12.12 Stuck in the Middle (With You)
Title | Stuck in the Middle (With You) |
Episode # | Season 12, Episode 12 |
First aired | February 16, 2017 |
Directed by | Richard Speight, Jr. |
Written by | Davy Perez |
On IMDB | Stuck in the Middle (With You) |
Outline | On a mission for the British Men of Letters, Mary calls on Sam, Dean and Castiel to help kill a demon. When the hunt quickly goes south, they realize they are dealing with a Prince of Hell. |
Monster | Ramiel |
Timeline | |
Location(s) | |
[[{{{prevep}}}|« Previous Episode]] | [[{{{nextep}}}|Next Episode »]] |
Contents
Synopsis
5:20 PM Dean, Sam, Castiel, Mary, and Wally are in a diner discussing a case of Wally’s involving demons. Dean tries unsuccessfully to flirt with the waitress, but she’s got eyes for Cass. While the boys argue about whether or not it’s a good thing that waitresses smell like food, (Sam can’t understand the appeal), Mary refocuses them.
Wally brought Mary in when he realized it was a possible demon, and Mary has all the intel. The waitress returns and continues flirting with Cass while Wally expresses nerves about the case. Mary reassures Wally that everything is going to be fine.
Flash forward to a scene of Mary carrying a wounded Cass into a barn. Flashback to a fight scene between Sam, Cass, and two demons outside a farmhouse. Sam knifes one demon, but Wally is killed by the other. As the demon bears down on Sam, Dean kills the second demon.
Title card The Wounded Angel cuts to Cass sitting in his truck listening to a radio sermon about the brevity of life as Sam, Dean, Mary, and Wally arrive at the diner. Title card Earlier has the boys and Cass meeting Wally and briefly discussing the whereabouts of Kelly Kline, the woman carrying Lucifer’s baby. Wally is in disbelief that they are seriously discussing Lucifer’s kid. Cut to a slow-motion scene of the five walking into the diner ala Reservoir Dogs.
Flash forward to the opening scene at 5:20 PM in the diner where they finalize the plan to kill the demon. Dean tells Wally not to die, and the scene ends with Mary reassuring Wally.
Flash forward to that evening with everyone at the demon’s house. Sam paints the devil’s trap, Dean loads his gun with devil’s trap bullets, and Cass catches Mary coming up from the basement. She claims she was using the bathroom. Wally calls from his position as look-out to tell Mary the demon is home early.
The demon approaches, and everyone takes position. When the demon enters, Dean shoots him twice, only to realize the bullets don’t work. The demon discovers the devil’s trap under the rug; Dean shoots him three more times. Still no affect. Sam stabs him with the demon blade, and the demon throws Sam. Mary and Cass enter the fight, and the demon cuts them off from Sam and Dean. As the demon stalks towards Mary, his eyes flash yellow. Cass throws himself on the demon and tells Mary to run. She takes off out the back, Cass is thrown out the window, and the boys are met in the front by Wally announcing the arrival of two more demons.
Sam and Wally fight the demons. Dean goes to assist Mary and Cass. The demon reaches for a spear that magically appears at his back and stabs Cass as he tries to crawl away. Wally is killed. Mary arrives in Wally’s Jeep and knocks the demon away before he can kill Cass. She loads Cass into the Jeep, then carries him into the barn. When she tells him to heal himself, Cass says he can’t. Sam calls Mary to get their location.
9:05 PM Sam and Dean reunite with Mary and Cass. Mary learns Wally didn’t survive, and she asks Sam if he saw the demon’s eyes. She tells him they were yellow, and Sam asks her what she got them into.
Title Card Mother Mary and title card 11 Hours Ago – 10:07 AM flashes back to Mary and Wally watching the demon’s house as Wally tries to understand why Mary needs him to pretend this is his case. Mary says it’s so her sons won’t ask too many questions. She thinks she’s protecting them. Wally knows Mary got her intel on this demon from the BMOL, and he’s suspicious of them and why Mary trusts them.
Flash forward to the diner scene again and another discussion of the BMOL where Sam and Dean make clear to Wally that they do not trust the BMOL.
8:23 PM Sam, Dean, Cass, Wally, and Mary make their approach to the demon’s house. Inside, Sam talks to Mary about being back in the life she never wanted. Mary responds coldly, “Since when is life about getting what you want?” Mary goes to the basement, cracks a safe using BMOL tech, steals something from the safe, and hides it in her clothes. Upstairs, she lies to Cass about being in the bathroom.
Flash forward to the fight as Sam and Dean try unsuccessfully to take down the demon; flash forward to Cass being stabbed, flash forward to 9:03 PM as Mary ends her call to Sam from the barn. Mary tends to Cass’s stab wound and sends a text to someone from BMOL about the yellow-eyed demon. Her contact blames it on bad intel and tells her to leave the area immediately. Sam and Dean enter the barn. As Dean tends to Cass, Mary tells Sam the demon had yellow eyes. Cass tells Dean he’s dying. As Dean, Mary, and Sam gather round Cass, Crowley arrives and tells them they’re all going to die.
Crowley tells the gang that the demon they’re fighting is Ramiel, and Prince of Hell. These were demons created by Lucifer to lead armies of demons in the battle against Heaven. Mary realizes Azazel was one such demon.
Title card Six Years Ago flashes back to Crowley’s first encounter with Ramiel. Title card Mr. Crowley introduces the King of the Crossroads to a seriously unimpressed Ramiel. With Lilith and Azazel’s death, and Lucifer’s return to the cage, Hell needs a new king. Crowley offers the throne to Ramiel. He’s bearing gifts of the Lance of Micheal and the same glowing item Mary stole from Ramiel’s basement. Ramiel refuses the Kingdom of Hell and gives it to Crowley. His only condition is that he and his kind are left in peace.
