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+ | In an underground chamber lit by candles, secret cult members dressed in velvet robes and chanting drag a woman towards a marble altar. They chain her to the altar and begin conjuring a spell using a vial of blood and adding grace to the ingredients in a chalice. She struggles to escape as the robed priest holds the illuminated chalice aloft and adds the final ingredient, the [[Seal of Solomon]]. The Seal, a purple crystal glows and a beam of bright white light shoots to the ceiling and opens a rift. As the rift opens, a huge tentacle descends and the girl on the altar screams. | ||
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+ | Sam has fallen asleep on the illuminated map table surrounded by books. Dean, grinning creeps up behind him and delicately sticks post it notes on his shirt. Sam suddenly wakes suspicious of Dean as he sits down innocently opposite Sam at the table. They speak about the Seal of Solomon and decide to go back to the archives much to continuing searching for information on its location. Sam reads that there is a Men of Letters chapter house in Rhode Island where the seal was last seen and they leave immediately. | ||
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+ | Sam and Dean reach the location of the Rhode Island chapter house in what appears to be the grounds of an abandoned building. They find a man hole cover with a sort of Aquarian star on it which they are able to open with their bunker key. They jump down in to the underground space and find themselves in a dimly lit corridor. They eventually find a door with a modified Aquarian star on it and enter the room. A collection of photos catches Dean's eye especially one separate from the others. He reads the details on the back, Sandy Porter '23. In the meantime Sam finds a file named Solomon, As they are searching they hear the desperate cries of a woman in the distance and run towards the sound. As they bash down the door together they fall in to an underground chamber and see a young woman tied to the black marble altar. Dean recognizes her as the girl in the photo - Sandy Porter. | ||
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+ | Meanwhile in hell Ketch has been summoned by Asmodeus but on his arrival is told to wait by the Demon guarding the Prince of Hell. He reluctantly sits and waits reading a child’s comic. Whilst the demon is distracted watching cat videos on his phone, Ketch creeps in to Asmodeus' chamber. He sees the Prince of Hell extracting Archangel grace from a dirty, cowering bloodstained Gabriel with a syringe. Asmodeus then injects the grace in to himself. | ||
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+ | Sam ,Dean and Sandy still shocked at being alive after almost 100 years leave the bunker and head off to a diner. As the waitress takes their order the chef recognizes Sandy and calls a woman dressed in robes who is looking, horrified at the empty altar. Sandy explains that she met a man who said he was a Man of Letters who invited her to a secret party. She seems extremely traumatized as she remembers the chanting, the beam of light and the black tentacles. Dean swears to protect her. Sandy upset by the memories excuses herself and gets up. In the kitchen, the chef drugs Sam and Dean’s food and arms himself with a long curved silver dagger. | ||
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+ | Ketch is finally allowed to enter Asmodeus chamber where he sees Gabriel cowering in his cell. Asmodeus tells Ketch that he owns him and expects him to do exactly as he is told. Ketch is furious. They speak about how Sam and Dean must be stopped from opening the rift but Ketch livid with Asmodeus wants to terminate their agreement. A violent and bloody fight ensues and finishes with ketch lying crumpled, battered and beaten face down on the floor in front of the Prince of Hell. A terrified Gabriel watches from his cell. | ||
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+ | In the diner, Sam and Dean are trying to understand how Sandy is still alive after so long and they begin forming a plan as their food arrives. As a boy goes to leave the diner, he sees robed figures in the car park. At the same time, Sam begins to feel the effect of the sedative in his food and passes out on the table. The lights go off as Sandy comes back. Four robed figures enter the diner and begin attacking customers. One fights with Dean but he over comes his assailant. Then another one attacks Dean and they crash in to the kitchen area. Dean yells for Sam and as Sam wakes and attempts to get up to save Dean, he is kidnapped. Sandy stabs Dean’s adversary from behind saving Dean’s life. | ||
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+ | Sam is on his knees, hands tied behind his back in the woods as the two robed figures explain that their great grandfather Diego Alviglia a man of letters, desperate to cleanse what he saw as a violent and corrupt world summoned a God from another dimension. We see Sandy on the altar, screaming as black tentacles envelop her body ,sucking the life out of her and leaving her with glowing purple eyes. Sam realizes that Sandy is the God. he returns to the diner, and realizes that the boy is dead and Dean is missing | ||
