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|title= Faith
 
|title= Faith
 
|episode= Season 1, Episode 12
 
|episode= Season 1, Episode 12
 
|firstaired= January 17, 2006
 
|firstaired= January 17, 2006
 
|director= [[Allan Kroeker]]
 
|director= [[Allan Kroeker]]
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|writer= [[Raelle Tucker]]<BR>[[Sera Gamble]]  
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|writer= [[Raelle Tucker]]<br>[[Sera Gamble]]  
 
|imdb= [http://imdb.com/title/tt0713614/ Faith]
 
|imdb= [http://imdb.com/title/tt0713614/ Faith]
 
|download= [http://itunes.apple.com/us/tv-season/faith/id262465152?i=263276249 iTunes], [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00117W1KS Amazon.com]
 
|download= [http://itunes.apple.com/us/tv-season/faith/id262465152?i=263276249 iTunes], [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00117W1KS Amazon.com]
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|outline= [[Dean]] is mortally wounded; [[Sam]] takes him to a faith healer in Nebraska that turns out to be another hunt.
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|outline= When [[Dean]] is mortally wounded, [[Sam]] takes him to a faith healer in Nebraska that turns out to be another hunt.
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|motw= [[Reaper]]
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|motw= [[Rawhead]]<br>[[Reaper]]
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|location= [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebraska Nebraska]
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|location= Ford City, Nebraska
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|timeline= End of April, 2006
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|timeline=  
 
|map=<googlemap lat="40.480381" lon="-98.789062" zoom="5" width="300" height="300" overview="yes" controls="small">
 
|map=<googlemap lat="40.480381" lon="-98.789062" zoom="5" width="300" height="300" overview="yes" controls="small">
 
41.500713, -99.680902, Nebraska, USA
 
41.500713, -99.680902, Nebraska, USA
 
</googlemap>
 
</googlemap>
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|prevep= 1.11 Scarecrow
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|nextep= 1.13 Route 666
 
}}
 
}}
  
 
|Synopsis=  
 
|Synopsis=  
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While hunting a [[rawhead]], Dean is accidentally electrocuted. Sam gets him to hospital, but the prognosis is bad – his heart is damaged and he will die in a few weeks.
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While hunting a [[rawhead]], [[Dean]] is accidentally electrocuted. [[Sam]] gets him to the hospital, but the prognosis is bad – his heart is damaged and he will die within a few weeks. Sam desperately searches for a way to save him, including leaving a message for [[John]]. Dean checks himself out of the hospital, and when he turns up at the motel, Sam announces he has found a specialist in Nebraska who will be able to help. Dean is not impressed when the specialist turns out to be Reverend [[Roy Le Grange]], a faith healer. As they enter the tent where Le Grange preaches, they pass a man protesting that he is a fraud, though [[Layla Rourke]] and her mother have faith in his abilities.
  
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Sam desperately searches for a way to save him, including leaving a message for [[John]]. Dean checks himself out of the hospital, and when he turns up at the motel, Sam announces he has found a specialist in Nebraska who will be able to help.
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Dean and Sam take their seats in the congregation. On stage is Roy Le Grange, a blind man, and his wife [[Sue-Ann Le Grange]]. Roy picks Dean out from the crowd, and he reluctantly joins Roy on stage. As Roy and the congregation start to pray, Dean gets dizzy and then collapses. Sam rushes to the stage. As Dean comes to, he sees the figure of a cadaverous man next to Roy. The next day Dean is checked out at the local hospital; he has inexplicably recovered from his fatal injuries, but he feels a strong sense of disquiet. When the nurse mentions that the previous day a young healthy man died of a heart attack, Dean suggests that Sam check it out, while he goes to visit the reverend.
  
