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|episode= Season 8, Episode 2
|firstaired= October 10, 2012
|director= [[John F. Showalter]]
|writer= [[Andrew Dabb]]<br>[[Daniel Loflin]]
|imdb= [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2404088/ What's Up, Tiger Mommy?]
|timeline=
|location= Neighbor, Michigan<br>Laramie, Wyoming
|prevep= 8.01 We Need to Talk About Kevin
|nextep= 8.03 Heartache
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The pawn slip has a motel room listed as the address, but nobody answers when they knock on the door. They're about to leave when they're approached by a man who calls out Kevin's name. [[Beau]] knows who they are and that Kevin is a prophet, and he gives Kevin an invitation to his auction, where he'll be selling the tablet. Dean tells him that Kevin won't be going alone, and the man assures them that there is a "no casting, no cursing, etc." policy at the auction. His boss, [[Plutus]], has warded the premises. Still, he adds Dean, Sam, and Linda to the invite. After he leaves, they consider what they can bid, and Sam looks at the [[Impala]]. Dean shoots him down and then Sam mentions that at most auctions they display the items to the bidders beforehand. If they can get Kevin close enough to the tablet, he can translate it and memorize the spell they need to close the gates of [[Hell]].
They go to the auction, and Dean is forced to give up all of his weapons, including Ruby's knife, before he can enter. Once inside, they find the God tablet, but it is covered so that it can't be read before the auction. Crowley is also in attendance, and he gives Kevin insincere condolences for his girlfriend, [[Channing]]. Linda punches him in the face and tells him to stay away from her son, and Crowley threatens her. Before things can escalate further, the start of the auction is announced and everyone proceeds to the bidding area. Dean is held back, however, by an angel named [[SamandirielSamandriel]], who tells Dean that he knew Castiel. He's at the auction to bid on the God tablet as well, but he wants to know what happened to Castiel. Dean tells him that they were trapped in Purgatory after killing [[Dick Roman]]. When Samandiriel Samandriel asks him if Castiel escaped, too, Dean just shakes his head. The angel then tells Dean that he always thought Castiel had too much heart.
Dean flashes back to when he and Benny found Castiel in Purgatory. He hugged Castiel, happy to see him, but Castiel seemed worried that Dean had found him. He was no longer insane from [[Lucifer]], and Benny asked him why he abandoned Dean after they arrived in Purgatory. Castiel told him that he'd stayed away from Dean because the [[Leviathans]] were after him and it wasn't safe for him to answer Dean's prayers. He told Dean to leave him alone, but Dean insisted that he and Benny had a way out of Purgatory and that he wouldn't leave without him.
Back in the present, the auction is starting. Sam, Dean, Linda, and Kevin gather what money they have and Crowley mocks them, saying the tablet isn't worth their trouble if it will only blast demons back to hell: he'll just make more. Sam answers with "we'll see," and Crowley looks intrigued. When the bidding starts at 3 tons of Dwarven gold for an amulet, however, they realize they may be out of their league: they only have some hacked credit cards, $2,000, and a Costco membership card between the four of them. Dean gets up from his seat and sneaks off to find where the auction items are being held. He pickpockets one of the guards and gets a key to a storage locker, but when he opens the door to it, there are more guards inside. He leaves quickly and goes back to the auction, where he tells Sam that "Plan C" failed.
Dean is just in time to see the tablet go on the auction block. A bidding war between Crowley and Samandiriel Samandriel ends with Crowley bidding the moon, but Beau states that the reserve price has still not been met. To stimulate the bidding, he captures Kevin and "adds him to the lot." As the only person who can read the tablet, Kevin adds to its value. Linda is horrified and tries to bid for her son, finally offering her soul. Plutus is intrigued, so Crowley makes a counter offer for a million souls from Hell. Plutus is more interested in the sacrifice behind Linda's offer, though, and he accepts hers as the winning bid. After the auction, Samandiriel Samandriel praises Linda for her sacrifice and then assures her that if Kevin goes with him, the angels will be able to protect him. She declines his offer, saying that she'd rather Kevin take his chances with the Winchesters.
At the moment of the trade, as Plutus gets ready to take Linda's [[soul]], Dean notices that the anti-possession tattoo on Linda's arm has been burned off. He grabs her, but her eyes turn red and she says "hello, boys" in Crowley's voice before tossing both him and Sam to the ground. Plutus asks Crowley how he got around his warding spells, and he reveals that he made a deal with Beau. Beau also burned off Linda's tattoo after she spoke to Samandiriel Samandriel so that Crowley could possess her. While Plutus is distracted, Beau drives a wooden stake through his back, piercing his heart and killing him. Crowley then uses the same stake to kill one of Plutus' men before grabbing the tablet. He makes to go after Kevin, too, but Dean grabs Ruby's knife from a nearby box of confiscated items, and he and Sam stand in Crowley's way.
Instead of trying to go through them, Crowley flees with the tablet, still in Linda's body. Dean goes after him while Sam and Kevin come under fire by Beau, who tries to shoot Sam and take Kevin hostage for Crowley. Sam grabs Thor's Hammer, an item won by another auction goer, and smashes Beau to death with it. The owner then tries to reclaim the hammer, but Sam remembers that he won it with a bloody bag containing 5/8 of a virgin, and kills him with the hammer, too.
