Needham Asylum

The decommissioned Needham Asylum.

The Needham Asylum. Decommissioned in '63. Sound like Crowley's kinda place to you? – Sam Winchester, 11.06 Our Little World

History

Needham Asylum is a decommissioned mental hospital located near Fall River, Massachusetts. Crowley, during his tenure as King of Hell, held court in the asylum while on Earth, preferring it over going to Hell to conduct business. The asylum is protected with various warding sigils on its exterior, while its doors are locked with a simple bike lock. Crowley calls the asylum his palace.

After Crowley's death, the demons continued using the abandoned asylum as the site of their Earth-side operations under Asmodeus's tenure as King of Hell, until he was killed by Gabriel, leaving the insane asylum abandoned once more.

Episodes

Crowley sits in his throne room.

10.03 Soul Survivor

Crowley is holding court, signing documents and sentencing Abaddon loyalists for high treason. When a demon offers to be his new "wing man," Crowley simply snaps his fingers and the demon disintegrates into smoke.

Sometime later, Crowley continues to sentence demons who sided with Abaddon to death, and watches them be executed. As he is about to blithely sentence another, a demon rushes in, standing between the prisoner and Crowley, demanding Crowley stop. The demon lists off Crowley's offenses, telling him he has squandered the loyalty of his subjects. He produces a bottle of holy oil and pours the contents over his clothes. The demon flicks a lighter on, and Crowley’s eyes widen in surprise when he brings the lighter to his chest, setting himself on fire in front of Crowley's throne.

10.07 Girls, Girls, Girls

After Raul is killed by Rowena, Gerald vacates his meatsuit and possesses the nearest one he can find before heading to Crowley's lair to inform him of what happened. When Gerald tells Crowley of the bordello he and Raul opened to get souls, Crowley is none too pleased, as he believes the sex trade is "tacky."

After Crowley had dispatched demons to capture Rowena for her act of aggression, she is brought to Crowley's lair, chained up, and tortured in his dungeon.

As Crowley enters the room, Rowena begins to verbally taunt him, however Crowley is in disbelief and can only utter the word "Mother?"

10.09 The Things We Left Behind

Still chained up in the dungeon of the asylum, Rowena watches as Gerald brings a demon, Trish, in and chains her up. Rowena pleads with Gerald to let her speak with Crowley, but Gerald just locks the door and walks away laughing.

Trish tries desperately to get free of her chains, but Rowena tells her it won't work. Annoyed, Trish mocks Rowena's accent. Rowena questions what Trish is locked away for and Trish explains that Crowley only allows certain demons Earth-side, and—since she wasn't on the list—she got herself smuggled up from Hell and then was caught. She worries about what Crowley is going to do to get her to confess how she managed to get smuggled Earth-side. Then, she asks Rowena why she's locked up. Rowena answers, "I was a horrible mother."

Meanwhile, in the throne room, Crowley vents to Gerald about how awful a mother Rowena was. He relates a story about how she almost traded him for 3 pigs, and complains about the name she'd given him (Fergus). Gerald suggests killing her, and even offers to do it himself.

A while later, Gerald returns to the dungeon and opens the cell door, announcing that Crowley will see Rowena now. He leads Rowena into the throne room and they have a back and forth where Crowley insists on being referred to as Crowley, not his birthname Fergus, but Rowena refuses. She praises him for rising to the position of King of Hell and insists she always said he was destined for great things. Crowley counters that by reminding her she had predicted he would die in a gutter covered in his own vomit. Rowena tells him she was motivating him to do better. Crowley confronts her about abandoning him when he was 8 years old, and she tells him he's being dramatic. Their conversation leads to Rowena confessing that she doesn't know who Crowley's father was as he was conceived at a Winter Solstice orgy. She then goes on to tell him that she only abandoned him because she had a disagreement with some locals who then set their hounds on her. Crowley questions why she then stayed away for hundreds of years, and she dismisses his questioning, telling him that they have a second chance to be a family now. After insisting that he can trust her, Rowena approaches the throne that Crowley is sitting on and tells him she'll always be his mother and that she loves him, before planting a kiss on his head.

