The bunker
is empty and quiet. Dean listens to some tunes, but something other than the boys
are in there. Dean calls out and Sam searches for him, grabbing a sword on his
way, but there’s nothing solid to attack. Something starts to materialize, when
it gets shot by Dean. There’s something haunting their bunker, as if they didn’t
have enough problems. So much for being the safest place in the planet, with
the amount of wards and sigils Sam reasons that nothing got in. It’s been fifty
years since anyone has occupied the bunker, and ghosts don’t typically wait that
long before becoming active, so all signs point to it being Kevin, even if Dean
did cremate him. At the mention of Kevin’s name, a coffee mug breaks. Looks
like Kevin is coming back one way or another.
Castiel
catches up to an Angel at Rebecca’s funeral. He tells Cas that she had no
contact with Metatron after the fall, she gave it all up. Rebecca taught her
followers that the angels have lost touch with their true mission. They want
nothing more than to live humbly among the humans, until the monster, Bartholomew
killed her and everyone else.
Sam stares
at the coffee maker, but doesn’t get much from him. It’s taken Kevin time to
make contact, and the boys plan to keep trying to communicate with him. Dean
takes a stab at it, but he can’t deal with talking to the coffee maker. He
tells Kevin he’s sorry. Kevin never chose the life that he was brought into,
and he lost everything, while Dean was helpless to stop it. He pours out his
heart, and misses the flickering light. Sam sees it, and comes running back.
Kevin flickers into existence. Dean wonders why Kevin isn’t in Heaven. If
anyone deserves to be, it’s certainly him. Heaven is closed off since the
angels fell. Everyone is stuck inside of the Veil, and it’s not the best of
situations. Kevin tells the boys that he wants them to find his mother. Dean tells
him that Crowley was just trying to get a rise out of him, but Kevin isn’t so
sure. It’s crowded in the Veil, and he’s talked to other spirits, Candy, one
who recently saw his mother in Kansas. Kevin tells Dean that this is how he
makes things right, so of course Dean is going to do it.
Some suits
catch up to Castiel, looking for the other angel with their angel blades at the
ready. He tells him that he’s long gone, but they recognize him. That’s what
happens when you have such a handsome mug. The head suit has been looking for
him, looks like someone is headed to see Bartholomew.
The boys
head to Wichita, Kansas. Candy died in the woods, and the boys are going to
summon her. Dean even brought the handy coffee maker to help with the process.
Castiel
waits in the waiting room from hell for Bartholomew. Not a tv or magazine in
sight only some dull conversation from one of the suits. Batholomew takes
Castiel’s blade, and the two embrace like old friends.
Sam gets a
little chilly out in the woods. Dean tries again unsuccessfully to reach
Crowley, and Sam points out that maybe he’s just not into Dean. But Dean has to
keep trying, since he’s the last confirmed link. With the last of Dean’s beer
gone, the radio goes a little wild. Candy is trying to reach out.
Bartholomew
thought Castiel went off the deep end when he took on Raphael, but he held his
tongue. Castiel rose to power as Bartholomew stayed behind. Castiel points out
that he gained a reputation of his own for the cruelty and malice he inflicted
upon captives in his care. Bartholomew received his marching orders, and had no
choice, but now Bartholomew follows no one, he gives the orders.
Dean fiddles
with the radio knobs trying to get a good signal. Candy tells them that she was
in a box, that there were others all in boxes. It was cold, and dark, and a
vent allowed them to talk to one another. It sounds like a storage unit with
its corrugated door. Two men held her captive, one being Crowley, by her
description. He told her she was more valuable alive, until he stopped coming.
The other one continued to come, to feed her, and she tried to escape. She ran
through the forest, but she was caught, and killed. She doesn’t know what
happened to Mrs. Tran. She tells them for her sake, she hopes she’s dead.
She isn’t
though. She’s still being held in that room, being visited by that man, and by
all the screaming it doesn’t seem like she likes him all that much.
The boys
head to nearby storage facilities. Candy in life was a politician’s kept
mistress. Crowley wanted to keep the victims alive, but the other guy was the one
who did the killing. Sam doesn’t see it as a virtue, but Dean is giving the King
of Hell the benefit of the doubt.
Bartholomew
continues to reveal way too much of his plan. Castiel isn’t quite trusting of this little friendship, but
Bartholomew insist that they want he same thing. They both want to find
Metatron and restore heaven. A drop of blood spilt to avoid a gallon, seems
like a small thing to ask, he killed Rebecca and her followers to prevent a
future uprising. Bartholomew sounds sure that he will beat Malachi and followers
in their quest for Metatron, and wants Castiel aboard his crazy train. There’s
a method to his madness, and if Castiel can stomach his methods then they can
work together.
The boys
head to a storage facility flashing badges, asking for the rental binder. Del complies,
while Sam takes a look at the map. There is a perfect location for the
captives, and they’re all leased by the same guy D. Webster, as in Daniel
Webster, which sounds like just the name Crowley would chose. Del overhears the
name, and he tells them that he’s also leasing another unit on the other side
of the facility. Dean follows Del to the other unit, and Sam heads to the other
block of units.
