12.09 First Blood

Title	First Blood
Episode #	Season 12, Episode 9
First aired	January 26, 2017
Directed by	Robert Singer
Written by	Andrew Dabb
On IMDB	First Blood
Outline
Monster
Timeline	Immediately following & six weeks after 12.08 LOTUS
Location(s)	Indianapolis, Indiana Lawrence, Kansas Lebanon, Kansas Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado (Site 94)
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Characters

• Sam Winchester
• Dean Winchester
• Mary Winchester
• Castiel
• Crowley
• Billie
• Mick Davies
• Mr. Ketch
• Rick Sanchez
• Alicia Banes

Definitions

• Alcohol
• Angel Blade
• Deals and Pacts
• Hugs
• Hunters
• John's Journal
• Men of Letters
• Men of Letters Bunker
• Monsters
• Reapers
• Sam & Dean's Arrests
• Table of Death
• Werewolves
• Vampires

Music

• "If You Want Blood (You Got It)" by AC/DC

(plays during "The Road So Far" recap of events)

• "Ghost Town" by The Specials

(playing on the radio as Mick Davies types his report to the Men of Letters)

Quotes

Mary: You left them!

Castiel: No, I. Dean told me to go, the woman-
Mary: The one you lost!?
Castiel: I didn't... I thought she-

Mary: Stop making excuses! Why if they needed help, why didn't they call me?

Mary: I keep telling myself they're fine. They've only been gone-

Castiel: Six weeks, two days and ten hours.

Mary: We'll find them Castiel. We will. Until then, we'll just... We're doing out best.

Castiel: Did you hear about the murders in Lancaster, Misssouri?

Mary: No.
Castiel: The women with their throats ripped out and blood drained.
Mary: Vampire.

Castiel: I saw it on the news and thought, 'that's the sort of thing Sam and Dean would investigate. They would roll into town. Save the day. Kill the monsters.' But with them gone. I tried to work the case. I tried. But I don't know what I did wrong. I-I asked questions. But, maybe they were the wrong people and the wrong questions, and I just... never found it. I never found the monster, never even got close. And three more women died before I left town. Before I ran away.

Mary: What do you think we're walking in to?

Castiel: I don't know. We may want back up. Crowley, Rowena.

Mary: The King of Hell, and his mother, the witch? I hope we can do better than that.

Mary: Seat belt on. I drive fast.

Trivia & References

"First Blood" is a reference to the 1982 film of the same name, where Vietnam veteren John Rambo is also pursued by the authorities through the woods.

Castiel: Come on Crowley the police took them, you have people in the government. You have spies.

Crowley: I do. But what ever's happened to Moose and Squirrel. Apparently it's above their pay grade.

Castiel: Do you even care that they're gone.

Crowley:No. Do you know how many all powerful beings have tried to kill them?
Castiel: Roughly. Yes.
Crowley: As do I. I was bloody one of them. And Sam and Dean. They're like herpes, just when you think they're gone. 'Hello' the boys are back leaving a trail of bodies in their wake. So wherever they are, who ever has Sam and Dean. In the immortal words of Lawrence Tureaud, 'I pity the fool.'

Dean Winchester: What we have here is a failure to communicate. We're not trapped out here with you, you're trapped out here with us.

The first sentence is a reference to the movie Cool Hand Luke. The second sentence is a reference to this quote from Watchmen by the vigilante Rorschach after being sent to prison:

"I'm not locked in here with you, you're locked in here with me!"

Minutiae

This was Supernatural's 250th episode

Sanchez: They made the FBI's most wanted in 2011, then died in a shoot out with police in Ankeny, Iowa, at least that's what their file said. But apparently not.

Reference to 7.06 Slash Fiction, where Sam and Dean's Leviathan doppelgängers were used to fake their deaths.

Sides, Scripts & Transcripts

• 12.09 First Blood (transcript)

Promotion

• Synopsis and promo photos