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Dean is not impressed when the specialist turns out to be Reverend [[Roy Le Grange]], a faith healer. As they enter the tent where Le Grange preaches, they pass a man protesting that he is a fraud, though [[Layla Rourke]] and her mother have faith in his abilities.
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Sam talks to a friend of [[Marshall Hall]], the young man who died. The friend says that Marshall felt he was being followed before he died. Sam finds out that he died at the same time Dean was healed. At Roy Le Grange’s house, Roy tells Dean that he feels Dean has an unfinished purpose. As he leaves, Dean meets Layla Rourke and [[Mrs. Rourke]]. They are regular attendees at the services. Layla has a brain tumor, and Mrs. Rourke is bitter that Dean was healed rather than her daughter. Sam tells Dean about Marshall Hall’s death, and Dean tells Sam about the man he saw as he was being healed – he thinks it was a reaper. Sam also identifies a particular type of cross from the altar in the church tent as one that could be associated with black magic which could be used to control the reaper.
  
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Dean and Sam take their seats in the congregation. On stage is Roy Le Grange, a blind man, and his wife [[Sue-Ann Le Grange]]. Roy picks Dean out from the crowd, and he reluctantly joins Roy on stage. As Roy and the congregation start to pray, Dean gets dizzy, and then collapses. Sam rushes to the stage. As Dean comes to, he sees the figure of a cadaverous man next to Roy.
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That night Sam breaks into the Le Grange house to try and find a spell book or something that Roy is using to control the reaper. Meanwhile, Dean goes to stop Roy healing, and therefore killing, someone else during his evening service. Sam finds a book full of newspaper clippings, and surmises that Roy is killing people he sees as immoral, and that the man who was protesting in the parking lot will be next. He calls Dean and tells him to stop Roy. Before Dean can act, Roy calls Layla to the stage for healing. Dean is reluctant, but finally stops the service by yelling "Fire!" Sam tracks down David, the parking lot protester, but he says [[The Reaper]] is still coming for him. Dean then sees Sue-Ann, praying over the unusual cross they had identified earlier. When she stops, the reaper disappears.
  
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The next day Dean is checked out at the local hospital – he is cured – but he feels a strong sense of disquiet. When the nurse mentions that the previous day a young healthy man died of a heart attack, he suggests Sam check it out, while he goes to visit the reverend.
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Back at the motel, Sam and Dean work out that it is Sue-Ann controlling the reaper, and that there must be an altar at the house. They return and Sam goes to find the altar, while Dean finds a service in progress and Layla, again, about to be healed. Sam finds the altar in the basement and destroys it, but Sue-Ann discovers him, and locks him down there. She returns to the service to summon the reaper so Layla can be healed. The Reaper appears to Dean, and starts to take his life. Just in time, Sam appears, and smashes the cross Sue-Ann is praying over. The reaper is released and takes Sue-Ann’s life. Layla, however, is not healed.
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Sam talks to a friend of [[Marshall Hall]], the young man who died. He says that Marshall felt he was being followed before he died. Sam finds out that he died at the same time Dean was healed.
 
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At Roy Le Grange’s house, Roy tells Dean that he feels he has an unfinished purpose.  As he leaves, Dean meets Layla Rourke and [[Mrs. Rourke]]. They are regular attenders at the services, and Mrs. Rourke is bitter that Dean was healed rather than Layla, who has a brain tumour.
 
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Sam tells Dean about Marshall Hall’s death, and Dean tells Sam about the man he saw as he was being healed – he thinks it was a reaper. Sam also identifies a particular type of cross from the altar in the church tent, as one that could be associated with black magic which could be used to control the reaper.
 
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That night Sam breaks into the Le Grange house to try and find a spell book, or something that Roy is using to control the reaper. Meanwhile, Dean goes to stop Roy healing, and therefore killing, someone else during his evening service.
 
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Sam finds a book full of newspaper clippings, and surmises that Roy is killing people he sees as immoral, and that the man who was protesting in the parking lot will be next. He calls Dean and tells him to stop Roy.
 
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Before Dean can act, Roy calls Layla to the stage for healing. Dean is reluctant, but finally stops the service by yelling "Fire!"
 
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Sam tracks down David, the parking lot protester, but he says the reaper is still coming for him. Dean then sees Sue-Ann, praying over the unusual cross they had identified earlier. When she stops, the reaper disappears.
 