This causes Crowley to have Gerald throw Rowena back into the dungeon cell. As Gerald is trying to shackle Rowena back up, Rowena cries out to Crowley that she knows who had been smuggling souls back up from Hell. Crowley is intrigued, and Rowena points straight at Gerald, accusing him of the soul smuggling. Trish speaks up and confirms what Rowena is saying. Gerald protests that they're lying and wraps his hands around Rowena's throat, choking her. Crowley tells him to stop but, when Gerald refuses to, Crowley stabs him in the throat with an angel blade. Rowena thanks him for saving her life, and follows him out of the cell. Trish quickly pleads with Rowena to let her out since she lied about Gerald for her. Rowena tells her she'll be back in a flash—the same words she said to an 8-year-old Crowley before abandoning him—before closing the door of the cell behind her.

10.10 The Hunter Games

Crowley has a vision that he is being assassinated by his own demon henchmen in a hallway. Rowena brings him back to reality where he sits at his throne, staring blankly into space. She shows concern and offers to help him in any way. However, Crowley insists that nothing is wrong and tells her she can't do anything to help him. Immediately after he exits the room, she pulls out a hex bag from under his throne.

Later, when Crowley isn't around, Rowena snoops around the throne room—opening chests, an old locker full of ties. She's about to reach for an old scroll atop the lockers when Guthrie appears and tells her Crowley didn't want her wandering around unattended. Rowena tries to sweet talk Guthrie before Crowley enters and asks Guthrie's opinion on a form he's signing. When Guthrie leaves, and Crowley is seated in his throne, Rowena begins sowing further seeds of mistrust in Crowley's head against his demon henchmen, telling him they've been plotting against him. Crowley tells her he sees through her, but Rowena insists that she's nothing but a proud mother. Crowley reminds her that she managed to stay away from him for 300 years to which Rowena explains that she had to escape the locals who were about to try her for witchcraft. She then tells him they can be a family again.

Rowena enjoys some tea from a golden tea set as she reminiscences with Crowley about a lullaby she used to sing him nightly after he fed their goat. Crowley reminds her that she didn't sing him a lullaby, she dosed him with whiskey until he passed out. Rowena praises her pharmacology skills as she takes a sip of her tea. Crowley's phone rings and he answers it, greeting Dean. Dean insists that they have to meet, and Crowley instantly agrees without question, eager to get out of his mother's company. He tells Rowena he has to leave on business, and Rowena praises his importance once more, straightening his tie. Rowena asks whether he'd like dinner when he gets back. Crowley reminds her that he she doesn't cook, and he doesn't eat, before promptly disappearing. Once she's alone, Rowena takes a pair of scissors from a drawer, walks over to Crowley's tie locker, and snips a swatch of fabric from one of his ties.

As Crowley meets with Sam and Dean, Rowena uses the swatch of fabric to cast a spell which helps her astral project and spy on Crowley. Through this, she finds out that Sam and Dean are asking Crowley to bring them the First Blade in order to use it to get rid of the Mark of Cain. Crowley reveals the First Blade is in a crypt along with his bones in Guam. Using this information, Rowena manipulates Guthrie into going to Guam and receiving the First Blade—telling him that it's an order from Crowley himself.

When Guthrie returns, Rowena is relaxing on Crowley's throne. Guthrie insists that the blade is now his responsibility and that he'll deliver it to Crowley personally. Rowena walks over to him, praising his loyalty, before stabbing him with an angel blade, killing him. Crowley enters moments later, surprised to find Guthrie dead. Rowena puts on an act, falsely accusing Guthrie of having incited unrest among the court. Crowley refuses to believe it at first until Rowena mentions the Winchesters and tells Crowley Guthrie had went to get the First Blade of his own accord because Crowley "couldn't be trusted". She tells Crowley that she confronted Guthrie only to be attacked, forcing her to kill him. Crowley muses on his earlier vision of Guthrie attacking him, and wonders how he knew of his meeting with the Winchesters. He takes the First Blade from Guthrie's satchel and Rowena warns him against trusting the Winchesters.

Having taken his mother's words into consideration, Crowley sits on his throne and calls Dean. He tells him that he has the blade, but will be keeping it until Dean works out how to get the Mark of Cain off his arm.

10.14 The Executioner's Song

While Crowley is holding court, a crossroads demon brings up a grievance regarding the lack of recognition he has received for soul collections he has gotten in the last quarter, saying he simply wishes to be given credit where credit is due. Crowley dismissively obliges his request and gives him credit. However, Rowena tells Crowley that he shouldn't be giving in, as "whiners beget whiners"; she suggests that he cut the crossroads demon in two and nail his bloody halves to the doors of the court as warning to all demons not to waste the King's time. After a brief contemplation, Crowley goes with his mother's plan and has the crossroads demon dragged away, screaming.

