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Rock Never Dies is the 7th episode of Season 12. It aired on December 1, 2016.

Summary[]

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This episode summary is an official CW press release. It may contain errors.
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Lucifer (special guest star Rick Springfield) realizes that as rock star Vince Vincente, he can get his fans to do whatever he wants. Thrilled with this power, Lucifer arranges to play a secret VIP concert in order to kill all of them. Sam, Dean and Castiel enter the underbelly of the music industry to try to stop him.

Plot[]

Two young men named Gordy and Adam perform a ritual to summon Lucifer, which is faulty because they found it online through the "Satanist Society of America." However, they are shocked when Lucifer does appear—from the bottom of the ocean, where Rowena had sent him—because he was drawn to a fossil of a feather from his wings, which had been excavated from one of Lucifer's crypts. Lucifer then uses it to heal his damaged vessel, Vince Vincente. He kills Gordy and Adam, but—since Adam recognized him as Vince—they give him the idea to acquire fame and fans.

At the bunker, Dean is playing the mobile game Words with Friends with Mary, which Sam is surprised about. They get distracted when Castiel calls. Sam and Dean receive a short rundown of Castiel and Crowley's hunt for Lucifer, and are told to come to Los Angeles to confront Lucifer.

Crowley visits one of his Hollywood contacts—Russel Lemmons at Death Siren Studio—who helps Crowley bargain for souls with up and coming musicians. Russel informs Crowley that he is in business with Vince, who has reformed his old band, Ladyheart.

While Sam and Dean drive in the Impala, Dean makes a little speech about what it's like in L.A., but Sam doesn't hear him, as he is supposedly listening to a boring history podcast about "the Protestant Reformation." Dean pulls his headphones out and discovers it's actually Vince's music, a song called "The Bloody Messiah."

Lucifer is shown with the Ladyheart bandmates at Death Siren Studio, where he forgoes recording music in favour of talking about Vince's fame with Ladyheart's manager—Constance—and a groupie named Roseleen. His bandmate Tommy confronts him about it—knowing that Vince isn't really himself—but he backs off.

Castiel meets Sam and Dean in the Bellaqua hotel lobby. Dean says that Castiel looks like a "third-tier agent" in his trench coat and should class it up. Castiel replies that Dean looks like a lumberjack. Crowley then pops up and confirms that Vince is "riding with the Devil." They head up to his room together. Castiel discovers a human tooth, which was "pulled out by the root."

Back at the studio, Lucifer is with Roseleen, who has a missing tooth. Roseleen confesses that she has been in love with Vince since she was 16. Lucifer asks what she would do to show him she loved him. She claims "anything," so Lucifer pulls out a knife and asks if she would bleed for him. Despite being afraid, she carves "Vincent Vincente" onto her chest, and ends up at the hospital. The group meets up at the hospital, leaving Castiel and Crowley together in the lobby while Dean and Sam talk to Roseleen. They ask if Vince forced her to do this, but she says that she did it to "make him happy." She insists that he must have had a reason for asking her to do this. She begs to go to his next show.

Constance is then shown talking about an exclusive show happening that night. Lucifer asks for a new audience for the special show, despite his publicist telling him that trying to bring in "fresh blood" isn't good for sales. She relents, however.

At the hospital, Dean and Sam give a rundown about what happened with Roseleen. Crowley explains that having Roseleen cut Vince's name into her chest is about "devotion." They decide to go to tonight's show to stop whatever Lucifer is up to, even though Rowena won't be joining them.

When they split up, Crowley goes back to threaten Russel, and demands to know where the show is since "it's personal." Meanwhile, Castiel goes back to Tommy, but he doesn't care about why Vince changed, because he needs the money, especially for his two daughters' college tuition. In a restaurant, Dean and Sam talk to Constance, who is uninterested, until they point out that Vince is different and "literally" the Devil. She dismisses it as she says that she works for bad people all the time, then threatens Dean and Sam into letting her walk out. Afterwards, Dean and Sam meet up with Crowley, but they don't have anything. Castiel saunters in with no new information. They don't know what to do next.

Meanwhile, in a limo outside the venue, Russel gives Lucifer a hard time for refusing to record new music. Lucifer magically makes Russel kill himself for saying that he owns him, which horrifies Constance and Tommy. He gets out of the limo to welcomes the fans lined up, but notices his vessel's arm is deteriorating, and covers it up with his jacket. Tommy then texts "Agent Beyonce" (Castiel) to give him their location, Club Meteor, which is filling with people coming to see the show. When the group shows up, they discuss their plan to trap Lucifer with Enochian handcuffs. Castiel offers to go head-to-head with him to distract, but Sam and Dean say he's not strong enough to last longer than three minutes. Crowley says they can "make it four" with his help.

