14.17 Game Night
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| Title | Game Night |
| Episode # | Season 14, Episode 17 |
| First aired | April 4, 2019 |
| Directed by | John F. Showalter |
| Written by | Meredith Glynn |
| On IMDB | Game Night |
| Outline | Sam and Dean race to save Donatello after he is taken by Nick, who seeks to be reunited with Lucifer. Meanwhile, Castiel seeks the help of Anael in trying to send a message to God. |
| Monster | Nick Demons Lucifer |
| Timeline | |
| Location(s) | Lewis, Oklahoma Lebanon, Kansas |
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Contents
Synopsis
Characters
- Sam Winchester
- Dean Winchester
- Mary Winchester
- Castiel
- Jack Kline
- Lucifer
- Nick
- Donatello Redfield
- Sister Jo
- Methuselah
Definitions
- Alcohol
- Angel Blade
- Angel Lore
- Angel Wings
- The Bible
- Cursed Object
- Dean's Amulet
- Demonology
- Devil's Trap
- The Empty
- Food
- Grace
- Healing
- Impala
- Joshua's Amulet
- Men of Letters Bunker
- Nephilim
- Pizza
- Portal
- Prophet
- Resurrection
- Salt
- Sammy
- Son of a Bitch
- Soul
- Soullessness
- Spells
- Table of Death
- Telekinesis
- Teleportation
- Unconscious
- Vessel
Music
- "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" by B. J. Thomas
- (sung by Donatello as he is cooking and plays when he is attacked)
- "Maybe Tomorrow" by Jackie Stewart
- (playing in the diner where Castiel meets Sister Jo)
Quotes
Mary: How about you? Feeling better?
Jack: Everybody keeps asking me that.
Mary: We're family. It's our job.
Sister Jo: The Winchesters -- they don't know you're here do they?
Castiel: Why do you say that?
Mary: But I should've been here more. But I know how I am. I can be closed off and hard.
Dean: Yeah, well, that's where I get it from.
Mary: No one's making excuses, but -- you gave him a chance because you felt for him because you're a good man. You are. It's one of the reasons I'm so proud of you.
Sister Jo: We're all lonely, because we're all alone. From ant to lion to human to angel. Every last one of us.
Castiel: You know, He does meddle. God reached down, and He brought me back to life.
Nick: I get you, Dean. You and me, we're almost like brothers, you know. Michael, you, Lucifer me -- we both know what it's like to be hog-tied to a nuclear warhead, man.
Dean: Look, you try anything funny, Sammy's gonna shoot you. Anything happens to me --
Nick: Wait. Let me guess. Sammy's gonna shoot me.
Sam: You -- you always, always put -- You always put me first. Your whole life.
Jack: Mary. Nick he was a bad person, a killer. I had to stop him.
Mary: Not like that.
Mary: If Sam and Dean saw what you did, they would be as worried as I am.
Jack: Are you gonna tell them?
Mary: You need help, we'll help you. We're your family.
Jack: You can't.
Trivia & References
Dean is seen setting up a game of Mouse Trap, a kid's game that was invented in the 1960s. In the game, players must construct a complicated Rube-Goldberg-like machine in order to capture their opponents' tokens (which are mice). The game parallels the complex scheme Nick puts in place in order to be able to summon Lucifer.
Castiel: Jack killed Michael.
Sister Jo: Good night, sweet prince.
- "Good night, sweet prince" is one of the lines spoken by Horatio in Act V of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
- "Now cracks a noble heart. Goodnight, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!"
Castiel: No. You'll tell me, or I'll burn this place to the ground and you with it.
Methuselah: Kiddo, how old am I? Go for it. Put me out of my misery.
- It is implied that Methuselah may be the Biblical Methuselah, the grandfather of Noah and according to the Bible the longest-lived person in history, having died at the age of 969 in the year of the great flood.
Sister Jo: Even if we found Joshua's Batphone, God's not gonna care.
- Batphone has become a term for a priority phone number. It originated in the 1960s Batman TV series. In that series, Batman had a propensity for adding "Bat" to every object he owned.
Nick: He loved you. You know that? He did. I felt it. He loved you so much and you broke his heart. Of course, I'm talking about the old you. You with a soul. Yeah. Kermit the Prophet told me all about your sitch. What's that like, not having a soul? Must be relaxing.
- "Kermit the Prophet" refers to Donatello, and in this context comparing him to a muppet implies he is not very bright.
Sam: You're trying to communicate with someone? Who?
Nick: Search your feelings, Sam.
- A reference to Star Wars, where the Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi gives this advice to Luke when he asks who his sister is in Return of the Jedi
Minutiae
Nick communicating with Lucifer through Donatello mirrors Azazel contacting Lucifer in the Cage through a dead nun in 4.22 Lucifer Rising.
Nick: Come on, Sam. Nobody stays dead anymore. You know that.
- A meta reference to the fact that many long-thought-dead characters have made reappearances on Supernatural in recent seasons. Also, it references the fact that characters in general tend not to stay dead.
In 14.11 Damaged Goods, Sam tells Nick he can "burn" for all the death and pain he's caused. In this episode, Jack kills Nick by burning him from the inside out alive.