As Crowley is walking the corridors of his lair, he is stopped by Rowena who begins sweet talking him into dealing with a member of the Grand Coven, Olivette. However Crowley reveals that he has been on to Rowena's manipulations from the start, which Rowena readily admits to. With everything now out in the open, Rowena once again attempts to talk Crowley into helping her. Crowley looks at Rowena and turns and walks away.

Later we see that Crowley has agreed to help Rowena with an assault on Olivette, though as Rowena is preparing a plan of attack, Crowley gets a phone call from the Winchesters, asking for the First Blade. Crowley tells his Mother that they need to move back the attack, much to Rowena's dismay. Crowley opens a panel in the wall and pushes a button. A drawer opens up underneath containing the First Blade in a leather wrap, Crowley takes the blade out of the drawer. Crowley walks out of the chamber and down a hallway as Rowena yells after him.

10.16 Paint It Black

Sitting on his throne, Crowley is examining documents on a clipboard when a demon approaches him to plead with him to speak with Rowena. The demon explains that Rowena is still annoyed with Crowley and takes it out on the court of demons. After the demon turns around to reveal Rowena had turned the back of his head into a copy of his face, Crowley calls for her. When Rowena enters the throne room, Crowley gives her a chance to comment on the two-face demon's plight, but she simply relishes in praising her work. Dismissing the demon, Crowley begins by acknowledging his mother's annoyance which she insists is a sense of betrayal instead because he hadn't helped her launch an attack on Olivette of the Grand Coven. Rowena reminds him that she cannot rightfully practice witchcraft without the coven's approval, and Crowley rebukes by pointing out what she'd done to the demon he'd just dismissed. However, Rowena disregards her work as a mere "parlor trick". Crowley warns her that he's thinking about throwing her back into the dungeon she'd previously been confined to. Rowena tries to guilt trip him, recounting the pain she'd felt when he'd helped the Winchesters instead of her, accusing him of preferring them to his own "flesh and blood". She expresses sadness over all of this, mentioning that she'd done a lot for him. Crowley questions this, asking what she'd ever done for him. Rowena reminds him that—since she'd given him life—he wouldn't exist without her. With a theatrical flourish of magic, smashing glass with a flick of her hands, she leaves the throne room.

The next day, Crowley summons a sarcastic Rowena to his throne room and asks what she can do for him. Crowley tells her he'd been thinking about how he'd feel if his reason for living were taken from him and announces that he's brought Olivette to the asylum. A handcuffed Olivette is led into the throne room by two demons and Rowena is surprised but voices her anger with the woman. Crowley points out that the iron handcuffs render the witch powerless, so Rowena can do whatever she wants with her. He then leaves the room with the two demons in tow.

Olivette begins insulting Rowena who tells her that insulting her won't get her to release her. Olivette refuses to grovel for freedom with a witch who had slept with a non-magical human and produced his offspring. Olivette goes on to explain that she and the Grand Coven looked past this because Rowena had been talented, thinking she'd outgrow her "reckless, selfish ways". However, when Rowena grew out of control, they'd had to throw her out. Rowena, unphased by this, reveals to Olivette that her son—and Olivette's imprisoner—is now King of Hell.

After tying Olivette to a chair, Rowena proceeds to beat the witch. Olivette calls Rowena "petulant", "reckless", and "overrated", to which Rowena accuses Olivette of jealousy. They discuss Rowena's ambition for the coven as she continues to hurt Olivette, telling her that she'll get what she wants from her. However, Olivette reveals that the coven is a shell of what it once was because the Men of Letters had been behind the persecution of witches for years, stealing their spells and secrets and hoarding the knowledge in bunkers.

Rowena continues to torture Olivette, trying to get more information out of her. When Olivette tells Rowena she doesn't know any more, Rowena accuses her of lying and being worried that Rowena will recover all the stolen potions and spells and become more powerful than Olivette herself. Rowena asks how she can find the Men of Letters. Olivette says she isn't sure if they still exist but she had heard the American chapter had disbanded in the 1950s. She does, however, know that two of its members still live—Sam and Dean Winchester. Surprised but content with this information, Rowena tells Olivette that she's no longer useful. After telling Olivette that she'll pay for ruining Rowena's life by losing her own, Rowena begins cast a spell. As Olivette convulses, blood pouring from her mouth, Rowena has a change of heart and stops the spell. She muses on how death is too easy a way out for Olivette and begins to cast another spell which turns Olivette into a hamster.

