THEN – Baby’s tail lights. Cas confusedly watching porn on TV, while Sam and Dean look at him, mortified. “I learned that from the pizza man.” Cas kisses Meg. Ruby opens the door for Bobby and Dean and asks, “Where’s the pizza?” Dean eats pizza – pizza – pizza. “I’m done.” Jack. Billie. Sam says…
Then: Back view of Baby, taillights glowing in the darkness. Voice asking, “What happened?” Dean telling Chuck in casino, “We’ll never give you the ending you want.” “We’ll see,” Chuck answering, unperturbed. Dean threatening Kaia so she’ll open a rift to the “Bad Place.” Dark Kaia killing Kaia. Speak of Destiny. Jack: “I’ll be able…
Then: We see the inept Winchesters from last week’s episode, “All good things must come to an end,” Michael/Adam telling them about the way to trap God, Chuck destroying that spell, a mention of grigori hunting humans, Sam and Dean determined to go to Alaska to restore their luck. Now: The song “North to Alaska”…
THEN: Chuck says, “I hate missing my favorite show.” The Winchesters kill monsters. Lots of killing. Dean says, “We’re the guys who saved the world.” We see Garth with his werewolf wife. Chuck says, “You still think you’re the hero of this story.” He destroys their spell and says, “That was just the beginning. This…
The Road So Far: God is back, Jack is dead, “Welcome to the end,” Amara tells Chuck that he needs her, Rowena does her spell and falls into the gulf in the earth, Michael/Adam tells them they need a leviathan blossom in Purgatory and opens a rift Now: A plastic pink elephant with an uplifted…
THEN: The flashback shows Adam (who was really a ghoul taking on his body and memories) calling the Winchesters and introducing himself, Cas calling Michael/Adam “Assbutt” and setting him on fire, Sam pulling Michael/Adam into the chasm into hell. We see potential futures of demonic Dean attacking Sam, the God-wound, Eileen being brought back to…
THEN: Are they just a punchline to some cosmic joke? Cas tells Dean he’s going to move on. Sam’s bullet wound with a possible link to God. Eileen – a ghost restored. NOW: Night in Texhoma, Texas outside a seedy little building whose neon lights proclaim it to be B’s Sugar Bar. Two girls…
THEN: Cas and Dean argue in the bunker, Cas defending himself because plans change. Cas kills Belephagor (in Jack’s body). Rowena talks Sam into killing her and falls into the pit to hell.
THEN: Sam’s vision from last week – the bunker in red light, Dean battling his way through the halls until he reaches Sam who kills him; Sam jolting awake; “God’s gone; it’s just us and the ghosts”; the ghosts and Belphegor; Rowena’s death; Dean and Cas arguing. NOW: In Black Forest, CO, three young woman…
THEN: We see Rowena, the hell ghosts, Dean saying, “We’ll be free,” Dean stating that he’s angry, Chuck, Becky Rosen using her love potion on Sam, Chuck pleading with Amara, Chuck wincing at the unhealed bullet wound in his shoulder, Amara saying he is trapped.
Human history, as well as our current culture, abounds with stories about heroes. The Winchesters are undoubtedly heroes, constantly putting their lives in jeopardy for others. We first learned of the Winchesters in Supernatural‘s season 1, where we saw them stepping in between blood-thirsty monsters and vengeful ghosts to save individual people.
THEN: ghosts; Belphegor; the taillights of the Impala; Ketch asking about Jack and Cas telling him that Jack is dead, killed by God; Ketch saying that a demon named Ardat hired him to kill Belphegor; Rowena using the soul vacuum; Dean telling Rowena, “Sam kills you;” the hell ghosts plotting to escape; Sam saying they…
