This post is about Supernatural season 12 episode 3 “The
Foundry,” written by Robert Berens and directed by Robert Singer.
*****Spoilers below*****
“Hi, there's a baby in distress in an abandoned house.”
A young couples goes into an abandoned house when they hear
a baby cry. No way are they gonna make it out of there alive. And they don’t.
“Castiel? After you left heaven, when did it start to feel like like you fit, like you belonged here?”
“Well, I'm still not sure I do.”
Back at the bunker, Mary flips through John’s journal in the
middle of the night. Castiel, who apparently was just wandering the halls in
the moonlight (maybe?), goes in to check on her. She implies that she doesn’t
feel like she fits, and Castiel assures her that she does. When Mary goes back
to her room, she decides to cut her hair.
“I heard her walking around all night last night. I mean,
don't we think she seems a bit withdrawn? You know, shaky?”
“Of course she's shaky. She hasn't been on this planet since Jane Fonda was
wearing leg warmers. Look, all she needs is a little R&R. You know, some
good family time. She'll be aces.”
The next morning Sam and Dean are discussing the bmol over
breakfast when Cas stops by the kitchen to let them know he’s headed out to
catch Lucifer. Though both Sam and Dean protest that they should all do it
together, they give in when Cas promises to call and suggests that Mary needs them
more than he does. After Cas leaves, Sam and Dean discuss Mary. But when Mary
comes in shortly after, it seems she doesn’t want R&R. She wants a hunt
(and bacon). Thus begins the Family Hunting Trip.
“I guess that makes me Agent Jay-Z.”
Cas, AKA Agent Beyonce, has made it to Ohio where he
interviews one of Vince’s bandmates. It turns out Crowley had the same idea,
and is angling for a team-up. When Crowley reveals that he has the address of
Vince’s sister Wendy, Cas reluctantly agrees.
“I got police reports filed from 2004 uh, '91, '89, '85, '78. All deaths. All kids. Looks like it started with this girl here. Elizabeth Moriarty.”
Meanwhile the Partridge family work their case in Minnesota,
discovering that the victims died of hypothermia, frozen hearts, and frostbite
handprints. The fam heads to the haunted house, where Mary gets trapped in the
nursery and marked with a child-sized handprint from a little boy. Back at the
hotel room, Sam finds a slew of child deaths in the area, leading back to one Elizabeth
Moriarty. Sam thinks the kids are mylings, but Mary disagrees. She thinks the
little boy was innocent, even though Sam thinks that sympathy is just a trick
of the myling. Mary seems a little shaky on her feet so Dean and Sam leave her
to rest while they salt and burn the kids’ bodies. While they’re gone, Mary
calls the last owner of the house, who turns out to be the little boy’s mother.
“Try finding a new vessel at the bottom of the bloody ocean.”
While Cas and Crowley are getting Vince’s location out of
Vince’s recently-healed sister Wendy and arguing about saving Rowena, Rowena is
at Vince’s cabin, saving herself. When Lucifer threatens her until she agrees to
cast a spell to give his vessel permanency, she instead casts a spell that
speeds up its deterioration and sends him far, far away.
“I mean, she's trying to bury herself in hunting to avoid
dealing.”
“And how do you know that?”
“Years of personal experience. I don't know, man. Like mother, like sons.”
At the cemetery, Dean and Sam argue about Mary’s well-being.
When they get back to the motel, Mary is gone. It turns out she went to the
haunted house alone to talk with little boy Lucas. Lucas points her to a
boarded-up door that leads to the basement, where she runs into the ghost of
Elizabeth Moriarty’s father. Moriarty goes to freeze her heart, but is
interrupted when Sam and Dean burst in. So instead, he possesses her. The
possessed Mary fights Dean and Sam. Just as Dean is cornered and nearly killed,
Mary manages to break through the possession and let him go. She directs Sam to
the basement where he finds and disposes of Moriarty’s body, freeing all the
spirits.
“If you're looking for Lucifer, you just missed him. Cup of tea?”
Cas and Crowley get the low-down from Rowena, who promises
to come when they need her help against Lucifer but wants to stay away from
this crap as long as she can.
“Mom, it's okay. All right? You're home now.”
“No. I'm not.”
Back at the bunker, Dean apologizes to Mary for not being
behind her 100% on the hunt. She explains that Moriarty buried himself out of
grief after the death of his daughter, and then reveals that she needs some
time away to mourn the husband and children she lost. After telling her sons
she loves them and hugging Sam, she leaves.
Questions:
Why was it called “The Foundry”? The haunting was in a house,
right, so there was no literal foundry featured. If a foundry is a workshop or
factory for casting metal, how is that relevant? Maybe it’s some kind of
forshadowing?
Cas has a business card that says Agent Beyonce on it? I
just wanted to point that out.
DOES CROWLEY KNOW DEAN IS ALIVE. Come on now, I need to
know. Is Cas his rebound? Are we gonna get to see his reaction when he finds
out Dean’s alive? He’s gonna be totally pissed Cas didn’t tell him. Also, why
hasn’t Cas told him?
So how many graves did they have to dig up? Five? Six?
Yeesh.
Is this it for Rick Springfield? Did Vince Vincente die? I
mean, Lucifer has healing powers, so you never know I guess.
WHERE WILL MARY GO.
WILL DEAN AND SAM BE OKAY.
IS THERE GOING TO BE HARD DRINKING IN THE NEXT EPISODE.
AND WILL THE DRINKING BE DONE BY ME.
Conclusions:
This episode broke my heart. Like, I still can’t even really
meta it, I’m too sad. I didn’t even re-watch it until almost a week after it
aired.
I’m broken.
I really love that Mary is getting such focus and
development. Like Sam said, she’s not a thing. She has her own feelings and
doesn’t exist solely for what she does for Dean and Sam. This is all I can ask
for and I feel blessed.
But also. Dean’s face at the end, there. Like, this is my
worst nightmare for him. He already has major abandonment issues, and I hope
that the eventual resolution of this particular abandonment will help him get
over that, but right now it just feels so devastating. And then Sam! That
flinch when the door shut ended me. I have a teensy bit more hope for him, but
then consider: he was just getting tortured last episode and he is due for a
breakdown. I’m real worried about them all.
The actual plot and stuff of the episode was fine. It was
not anywhere close to as scary as the promo made it out to be. In fact, I
actually laughed out loud during the cold-open. The symbolism was pretty
heavy-handed but in a way I totally enjoyed, and the acting was A+.
I liked the Cas/Crowley dynamic and would totally watch more
of that. The more Cas the better, and Crowley certainly brings out a different
side in him. In fact, that scene where he makes fun of Crowley for wanting to
rescue his mother seemed so different as to be OOC. It reminded me of Casifer,
actually. I wonder what the reason for that choice was? Will this be developed
in the future? What’s it leading to? Just wondering.
I did not really like the Lucifer/Rowena dynamic, because
gross. However, Rowena is Queen. Also, I actually really like Rick Springfield as
Lucifer. If this is his last episode, I’m disappointed.
Overall the episode is not going to go down as one of my
favorites. Also, I wish they would have had more Prince references.
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