Supernatural – The Foundry

By: Stacy Miller

What happens when you take a creepy doll, ghost possession, three hunting Winchesters and an angel and demon buddy teaming up? A great “Supernatural” episode.

The episode begins with a couple in St. Paul, Minnesota. A young woman named Nat (Aadali Dosani) hears a baby crying in an old abandoned house. She asks the man she’s with to call 911 and then she decides to investigate. Once inside, instead of a baby Nat finds a decaying-looking doll. When the man comes in too, Nat shows him the doll and tells him that something just touched her arm. The couple tries to leave, but something slams the door trapping them inside. Nat screams in terror.

At the Men of Letters bunker, Mary (Samantha Smith) can’t sleep so she does a little light reading with John’s journal. Castiel (Misha Collins) enters the room. “Castiel, what are you doing up?” Mary asks. “I’m always up, angels don’t need sleep,” he responds. “I wish I had that problem,” Mary says. But before starting back upstairs to try, Mary asks Castiel a question: “Castiel, after you left Heaven when did it start to feel like you fit, like you belonged here?” Castiel admits that he’s still not sure he does, but assures Mary that “You do belong here.” Upstairs, Mary cuts her hair.

The next morning, Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) are in the kitchen discussing the British Men of Letters. Castiel enters and tells them that he’s on his way to Cleveland, Ohio to investigate a man whose eyes flared red. Sam offers to go with him in case he needs backup, but Castiel wants to go alone as he was the one who let Lucifer out of the cage.

While Sam continues to worry about how their mother is adjusting, Dean tells him that Mary is doing fine. Mary enters and grabs a cold piece of bacon off the plate which makes Dean comment how they are definitely related. Sam notices Mary’s shorter hairdo. Mary explains that she’s going to keep it short while she goes out on hunts. “Why give the bad guys the advantage of long pull able hair, right?” Mary says. “Wow, I’ve been trying to tell Sam that for years,” Dean adds. Sam questions Mary about wanting to go out on a hunt when she was still trying to figure out how the internet worked. But Mary read the newspapers that she had Dean go out and get. The case is in Minnesota where there are two dead in a locked house after a call about a crying baby. The two dead bodies were found, but no baby. Okay. Dean agrees to a family hunting trip. Inside The Impala, Dean brings Mary some beef jerky. She especially loves the chili lime. With “Born to Be Wild” playing on Baby’s radio, Dean drives off.

In Cleveland, Castiel learns about Vince Vincente (Rick Springfield) from the man Lucifer (wearing Vincente’s meat suit) threw across the room. Castiel as “Agent Beyoncé” asks to be called if the man hears anything more. If Castiel is Agent Beyoncé then according to Crowley, “That must make me Jay-Z.”

In Minnesota, Agent Shirley Partridge (Mary) introduces her partners Agent Cassidy and Agent Bonaduce (Dean and Sam) to the coroner (Nikolai Witschl) and then they look at the bodies. Dean finds a burn on Nat’s arm. The coroner explains that it is frostbite and that both victims died of hypothermia in a sixty-five degree room. Additionally, when he opened up the bodies the hearts were literally frozen.

Crowley believes it was fate that brought Castiel and he together in the hunt for Lucifer and thinks they should work together as they were pretty good against Amara. Crowley shares his information, which is that he searched Vincente’s room and found post cards from the rocker’s sister Wendy (Nancy Kerr) that contained an address.

Back in Minnesota, Sam, Dean and Mary enter the abandoned house. Mary assures that she can work the EMF because it is analog. Mary gets trapped in the room with the decaying baby doll. A boy grabs her arm as Sam and Dean break into the room. They use an iron crowbar on the ghost boy, but Sam notices a burn mark on Mary’s arm. “Mom, you’re hurt,” he says. Dean tells them to get out.

At their motel, Sam has searched the internet and found a serious of child deaths in the house going back decades, starting with a little girl named Elizabeth Moriarty.

Castiel and Crowley arrive at Wendy’s house to question her about her brother Vince, but gets the door slammed in their faces. “Do you think that happens to Sam and Dean?” Castiel wonders. “All the time,” assures Crowley without hesitation. Clearly he doesn’t highly of Sam and Dean and their ability to convince people that they are agents. Crowley and Castiel get into Wendy’s house and learns that she was healed of paralysis by Lucifer who took off with his groupie, a red-headed broad. Crowley and Castiel leave Wendy’s house and Crowley tells him that they need to find Rowena (Ruth Connell) and Lucifer before the Devil gets her to do his bidding.

Meanwhile, Lucifer wants Rowena to use her witch powers to make his vessel permanent as he is tired of jumping from body to body. He warns that if she doesn’t comply with his request, he’ll snap her neck again and rip her head off for good measure.

Sam and Dean reason that the best way to get rid of the spirit in the house is to burn the bones of the ghost boy Lucas who died there. Mary remembers that night in baby Sammy’s nursery and then sees a vision of Lucas who says, “Help me.” Since she almost passes out, Sam and Dean tell her to stay behind while they go on their salt and burn run. But Mary doesn’t believe Lucas’ spirit is the culprit. She gets information on the last owner of the house and learns from Lucas’ mom, Cheryl, about Lucas. Sam and Dean burn Lucas’ bones and when they return back to their motel room they find Mary and the weapons bag gone. Inside the house, Mary again sees Lucas’ spirit and asks what happened to him. She receives a call from Sam who tells her to get out of the house.

Rowena betrays Lucifer by using a spell to destroy his vessel than tells him she’ll toss him to the bottom of the ocean where it will make it difficult to find another one.

Back at the ghost house, Mary’s asks Lucas, “What’s keeping you here?” “Him,” Lucas answers pointing to the spirit of Hugo Moriarty (Cameron Grierson). Mary realizes he is the father of little Elizabeth. Sam and Dean arrive to save their mother from Moriarty’s grasp. However, the vengeful spirit possesses Mary! “My house, my children forever,” says Hugo’s spirit through Mary’s body. Mary manages to fight her possession and sends Sam down to the basement where Lucas points out where to find Hugo’s bones. Sam burns Moriarty’s bones and upon the spirit’s death, all the souls of the trapped children (including Lucas) are released.

Castiel and Crowley find Rowena who doesn’t want to join them, but promises that if Lucifer becomes a problem they can’t handle she’s there.

At the Men of Letters, Mary tells Sam and Dean how Hugo became mad after the death of his daughter than he starved and sealed himself in the wall. He then sought replacement children. She then tells them that she’s not home as, “I miss John. I miss my boys. I’m still mourning them as I knew them. My baby Sam, my little boy Dean.” She explains the hunting doesn’t help her feel the void. “I have to go; I just need a little more time.” And with that, Mary leaves the Men of Letters Bunker and Sam and Dean.