Over the years the boys have tackled a lot of things, many things that they didn't know what they were before they had to hunt them. Cole hunted Dean, and he was introduced into a world that he wasn't prepared for. And worse of all, he was an unknown monster.

Fayetteville, NC a girl hands from her ankles. Duck tape bound and in fear. A man brings a bucket underneath her, and sits her throat, draining her life into the bucket.

In the bunker, Sam does some research when Dean sneaks up in him. Sam slams it shut, and Dean assumes that it was porn. Dean isn't judging him though. He has a case. An army soldier trained in martial arts wound up with her blood drained, organs stolen, and marrow sucked out of her bones. Sam thinks its cannibalism, but Dean is thinking it could be a God. Dean is ready to go investigate, but Sam is hesitant. Dean gives him 10 minutes to get ready.

Sam continues to be preoccupied with his research on the Mark of Cain. Dean knows what he's doing, and its not porn. They've looked at every site, multiple times. There is a point in every case where they reach a point and have to admit hard truths, and that point is now. They saw what happened to Cain. Dena doesn't like it, but its time to move on, to do what they can as long as he can, and he wants Sam by his side for it.

Sam and Dean arrive in town, and head straight for the sheriff's office. The Officer on duty identifies them as Feds immediately. The guy tells them that they wasted their time coming down. They already found the culprit responsible, but they didn't need to catch him. He drank a boatload of gasoline and lit himself on fire. It was the third suicide in a few short months. He offers them some cake, and Sam refuses it, though Dean clearly wants some, swiping some frosting with his finger as Sam asks if there are any bite marks on the body. The body was killed by bowie knife. Without bite marks it blows the god theory.

The muderer's wife is distraught. She doesn't claim her husband was innocent though. When he returned from war, he was different. Her Rick, when he's home and good, she had to kill the spiders. He was a kind soul, he never took more life then he had too. Sam asks if she experienced anything off, weird smell, or mood swings. She noticed he was really thirsty for water, completely insatiable. He couldn't even hear her as she tried to stop him from drinking tub water, he was so intent on drinking. He was so dried out, to the point his skin bled. She took him to the VA, but they just put him on a list. Then he stopped talking, she thought it was just PTSD. Dean asks about Rick's recent deployment, but she's unsure where he was. Sam leaves his card, but she has one other thing. She mentions Jemma, a wife of someone in Rick's squad. She thought her husband Kit also came back different, that they may be dealing with the same thing.

The boys head to Jemma's house. She tells them that Kit is working on getting back to normal, there's always an adjustment period, and he's working on it. Sam asks if they can speak with Kit. Jemma tells them that he went out, and he hasn't come home yet. He needs his space when he comes back. Jemma admits that its uncharacteristic even for Kit the way he's been acting. Sam ask if he's been thirsty, like really thirsty, and he has been.

The boys find Cole sitting on baby. Cole knows Kit, and Jemma called him. He's known Kit for a long time, and he wants to know why the boys are there. Sam admits that they're working a case. Sam isn't sure if its Kit's case yet. Dean is a little more blunt. There was a recent murder suicide and Kit is showing the same symptoms that the killer did. Sam tells him that they aren't going anywhere, and if he really cares about Kit, he'll let them work the case. Cole decides that he's coming with them, he thinks that he can be a very valuable source, he has resources that they don't. Cole isn't doing it for them, he's doing it so that they can bring him home. Dean knows that Kit is a war hero, but Sam points out that Cole needs to prepare himself. Kit may not be Kit anymore.

Kit stumbles into a Gas and Sip, and be starts cracking open a bottle of water, guzzling tit down. He throws down the bottle, and Kit moves onto a large cold bottle in the cooler. One of the store clerks goes to stop him, and Kit gets angry. He breaks a wine bottle, and slashes the kid's throat open. The other kid calls the cops while Kit goes on his knees to lap at the spilled blood on the floor.

