13.06 Tombstone

Title	Tombstone
Episode #	Season 13, Episode 6
First aired	November 16, 2017
Directed by	Nina Lopez-Corrado
Written by	Davy Perez
On IMDB	Tombstone
Outline	Following Castiel's return, Jack finds a case that brings the Winchesters, Cas, and Jack face to face with a famous outlaw from the old west.
Monster	Ghoul
Timeline
Location(s)	Dodge City, Kansas Lebanon, Kansas
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Synopsis

Dean and Sam meet Cas at a phone booth. They each are shocked to see him alive and take turns embracing Cas. Sam asks how he is alive, but Cas has no explanation.

Back at the bunker, Jack is happy to be reunited with Castiel, although he denies bringing him back. Jack shows Cas that he can levitate a pencil. Jack has also found a case that he thinks involves zombies and grave robbers in Dodge City, Kansas. Deans excited to go to Dodge City, and so the four of them head out on the hunt.

At the Stampede Motel in Dodge City, coboy fanboy Dean tells them all that he got the best room they have, the Wild Bill suite. They walk in and find it is decorated with a Wild West theme. Cowboy everything. Dean is so excited points at the pictures of gunslingers and knew the names of all them. Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp. They decide to visit the graveyard tomorrow.

A police officer pulls over a pick up truck and calls in the plate number. He sees the passenger door open. He gets out and pulls out his revolver. He approaches the drivers side door and sees no one inside. He hears something behind him and points he flashlight into a field. The truck door shuts again. He hears something and looks again at the field. Then he is pulled under the truck. He is gone. Dispatchers voice can be heard saying the truck was stolen.

Jack and Cas are talking about Kelly and what Jack remembers of him before his birth. Then a call comes over the scanner on the computer. An officer was killed that night. Jake runs to tell Dean. Cas tries to stop him. Deans reflex is to pull his gun on him. Jack tells them about the case and the condition of the officers body. It had bite marks. Jack thinks mutant Zombies. They pair off. Dean and Cas go to the crime scene and Sam and Jack go to the graveyard.

They pull up in the Impala. Cas didn't like his ridiculous hat. Dean made it look better for him by taking off the sash it had. Dean was dressed like a Texan, hat, boots and cowboy tie. They met the officer in charge Sgt. Joe Phillips. The deceased was his nephew Deputy Carl Phillips. He wasn't sure about Cas's name Val Kilmer, Dean was Agent Russell. Then he did. He wanted to know why Texas Rangers were interested in this case. Dean responded that they had a similar case in Texas. Sgt. Phillips welcomed them to investigate the site, but he didn't know if there would be much left of the thief if he gets him first. Sam and Jack enter the mortuary. There is a girl with a body and she is dancing around with headphones on. She doesn't know they are there. She is startled when she sees them. She wants to know who they are. Sam asks who she is. She is Athena Lopez the undertaker. Sam introduces himself as agent Elliot of the FBI and his partner Paxton. The woman questions him on that since Jack is so young. Jake walks off and looks around the place. Jack asks her questions about cold spots and smells. There wasn't. She was not present when the grave robbery took place. She welcomed them to look at the grave site.

     Jack and Sam are walking through the graveyard. Jack takes out a EMF meter. Sam tells him to put it away. There are always spirits in graveyards. They come to the grave and Sam examines the coffin. The police say it was rats. The hole is too large to be rats. Sam jumps down into the grave and finds a hole with a partial pelvic bone with bit marks on it. Sam realizes it is a ghoul.
     Back at the motel, they are all there. They are looking at the bone with bite marks on it. They think that Athena is a ghoul. Jack pulls up an image on a traffic came with the driver of the stolen vehicle. Dean looks at him closer and realized that it is Dave Mathers and old gunslinger who was an outlaw and gang member, he died back in 1886. The ghoul was using his image.
     Athena again listening to music and someone slaps her behind. It is her boyfriend Dave. He hands her a letter. She was accepted to a make-up school in California. She is excited, he isn't. He tries to convince her it would be too much money to live there. She tells Dave that 2 FBI agents visited her and that they asked strange questions about smells and cold spots. Dave knew what he was dealing with, hunters.

