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Supernatural season 5 recaps

From Zap2it By Jessica Paff

Leave it to 'Supernatural' to pick up exactly where they left us at the end of season 5 - with the Winchester brothers in the abandoned convent, a portal to hell opening at their feet and the knowledge that they are about to meet Lucifer and unmake the world.

At least, that's where they start. A moment later, they are at a cruising altitude of 30,000 feet, somewhere over Baltimore. Until a light cuts through the sky from below, the plane lurches and the oxygen masks come down. Did they escape certain doom only to face...certain doom? Though we don't see it, the plane apparently lands fine because soon enough the brother are off to find Castiel.

They go to Chuck's house and find it destroyed. Chuck is alive, bus Castiel is in chunks strewn across his living room. Zachariah appears with some henchman and welcomes Sam and Dean back into the fold. Unfortunately for him, they have no intention of folding. Instead, Dean shows his hand - bloody and slapping onto the same symbol we saw Castiel use to take out some angels last season.

Sam makes up some hex bags with the tricks he learned from Ruby. He tries to talk to his brother about how things went down and how sorry he is, but it's not a conversation Dean is interested in having. Instead, he wants to find the Devil. Apparently, he needs to look in Delaware because that's where we meet Nick. Nick is a man suffering from visions attached to the loss of his wife and baby son that include waking up in a pool of blood, his dead wife telling him he's special and blood pouring out of the crib while he listens to a baby cry.

The only thing that could possibly be worse than contemplating a brutal end for such a family is being confronted with the reality of incestuous Winchester brother FanFic. It's wrong wrong wrong and it's being written by Becky - the biggest fan "Carver Edlund" has. Luckily he interrupts her via webcam before she gets into too much detail about her penny dreadful prose. He tells her he needs her help to get a message to Sam. In a scene lifted from Galaxy Quest, she austerely tells him she knows the books are fiction and she doesn't appreciate being mocked. Yet, when he tells her it's all real, she triumphantly shrieks "I KNEW IT"!

At the motel, Sam answers the door to find a transfixed Becky who can't keep her hands off him as she tells them that they need to find the archangel Michael's sword. She tells them that it's in a castle on a hill made of 42 dogs. Bobby arrives to help them figure out what that means, but when Sam reveals that the breaking of the last seal was all his fault, Bobby reads him the riot act and tells him that if they make it out of this alive, he wants nothing to do with him ever again.

Sam goes out to do some research on his own, so he misses when Dean figures out that Michael's sword is in their dad's space at Castle Storage, located at 42 Rover Hill. He also misses Bobby's eyes turning black as Dean reveals the location to him, as well as the fight that ensues after Meg returns with some henchmen of her own. She notes that Bobby is still awake and she wants him to know what it's like to stab Dean, but instead Bobby stabs himself as Sam bursts in and help Dean overcome the demons. Even without his special vanquishing powers.

They take Bobby to the ER and then run off to the storage unit, hoping to get there before the demons. When they arrive, they are met by some dead bodies as well as Zachariah and a few back up angels. They don't want the angels to have the sword anymore than the demons, but it turns out that's not too big a problem. The sword is more a metaphor for the vessel that Michael can take. And that vessel is Dean.

Zachariah tries to force him into accepting his role an an "angel condom" by giving him stomach cancer and taking Sam's lungs away. Which is a pretty convincing argument but not as convincing as Castiel's. Yes, you heard right, our favorite angel appears to dole out some smiting of his own. He drops the news that the angels were not responsible for the Winchesters getting on the plane, nor for him surviving. So who IS? Someone who scares the heck out of Zachariah, because rather than cross the almighty, he puts the boys back together and gets the heck out of dodge. Castiel brands the brother's ribs and then takes off before they can get any more information out of him.

Back in Delaware, Lucifer appears to Nick in the form of his wife. The Morning Star gives a convincing argument for getting justice from a God that showed no care to him when he allowed his family to be slaughtered and soon enough Nick is agreeing to let Lucifer take him over. In the hospital, Bobby apologizes to Sam and tell him he will never cut him out of his life. It would have been a nice way to end the episode, but Supernatural likes to twist the knife. Thus, we end with Dean telling Sam he doesn't think he can ever forgive or trust him again after he chose Ruby over him.

