8.10 Torn and Frayed (transcript)

SUPERNATURAL

8.10 Torn and Frayed

Written by: Jenny Klein

Directed by: Bob Singer

Air Date: January 16, 2013

“Katmandu” by Bob Seger plays during a recap of the season’s events.

NOW

INT. BUILDING – DAY

SAMANDIRIEL is bound to a chair in a room with symbols painted on the windows. His face and his Weiner Hut uniform are covered with blood, and a metal pick protrudes from his forehead. We hear footsteps. SAMANDIRIEL grimaces as he expels the pick from his forehead using his angel powers.

SAMANDIRIEL
Naomi. Naomi, Crowley has me.

The door opens and a DEMON wearing a white doctor’s coat and a bow tie enters. He walks up behind SAMANDIRIEL and leans down over him.

DEMON
Ah, ah, ah. Been on angel radio, have we?

SAMANDIRIEL
No, uh...

DEMON
Don't lie to me, Alfie.

The DEMON moves to stand in front of SAMANDIRIEL.

SAMANDIRIEL
I'm not lying. Please, I wouldn't lie to you.

DEMON
Oh, Alfie, after all these weeks together. I mean, how – how I wish that were so. [He picks up the metal pick from the floor.] Now we're going to have to turn off that signal... again.

SAMANDIRIEL
No. No! No!

SAMANDIRIEL screams as the DEMON pushes the pick back into his forehead.

SUPERNATURAL (Title Card)

ACT ONE

EXT. MOTEL – NIGHT

Kermit, Texas

We see a close-up of the door of Room 118.

INT. MOTEL ROOM – NIGHT

SAM is sitting on a couch drinking a bottle of beer. He opens the door and sees DEAN. SAM partly closes the door, looking angry, then opens it fully again. DEAN walks past him into the room.

DEAN
Who did you expect?

SAM
Long drive.

DEAN
Well, I wouldn't have had to make it if you hadn't have hung up on me.

SAM
Yeah, well, I heard all I needed to hear.

DEAN
No, you heard what you wanted to hear. I told you Benny wasn't killing. Hell, I watched him end the fangbanger that was.

SAM
How about Martin? How did he end that?

DEAN
Stupid – just like I said it would. Crazy son of a bitch didn't give Benny a choice. It was self-defense.

SAM
Seriously, Dean? That's the story you're going with? That the vampire was the real victim here?

DEAN
Hey, like it or not, that's the truth, okay? There was a time when that actually meant something.

SAM
Yeah, yeah. No kidding.

DEAN
What does that mean?

SAM
You think this is just about Benny?

DEAN
What the hell are you talking about?

SAM
What the hell do you think I'm talking about?

DEAN
Amelia? Oh, come on, man. I sent you that text 'cause I needed you to – to –

SAM
You needed me to what? To tear ass to Texas? To be afraid that what happened to Jessica, what happened to... everybody that we care about might have happened to her?

DEAN
You were gonna kill Benny. What was I supposed to do?

SAM
Is that what we are? You save a vampire by making me believe that the woman I love might be dead?

DEAN
What do you want to hear, Sam? That I was wrong? Fine. I was wrong. Okay? But if you'd have just heard me out, if you'd have trusted me, all of this could have been avoided.

SAM
You didn't want me to trust you. You wanted me to trust Benny, and I can't do that.

DEAN
Right. Okay, well, then, what the hell do we do now?

SAM
That depends. It depends on you. On whether or not you're done with him.

DEAN
Well, honestly, I don't know.

DEAN and SAM look at each other for a long moment.

DEAN
Glad I made the drive.

DEAN walks past SAM and out of the room.

EXT. PLAYGROUND – DAY

Children play on the playground equipment. A WOMAN sits on a bench, holding a crying baby.

WOMAN
Shh. Shh. Shh. Shh.

CASTIEL appears.

CASTIEL
She's been crying for two days. [The WOMAN nods.] The doctors missed something. It's called an inguinal hernia – very hard to detect.

CASTIEL touches the baby on the forehead and the crying stops. There is the sound of wings and CASTIEL disappears as the WOMAN is leaning over the baby.

