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Nick lived in Pike Creek, Delaware, and was married to a woman named [[Sarah]]. Together, they had a son named Teddy. One night, Sarah and the baby were murdered by the demon [[Abraxas]] as they slept while Nick was out, drinking at the Elk's Lodge.<ref name="fourteen07">[[14.07 Unhuman Nature]]</ref> After their deaths the grief-stricken Nick still resided in the house, and kept some objects that were connected to Sarah and his son.<ref name="five01">[[5.01 Sympathy for the Devil]]</ref>

==Episodes==

[[File:Nick-Lucifer.jpg|thumb|right|350px|[[Lucifer]] takes the form of Nick's deceased wife, to convince him into becoming his [[vessel]].]]

===[[5.01 Sympathy for the Devil]]===

Nick's wife and child have been murdered during a home invasion. As he grieves, he starts hallucinating. [[Lucifer]] appears as his wife [[Sarah]] and tells him that he is a [[vessel]], and that Lucifer wants his consent to possess him. Lucifer says he is misunderstood, that he was punished for "loving [[God]] too much." He says that he will help Nick get justice for his family. Nick assents to possession.

[[File:ComatoseNick.jpg|thumb|right|350px|A comatose Nick about to be re-possessed by [[Lucifer]].]]

===[[12.13 Family Feud]]===

===[[12.15 Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell]]===

Crowley revealed that he not only improved Nick's body to act as a permanent vessel for Lucifer, he also had the runes and spell-work from the Cage carved into every molecule in order for Crowley to effectively torture him as well as rendering him powerless and preventing him from vacating his vessel.

===[[12.23 All Along the Watchtower]]===

===[[13.23 Let the Good Times Roll]]===

===[[14.01 Stranger in a Strange Land]]===

While [[Sam]] is talking with [[Jack]], [[Mary]] interrupts and tells Sam that "he's awake." Sam enters [[the Bunker]]'s dungeon, where Nick, still alive after [[Lucifer]] was killed, is sitting on his bed. Sam cleans the wound Nick sustained when [[Dean]] stabbed Lucifer with the [[archangel blade]]. As Sam dabs some hydrogen peroxide on the wound, Nick questions why he is still alive, leading to Sam theorizing that when an archangel blade is used to kill an archangel, the vessel is somehow spared. Nick feels guilty for giving Lucifer his consent to possess him and acknowledges that it's weird how Sam can still see Lucifer when he looks at him. Despite that, Sam and Nick are both glad that Lucifer is dead. When Sam asks what Nick remembers, Nick says that he only remembers bits and pieces from when he was possessed. He tells Sam that while he doesn't remember much about Dean, he remembers something about Michael's plans: how he said "he wanted to do it right this time."

===[[14.02 Gods and Monsters]]===

Nick continues to struggle with having been Lucifer's vessel. He questions [[Castiel]] as to why he would do something like that, forcing Castiel to remind him that his family was murdered, causing Nick to have an emotional breakdown as the memories come flooding back to him.

===[[14.07 Unhuman Nature]]===

Nick sits in an office talking of the hate he feels for himself for enjoying the violent things he does. He accepts that the priest couldn't reveal what Arty told him in confession, but tells the dead priest that he should have helped him find his family's killer, telling the dead and crucified priest he will look into his suggestion of prayer before leaving.

===[[14.11 Damaged Goods]]===

Nick captures a demon who had been working with [[Abraxas]] before Abraxas was captured by a [[hunter]]. Having been led to the demon by a previous demon he had killed, Nick holds her within a [[devil's trap]] and tortures her using an [[angel blade]] that he took from the Bunker when he left. The demon offers to freely tell Nick what she knows about the hunter who is in Hibbing, Minnesota, having no reason to protect her, but Nick tortures the demon anyway, going so far as to take out her right eye with his angel blade. The demon identifies [[Mary Winchester]] as the hunter in question whom she had witnessed trap Abraxas in a box. Once the demon tells him all she knows, Nick kills her.

