9.06 Heaven Can't Wait

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Title Heaven Can't Wait
Episode # Season 9, Episode 6
First aired November 12, 2013
Directed by Rob Spera
Written by Robert Berens
On IMDB Heaven Can't Wait
Outline
Monster Angel: Rit Zien
Timeline
Location(s) Lebanon, Kansas
Rexford, Idaho
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Synopsis

Characters

Definitions

Music

  • "Believe It or Not" by Joey Scarbury
(the "lullaby" sung by Castiel)

Quotes

Sam: Crowley?
Dean: I'm just saying, we're not keeping him chained up for the one-liners.
Castiel: My Grace is gone. What did you expect? Do you have any idea how hard it was? When I fell to earth, I didn't just lose my powers. I-- I had nothing. Now I'm a sales associate.
Dean: Wow. So you went from fighting heavenly battles to nuking taquitos.
Castiel: Nachos, too.
Castiel: I guess you can't see it, but there's a real dignity to what I do. A human dignity.
Nora: I hate to interrupt you guys, but a customer just had an accident in the men's room.
Dean: That's what this is about!

Castiel: What?
Dean: The girl.
Castiel: No, Dean, it's not. Nora, she's a very nice woman. I'm pretty sure she's not a reaper intent on killing me, and she's asked me out. Going on dates, that's something humans do, right?

Dean: Yeah. I mean, my dates usually end when I run out of singles, but, uh, yeah. Yeah, that's something that humans do.

Trivia & References

The title of the episode is a play on Heaven Can Wait, a 1978 film starring and co-directed by Warren Beatty, about a man who gets a second chance on Earth after dying prematurely. There was also a 1943 film of the same name, about a man who must tell his life story before be admitted into Hell (Spoiler: He ends up in Heaven).
The lullaby that Castiel sings to the baby "Believe It or Not," was the theme song to the 1981 series The Greatest American Hero.
According to writer Robert Berens, the name of the baby Castiel babysits, Tanya, is a reference to baby Tanya from the 1996 comedy Citizen Ruth (Source).
Live tweets from writer Robert Berens, executive producer Adam Glass, Osric Chau and others during broadcast.
Dean: Have you tried Professor Morrison?
Professor Morrison is an Anthropology professor in Seattle that Sam and Dean consulted about the Amazons (7.13 The Slice Girls}, and later to translate ancient Mayan {8.03 Heartache}. Sam informs Dean that the professor has moved to Papua New Guinea to study the Trobriand Islanders.
Dean: Just be careful, don't fall for any of his "quid pro quo" crap.
This is a reference to a line from Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs when he says "Mmh. If I help you, Clarice, it will be "turns" with us too. Quid pro quo. I tell you things, you tell me things. Not about this case, though. About yourself. Quid pro ..."
Castiel: In the battlefields of Heaven, there was a special class of angel - the Rit Zien. It's Encochian for "hands of mercy."
In Enochian "Rit Zien" translates literally as "mercy of my hands" (Source).
Dean: (to Castiel) Undo your buttons... That's far enough, Tony Manero.
Tony Manero is the suave ladies man lead character in the 1977 movie about disco, Saturday Night Fever.
Dean's FBI alias for the episode was Lee Emrey, a reference to character actor R. Lee Errmey who is best known for his role as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket.

Minutiae

This episode was shot 7th but will air sixth in the season.
Pepto Bismol was used for the pink exploding body spray effect.
Abaddon, who answers the 'call' from Crowley outside a Castle Storage building - which may or may not be the same one that John's Lock-up is in.
Originally Castiel was scripted to sing AC/DC's "Highway to Hell" to baby Tanya (Source).

Sides, Scripts & Transcripts

Promotion

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