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|outline= [[Mary]], [[Sam]] and [[Dean]] investigate a case where the sound of a crying baby led to the mysterious death of a couple. Meanwhile, [[Castiel]] teams up with [[Crowley]] in the hunt for [[Lucifer]].
|motw= [[Vengeful SpiritGhost]]
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|location= St. Paul, Minnesota<br>Lebanon, Kansas<br>Cleveland, Ohio<br>Sagamore Hills, Ohio
|prevep= 12.02 Mamma Mia
|nextep= 12.04 American Nightmare
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A young couple in St Paul, Minnesota, are walking in a shopping district near a new housing development. The woman hears a baby crying from across the street in an abandoned house. She follows the cries inside, and in a crib finds an old doll. The man comes as she is leaning over the crib. Before they can leave, the door slams shut and they scream as an unknown something comes after them.
[[Mary]] is sitting in the [[the Bunker]] library reading [[John's journal]] in the middle of the night. [[Cas]] comes in and she asks him how long it took him to feel as if he fit in, belonged here. He tells her still isn't sure he does, but that she does belong. As she readies for bed, Mary stares at herself in the mirror awhile before beginning to cut her hair.
In the morning, the boys are at the kitchen table. Cas comes in and tells them he is off to Cleveland in his search for Lucifer because he feels he is the reason [[Lucifer]] escaped. Mary joins the boys for breakfast and says she found a hunt in Minnesota -- – victims whose hearts were frozen after entering an old abandoned house.
They head out, and stop for gas and snacks. Dean introduces Mary to several beef jerky flavors, having a mother-son bonding moment. As Dean starts up [[Baby]], Born to be Wild is playing, a little loud. [[Sam]], in the back seat, tries to tell Dean to turn it down, but before he can get his point across, Mary leans over and cranks it up. Dean, happy, peels out and they drive off toward the case.
At a cabin in the woods, Vince/Lucifer is checking his reflection. He asks [[Rowena]], chained in the front room, if she has any beauty spells in her witchy brain. His vessel is starting to wear out. He wants Rowena to make the vessel permanent, strong enough to hold him. He threatens to break her neck again and tear her head off if she refuses.
Back at the motel, Sam suggest the children's spirits are [[Mylingmyling]]s, from Scandinavian lore. Mary disagrees, saying that she didn't think the little boy wanted to hurt her, he was scared. Sam and Dean still think they're dealing with vengeful child spirits, and they will need to salt and burn the bodies. As Mary turns to talk it over, she grows lightheaded for a minute and stumbles, seeing visions of the last moments of her earlier life as well as of the little boy who grabbed her. Sam and Dean suggest she stay back at the hotel and get some rest while they hit the cemetery to look into the children's bones. After the boys leave, Mary makes some calls and is able to track down the former owner of the house and find out all about the death of a 4-year-old boy there. His mother describes a scar on his cheek and it confirms for Mary that [[Lucas Kellinger]] was the ghost who grabbed her.
Sam and Dean are at the cemetery, digging up the children. They discuss whether their mother is struggling versus simply adjusting. Sam's worried, but Dean cuts him off. He just wants to be happy with her return. Sam explains his worries that she is turning to hunting to avoid dealing, and tells Dean it's a family trait. The boys return to the hotel, but when they get there, Mary is gone. They check the room -- – no sign of struggle and no note. Then, Sam sees the weapons bag is missing.
Mary's gone back to the house on her own. She sees Lucas and, leaving the duffel bag in the entry, follows him deeper into the house, down to the basement. Lucas tells her he's cold. Her cell rings -- – it's Sam calling. Mary tells the boys she is at the house but before she can explain more, the signal goes out and the boys rush out from the room to head to the house.
At the cabin, Rowena is painting sigils onto the chest of Lucifer's vessel, explaining her spell will make it last. As Rowena completes the spell, he realizes something is wrong and she tells him she accelerated the decay, making him age super-fast. She waves her hands and he vanishes.
* [[Lucifer]]
* [[Rowena]]
* [[Tommy]]
* [[Lucas Kellinger]]
* [[Hugo Moriarty]]
* [[Angel Blade]]
* [[Archangel]]
* [[Bacon]]
* [[Book of the Damned]]
* [[Black Grimoire]]
* [[Castiel's Pickup Truck]]
* [[Deer's Head]]
* [[Ectoplasm]]
* [[EMF]]
* [[Ghost]]
* [[Healing]]
* [[Hugs]]
* [[Impala]]
* [[Spells]]
* [[Table of Death]]
* [[Vessel]]
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'''Rowena:''' A druidic glyph. I'm using a hybrid spell of my own devise -- – ''Book of the Damned'' and Celtic magic. It should give your vessel the resiliency and strength of the mightiest tree.<br>
'''Lucifer:''' Oh. There's a woody joke in there somewhere.
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'''Tommy:''' Look... I been around all stripes of Vince, all right? Drunk Vince, depressed Vince, megalomaniacal 'I'm a golden god' Vince. The Vince who threw me through that door... that wasn't him.
:''"I'm a golden god" is a reference to [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYz3E4MckSw this scene] from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost_Famous Almost Famous.]The phrase was [http://mrmusichead.com/product/robert-plant-i-am-a-golden-god-1975-by-peter-simon/ originally coined by Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant].
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The motel room the Winchesters stay in, the Royal Funk, with its purple color scheme and the symbol in the motel room partition, is a tribute to the late Minnesota native [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_(musician) Prince] who died on April 21, 2016. The merged [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_symbol gender symbols ] in the partition , which typically represent heterosexuality, are a reference to the symbol Prince adopted as his name in 1993. The symbol itself was a combination of the male and female gender symbols, and was dubbed "the Love Symbol."
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