Dean finds
some scary looking tools, but Sam finds Mrs Tran. She tells him that they need
to get out before he comes back, and while Sam is toying with her chains,
someone uses a remote to lock them in. The door is strong enough, not even the
moose can get it open. Del watches the pair on the camera feed on his phone. All
the while, Dean has no clue just what Del is doing, as he looks though the
hodpodge of stuff. Dean asks if Del is sure that its leased by Webster, and Del
says it is, but Dean finds a package that says otherwise. Just as all the
pieces come together, and Del knocks out Dean. His poor noggin sure does take a
beating.
Bartholomew takes
Castiel to his war room. It’s full of Metaton sightings, but nothing concrete
yet. Bartholomew has been distracted taking out rebel factions that he hasn’t had
time to fully focus on Metatron, but with Castiel by his side, and more
determined than ever to find Metatron, there’s nothing that could stop them. A
set of suits come in with a bagged angel, the one from Rebecca’s funeral. Bartholomew
plans to torture him to find out what he knows and then kill him. Castiel looks
like he is no longer willing to drink the Kool-Aid.
Sam breaks
Mrs. Tran’s shackles. She tells him that there’s an electrical line that leads
to the control panel. Sam is hesitates for a second looking at the wires, and
Mrs. Tran takes over. She’s learned a few things from Kevin, and she still has
no clue her son is dead. She hopes that they left him some place safe, and Sam
tries to break the news to her, but she insists that he will take her to her
son.
Dean wakes
up on the floor next to Del’s dead co-worker. Del is complaining about Crowley
and his internship. The job sucks, and the boss has been M.I.A. What’s worse,
he was told not to kill anyone, but to protect them. He hopes that when he
calls Crowley to tell him he bagged the Winchesters, he’ll be happy with him,
but he knows that’s a slim chance. Dean tells him, if anything Crowley will be
upset since they’re such bosom buddies now. Del looks sickened as Dean tells
him that they’ve been hanging out. Del throws his nametag to the ground, he’s
through being leashed.
Bartholomew
cuts away at the poor angel, but he has nothing left to tell. Bartholomew hands
the blade over to Castiel to finish the job, but he doesn’t want to, there’s no
point. Bartholomew tells him that the reason he was brought back from the
battle was because they knew that Castiel couldn’t slaughter the captives, that
he would stand in the way, but Bartholomew hopes that he’s changed. Castiel has
done bad things, he’s murdered to regain his grace, but it’s not who he is.
Bartholomew wants to work with Castiel but they need to see that guiltless unconscionable
side that can get the job done no matter the cost, they need to know that he
can be that ruthless killer. There was never any hope in this partnership,
Castiel has too many morals, too much hope to fall into this line, and he
finally realizes it. He chooses to oppose Bartholomew, and Bartholomew plunges the
knife into the tortured angel, killing him while Castiel is restrained and
unable to do anything to stop him.
Del thanks Dean
for reminding him what he truly is as he cuts him across the throat. Sam enters
before Del can cause any major damage, and the smaller man is little match for
the moose.
Bartholomew
doesn’t appreciate Castiel’s superiority, though he should be use to that gruff
attitude by now. He punches Castiel, but Castiel refuses to hit him back, he
sees that angels fighting angels needs to stop. Bartholomew goes after Castiel
with a blade as he tells his men to stand down, but Castiel is much faster, and
quickly gets the upperhand turning Bartholomew’s blade on him. Bartholomew
tries to be the martyr, but Castiel refuses to finish him, throwing the blade
away. Bartholomew tells him that there can be no peace without bloodshed, and
pulls another angel blade from his suit. He tries to spring on Castiel, but Castiel
catches him, and plunges the blade into his stomach. Bartholomew’s men look
shocked, but they let Castiel pass.
Sam and Dean
have Del detained in special demon cuffs. Del thinks that they’re going to
serve him up to Crowley, but they have someone else in mind. Mrs. Tran gets the
honor of dishing out some justice, and she uses his own blade against him. With
Del dead she just wants to be taken to her son.
The boys
return to the bunker, and deliver the good news to Kevin. They tell him that
they found her mother, and that she’s there. He asks if they’ve told her yet,
when she comes in, and sees him. Dean gives her all of Kevin’s things. She
finds a ring, which was his fathers. She tells him that if Kevin’s spirit is
bound to an object, its to that ring. Dean warns her, that they’re not sure
about the whole heaven situation, but that being stuck in the Veil has some
very negative effects on the spirits. It doesn’t matter to her though. Kevin is
her son, and its her job to keep him safe.
Castiel goes
to Rebecca’s grave. She may have lost the war, but he respects that she tried a
new way to solve the problem. One of Bartholomew’s suit’s approaches Castiel. He
makes it clear that he doesn’t want to fight, but he can and will. He doesn’t want
to fight either. He tells Castiel that when he fell he thought he didn’t have a
choice, but Castiel showed him that he does. Castiel may not think he’s a
leader, but the angel thinks otherwise. He pledges himself to Castiel, and he
is not alone.
Kevin plans
to protect his mother too. She was held and tortured for a year because of him
and he won’t let it happen again. Sam tells him that he failed him, but Kevin
knows that it wasn’t Sam that killed him. He doesn’t blame either of them for
his death, and he thanks them for what they’ve done. The job isn’t done until
he gets to heaven, Dean tells him. Before he goes, he makes the boys promise
him to get over it. The fighting, the drama he tells them is stupid. His mom is
taking home a ghost, but he reminds the boys that they’re both still there.
Although the boys agree to his wishes, Sam isn’t much for the forgive and
forget. He walks away, and they both go back to their separate corners, for
now.
