5.13 The Song Remains the Same
Title | The Song Remains The Same |
Episode # | Season 5, Episode 13 |
First aired | February 4, 2010 |
Directed by | Steve Boyum |
Written by | written by Sera Gamble and Nancy Weiner |
On IMDB | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1541419/ |
Outline | Anna goes back to 1978 to kill John and Mary Winchester, in order to stop Sam from ever being born. |
Monster | Angels |
Timeline | January, 2010 |
Location(s) | Lawrence, Kansas |
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Contents
Synopsis
Anna appears in Dean's dream and tells him she has been held prisoner and tortured in heaven after Castiel turned her in, but has temporarily escaped. Because of the Enochian Sigils on his ribs, she can't find Dean and urgently asks him to meet her. Castiel knows that you cannot escape Heaven's prison and goes to meet Anna in the brothers' place, knowing she must have been converted and released on a mission. Castiel, carrying the Angel Killing Sword with him, and Anna meet up and she tells him that Sam must die to save the world. After her efforts to convince Castiel of her plans are unsuccessful, Anna is sent back in time to 1978 to kill Mary and John Winchester and prevent Sam from ever being born. Castiel and the boys follow after her to protect Mary and John, but the trip has some side effects on Castiel. Anna manages to lure John away by impersonating his boss on the phone, but he is saved by Dean, Mary and Sam, who send Anna away using the Angel Banishing Sigil.
Sam and Dean explain the situation as best they can without revealing too much to their parents and take them up to Mary's parents' cabin. While preparing the house Dean and Sam tell Mary who they really are and that maybe their not being born could solve everything, so she should leave John. But Mary reveals that it's too late, that she's already pregnant with Dean.
They all end up going up against Anna and a young Uriel, whom Anna recruited, in a fight in which Sam is critically injured when Anna stabs him with a pipe she pulls out of a wall. John tries to help out as best as he can by allowing Michael, who has joined them, to possess him to save his wife. Michael kills Anna and sends the young Uriel back "home". He explains to Dean that the two brothers and their family line go all the way back to Cain and Abel and that what's coming must and will come. He says that Dean must agree to being his vessel when he time comes. As he leaves, Michael heals Sam and sends them back to the present and makes sure Mary and John will not remember any of the events of the day so that Dean and Sam Winchester are born.
Characters
- Sam Winchester
- Dean Winchester
- Young Mary Winchester
- Young John Winchester
- Castiel
- Anna
- Michael
- Young Uriel
Definitions
- Vessel
- Angel Killing Sword
- Angel Banishing Sigil
- Holy Oil
- Devil's trap
- Darling Sammy
- Team Free Will
- Cain and Abel
Music
"Cherry Pie" by Warrant plays during Dean’s dream of strippers.
"The Creeper" by Molly Hatchet plays when Anna lands in 1978
Quotes
Anna: ...This is what you dream about?
Dean: This is awkward.Castiel: I don't understand that reference.
Sam: This is what?
Trivia & References
Castiel: Who’s Glenn Close?
Dean: No-one... just this psycho bitch who likes to boil rabbits.
A DeLorean was the vehicle used as a time machine in the Back to the Future movies.
A reference to the show Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman starring Jane Seymour (who Jensen also appeared with in Smallville), in which she played a doctor in the Old West.
Sam: The truth?
Dean: What? That their sons are back from the future to save them from an angel that’s gone terminator? Come on, those movies haven’t even been made yet.
A reference to the idea of Six Degrees of Separation, that through connections with other people, everyone in the world is only six people away from each other. This grew into the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon which posited that all actors could be connected through actors they had appeared in movies with to Kevin Bacon.
In the final scene, Mary has bought a ceramic angel to put by Dean’s crib. In 2.13 Houses of the Holy, Dean tells Sam that Mary "used to tell me when she tucked me in that angels were watching over us. In fact, that was the last thing she ever said to me." Also in 2.20 What Is and What Should Never Be when Dean first sees Mary, he checks to see if she is real by asking her to tell him what she would always say when she tucked him in at night. She answers, "I told you angels were watching over you".
Minutiae
Sides, Scripts & Transcripts
Promotion
- Plot spoiler from kristin
- Episode titles 5.11-5.16 from spoiler tv
- Promo pics from 5.13
- Official synopsis from spnsite
- Comments from Sera Gamble on this episode (spoilers thru to 5.17 in interview)
- Vague plot spoiler from Kristin
- Promo clip
- Preview clip 1
- Preview clip 2
- Episode name change
- Space TV clip