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
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Characters

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

Definitions

• Aliases
• 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?

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 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.

Minutiae

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

Sides, Scripts & Transcripts

• 12.03 The Foundry (transcript)

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