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(How could he be referring to the guy when he didn't know where his soul went or where the other guy's was going to go, and how would telling him change anything? In lore, God is referred to as the Judge)
(What does knowing where his soul goes have to do with anything? It was obviously a one liner referring to the judge he killed before the sheriff. God has nothing to do with this.)
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{{Summarywarning}}While searching for a way to defeat [[Eve]], [[Dean Winchester|Dean]] stumbles upon [[Samuel Colt|Samuel Colt's]] (guest star [[Sam Hennings]]) journal in the Campbell library. Realizing Samuel might have the answer to their problems, [[Sam Winchester|Sam]] and Dean ask [[Castiel]] to send them [[Chronokinesis|back in time]] so they can meet the man himself. While Sam is a bit reluctant to time travel, Dean is beside himself with excitement to return to the Wild, Wild West.
 
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618Frontierland

Frontierland is the 18th episode of Season 6. It aired on April 22nd, 2011.

Summary

Dean Purgatory Blade.png There was something about being there... It felt pure.

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DO NOT CHANGE!

While searching for a way to defeat Eve, Dean stumbles upon Samuel Colt's (guest star Sam Hennings) journal in the Campbell library. Realizing Samuel might have the answer to their problems, Sam and Dean ask Castiel to send them back in time so they can meet the man himself. While Sam is a bit reluctant to time travel, Dean is beside himself with excitement to return to the Wild, Wild West.

Plot

<place lat="42.3320" lon="-104.7036" width="300" height="200" zoom="8"></place> On a hunch from Sam, he, Dean, and Bobby find the Campbell family library hidden under Samuel's study. They search Samuel's books for a way to defeat Eve, and Bobby eventually finds a mention of a "Mother" that can be burned by phoenix ashes. Never having heard of a real phoenix, they continue to search until Dean finds Samuel Colt's journal. There is an entry under March 5, 1861, in which Samuel Colt mentions shooting a phoenix in Sunrise, Wyoming, leaving a pile of smoldering ash. Dean is convinced that they need to go back in time to 1861 and gather the ashes so that they can defeat Eve.

Dean prays to Castiel, but another Angel shows up instead. She introduces herself as Rachel, Castiel's lieutenant, and she shows disdain for Sam and Dean. After a few moments, Castiel appears and dismisses her. They explain their plan to Castiel, and he agrees to send Dean and Sam back to March 4, 1861. He can only allow them 24 hours, though, or they will be trapped in the past.

Once they appear in Sunrise, Wyoming, Sam sets the timer on his watch for 24 hours. They walk into town and see a man, Elias Finch, about to be hanged in the town square. A judge reads him his sentence - apparently, Elias killed his wife - and then he's put to death. Sam and Dean are disturbed, but they follow the town's sheriff as he leaves the square and heads to the prison. There, they pose as law enforcement officers and question him about Samuel Colt, but he hasn't heard of him. He sends them to the saloon to question the bartender, an old man who apparently knows everything.

At the saloon, Dean starts to see that life in the Old West is less romantic than he thought: it's dirty, the whiskey is terrible, and the saloon girls are less than healthy. The bartender tells them that Samuel Colt passed through town about 4 years ago but hasn't been back since. Rumours are that he's building a railroad stop about 20 miles away in the middle of nowhere, and Sam and Dean surmise that he's currently working on the giant devil's trap that surrounds the devil's gate in southern Wyoming.

As they're talking, a sex worker named Darla approaches and tries to seduce Dean, but the judge who read Elias his sentence shows up and takes her upstairs. Moments later, they hear her scream, and they rush up to find that the judge dead, burned to ashes. Darla swears that it was Elias' ghost that killed him. The sheriff disputes that, pointing out that ghosts don't leave muddied bootprints on the floor. Thinking that they botched Elias' hanging, the sheriff declares his intent to rally a posse and string him up right this time. That night, after finding Elias' grave empty, Sam and Dean discuss the possibility that the Phoenix isn't a bird at all, but the man, Elias, who wants revenge on the three men that killed him: the judge, the sheriff, and the sheriff's deputy. They decide to split up, Dean staying behind to join the sheriff's posse and hunt down Elias, and Sam going to find Samuel Colt.

Meanwhile, in the present time, Rachel confronts Castiel about what he's doing in order to beat Raphael. According to her, it's unacceptable what Castiel has become, and she pulls out an angel killing sword. She manages to pierce his flesh, but not kill him, and he pulls out his own sword and defeats her. Wounded, he travels to Bobby's house, puts a ward against angels on the wall with his blood, and collapses.

In town the next morning, Dean shows up at the saloon, ready to form up a posse and go after Elias. Nobody shows up to join him, however, and soon the burned body of the sheriff is found. The bartender takes the star from the sheriff's body and pins it on Dean, congratulating him on his new position. After his promotion, Dean goes to find the sheriff's deputy. The man is packing a suitcase, determined to escape "Elias' ghost," but Dean tells him that he won't be able to run forever and that he needs to play his part: as bait.

Meanwhile, Sam finds Samuel Colt's cabin. Samuel has just used Colt to kill two demons that wanted him to open the devil's gate, and he immediately splashes holy water on Sam to make sure that he isn't a demon, as well. Sam tells him that he's a hunter from the year 2011, and that he needs Samuel's help. Samuel is skeptical, so Sam hands him his cell phone, a Blackberry, and Samuel is immediately convinced. Sam then tells him that, according to the copy of Samuel's journal he's carrying, Samuel kills a phoenix in three hours, and Sam needs the ashes to kill a monster he's hunting. Samuel tells him that he's no longer hunting and that he lost the gun gambling, but Sam knows that he's lying, and confronts him. Samuel eventually admits to having the gun, but tells him that no matter what his journal says, he's not going to be killing a phoenix. Sam realizes that he's going to have to kill the phoenix himself, and demands the gun.

