8.10 Torn and Frayed
Title | Torn and Frayed |
Episode # | Season 8, Episode 10 |
First aired | January 16, 2013 |
Directed by | Bob Singer |
Written by | Jenny Klein |
On IMDB | Torn and Frayed |
Outline | Castiel needs the brothers' help to rescue Samandiriel from Crowley before he gets too much infomation about heaven out of the angel. |
Monster | Demons Crowley |
Timeline | Follows on immediately from 8.09 Citizen Fang. |
Location(s) | Kermit, Texas Geneva, Nebraska Whitefish, Montana Warsaw, Missouri |
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Synopsis
Samandiriel is still being held captive and tortured by demons. He has a large pick protruding from his forehead, piercing his brain, and in a moment alone he uses telekinesis to push it out. Apparently, the pick makes it impossible for him to contact other angels. Once it's out of his brain, he tries to contact Naomi, telling her that Crowley has him. Before he can say anything else, though, his torturer returns and puts the pick back in his brain, making him scream in agony.
Meanwhile, Dean has traveled to Kermit, Texas, to find Sam, who hung up on him earlier. Sam is still mad at Dean for trusting Benny and insisting that the vampire killed the hunter Martin Creaser in self-defense. What makes him the most upset, however, is that Dean let him think Amelia, the woman he loved, was in danger so that he could save a vampire. Dean insists that Sam should have trusted him, but Sam points out that he wanted him to trust Benny, and he can't. When Dean asks him what they can do now, Sam tells him it depends on whether or not Dean is done with Benny.
Somewhere else, Castiel is busy healing people, like an infant with a hernia, when he is called to heaven by Naomi. She tells him that Samandiriel isn't dead like they thought. He needs to be rescued from Crowley, but she doesn't know exactly where he's being held. Castiel tells her that he'll need help because the demons will be warded against angels, and Naomi tells him to take what he needs, but to remember that rescuing Samandiriel was his idea: not hers or heaven's.
Castiel immediately finds Dean and tells him that they need to rescue Samandiriel from Crowley. When Dean asks him how he heard the Angela's distress call, Castiel tells him that he turned his "angel radio" back on because he's been helping people as part of his penance for what he did as "god." Samandiriel is somewhere near Hastings, Nebraska, and Castiel tells him that an angel's screams of pain can cause a ripple effect of strange incidences. Dean finds news stories about tornados across Nebraska, so they head to Hastings together.
The demon torturing Samandiriel is trying to discover how angels possess their vessels. As he drills into a part of Samandiriel's brain, the angel goes into a trance state and starts chanting Enochian. Though the demon is unaware of it, the chanting causes a bush to burst into flames, injuring a man who was walking past it. Dean and Castiel hear about the burning bush and head to Geneva, Nebraska, to question the man who saw it.
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Characters
- Sam Winchester
- Dean Winchester
- Castiel
- Amelia Richardson
- Samandiriel
- Kevin Tran
- Benny
- Crowley
- Naomi
- Viggo
Definitions
- The Word of God (The Tablets)
- Ruby's Knife
- Angel Sword
- Enochian
- Angel Lore
- Demonology
- Porn
- Rufus's Cabin
Music
- "Katmandu" by Bob Seger
- (plays during "The Road So Far")
Quotes
Castiel: Yes, that is his serious face.
Trivia & References
Writer Jenny Klein confirmed that the "shubbery" reference was a shout-out to Monty Python source , and the famous Monty Python "Knights of Ni" scene from the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Watch the scene here.
Klingon is a language spoken by the race of the same name in Star Trek.