Sam gets sustenance while Dean continues to look into what big bad could be inhabiting Kit. Cole isn't so sure that it is a monster. Cole gets a message from his friend in intelligence. Rick and Kit were sent to rescue a POW from Iraq. They have some footage from the camera on one of the helmets. They pair went into the undergrand prison, and the man they were to bring home attacked him. He tried to rip out Kit's throat. The mission did not have a happy ending. The official story was the POW was shot by guards. But his dried out cracked face looks very familiar. Sam gets an alert of the gas station crime, and the boys head out.

They find that Kit licked up the blood off the ground, and Dean is sure that is their kind of case. Jemma calls to Cole to tell him about the gas station. Cole already knows about it. She urges him to save Kit if it is him, she knows that if it is him, he's not in his right mind. She suggests that he head up to his father's cabin, he liked to go up there sometimes if he wanted to be alone. Dean plans to put out an APB to find Kit. Cole still thinks that there is an alternative to killing Kit, that he can still be saved. Cole doesn't like the sound of things.

The boys drop Cole off at Jemma's house. Dean thinks that its better that way. He can keep Jemma calm, and they can hunt. Dean reminds him that if Kit shows up that he shouldn't try to be a hero, but to call them. The boys drive off, but Cole isn't headed inside. He gets into his truck and heads out. The boys suspected he would, and parked in wait. Cole drove right pass them, and the boys follow discreetly.

Cole drives straight to the cabin to look for Kit. It looks empty inside, he tells Kit that there are serious people looking for him, that they won't just want to talk. The boys get out of the car. Inside, Cold finds a trail of blood and dead rats as he follows it and continues forward talking soothingly. It's either them or him. Kit is huddled in the corner. He tells him that he's sorry, that he can't stop, before spitting some sort of slug down his throat. The boys charge in as another slug is expelled, and they try to kill it. It dies under the big boot of the Moose, but Kit uses his monster strength to throw the boys back and get away. Sam gets thrown down, and Dean chases after Kit.

Cole continues to cough, trying to get whatever is inside him out. He can feel it moving inside of him. Sam is sure they can find a way to get it out. Dean points out that Cole acted stupidly and now he's infected with a con worm. It's either that or a freak cousin of it. Cole asks how they kill it. The worse case, is they shoot Cole in the head, then stomp the worm. The less lethal option is electrocution. Cole is down to get fried. Dean prepares to get to work, and Sam heads out to find Kit. Cole points out that if they can save him, they can save Kit. Sam heads out, and Dean points out that its going to hurt a whole lot. Cole has a lot left to live for.

Dean grabs out a pair of car batteries, to prepare to shock the worm out of Cole. He can't believe the messed up secret life that Dean and Sam live without so much as a thanks. He gets a medal for his heroics, and he almost killed Dean for his efforts. If he had killed Dean there would be no one to save him now. It's a messed up world but Dean acts like its just a typical Tuesday. Dean points out that its only Monday. They get ready to begin. Dean hits Cole with the jumper cables, and no luck. Cole tells him to do it again, and he does. This time Cole stops breathing. Dean beats at Cole's chest, and brings him back. Cole wants another go since the worm hasn't surfaced, but Dean refuses.

He calls Sam and tells him that the worm didn't come out. It's a different type than the last time, and didn'r respond the same way. Sam knows there has to be another weakness, as Sam surges forward. Dean and Cole regroup. The worm dries them out, and Dean wonders if they can dry it out enough, maybe it will leave. Dean considers rapid dehydration, and Cole is a fan. Dean prepares to make the cabin a sweat lodge in the woods.

Jemma finds flower petals, and flowers strewn down the hallway. Kit threw the flowers out in his quest for water. He's drinking straight from the vase. She tells him that whatever happened, whatever he did, ,that they will fix it and get him well. Kit stares at Jemma. He holds her down, and prepares to infect her as well. Sam gets there, just in the nick of time, knocking Kit out.

Dean and Sam update each other. Sam is surprised to hear of Dean's sweat lodge. Cole is busy throwing up. Sam tells him that Jemma is having a hard time coping, and that they're on a time limit. Dean opens up a bottle of water, drinking it in front of him.

Sam tries to explain things to Jemma. He tells her that on Kit's last incident, something got into him. A monster got into him, and it changed him. Jemma is left with more questions.

