13.18 Bring 'em Back Alive

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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 As Dean and Ketch traverse Apocalypse World in search of Mary and Jack, Dean comes across a familiar face in need of help. Meanwhile, Sam and Castiel try to understand how Gabriel is still alive.
Monster Asmodeus
Timeline Immediately after 13.17 The Thing
Location(s) Apocalypse World
Lebanon, Kansas
Heaven
Fall River, Massachusetts
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Synopsis

Characters

Definitions

Music

  • "Easy Street" by Cosmopolitan Orchestera
(playing as Lucifer prepares to listen to humanity's prayers in Heaven)

Quotes

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 was what vanished that night, and he thought that he'd stabbed the real thing. The 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 Heaven, or mankind. And so I did what anyone would do -- I moved to Monte Carlo and shacked up with porn stars.' Well, y-- He goes on and on for a while about porn stars and, uh...

Sam: Cas. Please.

Castiel: Okay, so Gabriel was captured, delivered to Asmodeus. 'For years I knew nothing but endless torture. Asmodeus, once the weakest of Hell's princes, grew strong by feeding on my grace.' Well, obviously, his intellect is still intact.
Ketch: Well, if -- 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 were nothing like your family. You sure as hell weren't like your dad. Me either. And just like you, I got out. or I-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 there in time and I...

Ketch: You feel you failed her.
Dean: I know I did.
Ketch: That, I understand.
Dean: Uh, hello. What about your story you're not telling me?
Ketch: Oh, I've had many failures... friends and colleagues who have died on my watch. Only difference is, I didn't... try to save them. 'Duty' and all that rubbish.
Dean: Well, you do suck.
Ketch: What the hell? Perhaps rescuing this Charlie will wash some of the stain off my hands.

Dean: 'Impossible and stupid,' huh? You say that like it's a bad thing. Come on.
Jo: So you're just giving up?

Lucifer: No. No, I'm gonna refocus. I've come to realize the key to finding my bliss is fatherhood.
Jo: You?

Lucifer: Yeah. It's obvious, right? I just... I devote myself to finding Jack. We're gonna combine our powers. I'll remake the world in my image, with pathetic little people who worship me. Me. Me Love that plan. Awesome plan.
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 there 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: Well, she was into chicks.

Charlie: Oh. 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, okay? Um, but, you know, it's been, um... what's the opposite of fun? That.
Sam: No, Gabriel, don't -- you -- can't just walk away. If Michael comes here he will end this world.
Gabriel: And the last time the world was ending, I put my money on you. I think you can pull it off again.
Castiel: No. You cannot turn your back on your Father's creation.

Gabriel: Castiel... My Father turned His back on His creation. Guess it just runs in the family.
Dean: If we can't open the door, then I should have never come back! Son of a bitch! Every time! Every time we get close, it always falls apart. Every freakin' time.

Castiel: Dean... we will find Gabriel. We will.

Dean: We better.

Trivia & References

Ketch: Well, this is quite the vacation spot, isn't it?

Dean: Yeah. If you had your heart set on Mai Tais, well... sorry.

A Mai Tai is a rum-based cocktail associated with resorts in exotic climes.
Lucifer: Wow. They would never treat my old man that way. Ever. If He said 'Scour the Earth,' they'd say, 'S.O.S. or Brillo?'
S.O.S. and Brillo are the brand names of two steel wool scouring pad products.
Fan I-AM-Gxbriel translated some of the Enochian Gabriel wrote. The first quote comes from Luke 1:19:
“And the angel said unto him, ‘I am Gabriel, that stands in the presence of God, and I have been sent to speak unto thee and to bring you this good news.”

Another segment was taken from Luke 1:15:

“For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother’s womb.”
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.
One of the first prayers Lucifer hears when trying to listen to humanity is a woman asking:
"Dear God, make me a bird, so I can fly far, far away from here."
This is a reference to this scene from Forest Gump.
Asmodeus throwing a ball of energy at Gabriel is reminiscent of the Hadouken attack in the Street Fighter video game franchise.

Minutiae

The bridge where Ketch and Dean see the Apocalypse World angels executing humans is the same bridge previously used in 5.02 Good God, Y'All when Sam and Dean attempt to enter the town of River Pass, Colorado. Whether or not Colorado was their location upon arrival in Apocalypse World is unknown.

Sides, Scripts & Transcripts

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