11.03 The Bad Seed
Title | The Bad Seed |
Episode # | Season 11, Episode 3 |
First aired | October 21, 2015 |
Directed by | Jensen Ackles |
Written by | Brad Buckner Eugenie Ross-Leming |
On IMDB | The Bad Seed |
Outline | With Castiel's condition worsening, Sam and Dean go on the hunt for Rowena to remove the curse. As Amara begins educating herself on the current state of the universe, Crowley attempts to manipulate her for his own personal gain. |
Monster | Rowena |
Timeline | |
Location(s) | Lebanon, Kansas Denver, Colorado |
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Synopsis
In the dark side of a city, Rowena is trying to gather new followers for her new coven, the Mega Coven, a name which unfortunately doesn’t receive the awe she's looking for. Instead, her main intention of creating a new cult is soon revealed: she needs her fellow witches to provide her with protection from the Winchesters and her other enemies.
Rowena gloats that she murdered her own son, the King of Hell, by bewitching an angel to do the dirty work. One of the witches then mentions that a friend of hers just made a deal with Crowley recently. This news upsets Rowena, and when the other witches are about to leave her, she used a spell from the Book of the Damned to evaporate them.
In the bunker, Sam, Dean, and Castiel – chained to the floor – are trying to find any information about the disappearance of baby Amara. When Sam mentions that God did put The Darkness away a long time ago, Castiel replied bitterly that he’s not confident of that happening this time. God is not the only one they need to find; there’s also Metatron, who might also know about The Darkness since he’s the scribe of God, and Rowena, who could remove the attack dog spell from Cas.
Down in his mansion, Crowley receives news from one of his minions that his mother was sighted alive, and commands her to be annihilated. Crowley then turns to Amara, who is studying various subjects, including a video learning of Hitler’s Nuremberg speech. On his attempt to bond with Amara, Crowley learns that she’s asking for protection from Crowley, so God can’t seal her away again. However, Amara won’t reveal to Crowley how did God managed to lock her up, and Crowley is starting to feel that it won’t be easy to crack the little girl.
Back on the surface of Earth, Rowena is still trying to gain followers for her Mega Coven, when a demon attacks them. Rowena manages to escape, but one of the witches die and the other hides under a table.
Meanwhile in the bunker, Dean is trying to get hold of Crowley’s mobile phone, in hope that the King of Hell will help them find Rowena. Castiel is pessimistic that Crowley will hand Rowena over to help lift the spell, considering that he tried to kill Crowley the last time they met. Sam announces that Metatron is also nowhere to be found, since there are no incidents relating to a crappy ’78 Continental Mark V, which offends Cas, since he’s fond of the classic car. Dean quickly clears up Sam’s comment.
When they're trying another way to find Metatron by searching places he might love to visit, Cas suddenly has convulsions and blacks out. Sam and Dean rush to Cas, and when he comes around Castiel says that he’s hearing voices. This takes Dean aback, since he's still in guilt over the incident in the bunker when he was under the Mark of Cain. Continuing with his research, Sam finds the news of the weird incident involving the three witches at the café.
In the Hell’s mansion, Amara is researching the Earth, when she finds her adult self on the standing mirror in her room. The little girl is amazed at God’s creation after He sealed her away, but the adult Amara still wants vengeance. The talk between the two Amaras is cut short when Crowley walks in to check on Amara. Once again, when he tries creating a conversation with Amara, Crowley can feel that the girl will be a handful for him one day.
Somewhere in a pub, a demon is having a drink when an angel walks in and joins him. They talk about how bad the situation is both in Heaven and Hell, something as big as God and Lucifer.
Following up to their finding about the homicide at the café, Sam and Dean pay a visit to the police station where the surviving witch is being held. There they manage to convince the witch to help them by revealing Rowena’s location.
In another attempt to get close with The Darkness as a little girl, Crowley bears presents to her. But she doesn’t seem to like the Earthly gifts - she's more interested in darker things, such as Dante’s Inferno (in the original Italian). Amara suddenly says that she’s hungry, but when her nanny brings sweets for her, Amara prefers her soul to feast on instead. This is another eye-opener for Crowley - the more Amara consumes souls, the more her mind broadens and becomes darker. And hungrier.