Cole continues to pour water over the wood, to produce more steam. Dean continues to hydrate. Cole wonders if his father felt like this too when he turned. Dean's not sure, he knows that his father was once human first. Cole understands why Dean killed him now, and asks if he gets that far, if he will do the same for him. Cole watches Dean drink from the water bottle. He asks him to tie him to the chair, and when Dean goes to get the ropes, Cole makes a play for the water bottle. Cole is sure that he won't make it through this, but Dean is certain he can and will. Cole admits that he wants nothing more than to slit his wrists and drink his blood.

Jemma asks more questions about Sam being a hunter. It's going to take her a minute to wrap her head around the knowledge that he's dropping on her. Jemma doesn't care. Kit is still her husband. Kit awakens. Sam asks her if Kit is acting like the man that she knew. He isn't. Sam tells her that Dean and Cole are working on a way to get the old Kit back, or at least free him from the parasite. Jemma notices that Kit isn't where they tied him up at. The lights go out, and Sam and Jemma go looking for Kit. He get the drop on Jemma, knocking her out, before going after Sam. The pair wrestle on the ground, Sam's gun just out of reach.

Dean calls Sam, but he's too busy to answer. Cole launches himself at Dean. Dean tells him not to make him pull the trigger, but he already has. Dean can see the worm making its way out of Cole's throat, and he's able to get out from underneath him before Cole expells it. Dean stomps the thing, then calls Sam with the good news. He tells Sam to hurry and get Kit there, but its too late. Sam was forced to shoot Kit. Jemma holds her dead husband in her arms, mourning him.

Cole prepares to leave. Sam is sorry that things didn't end better. He really wished that things didn't end this way, but he had no choice. He was going to kill Jemma, and there was no way around things. Cole knows, Jemma said the same thing. She's going to have to tell the story of her husband came home and tried to kill her. Cole thinks that he's seen it all now. Dean points out that he's seen a lot, but not all. He;s ready to get back to his family. Dean tells him to take care. Cole plans to, and hopes that he never sees them again, all things considering. The boys watch him drive off. Dean tells him not to blame himself for Kit. Sam can't help it, it still feels crappy. He really tried, he just couldn't save him. Even if you do everything right, sometimes, the guy still dies. I don't think that he's talking about Kit anymore, and its a little heartbreaking.

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June 21^st, 2003 a boy is woken up by some noises. He goes downstairs to investigate and finds his father in a pool of blood. Dean sees the kid, knife still in hand. The boy grew up to be the man who now holds Sam. He’s willing to let Sam go if he gives up his brother’s location. Sam won’t even though Dean gave Cole the green light to kill him. Dean isn’t Dean right now. Every night since he was 13 Cole has dreamt of Dean and all that blood. Now, Sam has no reason to protect Dean, Dean’s given up on him. Sam is sorry about his father, but if Dean killed him, then there was a reason. There are monsters out there. Cole has seen plenty of monsters, but of the human variety. Sam knows that humans are only the beginning. He has Cole look in the bag, but Cole doesn’t believe him. Things have to be done the hard way/

Dean spends his night in North Dakota watch a girl work the pole. She warns him against touching, and he lays a $20 on the stage, taunting her to pick it up in the empty club. She doesn’t want to play, but the song isn’t over and Dean’s not letting her leave. The bouncer tries to intervene, but gets a headbutt to the face for his trouble. Sam gets worked over by Cole. Dean isn’t done with the bouncer and continues to whale on him. No one moves in to stop him. Dean finishes his drink and collects his money before leaving.

Sam refuses to break, but Cole isn’t done. He threatens to break Sam’s kneecap, when he gets a call from home. He takes it, unknowing that he dropped his keys that have a small knife on them. Cole finishes talking to his son, but Sam isn’t waiting around for him.

Dean leaves the bar, and run into some kids calling him grandpa. Lucky for them Crowley is there to intercept his bestie. Crowley has come to chat about Dean’s anger management issues.