With Olivette now in a cage, running on a hamster wheel, Crowley compliments Rowena on her creativity. Rowena begins to ask Crowley about the Winchesters' association with the Men of Letters, but Crowley cuts her off, telling her that his relationship with Sam and Dean is none of her business and that he refuses to kill them.

10.17 Inside Man

A naked Rowena paints sigils onto her skin in front of a full-body mirror in her quarters. When Crowley suddenly enters, she scarpers to put on a robe, mocking his disgust. She advises him to knock next time, which is refuses, telling her that the asylum is his "domain". He asks what's she's up to, given that she hasn't hounded him for anything in days. Rowena lies to him, telling him that she's been dating someone—a man called Trent, an assistant manager at Biggerson's. Disgusted by this, Crowley leaves, telling his mother to put some clothes on. After Crowley leaves, Rowena fetches a chest from beneath her bed and opens it to reveal a collection of items related to witchcraft.

Later, Rowena manipulates a hardworking demon underling into helping her reveal the location of the Winchesters' base through tracing a call Crowley had made during his time imprisoned there the previous year. The demon sets up a tablet and uses a program called Vox Sanguinum Locant Enterprise Edition (Cracked) to find the location of the base. Due to interference, however, he is unable to pinpoint the exact location, but manages to whittle it down to a 10-mile radius.

After managing to locate Dean at a bar near the bunker and confronting him, Rowena returns to the asylum, vexed that her spell to kill him didn't work. Searching for another plan, she gets inspiration from a dagger in her quarters. She mutilates herself and storms into the throne room to tell Crowley that Dean attacked her. Crowley dismisses all other demons in the room before questioning Rowena on why she was anywhere near Dean. She explains that she'd been trying to kill him, but had failed. Crowley sympathises, given that he'd been in her position before. He then explains that the Mark of Cain was protecting Dean from dying. Rowena vows to find a way to remove the mark so that she can kill him. Crowley asks why she tried to kill Dean in the first place, and Rowena tells him that she's fed up with Sam and Dean having Crowley on a leash. Crowley denies this and tells her that he has the Winchesters right where he wants them. Rowena doesn't believe this, and is angered that Crowley doesn't seem to care very much about her (faked) injuries. She begs Crowley to do something about Dean to avoid his demonic subjects from thinking him weak.

When Crowley returns from meeting with Dean,—whom he'd had a conversation with about the true meaning of family—he enters his mother's quarters and tells her that they're done, and that he wants her out. Rowena is shocked, reminding Crowley that she's his mother. Crowley tells her that just because she brought him into the world doesn't make her a mother. Rowena accuses him of choosing the Winchesters, but Crowley retorts that he's choosing himself. He concedes that she was right about him getting soft, and vows to renounce his tameness and return to his former more evil self. Crowley gently caresses his mother's face as she cries, and asks her if she'd even have bothered to care about him had he not been the King of Hell. Rowena doesn't answer this, but tells Crowley that he can't throw her out. Crowley angrily counters that he can because he's "bloody Crowley" and he does what he wants and doesn't take orders from Rowena. As Crowley turns to leave, Rowena tearfully vows to watch everything he has burn. Crowley is unphased, telling her she has five minutes to leave and never return.

10.21 Dark Dynasty

Crowley is enjoying a game of darts on one of his demon minions when he gets the news that Rowena has gone missing. Not liking what he's heard, he picks up an angel blade and kills his minion, and orders the other to track his mother down.

Sometime later Crowley is conversing with the hamster Olivette, trying to dig up dirt on Rowena he can use against her. While Olivette tells him how horrible Rowena is, it's nothing he doesn't already know, until Olivette mentions Rowena's demon lover as well as a man by the name of Oskar. With this new information on his mother, Crowley summons one of his demon minions and orders the minion to track down Oskar.

