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|location= [[Singer Salvage Yard]], Sioux Falls, South Dakota<br>Portland, Oregon<br>San Francisco, California | |location= [[Singer Salvage Yard]], Sioux Falls, South Dakota<br>Portland, Oregon<br>San Francisco, California | ||
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Revision as of 16:39, 6 July 2014
Title | Like a Virgin |
Episode # | Season 6, Episode 12 |
First aired | February 2, 2011 |
Directed by | Philip Sgriccia |
Written by | Adam Glass |
On IMDB | Like a Virgin |
Outline | While Sam tries to find out what has been happening for the 18 months he doesn't remember, he and Dean investigate the abduction of young girls. |
Monster | Dragons |
Timeline | Late 2010 or Early 2011 (speculation) Ten days after the events of 6.11 Appointment in Samarra |
Location(s) | Singer Salvage Yard, Sioux Falls, South Dakota Portland, Oregon San Francisco, California |
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Contents
Synopsis
Although Sam has had his soul restored by Death, he remains unconscious. Castiel tells Dean he is unsure if Sam will recover because his soul is terribly damaged; however, Sam wakes up after Castiel leaves. Sam has no memories of the past year and a half, and Dean is reluctant to reveal anything because he is worried that any memories may destroy the wall Death created in Sam's mind to block out the experience of being in Lucifer's Cage. Bobby finds it hard to act as if nothing has happened, especially as only ten days ago Sam tried to kill him.
Keen to get back to hunting, Sam and Dean pursue a case in Portland, Oregon. A plane crashed and one of its occupants, Penny Dessertine, has disappeared. Her boyfriend Stan, the pilot of the small plane, was found 17 miles away and burned to a crisp. On the drive to Portland, Sam asks Dean why he didn't leave hunting, since he promised Sam that he would try to live a normal life after he was gone. Dean reluctantly shares that he lived with Lisa and Ben for a year, but just says that "it didn't work out." In Portland, Dean is obviously pleased to be working alongside Sam, who is back to being sensitive and empathetic with people, unlike "RoboSam." As they investigate the young women who have gone missing, Dean works out that they were all virgins. They then interview a woman who escaped from an attempted kidnapping, and she describes her attacker as a large bat. She shows Sam and Dean the deep claw marks on her back and tells them that she passed out. When she woke up, she was alone and her ring was gone. The creature apparently rejected her because she wasn't a virgin, but stole her gold promise ring.
Incredibly, all of their research points to dragons being involved. Bobby directs Dean to Dr. Visyak, an expert on medieval lore. She tells Dean that the only thing that can kill a dragon is a blade forged with dragons blood, and that she has one, the Sword of Bruncvik. The sword is bound to a stone, and Dr. Visyak tells Dean that, according to the lore, only a knight ready to slay a dragon can pull the sword from the stone. Dean, cocky and sure, climbs up and tries to extract the sword, but is unsuccessful. He eventually resorts to plastic explosives, which, though they free the sword from the stone, break the sword in half!
Meanwhile, Sam speaks to Bobby, and they deduce that the dragons may be living in sewers rather than caves. Sam can tell Bobby is behaving somewhat strangely with him, but doesn't know why. He calls on Castiel and tricks him into revealing that Sam has been out of Hell and without his soul for the last year and a half.
When Dean returns with the broken sword, he and Sam track down the dragon's lair in a sewer, finding first a pile of gold and then an ancient manuscript. Before they have a chance to examine the manuscript, they hear cries for help. They follow the voices until they find the missing women, who are being kept together in a cage. Before they can free them, two dragons appear. In the ensuing fight, Sam is able to kill one with the sword, but the other escapes.
Back at Bobby's, Sam reveals that he knows about the last year and a half, and he apologizes to Dean for the things he did without his soul. He also thanks Dean for trying to protect him, but he wants to learn about all the things he did without his soul so that he can try to make up for whatever wrongs he may have committed. Dean wants Sam to leave well enough alone because he doesn't want him to risk remembering his time in hell, but Sam refuses. Meanwhile, Bobby examines the manuscript that they stole from the dragon's lair. He later tells Dean and Sam that the manuscript is written in an ancient form of Latin and that its pages are made from human skin. As far as he can tell, it is a manual on how to access Purgatory and free "the mother of all things."
The escaped dragon meets up with another who has also captured a half dozen women. They take one of the women and use an incantation to open a door to Purgatory. They throw the woman in, and she rises from the fire, giving form to Mother.
