8.10 Torn and Frayed (transcript)
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. Samandriel has been captured.
CASTIEL
I thought Samandriel 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 Samandriel, 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 Samandriel...
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
Samandriel 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.