11.03 The Bad Seed

As Crowley watches over Amara, one of his minions informs him that Rowena has been found. Crowley sends the minion off to kill Rowena. Amara's nanny updates Crowley on the progress of Amara's education, telling him that she's making great strides despite having been a baby just days before. Crowley orders the nanny to keep a close eye on Amara and ensure she communicates with no one outside the court—he wants to make sure she is firmly on his team. The nanny then compliments Amara's name and asks if Crowley named her himself. He tells her that Jenna named her prior to Amara sucking out and consuming her soul. Crowley then enquires as to what Amara is now watching on her laptop. The nanny answers that Amara is watching Hitler's Nuremberg speeches translated into English.

Crowley approaches Amara and tells her she can take a break, praising her on her quick educational progress. He tells her that he wants her to be happy, referring to the asylum as her "new home". Crowley encourages Amara to ask for anything she wants, and Amara tells him that all she wants is for Crowley to save her from "Him"—God. Amara goes on to mention that God tricked her and sealed her away, leading Crowley to question exactly how God managed that. This causes Amara to clam up and refuse to talk further on the matter. Nevertheless, Crowley tells her he'll protect her and she thanks him before going back to watching Hitler's speeches on her laptop.

Later, Amara—now alone in her quarters—takes a break from browsing pictures of Earth's natural beauty. She walks over to her full-length mirror and sees her adult self reflected in the glass. Adult Amara notes that child Amara looks confused and trouble, child Amara confides that she is confused how God could make such beautiful things on Earth after locking her away. Amara's adult self tells her it was nothing but a demonstration of his inflated ego and that it doesn't excuse his actions towards them, she then tells her younger self to stay focused on their purpose, insisting that they are stronger than God.

Crowley interrupts Amara's talk with her future self—who disappears from the mirror—and questions why she is not in bed. Amara tells him she'll go to bed soon and returns to her laptop at her desk. Crowley praises her for working hard on her studies and asks if she's learning anything interesting, to which Amara answers "I think so."

A while later, Crowley enters Amara's quarters holding a gift bag as she plays Scrabble on her own. Crowley presents Amara with two gifts—a bloodied pink dress, and a pop-up children's book about a rabbit entitled Uncle Hoppity. Amara is unimpressed, telling Crowley she prefers the book her nanny had given her—Dante's Inferno, in the original Italian. Crowley asks if nanny has been educating Amara well on the world, and Amara tells him that she thinks the world doesn't work very well and that she's had time to decide how she would've done things differently than God. This worries Crowley a little, but Amara just changes the subject and announces that she's hungry. Crowley gets Amara's nanny to bring her a tray full of muffins and cupcakes. However, Amara is unsatisfied with this and walks over to cradle her nanny's cheeks before sucking out her soul. Her hunger sated, and the nanny lying on the ground, Amara comments that she killed her. Crowley corrects her, telling her that the nanny's meatsuit was already dead and that the soul was the thing keeping her alive. "Not anymore," Amara responds indifferently, sitting back down to resume her game, thanking "Uncle Crowley".

Amara continues to absorb souls from demon minions, much to Crowley's worry. Crowley asks one of his minions if the cafeteria is serving dead meatsuits to prevent soulless meatsuits from causing trouble in the asylum. Amara continues her conversation with Crowley about how much God messed up mankind. She tells him that she feels the emptiness of the souls she devours, questioning why people want to live in a world where they suffer only to die in the end. Crowley sits down opposite Amara and guides the conversation to them working together to shape the world into what they desire. Crowley muses that he'd like the world to be enveloped in "pure evil", but Amara asks if he'd really be happy if everyone was evil. Rethinking his stance, Crowley comes to the conclusion that he'd rather everyone not be evil, in order for him to corrupt those who aren't. Amara doesn't understand, she sees everything as "unimportant", and insists Crowley isn't seeing the big picture. When Crowley presses her on this, Amara again changes the subject and tells him she's hungry again. Crowley simply clicks his fingers and a struggling meatsuit is escorted into the room, much to Amara's delight.

Later, Crowley calls for one of his minions who he has made Amara's new nanny. He commends him for his good work, telling him that Amara responds well to him. The minion tells Crowley, "She looks at me like she wants to eat me." To which Crowley responds, "She wants to eat everyone, don't take it personally." The demon minion asks Crowley if there isn't another job he can do since he has no experience with children. Crowley admonishes him for asking since the minion failed to kill Rowena. Sitting on his throne, Crowley orders the minion to stop overfeeding Amara souls—despite having given the opposite order not long ago. He is worried she'll grow too powerful before he can be assured of her loyalty. After being threatened by Crowley, the minion nervously agrees to do as he says.

