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
Timeline
Location(s)	Andover, Massachusetts Lebanon, Kansas Fall River, Massachusetts Des Moines, Iowa
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Synopsis

Six Months Ago
A teacher named Janice Woods in Andover, Massachusetts, is doing her nightly ritual before going to bed. Brushing her teeth and putting her dress in the closet, etc... As she lays down and prepares to go to sleep, two ghostly arms pop out from under her bed and begin squeezing her midsection until her internal organs are crushed and is killed, blood splattering across the room onto a locket on her dresser.

Present Day
At the Men of Letters Bunker, Dean is finishing a phone call with Castiel regarding Cas' lack of leads in finding Kelly Kline, while Sam sits at his laptop reading about a recent murder outside of a museum in Des Moines, Iowa. Telling Dean of how a male teacher had his tongue ripped out and internal organs crushed, but showed no damage of point of entry in his torso. Dean, thinking they are dealing with a witch, calls Mary to see if she is interested in joining them on a hunt.

In an underground car park, Mary is fending off a rugaru, when she is able to put some distance between herself and it, she shoots it with a special gun made by the British Men of Letters that melts its brain as Mr. Ketch stands to the side timing her. Mary's phone soon rings, speaking with Dean, she lies about where she is and declines his offer to join them on a hunt, feigning needing to rest after the Ramiel incident, but telling Dean if they need her to call. Mr. Ketch compliments Mary on being an excellent liar, with Mary telling him she hasn't said anything given what happened with Lady Antonia Bevell's torture of Sam and Dean. But understands that she was a "rogue operative," to which Mr. Ketch asks her for drinks.

In Crowley's Lair, Crowley taunts Lucifer telling him he will eventually break and call Crowley "master," before telling him when Lucifer was exorcised out of President Jefferson Rooney, Crowley perverted the spell so Lucifer was sent to his lair where the body of his original vessel, Nick, waited repaired and improved instead of to the Cage. Telling Lucifer he had his most trusted demons analyze the Cage and were able to replicate the materials to make the chains that restrain him, but Lucifer is only amused telling Crowley he will get out eventually.

On the road to Des Moines, Sam informs Dean of a similar murder six months prior in Andover, Massachusetts, telling Dean he is dismayed that Mary couldn't make it. Dean scoffs, when Sam questions him, Dean admits that he feels Mary is hiding something from them, but Sam assures him that hunting is grind and she needs a little time. Outside the museum, a Timber Troop scout leader is overseeing his troop preparing to depart, when he excuses himself to the bathroom. After finishing the troop leader begins to notice stall doors banging, lights going on and off and indistinct whispering. As the air becomes chillier and the water in the sink freezes, the troop leader notices a figure behind him in the mirror and lets out a scream as it comes charging towards him.

The next day Sam and Dean arrive at the museum and meet with the curator, Dr. Ochoa, who takes them the museum's lab where they are setting up their new exhibits before excusing herself. The Winchesters soon realize that all the deaths have involved teachers or people that supervise children, and when Dean turns on the EMF, he believes they are dealing with a ghost instead of a witch. However, Sam is a bit skeptical given museums tend to have ghosts tethered in them. But the two split up and try to find what the suspevted ghost may be tethered to in the new exhibits.

At a diner a visibly pregnant Kelly Kline orders orange juice from a waitress who asks when her child is due, telling her whenever it pops out she is sure to love the "little devil," revealing her blue angelic eyes as she walks away. Back at the museum Dean looks over an Aztec knife, and thinks an Aztec ghost is a good bet, before moving on to Sam who is reading up on The Star, a brigantine ship that sunk in a storm off the New England coast in 1723. Revealing the exhibit is on loan from the Maritime Museum in Andover, Massachusetts. Prompting Dean's memory telling Sam he "knows something about something" when Sam continues reading revealing the ship set sail from Leith, Scotland Dean suddenly remembers Gavin MacLeod, and The Star was the ship he was supposed to die on. Back at Crowley's Lair, Lucifer continues his mockery of the situation, telling Crowley how sad his plan is, before Crowley puts him on his knees and tells him to clean the floor with his tongue. But Lucifer only warns Crowley he won't see it coming when he gets taken down, informing Crowley of the survival of his child, much to Crowley's shock. Dean places a call to Crowley asking Crowley to contact Gavin for them, but Crowley having just learned that Lucifer's child is still alive refuses to help the Winchesters until they take care of the child and hangs up. A surprised Lucifer comments on both being fathers, and asks Crowley for advice.

Outside the museum, two female teachers are loading up their school bus to depart, when a locket is slipped into the pocket of one of the teachers. That night, inside the museum lab, Sam and Dean sit with Rowena and ask for her help in getting intel on The Star, Rowena initially refuses, claiming the Winchesters still owe her for helping Dean get his memory back. But Sam and Dean are able to convince her to track down Gavin. Kelly Kline is walking down the street when she notices a man behind her, as she speeds up her walking she slips behind a corner to see if the man is still following her, the man appears in front of her, and as she tries to run away, the waitress from the diner blocks her way and the two produce angel blades. Before they can attack, Dagon, appears and tells them to get away from her. When the male angel refuses, and tries to attack Dagon, she is able completely destroy the angel. When the female angel attempts to attack Kelly Kline, Dagon teleports behind her and kills her like the other angel. A rattled Kelly Kline sits in shock as Dagon offers her hand to Kelly. The next morning, Dagon takes Kelly to an abandoned warehouse where she explains she's a demon and the things that attacked her were angels, not people. Telling her of how Lucifer was actually God's favorite and an archangel, and that the son she is caring her belly is not evil and could very well end up saving them. Telling Kelly she is the only one that can protect her.