    Jack realizes that Dave is Athenas boyfriend. He tells the others. The four of them head to the mortuary. Sam and Dean confront Athena. She tells them Dave is at the bank.
    A guard lets a woman out the door, it is closing time at the bank. Dave comes in with his gun and holds up the bank. He leaves and is confronted by Dean. Then the rest of them come out. There is a shoot out. Jack walks to Dave and he is shot. It does not hurt him. He smiles and puts up his arm and pushes Dave and the guard that came out, away. The guard hits a pole and drops to the ground. Dean is chasing Dave but loses him.

Jack asks Cas to heal the guard, but he couldn't. Sam confirms that he is dead.

    Back at the motel. Sam, Dean and Cas discuss Jack. They decide that he should go back to the bunker. He would be recognized if he stayed. Dean would stay and take care of the ghoul.
    At the mortuary Athena sees Dave coming down the stairs. He is hurt and shot. He tells her what happened. She is upset with him about it. She figures out that Dave is the grave robber.

Sgt. Phillips is at the graveyard. He sees Dean pull up. He tells Dean why he is there and about the events that had lead up to this moment. They both decide to hunt the ghoul and kill it. They proceed to the graveyard and the Sgt gets pulled into the ground. Dean goes into the hole and crawls through a tunnel.

Sam, Cas and Jack are in the Impala on their way back to the bunker. They are both trying to console Jack. He does not like it and asks them to stop.Dean falls out of a door on a wall. He sees Athena tied up in a chair. He takes off a scarf in her mouth. Then he sees the Sarge on the floor, hurt. He tells Dean of his ordeal and points out that the ghoul was behind him. Dave had his gun pointed and told Dean to put his hands up. Dean steps aside and the Sgt. Shot him with a shotgun. Severing his head.

Dean and the Sgt are walking through the graveyard discussing the events. They agree on the events, the ghoul killed the guard and that Dean was not there.

Back at the bunker, Dean comes down the steps. Jack confronts Dean on the man and if he had a family. Jack very upset over his death. Which he feels is his fault. He feels when he tries to help people someone always gets hurt. He wants to leave, they try to console him. It does not work. He puts up his hand and they are pushed away into the wall. He says he is sorry and disappears.

Characters

• Sam Winchester
• Dean Winchester
• Castiel
• Jack Kline
• Athena Lopez
• Dave Mather
• Sgt. Joe Phillips

Definitions

• Alcohol
• Aliases
• Costumes & Disguises
• EMF
• Ghoul
• Hugs
• Impala
• Law Enforcement Officers
• Men of Letters Bunker
• Nephilim
• Table of Death
• Team Free Will
• Telekinesis
• Teleportation

Music

• "Space Cowboy" by Steve Miller Band

(playing as Dean and Cas enter the crime scene)

• "They Call Me Zombie" by Messer Chups

(playing as Sam and Jack meet with Athena)

• "Hot Rod Rockin'" by Thaddeus Rose & the Thorns

(playing on Athena's headphones)

Quotes

Dean: Cas, is that really you?

Sam: No. You're -- you're dead.
Castiel: Yeah, I was. But then I... annoyed an ancient cosmic being so much that he sent me back.
Sam: I don't even know what to say.

Dean: I do. Welcome home, pal.

Dean: Alright, well... two salty hunters, one half-angel kid, and a dude that just came back from the dead. Again. Team Free Will 2.0. Here we go.

Jack: You can have the couch if you want. I don't sleep much.
Castiel: I don't sleep at all.

Sam: You're in a good mood, huh?

Dean: Yeah, and?
Sam: Nothing. No, I-I-I just, uh... you've been having a rough go, so it's... it's good to see you smile.

Dean: Well, I said I needed a big win. We got Cas back. That's a pretty damn big win.

Dean: Can I just say I'm getting real sick and tired of fighting things that look like other things?

Sam: So what do we tell Athena?

Dean: Well, we keep it simple, tell her the guy she's banging eats dead people, and we're here to kill him. Or we could lie.

Sam: Yeah, we definitely lie.

Dean: Where's your badge?

Sgt. Phillips: I don't need one. This is family business.
Dean: Well, I should tell you I'm not taking him alive.
Sgt. Phillips: Neither am I.

Dean: All right, then. Uh, aim for the head.