Characters
Definitions
Music
- "Back in the Saddle" by Aerosmith
- (plays over "The Road So Far" montage)
- "A New Day Yesterday" by Jethro Tull
- (plays in the car as Sam and Dean drive to Portland)
Quotes
Dean: One part age, three parts liquor.
Sam: Wow, that sounded really creepy coming out of your mouth.
Dean: You got me. I prefer ladies with experience.
Dean: P. Diddy?
Sam: You know, it's comforting.
Dean: What's that?
Sam: I died for a year, came back, and you're still not funny.
Dean: Could you make a few calls?
Dean: Which says what? That they live in Middle Earth?
Sam: No. Caves.
Sam: Yeah, you, too. (Castiel goes for a hug, but Sam sits down) Um, look, I would hug you, but -
Sam: Right, but I have to set things right. Or what I can, anyway.
Dean: It wasn't you!
Trivia & References
- Singer Buddy Holly died in a plane crash in 1959.
- Lyle and Eric Menendez killed their parents in 1989, in a case that became famous.
- Cloverfield is a sci-fi/disaster movie about a giant monster that attacks New York City.
Dean: Well he does carry a lot of rage!
- Dean is referring of course to Batman. Starting with Frank Millers' comic Batman: Year One and continuing with The Dark Knight Returns, the character became much darker and angrier. It is this version that Christian Bale has portrayed in the current Batman movies directed by Christopher Nolan.
- Polyhedral dice - which can have 4, 6, 8, 12, or 20 sides - are used to play Dungeons and Dragons.
Bobby: To who, Hogwarts?
- The Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry is the boarding school of magic which is the main setting for most of the Harry Potter books. Dragons are part of the story in the first and fourth books.
Sam: What language is it?
Bobby: Da Vinci Code? Real obscure Latinate. Going to take my golden years to translate it all.
- The Da Vinci Code is a novel by Dan Brown, which is based around the idea that Leonardo Da Vinci left a series of ciphers describing the secret that Mary Magdalene was married to Jesus and gave birth to a child.
- Memento is a movie written and directed by Christopher Nolan about a man who suffers from anterograde amnesia and can't remember anything after the event that caused the amnesia. Sam on the other hand, has retrograde amnesia where he can't remember anything before the event that caused the amnesia [in his case, getting his soul back].
- The Never-Ending Story is a fantasy novel and film in which the protagonist is aided by a dragon.
Dean: Which says what, that they live in Middle Earth?
- Middle Earth is the setting for J.R.R. Tolkien's books, including The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Dragons appear in several of Tolkien's stories.
Dean: What is it?
Bobby: It's human skin.
- This may be a reference or homage to the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis, the fictional Sumerian grimoire featured in the Evil Dead movies. According to the film lore, the book's pages were inked with human blood, gathered from Hell's "Sea of Blood" and bound together in the flesh of sacrificed virgins.
- Latin: Ego coniuro vos, insolubiliter ad mei potenciam alligati, ad me sine prestolacione venire debeatis, aperiat huc sine mora debeas mater.
- English: I invoke you, that, indissolubly bound to my power, you should come to me without delay, you should appear here immediately, mother.
Minutiae
- "Your army was defeated and your kingdom burned to the ground - who are you going to tell your king did it? Me a man, or a sixty foot, fire-breathing serpent snake from Hell?"
Sides, Scripts & Transcripts
Promotion
- Source
- Interview with writer Adam Glass
- Episode title from SpoilerTV
- Character spoiler from the actor's Twitter
- Assorted scenery and props, tweeted by an actor: 1a 1b 1c 1d 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
- Set photos by Susan Gittins
- Set photos by gypsysunday
- Set descriptions 1 2 by @leticiaenglund
- Assorted including set photos, casting spoiler, and set reports at ontd_spnparty
- Assorted scenery, actors, and set people, tweeted by an actor: 1 2 3 4
- TV Guide scans spoiling 6.11, 6.12, and unspecified future eps (also, new ep title)
- Promo clip
- Still from the episode from publicist @heyjude012
- Spoiler from E! Online
- Episode stills from KSiteTV
- Synopsis from SpoilerTV
- Preview clip
- Spoilers from Zap2it
- Advance review from Winchester Family Business
- Advance review from BuddyTV
- Advance review from Zap2it
- Advance review from TV of the Absurd
- Advance review from the Examiner
- Spoilers near the end of Tuning In To Scifi #121
- Spoilers from E Online