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Back at the motel, Sam and Dean work out it is Sue-Ann controlling the reaper, and that there must be an altar at the house. They return and Sam goes to find the altar, while Dean finds a service in progress and Layla, again, about to be healed. Sam finds the altar in the basement and destroys it, but Sue-Ann discovers him, and locks him down there. She returns to the service, to summon the reaper, so Layla can be healed.
 
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The reaper appears to Dean, and starts to take his life. Just in time, Sam appears, and smashes the cross Sue-Ann is praying over. The reaper is released and takes Sue-Ann’s life. Layla, however, is not healed.
 
  
 
As they prepare to leave town, Dean is still disturbed that he was saved while Layla wasn’t. Layla arrives, invited by Sam, and she tells Dean she has made her peace with what will happen to her. Dean says he will pray for her, which she calls a miracle.
 
As they prepare to leave town, Dean is still disturbed that he was saved while Layla wasn’t. Layla arrives, invited by Sam, and she tells Dean she has made her peace with what will happen to her. Dean says he will pray for her, which she calls a miracle.
  
 
|Characters=  
 
|Characters=  
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* [[Sam Winchester]]
 
* [[Dean Winchester]]
 
* [[Dean Winchester]]
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* [[Sam Winchester]]
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* [[Sue-Ann Le Grange]]
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* [[Roy Le Grange]]
 
* [[Layla Rourke]]
 
* [[Layla Rourke]]
 
* [[Mrs. Rourke]]
 
* [[Mrs. Rourke]]
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* [[Sue-Ann Le Grange]]
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* [[The Reaper]]
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* [[Roy Le Grange]]
 
 
* [[Marshall Hall]]
 
* [[Marshall Hall]]
  
 
|Pad_of_Definitions=  
 
|Pad_of_Definitions=  
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* [[Rawhead]] <sup>[[PoD]]</sup>
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* [[Aliases]]
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* [[Tarot cards]] <sup>[[PoD]]</sup>
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* [[Binding Spell]]
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* [[Necromancy]] <sup>[[PoD]]</sup>
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* [[Black Magic]]
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* [[Black Magic]] <sup>[[PoD]]</sup>
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* [[Coptic Cross]]
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* [[Dark side]]
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* [[Dean's Amulet]]
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* [[Faith Healer]]
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* [[Healing]]
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* [[Hunters]]
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* [[Impala]]
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* [[John's Cell Phone]]
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* [[John's Journal]]
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* [[Necromancy]]
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* [[Rawhead]]
 
* [[Reaper]]
 
* [[Reaper]]
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* [[John's Cell Phone]]
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* [[Sammy]]
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* [[Binding Spell]]
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* [[Spells]]
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* [[Star Wars]]
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* [[Table of Death]]
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* [[Tarot cards]]
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* [[Tongues]]
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* [[Unconscious]]
  
 
|Music=  
 
|Music=  
 
* "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" by Blue Öyster Cult
 
* "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" by Blue Öyster Cult
 
:''(plays when the reaper kills the girl in the woods)''
 
:''(plays when the reaper kills the girl in the woods)''
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'''Netflix'''<br>
 
* "Death in the Valley" by Death Riders
 
* "Death in the Valley" by Death Riders
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:''(plays when the reaper kills the girl in the woods; Netflix version)''
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:''(plays when the reaper kills the girl in the woods)''
  