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The season opener of 'Supernatural' left us with Bobby partially paralyzed and Dean completely unable to trust Sam after he chose a demon over his brother. Things couldn't possibly get worse, right?

Of course they can! This is the Apocalypse!

The Winchesters visit a morose Bobby in the hospital and Dean takes a moment to get an X-ray, finding out his ribs have the doctors baffled with all their etching of strange symbols. Castiel calls Dean up and asks where he is, showing up as soon as Dean tells him. When Dean makes fun of him for using the phone, Castiel points out that the etchings on his ribs keep him hidden from ALL angels - himself included. A tidbit that might become useful later.

Bobby finally speaks, demanding that Castiel heal him. Unfortunately, Castiel can't. During the battle to help Sam and Dean, he killed two angels, making him a rebel and outcast from heaven - and without the connection to heaven, he's lost some of his angelic capabilities. Healing is one of them. Bobby is less than thrilled, but Castiel can do little more than apologize. Since he's not there to heal Bobby, he reveals his plan. He doesn't believe they can kill Lucifer without the Archangel Michael - but there is someone else who can. God. To find god, he needs an amulet that burns hot in his presence. Which just happens to be Dean's necklace. He reluctantly hands it over and Castiel departs.

The phone call received is for Bobby. It's Rufus, who reports that he's in a town that has been completely overtaken by demons. Sam and Dean are on their way, arriving to find the one bridge in and out of the place destroyed. The make it the rest of the way on foot and find abandoned cars and bloodstains. And Ellen. She throws holy water in Dean's face and doesn't talk to them until they cross the salt threshold of a make shift stronghold in a church where she's gathered the few survivors. There's not many of them.

She reveals that she also got a call from Rufus and she and Jo came to help but got separated and she hasn't seen either of them since. The brothers decide to lay in supplies by hitting a sporting store and grocery for guns and salt. Dean is uncertain Sam should go and is further against splitting up, but logic overrules worry. Of course, while separated, Sam runs into two teenage demons and has to kill them both. He stands staring at their blood until Dean arrives. Sam struggles with having to go back to killing the human hosts to vanquish the demons, leading Dean to accuse him of debating going back on the blood. Which doesn't make Sam happy.

Sam and Ellen leave to look for Jo, giving Ellen time to ask Sam what's going on between him and his brother. Sam dances around a real answer and is saved by the discovering of smoke from a chimney. Which doesn't make much sense, since demons don't get cold. but they don't have to figure it out before they are jumped by Jo and Rufus. Jo calls Ellen a "black eyed b!tch" before Ellen gets away. Sam is not so lucky against Rufus. He gets tied up and his confusion grows as Jo douses him in holy water and Rufus pours salt in his mouth. But in the shadows lurks a familiar face from the church stronghold.

Ellen makes it back there and talks to Dean about what happened, pointing out that Jo wears an anti-possession charm. They ask the townspeople about weird occurrences and find out the river went wonky, a shooting star streaked across the sky and with the cherry red mustang they passed on their way in town, Dean surmises they are up against one of the four horseman. Specifically, War.

Which is exactly what Sam is finding out as he finds himself engaged in a conversation with War. He tells Sam that getting the townspeople to kill each other with the hallucination that the other side were demons wasn't hard at all. And now he's upping the ante. He fakes Sam attacking him and despite the fact that he's still tied up, Jo and Rufus fall for it and start gearing up for an all out battle. Involving pipe bombs. Meanwhile, War goes back to the church and causes similar havoc there and soon enough battle lines are drawn as he makes everyone see Dean and Ellen as demons too.

So, we have Jo and Rufus holding Sam hostage with a group of townspeople firing guns from a house and another group of townspeople firing back from various places in the street, with Dean and Ellen in the middle. Luckily, the hunters all have some experience on them and soon enough Ellen and Dean get close enough to Jo and Rufus to point out how water, salt, and symbols had no effect but the signs of the horseman were all there. Once that realization hits, the black eyes are gone for them and they can go after their real target. Which is sort of anti-climatic in a sense, as they corner him and cut off the finger he wore a ring upon that he would twist each time he created the hallucinations. He and his red mustang disappear, with Dean holding the ring.

