12.03 The Foundry

Title	The Foundry
Episode #	Season 12, Episode 3
First aired	October 27, 2016
Directed by	Robert Singer
Written by	Robert Berens
On IMDB	The Foundry
Outline
Monster	Vengeful Spirit
Timeline
Location(s)	St. Paul, Minnesota Lebanon, Kansas Cleveland, Ohio Sagamore Hills, Ohio
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Characters

• Sam Winchester
• Dean Winchester
• Mary Winchester
• Castiel
• Crowley
• Lucifer
• Rowena
• Lucas Kellinger
• Hugo Moriarty

Definitions

• Aliases
• Angel Blade
• Archangel
• Ectoplasm
• EMF
• Ghost
• Hugs
• Impala
• Iron
• John's Journal
• Men of Letters
• Men of Letters Bunker
• Myling
• Salt
• Spells
• Table of Death
• Vengeful Spirit
• Vessel

Music

• "Born to Be Wild" by Steppenwolf

(playing on the radio in the Impala when Sam, Dean and Mary hit the road; also played in 7.23 Survival of the Fittest)

Quotes

Mary: Castiel. After you left Heaven, when did it start to feel like you fit? Like you... belonged here.
Castiel: Well, I'm not sure I do. Mary... You do belong here.

Crowley: Bumping into each other. Working the same leads. What are the odds Cassie? Fate brought us together.

Castiel: Not interested.

Crowley: Why not? We made a somewhat effective team against Amara. It's been months-I mean months since we last tried to kill each other. We both got very, very good reasons to want Lucifer dead. Besides. While you were gabbing with Vince's second fiddle, I was ransacking his room. Found these, postcards from his beloved sister Wendy. Oh looky here, an address and everything. Worth a look?

Castiel: I should have known there was something you weren't telling me. Rowena.

Crowley: So, Mother and I had an unfortunate, if not embarrassing run-in with Lucifer. You're just mad you're only my second choice for a Lucifer hunt team-up.
Castiel: No, actually I think it's sweet. I thought your motivation was ambition and revenge. Now I know you just want to save your mother.

Crowley: It's not about saving her. Lucifer has made off with a colossally powerful witch, who by the way is the only person alive who can slam him back in the Cage. He will either kill her or control her. Or she will offer her services to the biggest bad in town, in order to save her neck, like she always does. Do any of those sound like particularly good outcomes to you?

Sam: Look I'm happy too Dean, I am. I'm overjoyed. But, there's something about her, I mean something going on with with her.

Dean: Yeah. She's adjusting.
Sam: No, she's struggling. I mean she's trying to bury herself in hunting to avoid dealing.
Dean: And how do you know that?

Sam: Years of personal experience. I don't know, man. Like mother like sons.

Rowena: A druidic glyph. I'm using a hybrid spell of my own device -- Book of the Damned and Celtic magic. It should give your vessel the resiliency and strength of the mightiest tree.
Lucifer: Well. There's a woody joke in there somewhere.

Lucifer: Decapitation is far too merciful for you, ginger bitch!

Rowena: Until you forced me to get back in the game, I tried to forget about Lucifer. I loathe him, and I loathe that I had any part in letting him out of the pit that holds him.

Castiel: So you'll help us then?

Rowena: Good God no. That whole FBI pantsuit look, not my hexbag. But if you get Lucifer cornered and find yourself in need. I'm there.

Dean: And, um, listen apologies if me and Sam hijacked or sidelined you in any way. I mean, this was your case, and you kicked ass, again.

Mary: I kicked ass? You saved me, I-

Dean: Yeah, but you were right. Those kids were innocent. We didn't even know what Moriarty's deal was.

Dean: Mom it's okay, alright. You're home now.

Mary: No. I'm not. I miss John. I miss my boys.
Sam: We're right here Mom.
Mary: I know. In my head, but I'm still mourning them as I knew them. My baby Sam. My little boy Dean. Just feels like yesterday we were together in Heaven, and now I'm here, and John is gone and they're gone. And every moment I spend with you reminds me every moment I lost with them. And I thought hunting and working would clear my head...
Sam: Mom what are you trying to say?

Mary: I have to go. Sorry. I'm so, so sorry. I just need a little time.

Mary: I love you. I love you both.

Trivia & References

Dean: All right. So what have you found on her majesty's secret suck-bags?

Castiel and Crowley use the aliases "Agent Beyoncé" and "Agent Jay-Z." Mary uses the alias "Agent Shirley Partridge," Dean uses "Agent Cassidy" and Sam uses "Agent Bonaduce."

The motel room the Winchesters stay in, the Royal Funk, with its purple color scheme and male/female gender symbol partition is a tribute to the late Minnesota native Prince.

The interlocked gender symbols in the Royal Funk motel partition represent the symbol for heterosexuality.

Lucifer: You got any witch spells locked up in that witchy brain of yours? I thought this one would last longer before going all Keith Richards on me. This vessel hoping's getting old. Just as I get used to limitations in one meat sack, I gotta cut bait and jump to the next flawed lump.

Lucifer: Red, what did you do!?

Rowena: Sped up the decaying process my Lord. You thought Keith Richards was bad. Try Iggy Pop.

Minutiae

Gwenda Lorenzetti, who played Cheryl Kellinger, previously played Susan Bishop in 5.11 Sam, Interrupted.

Sides, Scripts & Transcripts

• 12.03 The Foundry (transcript)

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