Gavin soon arrives in Des Moines and is greeted by Sam and Dean, having been brought to them under the pretense that Crowley was ill, Sam and Dena admit they lied and need his help. Not trusting the Winchesters, Gavin initially screams for help, but Sam and Dean assure him that they don't want to hurt him, with Sam showing him a photo of The Star and introduce him to Rowena. Initially shocked that Rowena is his grandmother, he is soon reminded that he shouldn't be alive either. The four then depart to the museum where Gavin is taken to The Star exhibit, where he goes over a binder of all materials collected from the wreckage. He soon comes upon a locket that he recognizes as the same one he gave to the love of his life Fiona Duncan, which Sam notices was added to the exhibit six months ago in Andover. Gavin explains that Fiona wished to join him on his journey to the New World, but he refused, telling her it was too dangerous. Fiona persisted and was to meet with Gavin on the night Abaddon took him to try and convince him to take her with him. Gavin soon realizes that with him gone, Fiona must have assumed he had left without her and stowed away on the ship hoping to find him. Sam and Dean deduce that Fiona angry and heartbroken when she died is the ghost, and look for her locket only to find it missing from the display case.

Mr. Ketch drops Mary off at her motel, he asks her about getting a drink, but she declines. Mr. Ketch then moves onto Sam and Dean, and suggests Mary "disengage" from them for a bit. Telling her working for the Men of Letters is demanding work, and must come first above everything else. Calling them his family. Mary refuses the notion telling him nothing comes before her family. Ketch asks her if she really believes that, noting she is "softer, weaker" around them, telling her she is one of the best hunters he's seen and that is the real her and he thinks it scares her that it might be true.

Sam and Dean visit Dr. Ochoa in her office and tell her of the missing locket, Sam then asks if any student tours have been through the lab, telling him one has for the Pembroke Day School for Girls. That night at the Pembroke Day School, the two teachers, Karen and Elizabeth, are grading papers in a study. The lights abruptly go on, and as Karen and Elizabeth investigate the strange sounds and draft from a closed window. Fiona's ghost appears before Karen and impales her. She soon moves on to Elizabeth who is trapped in the study, as Fiona is about to kill her, Dean bursts through the door and shoots Fiona with rock salt. Gavin is then placed alone in the study to summon Fiona. When she manifests in front of him she accuses him of abandoning her, as he tries to explain that he was taken away, Fiona tells him of what happened when she was found and the abuse, scorn and rape that followed. When she looked to their childhood teacher Mistress Allaway for help, she was met with only betrayal and told she deserved what was happening to her for "throwing herself" at Gavin. Telling Gavin, while she can't punish Mistress Allaway, other teachers will pay her debt before disappearing. Gavin goes on to tell Sam, Dean and Rowena what happened to Fiona on the ship, they agree that Fiona must be stopped and talk about destroying the locket. But Gavin is too hung up on the people that have died and the monster his Fiona had turned into, Sam and Dean then suggest there is another way. If Gavin goes back to 1723 he can prevent Fiona from becoming a ghost. Rowena protests tampering with the flow of time and sending Gavin to his death, but Sam tells her it would keep history intact. Gavin agrees and tells Rowena he was thinking the same thing as he felt he never belonged in the 21st century. Crowley arrives and tries to put a stop to their plan, but Rowena freezes him with a spell allowing Gavin to say goodbye before leaving with the Winchesters.

At the Bunker, Sam prepares the the blood spell, as Gavin adds his blood. Sam paints the sigil on a pilar in the library. The Winchesters thank Gavin as Sam recites the invocation. Clutching Fiona's locket in his hands, Gavin is joined by her ghost as the two are engulfed in a white light and disappear. Sam and Dean see that their plan worked, just as Mary arrives with beer and burgers. When she is question what she has been up to, she readily admits that she has been working with the British Men of Letters, much to Sam and Deans shock and dismay. But pleads with Sam and Dean to hear her out.

At a bus station Crowley sits with Rowena at a bench and asks her what spiteful, rancid reason she had for allowing her grandson to be sent to his death. She tells him Gavin was a good boy, not unlike Oskar, the child she loved more than him and that Crowley made her kill to remove the Mark of Cain. Telling him, Gavin being sent back was the right thing for him to, as well as allowing Rowena to get revenge on Crowley for Oskar, forcing him to suffer the loss of a child, before leaving him to sit alone as she entered her bus.

At the Bunker Mary continues pleading her case to a visibly frustrated Sam and Dean, while Kelly Kline and Dagon leave the abandoned warehouse. All while Lucifer sits in silence in his dungeon, before simply uttering "Dagon."

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.

Elizabeth: Yeah. I read one more Internet-bought paper on Bleak House, I'll scream.

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).

Sides, Scripts & Transcripts

• 12.13 Family Feud (transcript)

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