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+ | At the diner, one of the waitresses asks the boy to go outside and see if the robed figures have really disappeared. He gingerly opens the door and ventures outside terrified and armed only with a small knife. Sandy and her tentacle attack him. Hearing his screams Dean with gun in hand runs outside and is also attacked by Sandys tentacle | ||
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+ | After Asmodeus injects more grace into his veins, and then leaves, Ketch frees Gabriel, takes the grace Asmodeus has been collecting and they escape. | ||
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+ | Dean awakes chained to the marble altar. [[Yokoth]] explains what type of God she is. There is a lot of banter between them and she says because she likes Dean she will allow him to be [[Glythur]] host. She begins the spell to open the rift. She renders Dean mute as a brightl light shoots to the ceiling above him and a huge black 3 toed tentacle tries to grab Deans face, Sam arrives and shoots Sandy but without hurting her. Dean using a tiny penknife from his pocket is able to free himself. Sandy’s tentacles throw Sam to the ground as he rushes towards Dean. Diego’s great granddaughter using the seal of Solomon that Dean throws to her utters a spell and the tentacles lift Sandy high above the altar disappearing through the rift as it closes. Sam and Dean take the Seal of Solomon and leave. | ||
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+ | Back at the bunker and are shocked to find Ketch and Gabriel. Ketch places grace and a knife on the table, explaining that Asmodeus tortured Gabriel and is hunting him. Dean desperate to see Mary and Jack and much to Sam’s surprise agrees to let Ketch stay in the bunker. With all the ingredients now assembled, they perform the spell to open the rift. Sam insists on going with Dean but Dean refuses to let him, saying he wants to keep Sam safe. Dean and Ketch step through the rift together. | ||
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Revision as of 09:51, 26 April 2018
Title | The Thing |
Episode # | Season 13, Episode 17 |
First aired | April 5, 2018 |
Directed by | John F. Showalter |
Written by | Davy Perez |
On IMDB | The Thing |
Outline | Sam and Dean travel to Rhode Island in search of the Seal of Solomon. Meanwhile, Ketch comes to blows with Asmodeus, leading him to reconsider his allegiances. |
Monster | Yokoth Glythur Asmodeus |
Timeline | |
Location(s) | Lebanon, Kansas Portsmouth, Rhode Island Fall River, Massachusetts |
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Contents
Synopsis
In an underground chamber lit by candles, secret cult members dressed in velvet robes and chanting drag a woman towards a marble altar. They chain her to the altar and begin conjuring a spell using a vial of blood and adding grace to the ingredients in a chalice. She struggles to escape as the robed priest holds the illuminated chalice aloft and adds the final ingredient, the Seal of Solomon. The Seal, a purple crystal glows and a beam of bright white light shoots to the ceiling and opens a rift. As the rift opens, a huge tentacle descends and the girl on the altar screams.
Sam has fallen asleep on the illuminated map table surrounded by books. Dean, grinning creeps up behind him and delicately sticks post it notes on his shirt. Sam suddenly wakes suspicious of Dean as he sits down innocently opposite Sam at the table. They speak about the Seal of Solomon and decide to go back to the archives much to continuing searching for information on its location. Sam reads that there is a Men of Letters chapter house in Rhode Island where the seal was last seen and they leave immediately.
Sam and Dean reach the location of the Rhode Island chapter house in what appears to be the grounds of an abandoned building. They find a man hole cover with a sort of Aquarian star on it which they are able to open with their bunker key. They jump down in to the underground space and find themselves in a dimly lit corridor. They eventually find a door with a modified Aquarian star on it and enter the room. A collection of photos catches Dean's eye especially one separate from the others. He reads the details on the back, Sandy Porter '23. In the meantime Sam finds a file named Solomon, As they are searching they hear the desperate cries of a woman in the distance and run towards the sound. As they bash down the door together they fall in to an underground chamber and see a young woman tied to the black marble altar. Dean recognizes her as the girl in the photo - Sandy Porter.
Meanwhile in hell Ketch has been summoned by Asmodeus but on his arrival is told to wait by the Demon guarding the Prince of Hell. He reluctantly sits and waits reading a child’s comic. Whilst the demon is distracted watching cat videos on his phone, Ketch creeps in to Asmodeus' chamber. He sees the Prince of Hell extracting Archangel grace from a dirty, cowering bloodstained Gabriel with a syringe. Asmodeus then injects the grace in to himself.
