13.11 Breakdown

Title	Breakdown
Episode #	Season 13, Episode 11
First aired	January 25, 2018
Directed by	Amyn Kaderali
Written by	Davy Perez
On IMDB	Breakdown
Outline
Monster
Timeline	A few weeks after 13.10 Wayward Sisters
Location(s)	Oshkosh, Nebraska Lebanon, Kansas
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Characters

• Sam Winchester
• Dean Winchester
• Sheriff Donna Hanscum
• Officer Doug Stover
• Wendy Hanscum
• Agent Terrance Clegg
• Marlon
• The Butterfly

Definitions

• Aliases
• Costumes & Disguises
• Dead Man's Blood
• Donna's Truck
• Hugs
• Hunters
• Impala
• Law Enforcement Officers
• Men of Letters Bunker
• Monsters
• Rugaru
• Sam's Room
• Unconscious
• Vampires
• Vampire Cure
• Werewolves

Music

• "Look in My Eyes" by The Chantels

(playing as a man is being harvested)

• "Too Good to Be True" by Lon Rogers & the Soul Blenders

(plays as Wendy is recorded screaming for help)

• "Big Flame (Is Gonna Break My Heart In Two)" by Doris Wilson

(playing as Wendy is being prepared for harvesting)

Quotes

Donna: Sorry for calling you guys, but Jody's got her hands full with the girls.
Dean: Hey, never apologize for calling us.

Dean: You got up at 10am this morning. 10 am. You Mr. Rise and Freakin' Shine. And then you turn down pancakes.

Sam: I wasn't hungry.

Dean: They're pancakes. Look, I know your in a dark place right now, okay. I mean we lost Jack and Mom is... I think about him too, all the time. But you can't let it eat you up. Now look when I was broken up, you were there for me. Well I'm here for you now. And I'm telling ya, the only way out of this through. Now when everything goes to hell, what do we do? We put out heads down and the work. We'll find Jack, we'll save Mom. We will. But right now Donna needs our help.

Sam: Okay, look. Obviously I'm here for Donna, all right. I wanna help.
Dean: I know you do. So let's find this son of a bitch.

Trivia & References

"Breakdown" may be a reference to the 1997 film of the same name starring Kurt Russell, bout a husband who's wife is abducted by truckers.

Dean: Breaker breaker 1-9 this is 67 Midnight Rider, looking for the 411 on my Alice in Wonderland.

Felix: Breaker breaker Midnight Rider, Felix the Cat here.

Doug: It mean's she's barley talking to me, and we always talk. About the Viks. About Real Houswives. About everything. It's a tough time, I know. But I think she's hiding something from me.

Donna: You sure? I mean the Bible doesn't have much good to say about them. 'But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected God’s purpose for themselves, not having been baptized by John.'

Minutiae

The episode was originally called "The Midnight Train", Andrew Dabb described it as follows: “We’ve got an episode coming up after our midseason break, which we’re essentially titling ‘Snakes on a Train,‘” Dabb shares. “It’s our version of a train heist with vampires.” The concept had to be scrapped due to filming constraints.

Sides, Scripts & Transcripts

• 13.11 Breakdown (transcript)

Promotion

• Promo Photos
• Promo
• Sneak Peek
• Inside Supernatural: Breakdown
• Spoiler Room: Breakdown from EW
• Interview with Brianna Buckmasterr with TVLine