Written by Nadia Dardon
Supernatural came back with a new episode, following the events of the season premiere where we saw Jensen Ackles’ brilliant performance as Michael and Jared Padalecki showing us a new side of Sam. It is all very exciting and nerve-wracking because it seems like things are not going too well for our heroes.
We start off the episode with Michael. He is in an abandoned church and he has multiple people in chains, and it turns out they’re all vampires and Michael is using them as experiments. He makes them bleed into a cup, and then Michael mixes the blood with a bit of angel grace and forces the vampires to drink from the cup. The results are not very pleasant and many of the captured vampires dead. We don’t know what Michael is planning on doing exactly, but he is determined to keep trying until he gets the results he is looking for.
Sam has been looking at the police reports, following what Jo told her about Michael’s location, and finds an article on the news about multiple corpses being found with their eyes burned out. Mary, Bobby, and Sam get ready to hit the road as Castiel’s angel presence could alert Michael of their presence, so he needs to stay behind. Plus, they need someone to look after Jack and Nick.
Castiel The Caregiver
Castiel brings Nick some food and Lucifer’s previous vessel has been remembering a lot about Lucifer’s actions. Nick seems to have some trouble understanding why he would ever say yes to Lucifer possessing him. Castiel reminds him that Nick had been in a lot of pain at that time, having just lost his family as a man broke inside his house and killed Nick’s wife and son, smashing their heads with a hammer. Lucifer approached Nick soon after that and in his desperation Nick accepted Lucifer’s proposal.
Sadly, the news seem to give Nick a new purpose: to find the man who killed his family and get his revenge. When Castiel tries to comfort Nick and get him to calm down, Nick reacts right away with snapping his fingers. It is a very Lucifer-like reaction. And even though Castiel can’t find any of Lucifer’s presence left in Nick, his psyche seems to have been more damaged than they originally thought.
After Nick, Castiel goes to check on Jack. The nephilim has been reading through multiple texts on biblical lore in the hopes to find something about his own grace. Unfortunately, since archangels are very rare, there is not much information. Here Castiel and Jack have a small bonding moment in which Castiel talks about the time he lost his own grace. He explains how he focused on what he had left: Sam, Dean, and himself. Castiel gives Jack the advice not to focus on the past, but instead to focus on where he is going.
Grandparents
The chat with Castiel gives Jack some ideas, and so he decides to look out his family on his mother’s side. He meets with his grandparents, though he never really tells them who he is and he uses the excuse that he is friends with Kelly. Kelly’s parents ask him about the baby Kelly had, and Jack lets them know he was born healthy and that Kelly is a great mother. After a very emotional moment with his grandparents, Jack struggles not to tell them who he really is, but he is able to hold back and returns to the bunker.
Castiel is not very happy with the visit Jack had, but they have another bonding moment in which Jack explains his motives behind the visit. Jack claims that he wants to learn about his past before moving forward, except their little bonding moment is ruined when Jack asks about their plan to kill Michael. Castiel explains they are not planning on killing Michael, just getting him out of Dean. Jack seems to disagree with Castiel, saying he has seen what Michael can do and that they should kill him to avoid the risk of him escaping. Jack claims that if Dean has to die, then that would be what Dean would want. Castiel can’t find an argument against that.
On The Hunt
Meanwhile, Sam, Bobby, and Mary are looking through the corpses that were found by the police. They find out that they are all vampires, and after looking through the security footage, they find a lone vampire that escaped Michael. She tells them how Michael has been experimenting and how she managed to escape. She also tells them the location of the church where Michael has been doing his experiments.
While they’re doing that, Michael arranges a meeting with the leader of the werewolves. He tells them that God is in a permanent vacation and that Michael has plans to make the world a better place. Michael expresses his admiration towards werewolves, that kill to live and not for sport. He offers them a way to enhance their abilities and he plans a war against humanity.
Unfortunately for the vampire that escaped, Michael finds her when she’s about to run away. Michael explains he used her as a bait and that he had been planting a trap for the hunters. Sam, Bobby, and Mary are ambushed by werewolves at the church. They’re surprised when the silver does not affect them, which seems to be Michael’s doing. Fortunately, decapitation does the work and after a gruesome fight, the hunters are victorious.
Once they fight off all the werewolves, Michael comes stumbling inside the church. Only, it seems to be Dean saying that Michael “just left”.
Nick’s Revenge
The episode ends with Nick. He visits his old neighbour, who had claimed to see a man walk out of Nick’s house the day of the murder. The neighbour, however, took back his statement and then the murder was never investigated further. Nick approaches him to get more answers, and when the neighbour does not provide him with more, Nick kills him with a hammer. This leads up to the question of how much Lucifer affected Nick, or if he was already that way before Lucifer.
Overall, it was a very exciting episode. Though a bit confusing with Dean’s last scene. I am still unsure if it is really Dean, or if Michael is planning something. We’ll have to wait for the next episode to find out!