Now knowing where to look, Nick travels to Hibbing, where he stops at a grocery store for directions, unknowingly just missing Mary. Nick draws the clerk's suspicions, particularly with his aggressive questions, causing the clerk to lie to him and then call [[Sheriff Donna Hanscum]] to report the encounter once Nick is gone. That night, Nick is pulled over by Donna and handcuffed, Donna having discovered that he is driving a van reported stolen two weeks earlier in Missoula, Montana. Nick refuses to cooperate with Donna, who uses a mobile fingerprint scanner to run Nick's [[fingerprints]] in an effort to learn his true identity. As Donna is distracted running his fingerprints, Nick picks the lock on his handcuffs. From Nick's fingerprints, Donna learns of his identity and his being wanted for a murder spree, but Nick is able to subdue Donna with her taser. Nick learns of Mary's location at Donna's cabin from emails on Donna's cell phone and leaves the sheriff unconscious but otherwise unharmed in the driver's seat of her patrol car.

At [[Donna's cabin]], Nick kidnaps a surprised Mary and explains how he is looking for Abraxas, who murdered his family the same way he murdered the Girl Scout troop that Tonya Baker, whom Mary had rescued, belonged to. Mary tells Nick that she killed Abraxas, but he reveals that he knows she's lying as the demon that had escaped her witnessed Mary trapping Abraxas. Mary finally admits that she couldn't defeat Abraxas so she instead locked him in an [[Enochian puzzle box]]. Mary reluctantly agrees to lead Nick to her lock-up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where the puzzle box is stored, but she forces Nick to search through the lockers himself without telling him which one contains the box. After finding it, Mary reminds Nick that Abraxas will need a [[meatsuit]] that can't be either of them, so Nick kidnaps the security guard at the facility, Jeff. With Mary uncooperative, Nick tries to figure out how to open the puzzle box on his own, finally resorting to drilling into it which releases Abraxas in [[Demon Smoke|his smoke form]] and forces the demon, stuck within a [[devil's trap]], to take Jeff as his [[meatsuit]].

After Abraxas takes [[possession]] of Jeff, Nick demands answers from the demon, who doesn't realize who Nick is until Nick tells him that he is from Pike Creek, Delaware. Abraxas proves to be amused by Nick's questioning, the fact that Nick is no longer possessed by Lucifer, and that Lucifer is dead. Abraxas, holding a grudge of his own for Mary's trapping him, offers Nick answers if he kills Mary slow and bloody. As Nick moves to do so, he is interrupted by the Winchesters, who'd tracked Nick through his stolen van with Donna's help. Desperate to get answers, Nick uses his angel blade to break the devil's trap, releasing Abraxas, who immediately slams everyone to the floor with [[telekinesis]]. Turning to a shocked Nick, Abraxas reveals that he murdered Nick's family on Lucifer's orders and explains that Nick was chosen, but he was not special claiming they "threw a dart at the phone book" to choose who to target. As Dean begins an [[exorcism]] that Abraxas stops, Nick takes advantage of the distraction, shoves Abraxas to his knees from behind, and stabs the demon in the chest with his angel blade, killing Abraxas and finally avenging his family's deaths. With Abraxas dead, the Winchesters surround Nick, who tries to strike at Mary with his angel blade. However, Donna shoots Nick in the leg, allowing Mary to knock him unconscious.

===[[14.12 Prophet and Loss]]===

==Trivia==

* During the scenes where he commits his murders, Nick takes no visible precautions to stop himself from leaving [[fingerprints]], even leaving the hammer which he has touched with his bare hand behind at [[Arty Nielson]]'s crime scene, which explains why his fingerprints could be used to identify him as the killer. The fact that they specifically identified Nick by name when Donna ran them suggests that Nick has some kind of criminal history that resulted in his fingerprints being on file, otherwise there would've been no reason for Donna to get a specific match on him.

* In [[14.12 Prophet and Loss]], its revealed that at least four different jurisdictions want to prosecute Nick for his crime spree. These presumably include Pike Creek, Delaware; Montauk, New York; and Grand Rapids, Michigan. Hibbing, Minnesota, may be another one, but Nick's crimes there only amounted to resisting arrest and assaulting a police officer. Another possibility is the location where Nick killed the demon that led him to Mary Winchester at the beginning of [[14.11 Damaged Goods]].

==References==