INT. NAOMI’S OFFICE IN HEAVEN

NAOMI
Castiel, we have a situation. Samandiriel has been captured.

CASTIEL
I thought Samandiriel was dead.

NAOMI
He's been missing, and now we know – Crowley has him.

CASTIEL
Where?

NAOMI
His distress call cut out before I could pinpoint his exact location, but you will find him and you will bring him home.

CASTIEL
Crowley will have warded against angels this time. I'll need help getting in.

NAOMI
Take whatever you need. But you will be certain, Castiel, it was your idea to rescue Samandiriel, not mine, not Heaven's. Do you understand?

INT. RUFUS’ CABIN – DAY

DEAN is asleep on the couch, holding a bottle of beer and snoring. CASTIEL is standing in front of the couch. DEAN opens his eyes and jumps, spilling his beer.

DEAN
Damn it, Cas! How many times I got to tell you – it's just creepy!

CASTIEL
Dean, I need your help. The angel Samandiriel...

DEAN
Sam–

CASTIEL
He's been taken.

DEAN
You mean Alfie, the wiener-on-a-stick kid?

CASTIEL
Yes. I, uh – I heard his distress call this morning.

DEAN
On what, angel radio? I thought you shut that down.

CASTIEL
Well, my penance, it's going well, and I thought it was time to turn it back on. I've, uh... been helping people, Dean.

DEAN
Well, good for you. All right. So, who snatched Heaven's most adorable angel?

CASTIEL
Crowley.

DEAN
I'm listening.

CASTIEL
Samandiriel is being held in the general vicinity of Hastings, Nebraska.

DEAN
The general vicinity? That's all you got?

CASTIEL
Yes, which is why I need your help. It seems this is gonna involve... talking to people.

DEAN
Come on, Cas, I thought you were a hunter now.

CASTIEL
Well... I thought so, too, but... It seems I – I lack a certain –

DEAN
Skill?

DEAN opens his laptop and there is a loud gonging noise from the website on the screen, “Busty Asian Beauties”. He quickly closes the laptop again.

DEAN
You saw nothing.

DEAN opens the laptop again and the gonging sound plays again. He holds up a hand to cover the screen as he minimizes the browser.

DEAN
All right. What am I looking for?

CASTIEL
Well, when you torture an angel, it screams...

DEAN types “Nebraska News, Hastings” into a search engine.

CASTIEL
...and that kind of pain, it creates a ripple effect of strange incidents. Where's Sam?

DEAN
Sam's gone. It's all right. We'll, uh, find Alfie ourselves.

The headline on the “Lincoln Globe” website on the laptop reads “Tornados, Strong Winds Cause Damage Across Nebraska.”

INT. MOTEL ROOM – DAY

A nature program plays on a small, old television. SAM sits on the couch holding the TV remote.

NARRATOR ON TELEVISION
This charming little dung beetle makes his living upon the sands of Egypt. Here, billions of tiny particles, the remnants of ancient seas...

There is a knock on the door.

NARRATOR ON TELEVISION
...are pushed ever higher by the relentless winds of the Sahara. This is where the dung beetle makes its living. The ancient Egyptians...

SAM opens the door.

AMELIA
Look, last night at the bar, I just wanted to make sure it was you. You know... [she enters the room] ...peeping in my window.

SAM
Peeping. You make it sound so, uh...

AMELIA
Stalker-ish?

NARRATOR ON TELEVISION
Therefore, the scarab...

SAM turns off the television.

SAM
Um...

AMELIA
Anyway, I ran out because he was leaving. He travels a lot since he's been back.

SAM
Right, n-no, I – I get it. You had someplace...

AMELIA
I had to be, yeah. Are we gonna have a whole conversation with me finishing your sentences? So, why are you here?

SAM
It's not what it looks like. I – I thought you were in trouble – that you had – It doesn't matter. You're okay.

AMELIA
I was okay. You know, settled in... content. But here you are. What am I supposed to do with that?

SAM
Give me five seconds, and I'll be gone. I didn't come here to make trouble for you. I – I came because...

AMELIA
You cared? [She walks closer to SAM.] See that? I just did it again – finished your sentence.

SAM
Yeah, I care.

AMELIA
I care, too.

