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|image= [[File:Sn717promoresized.jpg|350px]]
|title= The Born-Again Identity
|episode= Season 7, Episode 17
|director= [[Robert Singer]]
|writer= [[Sera Gamble]]
|imdb= [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1995109tt1995110/ The Born-Again Identity]
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|outline= [[Sam]] reaches his breaking point and [[Dean]], desperate to save his brother, finds a healer with a very familiar face.
|motw= [[Hallucifer|Lucifer]]<br>[[Demonology|Demons]]<br>[[Ghost]]
|timeline=
|location= Colorado<br>Northern Indiana<br>Whitefish, Montana
Indiana, USA;
Whitefish, MT, USA
}}|prevep= 7.16 Out with the Old|nextep= 7.18 Party On, Garth
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Dean, Meg, and Emmanuel finally arrive at Northern Indiana State Hospital that night. They can't get inside, though, because it's surrounded by demons. Meg and Dean retreat to talk in private, and Meg insists that they remind Cas who he is so he can destroy the demons. Dean warns her that after what Cas did, he could snap and disappear. Emmanuel overhears Dean and tells him that he wants to know who he is. Dean is hesitant, but Meg tells him he's an angel and that he and Dean were best friends who used to fight together. Emmanuel realizes that he must be the "Cas" that Dean told him about, and he apologizes. Then he resolves to fight the demons in front of the hospital, even though he doesn't remember how.
He approaches the demons, who are shocked to see him alive. Before they can do anything, [[Castiel]] smites them all. His memories come back to him in the process, assaulting him with images of his partnership with Crowley and his betrayal of Dean. Once the demons are taken care of, Meg and Dean approach him. He tells them that he remembers them—he remembers everything. He's disgusted with himself and makes his starts to leave, but Dean chases after him. When it seems like he is trying to defend Castiel's past acts, Castiel tells him he deserved to die for the things he did. He doesn't think he can fix anything, but Dean believes he can. He reaches into the trunk of his [[Dodge Charger|car]] and pulls out [[Castiel's Trench Coat|Castiel's trench coat]].
Meanwhile, Sam is strapped down and wheeled into electroshock therapy. He starts to panic and asks for his brother, but the orderly ignores him and places a rubber mouth guard between his teeth. He says that he's going to start Sam off on a high setting, just as his eyes flash black. Sam struggles, but can't escape, and the demon shocks him. He's about to increase the electrical setting again when Castiel appears behind him with his old trenchcoat trench coat on before smiting him. Castiel releases Sam from the electroshock machine and reaches out to heal him, but it doesn't work and Sam still sees Hallucifer.
Back in Sam's room, Castiel tells Dean that he can't rebuild the wall in Sam's mind because it is completely crumbled. Dean is upset, and Castiel tells him that he can't make the problem disappear, but he might be able to shift it. Dean watches in confusion as Castiel approaches Sam's bedside, telling him that it's better this way. He apologizes to Sam and then puts his hand on his head. Red light emanates from around Sam's eyes and then runs up Castiel's arm and into his eyes, effectively transferring Sam's hallucinations to his own mind.
When Castiel lets go of Sam, Sam becomes lucid. He sees Dean and then notices that Castiel is next to him. He says his name, but Castiel doesn't answer him because, instead of Sam, he sees Hallucifer laying on Sam's bed. He retreats in fear.
When Sam and Dean leave the hospital, they leave without Castiel, who is now a member of the locked psychiatric ward himself. The only demon who knows where he 's being kept is Meg, who's insinuated herself onto the ward's staff as a nurse. Sam is reluctant to leave Castiel in her hands, but Dean tells him that it's the only option they have.
|Characters=
* [[Lucifer]]
* [[Meg]]
* [[Hallucifer]]
* [[Marin]]
* [[Daphne Allen]]
|Pad_of_Definitions=
* [[HalluciferAliases]]
* [[Castiel's Trench Coat]]
* [[Dean's Movie & TV references]]
* [[Demon Smoke]]
* [[Demonology]]
* [[Dodge Charger]]
* [[Healing]]
* [[Northern Indiana State Hospital]]
* [[Rufus's Cabin]]
* [[Northern Indiana State Hospital]]* [[DemonologySmiting]]
* [[Star Wars]]
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'''Hallucifer:''' Tell the nice tweaker you’d be sleeping right now if the devil would leave you alone...
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'''Hallucifer:''' Tell the nice tweaker you’d be sleeping right now if the devil would leave you alone...
:''Tweaker is a slang term for someone who is addicted to crystal meth.''
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The bar through the windscreen is reminiscent of the death scene in [[2.13 Houses of the Holy]] where a pole bounces through a windscreen and impales a man.
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It is not possible to die from lack of sleep. However, severe mental and physical disturbances do occur. The record for the longest a person has gone without sleep without stimulants is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Gardner_(record_holder) Randy Gardner]. His record is 264.4 hours (11 days 24 minutes).
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'''Doctor:''' You're Sam Smith's brother?
:''Dean and Sam are using the aliases given to them by [[Frank]] in [[7.06 Slash Fiction]]. Coincidentally, [[Samantha Smith|Sam Smith]] is the name of the actress who played [[Mary Winchester]], their mother. In the episode [[4.17 It's a Terrible Life]], Dean Smith is the name Dean was given by Zachariah. Both that episode and this one were written by [[Sera Gamble]].''
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[http://www.storify.com/superwiki/the-born-again-identity Tweets from] producer [[Jim Michaels]] during the episode.
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At JiB con 2012, Jensen [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd18P0rGpz8 talked about] the trench coat scene, describing it as "awkward," pointing out that the jacket was in a stolen car, that Dean wouldn't have folded it that nicely, describing the written dialogue as, "It was so bad," and saying that he and Misha ended up changing the dialogue. One fan who won a copy of the script from Misha [https://mishasminions.tumblr.com/post/25275621841 posted the relevant pages on Tumblr]. The removed lines have Dean saying, of the trench coat he's holding, "Dumb to keep. I know. I saw you-- dissolve or whatever. But, just in case. 'Cause I never stopped wanting to fix it either. So we got something in common. Just-- take it. Please." Though, there may have been an earlier version of the script that Jensen was referring to, as he [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQTq-9kHYxc talked with Misha at JiB con 2012], and they mentioned Castiel having a line that they changed, and Dean having a line that referenced something like the smell of the coat or Dean cuddling up to it. Jensen said Misha had called the scene "gay" in a previous panel, and Jensen referred to it as "unmanly" saying, "Which would make sense because (Sera Gamble, the writer) is a girl. (...) She writes amazing, but sometimes there are some effeminate lines (like) "I guess I really hoped you'd come back someday." "
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Dean's phone number is 785-555-0128. 785 is the Area Code for the northern half of Kansas, including Lawrence (the boys' birthplace).
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* [[7.17 The Born-Again Identity (Transcript)]]
* [httphttps://slysealionmishasminions.tumblr.com/taggedpost/supernatural-script 25275621841 Pages from the draft script] won as part of a fundraiser for Misha's Hope for Haiti trip by slysealion
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* [http://www.spoilertv.com/2012/01/supernatural-season-7-upcoming-episode.html Episode titles 7.13 to 7.19]
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