* [[Sam Winchester]]
* [[Dean Winchester]]
* [[Castiel]]
* [[Crowley]]
* [[Kevin Tran]]
* [[Benny Lafitte]]
* [[Linda Tran]]
* [[Samandriel]]
* [[Plutus]]
* [[Beau]]
* [[Mr. Vili]]
|Pad_of_Definitions= * [[Acting in Unison]]* [[Aliases]]* [[Dean's Monster Mashups]]
* [[:Category:Deities|Deities]]
* [[Deity Death List]]
* [[Demonology]]
* [[Demon Smoke]]
* [[Flashbacks]]
* [[Gank]]
* [[Gorilla-Wolves]]
* [[Hell Gates]]
* [[Holy Water]]
* [[Meatsuit]]
* [[Mjölnir]]
* [[Old Norse Mythology]]
* [[Prophet]]
* [[Purgatory]]
* [[Tattoos]]
* [[Vampires]]
* [[Warding Sigils]]
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'''Sam:''' Dean, all we have to our names is a few hacked gold cards.<br>
'''Dean:''' All right. Well, then, we have to get creative.<br>
'''Sam:''' Huh. Well... ''[Looks looks at the Impala]''<br>
'''Dean:''' No. Mnh-mnh. Say it, and I will kill you, your children, and your grandchildren.
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'''Kevin:''' I guess we're not as original as we thought.<br>'''Sam:''' It's okay. It's okay. We just got to come up with a plan "B."<br>'''Crowley:''' And what, pray tell, could possibly have been plan "A"? Bring the Prophet to the most dangerous place on Earth, memorize the tablet, and then va-''moose''? Hello boys.
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'''SamandirielSamandriel:''' You know that there are some in Heaven that believe despite his mistakes, that Castiel's heart was always in the right place.<br>
'''Dean:''' Are you one of them?<br>
'''SamandirielSamandriel:''' I think too much heart was always Castiel's problem.
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'''Dean:''' It was Crowley, Sam. No matter what meat suit meatsuit he's in, I should have knifed him. I mean, yeah, it would have sucked, and I would have hated myself, but what's one more nightmare, right? It seem a little quiet in there to you?}}{{TriviaQuote |Text='''Kevin:''' Get out of her!<br>'''Crowley:''' If I had nickel for every time someone screamed that at me...
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'''Clem SmedleyDean:''' Should Well, thank you, Mr. Peanut! All right. What do we have known theyto bid? What? We can'd plant a LoJack in one of them bagst just show up there empty-handed.<br>:''The Dean refers to Beau as Mr. Peanut which is a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LoJack LoJack Stolen Vehicle Recovery SystemMr._Peanut monocled, top hat wearing mascot] is of Planters nuts. The name Beau may also be a tracking system that allows vehicles reference to be tracked by police[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beau_Brummell Beau Brummel] a trendsetter of men''s fashion in the early 19th century, and the originator of what became known as "dandyism."
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'''Sam:''' He's right Dean, it's not worth it.<br>
'''Crowley:''' Listen to Moose, Squirrel.<br>
:''Crowley has long used Moose as a [[Nicknames|nickname]] for Sam. Here he calls Dean "Squirrel," referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rocky_and_Bullwinkle_Show the cartoon duo] of Bullwinkle (the moose) and Rocky (a squirrel).''
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'''Dean:''' You're bidding the moon?<br>
'''Crowley:''' Yeah, I claimed it for Hell. You think a man named Buzz gets to go into space without making a deal?<br>
:''Crowley is referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzz_Aldrin Buzz Aldrin], a member of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11 Apollo 11] crew and the second man to set foot on the moon.''
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In [[7.21 Reading Is Fundamental]] and [[7.22 There Will Be Blood]] Mrs. Tran was played by [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0494699/ Khaira Ledeyo]. In season 8 eight she is played by [[Lauren Tom]].
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[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2036232/ Tyler Johnston] who played [[SamandirielSamandriel]] previously portrayed [[Matt Pike]], the bug obsessed kid in [[1.08 Bugs]].
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[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0224477/ Alex Diakun] , who played [[Mr. Vili]] , previously portrayed the played [[the Reaper]] in [[1.12 Faith]].
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[[Dean]] has [[Ruby's knife]] with him in [[Purgatory]].
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[[Kevin]] and his mom get [[anti-possession symbol]]s tattooed on them to prevent demon possession, although [[Linda]] is [[possessed]] by Crowley after [[Beau]] burns hers off.
It was in [[3.12 Jus in Bello]] that [[Sam]] and [[Dean]] revealed that they have had anti-possession symbols tattooed on their chests as a precaution following Sam's possession by [[Meg]]. After the episode [http://firefox.org/news/articles/1254/1/Interview-Sera-Gamble-Producer-and-Writer-for-quotSupernaturalquot/Page1.html Sera Gamble said]: "I'll be convinced we're truly a cult hit when a fan gets the same tattoo."
Little did Sera know, that fans had been getting tattoos since early on in the show's run. You can see many of these in the [[fan tattoos]] gallery. The anti-possession tattoo is one of the most popular designs.
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