Supernatural Recap: My Heart Will Go On

Pennsylvania a man works has a series of accidents, and ends up beheading himself.

At Bobby’s the boys worry about him. They pussy foot around him, but Bobby wants to find and kill Eve, he claims that it has nothing to do with Rufus, but they think a diversion is in order. Bobby plays grumpy old man to the hilt, and the boys decide to investigate, beside the guy who was beheaded, 2 others are dead, all blood relatives, they wonder if they should wait until “she” returns, but decide against it. The boys drive off in something not the impala! A mustang.

The “she” turns out to be Ellen, now Bobby’s wife? Last we saw Ellen, she and Jo were awaiting hell hounds before they blew both themselves and the hounds sky high, but she’s just returned home from hunting with Jo.

The boys go to investigate the handyman’s death. And they find nothing supernatural, they find gold. Dean goes to talk to a cousin, Russo, but he knows and cares little about the family or the recent deaths. He’s put off by Dean’s seemingly random questions, and Dean tries to warn him of his impending death, and he throws him out of his office.

Time pauses around a travel agent, a blonde comes and steals her keys, hiding them. Time starts again. The travel agent searches for her keys, sees them under the copier, and after a string of random occurances her scarf gets caught in the machine, strangling her. A string falls from her book, and the blonde crosses a name off her list.

Dean and Sam look around the travel agent’s office, she isn’t related to the Handyman, making the boys no longer believe it’s a family curse. And Dean finds a gold thread. Ellen tells Dean that Jo and the other hunters are finding the same thing all over the country. The only thing they’ve found that links everyone together is that they all came over on the Titanic, which means nothing to any of them. Someone’s messing with history, and it looks like its bad boy angel Balthazar. The boys summon him, and he readily admits that it was suppose to sink and he saved it. He said he did it because he hated the movie, and that the “god awful Celine Deon song made me want to smote himself.” He delivers some great lines including telling Dean that he’s not the other angel in the dirty trench coat that’s in love with him. But he doesn’t care whose killing the descendants only that the boat didn’t sink.

Bobby now has the culprit, Fate, whose busy cleaning up Balthazar’s mess. Bobby says that the best way to fix all this is to have Balthazar sink the boat, which the boys do not want. They tell him that if the boat sinks then Ellen and Jo would die, and he’s on board with the whole not sinking of the boat. They decide to try to save Russo.

The boys save him from getting hit by a car, and he’s very ungrateful. But as he goes to get away from Dean and Sam he’s hit by a bus. But Sam spots Fate, and she sees him as well. Dean wants to go talk with her, and Sam reluctantly follows. They go into an abandoned restaurant a ticking clock suddenly stops, as Fate turns the knobs of the stove. The clock restarts, and Dean’s flashlight dies. He tries using a lighter for light, and as the fire ignites, Castiel takes the boys away from harm.

The boys want to know why Fate would try to kill them. Castiel tells them that they averted the Apocalypse, putting them on top of her hit list. Castiel tells them that Balthazar has a weapon to kill Fate, and they start planning.

Ellen tells Bobby of the additional bodies on the west coast. She says the same as he did earlier, that they should just resink the boat, that dying bloody isn’t the same as never being born, and Bobby overreacts. She finally drags out of him what’s wrong, and Bobby spills. They have a little awe moment.

The boys try to act natural, and it seems like Fate is taunting them, as they use themselves as bait. Skateboarders nearly crash into them, snarling dogs sniff too close, jugglers with knifes, hatchets, and fire, a guy with a nail gun, and when they think that maybe Fate isn’t going to kill them a piano falls, and time freezes.

Castiel and Fate (Atropos) have a little chat as the boys life hang in the balance. She’s upset because God gave her a job, and she was good at it, but Castiel says that freedom is preferred over fate. He tells her that her services are no longer needed. She tells him that she held her tongue but changing the past is not allowed. He claims that Balthazar did it on his own. But she knows better, that he tried to “mint his own money, ” that by not sinking the boat he created 50,000 souls, and that he must sink the boat to put things back to rights or she’ll kill Dean and Sam. Castiel balks at the idea, but Atropos tells him that he can kill her, but she has 2 sisters bigger and badder than he, and they’ll avenge her death. Castiel and Balthazar decide to do the right thing and sink the ship.

The boys awake to Celine Dion. The boys both claim that they had weird dreams, and Castiel tells them that it wasn’t a dream. Sam says that he killed 50,000 people for them, but Cas says that he didn’t, that they were never born. The timeline that they created by not sinking the boat is erased, but they remember because Cas was trying to teach them a lesson. Fate is cruel and capricious, and free will is worth fighting for. He says it with more sadness than normal. Dean asks if Balthazar really did it over hatred of a chick flick, and Cas lies, saying that he did.

The boys go to check on Bobby, sad at what they took away from him, what he could have kept if not for them.