8.16 Remember the Titans
Title | Remember the Titans |
Episode # | Season 8, Episode 16 |
First aired | February 27, 2013 |
Directed by | Steve Boyum |
Written by | Daniel Loflin |
On IMDB | Remember the Titans |
Outline | Sam and Dean meet a man who dies every day. |
Monster | Zeus |
Timeline | |
Location(s) | Great Falls, Montana Lebanon, Kansas Livingston, Montana |
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Synopsis
The opening scene begins with a drunk falling asleep at the wheel and hitting a walker on the side of the road. The driver takes off and a police officer finds the body the next morning. He calls in the scene but when he returns, the body is gone.
Back at the bunker, Sam is showing more signs of wear from his trials to close the gates of Hell. With no word from Kevin, they pursue a case where a police officer swears he's found a zombie. The boys head to a nearby town to investigate a bear-mauling incident which happens to be the zombie John Doe they are looking for.
They find the body, which disappears when they turn their backs, but they're able to catch the now-living man and detain him at their motel to run some "tests". After learning little other than his name—Shane—a mysterious woman arrives and attacks, showing Sam and Dean that Shane has serious fighting skills. The woman disappears before they can figure out who she is, and Shane has a heart attack and dies right after the fight. After some digging, Sam determines that Shane is actually Prometheus, a Greek titan sentenced to die each day by Zeus for giving fire to humans in order for them to survive.
Later at the motel, a woman, Hayley, and a young child, Oliver, show up to find out about the body that was snatched from the morgue. The woman finds Prometheus on the bed and when he returns to life, he remembers her and she introduces him to his son who has the same affliction as Prometheus, beginning when he turned 7. The boys decide to figure out what to do about the curse from Zeus in order to save the kid from dying each day.
After finding a summoning spell to trap Zeus, they try to negotiate with him to release Prometheus and Oliver from the curse, though he only offers to lift it once he is released. Sam, Dean, and Prometheus reject his terms. Zeus talks Hayley into breaking the trap to let him out, telling her he will save her son. When Zeus goes back on his promise to help, the mysterious woman, revealed to be Hunter goddess Artemis, returns and helps Zeus trap the boys. Sam reminds her that Prometheus loves her as in the old days and she buys it, helping them out. She shoots at Zeus but Zeus pulls Prometheus in front of him just in time to stop the arrow. Prometheus shoves the arrow through his own body into Zeus, thus killing Zeus forever. Artemis and Zeus' body disappear and Sam, Dean, Hayley, and Oliver remain, the curse having been broken.
Sam and Dean return to the Men of Letters Bunker and Dean prays to Castiel asking him to look out for his brother through the trials since he knows he's really hurting. Cas does not answer.
Characters
Definitions
- Alcohol
- Aliases
- Balls
- Bowhunting
- Curse
- Dead Guy Robe
- Dean's Bedroom
- Deities
- Deity Death List
- Demigods
- Fingerprints
- Fulgurite
- Hex Bag
- Holy Water
- Hunter's Funeral Pyre
- Impala
- Led Zeppelin
- Men of Letters
- Men of Letters Bunker
- Prayer
- Resurrection
- Sammy
- Silver
- Silver, Salt, Holy Water Test
- Spells
- Weekly World News
- Zombies
Music
None
Quotes
Sam: Just a guess, but translating an ancient language with zero help might be more difficult than we think.
Sam: Yeah, 'cause you wanted to shoot zombies.
Sam: Could be looking for a witch, yeah. You know what? He's parked here. He's safe. Maybe we should just get another room until we can figure this out.
Sam: What you got?
Dean: Dragon penis.
Sam: What?
Dean: Ancient Greek hunter by the name of Drakopoolos. Near as I can tell, he was a badass whose name, incidentally, is Greek --
Dean: It's a secret society. This is actually their lair. We're legacies. No big deal.
Dean: Don't know. Don't care.
Sam: It's our god, Artemis -- the goddess of hunters.
Dean: Oh, that's fascinating.
Sam: See, she's who we'd pray to for courage when hunting the Gorgon or the Minotaur. Of course, she's not really worship worthy anymore, uh, having lost a step and all.
Artemis: The hell I have.
Trivia & References
- Dawn of the Dead was the second of George Romero's of the Dead zombie movies.
- Kenny is a character of South Park who dies in almost every episode.
- Tiger blood was a term used by actor Charlie Sheen in an infamous 2011 interview to describe his ability to withstand copious amounts of recreational drugs.
Sam: Well, that's not -- never mind.
- Shiva is the traditional Jewish week-long period of mourning. In Jewish tradition, the body would be buried as soon as possible after death. Shiva in Hebrew means seven.
- Jason Bourne is a fictional spy character created by author Robert Ludlum, and played by Matt Damon in a series of movies based on the novels. In the first book/movie, he is rescued at sea suffering from amnesia. However he has retained the memory of some things, such as his awesome fighting skills.
- Ocean's 11 is a 1960's heist film, that was remade in 2001 by Stephen Soderbergh.
- Xena: Warrior Princess was a syndicated television series following the exploits of the eponymous character, on the road to redemption for her past crimes.
- Ghostbusters is a film franchise about ghost hunters in New York City.
- The term "one-percenter" refers to a rich person. It was coined by the 2006 documentary The One Percent, about the growing wealth inequity in the U.S., and refers to the 1% of people who control the majority of the country's wealth. It gained popularity during the 2011 Occupy Wall Street movement.
- Homer and Hesiod were Greek poets, and Herodotus was a Greek historian.
- Writer Dan Loflin tweeted "Jared and I butchered several pronunciations of Herodotus before this video saved us. Actor Anna Van Hooft who played Artemis replied "I remember this! And laughing so hard I cried."
- Clark Griswold was the father in the National Lampoon's Vacation series of comedies. Played by Chevy Chase, he was an enthusiastic family man.
Minutiae
- A reference to how Bobby killed the okami in 6.04 Weekend at Bobby's.
- Prometheus bound to the rock
- Prometheus Tortured by A vulture, 1731 by Bernard Picart.
- Prometheus by Theodor Rombouts
- The last time we saw Sam and Dean use fulgurite was in 7.01 Meet the New Boss to use in a spell to bind Death. They acquired it by breaking into a wealthy couple's home and stealing it.
Sides, Scripts & Transcripts
- 8.16 Remember the Titans (transcript)
- Remember the Titans Script (Production Draft)
- Remember the Titans Script (Blue Revisions only)
- Remember the Titans 2nd Unit Call Sheet and Script Sides (Day 1 of 1)
Promotion
- Title and plot points from Spoiler TV
- Casting news
- Official Synopsis from ksitevtv
- Promotional Pictures via ksite
- Promo
- Sneak peek
- Winchester Radio podcast discussion for this episode