15.06 Golden Time
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| Title | Golden Time |
| Episode # | Season 15, Episode 6 |
| First aired | November 21, 2019 |
| Directed by | John F. Showalter |
| Written by | Meredith Glynn |
| On IMDB | Golden Time |
| Outline | Sam tries to help the soul of an old friend find peace, while Castiel gets drawn into investigate a series of unnatural deaths. Dean has an existential crisis. |
| Monster | Witches Ghost Djinn |
| Timeline | |
| Location(s) | Lebanon, Kansas Jenny Lake County, Wyoming |
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Synopsis
Characters
Definitions
- Alcohol
- Aliases
- Angel Blade
- Castiel's Cars
- Curse
- Dead Guy Robe
- Djinn
- Ghosts
- Healing
- Hex Bag
- Hugs
- Hunters
- Impala
- Kick it in the ass!
- Law Enforcement Officers
- Lebanon, Kansas
- Men of Letters Bunker
- Nicknames
- Resurrection
- Rowena's Apartment
- Sam's Hair
- Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
- Scrying
- Soul Catcher
- Specialty Bullets
- Spells
- Table of Death
- Witches
- Witch-Killing Bullets
Music
- "So Quiet" by Cobra Ramone
- (playing as Jacinda ransacks Rowena's flat)
Quotes
Sam: No. I haven't had a vision since Colorado. I think maybe they stopped.
Dean: Oh, I doubt it. Not until Chuck gets his end game, you know? The Winchester Bowl. Cain and Abel 2.0. This is God we're talking about. G-O-D. Wouldn't be too worried about finding him. He'll find us.
Dean: Oh, I doubt it. Not until Chuck gets his end game, you know? The Winchester Bowl. Cain and Abel 2.0. This is God we're talking about. G-O-D. Wouldn't be too worried about finding him. He'll find us.
Dean: So you were in Hell? You didn't make a deal. You were innocent. You've been down there this whole time?
Eileen: The hellhound that killed me kinda dragged me there.
Eileen: The hellhound that killed me kinda dragged me there.
Eileen: Been trying to get you guys to see me for a while now. This whole ghost thing doesn't really come with a handbook. Look, I don't know how this all works, but I know how it ends. We go crazy. We hurt people. I can't stay here, and I won't go back down there. So I thought... You guys know angels. Maybe if you put in a good word, you know, up there...
Sam: I've been there, too, -- uh, Hell. A long time ago. You try and forget, but it gets inside you. Talking helps.
Eileen: You miss her.
Sam: I killed her. Her idea. She, uh, sacrificed herself to save us. To -- to save the world. You ever feel you're the punchline to some cosmic joke?
Sam: I killed her. Her idea. She, uh, sacrificed herself to save us. To -- to save the world. You ever feel you're the punchline to some cosmic joke?
Sam: Listen, I get it. All right? I mean, I -- I have an older brother. When I was 10, he -- he put superglue in my toothpaste.
Castiel: My colleagues and I, we, uh -- I guess you could say we had a falling out with management. Well, and each other.
Castiel: It's always you -- you selfish little men in positions of authority. You take what you want, you take who you want. And you believe that your power will protect you. Well, it won't protect you from me.
Sam: You know what? I've been thinking about something you said, about how we don't make the rules, and you're right. We don't. We never have. But that doesn't mean we can just give up.
Sam: We have moves to make here, Dean. We do. I mean, do you think Chuck wanted me to shoot him? Of course not.
Dean: You sure about that? Maybe that was part of the plan, you know? That's the thing man. I don't know what's God and what isn't, and it's driving me crazy.
Trivia & References
"Golden Time" is a reference to the time period following a traumatic injury, also known as the golden hour, where treatment has the highest chance of preventing death.
Dean: You know they still put, um, jokes on the backs of these things. Listen to this one -- What's round and bad-tempered? "A vicious circle."
Sam: Wait a second. So I've been looking for signs of -- of God or -- or Lilith and you've been in your room eating cereal?
Dean: And marathoning "Scooby-Doo."
Sam: You know what, Dean, ever since God got back, you've been acting like there's nothing we can do, like nothing matters, but we can do this. Man, this matters.
Dean: And that's why you're gonna kick it in the ass.
- Kick it in the ass! was the catchphrase of Supernatural Producer and Director Kim Manners.
Castiel uses the alias Clarence again while he was on vacation, a reference to the angel Clarence from It's a Wonderful Life. Castiel previously used this after being turned human in 9.03 I'm No Angel. In addition, it's the name Meg used to call him.
As an FBI agent, Castiel goes by the name "Agent Worley." Clarence Worley is the name of Christian Slater's character in True Romance.
As an FBI agent, Castiel goes by the name "Agent Worley." Clarence Worley is the name of Christian Slater's character in True Romance.
Rowena lived in the "Aradia Apartments". The Goddess Aradia is a moon goddess worshiped by witches in Tuscany.
Sam: I recognize that. It's from the "ordo maleficarum."
There is a removalist van, with the slogan "Keep 'er movin'" outside Rowena's place. This is a reference to Charlie Berens and the comedy video series Manitowoc Minute, which uses the tagline is "Keep 'er movin'." Production Designer Jerry Wanek is a fan of the show, and is also from Manitowoc, Wisconsin.
Melly: Please. Agent Worley, you have to let me help. I told Caleb to get off Fortnite to get some fresh air.
- Fortnite is a hugely popular online multiplayer game by Epic Games which was released in 2017.
Emily: Steve was a good bunny, but she needed his bones for a spell.
- Steve is a shoutout to writer Steve Yockey who helped writer Meredith Glyn come up with the "fucked up things" Emily's sister did to her.
Minutiae
Keegan Conner Tracy, who played Witch Mother, previously played Karen Giles in 2.07 The Usual Suspects and Sera Siege in 4.18 The Monster at the End of This Book.
Jennifer Spence, who played Melly Krakowski, previously played Jean Holliday in 7.14 Plucky Pennywhistle's Magical Menagerie.
Art Kitching, who played Sheriff Alden Roy, previously played Serge Ladouceur in 6.15 The French Mistake.
In the script it was made clear that Eileen couldn't manifest in the Bunker initially due to the warding. After Sam saw her while out running, he and Dean powered down the warding to let her in.
Eileen Leahy is revealed to have been dragged to Hell by the hellhound that killed her in 12.21 There's Something About Mary.
Dean tells Eileen that she can't go to Heaven because she has been in Hell. Belphegor told Dean and Sam in 15.02 Raising Hell that souls that had been to Hell could not get into Heaven. When Sam and Dean pointed out that John Winchester and Bobby Singer had been in Hell and then went to Heaven, Belpehgor concluded that it was because God had intervened due to liking the Winchesters back then.
Sam reveals that the Hell ghosts captured by the soul catcher in Harlan are still imprisoned inside the crystal.
The Bunker is shown to have a phone setup similar to Bobby Singer's and Garth's for maintaining the covers of hunters with authorities.
The Witch Mother makes it clear that the resurrection spell can only be used once, telling Sam that once Death finds a loop hole "she closes it." How the Witch Mother was aware that Death was female is not known, as Rowena was surprised to learn this fact in 13.19 Funeralia.
