."
Crowley: Easy tiger, just trying to help... I'm way more of a Daphne.
- In the cartoon series Scooby-Doo, Velma was the brainy member of the gang, while Daphne was the pretty, ditzy one who often had to be rescued.
Minutiae
Sides, Scripts & Transcripts
- 11.02 Form and Void (transcript)
- Form and Void Call Sheets: Days 1-8
- Form and Void Script (Yellow Collated)
- Form and Void Call Sheets + Sides in Filming Order
