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Revision as of 08:46, 10 November 2017
Title | Advanced Thanatology |
Episode # | Season 13, Episode 5 |
First aired | November 9, 2017 |
Directed by | John F. Showalter |
Written by | Steve Yockey |
On IMDB | Advanced Thanatology |
Outline | Sam and Dean go on a ghost hunt for a doctor who experimented and lobotomized all his patients. When Dean is forced to temporarily die, he finds an unexpected ally in the new Death. |
Monster | Ghost |
Timeline | |
Location(s) | Grand Junction, Colorado Lebanon, Kansas |
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Contents
Synopsis
Characters
Definitions
- Alcohol
- Aliases
- Costumes & Disguises
- Deals and Pacts
- Death
- Death's Reading Room
- Death's Scythe
- Ectoplasm
- EMF
- Ghost
- Impala
- Iron
- Men of Letters Bunker
- Possession
- Reapers
- Salt
- Teleportation
- The Veil
Music
- "It's Never Too Late" by Steppenwolf
- (playing over the closing montage)
Quotes
Dean: Wait. Sorry what?
Sam: Strip... club. There's one just outside of town, the, um, Clam Diver.
Dean: You wanna go to the Clam Diver?
Sam: Yeah, it got great reviews.
Dean: You read reviews for the Clam Diver?
Sam: Look you're not, Dean. You said you don't believe in anything, and -- and that's not true, that's not you. You do believe in things, you believe in people. That's who you are, that's what you do. I know you're in a dark place and I just want to help.
Dean: Okay. Look, I've been down this road before and I fought my way back, I will fight my way back again.
Sam: How?
Billie: This Universe can be so many things, and sometimes it is poetic. That's why we need to talk.
Billie: Because I do. Because this whole multiversal, quantum construct we live in. It's like a house of cards and the last thing I need is some big, dumb Winchester knocking it all down.
Billie: Don't you?
Dean: I couldn't save Mom. I couldn't save Cas. I can't even save a scared little kid. Sam keeps trying to fix it, but I just keep dragging him down. So I'm not gonna beg, okay. If it's my time, it's my time.
Billie: You really believe that. You wanna die. Dean every note book on this particular shelf tells a version of how you die. You specifically. Heart attack, burned by a red-haired witch, stabbed by a ghoul in a graveyard and on and on. But which one's right? That depends on you. On the choices you make.
Dean: No. Sam I'm not okay, I'm pretty far from okay. You know my whole life, I always believed that what we do WAs important. No matter what the cost, no matter who we lost. Whether it was Dad or Bobby or... and I would take the hit. But I kept on fighting because I believed that we were making the world a better place. And now Mom and Cas and I -- I don't know. I don't know.
Sam: So you don't believe anymore.
Trivia & References
Sam: He's, uh, he's catching up on all my old fantasy DVDs. Red Sonja, Beastmaster, uh Beastmaster 2, you know the one with the time travelling ferrets.
Dean: How you ever got laid, I'll never know.
- Red Sonja is a fantasy movie based on the eponymous Marvel Comics character who is a barbarian warrior.Beastmaster and Beastermaster 2: Through the Portal of Time are fantasy films about a warrior, Dar, who can communicate with animals. In the second film he travels forward in time with his companions who include the ferrets called Kodo and Podo.
Sam: It's a plague mask, doctors used to use them they thought they filtered out disease. As a matter of fact, when they arrested Meadows he was wearing one and they had to hold him down to rip it off.
- Used in France in 17th century, the plague doctor costume consisted of ankle length overcoat and a bird-like beak mask to protect against airbourne diseases. The plague mask was in use by Roman doctors as far back as the 14th century.
- This is the catch phrase of the Warner Brothers cartoon character Bugs Bunny.
- Casper is the title character in the famous cartoon series Casper, the Friendly Ghost. The Winchesters have referred to ghosts as "Casper" or "Caspers" on previous occasions.
Billie: How's that working out for him? It's funny to hear a Winchester talk about the finality of dying. This realty, it has rules, Dean. So many rules. And one of them: kill one incarnation of Death, like you did. The next reaper to die, takes his place. So, when Castiel stabbed me in the back, turns out I got a promotion. New job. New gear.
- Billie taking on Death's mantle is a slight twist on the plot to the 1983 fantasy novel On a Pale Horse, in which the main character, Zane, kills Death and is forced to take the mantle on himself.
Billie: A little rip? Into another world and you went there?
Dean: Yeah, I'll just say it's, uh, it's not Candy Land.
- Candy Land features in the board game of the same name, and is a land made of candy and confectionery.
Minutiae
Dean: Why?
Billie: You have work to do. That's all you need to know. And trust me, having my eyes open to the necessity of any humans especially Winchesters is not a thrill. So, you wanna die. But I say, keep living.
- At the end of the pilot, there is a shot of Dean and Sam standing over the trunk of the Impala. As Sam tosses a weapon into he trunk he says, "We've got work to do" and closes the trunk. At the end of 2.22 All Hell Breaks Loose: Part Two, the scene is replayed with the brother's positions reversed. Dean tosses the Colt into the trunk and says, "We've got work to do." In 4.01 Lazarus Rising, when Dean asks Castiel why he was brought back, Castiel responds, "Because we have work for you." In 7.19 Of Grave Importance the line is used by Bobby to explain his presence as a ghost. It is also re-created at the start of 10.05 Fan Fiction after Dean announces he has found a case.