12.06 Celebrating the Life of Asa Fox

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Title Celebrating the Life of Asa Fox
Episode # Season 12, Episode 6
First aired November 17, 2016
Directed by John Badham
Written by Steve Yockey
On IMDB Celebrating the Life of Asa Fox
Outline Sam, Dean, Mary and Jody must take action when a demon begins picking off mourners at the wake of recently fallen hunter, Asa Fox.
Monster Jael
Timeline
Location(s) Emerson, Manitoba, Canada
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
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Synopsis

Emerson, Manitoba, 1980. A young man runs through the woods, he knows his life is in dangers but there is no way to stop. Trapped up against a tree by a monster, he is sliced across the cheek and just when he thinks he’s dead, a shot rings out.

Mary Winchester drives Asa Fox home, and tells he’s going to be fine, but Asa just wants to know what was that thing? She explains that it was a werewolf, something she had been tracking for a long time. But she tries to explain that she’s retired but Asa wants to know if she does, who is going to save people like him. She straightens out the boy’s hair and as she turns away, Asa snaps a picture.

Hunting things becomes his obsession. As he grows, he learns the ropes, becoming adapt as everything supernatural, but with each hunt, Asa makes sure that Mary knows just what he’s doing, even if it’s just on a postcard.

Running through the woods, chasing after some sort of monster, Asa falls into a trap, one that leaves him hanging from a tree, dead.

In Sioux Falls, Jody, in sweats with wine and Netflix, is about to have the best day off, when Sam and Dean drop in. Jody notes how smelly they are while they make themselves at home and Dean gladly announces his last triumph of killing Hitler. Chick flick questions ensue and Sam adds his own thoughts on the whole “Rom-Con” vs “Animated Erotica”, but then Jody gets a phone call.

Following her to the room, they find that a friend of hers has passed, Asa Fox, and Jody tells them the history of her relationship with Asa. The boys acknowledge that they have heard stories of him from Ellen at the Roadhouse, about how he supposedly killed five Wendigos in one night. Sam and Dean offer to take the trip with her to make sure she’s good and so that they could check out a Hunters Gathering.

They enter Canada, pulling up to a house that is filled with multiple cars and rock music. As they enter, Jody is greeted by Asa’s mother Lorraine Fox, who hugs her tightly. Dean makes his way to the kitchen and grabs a beer, finding out from the hunters there that the Winchesters are now the “celebrities” of the day.

Sam finds himself with a set of twins, who were raised by a witch before being “fangirled” by a man named Elvis, who questions him about a Lucifer, bringing the twins to Sam’s defense. Sam, a little taken aback by the questions, leaves to grab a beer, hoping to get away from the twenty questions.

Finding Dean in Asa’s room, they are surprised to see a real “Angel Blade”, and Sam is still a little shocked that people tells stories about them. Dean reminds him that they’re not in the long life business. With that, people begin to leave and Bucky begins to tell stories. The boys find out that Jody and Asa knew each other better than they thought.

J MAry, having heard of Asa's death, arrives at the wake. Jody meets Mary for the first time and is overwhelmed but she steps out of the room to let Mary and the boys have a small chat. Mary lets them know she’s been all over and using John’s journal to help navigate around. Dean seems a little snippy about the fact that she could have just asked. Mary lets the boys know that she knew Asa, and had hoped that he was alive, which sets Dean on edge and he decides he needs air, but Jodygives Dean a little bit of advice.

Lorraine and Mary exchange some words in the kitchen over the fact that Mary was the reason that Asa began hunting in the first place. Sam finds Mary and she hands him the stack of postcards before she takes on the burden that she is the reason he lived this life, and why he died. Sam reassures her that he gets it, and that Dean needs space, but they will be fine but hunting is in their blood.

Saying good-bye to Asa, Sam and Mary find the body roped to the ceiling. Randy is dead and they all need to leave, but the Demon is prepared to attack, shutting off the water. The all find that they are trapped in the house with a Crossroads Demon - Jael.