They kiss.

INT. BUILDING – DAY

SAMANDIRIEL is still bound to the chair. The DEMON in the white coat is adjusting a metal contraption on SAMANDIRIEL’s head.

SAMANDIRIEL
I told you it was an accident.

DEMON
Yes, of course. But now there shall be no more accidents, no more angel radio.

SAMANDIRIEL
Stop this, please. It's been...

DEMON
...weeks, yes. We're almost there, though. I'm certain of it.

SAMANDIRIEL
I'm begging you!

DEMON
When we demons possess a human, we invade all of them, their – uh – their muscles, their bones, their brains. I can't help but wonder if it isn't the same for angels.

SAMANDIRIEL
No.

The DEMON screws the metal pick into the contraption on SAMANDIRIEL’s head. SAMANDIRIEL screams. A glass beaker of what appears to be blood shatters. The DEMON smiles and continues to screw in the pick. SAMANDIRIEL screams again. He then seems to go into a trance as a tear runs from his eye.

SAMANDIRIEL
Vah-teh-kah-rah. Vah-teh-kah-rah.

EXT. STREET – DAY

A MAN wearing a suit and carrying a briefcase walks down the street.

SAMANDIRIEL (V-O)
Vah-teh-kah-rah.

The MAN pauses.

INT. BUILDING – DAY

SAMANDIRIEL
Sal-voch-tay.

EXT. STREET – DAY

The MAN looks at a bush in the front yard of a house. The scene alternates between the MAN outside and SAMANDIRIEL in the DEMON’s torture room.

SAMANDIRIEL
Vah-teh-kah-rah. Sal-voch-tay. Sal-voch-tay. Sal-voch-tay.

The MAN leans down to investigate the bush. It bursts into flames and he steps back in surprise.

SAMANDIRIEL
Sal-voch-tay!

Huge flames rise from the bush, sending the MAN flying backwards into a fence. He falls to the ground and lies unmoving in a flower bed, his face and hands burned.

ACT TWO

EXT. STREET – DAY

Geneva, Nebraska

The IMPALA, driven by DEAN and with CASTIEL in the passenger seat, takes a corner and drives along a street.

INT. HOSPITAL – DAY

The MAN who was burned by the flames from the bush lies in a hospital bed. His face is badly burned and partly bandaged. DEAN knocks on the frame of the open door, and he and CASTIEL enter. DEAN is wearing a “Press” ID badge.

DEAN
Mr. Hinckley? Hi. Uh, we're from the, uh, Geneva Gazette. I wanted to ask you a few questions about your ambush. [He laughs briefly.]

MR HINCKLEY
Yeah, well... I'd laugh, too, if it didn't feel like the sun just ate my face.

CASTIEL
It's a metaphor.

DEAN
Sorry. Uh, now, in the police report, it said that the, uh – the bush, it talked to you, yeah?

MR HINCKLEY
Yeah, I know it sounds crazy, but, yeah.

CASTIEL
And what did it say?

MR HINCKLEY
No clue. Sounded like Klingon to me.

DEAN
Gonna need exact words.

MR HINCKLEY
Are you serious?

CASTIEL
That's his serious face, yes.

DEAN
As much as you can remember, Mr. Hinckley.

MR HINCKLEY
Sounded something like... sol-voch. Yeah. Sol-voch-tay.

CUT TO:

CASTIEL and DEAN leave MR HINKLEY’s room and walk down the hallway.

DEAN
Well, what do you think? Mean anything to you?

CASTIEL
Yes. It's Enochian. It means "obey."

DEAN
Obey? Obey what?

CASTIEL
I don't know. But the amount of pain an angel must be in not just to manifest through shrubbery but to burn – Dean... we have to find him before it's too late.

DEAN
Okay. Okay, well, look, a sign like that – Alfie can't be too far, right? So we'll just start at the bush and work our way out.

CASTIEL
And look for what exactly? Crowley could have him anywhere.

DEAN
Well, if I know Crowley, the place will be swarming with demons, so we'll just drive till we see ugly.

INT. MOTEL ROOM – DAY

AMELIA is standing in the doorway to the bathroom, wearing only SAM’s shirt.