Castiel: Jack, I've killed people who didn't deserve it... my friends -- I've killed people I loved. I wish I could tell you that it -- that it gets easier, that with time, it hurts less, but that would be a lie because it -- it never gets easier. And those moments, they never stop hurting. But that doesn't mean that you should stop fighting. It doesn't mean that just because you made a mistake -- and that's what this is, Jack. It's a mistake. That doesn't mean that you can't -- can't be better, do better. I believe that. I have to believe that.

Dave: It's okay. I'm doing this for us, baby.

Athena: There is no 'us.'

Dean: Ooh. Ouch. Breakups can be a bitch.

Sam: How'd it go?
Dean: Usual. Killed the bad guy, saved the girl.

Sam: Jack, look, this life, what we do, it's... it's not easy. And we've all done things we regret.

Jack: Just don't. You're afraid of me.
Castiel: Jack, no.
Jack: No, maybe you're right. Maybe I'm just another monster.
Dean: No, you're not. I thought you were. I did. But... Like Sam said, we've all done bad. We all have blood on our hands. So, if you're a monster, we're all monsters.

Jack: No, you don't... Every time I try and do something good, people get hurt. I thought I was getting better. I'm not... I don't know what I am, but I know I can't make the world a better place, not like this. I can't even do one good thing. And I know that if I stay, I'm gonna hurt you. All of you. And... I can't. You're all I have.

Trivia & References

"Tombstone" is a reference to the 1993 film of the same name about the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral that took place October 26, 1881, in Tombstone, Arizona.

When Sam and Dean meet with the newly resurrected Castiel, they are flanked by two neon signs: one for "Bison Bud's Bar" and the other a cross. In Native American culture, a bison symbolizes good health, strength and stamina, as well as protection and survival. In Christianity, the cross is a symbol of the atonement.

Dean: Pretty cool, right? Dude! Check it out, check it out, check it out. Clay Allison -- gun fighter extraordinaire, right? And, uh, Curly Bill Brocius, which -- now, now, now, little fun fact here -- was killed by Wyatt Earp himself. Not kidding. Johnny Ringo, Billy the Kid. Oh, look! Hey, big guy, how you doin'? That's... What's going on, Calamity Jane? Doc Holliday! Hey-oh! This is awesome.

Dean: Look, just act like you're from "Tombstone", okay?

Castiel: The city?
Dean: The movie. With Kurt Russell? I made you watch it.
Castiel: Yeah, yeah. Yeah. The one with the guns and tuberculosis. 'I'm your huckleberry.'

Tombstone told the story of the Earp Vendetta Ride and the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in the town of Tombstone, Arizona, in 1881. Kurt Russell portrayed Wyatt Earp. In the film Doc Holliday suffered from tuberculosis. The phrase "I'm your huckleberry" is a way of saying one is the right person for a job and is a reference to this scene from the film.

All four hunters use aliases related to the film Tombstone. Dean is Agent Russell (for Kurt Russell, who played Wyatt Earp), Sam is Agent Elliot (for Sam Elliott, who played Virgil Earp), Castiel is Agent Kilmer (for Val Kilmer, who played Doc Holliday), and Jack is Agent Paxton (for Bill Paxton, who played Morgan Earp).

Athena: I was out. Amanda Palmer concert.

Dean: Holy crap. That's Dave Mather.

"Mysterious Dave" Mather was an American lawman and gunfighter in the Old West.

Athena: And it's not 'that makeup school.' It's the Ben Carruth Makeup and Special Effects Program. It's the best.

Benjamin Godeau Carruth was a special makeup effects coordinator on season 11 of Supernatural.

Sgt. Phillips: Y'all looking for someone? 'Cause I am. Bank in town just got robbed. Turned into a real O.K. Corral type of deal. Big ol' shootout.

Dean: Perfect. Yeah. Sure. Come to Dodge City. We'll have some laughs.

A reference to this famous scene from Die Hard. Dean also said a similar line in 2.18 Hollywood Babylon.

Minutiae

Dean tracking Dave Mather in the cemetery was foreshadowed by Billie in 13.05 Advanced Thanatology, when she tells Dean one of his possible deaths involves being "stabbed by a ghoul in a graveyard."

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