12.09 First Blood
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| Title | First Blood |
| Episode # | Season 12, Episode 9 |
| First aired | January 26, 2017 |
| Directed by | Robert Singer |
| Written by | Andrew Dabb |
| On IMDB | First Blood |
| Outline | After being captured by the Secret Service, Sam and Dean must figure out away to escape. Meanwhile, Mary and Castiel seek help in trying find Sam and Dean. |
| Monster | N/A |
| Timeline | Immediately following & six weeks after 12.08 LOTUS |
| Location(s) | Indianapolis, Indiana Lawrence, Kansas Lebanon, Kansas Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado (Site 94) |
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Synopsis
Throughout this episode, Mick Davies is shown typing out the narration on a typewriter, and attempting to get hunters to comply with him and join his team, to which the general answer is no. However, at the very end,Mary Winchester seems interested.
In the process of expelling Lucifer from the President of the United States in the last episode, LOTUS,[1], Sam and Dean are taken prisoner by the government for attempted assassination of the President of the U.S. At the beginning of the episode, Sam and Dean are shown being ushered into separate cells. The cells are very small and entirely closed off, with only a bed, a toilet, and a mirror.
Two government officials are shown discussing Sam and Dean's past encounters with the government, and how they were have supposed to have died in Slash Fiction.[2] One of the officials tells Sam and Dean about how the best tactic of torture is nothing-- just letting them sit alone with no human contact.
Meanwhile, Mary Winchester and Castiel are worried sick, because they have no clue where the boys are. Castiel goes through feelings of inadequacy after attempting and failing a vampire hunt. (Mary ends up completing his job).
After a while, we see a guard giving Dean his food, and Dean not accepting it. This worries the guard, and he decides to check on Dean. He discovers him dead. The government officials then check Sam as well, who is also found dead. They are transported to the morgue inside that building. After a little while, Dean wakes up, and we see Sam already awake behind him. It is not clear at this point how this came to be.
Sam and Dean then sneak out of the building, and use the coroner's phone to call Mary and Cass. They are found missing soon after. Troops are sent into the woods to find them, and they eventually end up at a cabin. They cautiously approach it, and Sam and Dean attack each troop member one by one. They then exit the woods, and Mary and Cass are waiting for them. Sam and Dean are very grateful to see them, but wonder how they found them. It is disclosed to the brothers that they had help from the British chapter of the Men of Letters.
Sam, Dean, Mary, and Castiel leave in a car, while the British Men of Letters kill all the soldiers that Sam and Dean left alive.
As Mary and Cass wonder how Sam and Dean got out, the clock strikes midnight. Billie the reaper arrives. She informs the audience of how Dean called on her to make a deal-- he and Sam got to die and come back to life one more time if Billie got the soul of one of the Winchesters for good.
Mary and Cass are witness to them, and Mary then offers to sacrifice herself so that both her boys could keep on living. She argued that she was a Winchester too, to which Billie said was good enough for her. Mary puts a gun to her head, and is about to pull the trigger when Billie gets stabbed from behind by Castiel, with his angel blade. He said that the world needed the Winchesters, and he wouldn't let one die.
Characters
Definitions
Music
- "If You Want Blood (You Got It)" by AC/DC
- (plays during "The Road So Far" recap of events)
- "Ghost Town" by The Specials
- (playing on the radio as Mick Davies types his report to the Men of Letters)
- "En el Cielo No Hay Cerveza" by Flaco Jimenez
- (playing in the bar as Cas is speaking with Crowley)
Quotes
Castiel: No, I. Dean told me to go, the woman-
Mary: The one you lost!?
Castiel: I didn't... I thought she-
Castiel: Six weeks, two days and ten hours.
Mary: No.
Castiel: The women with their throats ripped out and blood drained.
Mary: Vampire.
Castiel: I don't know. We may want back up. Crowley, Rowena.
Castiel: Well, that is accurate.
Dean: Now you can take that and do what you want with it, but if you come after us. You know what will happen.
Camp: Who are you?
Dean: We were already dead. Being locked in that cell, with nothing. I've been to Hell, this was worse.
Castiel: What had to be done. You know this world? This sad, doomed little world. It needs you. It needs every last Winchester it can get, and I won't let you die. I won't let any of you die. And I won't let you sacrifice yourselves, you mean too much to me. To everything. Yeah, you made a deal. A stupid deal, and I broke it. You're welcome.
Mary: I'm listening.
Trivia & References
Crowley: I do. But whatever's happened to Moose and Squirrel, apparently it's above their pay grade.
Crowley: No. Do you know how many all-powerful beings have tried to kill them?
Castiel: Roughly. Yes.
Crowley: As do I. I was bloody one of them. And Sam and Dean, they're like herpes. Just when you think they're gone 'Hello' the boys are back leaving a trail of bodies in their wake. So wherever they are, whoever has Sam and Dean. In the immortal words of Lawrence Tureaud, 'I pity the fool.'
- Lawrence Tureaud is the birth name of Mr. T, who is famous for his catch phrase, "I pity the fool."
- The first sentence is a reference to the movie Cool Hand Luke. The second sentence is a reference to this quote from Watchmen by the vigilante Rorschach after being sent to prison:
- "I'm not locked in here with you, you're locked in here with me!"
Minutiae
- Reference to 7.06 Slash Fiction, where Sam and Dean's Leviathan doppelgängers were used to fake their deaths.
