In the evil dystopia
Earth where the world has ended due to demons and angels killing each other and
everything else, Jack is still being held prisoner by Michael - and he has an
angel Zachariah messing with his head trying to make him co-operate. Fear of losing
Sam and Dean didn’t work. Even a nice happy scenario of a fake Castiel telling
Jack just how terrible humans are and how they totally needed to be conquered
and enslaved for their own good didn’t work - with Jack seeing through
the ruse quite quickly.
This is annoying for
Michael as he really needs Jack to open a huge portal to get his army through
to Earth because, as Castiel reminds us, Michael is all about war.
He is put into a cell
with Mary
She tells Jack the
full evil planning of Michael and how he’s totally going to hurt and kill her
to make him co-operate - and being a good hunter she is clear that he should
let her die rather than give in. Jack’s not a fan but can’t access his supreme
god power. Mary realises, by massive leap of logic, that the headaches they
have are caused by the massive supernatural wards on the cell - but there’s one
part of the room where the headaches stopped
So, I don’t know what
is more ridiculous here. That they keep a human in a warded cell that would do
nothing to her but give her a headache but would shut down angel magic, or that
anti-angel wards cause headaches or that, after going to this much effort to
ward the place they would then leave a blind spot in the prison cell of all
places
Of course Jack can
escape with his powers working
They go on the run
with angels looking for them and are found by - Bobby!!!!
Bobby please please
please come back to Earth!
Bobby recognises Mary
and, since he’s already met Sam and Dean, knows all about the alternate world
thing he quickly understands who she is and is definitely willing to help
Bring him baaaaack!
They return to their
camp which is well hidden and guarded while Bobby tells them about the world,
how angels try to exterminate them not just fight and it’s all awful. They talk
about the different Marys - this world’s Mary never made the demon deal that
Earth Mary did, so John Winchester died, she never had any children and she
spent the rest of her life semi-grieving never getting over her dead husband.
Of course, Mary realises that this is why the dystopian world happened, without
Sam and Dean to stop Michael and Lucifer’s war, this is the result.
Sadly, this is also
why Bobby rules out returning to Earth - because Earth has the Winchesters,
HellEarth only has him
Awwwww
Sadly he then sees
Jack’s shadow-puppetry to amuse the children and realises it’s far far far too
good to be just hands - he asks what magic Jack has and Mary tells him that
jack is a nephilim. Bobby is not happy with this news - he insists to Mary that
all angels eventually turn on you; there is no such thing as a good angel and
no matter how friendly an angel starts out, they will turn against you. He
demands Jack leave the camp the next day - and Mary insists she will go with them
But the angels attack
that night, possibly lured by Jack’s powers. While Mary tries to save the
children she tells Jack to hide. But when he realises Mary is about to get
angelled to death he interevens - and fries Zachariah with awesome nephilim
power. More angels zoom in - and each explodes like fireworks in the face of
Jack’s magical wrath
Bobby is impressed.
Jack realises that he can’t keep running and if he has to stop the carnage on
this world there’s one thing he has to do: kill Michael
And with Michael dead
that will mean Bobby can come to Earth!
Back on Earth
Donatello is having severe problems with the demon tablet, becoming more and
more incoherent and unstable and definitely not a happy chappy.
He does announce to
the others that there is a way to open the portal and the ingredients don’t
include Archangel Grace. They do include the hearts of Mog and Maggog, ancient
terrible warriors of incredible strength who were imprisoned long ago. Castiel
and Dean get on that
Which means Castiel
using a spell to summon them from their prison, with a warning that Gog and
Maggog are immune to anything but god touched blades. Thankfully angelblades
are freaking EVERYWHERE these days, god must have set up a large factory.
Gog and Maggog are
more than slightly hilarious, bickering in ancient Canaanite (so much that
Castiel doesn’t want to translate them) and arguing over which of Sam and
Castiel are pretty (they’re both very very very pretty indeed). In the way of Supernatural
Castiel seems to have no angel powers at all for this fight, but Dean is
capable of fighting and killing both of them. Just to realise they’re not human
- they’re beings of sentient sand, a being that Castiel thought dead before the
flood… and a being clearly without hearts so Donatello’s recipe must be fake
They return to find
Donatello imprisoned. He tried to knock Sam out but Sam managed to over power
and tie him up. Donatello is now ranting and raving about them trying to steal
his powers and use him - and even uses magic to fight back: albeit not hugely
powerful magic, he still manages to steal Dean’s breath until he moves away
from it
They wonder if he’s
been corrupted by the Demon tablet but castiel points out Donatello is a
prophet - this is kind of what they do. Until he learns Donatello doesn’t have
a soul, that Amarra ate his. Without his soul he has no insulation. And unlike
Sam, his soul was destroyed so it can’t be restored. They have no way to get
Donatello to reveal the spell for the portal
To which Castiel
suggests killing Donatello and waiting for a new prophet to emerge… Sam and
Dean are duly horrified. Castiel then decides to take the next step -to strip
the knowledge from Donatello’s mind. A process which could kill them both. Sam
and Dean object but Castiel doesn’t listen - he locks them both out and then
scans Donatello’s mind.
He has the recipe for
the spell (an archangel’s grace, fruit from the tree of life, seal of solomon,
blood of the most holy man - so not much really) but in doing so Donatello is
reduced to a brain dead state
Sam and Dean are
obviously furious and horrified by Castiel’s actions - but Castiel is
determined, he has decided he came back from the dead for a reason, that war is
coming because Michael is all about war, and they must be ready. He has to save
Jack, they have to be ready. They’re at war
I wonder somewhat on
the idea of angels being evil/turning on humans as Bobby says and wonder if
it’s because angels are, more or less, obedient. We’ve seen this on Earth with
the angels bowing to Lucifer. Angels need a master, angels need orders and no
matter how good or compassionate an individual angel is (look at Zachariah who
seems to be trying to convince Michael to be kinder) but if Michael orders them
to do something they will do it - and as long as the Archangel in charge is
evil/cruel then so too will the angels who follow him. Rebellion, Lucifer
aside, is not an angelic trait
The flip side is
we’ve been seeing a harder edge of Castiel lately, one that is very reminiscent
of Castiel from season 4 and 5: angels are super powerful, extremely dangerous
and more than a little ruthless. Ends justifies the means, if you have to
squish people on the way so be it. And when Sam and Dean ask who gave Castiel
the right to play god… well isn’t that the very essence of an angel? Isn’t that
what angels are, isn’t that what angels do? Isn’t that kind of the defining
trait of an angel?
