9.22 Stairway to Heaven
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Title | Stairway to Heaven |
Episode # | Season 9, Episode 22 |
First aired | May 13, 2014 |
Directed by | Guy Bee |
Written by | Andrew Dabb |
On IMDB | Stairway to Heaven |
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Location(s) | Dixon, Missouri |
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Contents
Synopsis
Characters
Definitions
- Angel Lore
- Angel Sword
- Binding Link
- Castiel's Pimpmobile
- Castiel's Trenchcoat
- Enochian
- The First Blade
- Grace
- Holy Oil
- Mark of Cain
- Reaper
Music
- "Cheek to Cheek" by Fred Astaire
- (plays when Castiel and Sam enter the door to Heaven)
Quotes
Dean: Nice reflexes. Better hair.
Metatron: I mean, sure, he's cute. And Castiel has this simple...charm. He's like a mentally deficient puppy. but I'm lovable. And funny. I made God laugh -- twice!
Sam: You hold roll call?
Castiel: They like to hear me say their names.
Castiel: They've put their faith in me.
Sam: And maybe that's the problem. I mean, people have been doing messed up crap in the name of faith -- in the name of God -- since forever.
Sam: And maybe that's the problem. I mean, people have been doing messed up crap in the name of faith -- in the name of God -- since forever.
Flagstaff: You believe every problem can be solved with a gun. You play the hero, but underneath the hype, you're a killer with oceans
of blood on his hands. I hate men like you.
Tessa: So, you're here. Why? You just love musical theater?
Dean: Only if it's "Fiddler."
Dean: Only if it's "Fiddler."
Castiel: It's wordplay. And the answer is the key, like the doors of Durin in "Lord of the Rings."
Sam: Wait a second. You know about "The Lord of the Rings?"
Trivia & References
Stairway to heaven is the most widely know of Led Zeppelin's songs.
Sam refers to going up against Gadreel and Metatron as "the big boss fights". This is a term used in video gaming referring to the climactic battle between the player and a large, hard to beat enemy.
Castiel gives Sam and Dean's FBI aliases as "Agents Spears and Aguilera" referring to pop stars Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. Castiel explains that "I've noticed your aliases are usually the names of popular musicians." Which is of course correct, although Sma adn Dea always choose names of classic rock musicians!
Gadreel: I told you, we had our shot with operation Lee Harvey, and we took it.
- Lee Harvey is a reference to Lee Harvey Oswald , the man who shot John Kennedy.
Metatron is first seen trying on a trenchcoat similar to Castiel's Trenchcoat.
Dean: I mean, the Manson girls aren't gonna give us a straight answer with Charlie in the room, so just hang back.
- Charles "Charlie" Manson is a cult leader and mass murderer, whose followers were referred to as the Manson family.
Sam: You got a weird thing going on back there. Those other angels, the way they stare at you, It's like you're part rock star, part L. Ron.
- L.Ron Hubbard was the founder of the Church of Scientology.
Tyrus: You'd still be you -- a nerd trying to be one of the popular kids.
- Curtis Armstrong who plays Metatron became popular in his role as Booger in the 1984 comedy Revenge of the Nerds.
In the building where the portal is located, "Only the penitent man shall pass" is carved on the wall. In the movie Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, there are a series of traps. The first one is called "The Breath of God". The quote associated with the trap says "Only the penitent man will pass." As a person apprached, they would feel air move through the chamber's thick cobwebs. They would then have to kneel in order to avoid being decapitated by three huge circular blades, just as Castiel did in the episode.
Minutiae
The fake "stairway to Heaven" is located in Pray, Montana.
Sides, Scripts & Transcripts
Promotion
- Episode synopsis by ksitetv
- Episode Promo
- CHCH Promo
- Sneak peek
- Promo pics from sweetondean