AMELIA
It's official – I hate motels. Say something.

SAM is shirtless in bed.

SAM
What would you like me to say? That was great? That was... a mistake?

AMELIA
I don't know. Both, I guess.

SAM
I understand.

AMELIA
Do you? Do you understand I have a life here? A good man that loves me... [she sits on the edge of the bed facing SAM] ...a man I don't want to hurt?

SAM
I know.

AMELIA
And do you know you're the first thing I think about when I wake up in the morning and the last thing before I go to sleep? It's tough to let something like that go.

SAM
Yeah.

AMELIA
Especially if you keep showing up here.

SAM
Are you saying you want me to leave?

AMELIA
I'm telling you that if you stay, against everything I believe in, I would be with you. But if you leave... don't come back. I can't have you with one foot in my life and one foot out there doing... whatever it is you do. That life of yours I have no idea about.

SAM
You don't want to know about it. Believe me. It's a big step.

AMELIA
For me or you?

SAM
Both. I... need to think about this. You need to think about this. Words will never cover what you mean to me – what you'll always mean to me, but we should...

AMELIA
Think about this. Okay. How about two days from now, around 7:30? I'll be off work then. One of us will be here, and we'll know. Neither of us will be here... and we'll know. Or both of us will be here... and we'll know.

EXT. – DAY

Some shabbily-dressed men stand around a fire burning in a 44-gallon drum. The IMPALA pulls up on the other side of a fence.

INT. IMPALA – DAY

DEAN
Wow, will you look at that? Our ninth abandoned factory. Ain't that America? Hey, what do you say, this doesn't pan out, we head back to that beer-and-bacon happy hour about a mile back, huh?

CASTIEL
Wait a minute, Dean. Those derelicts, they're demons. I can see their true faces.

DEAN looks through binoculars at the men standing around the drum and sees another man on a balcony above them.

DEAN
Crowley's got that many hell monkeys outside, he's got to have at least double inside.

CASTIEL
And angel warding. I can feel it.

DEAN
Well, you, me, and a demon knife ain't gonna cut it.

CASTIEL
Okay. I'll get Sam.

DEAN
No. We don't need Sam.

CASTIEL
But you just said –

DEAN
Look, if Sam wanted in, he'd be here, okay? I got a better idea.

EXT. WHARF – DAY

A boat named “Fizzles’ Folly” is moored next to a dock.

INT. GARTH’S BOAT – DAY

Pages of symbols are stuck to a wall and other surfaces. KEVIN sits at a table with half of The Word of God demon tablet and a notebook.

DEAN
Slow read?

KEVIN
Slowest.

DEAN
Where's Garth?

KEVIN
Supply run? I don't know. Sort of lost track of when he comes and goes. You guys need help with something? I'm working here.

CASTIEL
You look horrible.

KEVIN
Yeah. Thanks.

DEAN
He's right. Are you okay, Kevin?

KEVIN
Fine. I'm just... in the middle of this.

DEAN
And? Any luck?

KEVIN
Interpreting half a demon tablet? No. I got nothing.

DEAN
All right, well, buck up, 'cause, uh, we need some more of that demon TNT ASAP.

KEVIN
You used it all?

DEAN
Yeah, so let's whip up another batch.

KEVIN
Sure. West Bank witch hazel, skull of Egyptian calf, the tail of some random-ass newt that may or may not be extinct –

DEAN
All right, all right, I get it – ingredients are hard to come by, huh?

KEVIN
That's just the first three ingredients.

CASTIEL
Give me the list. I'll get what we need.

DEAN
[smiles] Huh.

KEVIN starts making a list.

INT. BUILDING – DAY

SAMANDIRIEL is still bound to the chair and wearing the metal contraption on his head. CROWLEY enters and closes the door behind him.

CROWLEY
What on earth could you possibly need now, Viggor? I've given you every torture instrument known to man – short of a Neil Diamond album.

VIGGOR
I've found something, sir. I need a translator.

CROWLEY
You're looking at him. Show me.

VIGGOR twists the metal pick in SAMANDIRIEL’s forehead. CROWLEY puts on an apron.

SAMANDIRIEL
Zoh-bah-leh-ta.