 
|Quotes=  
 
|Quotes=  
 
{{TriviaQuote |Text=
 
{{TriviaQuote |Text=
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'''Dean:''' Well, I’m not gonna die in a hospital where the nurses aren’t even hot. <br>
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'''Sam:''' What do you got those amped up to?<br>
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'''Sam:''' You know, this whole I-laugh-in-the-face-of-death thing? It’s crap. I can see right through it.<br>}}
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'''Dean:''' A hundred thousand volts.<br>
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'''Sam:''' Damn.<br>
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'''Dean:''' Yeah, I want this rawhead extra frickin' crispy. And remember, you only get one shot with these things. So make it count.
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}}
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{{TriviaQuote |Text=
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'''Dean:''' Hey, you better take care of that car. Or, I swear, I'll haunt your ass.<br>
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'''Sam:''' I don't think that's funny.<br>
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'''Dean:''' Oh, come on, it's a little funny.
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}}
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{{TriviaQuote |Text=
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'''Sam:''' Hey, Dad. It's Sam. Uh...you probably won't even get this, but, uh... it's Dean. He's sick, and uh...the doctors say there's nothing they can do. Um... but, uh, they don't know the things we know, right? So, don't worry, cause I'm uh... gonna do whatever it takes to get him better. Alright... just wanted you to know.
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}}
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{{TriviaQuote |Text=
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'''Sam:''' What the hell are you doing here?<br>
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'''Dean:''' I checked myself out.<br>
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'''Sam:''' What, are you crazy?<br>
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'''Dean:''' Well, I'm not gonna die in a hospital where the nurses aren't even hot.
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}}
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{{TriviaQuote |Text=
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'''Dean:''' Man, you are a lying bastard. Thought you said we were going to see a doctor.<br>
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'''Sam:''' I believe I said a specialist. Look, Dean, this guy's supposed to be the real deal.<br>
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'''Dean:''' I can't believe you brought me here to see some guy who heals people out of a tent.
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}}
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{{TriviaQuote |Text=
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'''Sam:''' Maybe it's time to have a little faith, Dean.<br>
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'''Dean:''' You know what I've got faith in? Reality. Knowing what's really going on.<br>
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'''Sam:''' How can you be a skeptic? With the things we see everyday?<br>
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'''Dean:''' Exactly. We see them, we know they're real.<br>
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'''Sam:''' But if you know evil's out there, how can you not believe good's out there, too?<br>
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'''Dean:''' Because I've seen what evil does to good people.
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}}
 
{{TriviaQuote |Text=
 
{{TriviaQuote |Text=
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'''Dean:''' You better take care of that car or I swear I'll haunt your ass!}}
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'''Dean:''' There's only one thing that can give and take life like that. We're dealing with a reaper.<br>
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'''Sam:''' You really think it's the Grim Reaper? Like, angel of death, collect your soul, the whole deal?<br>
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'''Dean:''' No no no, not ''the'' reaper, A reaper. There's reaper lore in pretty much every culture on earth, it goes by 100 different names, it's possible that there's more than one of them.<br>
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'''Sam:''' But you said you saw a dude in a suit.<br>
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'''Dean:''' What, you think he shoulda been working the whole black robe thing?... You said it yourself that the clock stopped right? Reapers stop time. And you can only see 'em when they're coming at you which is why I could see it and you couldn't.
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}}
 
{{TriviaQuote |Text=
 
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'''Sam:''' But if you know evil’s out there, how can you not believe good’s out there, too?<br>
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'''Sam:''' No. We're not going to kill a human being Dean. We do that we're no better than he is.<br>
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''' Dean:''' Because I’ve seen what evil does to good people.<br>}}
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'''Dean:''' Okay, we cant kill Roy, we can't kill death. Any bright ideas college boy?<br>
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'''Sam:''' Okay. uh... If Roy's using some kind of black spell on the reaper, we gotta... figure out what it is. And how to break it.
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{{TriviaQuote | Text=
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'''Dean:''' Yeah, but Roy's alive, so why's she still using the spell?
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'''Sam:''' Right. To force the reaper to kill people she thinks are immoral.
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'''Dean:''' Then God save us from half the people who think they're doing God's work.
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'''Layla:''' I’m okay. Really. I guess, if you're gonna have faith, you can’t just have it when the miracles happen. You have to have it when they don’t.<br>}}
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'''Layla:''' You wanna hear something weird? I'm okay. Really. I guess if you're gonna have faith... you can't just have it when the miracles happen. You have to have it when they don't.<br>
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'''Dean:''' So what now?<br>
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'''Layla:''' God works in mysterious ways... Goodbye Dean.<br>
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'''Dean:''' Well... I'm not much of the praying type... but... I'm gonna pray for you. <br>
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'''Layla:''' Well... There's a miracle right there.
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}}
  
