13.05 Advanced Thanatology
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 | |
Monster | Ghost |
Timeline | |
Location(s) | Grand Junction, Colorado Lebanon, Kansas |
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Contents
Synopsis
Characters
Definitions
- Alcohol
- Aliases
- Costumes & Disguises
- Death
- Death's Reading Room
- Death's Scythe
- Ectoplasm
- EMF
- Ghost
- Impala
- Iron
- Men of Letters Bunker
- Reapers
- Salt
- 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, uh, 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 it. 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: Why?
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.
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.
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.