13.18 Bring 'em Back Alive

Title	Bring 'em Back Alive
Episode #	Season 13, Episode 18
First aired	April 12, 2018
Directed by	Amyn Kaderali
Written by	Brad Buckner Eugenie Ross-Leming
On IMDB	Bring 'em Back Alive
Outline
Monster	Asmodeus
Timeline
Location(s)	Apocalypse World Lebanon, Kansas Fall River, Massachusettes
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Characters

• Sam Winchester
• Dean Winchester
• Castiel
• Lucifer
• Gabriel
• Arthur Ketch
• Asmodeus
• Sister Jo
• Dumah
• Charlie Bradbury (Apocalypse World)

Definitions

• Alternate Universe
• Apocalypse World
• Angel Blade
• Angel-Killing Bullets
• Angel Wings
• Archangel
• Demonology
• Demon Smoke
• Enochian
• Exorcism
• Grace
• Heaven
• Holy Water
• Holy Water in the Face
• Men of Letters Bunker
• Needham Asylum
• Possession
• Portal
• Princes of Hell
• Smiting
• Son of a Bitch
• Telekinesis
• Warding Sigils

Music

• "Easy Street" by Cosmopolitan Orchestera

(playing as Lucifer prepares to listen to humanities prayers in Heaven)

Quotes

Ketch: Well, this is quite the vacation spot, isn't it?
Dean: Yeah. If you had your heart set on Mai Tai's. Well, sorry.

Castiel: Dean is in Apocalypse World alone?

Sam: He's with Ketch, so he's not alone.

Castiel: Because that makes it so much better?

Castiel: Sam I don't think he's going to open up and let the choo-choo in... A technique for feeding recalcitrant children. I think a little coersion may be necessary.

Castiel: It's his story. It starts with his death, or what appeared to be his death. 'Per usual, my brother had double my brawn and half my brains. He assumed the counterfeit is what vanished that night and he thought he stabbed the real thing. Truth is, the thing Luci skewered was a fake. There are plenty of fakes to go around. Everyone believed Gabriel was gone, and suddenly I was free. No obligation to God or Heave or mankind. And so I did what anyone would do. I moved to Monte Carlo and shacked up with porn stars.' Well, he goes on and on for a while about porn stars.

Sam: Cas. Please.

Castiel: Okay, so Gabriel was captured and delivered to Asmodeus. 'For years I knew nothing but endless torture, Asmodeues once the weakest of Hell's princes grew strong by feeding on my grace.' Well, obviously his intellect is still intact.

Ketch: If the antidote isn't administered, then the victim dies a particularly gruesome death.

Dean: You guys are such dicks.

Ketch: Yes, well. Guilty. Now, then this will smart.

Sam: Gabriel, you have to dig yourself out of this hole. Look, I know you think it's safer inside. No more torture, no more pain, no more expectations. I've been there. You're nothing like your family, you sure as hell weren't like your Dad. Me either. And just like you I got out, or -- or I thought I got out. But then, then my family needed me. And this is my life. No matter how many times I try to fight it, this is what I was put here to do. This is how I make the world a better place. And sure, yeah, hookers and Monte Carlo sounds great. But your family needs you. Jack, your nephew needs you. The world needs you. We need you. Gabriel I need you. So please, help us.
Gabriel: Porn stars. They were porn stars, Sam.

Dean: Charlie was like family. She was a sister to me, she did more for me and Sam than I could even say. And she was -- she was butchered. And we couldn't get their in time. And...

Ketch: You feel you failed her.
Dean: I know I did.
Ketch: That I understand.
Dean: Alright, well what about your story you're not telling me?
Ketch: Oh, I've had many failures. Friends and colleagues that have died on my watch. The only difference is I didn't trey to save them. Dury and all that. Rubbish.
Dean: Well, you do suck.
Ketch: What the hell. Perhaps rescuing this Charlie will wash some of the stain from my hands.

Dean: Impossible and stupid. Saying it like it's a bad thing.

Jo: So you know. It's not the humans. It's not the angels. It's not your Father's propaganda that's killing you. It's your complete failure. You say you want to find your son, you don't. Not really. So you sit their because you're afraid, afraid of him. Afraid of looking into his eyes and seeing nothing but contempt. You can't replace your father, you can't create anything. You have nothing. You might as well go back to the Cage... And now you don't have me.

Charlie: So to recap, there's another world. A better world, no Michael. And it has another me?

Dean: Well, had.
Charlie: And you were friends with her, me, her.
Dean: Yes. Very.
Charlie: How very?
Dean: She was into chicks.

Charlie: I like her.

Sam: Welcome to the team. Gabriel: Uh, yeah. Not so much. I mean thank you for the rescue and the redemption arc. But, uh, I'm not really a team guy. So, I'm gonna bounce. It's been, uh, what's the opposite of fun? That.

Trivia & References

Lucifer: Wow. They would never treat my old man that way, never. If he said scour the Earth, they'd say 'S.O.S or Brillo'?

Lucifer dressing up in a suit to take on his new role as "God" may be a reference to the TV series Lucifer based on the comic character created by Neil Gaiman, who is known as a sharp dresser.

Asmodues throwing a ball of energy at Gabriel is reminiscent of the Hadouken attack in the Street Fighter video game franchise.

Sides, Scripts & Transcripts

• 13.18 Bring 'em Back Alive (transcript)

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