 
|Trivia_References=
 
|Trivia_References=
 
{{TriviaQuote |Text=
 
{{TriviaQuote |Text=
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Deleted Scene from [[Season 1 DVD]]: Marshall Hall is seen swimming in the pool where he died. The scene cuts back and forth between Dean being healed by Roy Le Grange and Marshall being chased by the reaper.}}
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'''Dean:''' Have you ever actually watched daytime TV? It's terrible.
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:''Amusing, seeing as [[Jensen Ackles]]'s first major gig was in the role of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Brady Eric Brady] on the daytime soap ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days_of_our_Lives Days of Our Lives] from 1997-2000.''
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{{TriviaQuote |Text=
 
{{TriviaQuote |Text=
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[[Eric Kripke]] cites "Faith" as his favorite episode of ''Supernatural'' saying:
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'''Dean:''' That fabric softener teddy bear. Oh, I wanna hunt that little bitch down.
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:"It's when I first realized what the show was capable of. Here's this episode about: Is there a god? What's meant to be? And is there free will? And is your life worth the cost of someone else's life? It's a metaphysical and moral study of the boys' universe. There's so many different places the show can go and so many tones. That's been really fun to do."}}
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:''[http://www.snuggle.com/home.asp Snuggle Fabric Softener] uses a disgustingly cute and possibly possessed Teddy Bear puppet in its commercials. For further reference: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZvCP25ka3E an original commercial]; [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_4EkvYgVK8 justification for Dean's fears].''
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}}
 
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'''Dean:''' Have you ever actually watched daytime TV? It's terrible.
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[[Roy Le Grange]]'s name may be a reference to the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h2hox--bR8 ZZ Top song "La Grange."]
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:''Amusing, seeing as [[Jensen Ackles]]'s first major gig was in the role of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Brady Eric Brady] on the daytime soap ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days_of_our_Lives Days of Our Lives] from 1997-2000.''}}
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{{TriviaQuote |Text=
 
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'''Dean:''' That fabric softener teddy bear. Ooh, I wanna hunt that little bitch down.
 
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:''[http://www.snuggle.com/home.asp Snuggle Fabric Softener] uses a disgustingly cute and possibly possessed Teddy Bear puppet in its commercials. For further reference: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZvCP25ka3E an original commercial]; [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_4EkvYgVK8 justification for Dean's fears].''}}
 
 
{{TriviaQuote |Text=
 
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'''Dean:''' Look, no disrespect, but I’m not exactly a believer.<br>
 
'''Dean:''' Look, no disrespect, but I’m not exactly a believer.<br>
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:''Calls to mind Yoda's words to Luke in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Empire_Strikes_Back The Empire Strikes Back]'':
 
:''Calls to mind Yoda's words to Luke in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Empire_Strikes_Back The Empire Strikes Back]'':
 
:'''Luke:''' I'm not afraid.
 
:'''Luke:''' I'm not afraid.
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:'''Yoda:''' You will be. You will be.}}
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:'''Yoda:''' You will be. You will be.
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{{TriviaQuote |Text=
 
{{TriviaQuote |Text=
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The faith healer's name may be a reference to the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h2hox--bR8 ZZ Top song "La Grange."]}}
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The text in the ancient book, "Written by a priest who went dark side", is taken from Julius Caesar's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commentarii_de_Bello_Gallico ''Commentarii de Bello Gallico''] (Commentaries on the Gallic War), Book VII.
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|Minutiae=
 
