10.23 Brother's Keeper

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Title Brother’s Keeper
Episode # Season 10, Episode 23
First aired May 20, 2015
Directed by Phil Sgriccia
Written by Jeremy Carver
On IMDB Brother’s Keeper
Outline After Dean gets another hunter killed, he realizes that his only hope in stopping the Mark of Cain is by summoning Death; an act which comes with repercussions for himself and Sam. While Sam searches for Dean, Castiel seeks Crowley's aid in finding the ingredients needed for the spell to remove the Mark.
Monster Vampires
The Darkness
Timeline
Location(s) Superior, Nebraska
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Synopsis

Characters

Definitions

Music

  • "Carry On Wayward Son" by Jay Gruska, Vivien Amour, Alyssa Lynch, Kelli Ogmundson, Katie Sarife, Rachel Warkentin & Nina Winkler
(plays during "The Road So Far" recap of events; also played in 10.05 Fan Fiction)
  • "Carry On Wayward Son" by Kansas
(plays during "The Road So Far" recap of events; also played in 1.21 Salvation, 2.22 All Hell Breaks Loose: Part Two, 3.16 No Rest for the Wicked, 4.22 Lucifer Rising, 5.22 Swan Song, 6.22 The Man Who Knew Too Much, 7.23 Survival of the Fittest, 8.23 Sacrifice and 9.23 Do You Believe in Miracles?)
  • "My Aching Heart" by Eric Vasquez & Corby Gallegos (5-Alarm / Imagem Production Music)
(playing in the diner when Crowley pays a visit to Oskar/Seth)

Quotes

Sam: Cas, what are we supposed to do, huh? Just sit on our asses do nothing?

Castiel: No we find Dean.

Sam: And then what? The only thing that stopped Cain was death, do you wanna kill Dean because I don't. And the only way I know how to save my brother is to cure the Mark, and yes I know there will be consequences; but not you, and not Dean, not anyone can tell what those consequences are. So I'm not going to let my brother d-destroy himself on a guess... We save Dean.
Crowley: Who summons anymore? Couldn't you call?
Castiel: You're not in my contacts list.
Death: Before there was light, before there was God and the archangels there wasn't nothing, there was the Darkness. A horribly destructive amoral force that was beaten back by God and his archangels in a terrible war. God locked the Darkness away where it could do no harm, and he created a Mark that would serve as both lock and key, which he entrusted to his most valued lieutenant -- Lucifer. But the Mark began to assert its own will, revealed itself as a curse and began to corrupt. Lucifer became jealous of man, God banished Lucifer to Hell, Lucifer passed the Mark to Cain, who passed the Mark to you -- the proverbial finger in the dyke.
Dean: Truth is when I left, I thought the only way out was my death. Well, I was wrong Sam, it's yours.
Sam: What evil?

Dean: The Darkness.
Sam: What the hell is that?

Dean: Well, what does it sound like? Does it sound like a good thing?
Death: Even if I remove Dean from the playing field, we're still left with you. Loyal dogged Sam, who I suspect will never rest until he sets his brother free, will never rest until his brother is free of the Mark, which simply cannot happen lest the Darkness be set free. Then there was that time you stood me up.
Crowley: Why the long faces? Oh, let me guess, Mother showed you her 'mustn't touch it again.'

Castiel: Do you have the ingredients?
Crowley: The quince cost me a major IOU from a Palestinian warlock, the gold from the calf -- well let's just say I'll be hanged under certain sexual deviancy laws if I show my face in Jordan again.
Rowena: And the third?

Crowley: Ah yes. All my long life, I wondered what I'd done to deserve a mother that showed no love? I pained over it, I built my bloody kingdom on top of it. Then one day epiphany struck, my Mother was incapable of loving anything, for the first time in hundreds of years I felt free. Then you showed up in my dungeon, we communed and I began to realize you weren't incapable of love, you're incapable of loving me.
Sam: You'll never, ever hear me say that you--the real you is anything but good. But you're right, before you hurt anyone else, you have to be stopped at any cost. I understand. Do it.
Death: It's the family you must proceed, Dean. To be what you are, to become what you've become is a stain on their memory. Do it, or I will.
Dean: You okay?

Sam: I'll live. You?

Dean: Fantastic. I think I just killed Death.
Sam: This is good Dean, this is good. The-the Mark is off your arm, nothing crazy happen, you got your Baby back.
Dean: Yeah, I'm sure everything's perfectly fine.

Trivia & References

"Brother's Keeper" refers to the verses in Genesis 4:9 & 4:10:
"Then the Lord said to Cain, 'Where is your brother Abel?' 'I don’t know,' he replied. 'Am I my brother’s keeper?'"
"The Lord said, 'What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground.'"
Castiel: I need your assistance to help cure Dean of the Mark.

Crowley: What's the expression? I gave at the office.

"I gave at the office" is an explanation for not contributing to a cause or organization, or an excuse not to donate or participate in anything.

Minutiae

Robert Moloney, who played Rudy, previously played Peter Warren in 3.06 Red Sky at Morning.
Roger Haskett, who played Mr. McKinley, previously played Dr. Paul Connelly in 6.06 You Can't Handle the Truth.

Sides, Scripts & Transcripts

Promotion

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