Outside, Billie the Reaper approaches Dean and tells him that she was inside reaping a soul. Dean needs to get in, as Bucky explains exactly what went on between JL and Asa. They find that Alicia was possessed, but now it is free, breaking off into teams, they try to find the demon. Dean makes a deal with Billie to get in, but once inside he finds that Elvis is now possessed.

Battling Elvis, Dean learns that Hell is in turmoil. The Demon kills Elvis before leaving his body. Trying to set a trap for JL, Mary grabs the “Angel Blade”. Jody tries to convince Sam and Dean that Mary is the demon, but Sam realizes that Jody is the one that really is possessed.

Mary tries to stab Jody with the blade, but the Demon is stronger, taunting Sam and Dean about Lucifer. We find out the twins are actually Asa’s children, that Lorraine sabotaged the jeep, that Jody really cared for him, but it was the Demon’s confession that Bucky was the one the one that killed Asa that got the hunters to move. Exorcising the Demon as a group they finally destroy JL, but they have to deal with Bucky.

Bucky confesses that JL was taunting Asa but Asa was stubborn and wouldn’t listen to him, he shoved him back and Asa hit his head, so he hung him up to cover up what had really happened. They decide that his punishment will be that they are going to tell every hunter what he had done, shun him from the life.

They gather the around the fire, three bodies instead of just the one and Lorraine smiles that Asa actually did have a family, the twins were her grandchildren. Jody lets Mary know that Sam and Dean were the best men she knew but Mary lets her know that the boys weren’t the problem, she was.

Sam and Dean approach, and Billie steps, offering to take Mary’s soul back to Heaven, but Mary turns it down, telling Billie she’s just going to have to wait. Mary explains that she needs a little more time before coming home and Sam and Dean offer breakfast at least before they part ways.

Characters

Definitions

Music

  • "Roll on Down the Highway" by Bachman-Turner Overdrive
(plays over the montage of Asa Fox becoming a hunter)
  • "Man in the Box" by Alice in Chains
(plays from Asa Fox's family home during his wake)

Quotes

Dean: Oh, uh... Since the last time we saw you? I killed Hitler.
Jody: ...Thank you?
Dean: This is a real angel blade. This guy was legit.

Sam: Did you know people tell stories about us?

Dean: Yeah. Yeah, apparently we're a little bit legendary.
Dean: I mean, come on Sam, it's not like we're in the 'live till you're ninety and die in your sleep business.' This? This only ends one way.
Dean: Where you been?

Mary: All over. I went back to Lawrence for a few days, and used John's journal to retrace a few things.

Dean: You could have just asked us.
Jody: You okay?

Dean: Swell.

Jody: Huh. Is that why you spent the entire ride up here telling me in extreme, excruciating detail how you killed Hitler, but, uh, you neglected to mention the fact that your mom is back from the dead?
Sam: You don't have to explain anything. I get it. You need space, and so does Dean. You know? He's just... We just got you back, and he's just scared that we're going to lose you again, that because we're hunters you're gonna walk away. But I know that's not true. Even looking at these, you saved Asa in 1980. After Dean was born, after everyone thought you quit hunting. Seemed like you couldn't stop then, and I'm guessing you can't stop now either. This job. This life. It's crazy and insane, but it's in our blood.
Dean: Why don't you go to Hell?
Jael: Please. It's a trainwreck down there. No Lucifer, no Crowley. It's messy.
Jael: I have heard so many stories about you Winchesters, and I desperately want the Lucifer thing to be true. The idea that he left a meatsuit alive is just so deliciously weak. As for the rest of you, I have been inside your heads. I know all about you. For example, the twins. Too frighted to tell anyone that they came to say goodbye to their daddy. Or the grieving mother who hated the fact that her son was a hunter so much, she'd hide his gear, sabotage his jeep, anything to keep him from hunting. And this meatsuit that you all seem to care so much about, she actually fantasized about a life with Asa. Can you believe that? That worthless man-
Jody: I don't know what's going on between you and your boys. But I gotta tell you, mom to mom, they are good men. Best I've ever met.
Mary: I know. They're not the problem.
Billie: The look in your eyes, I've seen it before. It's a dead man's look -- eyes that say no matter where you go or what you do, it feels like this world doesn't fit anymore, like you're all alone.

