12.01 Keep Calm and Carry On
Title | Keep Calm and Carry On |
Episode # | Season 12, Episode 1 |
First aired | October 13, 2016 |
Directed by | Phil Sgriccia |
Written by | Andrew Dabb |
On IMDB | Keep Calm and Carry On |
Outline | While Dean and Mary try to process her resurrection they soon find themselves on a desperate search for a missing Sam. Meanwhile, Sam fights for his survival after being shot and kidnapped by the Woman of Letters Lady Toni Bevell. |
Monster | Men of Letters |
Timeline | Immediately after 11.23 Alpha and Omega |
Location(s) | Lebanon, Kansas Aldrich, Missouri |
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Contents
Synopsis
Characters
Definitions
- Angel Banishing Sigil
- Angel Blade
- Dead Man's Blood
- Enochian
- Hugs
- Impala
- Led Zeppelin
- Men of Letters
- Men of Letters Bunker
- Monsters
- Pie
- Sammy
- Spells
- Table of Death
- Title Card
- Unconscious
- Vampires
- Warding Sigils
Music
- "Bad Boys" by April Wine
- (plays over "The Road So Far" recap of events)
- "Diesel Smoke, Dangerous Curves" by Tom Powder
- (playing in a truck as Castiel comes crashing through a billboard)
- "Solitude" by Black Sabbath
- (plays over the closing montage)
Quotes
Dean: I'm Dean Winchester, I'm your son.
Mary: My Dean is four years old.
Mary: How do you know all that?
Dean: Dad told me. March 23, 1972 you walked out of a movie theater, Slaughterhouse-Five, you loved it. And you bumped into a big marine and knocked him on his ass. You were embarrassed and he laughed it off, said you could make it up to him with a cup of coffee. So you went to, uh, Maroni's, and you talked and he was cute, and he knew the words to every Zeppelin song, so when he asked you for your number you gave it to him even though you knew your dad would be pissed. That was the night that you met-
Mary: John Winchester.
Dean: August 19, 1975 you were married, in Reno, your idea. Few years later I came along, then Sammy.
Mary: Then I burned. How long have I been gone?
Dean: He gave himself up. For me.
Mary: That sounds like John. And he was a hunter? And he raised you and Sam to-
Bearded Demon: I mean, not right now. I possessed one once, but, it didn't work out. A lot of feelings and urges and ugly snot crying about how Julie's with Craig Castle now, even though he's total bae, but she's, like, a busted bitch on ice. Hormones, dude.
Castiel: No, I'm an angel.
Dean: He's an angel.
Mary: Come again?
Dean: Angel. With a capital 'A'. You know, wings, harp.
Dean: Hell yeah, she is.
Mary: One word for it. I grew up with hunters, I've heard of people coming back from the dead before. But to actually do it, after thirty years. A lot's changed. A lot.
Trivia & References
Dean: Twice. Your memory got wiped, so.
Mary: And I saw you when I was a ghost, which I don't remember either. And God's sister brought me back to life.
Dean: Pretty much. It's a lot and I know it's a lot. And I'll explain everything, I will. But right now, let's get out of here. Let's get you home. Come on, Mom.
- Dean and Sam traveled back to the past in 4.03 In the Beginning and 5.13 The Song Remains the Same. Mary appeared as a ghost when she saved the boys from a poltergeist in 1.09 Home.
- A puggle is a crossbreed of dog that is a mix of pug and beagle.
- Posh Spice was the nickname of Victoria Beckham who was a member of the '90s Brit Pop group The Spice Girls.
- Elsa was one of the lead characters in the popular 2013 film Frozen.
- Dean's conversation with Toni is a reference to this scene from the Liam Neeson film Taken.
Minutiae
Dean: Mom, I get it. I do. If I had kids, I wouldn't want them in this. But, Sam and me? Saving people and hunting things, this is our life. I think we make the world a better place. I know that we do.
- "Saving people, hunting things" is the Winchester's unofficial motto, first used by Dean in 1.02 Wendigo.