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In the [[S1Com|Season 1 Official Companion]] [[Eric Kripke]] cites "Faith" as his favorite episode of ''Supernatural'' saying:
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:"It's when I first realized what the show was capable of. Here's this episode about: Is there a god? What's meant to be? And is there free will? And is your life worth the cost of someone else's life? It's a metaphysical and moral study of the boys' universe. There's so many different places the show can go and so many tones. That's been really fun to do."<sup>[[S1Com]],p. 70-71.</sup>
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[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1264633/ Erica Carroll], who played a Nurse, also played a mother in [[1.18 Something Wicked]] and the [[angel]] [[Hannah]] in seasons nine and ten.
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[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0224477/ Alex Diakun], who played [[The Reaper]], also played [[Mr. Vili]] in [[8.02 What's Up, Tiger Mommy?]]. 
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[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0354340/ John Hainsworth], who played an unidentified character, also played [[P.T. Sandover]] in [[4.17 It's a Terrible Life]].
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[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0492687/ Colin Lawrence], who played Jason, also played [[Steve, Reggie and Tim|Reggie Hull]] in [[5.03 Free to Be You and Me]].
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[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0574081/ Kevin McNulty], who played [[Roy Le Grange]], also played [[Phillip]] in [[10.06 Ask Jeeves]].
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[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1200569/ Shawn Reis], who played an unidentified character, also played [[Jared and Lee Bender|Lee Bender]] in [[1.15 The Benders]].
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[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2102545/ Cainan Wiebe], who played Boy Victim, also played Bully #1 in [[4.08 Wishful Thinking]] and [[Barry Cook]] in [[4.13 After School Special]].
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'''Deleted Scene:''' [[Marshall Hall]] is seen swimming in the pool where he died. The scene cuts back and forth between [[Dean]] being healed by [[Roy Le Grange]] and Marshall being chased by the [[reaper]].
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}}
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|Sides_Scripts_Transcripts=
 
|Sides_Scripts_Transcripts=
 
* [[1.12 Faith (transcript)]]
 
* [[1.12 Faith (transcript)]]
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* [https://www.slideshare.net/JulesWilkinson/supernatural-112-faith-script Faith Script] (Studio Draft)
  
 
|Promotion=  
 
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*[http://supernatural.tv/gallery2/promos/s1/faith/index.html Episode Stills]
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzpStuAhRfE Promo]
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*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzpStuAhRfE Episode Promo: 1.12 Faith]
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==Episode Meta==
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[[Category:Canon]][[Category:Episodes]][[Category: Season 1]]}}
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*[[SPN Heavy Meta]] Season One Meta Index
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*Bond, Silvia. 2007. Angels Among Us: "Faith" Season 1, Episode 12. ''Pink Raygun'', November 26; [https://web.archive.org/web/20120326112136/http://www.pinkraygun.com/2007/11/26/supernatural-faith/ archive link]
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Revision as of 16:12, 31 October 2021


1-12 Faith.jpg
Title Faith
Episode # Season 1, Episode 12
First aired January 17, 2006
Directed by Allan Kroeker
Written by Raelle Tucker
Sera Gamble
On IMDB Faith
Outline When Dean is mortally wounded, Sam takes him to a faith healer in Nebraska that turns out to be another hunt.
Monster Rawhead
Reaper
Timeline
Location(s) Ford City, Nebraska
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Synopsis

While hunting a rawhead, Dean is accidentally electrocuted. Sam gets him to the hospital, but the prognosis is bad – his heart is damaged and he will die within a few weeks. Sam desperately searches for a way to save him, including leaving a message for John. Dean checks himself out of the hospital, and when he turns up at the motel, Sam announces he has found a specialist in Nebraska who will be able to help. Dean is not impressed when the specialist turns out to be Reverend Roy Le Grange, a faith healer. As they enter the tent where Le Grange preaches, they pass a man protesting that he is a fraud, though Layla Rourke and her mother have faith in his abilities.

Dean and Sam take their seats in the congregation. On stage is Roy Le Grange, a blind man, and his wife Sue-Ann Le Grange. Roy picks Dean out from the crowd, and he reluctantly joins Roy on stage. As Roy and the congregation start to pray, Dean gets dizzy and then collapses. Sam rushes to the stage. As Dean comes to, he sees the figure of a cadaverous man next to Roy. The next day Dean is checked out at the local hospital; he has inexplicably recovered from his fatal injuries, but he feels a strong sense of disquiet. When the nurse mentions that the previous day a young healthy man died of a heart attack, Dean suggests that Sam check it out, while he goes to visit the reverend.