Dean: Well, she's not alone.
Billie: Tell me I'm wrong. I'm not here to hurt you. I'm here to offer you mercy. A one-way ticket upstairs, away from all of this.
Mary: How would it work?
Sam: Mom?
Mary: You just kill me again?
Billie: Reapers don't kill people. Rules.
Mary: Well... then... Then I guess you're just gonna have to wait.

Billie: Winchesters... If you change your mind -- if any of you change your minds -- you know my name.

Trivia & References

Sam: Figured we'd stop by on the way home, see you, Claire and Alex.

Jody: Aw, that's fun. Unfortunately, the girls are in Omaha for the weekend, being angsty at a Radiohead concert. But I can feed you.

Dean: Jody, you watching some kind of chick flick here?

Jody: Well, Dean, I'm a chick.
Dean: No. No, no, you're -- you're a badass sheriff chick. You're not a-a romcom chick. Wait, are you a romcom chick?
Jody: Are you?
Sam: He's more of a, uh... animated Japanese erotica chick.

Hentai is a catch-all term to describe pornographic anime or manga. It was revealed in season seven that Dean is a fan of "animated cartoon porn" and sees anime as an art form.
Jody: Yeah, yeah. He was a hunter. He rolled into town a few months back and tried to convince me he was FBI Agent Fox Mulder. He was chasing a pack of ghouls and I helped. He passed through every once and while and we'd grab coffee or... something. Oh, he was a good man. The wake's tonight and they're going to salt and burn the body tomorrow. I can't believe I just said that like it was something normal.
FBI Agent Fox Mulder was one of the main characters on the TV show The X-Files. He and his partner Dana Scully hunted aliens among other supernatural and paranormal cases.
Sam: Wait, so you guys were raised by a witch, but you're hunters?

Max: Yup. She was, like, a good witch. Very Enya. It was the '90s.

Enya is an Irish musician who was hugely popular in the '90s with her Celtic/new age music.
Billie: You can huff and puff, but that house is on supernatural lockdown. They can't even hear you.
To "huff and puff" is a reference to the tale of the Three Little Pigs, and the effort the wolf puts in to destroy their house.
Jael: An exorcism? Unh-unh. Elvis is leaving the building.
A take on the phrase "Elvis has left the building" originally used to disperse the audience at an Elvis concert that hoped for an encore.
Max: What kind of a devil's trap?

Sam: Standard pentagram. Nothing fancy.
Max: I like a Fifth Pentacle of Mars. It's got more character.

The "Fifth Pentacle of Mars" is one of the magic pentacles in the Greater Key of Solomon, used for protection against demons. Specifically it is used to force a demon to submit to the possessor of the pentacle.

Minutiae

This is the first time the Winchesters have visited Canada, other than their Vancouver visit in the alternate reality shown in 6.15 The French Mistake.
Previously it had been believed that Mary Winchester gave up hunting when she married John Winchester, but it is revealed that she was still hunting at least a year after Dean was born. However, she makes it seem like it was a temporary thing as she was "tying up a few loose ends."
Randy: No freakin' way. Aren't you dead? Like, four times?

Dean: Yeah. It, uh, didn't take.

Dean has in fact been dead or assumed dead four times in the series. First when he was killed by a hellhound in 3.16 No Rest for the Wicked, second was being shot by Walt and Roy alongside Sam in 5.16 Dark Side of the Moon, he was assumed dead by Sam after being sucked into Purgatory at the end of 7.23 Survival of the Fittest and being stabbed and killed by Metatron in 9.23 Do You Believe in Miracles?.

Sides, Scripts & Transcripts

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