10.12 About a Boy

Title	About a Boy
Episode #	Season 10, Episode 12
First aired	February 3, 2015
Directed by	Serge Ladouceur
Written by	Adam Glass
On IMDB	About a Boy
Outline
Monster	Witches Hansel
Timeline
Location(s)	Pendleton, Oregon Lebanon, Kansas
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Characters

• Sam Winchester
• Dean Winchester
• Tina
• Hansel

Definitions

• Alcohol
• Hex Bag
• Mark of Cain
• Men of Letters Bunker
• Spells
• Witches
• Impala

Music

• "Ashes, the Rain and I" by James Gang

(plays while Dean is researching the Mark of Cain)

• "Only a Matter of Time" by Headwater

(playing in the bar when Dean goes to question the bartender about JP)

• "Shake It Off" by Taylor Swift

(plays as Sam and Dean drive off)

Quotes

Bum: Look we all know whats going here okay.

Dean: Don't say it.
Bum: Aliens.
Dean: He said it.
Sam: Yeah he did.

Bum: Dude was abducted believe me I know. May 2003 those suckers they grabbed me and they probed me everywhere, and I'm talking everywhere.

Dean: How we looking?

Sam: Not great. Turns out JP was about 3 days from getting evicted. His landlord said the guy blasted Neil Diamond 24/7, and that his bathroom was quote like staring into the Devil's butt.
Dean: That's... vivid.
Sam: And accurate, I saw it.
Dean: You saw the john or-

Sam: Don't.

Tina: You know before, I thought you were just another drunk.
Dean: I prefer functioning alcoholic.

Dean: Really Sam, now? I got no grass on the in-field and a girl's gonna to die. Sorry if I'm not in a chatty mood, look you wanted me back in the game, I'm back in the damn game. Come on.

Dean: What?

Sam: Nothing. Okay not nothing This is bizarre, even for us. Dean This is insane, You're like 14, how does it even feel.
Dean: Well, I'm me. I'm old me, but a kid. It's freakin' weird dude, and...
Sam: What
Dean: There was a Taylor Swift song on the bus that I hopped to the motel, and uh, I liked it Sam. I liked it a lot.
Sam: Okay
Dean: And my voice is weird, and I've got like 9 zits, and I have zero control over this; I mean it's up, it's down, it's up for no reason.
Sam: That's enough yeah, no thanks. That's just called puberty.

Dean: Yeah, which sucks, again.

Dean: Some good news though, virgin liver. So, what do you say when we're done doing our hero thing, we take it out for a test drive?

Sam: Yeah sure. I mean you can drink again in what like, seven years?

Dean: That's not funny.

Trivia & References

About a Boy is the title of a coming of age novel, which was later adapted into a film and TV series.

Tina: JP wasn't that bad.

Dean: You knew him?
Tina: This isn't exactly Cheers, but yeah. And Don't get me wrong I would not buy a used car from the guy. But he was harmless.
Dean: So what was his problem?
Tina: What wasn't? You're in here getting stunned until the sun comes up, your life is a regular Charlie Foxtrot.

Tina: Stay calm? I'm a friggin' tween, and you look like some One Direction reject, and were in some freaky serial killer basement, I can't-

Sam: How?

Dean: No clue, some Scarface looking dude, bright light. Next thing I know, I wake up looking like Beiber.

Dean: Okay. We still got some of that witch killing crap in the trunk?

Sam: Hell yeah. So we'll get you changed back and light Sabrina's ass up.

Sam: Dean I'm way to big to fit in that.

Dean: First time you ever had to say that, huh?
Sam: Big talk from the guy wearing Underoos.

Minutiae

Nels Lennarson, who played the Bartender, previously played Walt in 5.16 Dark Side of the Moon.

Mark Acheson, who played Hansel, previously played the Tooth Fairy in 5.06 I Believe the Children Are Our Future.

Sides, Scripts & Transcripts

• 10.12 About a Boy (transcript)

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