14.18 Absence
Title | Absence |
Episode # | Season 14, Episode 18 |
First aired | April 11, 2019 |
Directed by | Nina Lopez-Corrado |
Written by | Robert Berens |
On IMDB | Absence |
Outline | Sam, Dean, and Castiel race to find out what happened to Jack and Mary. |
Monster | N/A |
Timeline | Immediately after 14.17 Game Night |
Location(s) | Lebanon, Kansas Heaven |
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Contents
Synopsis
Characters
Definitions
- Alcohol
- Angel Radio
- Book of the Damned
- Castiel's Pickup Truck
- Grief Beard
- Heaven
- Hunter's Funeral Pyre
- Impala
- Jackifer
- Men of Letters Bunker
- Metatron's Cube
- Necromancy
- Nephilim
- Photo Album
- Playground
- Portal
- Resurrection
- Resurrection Charm
- Sam and Dean's Initials
- Smiting
- Soullessness
- Spells
- Table of Death
- Teleportation
Music
None
Quotes
Jackifer: Actually, you do. So I'm gonna give you a little piece of advice, bud, how you can wiggle out of this little pickle you're in. You don't. You won't. You can't. All right? Buddy, you killed Mary Winchester. You cannot come back from that, and you know it. All right? you've been flapping your wings all around trying to run away from what you did, and where'd you wind up? Right here, right back to the scene of the crime. Yeah. Yeah, because somewhere inside, you realize that the sooner you accept it, the easier it'll be.
Mary: Maybe a little. I haven't been back that long. Angels are real. Angels are friends. Angels can heal you with a wave of a glowy hand. I -- It's all pretty new still. We should get back. Boys will be waiting.
Castiel: I know you know this, Mary, but... Sam and Dean -- they're -- they're glad to have you back. Whatever you still have to deal with and however long it takes, you should know they're happy. I mean, finally, they don't have to be so... so alone.
Dean: The snake!
Castiel: What he did wasn't bad. It was the absence of good. And I saw that in him. But we were a family, and I didn't want to lose that, so I thought I could... fix it on my own. Felt like it was my responsibility. So I left and didn't tell you. If I could go back and just -- just talk to him right then and there, I would. But I can't, Dean. I failed you. And I failed Jack. And I failed --
Mary: Sam, everyone here understands what you've been doing and what you've been putting yourself through.
Sam: Yeah, I know, but Jack's been through a lot -- you know, losing his powers. And I haven't really been there for him. Sorry Mom. I don't mean to lay all this on you.
Mary: No. Are you kidding? It's nice knowing I'm not the only one... with parental guilt. How much did the two of you go through when I wasn't there for you? And even when Amara brought me back, and I got a second chance, things got complicated. I got complicated.
Sam: Mom.
Dean: I did it, too. When I talked to Donatello about Jack, he said he was good as far as he could tell. But then he talked about how powerful Jack was and that he could never really be sure. And it was a warning. I just couldn't see it.
Jack: What?
Dean: What we always do.
Trivia & References
- Nepal is the location of the fictional land of Shangri-La where people lived for hundreds of years.
- Peru is where the psychedelic brew Ayahuasca is made and used in spiritual and other healing ceremonies.
- Jack may have stopped in Paris after visiting Lourdes in France, a place many Roman Catholics visit to take in water they believe has miraculous healing powers, due to reported appearances of the Virgin Mary.
- In Madagascar, traditional healers work closely with the spirit world.
Dean: No. A "get out of jail free" card? I'll take that.
- A "get out of jail free" card is used in the board game Monopoly, to avoid the tile marked "Jail" which results in a lost turn. It has become a metaphor for something that allows a person to avoid an undesirable situation.
- Jack Kevorkian was a proponent of euthanasia, who assisted a number of people in ending their lives.
- Jeffrey Dahmer was a serial killer who tortured and murdered 17 men and boys.
Minutiae
Sides, Scripts & Transcripts
Promotion
- Synopsis and promo photos
- Promo
- Sneak Peek
- Sam Smith's farewell tweet