11.16 Safe House
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| Title | Safe House |
| Episode # | Season 11, Episode 16 |
| First aired | March 23, 2016 |
| Directed by | Stefan Pleszczynski |
| Written by | Robbie Thompson |
| On IMDB | Safe House |
| Outline | When a creature is released in an old house, leaving a mother and daughter in a coma. Sam and Dean investigate and find that Bobby and Rufus hunted the same creature a handful of years ago. |
| Monster | Soul Eater |
| Timeline | Two weeks since 11.15 Beyond the Mat; flashback to 2008/09 |
| Location(s) | Grand Rapids, Michigan |
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Synopsis
In the new house, a mother is redecorating the wallpaper, while talking on the phone with her partner. What she doesn’t realise was the chisel that she used is breaking a mysterious red line on the wall, when it happens she hears a scream from her daughter, who soon tells her that there was something bad in the house. The daughter is actually hesitated to move to the new house. When the mother goes to take water for her daughter, the lights in the little girl’s room soon was out, and there’s a shadow of someone walking in front of her room. The door is suddenly opened, followed by a pale hand snatching the child away. On the next daylight, the brothers are having their breakfast at a café, when Sam comes with an unpleasant news that he found nothing on Amara and Castiel, that slightly makes his big brother upset. To cheer Dean up, Sam suggested that they takes up a light hunting on the mother and daughter case before.
When Sam and Dean consoled the mother on what happened to her daughter, they tell her that they’re willing to help all they can, while she’s waiting for her wife to arrive from her delayed flight in London. The woman, Naoki Himura, tells the boys about the condition of her house before her daughter went into a coma. The detailed information leads Dean to a decision that they might be needing to visit her house. After Naoki told them when she hid her spare key, Sam and Dean went to the house. After the boys are gone, Naomi turns to check on her daughter, and covers the child’s calf that was bruised in the shape of a hand.
When the Winchester brothers arrived at Naoki’s house, one of the neighbours stops them, asking why did the FBI kept coming to the house. When she sees the puzzlement in the boys’ face, she tells them that a handful of years before there were also a pair of FBI agents checking the house on a case. The FBI whom she met a handful of years ago were Bobby and Rufus.
The older hunters were working on a case on the very same house. On their meet up in front of the house, Rufus was so confused finding Bobby sleeping in his car, and Bobby said that he was working on a case that related to the Apocalypse.
Just as Rufus and Bobby were walking to the house, the very same neighbour lady who stopped Sam and Dean in current year, asked them what were they doing in the neighbourhood. After introducing themselves as a pair of FBI agents, Bobby told her that they were working on special case. Which was accompanied by a rude call from Rufus, who apparently had decided that he had enough of being nice, since the last time he was nice in 1985, the worst year of his life.
In the current year, the Winchester boys manages to enter the house using the spare key, and when they takes out the EMF, the signals are exploding like crazy on every inch of the house! Since now they know that Bobby and Rufus worked on a case in the house, Dean decided that they should check on some Bobby’s old journal to see if they’re hunting the same thing as Bobby was. Back then, Bobby and Rufus also had the chance to talk with the resident of the house, who was telling them that her child was calling out for help, because he heard footsteps inside the house. But when she and her husband arrived, their small child had fell to the floor, unconscious. She also mentioned that the lights were out and the air was cold, but it was only in her son’s room, and the doctor couldn’t find anything wrong with the child, apart from the strange mark on the ankle, that looked like a handprint.
After they decided to do more research, Rufus asked the lady if there was an affordable hotel near by. Which happens to be the one Sam and Dean crash in, after the younger Winchester picked the same room as the older hunters, for luck. While Rufus used the room and privacy to ask Bobby why did he slept in his car before, and Bobby was smartly avoided by telling some facts from his research, Sam found that there were two deaths on the house, that one of them was a man choked on a chicken bone to his death. Dean, on the other hand, found that Bobby and Rufus were actually hunting a ghost, based on Bobby’s journal. Which, unfortunately, doesn’t give them much on the particular hunt. The boys decided that Rufus and Bobby had sorted out one bones, the problem is they don’t know which one. Which means they have to dig two graves and check.
The idea did sounds good for them, but Sam feels that there’s more to it, than an easy salt and burn, while Dean mostly not caring about it. He’s focused on killing Amara and finding Castiel. What the boys didn’t know was, Rufus and Bobby might had already found out what were they dealing with in the house, a Baku. They even bet on it.
On two separate nights, two pairs of hunters were digging graves. While having his turn on digging up the grave, Rufus insisted on asking Bobby, why did he fell asleep in the car. Bobby finally answered that he had been overworked, due to finding the answer to stop the apocalypse with Sam and Dean, and he was worried for his boys. Which brought surprise to Rufus.