But all is not well. Sam says he knows that Dean doesn't trust him and admits that he's realized he doesn't trust himself either. And then he suggests they go their separate ways. Against all expectations, Dean agrees, saying that he is spending more time worrying about Sam than focusing on doing the job right. He offers to let Sam take the Impala, but Sam refuses and leaves in some strangers truck. Seriously??

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Remember when the Winchester brothers split up and we thought it was the worst thing that could ever happen on 'Supernatural'? We were young. We were naive. We were wrong.

Sam awakes to Jessica in his bed, telling him all the sweet things he'd love to hear about now. OK, well half of that statement is correct. What she actually tells him is that he's running away, that there's something dark inside him that will always hurt those he cares about and that she's likely dead because of him. Despite those words of...uh...encouragement, he sticks to his guns, burns his fake IDs and gets a job bussing tables at a bar. Of course, he also catches the notice of waitress Lindsey - and who can blame her?

She tries to get close to Sam - AKA Keith - but he deflects her attempts pretty easily. Until 3 hunters show up and ask for his help with the demon activity in the area, what with the hail and fires nearby. Sam refuses and they go on their less than merry way. At least it's merrier than when they return...numbering 2 and very angry with Sam. Not just because he didn't help them, but because of what the demons told them. They want answers and they threaten to kill Lindsey to get them. Sam points out that demons lie, but when the hunters pull a vial of demon blood on him and force feed it to him, all bets are off.

Elsewhere, Dean kills vampires with a pithy "Eat it, Twilight" before Castiel finds him and asks him to help him find God. Since Dean is the Vessel of Michael, it seems that no other Angel will risk harming him. Dean charges that Castiel just wants to use him as a human shield, but Cas tells him that Dean is the only person who will help him. They head off to find the poor human Raphael took over, hoping he knows where The Almighty is. Of course, they have to trap him first too, because ArchAngels - as we learned last season - are not to be messed with.

The do find him, with Castiel taking Sam's place as Dean's partner in lying. No easy feat, since it is a concept he doesn't quite grasp and just as easily blurts out to the police that what they think was a gas tank explosion was actually battle between angels and demons. That's the sort of talk that will get you put away, but Dean covers for him. They set the trap for Raphael and Dean asks what their chances are. Cas admits that he likely won't survive the encounter, so Dean asks what he wants to do with his last night on earth. When Cas can't answer, Dean figures out that he's a virgin and he sets out to get the fallen angel laid.

Now, in less talented hands, this sort of departure from the main plot could easily be complete and utter disaster. Instead? It's absolutely brilliant. Castiel's look of utter terror before going to a back room with "Chastity" and then the sudden screaming and insults? Pitch perfect, as was their cause - Castiel informing the girl that it wasn't her fault her father left - he just hated his job at the post office. Brilliant, hysterical and manages to not break the mood of the overall arc - but to heighten how very far Sam and Dean had drifted from the brothers we met on the beginning of this who ride.

Dean and Castiel do catch Raphael and ask him where God is, but all the Archangel will say is that God is dead, has abandoned the world to rot and the angels are tired of watching over everything. They want paradise and they want it now. Raphael threatens Dean, saying that Zachariah may have given him stomach cancer - but that's because he lacks the imagination of Raphael. Cas points out that if God raised him, going against them would be going against God, but Raphael thinks someone else entirely brought Cas back. He thinks it was Lucifer - out to keep all the renegade angels he can in circulation.

They leave Raphael in their trap and in the car, Dean tries to comfort Cas, telling him that he knows what it's like to be searching for a father that logic dictates is dead. He tells him to listen to his heart and to find God. Castiel asks what Dean will be doing, and Dean has decided that he's good. Not a flippant, easy answer good - but really good. He's not worried about Sam, he doesn't feel chained to family obligations and he had more fun with Castiel than he has in several years prior. The only problem seems to be Castiel's propensity for simply disappearing mid-sentence.

