13.20 Unfinished Business

Title	Unfinished Business
Episode #	Season 13, Episode 20
First aired	April 26, 2018
Directed by	Richard Speight, Jr.
Written by	Meredith Glynn
On IMDB	Unfinished Business
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Location(s)	Central City, Colorado Apocalypse World Monte Carlo
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Characters

• Sam Winchester
• Dean Winchester
• Mary Winchester
• Jack Kline
• Gabriel
• Kevin Tran (Apocalypse World)
• Jakob
• Loki
• Fenrir Odensbane
• Narfi
• Sleipnir

Definitions

• Alcohol
• Apocalypse World
• Angel Wings
• Archangel
• Binding Link
• Deities
• Grace
• Impala
• Magic Fingers
• Michael's Fortress
• Old Norse Mythology
• Porn
• Silver
• Silver Bullet
• Spells
• Table of Death
• Trickster

Quotes

Gabriel: Yeah, so anyway, um. I don't suppose you guys have any of my grace laying around, right? Because, um, the tanks a little low.

Sam: Did you drain it killing Asmodeus?

Gabriel: And ditching you. It'll recharge, eventually. But until then...

Kevin: I never used to believe in anything. Well, scratch that -- science, quantum mechanical unpredictability. But then the end of the world happened, and everyone around me, my friends and my -- my Mom they all started to die. But, God chose me. What does that even mean! Michael said he wanted to save the world. Not kill it. But, he's hurt so many people. When I couldn't perfect the spell, Michael, he got mad and threw me in the dungeon. I was so scared, but I fixed it. I couldn't do it anymore.

Dean: Well, we just broke into a junkyard and stuck the body of a demigod into a car crusher, so I think you owe us some answers.
Gabriel: Okay, they're not really demigods. Look, the whole Norse pantheon is it's own weird thing. Think of 'em more like, god-begotten monsters.

Gabriel: After Lucifer quotation marks killed me. I needed to lay low, luckily I used to hang out with a really resourceful crew and found myself a top shelf hideaway.

Dean: I thought this story had porn stars.

Gabriel: Ah, good catch my bad. I had it made all the booze I could drink all the entertainment I could handle...

Gabriel: So this is how it ended... By the time I came to they sold me to Asmodeus.

Sam: Why would they do that?

Gabriel: Hello? Lucifer. In case you don't remember there was an Apocalypse brewing at the time.

Gabriel: Everyday! Asmodeus tortured me. Every day! He fed off my grace for years! He used me, he debased me until I was -- What I went through, you don't forgive. Everyone who had a hand it will die. Get me?
Sam: Yeah, we do.

Dean: Okay, you went through it. We get it, all right? But killing Loki, not gonna change any of that. It's not. In fact, probably not gonna make you feel better.
Gabriel: Well, agree to disagree, Dean-o. We all have our demons, mine are here in this town.

Dean: Not like I care about killing gods, okay. But this whole revenge kick, it's a waste of time.

Sam: What if it's not?

Dean: You've seen it, Sam. With me, with Dad, revenge only ends one way. Ugly.

Jack: It's my fault, I said I'd protect them.

Mary: We can prepare, and we can fight. But sometimes things happen we never see coming.

Jack: If I can't keep them safe, then what's the point?

Dean: You remember what happened the last time we had front row tickets to the Lucifer/Michael show? Because I do. You died, and went to Hell. But see this time the Apocalypse isn't looking for us, we're actually looking for it. I don't care what happens to me. I never really have. But I do care what happens to my brother.
Sam: Dean. We're going to that place, and we're going to save Jack and Mom, together. And if something happens we will deal with it, together. And if we die, we'll do that together too.

Trivia & References

Gabriel playing a kazoo before confronting Fenrir Odensbane is a reference to the character "Harmonica" from Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West. For many fans it also referenced the Saturday Night Special at Creation Cons where for the Louden Swain song "Medicated" when the band, guests and the audience play kazoos.

The episode is a tribute to the Quentin Tarantino movies Kill Bill: Volume 1 and Kill Bill: Volume 2, which were themselves an homage to grindhouse movies including spaghetti westerns. The movies follow Uma Thurman as The Bride who seeks revenge on assassins who tried to kill her.

Gabriel, like the Bride, uses swords as a weapon of choice, and both characters have a kill list.

Dean: All right Uma, what's the plan? Dean calling Gabriel "Uma" after Uma Thurman (who played the Bride).

Dean: Okay, I think I know what this is.
Sam: Okay what is this.
Dean: You. You're so hopped up on this Kill Bill fantasy of his. Dean directly references Kill Bill while discussing Gabriel's revenge with Sam.

The music score in the episode by Jay Gruska also recalls movies from the movies, especially that of Ennio Morricone, who also scored many spaghetti westerns.

Gabriel: Come on. I felt your witch's tracking spell the minute she laid it on me. Tasted like haggis.

Sam: You trying to tell us you came here for R & R?

Dean: Yeah, this isn't exactly the Riviera.

Gabriel: A few thousand epochs ago I was out for a hike in the fjords, came across Loki bound in a cave, snake dripping venom into his eye. Apparently had some spat with his pops. Anywho I freed him, saved his life. Then my brothers started going at it. I wanted out. Loki owed me one, so he helped me ditch Gabriel and become him.

Gabriel is describing the Binding of Loki.

Gabriel: Well, Sleipnir is a lot of things. But mainly he is a coward. I will bet all the personal lubricant in the SFV that after we killed Narfi that he ran straight back to papa's skirt.

SFV refers to the San Fernando Valley in California which is the centre of the adult entertainment industry.

Gabriel: A deal is a deal. And if I'm being perfectly honest, tricks are for kids.

Minutiae

Michael Adamthwaite, who played Narfi, previously played Security Guard Bill in 7.20 The Girl with the Dungeons and Dragons Tattoo.

Dean: hold on I thought Loki was you?

Gabriel: It's trippy, I know. Look, remember when I told you I went into witness protection? Who do you think put me there?

This is a reference to 5.08 Changing Channels when, after Gabriel's identity is unmasked, he calls his disguise as the Trickster "my own personal witness protection."

Sides, Scripts & Transcripts

• 13.20 Unfinished Business (transcript)

Promotion

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