Dark Dynasty

• What did Olivette tell Crowley? Who did he send his demon to search for?
• Will Rowena keep her end of the bargain, or will she find a way to betray Sam?
• Will Sam keep his word and kill Crowley?
• Assuming Sam's plan works and Rowena can find a spell in the Book of the Damned to remove the Mark of Cain from Dean, what will be the consequences of using the Book?
• Why didn't the Winchesters secure Eldon more thoroughly?
• Is Charlie gone for good this time? Will Castiel try to bring her back?

• The Book of the Damned is protected by a powerful enchantment. It can't be destroyed
• The Stynes are really the Frankensteins. They changed their name so the family could remain hidden after Mary Shelley (a family acquaintance) wrote her book about them
• The Stynes don't "need" the Book of the Damned in order to perform evil acts, but the Book makes them stronger and facilitates their activities. They haven't had the Book for 80 years, but still managed to support Hitler, orchestrate the terror attacks on September 11, 2001 and initiate the Arab Spring. During the years when the family had the book, they profited from the Black Death and started the Hundred Years War
• Castiel likes pork rinds
• Crowley seems to be getting some of his evil mojo back
• Rowena has a pretty good read on Charlie, predicting Charlie's difficult, tragic childhood, lonely life, and her devotion to the Winchesters, who have become the family she never had
• Rowena says that the universe requires balance between good and evil, and that one can not exist without the other

• Eileen's murder takes place in Omaha, Nebraska
• The Styne mansion is in Shreveport, Louisiana
• Agnes, who wrote the Book of the Damned, was an insane hermit nun who was burned at the stake by the religious authorities
• Charlie uses an Apple Surface laptop computer
• Charlie checked into the Blackbird Motel under the alias Carrie Asimov
• When Charlie is using her computer, we see that her screen name is "Charlie Bradbury, Queen of Moons". We learned of this fake identity in season 8 "LARP and the Real Girl"
• This is the second time Charlie died trying to help the Winchesters. The first time was in season 9 "Slumber Party". Gadreel resurrected her that time

• Dean jokes that the Stynes probably helped disco music get started. Like many die-hard classic rock fans, Dean doesn't consider disco to be good music
• Charlie tells Sam that instead of meeting at a park, she could have come to the "Death Star" referring to the Men of Letters bunker. The Death Star is from the Star Wars movie franchise (1977 - present), and was a planet-sized space craft capable of destroying an entire planet with a blast from its weapon
• According to the Urban Dictionary, a "Chatty Patty" is someone who enjoys gossiping -- especially when the gossip is negative
• Author Mary Shelley wrote the gothic horror novelFrankenstein; or The Modern Prometheusin 1818. According to the Stynes, Mary was a family acquaintance who stumbled upon the Frankenstein's family secret, forcing them to change their name to Styne and go underground to remain anonymous
• Eldon Styne says his family members are "Spartans", referring to an elite group of highly-trained soldiers from a warrior culture that existed in Greece around 400 BC
• The Hundred Years' War was between France and England over which monarch would rule France. The war lasted approximately 116 years (1337 --1453)
• Arab Spring was a series of political protests and uprisings starting in 2010 that affected several prominent nations in northern Africa and the Middle East
• Dean jokes about the Stynes representing "Alpha male central"; an alpha male is the dominant male in a group. Presumably, a group containing multiple alpha males would be in conflict because only one alpha male can be in control at a time

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