RECAP

In Columbus, Ohio, Mrs. Lloyd arrives at an antique shop, Lost Treasures, at 3 am, and asks the owner Marvin Brickle where it is. He takes out a 1931 solid gold pocket watch and then tells Mrs. Lloyd that there’s been a change in the price. Marvin says that he can’t let it go for less than 80, and she points out that his jacket is smoking. It bursts into flames, and Mrs. Lloyd snatches up the pocket watch… and then bursts into flames as well. A man watches from the shadows as they both burn to death.

At the bunker, Sam returns with food and is surprised when Dean says that he’s not hungry. He wonders if Dean is cool with Mary leaving them, and shows Sam a report about two people dying in a mystery fire. Mrs. Lloyd was rich and Dean wonders why she was there at 3 am. He figures that they should check it out and Sam agrees.

The brothers arrive at the shop and break in. Inside, they scan for EMG and find nothing. Sam checks Martin’s computer while Dean knocks antiques over as he looks around. Checking the computer files, Sam finds an email on the pocket watch with a Nazi symbol on the cover. Meanwhile, Dean finds a hidden room and finds it filled with Nazi memorabilia. Sam comes over and says that Martin’s ledger indicates that the watch belonged to a member of Hitler’s inner circle. The police didn’t report finding the watch, and Sam points out that the MO matches that of the Thule.

A woman, Ellie, returns to her apartment with a man, Nick. They kiss and she nervously says that she just got out of a relationship, and then goes to the bathroom. Once she’s alone, she tries to nerve herself up. Ellie hears a crash outside and looks out to see two men approach Nick. They concentrate on him and he bursts into flames. One of the men sees her and Ellie locks the bathroom door and climbs down the fire escape, scraping herself. When the younger man tries to shoot her, the older one stops him and says that they need Ellie alive. His father, Nauhaus, collects the smear of blood and tells his son Christoph that they have what they need to rack him.

Sam and Dean call Aaron in Berlin, Germany, and he says that he’s working his way through the Judah Initiative ledger. Aaron confirms that the Thule operatives are nervous about something big, and they’ve found references to “The Blood.” A report of another body comes in and Sam and Dean head out.

At Ellie’s apartment, the police officer that Ellie ran to a neighbor and called for help. Outside in a police car, Christoph handcuffs Ellie, gets in the car, and drives off just as Sam and Dean arrive. They drive off after Christoph, who tells Ellie to shut up. He drives into a parking garage, gets out, and calls Nauhaus. Dean arrives and trains a gun on Christoph, while Sam frees Ellie and they get out.

Later at an abandoned building, Sam and Dean tell Ellie that they’re hunters as they tie Christoph to a chair. Christoph says that they’ll have to kill him because he’s not talking, and Dean takes out a gun and prepares to shoot. Their prisoner quickly says that the watch belongs to his father, a commander in the Thule High Command. Christoph says that at the end of the war, everyone but Nauhaus knew it was over. Nauhaus placed Hitler’s soul in the pocket watch so that he could bring him back. Christoph explains that he was born in Buffalo in 1984, and all the Thule have been doing is talking about bringing Hitler back. The Thule agents got whacked by Soviet agents and the watch went from China to Peru to the antique shop. Christoph says that Hitler can only possess someone who possesses his blood. He tells them that Ellie is Hitler’s descendant, and knows that she was adopted. Ellie storms off and Sam goes after her, while Dean prepares to move out.

Sam talks to Ellie privately in an office and she explains that she texted her mother to ask if she was adopted. Her mother said to call, and Sam assures her that she can handle what’s going on.

Nauhaus drives to the parking garage and sniffs the blood, and realizes that Ellie is close.

Sam tells Ellie that it will get easier, and Dean comes in. He tells Ellie that they can use Ellie as bait to get the Thule. Dean says that it’s one of the times that they have to fight and they’ll keep her safe. Nauhaus enters the adjoining room and Dean quickly shuts the blinds before he can see them. Meanwhile, Nauhaus frees Christoph. Dean comes out and shoots, and another Thule agent attacks him. Sam jumps Nauhaus while Christopher finishes freeing himself and runs. Dean finishes off his opponent and kicks Nauhaus off of Sam, and another agent attacks him. The agent throws Dean through a window, and Nauhaus orders a retreat. When Sam checks the office, he discovers that Ellie has climbed out the window.

Ellie walks down the street and Nauhaus grabs her and drags her into his car.

Sam and Dean go back to the parking garage and are unable to reach Ellie on her phone.

In the car, Nauhaus and Christoph listen to Sam’s voice mail. Nauhaus complains that Christoph told them about Hitler, and tells him that he’s a disappointment. Christoph says that he used to admire his father but now all he wants to do is resurrect Hitler. His father says that it’s the perfect time for Hitler to return, and tells Ellie that she has Hitler’s eyes.