While walking the halls later, looking over some documents, Crowley stumbles across the body of the minion nanny. Upon entering Amara's quarters, he finds her aged-up into a teenager, standing at her mirror. She turns to smile at him, telling him she's hungry. Crowley suggests they have a talk first, which angers Amara who reasserts the fact that she's hungry.

11.06 Our Little World

Amara returns to the lair after consuming another human soul and aging into a teenager. In response, Crowley locks Amara in her room and assigns Jervis, who notes that the court is short on demons due to Amara consuming them all, to guard the door. Amara refuses Crowley's offer of more food and Crowley focuses more on figuring out how to connect with her than on holding court. He later offers Amara his protection as incentive for Amara to stay.

After catching wind of the assassination of Len Fletcher, the Winchesters capture and interrogate the demon Marco, who reveals some of Crowley and Amara's actions but refuses to identify Crowley's location. After Dean kills Marco, Sam goes through his phone and maps out the locations of Amara's soul-sucking in Fall River, Massachusetts. Looking for possible lair locations in the area for Crowley, Dean notes the Needham Asylum, which was closed down in 1963, and the Winchesters realize that an abandoned insane asylum would be perfect for Crowley.

The Winchesters launch a raid to kill Amara, finding a padlock on the door to keep humans out and warding sigils to keep out everyone else. Sam is able to subdue Jervis and another demon, but is forced to kill a third with an angel blade while Dean confronts Amara in her room. Dean can't bring himself to kill her before Crowley interrupts, intending to kill Dean. However, Amara stops Crowley and forces him to grant the Winchesters safe passage out once she is gone. Amara subsequently departs to settle "the oldest grudge" while Crowley broods on his throne once both the Winchesters and Amara are gone.

11.09 O Brother Where Art Thou?

After his demons capture Rowena, Crowley has her brought to his throne room so that he and the Winchesters can discuss with her their plan to speak with Lucifer in Hell using the Book of the Damned.

11.18 Hell's Angel

Crowley tells the Winchesters how Lucifer kept him prisoner in his own "palace" and forced him to clean the floors with his tongue. While originally confused, Dean realizes that Crowley means the abandoned nuthouse he uses as his lair.

11.22 We Happy Few

Crowley holds court with many of his demons, trying to regain power in Hell. However, the demons simply laugh at Crowley's attempts and abandon him, leaving Crowley alone in the deserted asylum.

While trying to recruit an army to defeat the Darkness, Dean visits Crowley in the throne room where he convinces the despondent King to help them by giving Crowley a solid plan to present to his demons, rather than Crowley presenting his own ego to them as he did earlier.

12.08 LOTUS

Crowley mentions to the Winchesters and Castiel that he is once again persona non grata in his own palace, causing them to become incredulous when Crowley calls the old insane asylum his palace yet again.

12.12 Stuck in the Middle (With You)

After the whole Ramiel ordeal, Crowley returns to his throne room, where he is on the phone with one of his remaining demon minions ordering him to search Ramiel's home until they find the Colt. Exasperated, he hangs up and makes himself a drink. A voice begins mocking him with a song, telling him he can never really trust the Winchesters, as they will eventually kill him like all other demons. Crowley simply tells him to shut up and calls him a dog, only for Lucifer's eyes to flash red and tell Crowley that isn't his name.

12.13 Family Feud

In a cell, Crowley taunts a restrained Lucifer, telling him he will eventually break and call him "master."

13.07 War of the Worlds

Castiel and Lucifer imprisoned in Needham Asylum.

13.12 Various & Sundry Villains

While Asmodeus is away, Castiel and Lucifer continue to be held in their cells inside the lair, taunted by the demon Dipper, who reveals that the warding on Lucifer's cell was strengthened to hold the archangel. While locked up together, Castiel continually refuses to allow Lucifer to take some of his grace, while Lucifer discovers that anger allows him to use his telekinesis. The two angels draw Dipper in before Lucifer pins Dipper to the bars of his cell with telekinesis, breaks the stick Lucifer has been practicing his powers on off in Dipper's neck and burns out the warding in his cell and Castiel's. Castiel smites a shocked Dipper and Lucifer takes his angel blade, but the two are then accosted by four more demons. They eventually kill all four and escape.