While the Winchester boys manage to capture Rowena, Castiel fails in his attempt to find his car, with a flashback to the day he almost killed Crowley. The boys bring Rowena to the bunker, and they discover that Rowena only has the Codex with her. When Dean sends Sam to get Castiel, the witch figures that Dean has unleashed something dark again into the world.
And Castiel is gone.
Crowley has realised what Amara can do with all the soul she consumes, and he soon assigns a new nanny for the little girl (the demon that failed to assassinate his mother) and commands him to inform Amara that she will need cut down on the number of souls she's eating.
On their way to find Castiel, Rowena reveals to Dean that she once made a deal with Sam, regarding the Book of the Damned, that should make Sam kill Crowley in return. Dean doesn’t look so pleased at this. Sam gets off the hook when he finds that the GPS on Cas’ phone has stopped moving and they are close.
The three of them split up to find Castiel, and Dean finds the angel almost strangling a woman to death in a warehouse. When Dean tries to calm him down, Cas turns to beat Dean. Before Cas can harm Dean further, Sam arrive with Rowena, who then lifts the spell off Castiel. When Dean welcomes the angel back, Rowena takes the chance to escape.
Back in the bunker, the boys are relaxing after everything and discussing their next step. Dean shows his apology to Castiel by refusing the angel’s offer to cure the wounds on his face from Cas' beating, saying that he had it coming since he almost killed the angel.
Meanwhile in Hell, Crowley has new matters at hand: a teenaged Amara, who is even hungrier and more vicious than before.
Characters
Definitions
- Alcohol
- Angel Blade
- Angel Radio
- Binding Link
- Book of the Damned
- Castiel's Pimpmobile
- Crowley's Lair
- The Darkness
- Demon Smoke
- Devil's Trap
- Grand Coven
- Hex Bag
- Impala
- Iron
- Men of Letters Bunker
- Nadya's Codex
- Pentagram
- Porn
- Spells
- Table of Death
- Talking in Unison
- Witches
Music
- "Cute and Hefty" by Hillary Thaddeus
- (playing in Café Elta while Rowena is recruiting for the Mega Coven)
- "Big One" (Instrumental) by Louden Swain
- (playing in the bar where the angel and demon have a drink together)
Quotes
Dean: Yeah, it'd be nice if he put down the Mai Tai and showed up for work.
Sam: Because he's a dick, and that's not breaking news.
Castiel: Earth. Several billion years from the beginning.
Angel: Yeah. We get knocked out, it takes over.
Demon: Someone's gotta do something.
Angel: Someone?
Demon: Yeah. If management won't, it's up to the little guy.
Angel: Yeah, I hear ya.
Demon: Power to the people, my friend.
Angel: Well, not actually people.
Crowley: Yes.
Amara: God made a world where people have to suffer, and then die.
Crowley: Unfortunately.
Crowley: She wants to eat everyone, don't take it personally.
Dean: No, no, no, no, it's fine, Cas. Besides, I had it coming.
Trivia & References
- Dante's Inferno is the first part of the epic poem The Divine Comedy written by 14th century Italian Dante Alighieri. Inferno tells of his journey through the nine circles of Hell.
- The Big Bang was the cosmological event at the start of the universe. Taylor Swift is a Grammy award winning singer/songwriter. Her song "Shake it off" was the basis of the Hillywood Supernatural Parody.
- Florence Nightingale was a nurse in the Crimean war, who went onto be a leader in medicine, particularly in infection control and the use of statistics to determine contributing causes of mortality and morbidity.
Minutiae
Sides, Scripts & Transcripts
Promotion
- Synopsis by ksitetv
- Photos by The TV Addict
- Behind the Scenes Photos
- Promo
- CHCH Promo
- Sneak Peek
- Producer's Preview
- Jensen Ackles on Directing The Bad Seed