7.08 Season Seven, Time for a Wedding!

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Title Season Seven, Time for a Wedding!
Episode # Season 7, Episode 8
First aired November 11, 2011
Directed by Tim Andrew
Written by Andrew Dabb and Daniel Loflin
On IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1995123/
Outline Wedding bells are ringing when Sam runs into someone from his past. Meanwhile, Dean reluctantly teams up with a quirky, laid-back hunter named Garth.
Monster Crossroads Demon
Timeline
Location(s) Las Vegas, Nevada

Pike Creek, Delaware

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Synopsis

Dean and Sam travel to Las Vegas, Nevada, for their "sacred, annual pilgrimage," but Sam decides to spend the time camping alone in the desert. After four days apart, Dean is at a strip club when he gets a text message from Sam telling him to change into his suit and meet him at a nearby chapel. Dean arrives at the chapel expecting a case, but Sam pins a boutonniere on him and tells him that he's getting married. To Becky Rosen.

After the ceremony, Dean asks what happened, and Sam tells him that they met, dined and talked, and fell in love. Becky assures him that she's aware of Sam's track record with women and she's going into the marriage with open eyes. She also underwent all of Sam's supernatural tests to prove that she's not a monster or demon. Dean is still skeptical, but unable to stop Sam from leaving for Pike Creek, Delaware, with his new wife: Becky Rosen-Winchester. He calls Bobby and leaves him a message about the situation.

Becky and Sam arrive in Delaware, and Becky immediately goes to the site of her 10-year high school reunion so that she can register herself and her new husband for the event. As they leave the venue, Becky runs into her friend Guy, an event planner who's organizing the reunion. She introduces them, and Guy slips her a vial filled with purple liquid when Sam isn't looking. She thanks him, saying that everyone should have a Wiccan in their pocket, and they leave together just as Dean pulls up in his Dodge Challenger. Dean watches them go and then walks into the restaurant where the reunion will be held. At the bar, he sees a newspaper with an interesting headline: a man who recently won the lottery was killed in a freak accident.

Becky and Sam are at her apartment sharing a romantic dinner when Sam grabs his head in pain. Becky asks him what's wrong, and he looks at her in confusion and asks her what he's doing there. She rushes over and gives him a kiss, then dumps the purple liquid from Guy's vial in Sam's champagne before giving it to him to drink. Once he's been dosed, Sam calms down and once again looks at Becky with love.

The next day, Dean arrives at Becky's apartment with a wedding gift and tells Sam that he's ready to be supportive. Sam takes the waffle iron, and Dean pushes his way inside, saying that he's found a case. Not only has a lottery winner been killed in a car accident, but a man who recently made it to the majors was also just killed by baseballs shot from a pitching machine. Sam isn't surprised by the news: he and Becky are already working the case. Becky tells Dean that their first thought was of a Crossroads Demon, but the timeframe is off because the victims aren't getting 10 years before they die. She says it could be a cursed object, like in 3.03 Bad Day at Black Rock, but they haven't connected the victims yet.

Dean is shocked that Sam is working a case with Becky, and he confronts her, saying that he knows she's working some kind of "mojo" because Sam isn't acting like himself. Sam defends her, but Dean points out that people's dreams are coming true in Pike Creek, and it's too much of a coincidence that Becky's dream of having Sam is coming true now. He warns them that Becky might be the one who dies next. Sam says that he thinks Dean is just upset that he doesn't need his big brother anymore, and Dean leaves. As he goes, he gets a call from Bobby, who tells him that he can't make it there and is sending another hunter, Garth, to help Dean with the case.

Later, Sam presents Becky with "his and her" fake press IDs so that they can question a man who was just promoted from junior salesman to CEO at a local insurance company. Sam thinks he might be the next victim in their case. Meanwhile, Dean meets with Garth and is surprised to find a small, skinny guy who doesn't look like a typical hunter. Still, he shows Garth the same headline that Sam spotted, and they head to the insurance company posing as press, as well.

When Dean and Garth arrive at the insurance company, Sam and Becky are already leaving. Sam tells Dean that the new CEO Craig is clean, but Dean and Garth still question him. They learn that Craig wasn't angling for his new position, but that his wife is more than happy about his promotion. Dean and Garth are certain that the man's wife is the one behind his sudden success, so they confront her, but she refuses to admit to anything. She's leaving Craig's office when a large lighting fixture almost falls on her—Dean tackles her out of the way just in time to save her life. Afterwards, she admits that a man made her an offer: Craig's job for her soul. She thought it was crazy, but she agreed because it seemed like she had nothing to lose. Garth tells her that she needs to get out of town for a few days while they figure this out, and Dean says that Sam and Becky might be the next victims.

