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Feb 24, 2016 · Beyond the Mat: Directed by Jerry Wanek. With Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Misha Collins, Mark Sheppard. Sam and Dean attend a wrestling match to relive one of their fondest memories, but when a wrestler turns up dead, they suspect foul play.
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- Drama, Fantasy, Horror
- Jerry Wanek
- 2016-02-24
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Beyond the Mat is the 15th episode of Season 11. It aired on February 24th, 2016.
Dean sees an obituary notice for a wrestler he and Sam used to watch when they were kids. Deciding they need a break from tracking the Darkness, the brothers decide to attend the funeral to pay their respects. The funeral is full of wrestlers, including Shawn Harley (guest star Mike "The Miz" Mizanin), a hot shot new wrestler with a fiery temper wh...
At a Top Notch Wrestling event in Brimson, Missouri, the wrestlers "The Hangman" Larry Lee and "The Electric" Shawn Harley are going at it. During the match Hangman places a noose around Harley's neck and pretends to hang him. The hanging is a bit too realistic, and after the bout Shawn confronts Larry in the locker room. Gunner Lawless steps in to diffuse the situation. Later, while alone in the locker room, Larry is packing up when a noose drops around his neck and he is pulled off his feet.
In the Bunker, Dean shows Sam an internet article about Larry Lee dying. They reminisce about John taking them to see wrestling when they were kids and how Larry was John's favorite. Dean suggests that they go to the funeral. Sam balks, stating that they have more pressing matters like finding a way to stop The Darkness and saving Cass from Lucifer. Dean retorts that they need to take a break and "stretch their legs." In Crowley's Lair, Lucifer has the demons searching for another Hand of God. Meanwhile, Crowley is still chained up, cleaning the floor with a toothbrush, when Lucifer asks if he has something to add, he replies nothing. Lucifer then takes away the toothbrush, telling Crowley to use his tongue instead. The demons look on reproachfully as Crowley begins to lick the floor.
At Larry Lee's funeral Dean sees the wrestler Gunner Lawless and informs him that he got his first 'B&E' for breaking into a house to watch Lawless's cage match on the homeowners' pay-per-view. Meanwhile, Sam talks with Rio, a woman who used to manage some of the wrestlers. He tells her that she was his "first crush." During their conversation, Rio tells Sam that Larry committed suicide, but the family asked to keep it out of the papers. Sam and Dean decide to stick around and attend the memorial match later that evening. At the memorial match, Sam notices that the venue is small and attendance is even smaller and not as he remembered it as kid. In the dressing room a man approaches Gunner Lawless and hands him a small package or envelope. Gunner takes it, shakes his head and shrugs his shoulders and leaves the room. As the other man turns to leave he sees Harley backing out of a doorway leading into the room. The match proceeds and contains all the usual craziness of a professional wrestling match, complete with a folding chair to the head. Sam and Dean root and cheer like die-hard fans, culminating in Gunner Lawless winning the match. As the match ends, a man who has been sitting behind Sam and Dean with his son gets up to go to the bathroom. Seeing a line, he opts to go outside. As he is preparing to urinate against a wall he hears a rustling sound and turns around. He starts to scream but is cut short as he is stabbed and his blood squirts against the wall behind him.
Sam finds out from the police that the body was "marked" with some sort of symbol carved into the chest. Sam goes back to the motel while Dean stays to "shake some trees." He goes back to the empty ring. Not being able to contain himself he steps in and proceeds to try out his best wrestling moves. Rio comes in and Dean introduces himself as an FBI agent assigned to the case. Rio tells him that the other wrestlers are starting to think that they are cursed as another body was found outside their venue in another city. Dean asks where the wrestlers would be now and Rio directs him to a bar.
At the bar, Dean sits down with Gunner. They talk about the rough crowds that come to the show and then start to share "war stories" about the various scars they have. As they're talking, Sam calls and tells Dean that every stop on the Top Notch tour has had a body turn up, and every body has had the same mark, even the Hangman. The mark is an ancient Sumerian mark that is said to "pluck the spark of life," which Sam and Dean surmise to mean souls, which in turn may mean demons. Dean tells Sam to keep working on it and he turns back to the bar where Gunner and Harley are getting into a fight. Harley punches Gunner and knocks him down. He then tells Rio and the other wrestlers that Gunner is using drugs, that he saw him and his dealer together before the match. Rio sends Harley home and tells Gunner that she'll talk to him in the morning. Dean helps Gunner up and to the bar and buys him a shot. Another wrestler comes to talk with Gunner and while he is distracted Dean pours holy water into his drink. Nothing happens and Dean looks at all of the other wrestlers in the bar dismayed that he is going to be doing a lot of drinking.
