12.08 LOTUS

Title	LOTUS
Episode #	Season 12, Episode 8
First aired	December 8, 2016
Directed by	Phil Sgriccia
Written by	Eugenie Ross-Leming Brad Buckner
On IMDB	LOTUS
Outline	After Lucifer takes possession of the President of the United States, the Winchesters, Castiel, Crowley, and Rowena formulate a plan to finally send Lucifer back to the Cage.
Monster	Lucifer
Timeline
Location(s)	St. Louis, Missouri Lebanon, Kansas Boca Raton, Florida Indianapolis, Indiana
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Synopsis

Both the Winchesters, and Castiel and Crowley are trying to locate Lucifer. He’s been hopping from vessel to vessel trying to find one that can contain him and also people in positions of power. these include billionaire businessman Wallace Parker and an archbishop of St. Louis. Finally he finds himself in the vessel of the President of the USA (POTUS). While the team plot how to get Lucifer's essence out of the vessel and back into the Cage, Sam is driven to call Mick Davies of the British Men of Letters, but hangs up without speaking to him.

POTUS is extremely well guarded and neither the king of hell or an angel is able to infiltrate the guarding so they have to come up with quite a plan to get access to the vessel and send Lucifer back to the cage. Lucifer becomes aware that the Winchesters are after him, and fabricates a story for the Secret Service that they are cult members intent on assassinating the President.

The Secret Service catch up with the Winchesters, and Castiel and Crowley. Mr. Ketch of the brotosh men of Letters arrives just in time, destroys the Secret Service car with a Grenade Launcher and renders the agents unconscious.

Even though Lucifer learns a thing or two about the POTUS in that he has a secret girlfriend on The side whom becomes pregnant and this excites the fallen Angel and gives him hope good, And loves this new vessel and wants to keep this job a while.

Amongst the toys brought by agent to catch from the British man of letters is a magical egg shaped weapon with gnocchi and warding on it used in cases of exorcisms. As he explains they’re more exact then exorcisms and get the invading Spirit to exit the vessel immediately. And it is this weapon along with Rowena’s magic that they attempt to use to get Lucifer out of the POTUS and back into the cage.

They use the president’s girlfriend as allure to get him to come to a cheesy motel in the middle of nowhere. While the boys hide in an attaching room Kelly the president’s girlfriend, asks him to come to the hotel so that she can discuss not having his baby knowing that this would get him there. He arrives of course with several Secret Service man who come in and check out the room and say that it’s clear after which the POTUS then enters the room. After he is securely inside Sam, Dean, and Crowley all enter the room and also reveal that Rowena is in the other room as well. Sam says a spell holding out the magical egg weapon, and it glows with White Light and the president’s vessel starts to struggle. It’s at this point that Rowena throws in a spell to strengthen the egg and after a lot of struggling between the egg and her spells Lucifer is forced out of the vessel.

Cas sneaks Kelly out of the next room while the boys trying revive the POTUS. And of course as luck would have it Sam and Dean get picked up for attempted assassination of the President of the United States. They are placed in handcuffs and taken away by Secret Service who knows what will happen tour boys?? But as far as they knows the main thing is that Lucifer is backing the cage. But is he?

And one of Kelly’s baby is the spawn of Satan going to really be doing? She of AIDS casts at the diner and takes off in a cab to where we do not know. So now we have the question of Lucifer and his son being loose on the world. So stay tune to see what happens next….

Characters

• Sam Winchester
• Dean Winchester
• Castiel
• Crowley
• Lucifer
• Rowena
• Mr. Ketch
• President Jefferson Rooney
• Rick Sanchez
• Kelly Kline

Definitions

• Acting in Unison
• Alcohol
• Angel Radio
• Archangel
• Costumes & Disguises
• Hyperbolic Pulse Generator
• Impala
• Men of Letters
• Men of Letters Bunker
• Nephilim
• Sam & Dean's Arrests
• Spells
• Table of Death
• Witches

Music

• "Take Five" by Dave Brubeck

(playing from Mr. Ketch's car as he blows up the secret service SUV)

Quotes

Crowley: Lucifer's not content with slutting it from one random vessel to the next. He's moving on to blue chips. Celebrities, captains of industry. He just got a lot more dangerous.

