10.13 Halt & Catch Fire

Title	Halt & Catch Fire
Episode #	Season 10, Episode 13
First aired	February 10, 2015
Directed by	John F. Showalter
Written by	Eric Charmelo Nicole Snyder
On IMDB	Halt & Catch Fire
Outline	Sam and Dean are on a hunt that involves a vengeful spirit killing college students through electronics and the internet.
Monster	Vengeful Spirit
Timeline
Location(s)	Spencer, Iowa
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Characters

• Sam Winchester
• Dean Winchester
• Delilah Marian
• Andrew Silver
• Corey Silver

Definitions

• Aliases
• Ectoplasm
• EMF
• Salt
• Sammy
• Vengeful Spirit

Music

• "Head Full of Doubt/Road Full of Promise" by The Avett Brothers

(playing the car of the couple in the teaser)

• "Take Me to Church" by Hozier

(playing in the car during Delilah's flashback to the car crash)

Quotes

Dean: What did Cas say?
Sam: Good news, bad news. Bad news, he discovered riverboat gambling. Good news, he thinks he might be closing in on Cain.

[Dean notices a pair of college girls]
Dean: Sorry I ever made you leave. [Dean notices another college girl] God they're everywhere.

Dean: Alright, so big brother didn't getting along with little brother, was pissed off he was driving his baby. I get it.

Sam: What are you saying, if you died and I drove your car, you'd kill me?

Dean: If you stunk her up with taquitos, probably.

Sam: Now I'm going through her deleted files.

Dean: You can do that?

Sam: Yeah. I mean nothing ever really gets deleted from the internet. You knew that right?

Dean: 'Liar. I know you'll pay.' Well, this Princess Elsa's a bitch.

Dean: I've made more mistakes than I can count. Ones that haunt me day and night.

Delilah: So how do you deal?

Dean: Whiskey. Denial. I do my best to make things right, whatever they may be... For you maybe it's, maybe it's coming clean. You know finding a way to ask for forgiveness, but not breaking the bank at your local florist, I mean real forgiveness. You can't just bury stuff like this, you gotta deal with it.

Sam: I mean it makes sense Dean, we're all just a bunch electrical impulses, right? So whenever Andrew died, his pulses just transferred to another current. You gotta get Delilah somewhere safe, turn off all the routers in that sorority.

Dean: Oh yeah, sure Sammy we'll just kill the internet. Wait, can we?

Sam: No, no not really.

Dean: Andrew listen to me, you have every right to be pissed. But take it from me, the more you kill the crazier you'll get, the blood fuels the rage. So it looks like to me you got two choices: you could keep killing, and become something you don't recognize; or you can move on, 'cause that is the only thing that will give you peace. So it's up to you man, pain or peace.

Sam: Looks like Andrew wasn't the only one who chose peace.

Dean: Yeah, looks like. Think I'm gonna follow his lead too.
Sam: What do you mean?

Dean: My peace is helping people, working cases. That's all I wanna do.

Sam: So this is it, you're just gonna, you're just gonna give up?
Dean: No, I'm not going to give up. I appreciate the effort, okay I do. But the answer is not out there, it's with me. I need to be the one calling the shots here, okay? I can't keep waking up every morning with this false hope... I gotta know where I stand or else I'm gonna lose my freaking mind... So I'm gonna fight it, till I can't fight it anymore. And when all is said and done, I'll go down swinging.

Trivia & References

"Halt & Catch Fire" is a reference to the computer machine code instruction that will cause a computer to stop functioning. There is also a TV series of the same name.

Sam: What in the world?

Dean: A croisookie.
Sam: A croisookie?
Dean: Yeah, it's the new cronut.

Janet Novoselic and Sam and Dean's FBI aliases Cobain and Grohl are all references to the band Nirvana.

Dean: Okay so, Trini and everything else in the truck went all Christine.
Christine is a novel by Stephen King about a car possessed by supernatural forces.

Sam: So you think we're dealing with a ghost in the machine?

Sam: I hit up Julie's Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Instachat, Snapchat, AIM. Nothing but posts on Rush and Fifty Shades of Grey -- the movie not the book.
The Fifty Shades of Grey movie opened the same week this episode aired.

Sam: So PrincessElsa8 is not some crazed cyber killer. She is a third grader from Lake Nebagamon, Wisconsin, who's obsessed with Frozen. And was she was fast asleep when the Instachat occurred.

Delilah: So you're like Ghostbusters?

Dean: Sure.

Ghostbusters is an 1984 comedy-horror movie about a team of guys who catch ghosts.

Dean: You know this might be a Shocker situation. The paper said he died from the collision, but Delilah says he died by electrocution, so maybe that's how he's surfing, he's using the power lines as a conduit.

Shocker is a 1989 horror film by Wes Craven. In it a man who dies in the electric chair, he becomes electricity and is able to possess and kill others.

Dean: Alright, so how the hell are we gonna deal with the Lawnmower Man?

The Lawnmower Man is a film in which a mentally disabled man is the unknowing subject of an experiment using drugs and virtual reality. The experiment increases IQ but also causes murderous rage.

Minutiae

Live tweets from the cast and crew during the episode.

Barbara Kottmeier, who played Corey Silver, previously played Candace Armstrong in 4.08 Wishful Thinking.

Sam's cell phone number is (785) 555-0197.

Sides, Scripts & Transcripts

• 10.13 Halt & Catch Fire (transcript)

Promotion

• Synopsis