Castiel washes up at the docks. He tries to heal himself, but he doesn’t have enough grace to do it. Hannah steps in and heals his wounds. He’s thankful, but tells Hannah that she doesn’t have to stay, she’s free to go. She doesn’t want to leave him, and Castiel finds her sentiment very human. Sam calls Castiel breaking the news that Dean has gone to the darkside. The mark is likely the cause, and though he knows that Cas isn’t feeling so hot he needs his help. Castiel heads toward Sam, but Hannah isn’t sure that it’s a good idea. She thinks that the Winchesters are a bad influence on him. The brothers may be a little rough around the edges, but they’re his friends. Cas is exhausted, and he falls asleep behind the wheel, nearly killing both he and Hannah in a head on collision. He swerves just in time to miss the truck, and crashes on the side of the road.

Dean and Crowley head to a bar for their chat. Dean orders drinks, and Crowley asks how he’s feeling. It’s not about little Dean, but about the mark. Dean needs to kill someone and feed the mark, its not about wants, but need. Dean is an addict, death is his drug. Crowley is there to help, he wants him to kill for him. Eventually he’s going to snap from all the bloodlust, so he can either kill an innocent, or someone deserving. Crowley shows him Mindy a cheating trollop. One way or another she’s going to die, so it may as well be Dean. Dean agrees, but there’s one more thing he needs to tell him.

The lady tow truck driver takes Cas and Hannah to her house. It’ll be awhile until she can get the tires and the car back on the road. She invites them to help themselves to the kitchen. Hannah checks out the three bean surprise, and Cas curls up on the couch for a little siesta.

Dean scopes out Mindy’s house. She’s inside, but someone else arrives before he can get the job done. It’s the husband, he wanted to watch. Dean slips into the house and has a little heart to heart with the husband. He obviously didn’t tune into How To Get Away With Murder, and doesn’t have a great alibi. He’s losing it. Dean points out that Mindy played dirty because he started it. He feigns innocence, and then goes into the whole men aren’t built for monogamy. Dean punches him. The guy whines, calling Dean a punk ass demon, and tells him to get to work. Dean gives the voyeur something to watch as he drives the first blade into him.

Sam goes to speak with the strip club bouncer. He’d called the police, but Dean was long gone before they arrived. Sam asks him to call him if he sees Dean again. Sam drives off, and Cole follows.

Cas slept through the night on the couch. The tow truck driver’s little girl awakens him. She asks him if he had a good dream, but he doesn’t dream. She tells him about her snot rocket dream, and shares her cereal with him. As the tow truck driver and Hannah watch the exchange, she remarks that Hannah is a lucky girl, but Hannah admits that he’s not hers.

Crowley sits through a very boring meeting, longing for death. Sam is close by. Dean has come from his little feeding session. Dean tells him that he killed the client, not the wife. Crowley isn’t happy that Dean screwed the pooch. The deal was one dead wife for one soul, no dead wife, no soul. Dean turns his back on Crowley, and when he grabs him, Dean knocks Crowley to the ground. His minion find humor in it, as Crowley picks himself off the ground. Crowley draws his line in the sand, explaining to Dean the real problem. He’s straddling both sides, human and demon, but he needs to pick one. Dean taunts him, unwilling to choose. He’s not a pet, and they’re not besties. He warns Crowley to get out of the way. Their relationship may be kiboshed, and this time Crowley is sure its not him, but Dean.

Hannah suggests that she drive with Cas still weak.

Sam is off to chase down another lead. Crowley is ready to deal, and hand over Dean. Sam didn’t exactly miss Crowley. Dean is bad for business, so he’s giving him back, the mark has made him unpredictable. He can have his brother back forever, after he gets his finder’s fee.

Castiel wakes to find the car parked, and Hannah gone. Hannah took the express elevator back upstairs. Hannah has gone to see Metatron. He knew that she would always come back, he thinks because there’s something between them. She came to see about Castiel’s grace, to see if there was any left after he closed the Heavenly Gates. Metatron is looking to make a deal. He wants his freedom, and he’s willing to sweeten the pot. Metatron is willing to give Castiel’s grace back for his freedom. He’ll leave the Earth, the galaxy. A Castiel back at full strength, can give her the dominance she desires. Metatron tries to close the deal, but Castiel stops them. He knows that Metatron is a liar. He never gives what he claims to. It’s Castiel’s life, his choice, and he doesn’t want Metatron involved. Hannah claims to understands. Metatron may be a great liar, but there was some truth to his words. Some of Castiel’s grace is left, it may be enough, but Castiel has made his peace. He doesn’t want it. It brings him peace and joy to think that Metatron will remain and rot in his prison. Sooner or later he will be released, and Castiel will be dead.