Inside Club Meteor, the Ladyheart bandmates are in the back preparing for the show, but Lucifer kills two of them. He is about to kill Tommy too when Castiel shows up. Lucifer asks Castiel if he brought the other "little rascals," just as Crowley arrives, who Lucifer calls "Spanky" in greeting. Castiel and Crowley gang up on Lucifer, who confesses that he is doing this "because it's fun" and people love Vince. Castiel is disgusted that Lucifer thinks it's fun, but can't hold his own in a fight.

Out in the audience, Sam pulls a fire alarm after a distraction from Dean, but Lucifer is able to turn it off with a twirl of his finger. He leaves Castiel and Crowley behind to make his way onstage. Before Lucifer can do anything, however, Dean fires his gun into the air to prompt everyone to rush from the building. Sam manages to hold open the doors long enough for them all to escape, despite Lucifer trying to close them. Castiel then says his fabulous "Assbutt" line, and Dean gets the handcuffs onto one of Lucifer's wrists, but he easily breaks free. Lucifer monologues about being upset because God left right after apologizing for leaving him in the past. He explains that he doesn't have a plan, just to keep ruining God's "already broken toys." Throughout his monologue his vessel is visibly deteriorating. Lucifer then says "Onward and upward," and leaves Vince's body right before the vessel completely decays.

The group meets outside Club Meteor. Sam points out that Lucifer having fun means a lot of people died and it's all their fault for letting him out. They now know Lucifer is going to "go bigger" with his next vessel, but Dean still believes they will stop him. Sam doesn't look so sure.

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Continuity[]

Trivia[]

  • This episode was watched by 1.80 million viewers and got a 0.6 rating.
  • The CW's official summary for this episode mistakenly does not cite actor Rick Springfield as a guest star.
  • This is the second appearance of the actor Scott McNeil, who portrays a band member of Ladyheart, and is killed by Lucifer. He previously played Benny Sutton in Season 5's Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid.
  • While playing Words with Friends, Dean's phone shows "LURIFEC" as his available letters—after he submits "twerking"—which is an anagram for "Lucifer."
  • Dean's phone displays Castiel's caller ID as "Cass." In Season 11's Baby, it was "Castiel."
  • This episode is set in Los Angeles, California, the same location as Fox's television series Lucifer (2016-2021). Notably, Lucifer himself joked in Season 11's The Devil in the Details that once Amara is defeated, he would "go to L.A. and solve crimes," which is the basis of the Lucifer series.
  • In Season 9's Bad Boys, a young Dean revealed his passion to become a rock star. Dean's ability to play the guitar may be the result of this desire.
  • Russel Lemmons' Death Siren Records has the same font as the EA game launch in 2005, called "Need For Speed Most Wanted."
  • A few minutes after the scene about Lucifer's fossilized wing feather, Crowley says three fossil-related things about Lucifer's vessel when he says "Of all the extinct rock acts, Ladyheart are the most Paleolithic. A major label sponsored comeback in 2016 for those dinosaurs?"

Quotes[]

  • Adam: Drench me, Lucifer!
  • [Gordy laughs]
  • Adam: Cut it out, Gordy. [Tries to continue the ritual, but stops again] Dude, it's not funny.
  • Gordy: Dude, you asked Lucifer... to drench you.
  • [Lucifer appears drenched in sea water a few moments later]

  • Dean: [in disguise] We're the brothers that rock together. Hmm? We're kind of like the American Oasis.
  • Constance: Ew.
  • Sam: Uh, uh, but with synths.
  • Dean: Yeah, right, so, you know, we're– we're hip.

  • Castiel: Can Lucifer even sing or play an instrument?
  • Dean: I doubt they offer intro to guitar in the Cage.

  • Dean: Why are you doing this?
  • Lucifer: Why?
  • Sam: You and God made up. You forgave him. What would he think?
  • Lucifer: I'm not especially interested in his opinion. Dear old dad, he finally apologized for abandoning me, and what's the very next thing he does? He ditches me. And you two, by the way. And rides off into the sunset with auntie Amara. He needed my help, and he'd say anything to get it. His words, your words, they mean nothing. Don't you get it? This is all meaningless. Heaven. Hell. This world. If it ever meant anything, that moment is passed. Nothing down here but a bunch of hopeless distraction addicts, so filled with emptiness, so desperate to fill up the void, they don't mind being served another stale rerun of a rerun of a rerun. You know what my plan is? I don't have one. I'm just going to keep on smashing daddy's already broken toys, and make you watch.
  • Sam: Yeah? 'Cause it kinda looks like you're falling apart.
  • Dean: Yeah, you got a little something, uh, right there [indicates Lucifer's deteriorating face]. I mean, face it, rock is dead.
  • Lucifer: What can I say? Kicking your ass took a lot out of me. But don't worry. Onward and upward.

Deaths[]

International Titles[]

  • Hungarian: A rock sose hal meg (Rock Never Dies)

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Supernatural 12x07 Promo "Rock Never Dies" (HD) Season 12 Episode 7 Promo

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Supernatural 12x07 Sneak Peek "Rock Never Dies" (HD) Season 12 Episode 7 Sneak Peek

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