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
Castiel places a call to Mary, telling her he needs to meet her at the Men of Letters Bunker. Meanwhile, Rick Sanchez briefs anti-terrorism agent Camp on Sam and Dean Winchester history and their attempted assassination of President Jefferson Rooney. Telling Camp, they are keeping the arrest quiet, only the agents who made the arrest and the president know about the Winchesters. Sanchez suggests they simply take Sam and Dean out back and shoot them, telling him they deserve it given their rap sheet. However, Camp questions if the Winchesters are alone or working with some other terrorist organization. Camp pays a visit to Dean, who sits silently in his cell as Camp talks. Camp asks Dean why they went after the president, when he gets no answer he tells Dean he will talk to him, assuring him he won't be using torture, believing it doesn't actually. Instead he tells Dean he and Sam will be locked away, alone. Telling him the extreme isolation will eventually cause him to crack and tell him everything, before he leaves the cell.
Mick Davies sits at a desk with a typewriter, and begins reporting to the Men of Letters his attempts to get hunters to join with Men of Letters. Mick meets with a hunter named Wally, telling him of a world without monsters or demon or any supernatural deaths, offering up any and all resources that the Men of Letters have at their disposal, under the agreement that Wally and other hunters would answer to the British Men of Letters, which the general answer is no. Relaying in his report that "American hunters can be... difficult."
At the Bunker Mary Winchester blows up at Castiel for leaving Sam and Dean behind, as Castiel tries explain what happened, Mary tells him she doesn't want to hear any excuses. Eventually calming down, and questioning, why, if they needed help Sam and Dean didn't come to her. At the government facility, time passes for Dean and Sam in solitary, while Castiel meets with Crowley seeking his aid in finding Sam and Dean. Crowley glibbly tells Castiel he can't help him, as while he does have spies in the government, where Dean and Sam were taken is above their pay grade. Finally telling Castiel he isn't worried about the Winchesters since them always come back leaving a trail of bodies behind, telling Castiel he pities whoever has them.
Back at the Bunker, Mary is in kitchen looking through John's Journal when she hears one of Dean's cell phones ringing in his room. Mary answers, thinking it could be Dean, but finds it is Alicia Banes, who is seeking Dean and Sam's help in dealing with a werewolf pack, looking a photo of herself and a young Dean, Mary asks Alicia where she is. Sometime later, Mary meets with Castiel at a bar, together they lament not being able to find Sam and Dean, but Mary assures Castiel they will find them in time, until they do, they have to do their best. Castiel questions if they are, telling Mary about vampire murders in Missouri that he attempted to investigate, telling her he never found the monster, remarking how three more women died before he left. When Mary suggests they work together, he simply tells her he would only get in her way.
At Site 94, Sam and Dean are being fed. When the guard notices Dean not responding to the food, and sees him on the floor, he opens the cell to find that he is dead. At the facilities morgue, Sanchez blames Camp for Sam and Dean's death, and how they can not be punished any longer. Soon, Sam and Dean rise from the dead. As the coroner enters the morgue, Sam and Dean surprise him and question where they are. The coroner tells them he doesn't know, as he is taken to the facility while blindfolded, telling them the facility does not exist. Sam and Dean then sneak out of the building, and use the coroner's phone to call Castiel. A shocked Castiel questions what happened with them, while Sam pinpoints that they are located in Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado, and formulate a plan to meet up. Sam and Dean are found missing soon after. Troops are sent into the woods to find them.
Castiel is soon picked up by Mary, and cautions to her they may need backup, suggesting Crowely and Rowena. Which Mary scoffs at. Castiel takes Mary to meet with Mick Davies and Mr. Ketch.
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.
