8.17 Goodbye Stranger
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| Title | Goodbye Stranger |
| Episode # | Season 8, Episode 17 |
| First aired | March 20, 2013 |
| Directed by | Thomas J. Wright |
| Written by | Robbie Thompson |
| On IMDB | Goodbye Stranger |
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| Monster | Demons Crowley Naomi |
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| Location(s) | Lebanon, Kansas Lincoln Springs, Missouri |
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Contents
Synopsis
A dark, empty warehouse. Dean is hunting something. He turns around and is attacked. It's Cas! "No, Cas, no!" says Dean. Cas, stony faced, breaks his wrist and stabs him in the chest with his angel blade. Dean dies.
The lights switch on. Naomi enters the room and congratulates Cas on killing Dean quickly and brutally, with no hesitation. "You're ready," she says.
The camera pans up and we see that the entire floor of the warehouse is littered with multiple Deans, all dead. They are in heaven or inside Castiel's mind and this was a training excercise for Cas.
Meanwhile, back on Earth, Dean is sorting through some boxes in the Men of Letters bunker. Sam is doing research on his laptop. Sam coughs into a napkin. Before he throws it into the trash, we see that the napkin has blood on it. Dean asks him if he's ok, and Sam proclaims it's nothing. He says he's found a case: in multiple states, there have been recent instances of people with severe burns on their eyes, hands, and feet... puncture wounds through the backs of their hands... eyes and internal organs liquefied. Sam leaves to grab his gear. Dean waits until Sam has left the room, then inspects the napkin that Sam threw in the trash.
At the home of one of the victims (Ann), Sam and Dean are interrogating the victim's husband. He claims that something changed in Ann about a week ago; she was out of sorts, not herself at all. She stopped eating and sleeping, and started going out in the middle of the night, muttering to herself about an orchard. He shows them a miniature of the city. He followed her one night to a playground, where she started digging. She brought home little bags of dirt and hung them here, above the miniature. The bags hanging above the miniature all represent sites where she's dug. He also says that he swears her eyes turned black sometimes.
Sam and Dean leave to interrogate Wendy Rice, the last person to speak with Ann. On the way there, Sam calls the other victims' spouses, and they all say the same thing that Ann's husband said (the victims got all obsessive and weird). Sam and Dean agree that someone is killing demons. They wonder why the demons are digging in the dirt. They arrive at Wendy's place and she answers the door with curlers in her hair. She says that she never met Ann until she called the other night, asking where to find an original map of the city. She was looking for an old orchard that had gone missing.
Wendy explains: The town had been wiped out by one of the river's 100-year floods and then rebuilt. All original records were lost. This is her field of study - the town's history. She's been working on re-creating a map of the town as it had been. She points at the map. She found out yesterday that the old Jakubiak orchard used to be where Downey meets Bond Street. Ann never said why she was looking for the orchard. They had set up a time to meet but she never showed. She did, however, receive a call from Ann's assistant that morning, asking if she still had the map.
"Assistant?" says Dean. There is a knock on the door. Three men are standing there and their eyes go black upon seeing Sam and Dean. Demons!! They barge in and a fight ensues. One demon flings Wendy aside, grabs the map, and runs out the door. The second demon is about to be killed by Dean with his Demon killing knife but it jumps out of its body and into Wendy's body. She makes a run for the door. The third demon is about to best Sam when it is burned out by... Castiel! He flings the demon aside and stands there, holding Wendy-Demon by the curlers.
Castiel says he is going to interrogate the Wendy-Demon. Dean asks him if he's here because he heard Dean praying to him. Cas says yes, he heard him, but that's not why he's here. Sam wonders where the hell Cas has been this whole time. Cas confesses that he's the one that's been hunting and killing the demons. Sam asks him why.
Flash to Cas seated in front of Naomi in her stainless steel, white office. Naomi tells him to tell the truth (or most of it, anyway).
Back on Earth... Cas says he's been searching for the other half of the demon tablet. In his search, he discovered that Crowley has been sending out his demons to find Lucifer's crypts. Sam asks what Crowley is looking for.
Flash to Cas seated in front of Naomi again. He asks her if he can tell them everything, as it would be more helpful if they knew. She tells him to lie because they cannot be trusted.
Back on Earth... Cas lies to Sam and Dean, telling them that Crowley is looking for a parchment that would allow him to decipher his half of the Demon Tablet without a Prophet. He gets up and goes into the kitchen to interrogate Wendy-Demon. Sam and Dean agree that Cas is "off", that he hasn't been the same since he got back from Purgatory. Dean reminds Sam that they still don't know how he even got out of Purgatory. From the other side of the kitchen door comes Cas' voice: "You know, I can hear you both. I am a celestial being."
Sam and Dean enter the kitchen. Wendy-Demon is tied up. Cas stabs her through the back of one of her hands with his angel blade. Wendy refuses to offer up any information. Cas stabs her in her other hand. Wendy-Demon divulges that they have a hostage at the Murray Hotel. The hostage knows all the towns where the crypts are buried. "And she told you about the parchment?" Sam asks her. "What parchment?!" says Wendy-Demon.
Flash to Naomi telling Cas to kill it.
Back on Earth... Cas stabs Wendy-Demon in the chest with his angel blade, killing her before she could reveal his lie. Before Sam and Dean can protest fully, Cas says he needs to go to the motel NOW, and with a rustling of angel wings, he's gone. Sam and Dean rush to the motel in Baby, the Impala.
(synopsis in progress... to be continued...)
Characters
Definitions
- Tablets
- Megstiel
- The Bunker
- Ruby's Knife
- Angel Sword
- Lucifer's Crypts
- Devil's Trap
- Porn
- Busty Asian Beauties
- Nicknames
Music
- "Goodbye Stranger" by Supertramp
- plays during the closing montage
Quotes
Sam: That whole story, and that's your takeaway?
Meg: Oh, I heard the rest. You fell in love with a unicorn. It was beautiful, then sad, then sadder. I laughed, I cried, I puked in my mouth a little. And honestly, I kind of get it.Trivia & References
Meg: Crowley’s idea. Just another reason I want to stab him in the face.
Cas: “If you’re referring to the pizza man, yes I remember the pizza man. And it’s a good memory.
Crowley: Just a flesh wound.
Sam: You realise you just kinda quoted "Lord of the Rings" right?
Dean: C'mon man, it's the Rudy-hobbit. Rudy hobbit always gets a pass!
Minutiae
Sides, Scripts & Transcripts
Promotion
- Acting graduates from Vancouver Film School talk about their roles on Supernatural including Jennifer Clements who played Wendy Rice
- Title
- Plot spoilers
- Promo video
- Extended Promo
- Promotional Photos
- Sneak peek clip
- CHCH promo clip
- Winchester Radio's podcast for this episode
Misha talks about Castiel's return:
