- Cain: Has it ever occurred to you, have you ever mused on the fact that you're living my life in reverse? My story began when I killed my brother and that's where your story inevitably will end.
- Rowena MacLeod: Whiners beget whiners. You can't reward behavior like that; why I never gave in when you asked for sweeties as a child, no matter how much you cried.
- [Crowley glares at her]
- Rowena MacLeod: Well, you were a very... chunky child, darling. Bit of a bloater.
- Tommy Tolliver: Who the hell are you? How'd you get in here?
- Cain: I've gone by many names in this life. The father of murder is one of them. And by the state's count, you've taken six lives yourself, Tommy. Although by my count, it's nine.
- [Tommy looks stunned]
- Cain: Oh, come on. You aren't one of those "it wasn't me" type fellas, are you? Because I know you're a killer, just like me.
- Crossroads Demon: 86 last quarter, while I only get credit for 48. A-and I was working with Alban on nearly all of those soul jobs.
- Crowley: [On his phone, not paying attention] If you don't arrive at a point within the next 10 seconds, so help me, I'll-...
- Crossroads Demon: As a crossroads demon, I have received less credit than I am due for soul collections...... my king.
- Crowley: So you're looking for a promotion?
- Warden Skieff: Mainstream media is calling for my head, said I was grossly incompetent. But the tabloids, they're saying-...
- Sam Winchester: They're saying it's magic
- [Scoffs]
- Sam Winchester: That Tommy pulled off some dark miracle to escape. You saying you believe that?
- Warden Skieff: I'm saying there was some kind of magician on the block last night, but it wasn't Tommy.
- Castiel: This is a massacre.
- Cain: Yes. And soon it will be a genocide. My children, my whole poisoned issue. Lot of them out there right now... killers, fighters, thieves. Some more peaceful than others, but they still carry it... the disease. If the Mark wants blood, I'll give it mine.
- Castiel: You are Adam and Eve's first born, your descendants are legion.
- Cain: At most I'm culling... one in ten.
- Castiel: Of everyone.
- Cain: I've got time.
- Cain: When I made my bargain with Lucifer, killed Abel, I released a stain upon the earth, a stain deeper and far more lasting than mere precedence.
- Dean Winchester: Your bloodline's tainted, so you say.
- Cain: So I *know*. Not all killers are my descendants, and not all my descendants are killers, but enough are, enough for me to know that extinguishing them is the least I owe this world. Can you honestly tell me that humanity's not better off with fewer Tommys and fewer Leons... Fewer yous?
- Sam Winchester: I mean, come on. It's a kid. You don't really think Cain would-...
- Castiel: Yes, he would.
- Dean Winchester: There were old men in those graves, Sam, women. I mean, you heard Cass. It's a fire sale. Everyone must go.
- Cain: You're holding back! What is it Dean? You think if you hold back just enough you won't succumb? That you'll leave this fight the same as you entered? Look to my example boy! There is no resisting the Mark or the Blade, there is only remission and relapse!
- Sam Winchester: It's called true crime, Dean. It's a hobby.
- Dean Winchester: No. Bass fishing, needlepoint; that's a hobby, okay? Collecting serial-killer stats? That is an illness.
- Dean Winchester: When he gave me the Mark, Cain said that this day would come, that after I killed Abaddon, I would have to come and put him down.
- Sam Winchester: Great. So you're taking orders from a madman.
- Dean Winchester: No, he wasn't mad then. Cain resisted the Mark for a long time, then I came, kicking up trouble about the Blade. I sent him down this path. This is on me.
- Crowley: Mother, you have an opinion you'd like to share with the room?
- Rowena MacLeod: Oh, no. Private thought, nothing to do with you or the affairs of the court.
- [sighs dramatically]
- Rowena MacLeod: It's just not what I would do.
- Crowley: Oh, enlighten us all. What would you do?
- Rowena MacLeod: This demon asks you to equalize credit for his and another's work, "split the baby", if you will. Well...
- [laughs]
- Rowena MacLeod: Then I would well and truly *split* the *baby*.
- [Looks at said demon]
- Rowena MacLeod: I'd cut this puling, pathetic, greed-grubbing git in two, literally, then I'd nail his bloody halves to the doors of the court - a reminder to all not to waste the king's time.
- Rowena MacLeod: [to Crowley] You don't know this, but after I left you, after I was forced to leave you, I heard of your death; your mortal death.
- [Sniffles]
- Rowena MacLeod: I thought you were gone to me forever. Then, hundreds of years later and thousands of miles away, I find you, the *King of Hell*. And not by luck or accident. You made that happen all by yourself. You're not a mother. You can't know what that pride felt like, how huge it was. But can you try to imagine, for me?
- [pause]
- Rowena MacLeod: Now do you understand why it breaks my heart to see what a colossal numb nut you've become? You've got the crown, but you're no ruler, not really! A sad, bored, wee boy on the throne who'll flop ass-up the second those Winchesters -- hunters who'd as soon see you dead as have you to tea -- ask you to.
- [Scoffs]
- Rowena MacLeod: You're no king, not anymore. You're their bitch.
- Crowley: [about the First Blade] What guarantee do I have that you'll give it back when you're done?
- Dean Winchester: If I survive and I come out of there and I *don't* give it back, you'll all have a much bigger problem on your hands.
- Sam Winchester: Cain abducted a Texas death row inmate named Tommy Tolliver.
- Castiel: He's dead.
- Sam Winchester: What? How do you know?
- Castiel: [Standing in field full of burial mounds] Call it an educated guess.
- Dean Winchester: You know last week when I said I would go down swinging when the time came? I meant that, I was at peace with that... I just didn't realize that the time would come so soon. Like right now... I'm scared Sam.
- Rowena MacLeod: You think I had an ulterior motive, that I've been manipulating you?
- Crowley: You couldn't be more transparent.
- Rowena MacLeod: [laughs] Well, duh! Of course I was manipulating you! I am *your* mother, after all. Manipulation's who we are.
- Sam Winchester: Dean, look, we want to help.
- Dean Winchester: No. No, with you in the ring, it'd just be a liability.
- Castiel: Dean?
- Dean Winchester: I'd be too worried about what he could do to you... Or what I could. Plus, I need you three out here to take out whatever comes out of there. And I'm serious. I mean *whatever* comes out.
- Crowley: Happily.
- Cain: This may be hard to believe in light of what I'm about to do to you, but I care about you, Dean. I truly do. But I know I'm doing you a favor. I'm saving you.
- Dean Winchester: Saving me from what?
- Cain: From your fate.