14.08 Byzantium

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Title Byzantium
Episode # Season 14, Episode 8
First aired December 6, 2018
Directed by Eduardo Sanchez
Written by Meredith Glynn
On IMDB Byzantium
Outline
Monster Cosmic Entity
Timeline Immediately following 14.07 Unhuman Nature
Location(s) Lebanon, Kansas
Heaven
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Synopsis

Characters

Definitions

Music

  • "Please Call Home" by The Allman Brothers Band
(playing as Sam, Dean and Castiel drink to Jack's memory)

Quotes

Jack: Please don't be sad. Maybe -- Maybe this is how things are supposed to be.
Dean: Don't give me that 'meant to be' crap. This isn't part of some damn plan.
Dean: Hey, Mom, it's me. Sorry to lay this on your voicemail, but, uh it's Jack. He -- He got sick, um, and he, uh -- h-he died this morning. I would have called you sooner, but, um, it -- it happened so fast. And we thought we could fix it, you know like always. Anyway, Mom, I'm sorry. I know how much he meant to you and, uh, to all of us. Anyway, to tell you the truth, it would really be nice to hear your voice. If you could, uh, just call us back.
Dean: Tell me you didn't make a deal.

Sam: A -- A -- A deal? What? No. I -- I was trying to build a pyre. I couldn't -- I-I couldn't even do that for him. I should've done more. Dean: Sam.
Sam: I should have tried harder. You know, I mean, everything we got -- the spells, the lore -- what good is any of it if we couldn't even save him? At least you were there for him.

Dean: At least you were there for him.
Dean: Right. But I don't like rollin' the dice on the word of a psycho ex-angel killer.

Sam: I don't love it, either, but taking risks, making crappy deals -- that's what we do.
Dean: Yeah, and they usually bite us in the ass.
Sam: So, what do you want to do about it? Leave Jack in the morgue? Burn him? I didn't say that. Because, for me, not doing this -- that -- that would be like letting him die all over again.

Dean: I want Jack back, too, okay? I do. I just don't trust Lily.
Dean: You know, maybe we got off to a bad start. Um, guess I should be thanking you.

Lily: Apology accepted.
Dean: Except something's been bothering me. Uh, you know, if this magic of yours is so great why'd you stop using it? You're letting yourself get old. You're letting yourself die. Why? Why risk going to Hell if you don't have to? There's something you're not tellin' us.

Lily: When Ishim took my daughter, I swore I'd kill him, even if it meant burning my entire soul. But it didn't. I have a sliver, a whisper of my soul left. And? May -- my daughter, my little girl -- is in Heaven. And if there is still a piece of my soul Now do you understand?
Anubis: Mm. The brothers Winchester. I must say, your files have come across my desk many times.

Sam: We never met? I mean, we've died.
Dean: Yeah. A lot.
Anubis: I'm more of a "back of the house" kind of guy. Death and her subordinates get all the face time. I get stuck with the paperwork.

Dean: Pushin' pencils, damning souls. Tough work.

Trivia & References

According to writer Meredith Glynn "Byzantium" is a reference to a William Butler Yeats poem which could be "Sailing to Byzantium" or the later poem "Byzantium."

Minutiae

Jack's personal Heaven appeared to be the road trip to Dodge City in 13.06 Tombstone.
At their wake for Jack, Sam, Dean and Castiel eat nougat - Jack's favorite candy.
Dean comments that Kevin translated the angel tablet into something that only a Prophet could read. This is presumably a reference to 9.06 Heaven Can't Wait when Kevin translated part of the tablet into proto-elamite cuneiform. However, this is also a goof as Kevin only translated the part of the tablet relating to Metatron's spell like this.
Castiel: Anubis. Guardian of the Dead. The Ancient Egyptians believed that when you die, Anubis would weigh your heart on his scale against justice's feather.

Sam: Yeah, the -- the weighing of the heart ceremony, right, but that wasn't Anubis. That was Osiris. We met him. Dean: Major dick. Castiel: Osiris is Anubis's father, and Heaven passed over him when they enlisted his son.

We learn that Anubis, like Atropos and her sisters was brought in to work with Heaven, despite being a "pagan god." Sam also mentions his and Dean's encounter with Osris from 7.04 Defending Your Life.
All of Heaven's gates are open once again following the Cosmic Entity's attack. Castiel states that even all of the gates that Metatron closed have been reopened for the first time since 8.23 Sacrifice.

Sides, Scripts & Transcripts

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