1.12 Faith

Promotional image from Faith
Title	Faith
Episode #	Season 1, Episode 12
First aired	January 17, 2006
Directed by	Allan Kroeker
Written by	Raelle Tucker Sera Gamble
On IMDB	http://imdb.com/title/tt0713614/
Outline	Dean is mortally wounded; Sam takes him to a faith healer in Nebraska that turns out to be another hunt.
Monster	Reaper
Timeline
Location(s)	Nebraska
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Suynopsis

Dean is near-fatally wounded in a hunting accident and has weeks to live, so Sam takes matters into his own hands and brings Dean to a faith healer. When Dean is (reluctantly) healed, the brothers learn something is not right with the blind Reverend's methods. Further investigation reveals that the Reverend's wife, Sue Ann, has bound a Reaper with black magic, and is using the Reaper to take the lives of those she feels are immoral and give them to the sick and disabled churchgoers, one of which, brain tumor-stricken Layla, Dean feels a particular connection with. Dean and Sam put a stop to Sue Ann's preying on innocent people, but at the cost of leaving other innocents such as Layla to die of their afflictions.

Characters

• Dean Winchester
• Sam Winchester
• Layla Rourke
• Mrs. Rourke
• Sue Ann Grange
• Reverend Roy Le Grange

Music

• Blue Öyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reaper

See the Music page also.

Pad of Definitions

Provided on the Official Site:

• Rawhead
• Tarot cards
• Necromancy
• Black Magic

Additional definitions provided by fans

• Reaper

Trivia & References

Dean: Have you ever actually watched daytime TV? It's terrible.

Amusing, seeing as Jensen Ackles's first major gig was in the role of Eric Brady on the daytime soap Days of Our Lives from 1997-2000.

Dean: That fabric softener teddy bear. Ooh, I wanna hunt that little bitch down.

Snuggle Fabric Softener uses a disgustingly cute and possibly possessed Teddy Bear puppet in its commercials. For further reference: an original commercial; justification for Dean's fears.

Dean: Look, no disrespect, but I’m not exactly a believer.
Reverend Roy: You will be, son. You will be.

Calls to mind Yoda's words to Luke in The Empire Strikes Back:

Luke: I'm not afraid.

Yoda: You will be. You will be.

Sides, Scripts & Transcripts

• A transcript of the aired episode.