14.01 Stranger in a Strange Land

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Title Stranger in a Strange Land
Episode # Season 14, Episode 1
First aired October 11, 2018
Directed by Thomas J. Wright
Written by Andrew Dabb
On IMDB Stranger in a Strange Land
Outline Sam, Mary, and the Apocalypse World refugees continue their search for Dean. Meanwhile, Castiel's attempt to get information from a demon does not go according to plan.
Monster Demons
Michael
Timeline Weeks after 13.23 Let the Good Times Roll
Location(s) Lebanon, Kansas
Detroit, Michigan
Duluth, Minnesota
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Synopsis

Characters

Definitions

Music

  • "Shot Down in Flames" by AC/DC
(plays over "The Road So Far" recap of events)
  • "Let Him Walk This Troubled Earth Again" by Yvonne DeVaney
(playing in the bar as Castiel meets with Kipling)

Quotes

Sam: Enough! There will be no new King of Hell. Not today. Not ever. And if anybody wants the job, you can come through me. Understood? So what's it gonna to be?
Castiel: Sam, are you all right?

Sam: Yeah. I've been better, and worse. You?
Castiel: I'm just sorry I should never have gone to those demons.

Sam: Cas, no, I-I don't blame you, I -- honestly, I wish I had thought of it first. If it meant finding Dean I-I-I'd work with... I'd do anything.
Jack: I'm useless. I can't kill demons, I can't find Dean and Michael is in our world, and I can't stop him. I can't do anything. I don't have anything.
Castiel: Oh, Jack, that's just not true. You got me. You have all of us. You have your family. And we are going to find Dean, and we are going to beat Michael and we are going to do it together. Because that's what we do.
Michael: Now you. You know exactly what you want. You don't pretend to want to help people or save the world. Your want is pure and simple and clean. And that's why you are worth saving. That's why we are going to work so well together. Because you -- you just want to eat.

Trivia & References

Stranger in a Strange Land is the title of a 1961 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein. The title itself derived from this phrase found in Exodus 2:22:
"And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land."
It is also the title of an Iron Maiden song.
Sam: Okay. Um, alright give me teams of two. I want watch points every fifty miles. If you see something, say something. Maggie can you hack the traffic cams on the freeway?
"If you see something, say something" is a slogan for Homeland Security, which urges people to report suspicious behavior in the hopes of preventing possible terror attacks.
Bobby: You got to. As a wise man once said, 'it ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.'

Jack: Was that Gandhi?
Bobby: Probably. Yeah, something like that.

Bobby's quote comes from the character Rocky Balboa from the eponymous 2006 film.
"Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place, and I don't care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward; how much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done! Now if you know what you're worth, then go out and get what you're worth, but you gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain't you. You're better than that! I'm always gonna love you, no matter what. No matter what happens. You're my son and you're my blood. You're the best thing in my life. But until you start believing in yourself, you ain't gonna have a life."
Mahatma Gandhi was an Indian activist who used nonviolent civil disobedience, to free India from British colonial rule.
Jo: You're not. You're no Dean Winchester. You're... Oh, God.

Michael: People keep calling me that.

Derived from the Hebrew mīkhā'ē'l, the name Michael translate to "Who is like God?"
Jo: You're the archangel Michael from another world and you're possessing Dean Winchester.

Michael: Sounds more complicated than it is.
Jo: Why would he say yes to you?
Michael: Love.

Jo: Really? That's very Hallmark Channel.
Michael: What do you want?

Jo: I don't know. Chanel, Dior, Louis Vuitton.

Kip: I have heard so much about you. You are a damn legend, Sam. An icon. The shoulders, the hair. Mmhmm. You are my Beyoncé!
Sam: What do you want?

Kip: That is a very good question. What do I want? You know I don't know if you are aware or not Sam, but Hell is in a bit of a pickle. With Crowley dead and Asmodeus Kentucky fried--
Sam: I don't care.

Kip: I know that I'm not that poncy son of a bitch. You see in life, I rode with Genghis Kahn and I burned half the world. So please! Do you think that I like prancing around like this? Please. If I had it my way I would eat your heart. But a king has an image to maintain and I'm not afraid of you. But they are. So take the deal Sam before I stop trying to be Crowley and I show you who I really am. So what do you say darling?
Castiel: Who was that?

Sam: Ketch. He's in London searching for the Newton Dee Hyperbolic Pulse Generator.
Castiel: The what?
Sam: It's a magic egg that kicked Lucifer out of the president, I thought we could use it on Michael, but Ketch can't find it so it's another dead end. So, that's just awesome.

Newton and Dee may be references to mathematician, astronomer, theologian, author and physicist Sir Isaac Newton and mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, occult philosopher John Dee, as the term "hperbolic" comes from the the mathematics principal of hyperbola and John Dee having "discovered" the Enochian language.

Minutiae

Patrick Sparling, who played a Demon, previously played Husky Cupid in 10.18 Book of the Damned.
This is the first episode where we get a glimpse of how angels see each other in their vessels.
As shown in 1.22 Devil's Trap and 4.09 I Know What You Did Last Summer, demons can invisibly possess humans without the need to physically smoke into them, which may explain why Castiel was unaware of the bar full of demons as they had not been possessed yet.

Sides, Scripts & Transcripts

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