Supernatural Recap: The Man Who Would Be King

Castiel sits alone with his memories of the fish that would become man, the fall of Babel, Cain and Abel, Soddom and Gomorrah, and the aversion of the apocalypse that left only freedom and choice, which may have been the wrong choice.

Cas pops into the Impala with Dean. Both claim to not have anything on Crowley. Dean ask if he’ll call if he gets into real trouble, but Cas says nothing, disappearing.

Cas pops to Crowley, whose busy torturing monsters. They believed that Eve could open the doors to purgatory, but that was before Dean killed her. Cas has conflicting interests. The Winchesters are busy hunting Crowley. And Cas still sees himself as their guardian. They taught him much, and it was at a great cost. Cas did infact raise Sam, but didn’t realize at the time it was without a soul, and that should have been his warning that he was on the wrong path.

Crowley urges him to let him kill the Winchesters. But Cas says no, that he will just resurrect them, and urges Crowley just to find Purgatory.

Bobby and Sam have a demon, whose been hunting monsters, tied to a chair for questioning, looking for Crowley location. He claims that Crowley is dead, but Bobby and Sam don’t believe him. Dean arrives, and Bobby stabs him with the demon knife, injuring not killing him. Dean is upset that they’re lying to Cas. Dean does not want to believe that they’re dealing with a superman whose gone dark, but have to prepare for the worse. Cas watches it all, unseen to the rest, hearing all they’re saying. He sees the anguish he’s causing Dean, because Dean doesn’t want to believe the worse about him, which is true. Bobby finally gets a name from the demon, Alsworth.

Alsworth is Bobby’s demon counterpart, to a t. He even takes FBI calls. Cas knows that the demons would lead eventually lead them to Alsworth, and that he would lead them to Crowley. Crowley kills him and the other demons around him, to save the boys, or himself, he isn’t sure anymore.

The boys head to Alsworth’s place, but there’s nothing to find. Cas again watches hidden.

Cas says that after he brought back Sam he finally went back to heaven. He prefers the eternal Tuesday afternoon of an autistic man who drowned in a bathtub in the 70’s, heaven and this is where a group of angels find him. They want to know how it is that he’s back, he says it was the Winchesters, and tries to tell them that they’re finally free to decide for themselves, but that just makes them more lost.

Raphael on the other hand, wants to be the new God. He wants Cas to kneel before him, and pledge allegiance. He says that he rebelled, and now he will atone. He’ll free Michael and Lucifer and let the Apocalypse happen because Raphael wants it. Cas takes a stand and Raphael knocked him back to the autistic man’s heaven.

Bobby says that the house is too clean, especially for the average demon. Dean wants to call Cas, Sam and Bobby don’t want to. Dean still clings to his faith in Cas. Sam prays to Cas, and Cas does not come. Dean tries calling, and still he does not come, because he knew that the boys would have questions that he could not answer. Dean, Sam, and Bobby get manhandled by a group of Crowley’s demons.

Crowley sent his best, and Cas was left with a hard choice, and he chose to show up and smite all the demons. For a moment he was his old self. He says that he’s glad that he found them, that he believes that Crowley is alive. Bobby and Sam finally admit that they’ve been hunting Crowley, and that they thought that Cas was working with him. Dean asks for forgiveness, and Cas wonders at the trust, then immediately outs himself, with the superman comment. And just like that the trust was gone.

Castiel goes to Crowley about his attempt on the Winchester’s lives. Crowley taunts Cas, telling him that if he makes another attempt against him, he’ll tear it all down.

And finally Cas reveals why he did it all. Dean was the reason why Castiel did it all. Seeing him finally happy, he couldn’t ask him for more. And as he watched Dean after the apocalypse, Crowley came to Cas, offering a way to give him enough power to beat Raphael. He let Crowley tempt him, thinking he was smarter than Crowley.

Crowley brought him to hell, one giant line, no hot spikes, just one endless line of waiting. Crowley talks Cas into resisting, into using the Angels who needed a leader, and start a civil war in heaven, not to be the next Lucifer, but an actual leader. Crowley tells him about Purgatory, they would split the souls 50/50, both getting more power than they could imagine. Crowley gives Cas 50,000 souls to “steal” from hell, for a power boost. Cas goes before Raphael and deals him a blow, that banishes him. He tells his fellow angels that they’re either with him or against him, but there would be no apocalypse.

Dean, Sam, and Bobby call forth Castiel, they have a plan to track down Crowley, by using Castiel. They trap him in a ring of fire. And Dean calls him out on the superman comment. Cas pretends not to know what they’re talking about, but as they stack up the accusations, Cas cannot deny it any longer. Cas claims it was to protect them, but they cannot believe them. He tells Sam that he raised him, and Sam is less than pleased how he did it, believing that Cas brought him back soulless on purpose. Cas tells them that Raphael will turn the world into a graveyard. But Dean tells him that he knew it was wrong by keeping it a secret. The wind begins whipping up, and although Cas sees the error of his way and dean begs for him to let them fix it, Cas tells him that it is not broken, and to run. At his insistence, they’re left with little choice, and they leave Cas stuck in the ring of fire.

The wind stops, and Crowley walks in and puts out the fire. Cas is tired of Crowley talking. As he leaves he tells him that the difference between them is that he knows what he is. Dean awakes with Cas before him. The angel proofing didn’t work. He tells Dean that he did this all for him. Cas maintains that he knows what he’s doing. Dean tells him don’t just because. He tells Cas that he’s like a brother, and practically begs him to stop. The rift between the two grows further, and they’re firmly on opposite sides in a war.

Castiel has been talking to God the entire time. He asks for a sign that he’s on the right path, because without one he’s going to do whatever he must.