13.17 The Thing
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
Characters
- Sam Winchester
- Dean Winchester
- Gabriel
- Arthur Ketch
- Asmodeus
- Diego Avila
- Ophelia
- Marco
- Sandy Porter
- Yokoth
- Glythur
Definitions
- 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
- Sabriel
- Sammy
- Seal of Solomon
- Son of a Bitch
- Spells
- Table of Death
- 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: 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.
Opheila: '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.
Opheila: 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 inter-dimensional 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: 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: 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.