Dean and Sam go to a diner and hack every traffic camera in the city trying to find Ellie.

Nauhaus arrives at an airport hangar and tells his agents to begin the purification ritual. One agent confirms that they have a patrol looking for the Winchesters, and Nauhaus tells his man Fritz to secure his son. Fritz takes Christoph out behind the hangar, draws his gun, and tells him to run. Before he can shoot, a call comes in from the patrol saying that they’ve found the Winchesters. Christoph jumps Fritz, grabs his gun, and shoots him dead.

Christoph goes to the diner and sits down with the Winchesters, and says that he’ll take them to Ellie if they protect him. When Dean wonders why they should believe him, Christoph points out the Thule agent outside and says that he just killed Fritz. He admits that he was never good enough for Nauhaus, and Dean tells Sam to get the Impala while he takes out the Thule agent.

Nauhaus and his man Hans find Fritz’s corpse and Nauhaus says that they’ll focus on resurrecting Hitler. They go back to the hangar where a drugged Ellie is strapped to a gurney.

Christoph leads the Winchesters to the hangar and Sam handcuffs him inside the Impala. The brothers then arm up.

Ellie wakes up and sees Nauhaus on a gurney next to hers, hooked up to her by tubes. He says that they’re going to transfer her blood to his body and then Hitler will possess him.

The Winchesters takes out two of the Thule agents on guard.

Inside the hangar, Hans places the pocket watch on Nauhaus’ chest. It digs into his body and after a moment, Hitler laughs and says that it’s been a long time. He gets up and laughs maniacally, and says that Hans looks great. Ellie starts to pass out from blood loss, and Hitler thanks her for the gift. He then tells his men to take the rest of her blood, get some dogs, and feet Ellie to them.

Dean and Sam break in and find the Thule agents waiting for them with guns. They take the Winchesters into the hangar, and they realize that they’re facing Hitler. Ellie manages to get up and grab a nearby gun, and shoots one of the agents. Sam and Dean grab their gun and shoot the other agents, and Dean pistol-whips Hitler. He then shoots him in the head.

The next day, Sam and Dean take Ellie to the Impala and take Christoph out. The Winchesters warn him that the Thule that are left will hunt Christoph as a traitor, and he quickly leaves. The brothers then take Ellie back to her apartment and she says that she’ll be okay. She thanks Sam for everything and goes inside, and Sam goes back to the Impala. Dean suggests that they get some pie now that he’s killed Hitler.

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GUEST STARS

	Allison Paige	…	Ellie Grant
	Keenan Tracey	…	Christoph
	Gil Darnell	…	Nauhaus / Adolf Hitler
	Adam Rose	…	Aaron Bass
	Michael Rys	…	Hans
	Wolfgang Klassen	…	Fritz
	Matthias Brunert	…	Gottfried (as Matthias A. Brunert)
	Nicholas Harrison	…	8.13 Hans (as Nick Harrison)
	Ben Afful	…	Cop
	Charles Siegel	…	Marvin Brickell
	Colleen Winton	…	Mrs. Lloyd
	Dustin Lloyd	…	Nick

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TRAILER/CLIPS

Trailer

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MUSIC

“Electric Mistress” by X-Ray Dog
(playing from German nightclub as Sam and Dean speak with Aaron over the phone)

Symphony No. 7 in E Major, WAB 107: IV. Finale: Bewegt, doch nicht schnell by Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra & Hartmut Haenchen
(playing as Commandant Nauhaus prevents Hitler from shooting himself in 1945)

“Thousand Watt Work-Out” by John Moran (KPM)
(playing in the diner when Christoph makes a deal with Sam and Dean)

Das Rheingold: Prelude by Stuttgart State Opera Orchestra
(playing as the Thule prepare to transfer Hitler’s soul)

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QUOTES

Sam: Dean… Dude…
Dean: Don’t say it.
Sam: Maybe-maybe, let’s not touch anything until we figure out if this stuff wants to kill us or not?

Aaron: We’re halfway through the ledger. I nailed six, and the Golem got the rest. It feels good, you know? Finishing what the Judah Initiative started.
Sam: Your grandfather would be proud.
Aaron: Yeah, well. Dropping out of college to wipe out Nazi corpse-bags wasn’t exactly my mother’s dream, but what are you gonna do?

llie: Wait. No, no. You can’t just shoot him!
Dean: Oh, no, sure I can. See, I do it all the time.

Sam: I know it’s hard to believe this right now. But, it will get easier. Trust me, I’ve been there.
Ellie: Oh right. Did someone want to use you to resurrect Adolf Hitler?
Sam: Uh, w- No, not exactly.
Ellie: There you go.
Sam: But they did want me to bring back Lucifer. I was his vessel-
Ellie: You almost, almost had me with Hitler. But Lucifer, really? The Devil? I can’t, okay? I can’t do this.

Hitler: Sam und Dean Winchester. You must be important. He feared you. Nauhaus. Still up here. Hahaha.

