8.14 Trial and Error

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Title Trial and Error
Episode # Season 8, Episode 14
First aired February 13, 2013
Directed by Kevin Parks
Written by Andrew Dabb
On IMDB Trial and Error
Outline Sam and Dean visit a ranch to try and find a Hellhound that they need to kill in order to close the gates of Hell.
Monster Hellhound
Timeline
Location(s) Lebanon, Kansas
Warsaw, Missouri
Shoshone, Idaho
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Synopsis

Characters

Definitions

Music

  • "Clair de Lune" by Debussy
(plays while Carl and Alice are having dinner)
  • "I Touch Myself" by Divinyls
(plays when Dean walks in on Ellie's last night "celebration")

The records in Dean's room include:

  • Led Zeppelin by Led Zeppelin
  • Howard McGhee, vol. 2
  • Nat King Cole Sings for Two in Love

Quotes

Dean: I haven't had my own room... ever. I'm making this awesome. I've got my kickass vinyl. I've got this killer mattress. Memory foam--it remembers me! And it's clean, too. There's no funky smell. There's no creepy motel stains.
Dean: The kid needs to eat something that's not ground up hooves and pig's anuses. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Ellie: And, well, her last album was a bunch of holiday songs for dogs. My favorites were "Jingle Bark Rock" and "Don't Pee on This Tree: Happy Arbor Day."

Dean: So she's the Devil?

Ellie: Pretty much.
Dean: We’ve been down roads like this before, man. With Yellow Eyes, Lucifer, Dick Frigging Roman. We both know where this ends; one of us dies. Or worse.

Sam: So you just up and decided it's going to be you.

Dean: I’m a grunt, Sam. You’re not. You’ve always been the brains of this operation. And you told me yourself, you see a way out. You see a light at the end of this ugly ass tunnel. I don’t. But I tell you what I do know, is that I’m going to die with a gun in my hand. Because that’s what I have waiting for me, that’s all I have waiting for me. I want you to get out. I want you to have a life, become a Man of Letters, whatever. You with a wife and kids and grandkids, living until you’re fat and bald and chugging Viagara. That is my perfect ending and it’s the only one I’m gonna get. So I’m gonna do these trials and I’m gonna do them alone. End of story.
Sam: Closing the gates. It's a suicide mission for you. I want to slam hell shut too, okay? But I want to survive it. Iwant to live. And so should you. You have friends up here, family. Hell you've even got your own room now. You were right, 'kay. I see light at the end of this tunnel and I’m sorry you don’t. I am. But it’s there. And if you come with me, I can take you to it.

Dean: Sam, Be smart.

Sam: I am. And so are you. You’re not a grunt, Dean, you’re a genius. When it comes to lore...you’re the best damn hunter I’ve ever seen. Better than me, better than dad. I believe in you, Dean, so please, please, believe in me too.

Trivia & References

Theis was the directorial debut of First Assistant Director Kevin Parks.
The Bunker is in Lebanon Kansas, which is about a six hour drive from where Kevin is on Garth's boat in Warsaw, Missouri.
Kevin compares the trials that must be undergone to close the gates of Hell, as similar to those Hercules went through. Later, Sam and Dean clean the stables at the Cassity's farm. One of the labours of Hercules was to clean the Augean stables in a day.
The hot dogs Kevin was eating were actually raw tofu dogs source.

Minutiae

This episode was the first to actually show what a hellhound looks like.
Carl Granville sold his soul for Alice Cassity's love.

Ellie sold her soul for her mother's well-being.

It isn't stated explicitly what Margo Cassity sold her soul for, but by process of elimination it can be inferred that it was her deal that led to the family's oil wealth. It might also be inferred by her father's comment about her being fat when she hooked up with Carl that she sold her soul to be thin.

Sides, Scripts & Transcripts

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