The last scene is Sam, waking up with Jessica again. She warns him not to keep his head in the sand and he turns away from her, saying he has reason to hope. She supportively responds that no, he doesn't. When Sam turns around, he finds himself face to face with Lucifer. Which would be bad enough, but when Lucifer reveals that the body he is in is just a plan B because Sam is his true vessel...well, what can be said? I would say that this is the worst that can happen, but I am afraid what will happen next week if I do!

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Dean gets a call from Castiel, but begs for a 4 hour reprieve to get some sleep. But then Sam calls Dean to tell him that he's found out the he is Lucifer's vessel and how it's made him rethink his decision on their split. Unfortunately it has not seemed to change Dean's mind about the matter. In fact, he almost seems more determined that they should each pick a hemisphere and stick to it. In his opinion, they are weaker together, so they need to stay far apart. Dean hangs up and goes to sleep, only to awaken in that dystopian future I mentioned.

That trip to 2014 is thanks to Zachariah, who wants him to see how awful the future works out to be if he keeps on the path that he's chosen. And if there's a "President Palin", you know things have gotten beyond bad. Dean heads off to see Bobby but only finds a bullet ridden wheelchair, along with a picture of him and Castiel with a few others at Camp Chitaqua. Dean heads out, but ends up getting punched out by his future self.

Future Dean figures out quickly enough that Past Dean is the real deal and the this is Zachariah's doing. He tells Past Dean that Sam was lost in Detroit but that he wasn't there and hadn't spoken to Dean in over 5 years. He goes off on a mission and leaves Past Dean locked up, but he really should have known that he would break out. And he does, running into Chuck before finding Castiel. Acting like the orgy guru. Cas recognizes that Dean is not "now Dean"

Before Past Dean can make much of a plan, he sees Future Dean shoot one of his own crew, and in the seeing, reveals himself to the survivors. Future Dean tells the crew they will know what they need to know when they need to know it and goes to confront his past. I seems that Sea isn't dead. He said yes to Lucifer. And when all the angels abandoned earth, Castiel became not much more than the average human. And it's been all downhill for everyone since then. As such, Future Dean demands and then begs that Past Dean say yes to Michael to avoid it all.

He decides to show, not tell, and is willing to risk his entire crew, Human-Castiel and himself for Past Dean to watch him kill Lucifer-Sam. I may have just given myself an aneurysm with that sentence. Anyway, Past Dean is about to be the whistle blower when Future Dean knocks him out cold again. Past Dean comes to just in time to see Lucifer-Sam kill Future Dean and then have a pretty chilling heart to heart, where Lucifer tells him this is how it will end, because this is how it always ends, because Dean always says no. It's just enough to strengthen Past Dean's resolve to get the better of the devil.

Thus, when Zachariah pulls Past Dean our of the future, he expects a compliant vessel for Michael, ready prove Lucifer wrong by saying yes. Instead, he gets a "nah". Which about sends him into a fit and he's about to send him into another hell, declaring "I've got you now and never letting you-" when he's suddenly gone. Standing next to Normal-Past-Angel Castiel, who reminds him that they had an appointment. Perfect timing. And it turns out Dean did learn something and make a decision. He calls Sam and invites him to come back. YAY!

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The Winchester brothers are back together this week on "Supernatural", which is as good as things could get. So, why is Paris Hilton there to spoil our fun?

It starts out with a man getting killed in a violent car accident, in which the car was parked in a garage. And the car was supposedly the same one that James Dean died in, long with a few others. The imagery is particularly gruesome, but it isn't connected with the coming end of days. Dean wants to check it out anyway, to ease themselves back into a working relationship. When another man is killed by a zombie-like Abe Lincoln, the only thing they can figure is that the start of the apocalypse has brought about unusual activity in famous ghosts.

They visit the local wax museum and find out that they have actual personal effects from many of their cast replicas. Thinking it's an easy fix, they set about burning said objects. They get snagged up a bit when Sam is attacked by Gandhi, but they still get the job done with little fanfare. In fact, there is so little fan fare (And screaming, and flames) that Sam is suspect. Dean, on the other hand, just wants to move on.