Sam ,Dean and Sandy still shocked at being alive after almost 100 years leave the bunker and head off to a diner. As the waitress takes their order the chef recognizes Sandy and calls a woman dressed in robes who is looking, horrified at the empty altar. Sandy explains that she met a man who said he was a Man of Letters who invited her to a secret party. She seems extremely traumatized as she remembers the chanting, the beam of light and the black tentacles. Dean swears to protect her. Sandy upset by the memories excuses herself and gets up. In the kitchen, the chef drugs Sam and Dean’s food and arms himself with a long curved silver dagger.
Ketch is finally allowed to enter Asmodeus chamber where he sees Gabriel cowering in his cell. Asmodeus tells Ketch that he owns him and expects him to do exactly as he is told. Ketch is furious. They speak about how Sam and Dean must be stopped from opening the rift but Ketch livid with Asmodeus wants to terminate their agreement. A violent and bloody fight ensues and finishes with ketch lying crumpled, battered and beaten face down on the floor in front of the Prince of Hell. A terrified Gabriel watches from his cell.
In the diner, Sam and Dean are trying to understand how Sandy is still alive after so long and they begin forming a plan as their food arrives. As a boy goes to leave the diner, he sees robed figures in the car park. At the same time, Sam begins to feel the effect of the sedative in his food and passes out on the table. The lights go off as Sandy comes back. Four robed figures enter the diner and begin attacking customers. One fights with Dean but he over comes his assailant. Then another one attacks Dean and they crash in to the kitchen area. Dean yells for Sam and as Sam wakes and attempts to get up to save Dean, he is kidnapped. Sandy stabs Dean’s adversary from behind saving Dean’s life.
Sam is on his knees, hands tied behind his back in the woods as the two robed figures explain that their great grandfather Diego Alviglia a man of letters, desperate to cleanse what he saw as a violent and corrupt world summoned a God from another dimension. We see Sandy on the altar, screaming as black tentacles envelop her body ,sucking the life out of her and leaving her with glowing purple eyes. Sam realizes that Sandy is the God. he returns to the diner, and realizes that the boy is dead and Dean is missing
At the diner, one of the waitresses asks the boy to go outside and see if the robed figures have really disappeared. He gingerly opens the door and ventures outside terrified and armed only with a small knife. Sandy and her tentacle attack him. Hearing his screams Dean with gun in hand runs outside and is also attacked by Sandys tentacle
After Asmodeus injects more grace into his veins, and then leaves, Ketch frees Gabriel, takes the grace Asmodeus has been collecting and they escape.
Dean awakes chained to the marble altar. Yokoth explains what type of God she is. There is a lot of banter between them and she says because she likes Dean she will allow him to be Glythur host. She begins the spell to open the rift. She renders Dean mute as a brightl light shoots to the ceiling above him and a huge black 3 toed tentacle tries to grab Deans face, Sam arrives and shoots Sandy but without hurting her. Dean using a tiny penknife from his pocket is able to free himself. Sandy’s tentacles throw Sam to the ground as he rushes towards Dean. Diego’s great granddaughter using the seal of Solomon that Dean throws to her utters a spell and the tentacles lift Sandy high above the altar disappearing through the rift as it closes. Sam and Dean take the Seal of Solomon and leave.
Back at the bunker and are shocked to find Ketch and Gabriel. Ketch places grace and a knife on the table, explaining that Asmodeus tortured Gabriel and is hunting him. Dean desperate to see Mary and Jack and much to Sam’s surprise agrees to let Ketch stay in the bunker. With all the ingredients now assembled, they perform the spell to open the rift. Sam insists on going with Dean but Dean refuses to let him, saying he wants to keep Sam safe. Dean and Ketch step through the rift together.
Characters
- Sam Winchester
- Dean Winchester
- Gabriel
- Arthur Ketch
- Asmodeus
- Diego Avila
- Ophelia
- Marco
- Sandy Porter
- Yokoth
- Glythur
Definitions
- Acting in Unison
- Alternate Universe
- Archangel
- Archangel Blade
- Aquarian Star
- Deities
- Grace
- Grace Extractor
- Impala
- Key to the Bunker
- Men of Letters
- Men of Letters Bunker
- Needham Asylum
- Portal
- Pranks
- Princes of Hell
- Redemption
- Sabriel
- Sammy
- Seal of Solomon
- Son of a Bitch
- Spells
- Table of Death
- Telekinesis
- Teleportation
- Tree of Life
- Unconscious
Music
- "Better Luck Next Time" by Jay Ramsey
- (playing on the booth jukebox in the diner)
Quotes
Sam: This... this is a phone and a camera and... everything else.