Sam: Dude. You killed Hitler.
Dean: Yeah. Awesome.

Dean: I killed Hitler. I killed Hitler. I killed Hitler. I think that entitles me to free drinks for the rest of my life. I’m gonna get t-shirts made.
Sam: You know no one’s going to believe you, right?
Dean: But you believe me. You were there.

Sam: So, how you holding up?
Ellie: Uh, well, we just burned a pile of dead Nazi zombie bodies. One of which I killed. So, maybe like third worst day, ever. I’ve had a rough time lately.
Sam: Yeah, and then all this happens.
Ellie: I think I’m gonna be okay though. I should probably call my mom. You can only run for so long, you know? So, uh, what do you think is harder, facing the reincarnation of Hitler or going back to med school?
Sam: I think I gotta say Hitler.

Dean: You know, I was thinking. We passed a bakery on the way into town. Sign said ‘Best Pie for a Thousand Miles.’
Sam: So, now you want pie?
Dean: I killed Hitler. I think I deserve some pie. Did I mention I killed Hitler?
Sam: I’m never going to hear the end of this am I?
Dean: Probably not.
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TRIVIA

“The One You’ve Been Waiting For” is the title of a song by Nick Cave, released in 1997. It can also be seen as a sardonic comment over the fact that this is the episode where Hitler appears. It also references the Grenade Launcher, the largest and (presumably) most destructive weapon in the Impala’s arsenal. Despite being very noticeable to the audience due to its size and bulk, it was never used, interacted or mentioned in any way before. It has been part of the arsenal since the first episode, implying that the audience — and Dean — wanted to see it in action for a long time.

 
Commandant Nauhaus may be a reference to, if not meant to be the same person as Walter Nauhaus, the original leader of the Thule Society study group.

 
Dean: Check it out. The old lady? Loaded. I’m talking Scrooge McDuck swimming in pools of money. So what’s a lady like that doing at some crap store at 3AM?

Scrooge McDuck is the obscenely rich uncle of Donald Duck, who was known to go swimming in his vault full of money.

Sam: Dean its called sublimation.
Dean: Yeah. Yeah, it’s kinda my thing.

Sublimation is the act in which socially unacceptable impulses are transformed into other, more acceptable, behaviors.

Dean: Nazis. I hate these guys.

Presumably a reference to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, where Indy speaks these exact words.

Sam: Any idea what’s cooking?
Aaron: Whatever it is, it’s big. We got out hands on a few of their documents. Code named the mission ‘Das Blut’ — ‘The Blood.’

Possibly a reference to the German war film Das Boot.

Dean: We gotta follow that car. Oh, I’ve always wanted to say that.

“Follow that car” is an old movie or TV trope. Here it appears in its more usual modern form which is as an “I always wanted to say that” trope.

Dean: Alright, skip the foreplay. What did your dad do to Hitler?
Christoph: He saved his life. Well, he saved his soul. Like literally. The watch, it’s like a — it’s like a Horcrux.

In the Harry Potter series, a Horcrux is any object a dark wizard or witch uses to hide a piece of their soul.

While this might be coincidental, the use of a pocket watch to hold Hitler’s soul is reminiscent of the way a Time Lords’ essence can be stored in pocket watches in Doctor Who, first shown in the two-part story “Human Nature” and “The Family of Blood”, in which The Doctor stores his Time Lord essence in his pocket watch and becomes human. This is reused, most noticeably, in the episode “Utopia”, in which The Master regains his Time Lord essence from an old pocket watch.

 
Gottfried: What shall we do with her, Führer?
Hitler: Take the rest of her blood, then give her to the dogs.
Gottfried: But Führer, we have no dogs.
Hitler: Then get some! I love doggies. Woof-woof-woof.

Hitler was a known lover of dogs, most notably his German Shepard, Blondi.

Dean: A nice new meatsuit. It come with two testicles this time?
Hitler: One of many upgrades I am enjoying. Like this! It’s like having a tiny Goebbels in my pocket! I sold ten million copies of Mein Kampf. What do you think I can do with Twitter? Where is my plane?!

It is believed that Hitler may have lost a testicle while fighting in the First World War. This belief was commemorated with the song “Hitler Has Only Got One Ball.” Joseph Goebbels was the Reichsminister of Propaganda for Nazi Germany. Mein Kampf (My Struggle) is the title to Hitler’s autobiography, which he wrote during his stint in prison after his failed Beer Hall Putsch in 1923.

Dean: Heil this.

Possibly recalling the scene where Trinity says “Dodge this” as she points her gun at one of the Agents in The Matrix.

The name of the bar that Aaron Bass is outside of is called Das Murmeltier which means “The Marmot.”

 
The establishing shot of the “Home Cooking” diner that Sam and Dean go to is the same one from 1.20 Dead Man’s Blood. with subtle VFX augmentation.
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