The One You've Been Waiting For

The One You've Been Waiting For is the 5th episode of Season 12. It aired on November 10th, 2016.

Summary
EVERYBODY STILL HATES HITLER – After learning that the soul of Adolf Hitler has been trapped in a 1930’s gold pocket watch, Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) must act quickly to prevent a group of Nazi necromancers from resurrecting the Führer.

Main Cast

 * Jared Padalecki as Sam Winchester
 * Jensen Ackles as Dean Winchester

Recurring Cast

 * Adam Rose as Aaron Bass

Guest Cast

 * Allison Page as Ellie Grant
 * Gil Darnell as Commandant Nauhaus and Adolf Hitler
 * Keenan Tracey as Christoph Nauhaus
 * Wolfgang Klassen as Fritz
 * Matthias A. Brunert as Gottfried
 * Michael Rys as Wolfgang
 * Nicholas Harrison as Hans
 * Charles Siegel as Marvin Brickell
 * Colleen Winton as Mrs. Lloyd
 * Dustin Lloyd as Nick

Featured Supernatural Beings

 * Thules

Continuity

 * Aaron Bass previously appeared in Season 8 episode "Everybody Hates Hitler".
 * This episode features Adolf Hitler and the Thules. The former has been mentioned many times while the latter previously appeared in season 11 episode "The Vessel".
 * Sam and Dean discuss the idea of Marv being killed by a cursed object and mention that they've encountered antique stores with cursed objects before. This occurred in season 7's Out With The Old.

Trivia

 * The episode was watched by 1.70 million viewers and got a 0.6 rating.
 * When comforting Ellie about her relation and involvement with Hitler, Sam tries to talk about how he freed Lucifer and was destined to become his vessel. Both events were a major plot in Season 5.
 * Unfortunately, Ellie did not believe his story.
 * This is the first episode of Season 12 not to feature or refer to Mr. Ketch in any way.
 * For the first time, Dean rejects pie, though he asks for one by the end of the episode.
 * As Hitler holds a gun to his head, Symphony No. 7 by Gustav Mahler is playing. Mahler's music was banned during the Nazi regime for being 'degenerate', as Mahler himself came from a Jewish family.
 * In the flashback when Hitler is about to commit suicide, he is shown preparing to shoot himself in front of the members of his inner circle. The real-life Hitler had, in fact, hid himself in his room with his wife, Eva Braun, and together they committed suicide.
 * During interrogation, Christoph reveals intimate details of Ellie's life to reinforce just how much the Thule know about her. At one point, the hostage says, "Running is a major theme in your life." Allison Paige, who plays Ellie, also played Trajectory in The Flash making the statement about running a bit of unintended irony.
 * To retaliate Christoph's story, Ellie says her parents traced their lineage all the way back to the Mayflower. The Mayflower is a ship notorious for bringing in the first white settlers to the America, after which the white settlers conquered the land by destroying the natives and their homes.
 * The scene where Dean wants to use the grenade launcher appears to be a homage to the same situation in Peter Jackson's "Bad Taste" when Barry tells Ozzy that he can't use the rocket launcher.

Quotes

 * Aaron: We're half through the ledger. I nailed six and the Golem got the rest. It feels good. 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?


 * Hitler: I sold ten million copies of Mein Kampf. Imagine what I could do with Twitter!


 * Dean: Dude, I killed Hitler!