15.09 The Trap

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Title The Trap
Episode # Season 15, Episode 9
First aired January 16, 2020
Directed by Robert Singer
Written by Robert Berens
On IMDB The Trap
Outline Chuck attempts to sever his connection to Sam. Meanwhile, Dean and Castiel journey to Purgatory to find the final ingredient needed to trap God.
Monster God
Leviathans
Timeline
Location(s) Milford, Nebraska
Lebanon, Kansas
Purgatory
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Synopsis

Characters

Definitions

Music

  • "Hard Times in the Land of Plenty" by Omar & the Howlers
(plays during "The Road So Far" recap of events)

Quotes

Cas: Dean, will you stop? Just stop being so stupid!

Dean: What?

Cas: If we attack Chuck now, we don't have anything that can hurt him. We get that Leviathan blossom, complete Michael's spell, build the Cage... That's our chance. That's the way we'll save Sam, and that's the way we'll save the world.
Leviathan: What do you want?

Dean: Well it's a little embarrassing saying it out loud, but we're looking for a flower.

Leviathan: A flower? What do I look like? A florist?
Cas: Well this place will bring that out in you. Guilt. It was my fault the Leviathan got out. It was my fault we were here the first time. I carry that guilt every day.

Dean: I know you're sorry Cas. About Bel. About Mom.
Cas: I was talking about Jack. I already apologized to you. You just refused to hear it.
Dean: I'm sorry I bought it up. Maybe if you didn't just up and leave us.

Cas: You didn't give me a choice. You couldn't forgive me, and you couldn't move on. You were too angry. I left and you didn't stop me.
Dean: Cas? Cas, I hope you can hear me... that wherever you are, it's not too late. I should've stopped you. You're my best friend, but I just let you go. 'Cause it was easier than admitting that I was wrong. I.. I don't know why I get so angry. I just know -- I know that it's -- I... It's just always been there. And when things go bad, it just -- it comes out. And I can't -- I can't stop it. No matter how -- bad I want to. I just can't stop it. And I -- And I forgive you. Of course I forgive you. I'm sorry it took me so long -- I'm sorry it took 'til now for me to say it. Cas I'm -- I'm so sorry. Man, I hope you can hear me. I hope you can hear me. Okay.
Sam: It will be better. It will be better. It will be better. If we win. When we win. When we beat you! I will will make it better!

Chuck: You can't, Sam. You - Sam Winchester - have been playing fast and loose with the laws of nature and magic and for a very long time. You and your brother, Always breaking the rules. That's what I love about you Sam. It's so heroic. So Promethean. But there's still so much about the fabric of the universe you don't know, you can't know, because you're only humans. But I'm God. Think beyond the Mark, beyond you and Dean fanging out - heartbreaking but not the headline news.
Sam: Monsters.

Chuck: The monsters.
Dean: What now? You're not going to dust us.

Chuck: Oh yeah? Why not?
Dean: Because you are holding out. For your big finish. Yeah we know about your galaxy-brained idea. How you think this story is going to go. Sam got a little look into your draft folder.
Chuck: Sam's visions? They weren't drafts - they were memories. My memories. Other Sams and other Deans, in other worlds. But guess what? Just like you they didn't think they'd do it either. But they did. And you will too.
Dean: No. Not this Sam. And not this Dean. So go back to Earth-2 and play with your other toys, because we will never give you the ending you want.

Chuck: We'll see.
Sam: Okay, so what now?

Castiel: Well, Chuck's gone, but...
Dean: He'll be back.
Sam: If we can't kill Him or trap Him...

Dean: Well, then we find another way.
Billie: It's time.

Trivia & References

Chuck: I wouldn't say weak exactly; I pinata'ed Hell!
Chuck is referring to when he opened Hell at the end of 14.20 Moriah. A pinata is a decorated container filled with small gifts or candy that is smashed as part of celebrations in Mexico.
Dean: Well, if you won't help us... you see this boomstick?
Boomstick is the nickname of Ash's shotgun in the Evil Dead horror franchise.
Leviathan: Mother's got beef with you.

Cas: Eve!
Leviathan: Killing her alphas. Swallowing her Leviathan. You should earn us a nice reward.

Eve was the mother of all monsters who rose from Purgatory, when Castiel and Crowley were hunting down Alphas to try and find a way to Purgatory in order to plunder it of souls. Dean killed her using phoenix ashes.
Chuck: You can't Sam. You - Sam Winchester - have been playing fast and loose with the laws of nature and magic and for a very long time. You and your brother, Always breaking the rules. That's what I love about you Sam. It's so heroic. So Promethean.
Promethean refers to being rebellious and is a reference to Prometheus a trickster god of the ancient Greeks, who was known as a champion of humanity and who defied the other gods to give fire to mortals.
Dean: Because you are holding out. For your big finish. Yeah we know about your galaxy-brained idea. How you think this story is going to go. Sam got a little look into your draft folder.
"Galaxy Brain" is a term from a meme that originated in 2017. The term is generally used an an insult to someone who believes they have an intelligent opinion on something, which others think is ridiculous.
Dean: No. Not this Sam. And not this Dean. So go back to Earth-2 and play with your other toys, because we will never give you the ending you want.
Earth-2 is an alternate version of Earth in the DC Universe. Sam also called Apocalypse World this in 13.13 Devil's Bargain while explaining the situation to Donatello Redfield. In this context, it's unclear if Dean was referring to Apocalypse World or just making a DC reference.

Minutiae

Dean track's Sam's phone and finds out that the Lucky Elephant Casino is at 707 Darland Street, Milford, Nebraska.
The future times Chuck shows Sam are:
  • April 17, 2020 11:42:00 PM

Sam, Eileen, Dean, and Cas are having a relaxed evening in the bunker, when Jody rings to tell them Claire was killed when they were hunting vampires and there turned out to be more than expected.

  • January 6th, 2021 9:09:18 PM

Sam and Dean are in the Impala, having just fought a pack of werewolves and failing to save any of the victims. The mention that Cas is gone. The scenery that they drive by, possibly buildings from the shapes, appear to be on fire.

  • November 3, 2021 11:42:36 AM

Sam and Dean have returned from a vampire hunt, and Sam is keen to head out again. Dean is feeling hopeless - there are just too many monsters and they aren't even saving people anymore. They mention that after Cas took on the Mark of Cain as part of the plot to cage Chuck he had to be locked in the Ma'lak Box, and Eileen, Donna, and the other wayward girls are dead. Of their friends, only Jody and Bobby are still hunting and Dean suspects they both have a death wish, along with Sam.

  • November 3, 2021 12:36:38 PM

Sam tells Dean he is heading out on the hunt and Dean resignedly follows him. When they return at an unknown point later, something has gone wrong and Chuck comments that Dean should've followed his gut.

  • December 9, 2022 3:11:38 AM
Sam and Dean prepare to take a last stand in a hotel room. Two hunters and Jody and Bobby approach. They storm the room - to kill Sam and Dean who are vampires. They kill the hunters and Jody manages to shoot Sam with dead man's blood. Dean bites and kills Jody, and Bobby beheads Sam. The vision ends with Sam's death, leaving Dean and Bobby's ultimate fates unknown.

Sides, Scripts & Transcripts

Promotion

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