12.13 Family Feud

Title	Family Feud
Episode #	Season 12, Episode 13
First aired	February 23, 2017
Directed by	P.J. Pesce
Written by	Brad Buckner Eugenie Ross-Leming
On IMDB	Family Feud
Outline	When bodies begin dropping after visiting a museum, Sam and Dean connect a ghost to the sunken merchant ship that Gavin MacLeod was to be aboard and seek Rowena's help in finding him. Crowley prepares to exact his revenge on an imprisoned Lucifer, while Kelly Kline reappears and finds refuge with a powerful demon.
Monster	Ghost Dagon
Timeline
Location(s)	Andover, Massachusetts Lebanon, Kansas Fall River, Massachusetts Des Moines, Iowa
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Synopsis

Crowley explains to Lucifer that when Lucifer was exorcised out of the President, Crowley perverted the spell so Lucifer was sent into the repaired and improved body of his old vessel Nick instead of to the Cage. Crowley has bound Lucifer with chains based off of the Cage, but Lucifer is amused and informs Crowley of the survival of his child. Meanwhile, Mary works with Arthur Ketch of the British Men of Letters who suggests she distance herself from her sons as she is at her best on her own. Sam and Dean begin investigating a series of murders committed by a vengeful spirit and realize the ghost came from the ship of Gavin MacLeod, Crowley's son who was time displaced to the present by Abaddon. Gavin realizes that the ghost is that of his fiancé Fiona who smuggled herself aboard the ship and endured rape from the crew before the ship sank off the coast of New England. To save Fiona and her victims, Gavin decides to return to his own time - it is unclear if he and Fiona die or not. However, it is not certain or said if he and Fiona actually do decide to board the ship as they are sent back to the night before the ship sailed, so they could decide not to go, go on another ship or delay their emigration. After sending Gavin back with the help of Rowena, the Winchesters find no signs of Fiona's kills. They are then visited by Mary who admits the truth about working with the British Men of Letters and attempts to convince her sons to work with them. Rowena is confronted by Crowley for helping to send his son back, possibly to die, (but it isn't certain what Gavin and Fiona have chosen to do once back in their time) and she admits it was revenge for forcing her to murder Oskar to remove the Mark of Cain in 10.23 Brother's Keeper. At the same time, Kelly Kline is attacked by two angels but is saved by the Princess of Hell Dagon. Dagon offers to protect Kelly and her unborn son which Lucifer detects and is pleased with.

Characters

• Sam Winchester
• Dean Winchester
• Mary Winchester
• Castiel
• Crowley
• Lucifer
• Nick
• Rowena
• Mr. Ketch
• Gavin MacLeod
• Kelly Kline
• Dagon
• Fiona Duncan

Definitions

• Alcohol
• Angel Blade
• Blood Spell
• Costumes & Disguises
• EMF
• Ghost
• Impala
• Magic Fingers
• Men of Letters
• Men of Letters Bunker
• Monsters
• Mr. Ketch's Car
• Nephilim
• Princes of Hell
• Rugaru
• Salt
• Spells
• Table of Death
• Time Travel
• Vessel
• Witches

Music

• "Play with Fire" by The Rolling Stones

(playing over the closing montage; also played in 6.22 The Man Who Knew Too Much)

Quotes

Crowley: Oh, you'll resist at first. But the humiliation will eat you. Until finally, you're worn down by your utter helplessness. And you will call me master. You brag of your superior power, well genius trumps brute force. I've had a dozen of my most loyal studying the cage where you were held, at the molecular level. They manged to replicate the material and made those chains. Getting you here was another matter.

Dean: I don't know. I feel like something's going on with her and she's not talking about it.
Sam: Mom's hunting again. It's a grind you know that. She's just needs a little time, Dean. That's all.

Dean: Whoa. There's a lot of action in here. Okay, well I'm switching my vote from witch to ghost.

Sam: I don't know. EMF isn't that surprising in a museum, but they're always filled with ADHD spirits and their tethers, you know.

Dean: Okay. If our killer is a chain rattler, how we gonna figure out which one it is?

Dean: Need a favor.
Crowley: You. need. You? Turns out beneath the whole moron facade, you and your brother are in fact morons! You let Lucifer's love child live.