While Bobby was worrying of his boys, Rufus had to tell him the truth, that even so they found a way to stop the apocalypse, there are more chance that they might have to sacrifice someone during the process, as the oldest rule of hunting stated that not everyone can be saved.
Meanwhile, the younger hunters were not so lucky in the recent days, as they found that both graves were already salted and burnt. Inside the case house, Naoki was sorting the things she’s going to take to the hospital, when the light suddenly goes off and made her trip. She doesn’t get a chance to get up, because a hand had snatched her and drag her to a room.
On the next day, Sam and Dean are checking on the mother and daughter who went to an unexplained coma. Curiously, Sam meets the doctor who was in charge of the family that Rufus and Bobby worked on a handful of years ago. She tells the boys, that there were two FBI agents working on a similar case few years before, she tells them about the situation of a mother and son who were found unconscious and in a coma in their own house, with weird mark on their ankles and failing vital signs, that might be an early sign that they were slowly lost to the world. But, somehow the previous patient had suddenly woke up in normal condition on the next day, and the doctor was hoping for the same thing to happen this time.
After the doctor left, Dean tells Sam that he had talked with several police about the case, and found out that the previous family, the Hendersons, are still around to visit. When Sam and Dean arrive at the Henderson’s new house, the mother, Mary Henderson, looked shocked to see a pair of FBI agents at her house. Turns out she thinks was more to her son’s antics than the case at her old house.
She welcomes the agents to her house, and she tells them what happened years ago over tea. She mentions about the nightmare she had during the coma, how she saw her husband died before him and gone on the next second, and the house was filled with spirits. After the case was done, she told Sam and Dean that the pair of older hunter told her not to touch the wallpaper in one of the walls in her house.From the way she talks, Mary Henderson sounded like she’s afraid and hated the house. Sam and Dean decided to re-check if there’s anything under the wallpaper that wasn’t meant to be touched. Sam was the one who found it, a sigil in blood. The boys decided to have a research about it, like what the older hunters did.
Bobby’s research wasn’t all fruitless, he found out that they were dealing with a Soul Eater and its Nest. Luckily, Sam also finds out about this particular enemy. Both pair of hunters also finds out what they will be faced when dealing with a Soul Eater and its Nest, which one of them was showing the victim’s loved one in a stressful situation, that will weaken the soul’s wellbeing.
Unfortunately, such entity cannot be killed, only trapped, and Bobby was sure he had encountered such case before, and put down the sigil design in his journal, to be found by Dean in the future time. The sigil came with a sad story for Bobby. He was only being asked by fellow hunter, as how to deal with the Soul Eater, and while Bobby had worked on the case, his hunter friend was already down with a coma, and after the case was done, Bobby’s hunter friend never did wake up. Just like the oldest rule of hunting had stated.
In present day, Dean and Sam were trying to figure out how the trapped souls were sent back to the body, after Bobby and Rufus managed to trap the Soul Eater. While doing his research, Sam mentions how Bobby and Rufus were suitable for Men of Letters, which Dean debunked as ‘Grumpy Men of Letters’.
When the boys found out that there were supposed to be two sigils, one inside the house and one inside the Nest, Dean quickly refused to be the one doing it inside the Nest. Until Sam challenged him on using their usual way. Which Dean lost, and he frowned upon that.
While they were doing their part of the trapping, Dean and Bobby were distracted by the footsteps noises from inside the house. While they checked, the lights suddenly goes off. Doesn’t take long for them to be snatched in the dark by the Soul Eater.
When Dean woke up, the house was all dark and gloomy, and he found Sam was on the floor, bloody and dead. As he remembered the pattern of the Soul Eater, he closed his eyes and when he opens them again, Sam’s body was gone, to his relief. Same thing happened to Bobby, who saw both Sam and Dean were dead, only to find out that it was only a hallucination. Both Dean and Bobby found the children on their respective years inside the house, and while they were talking and trying to help them, Rufus and Sam were doing the best they can to finish the sigil, which actually as well as the spirit of Dean, while he’s physically unconscious.
Bobby’s spirit was the first one to found the Soul Eater, and he was changed to a soulless body. Dean was next to changed, and his soulless body is interrupting Sam finishing the sigil, luring Sam to join him into The Nest.
