Paper Moon

• Is Dean having trouble adjusting to his life as a Hunter after being a demon? Will the Mark of Cain continue to affect him?
• Is Sam really OK with what he did to find Dean? Will his actions come back to haunt him too?
• How will Dean get rid of the Mark?
• Will Kate be able to resist eating human hearts in the future?
• How long will Cas' "borrowed" grace sustain him?

• Sam did do more than just encourage Lester to sell his soul in his bid to find Dean!
• It's possible (from his talk to Kate) that Dean thinks the Mark has doomed him forever.
• Dean feels*embarrassed about the things he did as a demon and seems to feel that he made some wrong decisions along the way to becoming one.

• Durham, Washington is a real place in King's County, Washington; but it's a former coal mining town that is a ghost town today.
• In "Black", Sam and Castiel discuss how Sam's shoulder got injured by a demon; but in this episode, Dean says that Sam sprained his elbow. In real life, Jared injured his shoulder play-wrestling with Osric Chau.
• When the Winchesters are relaxing at the shore of a lake, a nearby sign says "No Hunting".
• Kate the werewolf first appeared in season 8 ("Bitten").
• Primo Allen, the actor who played Tommy, also played a robber who gets shot in "Appointmentin Samarra".

• "We time" is a play on "Me time", which refers to someone's private time alone.
• "Flea bag" is Dean's pun referring to werewolves being dogs.
• "Sons of Anarchy" was a popular dramatic television series about bikers. Tasha's attack targetedpatronsat a biker's bar.
• "Bitcoin" is a digital currency.
• "Wolverine" is a superhero from The X-Men cartoons and comic books.
• The "Big Bad Wolf" is a character from a fairy tale; this is Dean poking fun at werewolves being dogs.
• "Booty calling" is when someone calls another person (especially at night) specifically to arrange to have sex.
• "Snuff film" is a videotaped recording of someone being murdered.
• "Paul Bunyan" is a fictional character fro m American folklore who was very tall.
• "Mary Kate and Ashley" refers to the Olsen twins, who were child actresses. Tasha is mocking Sam and Dean with this reference (perhaps for being handsome).

• "Werewolves of London" -- by Warren Zevon (plays when Tasha enters the biker bar)
• "Another Round" - by Kenny Greenberg (plays when Dean and Sam are talking to Tommy)

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