Lucifer: Oh my Dad. I love that. You and I both single fathers. I could use a little dad advice right now. When do you let them date?

Gavin: How sick is he?

Sam: About that. We might have exaggerated a little bit.

Dean: Lied. We lied.

Mr. Ketch: This work, it's demanding and must come first. The Men of Letters is my family.

Mary: I'm sorry. Nothing comes before my family, not with me.

Mr. Ketch: Really? Or is that just what you want to believe. You're different when you talk to them. You're softer, weaker. Not an insult. Just an observation. But when you hunt, Mary. You're one of the best I've ever seen. You might play at being the good mummy. But when you're in the thick of it, nothing but a blade in your hand and blood in the air. That's the real you. The best you. And I think you know, and I think that scares the hell out of you.

Mary: There's no easy way to say it, so I'm going to say it. I have sort of been working with the British Men of Letters.

Sam: You, um, what? Mom... we, um, we have a history with them.

Mary: I know, Sam. And it was a hard decision. But they are doing good work, I helped them save people. A lot of people. We can learn from them. Don't give that face.

Sam: Mom, we have our own toolkit, and it works just fine. And for obvious reasons: broken ribs and burnt feet. We don't trust the Brits.

Dean: So where does that leave us?

Mary: Same as always. Family. Just hear me out, please.

Crowley: So it was all drivel you were spewing about Gavin doing the right thing?

Rowena: It was the right thing. Maybe for Gavin. Certainly for me. It allowed me to watch you suffer the loss of a child.
Crowley: Payback.

Rowena: I'm your Mother dear. Who better to crush your shriveled heart.

Trivia & References

"Family Feud" is reference to the game show of the same name.

The teacher's death in the pre-title sequence is reminiscent of Johnny Depp's death in A Nightmare on Elm Street. Watch the scene here.

Dean: Aztecs were pretty serious about their killings. Aztec ghost. Yeah, I like that.

Referencing the fact that Aztec culture was steeped in the religious practice of human sacrifice.

Dean: What have you got?

Sam: It's from a ship, a brigantine. Called The Star, sunk in a storm off the New England coast. Currently on loan from the Maritime Museum from, wait for it -- Andover, Massachusetts.

A brigantine is a two-masted sailing vessel.

Crowley: You and Bullwinkle fix this... mess before it hatches. Then, maybe, then we'll talk about my son.

Referencing Bullwinkle from The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show.

Dagon: Come with me if you want to live.

Referencing the famous quote used throughout the Terminator franchise.

Dagon: Titles, labels. I'm a demon. You're Rosemary, complete with baby.

Reference to Rosemary's Baby, about a women who carries the Devil's child.

Dagon: I know you're scared, don't believe what you see in the movies. No one is born good or bad. It's all in the upbringing. This child, your child. He could save us all.

Dagon is referencing the idea of nature versus nurture.

Sam: Actually there might be a way to fix pretty much everything.

Gavin: What?
Dean: Keep Fiona from going Casper in the first place.

Reference to Casper the Friendly Ghost.

Crowley: Never gonna happen. Just 'cause dim and dimmer here can't keep their own family all in the same dimension, doesn't mean they can mess with mine!

Gavin: Father, I want to do this.
Crowley: What you want is a gym membership. Happy hour at Hooters and Cubs tickets. None of which are available anywhere else but here.

Dean: That soup yet?

Play on the phrase "Is it soup yet?" asking if something is done, which originated from the 1970's Lipton instant soup commercials.

Dean: Beam him up, Scotty.

Reference to Captain Kirk's catch phrase, "Beam me up, Scotty."

Minutiae

Colby Wilson, who played Scout Leader, previously played Guy in Bar 4.04 Metamorphosis.

P.J. Pesce previously directed 9.21 King of the Damned, the episode which brought Gavin MacLeod from 1723 to the future (also written by Brad Buckner and Eugenie Ross-Leming).

Like Raphael's first vessel Donnie Finnerman, Nick would have been rendered in a Persistent Vegetative State from archangel possession, making it impossible for him to verbally consent. While not stated in the episodes, one can assume Raphael and Lucifer gained reentry into their vessels through subconscious means.

Sides, Scripts & Transcripts

• 12.13 Family Feud (transcript)

Promotion

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