15.12 Galaxy Brain
Title | Galaxy Brain |
Episode # | Season 15, Episode 12 |
First aired | March 16, 2020 |
Directed by | Richard Speight, Jr. |
Written by | Teleplay: Robert Berens Story: Meredith Glynn Robert Berens |
On IMDB | Galaxy Brain |
Outline | Dark Kaia's return leads Sam and Dean on a daring rescue mission, along with Jody, Castiel, and Jack. |
Monster | God |
Timeline | Four weeks after 15.09 The Trap |
Location(s) | Earth 2 Sioux Falls, South Dakota Lebanon, Kansas The Bad Place |
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Contents
Synopsis
Characters
- Sam Winchester
- Dean Winchester
- Castiel
- Jack Kline
- Chuck / God
- Sheriff Jody Mills
- Alex Jones
- Billie / Death
- Kaia Nieves
- Dark Kaia
- Merle
Definitions
- Alcohol
- Alternate Universe
- Angel Lore
- The Bad Place
- Canids
- Chuck's Endings
- The Colt
- The Cosmic Balance
- Crew Cameos
- Death's Library
- Death's Scythe
- Dreamwalking
- Hunters
- Good Talk
- John's Journal
- Men of Letters Bunker
- Monsters
- Nephilim
- Portal
- Prayer
- Reapers
- Season 15 Callbacks
- Soullessness
- Spells
- Table of Death
- Warding Sigils
Music
- "Pop Tart Heart" by Louden Swain
- (playing on the radio in the Earth 2 Radio Shed store)
- "Mary Mack" by Yadira Guevara-Prip
- (sung by Kaia Nieves in the Bad Place)
Quotes
Clerk: Sir, this a Radio Shed.
Chuck: Dean says I'm not going to get the ending I want. And I don't know. Maybe -- I -- I mean that shouldn't matter, right? I've gotten what I want from hundreds of Sams and Deans. I could get what I want from a hundred more. And I don't care. Those other toys they don't -- they don't... spark joy. But Sam and Dean... the real Sam and Dean... they do. They challenge me... They disappoint me... They surprise me. They're... the ones.
Clerk: How 'bout a stereo?
Dean: Which part -- Jack's deal with death? Or the part where she's got him eating angel hearts?
Castiel: What sounds good to me is Jack fulfilling his destiny.
Dean: Well, way I see it, that promise expired the minute you hurt our friend.
Merle: Yeah, I've been watching you screw up. One measly life on the line, and you're ready to risk it all? That's not just dumb. That's Winchester dumb.
Sam: Honestly? Feels like we're taking a big, probably stupid risk. Feels good. Disobeying cosmic entities, doing the, uh... dumb right thing? Feels like we're back.
Billie: When I was a reaper, I believed in the rules. But then you killed me. And when I became Death, I inherited Death's knowledge... and Death's library. And in Death's library, everyone has a book. Even God.
Dean: So God can die?
Billie: He didn't. The books write themselves. After God made the world, He couldn't stop. He wanted more. But He needed to create a perfect harmony -- a Swiss watch so that this world could keep tick-tick-ticking in His absence. He had no choice but to build Himself into the framework. It's His only weakness.
Dean: So Chuck doesn't know what's inside the book?
Billie: No one can read their books unless I let them.
Sam: What about Jack? He's in God's book?
Trivia & References
- Earth-Two, a parallel world in the DC Multiverse; the home of DC's Golden Age heroes.
Dean: What are the ingredients?
Jack: Basic stuff -- crystals, herbs, and the, uh... "liver of a mandragora."
- Stregheria is a form of witchcraft with roots in South Europe, as well as a connection to Italian Americans. Mandragora are a type of familiar demons that appear as dolls to act as counselors to sorcerers in times of need. Mandragora is also the latin name of a plant genus of the nightshade family whose members are also known as Mandrakes which have been used in various supernatural practices throughout history.
- The "snap" is the term used to refer to the actions of Thanos in snapping his fingers while wearing the Infinity Gauntlet and wiping out 50% of all living things. It is also a reference to Chuck's affinity for snapping his fingers when he wants someone to die or disappear.
Minutiae
- "At the beginning of the season, Jared and Jensen spoke with the writers about the final season. Most of the convo was about the ending, but when loose ends came up Jensen made a point of wanting part 2 of the Dark Kaia spear saga. I felt it was important because Dark Kaia’s promise to Dean in 14.09 was so loaded, and we never resolved it. (The plan was to do it in S14 but it didn’t happen.) That Jensen agreed it mattered gave me some steam to push for it."
- "I don’t think they knew that part. I think with Jensen it came down to tracking the fact that Dean had broken a promise onscreen, wanting that resolved— mixed with, I suspect, that he’d enjoyed shooting his last fight with DK."
- The "failed spin-off" comment is in reference to Wayward Sisters. Writer Robert Berens tweeted after the episode "The arc of S1 of Wayward Sisters was always going to be broadly Dark Kaia vs the WaywardSisters, culminating in Kaia’s rescue and Dark Kaia’s tragic defeat. I always wanted to make that death right. But with limited real estate on #Supernatural I had resigned myself to Kaia just being dead. It was only by embedding it in S15 stories (Chuck, Jack’s return to the Bunker, Billie’s plan) it felt like it was possible to tie that loose end in a relevant and appropriate way. In addition, Chuck destroys the Bad Place in the episode which had been created for the Wayward Sisters spin-off.
- Billie casually greeted everyone in the Bunker with a simple "Hello, boys." just as Crowley and Rowena greeted the Winchesters on occasion in previous seasons.