Later, Sam comes to the bar to find Dean passed out on a bench. He wakes him, asking what happened. Dean answers "mostly tequila, cut with holy water" and then explains that he bought drinks for all the wrestlers, except Harley, and that they made him drink too. Sam and Dean go to Harley's hotel room. He doesn't answer the door so they break in to find the room ransacked. Sam hacks into the security camera footage and they see Gunner pull up in a van and go into Harley's room, then bring him out several minutes later, unconscious. They track the footage and determine where Gunner took Harley.
Main Cast
•Jared Padalecki as Sam Winchester •Jensen Ackles as Dean Winchester •Misha Collins as Lucifer •Mark Sheppard as Crowley
•Archangel (Lucifer)
•Crossroad Demons (Crowley and Duke)
•Demons (Simmons and Crowley's Captors)
•Hellhounds
•Hellhounds were last seen in Season 9's King of the Damned.
•Crowley escapes captivity in this episode.
•A Crossroad Demon (other than Crowley) was last featured in Season 9's Blade Runners.
•Rio mentions Shreveport as the first stop on their tour and where Duke's first victim was killed. Shreveport was the home of the Styne Family, and was previously seen in Season 10's Dark Dynasty and The Prisoner.
•This episode's antagonists are Lucifer and Duke.
•This episode marks the second appearance of a Hand of God.
•Lucifer is shown wearing Castiel's trench coat, despite having left it at the Men of Letters bunker before Sam banished him.
•Dean introduces himself as "Agent Roussimoff." Famous wrestler Andre the Giant's real name was André René Roussimoff.
•Gunner Lawless is played by Aleks Paunovic, who also appeared as Sean's friend in Season 2's Crossroad Blues, and as the Pack Leader's Second in Command in Season 6's All Dogs Go To Heaven.
•When Crowley is uncovering the box containing the Rod of Aaron, he puts aside two of the Supernatural books. Lucifer then looks at another one after he enters the same room
•Dean calls out "Bueller?" This is a reference to the film Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986).
•Lucifer orders "You're going to search every warehouse, every farmhouse, every hen house, outhouse, and doghouse." This is a mildly adapted quote from the film The Fugitive (1993), where Tommy Lee Jones's character says "What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, hen house, outhouse, and doghouse in that area."
•Dean asks "Did he get in a tickle fight with Edward Scissorhands?" This is a reference to the film Edward Scissorhands (1990).
•Lucifer says "You made me bleed my own blood!" This is a mildly adapted quote from the film Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004), where White Goodman's character says "Nobody makes me bleed my own blood."
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Supernatural. ) " Beyond the Mat " is the 15th episode of the paranormal drama television series Supernatural ' s season 11, and the 233rd overall. The episode was written by John Bring and Andrew Dabb and directed by Jerry Wanek. It was first broadcast on February 24, 2016 on The CW. In the episode, Sam and Dean investigate the case of the ...
"Supernatural" Beyond the Mat (TV Episode 2016) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Jan 24, 2023 · 11.15 Beyond the Mat. Written by: John Bring and Andrew Dabb. Directed by: Jerry Wanek. NOW. INTERIOR: Inside a hall in Brimson, Missouri there is a wrestling match underway. Announcer (commentating through a loud-speaker): This is a barn burner folks. Off the ropes... picks him up and, oh, it’s a back breaker. One wrestler is down.
Feb 25, 2016 · Verdict. "Beyond the Mat" was sort of awkwardly forced on us (the brothers once again had to go do something - anything - due to dead ends and cabin fever), but it still managed to make its own ...
Feb 25, 2016 · Sam and Dean investigate a series of murders at a wrestling company while Crowley faces off against Lucifer in hell. Read the recap of season 11 episode 15 of Supernatural, titled Beyond the Mat.