But when they get a call about a girl who disappeared, they decide to check it out. When they find out that her friends claim it was Paris Hilton who took her, they realize this isn't a ghost. They go back to the drawing board - or, rather, Sam goes deep into research and deeper in the corpses. What he finds is a myth of an old forest gone, and bellies with rare seeds in them. It seems the god used to feed off his worshippers. Now, he'll accept any worshippers.

The most telling moment is when Dean quips that Paris can't kill him because he's not a fan of hers. She responds that she knows who his hero is - his father. And she's about to change into the more suitable form when Dean finally gets free. It's a fun fight scene, with Sam eventually getting free and chopping off Paris's head.

The episode ends with the boys having a heart to heart about the balance of their relationship. It comes down to the fact that Dean needs to stop blaming Sam for the end of the world and instead needs to let him grow up, while Sam needs to stop running away from his big brother and work with him. They each admit to the mistakes they've made that brought them here and agree that from now on, they are going to grab whatever is in front of them, kick it's a$$ and go down fighting.

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There has been one crucial element missing from the apocalypse story line "Supernatural" is embroiled in.

Which is not to say it isn't a great story, of course. But you can't bring about the end of the world without the Antichrist. However, with the Winchester's having decided to take things as they come, they aren't planing far enough ahead to see if the Antichrist is coming. Instead, they are investigating a case where gags appear to be going awry. Like the girl who scratched her own brains out or the man who ended up toasted because of a hand-buzzer. They check out the local magic shop but other than scaring the owner, they don't accomplish much.

And the weird events keep piling up, like the man who had all his teeth yanked out by a burly guy in fairy wings and a pink tutu, who left 32 quarters to compensate for he stolen teeth. When they hear about the kids with stomach ulcers from eating pop rocks and drinking coke, they realize these are all things that a little kid would believe. They check out the radius and go to it's heart.

Which is where they meet Jesse. A little boy who happens to believe that itching powder it potent, hand buzzers area death wish, and all those other things kids believe. Having found the kid, they try to figure out a bit of his background. It seems he has no father on his birth certificate and his mother is on the other side of the state. They go to pay her a visit and ask what she knows about the son she put up for adoption. She warily listens but when they ask if her pregnancy was unusual, she runs. They give chase, but when she throws salt on them she realizes they are not demons and they realize something very weird is afoot.

She tells them that she was possessed. For nine months. She remembers doing horrible things and killing people during that time, but that trapped within herself she couldn't do anything but watch. Until she started giving birth. She's unsure what happened exactly, but she was able to wrest control from the demon and she began to eat all the salt she could - effectively ousting her possessor. She admits that she knew she should kill the baby, but that she couldn't bring herself to do it, so she put him up for adoption. When they ask for the father, she tells them she was a virgin.

Castiel tells them they must kill Jesse, otherwise he will defeat the entire heavenly host because he's the Antichrist. The guys are appalled at this idea and argue that they don't kill children. Cas points out that a year ago, they would have done anything for their cause. Further, what they've seen is what happens when he's happy, so what happens when he gets mad. Or, god forbid, when he becomes a teen? Sam says they should tell him the truth of what he is because he might make the right choice. It's hard not to be chilled when Castiel replies "You didn't", but he does have a point.

Castiel leaves to deal with Jesse himself and meanwhile a demon find Jesse's mom. By the time he Winchesters arrive at Jesse's house, the kid has turned Cas into an action figure. The guys start to tell him that he's kind of like Superman and that they want to take him to a place where he can be trained to use his power for good. Which is when the demon mom arrives and tells him the direct truth, pointing out that Sam and Dean are just two more lying adults.

Showing more maturity than most little kids, Jesse wants to hear both sides of the story. And he gets it. That he is half human, half demon and therefore more powerful than anyone and deeply important to more than he can likely comprehend. He chooses the guys over the demon, vanquishing it with a mere thought. He asks the guys if his adoptive parents can come with him and they say it's up to him, but they point out it's so dangerous that their own father was killed. So he asks if he can go up and say good bye.

When he seems to have been gone a long time, the guys go upstairs to find him gone, a note left behind explaining that he left in order to protect his parents. Castiel reverts back to normal as do all the people in the town who were hurt by Jesse's beliefs. But Jesse is gone and no one knows where he is. The evening ends on the down note of the boys wishing their father had lied to them too.

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