10.10 The Hunter Games
Title | The Hunter Games |
Episode # | Season 10, Episode 10 |
First aired | January 20, 2015 |
Directed by | John Badham |
Written by | Eugenie Ross-Leming Brad Buckner |
On IMDB | The Hunter Games |
Outline | Sam and Dean try to get information out of Metatron on how to remove the Mark of Cain. Castiel continues to attempt to build a relationship with Claire, who wants revenge for the death of her friend, Randy. |
Monster | Rowena Metatron |
Timeline | |
Location(s) | Lebanon, Kansas |
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Contents
Synopsis
Crowley dreams that he is being assassinated by his own demon henchmen in a hallway. Rowena brings him back to reality where he sits at his throne, staring blankly into space. She shows concern and offers to help him in any way. However, Crowley insists that nothing is wrong and tells her she can't do anything to help him. Immediately after he exits the room, she pulls out a hex bag from under his throne.
Back at the Bunker, Dean sits at the edge of his bed, still recovering from the massacre he had committed back at Randy's house. Meanwhile, Castiel tells Sam that Claire barely speaks to him. Sam replies saying he really did try to help her get her life back on track and realize that Randy was trying to use her. As Sam is about to mention the massacre Dean had caused, he suddenly appears at the staircase behind him. He admits that what he did was wrong, and says that "there was a time I was a hunter, not a stone-cold killer". He then rolls up his sleeve to reveal the Mark of Cain and insists that it has to go. Both Sam and Cas persist that it will be a daunting task and that they've searched up every lore they could find. However, Cas does optimistically say that there may another alternative they can find.
Characters
Definitions
- Alcohol
- Angel Sword
- Binding Link
- Castiel's Pimpmobile
- Devil's Trap
- The First Blade
- Hex Bag
- Impala
- Mark of Cain
- Men of Letters Bunker
- Metatron's Cube
- Portal
- Ruby's Knife
- Spells
- Tablets
Music
- "Long Black Road" by Electric Light Orchestra
- (plays during "The Road So Far" recap of events)
- "Drunk and on My Own" by Ross Hardy & Brian White (De Wolfe Music Library)
- (playing in the bar where Claire is shooting pool with her new friends)
- "The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond" by Ruth Connell
- (hummed by Rowena as she cuts off a piece of Crowley's tie)
- "Scotland the Brave" by Ruth Connell
- (hummed by Rowena while preparing her spell to spy on Crowley)
Quotes
Crowley: Not a thing you evil bitch.
Castiel: Claire that's not true, I'm in large part responsible for how your life unfolded. I have a responsibility to help you.
Sam: Because you're a dickwad.
Metatron: But I'm your dickwad. I have a special place in my... non-heart for you both, to which end ta-da! I would be tickled to help you pop this Biblical zit. To do it you are going to need one specific thing... Your old bud, the First Blade.
Sam: What?
Crowley: You never sung me a lullaby, you dosed me with whiskey until I passed out.
Rowena: Even then I had a touch for pharmacology, your mum was a prodigy.
Dean: Oh yeah well, when you put it like that.
Metatron: My morality is being judged by Dean Winchester? How many people have suffered and died because they believed in you? How many times have you lied to Sam, including, oh by the way, when he was possessed by an angel? And you say, 'oh well it's for the greater good' but lately buddy, that greater good thing went away didn't it? And now people die because you want them to. [Dean punches Metatron] Good Dean, go darker. [Dean punches Metatron] Go deeper. Surely you noticed every time you respond when the Mark gets you all twitchy, you fall deeper under its spell. You think roughing up a few demons or humans makes it worse? Try messing with the Scribe of God bucko!
Sam: What does that mean?
Dean: Maybe nothin'. It was the last thing he said before you guys busted in.
Sam: Dean, look man we had to.
Dean: Hey, no I get it, alright. I was going to kill him, and I couldn't stop myself.
Sam: We'll figure it out alright. Remember what Cas said about needing a powerful force?
Dean: Yeah so?
Trivia & References
- A reference to Curtis Armstong's role in the Revenge of the Nerds series.
- Going "down the rabbit hole" is a reference to Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the phrase is also used to denote bizarre, difficult or chaotic situations. "Hear evil, see evil, do evil" is a play on the three wise monkeys image "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil."
- Titania is the queen of the fairies in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream. The name was later adopted by other fiction writers, as in the folklore the queen of the fairies has no name.
- Hal 9000 is the is the sentient computer and primary antagonist of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
- "Bonny lad" is Scottish slang for a "good looking boy."
Minutiae
Sides, Scripts & Transcripts
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