Sam talks to a friend of Marshall Hall, the young man who died. The friend says that Marshall felt he was being followed before he died. Sam finds out that he died at the same time Dean was healed. At Roy Le Grange’s house, Roy tells Dean that he feels Dean has an unfinished purpose. As he leaves, Dean meets Layla Rourke and Mrs. Rourke. They are regular attendees at the services. Layla has a brain tumor, and Mrs. Rourke is bitter that Dean was healed rather than her daughter. Sam tells Dean about Marshall Hall’s death, and Dean tells Sam about the man he saw as he was being healed – he thinks it was a reaper. Sam also identifies a particular type of cross from the altar in the church tent as one that could be associated with black magic which could be used to control the reaper.

That night Sam breaks into the Le Grange house to try and find a spell book or something that Roy is using to control the reaper. Meanwhile, Dean goes to stop Roy healing, and therefore killing, someone else during his evening service. Sam finds a book full of newspaper clippings, and surmises that Roy is killing people he sees as immoral, and that the man who was protesting in the parking lot will be next. He calls Dean and tells him to stop Roy. Before Dean can act, Roy calls Layla to the stage for healing. Dean is reluctant, but finally stops the service by yelling "Fire!" Sam tracks down David, the parking lot protester, but he says The Reaper is still coming for him. Dean then sees Sue-Ann, praying over the unusual cross they had identified earlier. When she stops, the reaper disappears.

Back at the motel, Sam and Dean work out that it is Sue-Ann controlling the reaper, and that there must be an altar at the house. They return and Sam goes to find the altar, while Dean finds a service in progress and Layla, again, about to be healed. Sam finds the altar in the basement and destroys it, but Sue-Ann discovers him, and locks him down there. She returns to the service to summon the reaper so Layla can be healed. The Reaper appears to Dean, and starts to take his life. Just in time, Sam appears, and smashes the cross Sue-Ann is praying over. The reaper is released and takes Sue-Ann’s life. Layla, however, is not healed.

As they prepare to leave town, Dean is still disturbed that he was saved while Layla wasn’t. Layla arrives, invited by Sam, and she tells Dean she has made her peace with what will happen to her. Dean says he will pray for her, which she calls a miracle.

Characters

Definitions

Music

  • "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" by Blue Öyster Cult
(plays when the reaper kills the girl in the woods)

Netflix

  • "Death in the Valley" by Death Riders
(plays when the reaper kills the girl in the woods)

Quotes

Sam: What do you got those amped up to?

Dean: A hundred thousand volts.
Sam: Damn.

Dean: Yeah, I want this rawhead extra frickin' crispy. And remember, you only get one shot with these things. So make it count.
Dean: Hey, you better take care of that car. Or, I swear, I'll haunt your ass.

Sam: I don't think that's funny.

Dean: Oh, come on, it's a little funny.
Sam: Hey, Dad. It's Sam. Uh...you probably won't even get this, but, uh... it's Dean. He's sick, and uh...the doctors say there's nothing they can do. Um... but, uh, they don't know the things we know, right? So, don't worry, cause I'm uh... gonna do whatever it takes to get him better. Alright... just wanted you to know.
Sam: What the hell are you doing here?

Dean: I checked myself out.
Sam: What, are you crazy?

Dean: Well, I'm not gonna die in a hospital where the nurses aren't even hot.
Dean: Man, you are a lying bastard. Thought you said we were going to see a doctor.

Sam: I believe I said a specialist. Look, Dean, this guy's supposed to be the real deal.

Dean: I can't believe you brought me here to see some guy who heals people out of a tent.
Sam: Maybe it's time to have a little faith, Dean.

Dean: You know what I've got faith in? Reality. Knowing what's really going on.
Sam: How can you be a skeptic? With the things we see everyday?
Dean: Exactly. We see them, we know they're real.
Sam: But if you know evil's out there, how can you not believe good's out there, too?