Meanwhile, Sam tells Becky that something about the case isn't adding up. She says that they're sure to get a break soon, but he suddenly grabs his head in pain. She rushes to get the vial of potion Guy gave her, but it's leaked out into her purse and there isn't any potion left. She calls Guy in a panic, but he doesn't answer, and Sam is becoming more and more lucid. He says that he's going to call Dean, and she hits him over the head with the waffle iron that Dean bought them.

Characters

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Music

Quotes

Dean: It's a freaking miracle..except when it happens during their sacred annual pilgrimage to Vegas and he goes off on some granola munching hike in the desert by himself.
Dean: It’s a waffle iron. Nonstick. You just…I actually don’t know how to use it. We good?
Becky: The only place people understood me was on the message boards. They were grumpy and overly literal but at least we shared a common passion.
Garth: He said you’d be all surly and premenstrual working with me.
Sam: What’s with the scrawny guy?
Dean: Temp
Garth: Now - you'll be living with a triracial paraplegic sniper til this all blows over, okay?
Becky: And then Chuck dumped me. I think I intimidated him with my vibrant sexuality.
Garth: …hopefully fix this and everybody’s home in time for America’s Got Talent.
Guy: Dean Winchester. This is really thrilling. may I have your autograph?
Dean: Sure, how about I carve it into your spleen.
Guy: Rules of the road. Can't lay a hair on any of my clients.

Dean: How are you cheating it?
Guy: I'm not a cheater, I'm an innovator. It's called a loophole, you moron! Yes, when a person bargains away his soul, he gets a decade, technically. But accidents happen.
Sam: So you're arranging accidents, collecting early?

Guy: Please! White gloves... I don't get my hands dirty. That's why it's important to have a capable intern.
Crowley: I have one rule: make a deal, keep it.

Guy: Well technically, I didn't...
Crowley: There's a reason we don't call our chits in early: consumer confidence. This isn’t Wall Street, this is Hell! We have a little something called integrity. If this gets out, who'll deal with us? Nobody! Then, where are we?
Guy: I don't know.
Crowley: That's right, you don't, because you're a stupid, short-sighted little prat. Now, hand the jackass over, I'll cancel every deal he's made.
Dean: What are you going to do with him?

Crowley: Make an example of him.

Trivia & References

Similar to 4.19 Jump The Shark, the title references a TV trope where often late in their run the show resorts to dramatic plot changes, novelty casting or things such as weddings to attract ratings.
The Title Card is the first variant seen of the Season 7 titles. A wedding cake that explodes, morphing into the goo of the Season 7 titles
There is an actual Twitter account called @SuperBeckyRosen which has tweets by the character.
Dean: Have you forgotten the lifespan of your average hook up?
Dean is referencing the phenomenon commonly referred to as Sleep with Sam Winchester and die!
Dean: Okay, "Dead Poet's Society", fine.
Dead Poet's Society is a 1989 film in which Robin Williams plays an English teacher at a conservative boys' school who introduces his students to the notion of carpe diem or "seize the day".
Sera Gamble said of casting DJ Qualls: "You know what's really awesome is when you write a DJ Qualls-type and then you get DJ Qualls. That's very exciting!" Source.
The character of Garth first 'appeared' in 6.04 Weekend at Bobby's when he keeps calling Bobby for help.
Sam: Don't be too impressed man, it's still a Denver scramble up here, I just know my way around the plate now.
A Denver scramble is a diner dish which is like an omelet but where the added ingredients are mixed in with the eggs, so the final texture is more like scrambled eggs.
While it is stated in the episode that Crossroads Demon deals are usually ten years, John Winchester got no time, and Dean got one year. Becky is offered twenty-five.
The scene where Becky has Sam held captive and tied to the bed is a shoutout to the novel Misery by Stephen King about a woman who kidnaps and tortures a novelist of whom she says she's "his number one fan"
Becky tying Sam to the bed and stuffing a cloth in his mouth may also be a reference to the rape scene in Wedding Crashers.
The demon Jackson attacks Sam with a move reminiscent of Darth Vader's famous 'force choke' in Star Wars. Watch it here.
Dean: How many deals you got cooking in this town, Madoff?
A reference to Bernard Madoff, who is currently serving 150 years in prison for running a $65 billion Ponzi scheme.
Dean: Not another step, or I Colombian necktie your little friend here!
The Colombian necktie is a particularly gruesome execution that originated during the Colombian civil war in the late 1940s, consisting of slashing the victim's throat and then pulling the tongue out of the wound.

Minutiae

The demon causing the accidents to kill people - Jackson is named after Supernatural writer Jackson Stewart source.
Becky sets the Devil's trap by setting Blueberry vodka on fire.
The baseball machine has settings up to 11 - possibly a shoutout to Spinal Tap in which Nigel Tufnel had an amp that could go up to 11. The episode aired on 11.11.11 which fans of the movie declared Nigel Tufnel Day.

Sides, Scripts & Transcripts

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