12.04 American Nightmare

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Title American Nightmare
Episode # Season 12, Episode 4
First aired November 3, 2016
Directed by John F. Showalter
Written by Davy Perez
On IMDB American Nightmare
Outline After a woman dies from what appears to be stigmata wounds. Sam and Dean investigate a devout religious family living off-the-grid, who are hiding a dangerous secret.
Monster Gail Peterson
Timeline
Location(s) Mason City, Iowa
Pleasant Valley, Missouri
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Synopsis

Characters

Definitions

Music

  • "Golden Dunes" by The Budos Band
(playing on iPod as Ricky Copeland is killed)
  • "Down in My Heart" by Paloma Kwiatkowski
(sung by Magda Peterson as Sam and Dean leave the Peterson home)
  • "Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho" by Paloma Kwiatkowski
(sung by Magda Peterson as Sam comes to)

Quotes

Sam: So what's the word? Cas have anything?

Dean: Yeah. Good news, there's nothing on angel radio and Heaven's still on lockdown. So rogue angel is out.
Sam: Bad news?

Dean: Cas is chumming it up with Crowley. They're hunting Lucifer together. That's right. One's an angel, one's a demon and apparently they solve crimes.
Gail: Do you know God, gentlemen?
Dean: Oh yeah. Yeah, we're besties.
Sam: So what happened to your daughter, was that God's plan?

Gail: Yes.
Sam: She didn't have to die. She was sick, if you had taken her to a doctor.
Gail: God does not-

Sam: God doesn't care what kind of life you live. Trust me. And God didn't kill your daughter. You did.
Sam: Magda. Magda Peterson?

Magda: That's not my name. I'm not Magda. I'm the Devil.

Sam: No. No, you're not. You're really not.
Sam: Magda. You're not the Devil, you're just psychic. There are others out there like you, like-like me. I had powers too. I get visions sometimes and I can move things with my mind.

Magda: You can do that?

Sam: Well, no. Not anymore, I don't think. But it didn't make me the Devil, it just made me who I am.
Sam: Magda, that wasn't your fault. You are not the Devil, you're not evil. And it's scary. I know it's scary. But you can learn to control it, you don't have to hurt anyone ever again.
Dean: Sorry I missed all the psycho.
Sam: Yeah, and you thought our family was crazy.
Magda: Beth called my aunt in California. I'm gonna be staying with her.

Beth: She has a ranch. Lots of wide-open country.

Dean: Well, that's great. You know sometimes in order to figure things out a person needs space.
Sam: Magda. I know it doesn't feel like it now. But, you're gonna be all right. You can do this. You will do this. Just remember. That power, it doesn't control you. You control it. If you ever need anything. Anything. Call, me okay? I'll be there.
Dean: Think you made the right call back there letting her go?

Sam: I hope so. I mean Magda didn't know what she was doing, she had no idea. I think she deserves a second chance. What did Beth want?
Dean: She gave me her number. Her personal number.
Sam: You were gonna shoot her.
Dean: Yeah. Kinda weird, kinda hot.
Sam: Hey, did you mean what you said back there?

Dean: Yeah. You were right. This whole Mom thing. It's-I mean, we get her back and then she leaves, I hate it. But I get it. I do. I guess I'm just working through some of that crap. I'll just try to be less of a dick about it.

Trivia & References

"American Nightmare" is a song by The Misfits. Writer Davy Perez tweeted a link to the song just before this episode aired.
Sam and Dean use the aliases Fathers Penn and DeNiro as priests. References to actors Sean Penn and Robert DeNiro who also pretend to be priests in the movie We're No Angels. They also use James Morrison and Ray Manzarek while posing as social workers, a reference to Doors singer Jim Morrison and keyboard bass player Ray Manzarek.
Dean: So, Lucifer. The lord of evil, the angel of light, is now the master of butt rock. He jumped into Vince Vincente.
In the '90s rock music radio stations used the tagline "Rock. Nothing but Rock." -- which people quickly parodied as "Nothing Butt Rock." Butt rock became slang for bad rock music - which of course varied depending on your tastes! It can be assumed with Sam being a fan of Bon Jovi and Vince Vincente, that his musical tastes veered more towards '80s hair/glam metal growing up, which is in contrast to Dean and John's classic hard rock and heavy metal tastes.
Sam: The victim's skull was filled with a goopy mush.

Dean: That Carl paints quite the picture. What can do that?
Sam: I got nothing.
Dean: Me neither. Well, maybe we should focus on the case and less of the Dr. Phil crap.

"Dr. Phil" is a reference to TV personality and relationships advice guru Phil McGraw.
Dean: Well, that was easy.

Sam: What?
Dean: What? The Wicked Witch of the West in there. Miss 'positive energy,' wanted a bigger office, did a little hoodoo. Boom. I say we put a witch-killing cap in her ass and call it a day.

The Wicked Witch of the West is an evil witch from the Oz books by Frank Baum. She also appeared in the episode 9.04 Slumber Party.
Dean: Weird creepy off-the-grid Children of the Corn people. Yeah, I'm in.
Children of the Corn is a story by Stephen King (and subsequent movie franchise) about a town where children kill their peers on their 19th birthdays as a sacrifice to an evil deity who lives in the cornfields.
Dean: She hates the way we were raised. She hates the fact that we're hunters. Maybe she starts walking and doesn't stop, you know? She obviously has zero interest in keeping this family together.

Sam: Well, you know sometimes families do better with a little time apart.
Dean: Yeah, who? The Mansons?

The Manson Family refers to the followers of cult leader and murderer Charles Manson.
Gail: Olivia Sanchez was a papist. But at least she believed in God.
"Papist" is disparaging term for Roman Catholics typically used by sectarians.

Minutiae

William MacDonald, who played Abraham Peterson, previously played Sheriff in 5.08 Changing Channels.

  • posted by VFX compositor Alexandre Boucher. Top image shows how VFX erased the blood mechanisms seen in the bottom image.

Sides, Scripts & Transcripts

Promotion

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