10.13 Halt & Catch Fire

Title	Halt & Catch Fire
Episode #	Season 10, Episode 13
First aired	February 10, 2015
Directed by	John F. Showalter
Written by	Eric Charmelo Nicole Snyder
On IMDB	Halt & Catch Fire
Outline	Sam and Dean are on a hunt that involves a vengeful spirit killing college students through electronics and the internet.
Monster	Vengeful Spirit
Timeline
Location(s)	Spencer, Iowa
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Characters

• Sam Winchester
• Dean Winchester
• Delilah Marian
• Andrew Silver
• Cori Silver

Definitions

• Aliases
• Ectoplasm
• EMF
• Salt
• Vengeful Spirit

Music

• "Head Full of Doubt/Road Full of Promise" by The Avett Brothers

(playing the car of the couple in the teaser)

• "Take Me to Church" by Hozier

(playing in the car during Delilah's flashback to the car crash)

Quotes

Dean: What did Cas say?
Sam: Good news, bad news. Bad news, he discovered riverboat gambling. Good news, he thinks he might be closing in on Cain.

[Dean notices a college girl]
Dean: Sorry I ever made you leave. [Dean notices another college girl] God they're everywhere.

Dean: Alright, so big brother didn't getting along with little brother, was pissed off he was driving his baby. I get it.

Sam: What are you saying, if you died and I drove your car, you'd kill me?

Dean: If you stunk her up with taquitos, probably.

Sam: Now I'm going through her deleted files.

Dean: You can do that?

Sam: Yeah. I mean nothing ever really gets deleted from the internet. You knew that right?

Dean: 'Liar. I know you'll pay.' Well, this Princess Elsa's a bitch.

Trivia & References

"Halt & Catch Fire" is a reference to the computer machine code instruction that will cause a computer to stop functioning. There is also a TV series of the same name.

Sam: What in the world?

Dean: A crosookie.
Sam:A crosookie?
Dean: Yeah, it's the new cronut.

Janet Novoselic and Sam and Dean's FBI aliases Cobain and Grohl are all references to the band Nirvana.

Dean: Okay so, Trini and everything else in the truck went all Christine.

Sam: So you think we're dealing with a ghost in the machine?

Sam: I hit up Julie's Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Instachat, Snapchat, AIM. Nothing but posts on Rush and Fifty Shades of Gray -- the movie not the book.

Sam: So PrincessElsa8 is not some crazed cyber killer. She is a third grader from Lake Nebagamon, Wisconsin, whose obsessed with Frozen. And was she was fast asleep when the Instachat occurred.

Sides, Scripts & Transcripts

• 10.13 Halt & Catch Fire (transcript)

Promotion

• Synopsis