Outside, the angels are forced to stop due to Lucifer exhausting himself in his weakened state. Lucifer again tries to get Castiel to give up some of his grace and assaults Castiel at the bottom of the lair steps. Though wounded himself, Castiel manages to wound the weakened Lucifer with an angel blade.

13.13 Devil's Bargain

After regaining consciousness, Castiel returns to the lair and calls out for Lucifer, but he is gone.

Mr. Ketch later meets with Asmodeus in the throne room, where Asmodeus assigns him to find and kill Lucifer while Lucifer is still weak. When Ketch returns, having failed in his mission and having formed a secret alliance with the Winchesters, Asmodeus reveals that he has gotten his hands on an archangel blade, the only known weapon capable of killing an archangel such as Lucifer or the Apocalypse World Michael. When Ketch points out that only an archangel can kill another archangel with the blade, Asmodeus introduces Ketch to his prisoner, the archangel Gabriel.

13.17 The Thing

Ketch is blocked from visiting Asmodeus by a guarding demon. After getting too impatient, Ketch enters the throne room to discover Asmodeus extracting Gabriel's grace and injecting himself with it. After being briefly dismissed, Ketch later meets with Asmodeus and reveals his knowledge that Castiel was in Syria searching for fruit from the Tree of Life. Enraged by Ketch's audacity, Asmodeus beats him up around the throne room to establish Ketch's role in the pecking order.

After being left alone in the throne room with Gabriel, Ketch decides to rescue the archangel and steal Asmodeus' supply of Gabriel's grace along with the archangel blade. As Ketch drags the terrified archangel along, he is accosted by the same demon who blocked his way earlier. Ketch kills the demon with the archangel blade and successfully escapes with Gabriel and the stolen items to seek refuge in the Bunker.

13.18 Bring 'em Back Alive

Following Ketch's escape with the archangel Gabriel, an enraged Asmodeus sits on his throne, rolling a pair of marbles in his hand and trying to detect Gabriel's location. After finally sensing that Gabriel is at the Bunker, Asmodeus calls Sam and threatens to destroy the Bunker if they don't hand over Gabriel in ten minutes. When Sam doesn't comply, Asmodeus leaves to lead a demon incursion, but is killed in the process.

Trivia

• The exterior of the Needham Asylum was previously used as a background in 4.16 On the Head of a Pin when Castiel meets with Anna after Alastair's death.
• Crowley's throne in Needham was previously seen in 9.16 Blade Runners in Cuthbert Sinclair's invisible fortress, after Sam and Dean are allowed inside.
• Despite first appearing in 10.03 Soul Survivor and acting as a major location in the series from that point on, its location was not revealed until over a year later in 11.06 Our Little World. Prior to its reveal, many fans assumed Crowley's palace was located in Hell.
• Three of Hell's leaders have used it as their base on Earth: Crowley, Lucifer, and Asmodeus.
• Needham is the only location in the series consistently used as a base by Crowley for more than a few episodes. Typically, Crowley abandoned a base once it was discovered by the Winchesters, but he kept using Needham even after they found it.
• While the timing of Crowley's initial choice of the location is unknown, it appears to have been following his adventures with demon Dean as he was using an office in the last few episodes of Season 8 and was either imprisoned or hunting for Abaddon in Season 9.
• On at least two occasions, Crowley has referred to Needham as his palace, leading to incredulous responses from the Winchesters and initial confusion the first time before Dean realizes that he means Needham or "the abandoned nuthouse" as Dean puts it.
• Crowley, Lucifer and Gabriel have all been held prisoner in the cage in the throne room which Crowley calls a kennel in 11.18 Hell's Angel.
• Following the death of Asmodeus in 13.18 Bring 'em Back Alive, the Needham Asylum no longer appears on the series, reflecting the lessened role of demons in Season 14 and Hell no longer having a ruler until Season 15.
• After Rowena dies, she takes over as Queen of Hell, having her own throne room in Hell, where the demons remain to conduct their business rather than continue using the Needham Asylum for their earthly affairs. It's later revealed that Rowena ended the practice of making crossroads deals and outside of the rare summoning, locked down Hell so no demons would resurface on Earth, no longer needing the asylum to conduct any of their affairs.