Dean: Because I've seen what evil does to good people.
Dean: There's only one thing that can give and take life like that. We're dealing with a reaper.

Sam: You really think it's the Grim Reaper? Like, angel of death, collect your soul, the whole deal?
Dean: No no no, not the reaper, A reaper. There's reaper lore in pretty much every culture on earth, it goes by 100 different names, it's possible that there's more than one of them.
Sam: But you said you saw a dude in a suit.

Dean: What, you think he shoulda been working the whole black robe thing?... You said it yourself that the clock stopped right? Reapers stop time. And you can only see 'em when they're coming at you which is why I could see it and you couldn't.
Sam: No. We're not going to kill a human being Dean. We do that we're no better than he is.

Dean: Okay, we cant kill Roy, we can't kill death. Any bright ideas college boy?

Sam: Okay. uh... If Roy's using some kind of black spell on the reaper, we gotta... figure out what it is. And how to break it.
Dean: Yeah, but Roy's alive, so why's she still using the spell?

Sam: Right. To force the reaper to kill people she thinks are immoral.

Dean: Then God save us from half the people who think they're doing God's work.
Layla: You wanna hear something weird? I'm okay. Really. I guess if you're gonna have faith... you can't just have it when the miracles happen. You have to have it when they don't.

Dean: So what now?
Layla: God works in mysterious ways... Goodbye Dean.
Dean: Well... I'm not much of the praying type... but... I'm gonna pray for you.

Layla: Well... There's a miracle right there.

Trivia & References

Dean: Have you ever actually watched daytime TV? It's terrible.
Amusing, seeing as Jensen Ackles's first major gig was in the role of Eric Brady on the daytime soap Days of Our Lives from 1997-2000.
Dean: That fabric softener teddy bear. Oh, I wanna hunt that little bitch down.
Snuggle Fabric Softener uses a disgustingly cute and possibly possessed Teddy Bear puppet in its commercials. For further reference: an original commercial; justification for Dean's fears.
Roy Le Grange's name may be a reference to the ZZ Top song "La Grange."
Dean: Look, no disrespect, but I’m not exactly a believer.

Reverend Roy: You will be, son. You will be.

Calls to mind Yoda's words to Luke in The Empire Strikes Back:
Luke: I'm not afraid.
Yoda: You will be. You will be.
The text in the ancient book, "Written by a priest who went dark side", is taken from Julius Caesar's Commentarii de Bello Gallico (Commentaries on the Gallic War), Book VII.

Minutiae

In the Season 1 Official Companion Eric Kripke cites "Faith" as his favorite episode of Supernatural saying:
"It's when I first realized what the show was capable of. Here's this episode about: Is there a god? What's meant to be? And is there free will? And is your life worth the cost of someone else's life? It's a metaphysical and moral study of the boys' universe. There's so many different places the show can go and so many tones. That's been really fun to do."S1Com,p. 70-71.
Erica Carroll, who played a Nurse, also played a mother in 1.18 Something Wicked and the angel Hannah in seasons nine and ten.
John Hainsworth, who played an unidentified character, also played P.T. Sandover in 4.17 It's a Terrible Life.
Colin Lawrence, who played Jason, also played Reggie Hull in 5.03 Free to Be You and Me.
Shawn Reis, who played an unidentified character, also played Lee Bender in 1.15 The Benders.
Cainan Wiebe, who played Boy Victim, also played Bully #1 in 4.08 Wishful Thinking and Barry Cook in 4.13 After School Special.
Deleted Scene: Marshall Hall is seen swimming in the pool where he died. The scene cuts back and forth between Dean being healed by Roy Le Grange and Marshall being chased by the reaper.

Sides, Scripts & Transcripts

Promotion



Episode Meta

  • SPN Heavy Meta Season One Meta Index
  • Bond, Silvia. 2007. Angels Among Us: "Faith" Season 1, Episode 12. Pink Raygun, November 26; archive link
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