12.06 Celebrating the Life of Asa Fox

Title	Celebrating the Life of Asa Fox
Episode #	Season 12, Episode 6
First aired	November 17, 2016
Directed by	John Badham
Written by	Steve Yockey
On IMDB	Celebrating the Life of Asa Fox
Outline	Sam, Dean, Mary, and Jody must take action when a demon begins picking off mourners at the wake of recently fallen hunter, Asa Fox.
Monster	Jael
Timeline
Location(s)	Emerson, Manitoba, Canada Sioux Falls, South Dakota
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Characters

• Sam Winchester
• Dean Winchester
• Mary Winchester
• Sheriff Jody Mills
• Billie
• Bucky Sims
• Elvis Katz
• Alicia Banes
• Max Banes
• Jael
• Lorraine Fox
• Asa Fox

Definitions

• Alcohol
• Angel Blade
• Crossroads Demon
• Demon Smoke
• Devil's Trap
• Exorcism
• Good Talk
• Hunters
• Hunter's Funeral Pyre
• John's Journal
• Monsters
• Porn
• Reapers
• Ruby's Knife
• Salt
• Silver
• Sulfur
• Table of Death
• Vengeful Spirits
• Warding Sigils
• Werewolves

Music

• "Roll on Down the Highway" by Bachman-Turner Overdrive

(plays over the montage of Asa Fox becoming a hunter)

• "Man in the Box" by Alice in Chains

(plays from Asa Fox's family home during his wake)

Quotes

Dean: Oh, uh...Since the last time we saw you?
Jody: Oh... Thank you?

Dean: This is a real angel blade. This guy was legit.

Sam: Did you know people tell stories about us?

Dean: Yeah. Yeah, apparently we're a little bit legendary.

Dean: I mean, come on Sam, it's not like we're in the 'live till you're ninety and die in your sleep business.' This? This only ends one way.

Dean: Where you been?

Mary: All over. I went back to Lawrence for a few days, and used John's journal to retrace a few things.

Dean: You could have just asked us.

Jody: You okay?

Dean: Swell.

Jody: Huh. Is that why you spent the entire ride up here telling me in extreme, excruciating detail how you killed Hitler, but, uh, you neglected to mention the fact that your mom is back from the dead?

Sam: You don't have to explain anything. I get it. You need space, and so does Dean. You know? He's just... We just got you back, and he's just scared that we're going to lose you again, that because we're hunters you're gonna walk away. But I know that's not true. Even looking at these, you saved Asa in 1980. After Dean was born, after everyone thought you quit hunting. Seemed like you couldn't stop then, and I'm guessing you can't stop now either. This job. This life. It's crazy and insane, but it's in our blood.

Dean: Why don't you go to Hell.
Jael: Please. It's a trainwreck down there. No Lucifer. No Crowley. It's messy.

Jael: I have heard so many stories about you Winchesters, and I desperately want the Lucifer thing to be true. The idea that he left a meatsuit alive is just so deliciously weak. As for the rest of you, I have been inside your heads. I know all about you. For example, the twins. Too frighted to tell anyone that they came to say goodbye to their daddy. Or the grieving mother who hated the fact that her son was a hunter so much, she'd hide his gear, sabotage his jeep, anything to keep him from hunting. And this meatsuit that you all seem to care so much about, she actually fantasized about a life with Asa. Can you believe that? That worthless man-

Jody: I don't know what's going on between you and your boys. But I gotta tell you, mom to mom, they are good men. Best I've ever met.
Mary: I know. They're not the problem.

Billie: The look in your eyes, I've seen it before. It's a dead man's look -- eyes that say no matter where you go or what you do, it feels like this world doesn't fit anymore, like you're all alone.

Dean: Well, she's not alone.
Billie: Tell me I'm wrong. I'm not here to hurt you. I'm here to offer you mercy. A one-way ticket upstairs, away from all of this.
Mary: How would it work?
Sam: Mom. You just kill me again?
Billie: Reapers don't kill people. Rules.
Mary: Well... then... Then I guess you're just gonna have to wait.

Billie: Winchesters. If you change your mind -- if any of you change your minds -- you know my name.

Trivia & References

Sam: Figured we'd stop by on the way home, see you, Claire and Alex.

Jody: Aw, that's fun. Unfortunately, the girls are in Omaha for the weekend, being angsty at a Radiohead concert. But I can feed you.

Dean: Jody, you watching some kind of chick flick here?

Jody: Well, Dean, I'm a chick.
Dean: No. No, no, you're -- you're a badass sheriff chick. You're not a-a Rom com chick. Wait, are you a Rom com chick?
Jody: Are you?
Sam: He's more of a, uh... animated Japanese erotica chick.

Jody: Yeah, yeah. He was a hunter. He rolled into town a few months back and tried to convince me he was FBI Agent Fox Mulder. He was chasing a pack of ghouls and I helped. He passed through every once and while and we'd grab coffee or... something. Oh, he was a good man. The wake's tonight and they're going to salt and burn the body tomorrow. I can't believe I just said that like it was something normal.

FBI Agent Fox Mulder was one of the main characters on the TV show The X-Files. He and his partner Dana Scully hunted aliens among other supernatural and paranormal cases.

Sam: Wait, so you guys were raised by a witch, but you're hunters?

Max: Yup. She was, like, a good witch. Very Enya. It was the '90s.

Enya is an Irish musician who was hugely popular in the 90s with her Celtic/new age music.

Billie: You can huff and puff, but that house is on supernatural lockdown. They can't even hear you.

To huff and puff" is a reference to the tale of the Three Little Pigs, and the effort the wolf puts in to destroy their house.

Minutiae

Live tweets from the cast and crew during the episode.

This is the first time the Winchesters have visited Canada, other than their Vancouver visit in the alternate reality of The French Mistake.

Previously it had been believed that Mary Winchester gave up hunting when she married John Winchester, but it is revealed that she was still hunting at least a year after Dean was born. However, she makes it seem like it was a temporary thing as she was "tying up a few loose ends."

Sides, Scripts & Transcripts

• 12.06 Celebrating the Life of Asa Fox (transcript)

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