Dean picks at the piano keys, slicing open his hand with his blade, reflecting on Crowley’s words. Sam has finally found his brother. Dean sends the bartender out so he can speak to his brother in private. He asks who winged him, but the answer doesn’t really matter. He told Sam to let him go. Sam tells him that Crowley sold him out, and Dean isn’t surprised. He reminds him that they know how to cure demons, but Dean doesn’t want to fix it. Dean is trying to control the blood lust, trying not to rip out Sam’s throat, but he’s most certainly not walking out the door with Sam. Sam isn’t backing down. Dean is still his brother, and he’s taking him home, no matter what sins he’s committed. Dean laughs over his touching statement, and puppy dog eyes, but Sam moves to plan B. Before he can cuff Dean Cole interrupts his plan with a well placed gas grenade. As Sam gasps for air and gets out he runs into Cole, who knocks him out. Cole finally comes face to face with Dean Winchester. Dean doesn’t recognize him, or car much. Cole gives Dean his sob story, but he lacks any compassion. Cole has played out this scenario a million times in his head, he’s ready. Dean is good, but Cole thinks he’s better. He should have kept his gun. He tries to go hand to hand with Dean and a knife, but Dean is really that good. He disarms Cole, taking and emptying his gun. Cole isn’t done yet, and he tries his kung fu on against Cole. Cole finds himself on the ground again. Cole’s My Name is Ingo Montoya vengeance falls short. Cole wasn’t prepared for a monster that isn’t fully human. Dean shows him his demon, holds the first blade against throat, but refuses to kill him. Sam douses him with holy water, and cuffs him. It’s over, Sam is bringing him home.

Crowley thanks Sam for doing business with him. He takes the first blade, claiming that he’s going to destroy it. He doesn’t want Dean getting his hands on the precious anymore than Sam does. Before Sam can threaten Crowley again, Crowley tsks him not to be a tease.

Cole goes in search of books on demons.

Crowley reminisces about his bromance with Dean, before he has to move on.

Baby is filthy, just showing how low Dean has fallen. Sam has no idea. Sam saw the mercy that Dean showed Cole. It wasn’t mercy he showed Cole. He did the worse thing he could have by letting him live. Cole finally had a shot at Dean, something he waited his entire life for, and he got whipped. He doesn’t plan on showing Sam any mercy either.

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Reichenbach (Ep# 1002) 

CROWLEY TELLS DEAN THE MARK NEEDS TO BE FED -- Crowley (Mark Sheppard) notices Dean (Jensen Ackles) is becoming more and more aggressive. Dean tells him that's the side effect of being a demon, but Crowley knows it's something more - the Mark of Cain needs to be fed. Meanwhile, Sam (Jared Padalecki) is captured by Cole (guest star Travis Aaron Wade), an angry man who blames Dean for his father's death years ago and wants revenge. Cole tortures Sam, hoping he'll tell him where Dean is hiding. Hannah (guest star Erica Carroll) sees how weak Castiel (Misha Collins) is becoming as his grace continues to fade, so she makes a bold choice and asks Metatron (guest star Curtis Armstrong) for help.

Thomas J. Wright directed the episode written by Andrew Dabb (#1003).

Original airdate 10/14/2014.

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Black (Ep# 1001) 

DEAN IS LIVING IT UP AS A DEMON WHILE SAM HITS ROCK BOTTOM IN THE SEARCH FOR HIS BROTHER -- Dean (Jensen Ackles) is a demon and running amuck with Crowley (Mark Sheppard) while Sam (Jared Pa-dalecki) tries to figure out what happened to his brother. Meanwhile, Castiel (Misha Collins) is dealing with his diminishing grace.

Robert Singer directed the episode written by Jeremy Carver (#1001).

Original airdate 10/7/2014.

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