Lucifer: Babies... That's what we are. Innocents all of us, struggling to walk upright with purpose and pride. And yet we need our Father... to be there when we fall. Today we lost a brother, tomorrow we will continue our work for the country. Amen.

Sam: Lucifer doesn't like being messed with. I guess when the archbishop's priests figured out he was possessed, they tried to keep it quiet, do an an exorcism. I mean not that it would have worked. Lucifer blew town, but not before he slaughtered the entire staff. So, we were on the right trail. Where's it go now?
Dean: I don't know. Who won the Nobel Peace Prize? Why don't we start there?

Sam: Crowley, can we just get the damn news without the drama?
Crowley: Can I get you without the flannel? No. Still I endure.

Castiel: Something's happened. Something. It's angel radio, there's so many voices.

Dean: What are they saying?
Castiel: There's been a massive surge in celestial energy. A Nephilim has come into being. It's the offspring of an angel and human.
Dean: And that's big news?
Castiel: Yes. But the power that produced this is immense. Much more powerful than a typical angel.
Sam: Lucifer.

Dean: Lucifer...? I didn't know he was dating.

Mr. Ketch: You. Angel. Wipe their memories. U.S. government plates. Elite dog catcher level. Someone special wants you. Whose hydrant have you lads been tinkling on?

Dean: I'm sorry, who the hell are you?

Mr. Ketch: Oh, where are my manners? Arthur Ketch, British Men of Letters.

Mr. Ketch: You. Halo. Do you sense I'm lying?

Castiel: My name is Castiel. And no. But the truth can be situational.

Mr. Ketch: Oh, I do enjoy an angel. But I understand your hesitation, you haven't exactly seen us at our best. Lady Bevell is a bit... excitable.

Kelly: Who are you people?

Rowena: Well, dear. I'm a witch, he's an angel.
Crowley: And I'm the King of Hell.
Kelly: Oh God.

Castiel: No, actually he left.

Lucifer: This isn't over, Sam!
Sam: Go to Hell!

Dean: We got him. We got Lucifer.

Trivia & References

"LOTUS" is a play on the acronym POTUS (President of the United States), in this case standing for "Lucifer of the United States."

As Lucifer is walking down the hall in the body of the archbishop, crosses begin turning upside down. An upside down cross, or Cross of St. Peter is actually a Christian symbol, only in the last few decades has it been tied to anti-Christian imagery.

Castiel / Crowley: Agents.

Dean: Okay, this has got to stop. Gimme that.
Crowley: Armani!

Armani is an Italian luxury fashion brand known for their suits, shoes, watches, and other accessories.

Castiel: I agree with Agent Zappa.

Reference to musician Frank Zappa.

Dean: We'll look around, and if it is Lucifer we'll call the rest of the Scooby Gang.

Scooby Gang was the name of the team consisting of Buffy Summers' friends and colleagues on the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. This, in turn, was a reference to the meddling kids (and their dog) who solved crimes together on the animated series Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! and its associated spin-offs, reboots, and movies.

Castiel: Well, at lest he'll be outside of the mansion.

Sam: Yeah, guarded like the Hope Diamond.

The Hope Diamond is one of the most well-known jewels in the world, weighing at 45.52 carats.

Sam: Do we have a plan?

Dean: Impeach LOTUS and find Rosemary's baby.

Impeachment is the process by which Congress removes the president from office, as outlined in the U.S. Constitution.

Rosemary's Baby is a 1968 horror movie about a woman who gives birth to the son of Satan.

Sam: I hung up.

Mr. Ketch: Yes you did. Which made Mr. Davies think you're in trouble. Which you were. So he rings me. Bing-bang-boom, meet Bob, he's your uncle. Oh, and um, you're welcome.

"Bob's your uncle" is an English expression for "everything will be fine."

Kelly: Jeff's been under a lot of stress.

Crowley: Wrong. He's the Devil. Horns, pitchforks, the whole nine.

The whole nine yards is an American colloquial phrase denoting something being done "all the way."

Lucifer: I grant a full pardon... hmm... to Charles Manson.

Charles Manson is an American criminal and was the leader of the Manson Family, most famous for orchestrating the brutal murder of actress Sharon Tate and her friends in 1969.

Minutiae

The episode aired exactly one month after the U.S. presidential election.

Sides, Scripts & Transcripts

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