Jack collapsed last
episode and his three dads are all panicky about how to help. Castiel tries to
use his angelic abilities, but he has no idea what is wrong with Jack or how to
fix him
In desperation they
take him to a hospital, desperately trying to get through his admissions
process when he has no surname, family or officially presence. But medical
technology also doesn’t work so well with an ailing Nephilim.
Running out of
options, with lots of powerful grief and Dean especially falling apart, they
turn to Rowena
I always love a visit
from Rowena! She isn’t thrilled about helping a nephilim and especially not the
son of Satan - thinking that anything to do with satan is better off dead. But
she can’t resist Jack’s innocent charm, even if he does kind of accept she may
be right
But even Rowena’s
magic doesn’t work. She does diagnose him though - a Nephilim needs grace to
live. An Archangel Nephilim needs archangel grace. Which is a problem because
all the archangels are dead.
Everyone starts brain
storming except Jack - who wants to spend some time living and asks Dean to
take him out. Which includes Dean showing him how to drive. Yes, drive his car,
his baby; he doesn’t even let Sam do that. I like that a series of 14 seasons
can have moments like this that have been so well established - and I like that
they didn’t feel the need to make that point in this episode. We have fourteen
seasons already we don’t need to make this clear.
They also fish with
Jack being all gushy about this because he wants to spend more time with dean
while he still has time left
And this whole scene,
whole arc, is beautiful - but why Dean? There’s Sam and Castiel saying how hard
it is to lose a son, and how this hurts more than their previous losses - but
even they are talking about how it hurts Dean especially. I think the habit of Supernatural
to focus more on Dean than the others takes something from the show. Especially
this where Jack has, if anything, been closer to Sam and even closer to Castiel
than Dean.
Castiel thought he
had managed to track down Sergei, a shaman, who may be able to help - but only
seems to exacerbate the problem. Castiel is duly enraged
But they now have no
hope for Jack
And this whole scene
has been powerfully acted and highly emotional, I have to applaud
As I do Nick. Nick is hunting for the man who murdered his family. First asking his neighbour, the witness - and torturing him to death
And the priest who
heard his confession. All deaths to help him find who killed his family. But he
also visibly struggles to restrain himself from killing a woman outside a club
as well.
He manages to track
down a reporter who points him to the police officer who was at his house on
the night his son and wife were killed. A police officer that the witness said
entered his home
Finding the now
retired officer, Nick restrains him and beats him up - and learns the policeman
was possessed by the demon Abraxas. He’s technically innocent - but his body
still killed Nick’s family. And Nick brutally beats him to death with a hammer
And his conflict
overflows into frantic, torn prayer. Killing the man who killed his family
hasn’t quieted his murderous rage as he continually told himself. More, he
admits that he loves killing, he wants to keep killing - but he is also torn by
guilt and pain. He prays, feverishly, desperately, full of grief and angst… to
satan. He wants Lucifer back. He wants to not feel again, to not face
consequences or pain or sorrow. He doesn’t want to feel now what he didn’t feel
then.
Some terrible black
CGI skeleton forms from the blood of his victim…
And while I think
this scene was incredibly powerfully acted and deserving of all the praise,
except the CGI, I’m not sure how happy I am to have a Lucifer storyline. AGAIN.
Though if Jack needs Archangel grace to live, that would be convenient
