11.14 The Vessel

Title	The Vessel
Episode #	Season 11, Episode 14
First aired	February 17, 2016
Directed by	John Badham
Written by	Robert Berens
On IMDB	The Vessel
Outline	Dean is sent back to 1943 by Lucifer to retrieve a weapon to stop Amara called the Hand of God, which was lost on an ill-fated submarine mission in World War II.
Monster	Thule Society Lucifer
Timeline	14 August 1943
Location(s)	Nazi Occupied France (1943) Lebanon, Kansas
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Characters

• Sam Winchester
• Dean Winchester
• Castiel
• Crowley
• Lucifer
• Simmons
• Delphine Seydoux
• Petey Giraldi

Definitions

• Alcohol
• Angel Banishing Sigil
• Ark of the Covenant
• Crowley's Lair
• Hand of God
• Lucifer's Crypts
• Men of Letters
• Men of Letters Bunker
• Souls
• Spells
• Table of Death
• Thule Society
• Time Travel
• Unconscious
• USS Bluefin

Music

• "Non, je ne regrette rien" by Edith Piaf

(playing while Delphine kills Befehlsleiter Gumprecht in Nazi Occupied France, and when Dean is sitting alone on the dock)

Quotes

Delphine: I have lived a high life, but these months, pretending to love a Nazi cochon like you has been the worst. But this moment, watching you die, it is the best. The Men of Letters send their regards.

Sam: Hey, did you know the Nazis had a special branch devoted to archaeology.
Dean: Little early for Nazi trivia, especially without caffeine.

Lucifer: How are your wounds doggy?

Crowley: They are no less than I deserve.
Lucifer: Aww, you're scared of your master. That's a good doggy. But it's an act. I broke you, but um, yup I can still smell it. You got that delectable little wiff of defiance, you're just playing huh? Waiting for your moment to retake the throne. Am I right?

Crowley: Yes sir.

Dean: You need to stay here.

Sam: Say here?

Dean: Just in case things go sideways, somebody needs to be left standing to take care of the Darkness. We can't risk us both! And at the moment, I'm the least valuable player, you both know that I can't kill Amara! So the least I can do is get the thing that we need so you can!

Dean: Captain James Deerborn, my name is Dean Winchester and I am on a mission from the future. The details of which I am not a liberty to discuss. But know this, within the hour, a German Destroyer will find and attack this submarine and you will go down.

Dean: From Men of Letters to Men of Letters I'm fighting a war in the future. It's not like your war, it's big, Biblical, end is nigh big. And I need your weapon to win, that is why I came.

Lucifer: It's just, I don't need you anymore. I mean, Dean's the one with the link to Amara. Why have I trying to spare you? Maybe it's because you're like the girl who kept turning me down at the prom. I will touch your soul, just because you asked so nicely. And I'll use your spell to blast through the warding and retrieve Dean and the, um, Hand of God. And then when Dean comes back and he finds this place decorated with your guts, I will tell him the truth, Sam. I'll just say, Dean. Dean, he knew the risks, who wouldn't take no for an answer.

Sam: Lucifer.

Lucifer: In the flesh.

Dean: Teach me how to use it. It's the power of God. Maybe I can us it to save you, save the sub.

Delphine? And your war?
Dean: I wanna to help you now.

Delphine? You save this ship, get us to the surface and then what? The power of God will consume you, and you'll have merely brought the weapon closer to the Nazi's grasp. We're supposed to die, let us do it with purpose.

Sam: Cas, why?
Castiel: I wanted to be of service to the fight. And only Lucifer can beat her.

Lucifer: Feel a burden lifted. You know this whole deep cover thing, it just wasn't, it wasn't terribly thought out. Donning this-this Cas mask, this grim face of angelic constipation. Just Ugh. And then teaming up with you two, I mean I thought you boys were insufferable as mortal enemies. But, working with you, that's the soul crusher. Why the faces boys? You should be cheering, we have a common enemy, and with this she should be no problem. I mean, I will have killed you both by then, but still come on.

Sam: So how'd you get through today? What did you do?

Dean: Nothing. Sam, they... I was just a witness.
Sam: You wanna talk about it?
Dean: No. No, story for another day. Hey the German ship that sank the Bluefin what happened to it?

Sam: It went down, unlike the sub its wreckage was found. There was a giant hole ripped through the entire thing, something must have hit the fuel tanks, it exploded. But it burned, sank.

Trivia & References

Sam: It was World War II, kind of an all hands on deck situation.

Dean: Yeah, Rosie the Riveter. Cool.

Sam: Yeah, I'd say so. I mean tides took the wreckage, submersibles have been trying to locate it for years. I mean if James Cameron and his Avatar billions can't find it...

Dean: Yeah, but we have something James Cameron doesn't have.

Lucifer:Well then, tell me once and future King of Hell. You've been watching my rule. What treasonous thoughts do you have brewing in that little head of yours?

Dean: That sub is a tin can floating in the middle of the ocean, doomed to go down. You can't really mess with history at 20,0000 leagues. So we get in, get the weapon, get out. It's a milk run.

Sam: So you expect me to sit here and ride the pine, while you and Cas go play Jules Verne.

Dean: Yes! No. Who?

Harris: Broad is sitting like Queen of Sheba getting getting room service in the war room. I can't even gripe, 'cause you see that dame? The gams on her?

Dean: Yeah, she's a hottie... Yeah, those gams, huh?

Captain Deerborn: Flash Gordon here will remain under guard until we reach shore.

and
Dean: So you believe me?
Girardi: I read a lot of Flash Gordon.

Girardi: World Series 1944, go. You're from the future, tell me who won?

Dean: The Rangers.
Girardi: The Rangers?

Dean: That's the Hand of God? Doesn't look like much.

Delphine: No, I suppose it doesn't. It must have been more impressive in its complete form -- the Ark of the Covenant.
Dean: Oh, so full on 'Raiders.' That's, okay...

Minutiae

Sam: Wait a second. I remember, Bobby told me when you needed strength to retrieve us from the past, you used him to power up. You touched his soul, right?

Sides, Scripts & Transcripts

• 11.14 The Vessel (transcript)

Promotion

• Synopsis
• Photos via the TV Addict
• Promo
• Sneak Peek
• Interview with Production Designer Jerry Wanek