Four hunters were fighting each of their partners, while having to finish the painting. After they took care the other men on their each sides, Rufus and Sam manage to finish the sigil, and causing the souls to return to their respectful bodies. And gave enough time for Bobby and Dean’s souls to meet inside The Nest. On the next day after they finished the case, Bobby decided to cover the sigil with wallpaper, and Rufus was checking the patients at the hospital while calling Bobby to ask if he saw anything inside The Nest. Bobby answered that he saw the boys dead, but he hesitated to tell Rufus that he saw Dean, alive, as well. Rufus then told Bobby to forget the oldest rule, because they actually can solve a case without casualties.
Good news also comes in Sam and Dean’s time, Naoki and her daughter are awake, her wife arrived safely, and she tells Sam that they’d rather selling the house, which comes as a good idea to Sam. After he finished with the wallpaper, Bobby went back to his car and found the whisky from Rufus, with a note. Just before he wrote down about the hunt, his mobile phone rang. It was Dean, letting him know that the boys was on a case, and needed Bobby’s help tracking something that they suspected was Lilith.
While the recent days’ Sam and Dean, a handful of years after the apocalypse, are talking about what Dean saw in The Nest, they couldn’t solve why did Dean can see Bobby, but Sam found it interesting that as one of the things Dean saw, Sam’s being dead was bringing comfort to his brother.
Characters
Definitions
- Alcohol
- Aliases
- Bobby's Car
- Bobby's Hats
- Celtic Sigil Trap
- Costumes & Disguises
- The Darkness
- EMF
- Fights
- Hugs
- Hunters
- Idjit
- Impala
- Meatsuit
- Men of Letters
- Monsters
- Rock, Paper, Scissors
- Soul
- Soul Eater
- Soul Eater Killing Sigil
- Table of Death
- Talking in Unison
- Unconscious
Music
- "Nite Life" by Willie Nelson
- (playing over the montage of Sam, Dean, Bobby and Rufus researching)
- "Midnight Rider" by The Allman Brothers Band
- (playing as Bobby is driving away and as Sam and Dean drive away)
Quotes
Sam: We can't just sit around and-and wait for a lead. Plus it'd be nice to get a win. This case seems like a layup.
Rufus: Well, unless you found a way to stop the end of the world during your little siesta... We got jack-all on any of that business. I knew you were in the area, heard about this possible little gig. I thought a win would be nice.
Bobby: Oh, wait. I'm supposed to be your frickin' backup?
Rufus: Yeah. Well, if by backup you mean you do all the heavy lifting while I watch. It's Shabbat.
Bobby: Are you serious?
Rufus: Deadly.
Bobby: You drove over here. Ain't that against the rules?
Bobby: Were you ever nice?
Sam: 'Grand Rapids, Michigan: possible ghost hunt with jackass.' That's all he wrote?
Rufus: Your boys? Hey, hey, alright. Okay. Papa bear. But you know more than anyone, Bobby... Even if we find a way to keep the world spinnin', not everyone's gonna be on that bus ride home. Sacrifice, greater good, all that jazz.
Bobby: Yeah, I know.
Bobby: Stay away from me, you son of a bitch.
Bobby: My boys. Both of them. Both of them dead, and then I saw... Well, I don't know what the hell I saw.
Rufus: Yeah, well, forget the oldest rule, Bobby.
Bobby: You gettin' soft on me, Rufus?
Rufus: Yeah, soft this.
Sam: My head hurts.
Dean: I saw you, dead on the floor. What?
Trivia & References
- To "break bad" is to do something unconventional or illegal.
- "Easy like Sunday morning" is a reference to the chorus to the song "Easy" by the Commodores.
- "Ooh, that's why I'm easy / I'm easy like Sunday morning / That's why I'm easy / I'm easy like Sunday morning"
- A baku is a Japanese spirit that feeds on dreams and nightmares.
Bobby: Well, they wither, too. But they stay with the soul eater, keeping it fed in lean times. Sort of like a cud.
- A "cud" is a portion of food that returns from the stomach of an animal, usually cattle or sheep, to be chewed and eaten again.
Dean: Yeah. Grumpy old Men of Letters, but yeah.
- Probably a reference to the 1993 movie Grumpy Old Men, starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. Sam compared Bobby and Dean to the same movie in 5.07 The Curious Case of Dean Winchester.
- Picasso is a famous Spanish painter, known for his seminal work in the cubist movement.
- "I'm getting too old for this." is the famous catch phrase from Danny Glover's character Roger Murtaugh in the Lethal Weapon series. "Agent Murtaugh" happens to be Rufus's alias in this episode, and in 5.02 Good God, Y'All he made the same reference.
Minutiae
Sides, Scripts & Transcripts
Promotion
- Character Spoilers by TVLine
- Synopsis via ksitetv
- Photos via ksitetv
- Promo
- Sneak Peek
- Blooper/Outtake - The Internet Thinks You're Crazy