CROWLEY
What have we here?

VIGGOR
I think it's Enochian.

CROWLEY
Of course it's Enochian, you pigeon. The question is, why is he speaking Enochian? What have you drilled into here, Viggor, huh?

CROWLEY twists the metal pick.

SAMANDIRIEL
Zoh-bah-leh-ta. Sah-teh-voch-leh.

CROWLEY
Bollocks.

VIGGOR
What is it, sir?

CROWLEY
Well, what our feathered friend was uttering essentially was, “You, celestial being, have been created to be an angel of the Lord.” You've got into his operating system – his factory settings.

VIGGOR
From who? God?

CROWLEY
Who the hell cares where it comes from? Let's find out what makes this flying monkey tick.

CROWLEY twists the metal pick again. SAMANDIRIEL screams.

SAMANDIRIEL
Sah-teh-voch-leh.

CROWLEY twists the metal pick again and SAMANDIRIEL screams.

INT. GARTH’S BOAT – DAY

KEVIN is still working on the tablet. DEAN paces and claps his hands. KEVIN puts on headphones. DEAN looks at his watch.

DEAN
I mean, come on. How long's it take to get a calf skull from Egypt? Kevin. Kevin. [He snaps his fingers next to KEVIN’s ear and then leans down close to him.] Your mom's hot. I'm serious, your mom is one sexy –

DEAN’s phone rings.

DEAN (on phone)
Hey, I thought I told you to go underground.

EXT. PARK – DAY

A family is eating at a picnic table. BENNY stands under some trees nearby.

BENNY (on phone)
Hey. I am so far underground, I'm breathing through a straw, brother. Uh, look... what happened with your friend Martin back there, it wasn't supposed to go down that way.

INT. GARTH’S BOAT – DAY

DEAN (on phone)
I know. Your granddaughter told me.

The scene alternates between DEAN on GARTH’s boat and BENNY in the park.

BENNY (on phone)
Dean, you did this old dog a real solid, and, uh... the way you stood up for me –

DEAN (on phone)
Well, shoe on the other foot, you would have done the same.

BENNY (on phone)
Yeah. I hate to ask for much else, but I don't suppose there's any chance you're anywhere near the Catskills?

DEAN (on phone)
Working a case on the other side of the country. Why? What's up?

BENNY (on phone)
Yeah, just hitting a little rough patch, I guess. You know, doing this whole solo thing.

DEAN (on phone)
Benny... one day at a time, man.

BENNY (on phone)
You know what? Uh... A cup of coffee sure would do me good.

DEAN (on phone)
All right, as soon as I'm done with this case, I'll, uh... I'll be there, okay?

BENNY (on phone)
Yeah. All right, brother. Thank you.

DEAN hangs up. He walks over to KEVIN and touches his headphones.

DEAN
Hey. Where is your mom?

KEVIN
Somewhere safe.

DEAN
You kicked your mom to the curb?

KEVIN
She was too distracting. I couldn't focus. The angels said I had to go to the desert to learn the word of God, all right? So... this is my desert.

DEAN
Yeah, but your mom's your mom.

KEVIN
I can't enjoy a world I need to save, Dean. I can enjoy it when this is all over with. For right now... there's nothing more important than this.

EXT. DIFFERENT PARK – DAY

A man holds an umbrella over a woman as they walk along. SAM sits on a bench. CASTIEL appears next to SAM, who jumps.

CASTIEL
Watching humanity – it never gets old, does it?

INT. GARTH’S BOAT – DAY

DEAN tips the crumbs from a bag of snack food into his mouth and throws away the bag. There is the sound of wings.

CASTIEL
I got what we need.

DEAN
[turning] Well, it's about time.

SAM is standing next to CASTIEL.

DEAN
What's he doing here?

SAM
Don't worry, Dean. Once we save Alfie, I'm out.

DEAN
Oh, once "we" save Alfie. Don't hurt yourself, Sam. Cas and I can handle it.

SAM
Not according to Cas.

DEAN
I told you we didn't need him.

CASTIEL
We need everything, Dean. And I need both of you, as you say, to stow your crap. Can you do that?

DEAN and SAM look at each other.