|outline= [[Castiel]] tries to keep the [[angel tablet]] from [[Naomi]], but is captured by [[Crowley]] who takes the tablet. [[Sam]] and [[Dean]] find [[Metatron]].
|motw= [[Crowley]]<br>[[Naomi]]
|timeline= Early May 2013
|location= Lebanon, Kansas<br> Route 34, Colorado<br> Sante Fe, New Mexico
|prevep= 8.20 Pac-Man Fever
|nextep= 8.22 Clip Show
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[[Naomi]] is continuing her search for Castiel and the angel tablet. Castiel has been hiding by choosing a different [[Biggerson's]] to go to when the [[angels]] [[Ion]] and [[Esper]] get close, leaving them unable to locate him. Under orders from Naomi they murder everyone in a Santa Fe Biggerson's location to lure him there, except the waitress [[Kara]] whose eyes Ion burns out and gives the message of "You have to stop" to tell Castiel. They catch him, and Naomi arrives.
Ion is sent to search every Biggerson's for the tablet unsuccessfully. When he returns Crowley shows up and shoots Castiel in the gut, Esper in the neck, and Ion in the shoulder with a gun loaded with bullets made from a melted down [[angel swordblade]]. He tries to shoot Naomi but she disappears. Ion is revealed as an agent of Crowley's and together they teleport with Castiel to Crowley's headquarters. Crowley reveals that he knows where the Angel Tablet is, that he thinks that having realized its proximity protects him from Naomi's control, Cas still has the tablet with him. Crowley reaches inside Castiel's gut and pulls out the tablet.
Kevin has realized the truth of his incarceration and under the pretense of sending them for his half of the tablet, sends the [[demons]] posing as Sam and Dean into a [[devil's trap]].
|Pad_of_Definitions=
* [[Aliases]]
* [[Angel Blade]]
* [[Angel-Killing Bullets]]
* [[Angel Lore]]
* [[Angel Sword]]
* [[Apocalypse]]
* [[Archangels]]
* [[Biggerson's]]
* [[The Bunker]]
* [[Crowley's Gun]]
* [[Demonology]]
* [[Devil's trap (symbol)|Devil's Trap]]
* [[Fizzles' Folly]]
* [[Healing]]
* [[Holy Water]]
* [[Holy Water in the Face]]
* [[Men of Letters Bunker]]
* [[Tablets]]
* [[Trials]]
* [[Warding Sigils]]
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'''Sam:''' Hey, you remember when uh... when dad took us to the bottom of the Grand Canyon, on that pack-mule ride?<br>
'''Dean:''' The what?<br>
'''Sam:''' And you'reyour, uh... your mule kept farting, just— l-letting go, like, gale force?<br>
'''Dean:''' Dude, you were like, four years old. I barely remember that.<br>
'''Sam:''' You rode a farty donkey.
'''Naomi:''' Not always, angel. There was that day, back in Egypt, not so long ago, where we slew every first-born infant whose door wasn't splashed with lamb's blood. And that was just PR.
:''Naomi is referring to the story in the Hebrew Bible and the Qur'an, of when [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses#Egypt:_the_Plagues_and_the_Exodus Moses] freed the Israelites who were enslaved by the Egyptians. He tried to make a deal with the Pharaoh, and each time he refused to release the Israelites, God sent a plague. The ninth plague was the murder of all first born sons in Egypt by [[angels]]. The angels spared the Israelites' children, who they knew by the sign of the door lintel being marked with lamb's blood. The events are commemorated as the Jewish holiday of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passover "Passover"].''
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'''Sam:''' Your, uh... your mule kept farting, just letting go, like, gale force?
:''A gale is a strong wind, classified as between 7 and 10 on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort_scale Beaufort scale].''
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'''Sam:''' I'm gonna follow the hotel manager, Dr. Scowley-scowl. He's like a villain from Scooby-Doo.
:''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooby-Doo Scooby-Doo] is an American cartoon franchise that was first produced in 1969, named after the character of the dog of a group of teenagers. Together they solve supernatural mysteries. Sam might be referring to the particular villain Buck Masters who appeared as the [http://scoobydoo.wikia.com/wiki/Indian_Witch_Doctor The Indian Witch Doctor].
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[[Sam]] remembers an old memory where [[John]] took the boys to the Grand Canyon, where Dean rode a "farty donkey." However in [[2.09 Croatoan]] Dean tells Sam:
:'''Dean:''' Yeah, you know, all this driving back and forth across country, you know I've never been to the Grand Canyon?''
:''Though it can be interpreted that Dean, as well as Sam, were too young to remember.''
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7ylSe9sZKYg Promo vid]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5boOe6HHMrU Sneak Peek]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nXHjX6hTzo CHCH Promo]
* [http://www.blogtalkradio.com/mediablvd/2013/05/05/winchester-radio-the-great-escapist-w-osric-chau Winchester Radio's podcast for this episode with special guest Osric Chau]
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