Sam: Um... we don't really know yet.
Sandy: And... and how are you so calm about the fact that... I'm still alive?
Ketch: Ingredients? Such as?
Asmodeus: Well, if they got the spell from the Demon Tablet, which they did -- some blood, few other things, and a whole mess of archangel grace.
Ketch: Ah. And here you are, pumping it into your veins.
Dean: Yeah, and she's been down in a basement for 90 years. How does she look the way she does? And this doesn't sound like the Men of Letters either. I mean, they're boring. They wear tweed. They smoke from pipes. They -- they... they don't kidnap people.
Dean: Kale's a garnish.
Sam: It's healthy. I'm watching my cholesterol, like you should be.
Sam: How?
Marco: Summon a god from another dimension and start over.
Ophelia: 'Upon us we shall call forth new gods, Yokoth and her mate Glythur. And they will cleanse this world of hate and bring a new paradise.'
Marco: They summoned Yokoth, but... didn't exactly bring paradise.
Ophelia: It ate Diego and most everyone else. Then it tried to summon its mate before they bound it.
Ketch: At least I still have a soul.
Asmodeus: What you think that buys you, huh? Souls are messy, all conflict and confusion.
Ketch: Well, I know who I am.
Yokoth: Sandy's dead. She's been dead for a long time.
Dean: Okay. I'll play. What's your name?
Yokoth: Yokoth. Star of Madness. Ravager of Galaxies. Mother of Faceless Hordes.
Dean: Considering I was about three seconds away from being an interdimensional booty call, yeah, I'd say I'm all right.
Dean: I don't care if he dies. Hell, I'm kind of rootin' for it.
Sam: Still, you can't --
Dean: No, I have to. It takes something that's been over there before to open up the right door, so that's either you or me. So I'm gonna go. And if something happens to me, if -- if -- if time runs out, then I need you to come and save me and save Mom and save whoever else, okay?
Sam: It's safer if we go together.
Trivia & References
Dean: Yeah. Hit me!
- "Hit me!" along with how Dean said it are a reference to singer James Brown, who would often use the phrase in his songs.
- Kryptonite is a radioactive substance that causes weakness in Superman.
Sam: You're gonna stop saying that eventually, right?
Dean: I don't know. Probably not.
- "Jinkies" is a catchphrase of Velma Dinkley from the Scooby Gang, whom Dean, Sam, and Castiel encountered in 13.16 Scoobynatural.
- Stuffies are a New England dish of minced clam and breadcrumbs baked on a clam half shell.
- The phrase "Buffalo Billing chicks" refers to the character Buffalo Bill from the novel (and movie) Silence of the Lambs. He was a serial killer who was murdering and skinning women so he could literally "wear" them.
Marco: He went psycho. Jim Jones style.
- Jim Jones was a U.S. cult leader who led over 900 followers in a mass suicide and murder in 1978.
Dean: You mean you?
Yokoth: I mean us. It was supposed to be us. Glythur and I, together. But my love... They shut the rift before he could make it through.
Dean: Oh my God. That's tragic. It's like a Hallmark movie. But with tentacles.
- Hallmark movies are made-for-television movies that screen on the Hallmark Channel. They are marked by melodrama and sentimentality. David Haydn-Jones, who plays Ketch, has appeared in over a dozen Hallmark movies.
- "Gatekeeper-Keymaster" refers to the original Ghostbusters movie in which Dana (Sigourney Weaver) is possessed by the demigod Zuul, the "Gatekeeper" and her neighbor Louis (Rick Moranis) by Vinz Clortho who is the "Keymaster". A sexual ritual between them will open a gateway to allow The Destructor entry into that world. In Cthulhu Mythos, the entity Yog-Sothoth is sometimes referred to as "The Key and the Gate." In Lovecraft's short story "The Dunwich Horror", Yog-Sothoth impregnates a mortal woman, Lavinia Whateley.
Minutiae
- "Krispy's Diner" was shot on Stage 1, for the most part. Even the external establishing shot when the boys first arrive with Sandy. VFX added the roof and treeline and removed rigging. Later scenes outside were shot in Central Park."
Dean: If it could take us somewhere other than, uh, tentacle porn land -- not that there's anything wrong with that.
- Dean being somewhat intrigued by "tentacle porn land" is a reference to Dean's affinity for hentai porn, which often uses tentacles in sexual situations.