13.07 War of the Worlds

Title	War of the Worlds
Episode #	Season 13, Episode 7
First aired	November 23, 2017
Directed by	Richard Speight, Jr.
Written by	Brad Buckner Eugenie Ross-Leming
On IMDB	War of the Worlds
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Monster
Timeline
Location(s)	Apocalypse World Lebanon, Kansas Cincinatti, Ohio
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Characters

• Sam Winchester
• Dean Winchester
• Mary Winchester
• Castiel
• Lucifer
• Arthur Ketch
• Asmodeus
• Michael (Apocalypse World)
• Kevin Tran (Apocalypse World)
• Daniela
• Dumas

Definitions

• Aliases
• Angel Blade
• Angel Lore
• Apocalypse World
• British Men of Letters
• Costumes & Disguises
• Grace
• Impala
• Men of Letters Bunker
• Metatron's Cube
• Needham Asylum
• Portal
• Princes of Hell
• Prophet
• Spells
• Tablets
• Witches

Music

• "Blues Are Turning Black" by Stephen Emil Dudas

(playing in the bar as Lucifer and Castiel talk about Jack; also played in 10.20 Angel Heart)

Quotes

Lucifer: I got plenty of gripes with the old man. His self-righteous narcissism, His 'my way or the highway' quirk. I gotta hand it to Him. He had a couple of great seconds when He banged out the universe. Guy had creative chops. And optimism. I'll give Him that. And despite His pissiness and His massive lack of irony, He did give mankind a good time at bat and a chance to live in paradise. He Ruled. He smote. He parted waters. Worshiped by creatures who made God in man's image. And then He got disappointed. Or worse, bored. Picked up all His toys and... left. What was that?
Michael: Hitched a ride on your temporal lobe. Saw your world. That paradise you left behind? Believe I'll take up residence, lend my guiding hand.

Lucifer: Hey, hey hey. I got an idea. Why don't you wail on Mary Winchester for a while? I'll get a latte, okay? Or not.

Michael: Look at you. You claim to be a god in your world. Here you're pathetic.

Lucifer: Hey, you try interdimensional travel sometime, pal. Definitely no frills. And just to be clear I never claimed to be God. Or a god, okay? Where I come from God is a paradox. He's everywhere, in your mind. In reality, He's nowhere. He left. I, on the other hand, am the real deal. I am everything humanity thinks I am and worse. That's who you're dealing with, pal. But hey, congratulations on being king of the hill of this dead rock.

Kevin: I don't have a choice. I'm a prophet, so I serve God, but there is no God to serve, so I serve the ranking deity which is Michael, because I don't have a choice, because I'm a prophet.

Lucifer: Idiot. Can't you see Michael is a monster. Pure evil.

Kevin: I'm confused aren't you Satan? Which would make you the evil monster? And Besides Michael is taking me to Paradise World, so I can meet hot women.

Dean: Don't mess with us, okay. You already killed Mick, you tried to kill us, you messed our Mom right up. We're already pissed off. So I wouldn't do that.

Dean: Do I look stupid to you?

Ketch: Is that a trick question?

Sam: So, you're really going to sit there with a straight face and tell us you have an evil twin?

Lucifer: Okay I get it, I get it. Custody of my son is a non-starter. But if you can please just shelve the eternal enemies thing for a second, we have a situation. And by 'we,' I mean everything alive. We're sorta... all gonna die.

Castiel: You'll forgive me if I'm a little on edge, the last time we were together you killed me.
Lucifer: Well, last time we were together you stabbed me.

Dean: You know I gotta hand it to you, that paper trail you cooked up, pretty impressive. But my gut told me it was bologna, looks like my gut was right. See, I've been in it with you, Arthur. I've seen your moves, we've gone toe to toe and I saw that look in your eye when asked about our Mom. So why don't you cut the crap?
Ketch: Actually, everything I told you was true. Well, except for the twin brother thing. I am separated from the British Men of Letters, lying low because they will kill me for desertion. I make a rather good living as a sort of soldier of fortune deep underground, for a certain sort of clientele who appreciate my skill set and I do use the name Alexander.

Asmodeus: As I was saying I'm a collector, I like to be prepared. Lucifer could be useful. Castiel is a card to play if the Winchesters get out of line. And if there is any truth to the story that a new version of Michael is coming, I'm really gonna need that Nephilim.
Ketch: You needn't worry.

Trivia & References

Dean: Yeah, but isn't he too fast and furious for angels?

Kevin: I've assembled all the elements annotated in the angel tablets. Of course, I haven't done this before -- no one here has -- and any predictions are only predictive, not declarative probabilities being what they are or could be. Maybe or not. But a fly in the ointment exists.

Asmodeus: Then how do you explain how Jack, the infamous Nephilm, along with the brothers Winchester all stayed in your no tell motel?

Ketch: Arthur was the family success story -- the headliner -- our Donny Osmond.

Dean: All right Marie, what's your story?

Sam: All right. For arguments sake, we know Mom shot Arthur and we dumped his corpse in the waste canal. So even if this is weird, yes, it's weird. But we eat weird everyday.

Dean: Yeah, but there's Ripley's Believe It or Not weird, and then there's weird that's straight up bull. Now, I'm thinking that Ketch weird is door number two.

Lucifer: Drop the blade, Dumas. Hesitate? This isn't going to be one of those 'make my day' moments is it? Okay, buh-bye.

Sam: You get a name?

Dean: Nope. But, from his description -- evil Colonel Sanders. Asmodeus.

Minutiae

Farrah Aviva, who played Daniela, previously played Psycho Ghost in 7.19 Of Grave Importance.

Erica Serra, who played Dumas, previously played Robin in 6.22 The Man Who Knew Too Much.

As revealed by Castiel in 8.07 A Little Slice of Kevin, angels instinctively know the names of every prophet – past, present, and future – explaining how Lucifer is able to recognize the Apocalypse World version of Kevin Tran.

Sides, Scripts & Transcripts

• 13.07 War of the Worlds (transcript)

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