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| Title
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The Executioner's Song
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| Episode #
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Season 10, Episode 14
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| First aired
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February 17, 2015
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| Directed by
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Phil Sgriccia
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| Written by
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Robert Berens
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| On IMDB
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The Executioner's Song
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| Outline
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When Cain suddenly returns and begins killing humans, Dean is forced to finally confront the father of murder.
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| Monster
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Cain
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| Timeline
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One week after 10.13 Halt & Catch Fire
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| Location(s)
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West Livingston, Texas (Polunsky Unit)
Illinois
Ohio
Lebanon, Kansas
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Synopsis
- "Diamond Side Down" by Jamie Dunlap, Ryan Franks and Scott Nickoley (MasterSource)
- (playing as Austin leaves the barn and runs into Cain)
Quotes
Cain: Hello Castiel.
Castiel: What have you done?
Cain: These bodies? Just cleaning up a mess I made a long time ago.
Castiel: This is a massacre.
Cain: Yes. And soon it will be a genocide. My children, my whole poisoned issue. Lot of them out there right now -- killers, fighters, thieves. Some more peaceful than others, but they still carry it -- the disease. If the Mark wants blood, I'll give it mine.
Castiel: You are Adam and Eve's first born, your descendants are legion.
Cain: At most I'm culling... one in ten.
Castiel: Of everyone.
Cain: I've got time.
Crowley: Well done Mother. Next time you run a long con, let more than a few hours of suspicious, entirely uncharacteristic usefulness pass before making your ask.
Rowena: You think I have an ulterior motive, that I've been manipulating you?
Crowley: You couldn't be more transparent.
Rowena: Well duh, of course I was manipulating you. I am your Mother after all. Manipulations who we are; my wee sausage. What matter is it that I had a motive, we had fun today, didn't we?
Sam: Where're you going?
Dean: We know where Cain's gonna be. The kid's in danger.
Sam: Okay, so what, we track him down to Ohio and then what?
Dean: Then I'll do what I have you do. I'll kill Cain.
Dean: You know last week when I said I would go down swinging when the time came? I meant that, I was at peace with that -- I just didn't realize that the time would come so soon. Like right now... I'm scared Sam.
Crowley: What guarantee do I have that you'll give it back when you're done?
Dean: I survive and I come out there and don't give it back, you'll all have a much bigger problem on your hands.
Dean: I'll spare us the formalities. You're past talking down, Cain you're full mental.
Cain: Oh I prefer to think I've finally gotten clear. When I made my bargain with Lucifer -- killed Abel. I released a stain upon the Earth, a stain deeper and far more lasting than precedence.
Dean: You're bloodline is tainted, so you say.
Cain: So I know. Not all killers are my descendants, and not all my descendants are killers, but enough are. Enough for me to know that extinguishing them is the least I owe this world. Can you honestly tell me that humanity not better off with a fewer Tommys, a fewer Leons, a fewer yous?
Cain: You're holding back! What is it Dean? You think if you hold back just enough you won't succumb? That you'll leave this fight the same as you entered? Look to my example boy! There is no resisting the Mark or the Blade, there is only remission and relapse!
Cain: It's been too long. That old feeling, makes wonder how I ever had the strength to resist. This may be hard to believe, in light of what I'm about I'm about to do to you, but I care about you, Dean. I truly do, but I know I'm doing you a favor. I'm saving you.
Dean: Saving me from what?
Cain: From your fate. Has it ever occurred to you? Have you never mused upon the fact that you are living my life in reverse. My story began when I killed my brother, and that's where your story will inevitably end.
Dean: No. Never.
Cain: It's called the Mark of Cain for a reason! First, first you'd kill Crowley -- there'd be some strange mixed feelings on that one, but you'd have your reason, get it done, no remorse. And then you'd kill the angel Castiel, now that one, that I suspect would hurt something awful. And then! Then would come the murder you'd never survive, the one that would finally turn you into as a much of a savage as it did me -- your brother Sam. The only thing standing between you and that destiny is this blade. You're welcome my son.
Sam: Dean, um, you know what you did back there, it was incredible. You know if you can do that, without losing yourself, that's cause for hope -- even without a cure.
Dean: Yeah, maybe.
Trivia & References
"The Executioner's Song" is a reference to the Pulitzer Prize-winning
novel of the same name by Norman Mailer, which documented the vents surrounding the execution by the State of Utah of murderer Gary Gilmore. Norman Mailer also wrote a
poem of the same name.
Rowena: This demon asks you to equalize credit for his and another's work -- split the baby, if you will. Well, then I would well and truly split the baby. I'd cut this puling, pathetic, greed-grubbing git in two, literally, then I'd nail his bloody halves to the doors of the court -- a reminder to all not to waste the king's time. Whiners beget whiners. You can't reward behavior like that -- why I never gave in when you asked for sweeties as a child, no matter how much you cried. Well, you were a very... chunky child, darling. Bit of a bloater.
- "Split the baby" is a reference to the Judgement of Solomon from the Hebrew Bible.
Minutiae
On the wall in the schoolroom where Cas is interrogating the demon is a photo of
Matt Riley as a tribute. Matt, who was Jared's stand-in for many years, died at the beginning of 2015.
SourceSides, Scripts & Transcripts
Promotion
Next episode: 10.14 The Executioner's Song airs February 17th.