In the present time, Castiel tells Bobby the truth: that, given his injury, he won't be able to retrieve Sam and Dean from the past. The only way he can get enough power to save them is to touch Bobby's soul; the risk is that he'll cause Bobby to explode.

Back in 1861, Dean locks the deputy in a cell and, when Elias shows up, he demands that Dean open the cell. Dean refuses and then tosses an iron nail at him. When Elias reflexively catches it, his hand burns, and Dean confronts him with the truth: as a monster, Elias is vulnerable to iron, which is why he couldn't escape his iron shackles before he was hung, and why now he can't open the cell that the deputy is in.

Elias realizes that Dean is a hunter, and so, in an attempt to win him over, tells him why he was put to death. Although a phoenix, Elias was married to a human woman that he loved. On a visit to town, she was assaulted by the deputy, and, when Elias came across them, the deputy shot both him and his wife. Elias' wife died in his arms, but Elias was unable to die, so the deputy, sheriff, and judge pinned his wife's murder on him and tried to put him to death. Elias states seeing the trapped and scared deputy behind bars pleases him, stating he saved the best for the last. Moved by the story, Dean questions the deputy if its true which the latter nervously confirms with a shrug. Dean insults the deputy but is still resolved to kill Elias, so Elias grabs a gun from a nearby holster and shoots the deputy through his cell bars. Dean jumps out a window to escape Elias' gunfire and is on the run when Sam appears with the Colt in hand.

In the future, Bobby puts a belt between his teeth and Castiel prepares to touch his soul...

Sam gives the Colt to Dean, and he goes into the town square and calls for Elias. It's a duel at high noon, and both men stand ready before drawing their weapons lightning-fast. Elias misses, but Dean hits him with a bullet from the Colt, killing him. They're almost at the 24-hour mark, as Sam reminds him, and Dean rushes forward to gather Elias' ashes when Castiel suddenly pulls them back to the future. Back in Bobby's house, Dean stares at the empty bottle in his hand, stunned.

Bobby and Castiel are still recovering when the doorbell rings. Sam answers it to find a young man from a courier service. He has a package for "Sam Winchester." The young man is curious about the package because it's been around "forever" and was supposed to be delivered to Sam at this house specifically on this date. When Sam hears that the package is from Samuel Colt, he takes it and closes the door in the courier's face without signing for it. Back in Bobby's study, he opens the package while Dean, Castiel, and Bobby look on. First, he finds his cell phone - the Blackberry is dirty and cracked - and then he finds a note from Samuel Colt. In it, he tells him that he found Sam's address and the current date from his "thingamajig", and that he thinks he'll find the "enclosed" useful. Sam digs through the packaging and pulls out a glass bottle full of ashes: Samuel Colt gathered the phoenix's ashes and delivered them to Sam from 150 years in the past.

Characters

Main Cast

Recurring Cast

Guest Stars

Co-Stars

Featured Supernatural Creatures

Trivia

  • Antagonist: Elias Finch.
  • This episode was tenatively titled "Gallows Pole" before being officially named "Frontierland". "Gallows Pole" is an old folk song whose most famous version is by the English rock band Led Zeppelin, one of Dean's favorites. Gallows Pole is also the name of a now-disbanded German power metal band and an Austrian 70's hard rock band.
  • Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles (Sam and Dean's actors) repeatedly said at conventions that they always wanted to do a western.
  • The final scene in the episode is hats-off/tribute to the ending in Back to the Future Part II.
  • The time-travel in this episode is paradoxical, with Dean and Sam being the cause of the future that brought them to the past. (Even if Samuel Colt took the credit for it, Dean was still the one who killed the phoenix.)
    • The exact phrasing in the diary is that the "gun killed a phoenix" without stating who wielded the weapon. Sam and Dean simply assumed it had been Samuel Colt who fired the shot.
  • This is the fourth time-travel episode of the series, the previous being "In The Beginning," "The End" and "The Song Remains the Same" in Seasons 4 and 5, respectively.
  • Samuel Colt told Sam that he wasn't ready to use the gun yet, when the fact is that Sam had used it several times already, albeit in respect to his personal timeline, rather than the gun's, or the universal, timeline.
  • Bobby says that he and Castiel can't leave Sam and Dean in Deadwood. Deadwood was a show Jim Beaver (actor playing Bobby) was on previous to Supernatural and it was a western show.
  • The opening title card for this episode resembles that of the opening title card to the 1959-1973 television series Bonanza.
  • When Dean arrives at the sheriff deputy's cabin, he greets with, "Telegram for Mongo." This line was a line spoken by the sheriff (of which Dean has just been appointed) in the Western, Blazing Saddles.
  • Dean gave Sam the cover name Walker, he's a Texas Ranger which the name of the TV series "Walker, Texas Ranger" starring Chuck Norris in the title role. Jared Padalecki, Sam's actor was announced as Walker, Texas Ranger for a reboot on The CW.

Quotes

  • Samuel Colt: "I'm either too drunk or not drunk enough."

  • Castiel: "Is it customary to wear a blanket?"
  • Dean "What are we looking for?"
  • Bobby: "Anything that'll put a run in the octomom's stockings."

  • Dean: Cause you know me, I'm a posse magnet. I mean, I love posse. [pause] Make that into a T-shirt.

  • Castiel: "I need you to let me touch it." 
  • Bobby: "Touch it?"

  • Dean: "Yippee-kiyay motherf--"

 International Titles

  • German: Sie leben mit dem Tod (They live with Death)
  • French: Les Mystères De L'Ouest (The Mysteries Of The West)
  • Hungarian: Az utolsó 24 óra (Last 24 hours)

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