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Revision as of 16:19, 11 December 2010
Title | Appointment in Samarra |
Episode # | Season 6, Episode 11 |
First aired | December 10, 2010 |
Directed by | Mike Rohl |
Written by | Sera Gamble and Robert Singer |
On IMDB | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1627708/ |
Outline | Dean does a deal with Death to get Sam's soul back, but Sam has other plans |
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Timeline | |
Location(s) | Sioux Falls, South Dakota |
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Contents
Synopsis
Dean goes to see an old acquaintance of his father, Dr Robert, who operates without a medical license in an apartment above a Chinese grocer. Dean pays the doctor and his assistant, Eva, to kill him and then bring him back to life. After the doctor claims a 75% success rate for the procedure, Dean gives him a letter addressed to Ben and asks him to mail it in case something goes wrong. Dr Robert takes the letter and then tells Dean he has 3 minutes of death before injecting him with something that kills him. Dean, once his soul has left his body, says a spell that summons the reaper Tessa, who is less than pleased to be pulled away from her job in the Sudan. He tells Tessa to contact her boss, Death, and let him know that Dean wants to talk to him. She refuses, but, to their mutual surprise, Death appears behind them and greets Dean.
Dean tries to make a deal with Death to get Sam and Adam Milligan's souls out of Lucifer's Cage. Dean tells Death that he'll return his ring to him in exchange for their souls, but Death reminds Dean that he was only supposed to be borrowing his ring in the first place, and anyways, he knows where Dean hid it. He doesn't completely reject Dean's request, however; he tells Dean that he has to make a choice between Sam or Adam's soul. Dean chooses Sam, and Death tells him that he can return Sam's soul to him, even putting Sam's time in hell behind a wall in his mind, but only if Dean wins their wager. Dean has to wear Death's ring and be Death for a day. If he takes the ring off, he loses the wager and Sam's soul stays in hell. Before Dean can learn why Death wants him to take his place for a day, Dr Robert revives him. Dean complains, but the doctor tells him that he was gone for 7 minutes instead of the planned on 3 minutes.
Characters
Definitions
Music
Quotes
Balthazar: Advice?
Sam: Angel advice.
Balthazar: Well, then go ask your boyfriend.
Dean: You mean like, "how did Betty White outlast me?"
Dean: Give me a break. I've spent my whole life fighting that crap. There's no such thing as destiny, just like there was no apocalypse -- just a bunch of stuck-up mooks who didn't want us human slaves asking questions. Well, I say the little girl lives.
Trivia & References
The speaker is Death.
There was a merchant in Bagdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and said, Master, just now when I was in the marketplace I was jostled by a woman in the crowd and when I turned I saw it was Death that jostled me. She looked at me and made a threatening gesture, now, lend me your horse, and I will ride away from this city and avoid my fate. I will go to Samarra and there Death will not find me. The merchant lent him his horse, and the servant mounted it, and he dug his spurs in its flanks and as fast as the horse could gallop he went. Then the merchant went down to the marketplace and he saw me standing in the crowd and he came to me and said, Why did you make a threatening gesture to my servant when you saw him this morning? That was not a threatening gesture, I said, it was only a start of surprise. I was astonished to see him in Bagdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.
Dean: Everything is dust in the wind.
Heart Attack Guy: That's it?
Bobby is referring to the iconic moment in the Kubrick movie of Stephen King's story The Shining where Jack Nicholson's character chops down a door with an axe, calling out "Here's Johnny!" in imitation of the opening of the talk show The Johnny Carson Show. Watch the scene
Tessa is referring to the ongoing war and genocide in Darfur. The Horseman War tells Sam he was in Darfur when he was called back to do his part to start the Apocalypse in 5.02 Good God Y'All.
Minutiae
Sides, Scripts & Transcripts
Promotion
- Character spoiler from the actor's Twitter
- Episode title from SpoilerTV
- Plot, character, and casting spoiler from Ausiello
- Character spoiler from another actor (or maybe not) (confirmed)
- Casting and character spoiler and behind-the-scenes pic from the actor's Twitter
- Character spoiler from canadagraphs
- Set photos from canadagraphs
- Set photos from salsa_babe
- Set photos from Susan Gittins
- Set photos from Nigel Horsley
- Set photos from On Location Tours Vancouver
- Guest star interview from canadagraphs
- Synopsis from SpoilerTV
- Spoilers from Zap2it
- Regarding the Supernatural TV Guide cover from CBS; contains brief clip from show
- TV Guide scans spoiling 6.11, 6.12, and unspecified future eps
- Promo stills
- Supernatural Promo clip
- Space TV promo
- Space TV webclip