Flash forward to the barn as Crowley explains that Cass has been stabbed with the Lance of Michael. He will not recover from his injuries, nor do the boys have time to defeat Ramiel. Dean tells Crowley to help or leave, and he immediately disappears.
9:07 PM Ramiel approaches the barn as Sam lays a holy oil trap for him. They load up their strongest weapons as Cass lays dying. Outside, Crowley tries to talk Ramiel out of killing Sam, Dean, Mary, and Cass. Crowley explains that the Winchesters are powerful assets and allies for Hell, and he offers to make a new deal with Ramiel. Ramiel’s response sends Crowley flying through the barn wall. Ramiel strolls in after him.
Title care A Real Barnburner shows Dean threatening Crowley to help them save Cass or leave. Crowley disappears.
9:12 PM Cass tells Sam, Dean, and Mary that he’s not going to live, that he loves them all, and he wants them to leave. He will face Ramiel alone so they can save themselves. Not surprisingly, the Winchesters refuse and gear up to fight Ramiel. Sam pours a holy oil ring, and they load up their weapons. Crowley comes flying through the wall with Ramiel behind him.
Sam traps Ramiel in the circle of fire and the Winchesters try to get Ramiel to heal Cass. Unable or unwilling to do so, Ramiel expresses his complete lack of concern for the battles between heaven and hell, including his knowledge that Lucifer has fathered a child. Ramiel accuses them of stealing something from him. He says if they don’t return it, he will kill them all. Mary refuses to admit to her actions, and Ramiel produces the Lance of Michael, snuffs out the holy fire in an impressive blast of energy, and the fight begins. Just as he’s about to deliver a killing blow to Dean, Sam disarms him of the lance and uses it to stab Ramiel. He dies in a huge burst of black smoke.
Cass begins screaming and writhing in pain, a thick, black slime pouring from his mouth. The Winchesters gather round him. About that time, Crowley regains consciousness, sees Cass on the verge of death, grabs the Lance of Michael and snaps it in two. Cass is enveloped in angel-grace light and healed instantly. Crowley drops the pieces and vanishes.
Cass asks what Ramiel meant about them stealing something, but Dean waves it off. They take off for home.
Title card One Last Thing cuts to a meeting between Mary and Mr. Ketch. Mary’s furious about the BMOL’s lack of intel on Ramiel, Wally’s death, and Cass’s near death. She threatens to destroy the BMOL if this happens again. Mr Ketch admits their error and apologizes. He asks to see the item Mary stole from Ramiel, and she produces the Colt.
Crowley, in his throne in Hell, is on the phone demanding Ramiel’s house be searched for the gun. From a nearby cage, a man sings about a gun. He belittles Crowley for his relationship with Sam and Dean, asserting it’s only a matter of time before the Winchesters kill him. When Crowley tells him to shut up, Lucifer’s eyes (in Nick’s meat suit) glow red.
Characters
Definitions
- Alcohol
- Angel Blade
- Angel Lore
- Angelic Weapons
- The Colt
- Crowley's Lair
- Demonology
- Devil's Trap
- Enochian
- Enochian Brass Knuckles
- Hunters
- Holy Oil
- Impala
- Lance of Michael
- Men of Letters
- Princes of Hell
- Ruby's Knife
- Sammy
- Table of Death
Music
- "Lover Boy" (Instrumental) by Toodlum Barker & Emil Lomax (Extreme Music)
- (playing in the diner as the group formulates a plan)
- "Walk with a Winner" by Gene McDaniels
- (playing while the Winchesters kill the demon)
- "La donna è mobile" by Giuseppe Verdi
- (whistled by Ramiel as he enters his house and later the barn)
- "Not for Me" by Bobby Darin
- (playing as Mary and Wally stake out Ramiel)
- "Crop Won't Ever Come" by Robin Loxley & Jay Hawke (Extreme Music)
- (playing as Crowley meets with Ramiel six years ago)
- "Colt .45 Opening Theme" by Hal Hopper & by Douglas Heyes
- (sung by Lucifer in Crowley's prison cell)
Quotes
Sam: Classic demon sign.
Wally: I started to dig. A lot of virgins go missing around here, too.
Mary: Bathroom. I get nervous sometimes.
Sam: British Men of Letters?
Mary: Since when is life about getting what you want?
Castiel: Yeah, that sounds about right.
Crowley: It took you years to defeat Lucifer, and the power of God to stop the Darkness. Maybe if you had more time, you could manage Ramiel. But right now, in this barn... Hey, I was growing fond of the choir boy, too.
Ramiel: Allies. Is that what you call three humans with one good liver between them and a busted-up angel?
Mr. Ketch: Is that a threat?
Mary: It's a promise.Crowley: Shut your mouth, dog.
Trivia & References
- A line of dialogue used in the Tarantino films Reservoir Dogs and From Dusk till Dawn.
Crowley: The oldest of the old demons. The first generation after Lilith. Lucifer turned them himself, before the oceans drank Atlantis.
- Throughout the centuries occultists and theologians have written books detailing the hierarchy of Hell. Francis Barrett's book The Magus or Celestial Intelligencer lists Beelzebub, Pythius, Belial, Asmodeus, Satan, Merihem, Abaddon, Astaroth and Mammon as Princes of Hell. The Book of Abramelin and The Satanic Bible only list four demons as princes: Lucifer, Leviathan, Satan and Belial.
- Atlantis is an ancient fictional island, believed to have sunk into the Atlantic ocean.