"Supernatural" Recap Part II: "Book of the Damned"

Written by Shae

THIS IS THE EMERGENCY SPOILER ALERT SYSTEM...YOU ARE ADVISED TO READ AT YOUR OWN RISK...

Have the Winchesters learned to communicate? Has Charlie become a hunter? Is Castiel really trusting Metatron? The answer is yes, yes, and sort of. Sam is at his last ditch efforts when Castiel calls him. He doesn't know what to do about the mark. He does know they still may need Metatron. Being at a dead end, Sam finally opens up about it to Dean.

Dean even admits to Sam that he spoke with Crowley. Sam was a bit shocked to find out that Rowena is Crowley's mother, but hey, so were we!  Knowing that the Mark is a Curse, however, might just make the search a bit easier...or maybe harder? Either way, the Winchesters are communicating with each other, which had to be a sign that hell has frozen over. Or that one of them dies this season. Or both.

Charlie is being chased by some scary guys. She stabs one and finds out they're tracking the item she has. She's shot in her attempt to get away... When she called Sam and Dean telling them what happened, they send her to one of Bobby's old safe houses. It's then a mad dash to get to her before these mysterious men do. Dean finds some crazy box with cool wards and sigils on it, which should protect the book from being tracked down. Hopefully, they can find out how they're tracking the book and who they are.

Of course, nothing is easy. They find Charlie and find out the book is made of the nun who wrote it. Literally, the pages made of her skin and written in her blood. To make matters worse, it's calling to Dean. This book is pure black magic, but they can't translate it, but Sam and Charlie are determined, however, and Dean is pretending like he doesn't care. All dark magic comes with a price though, and Dean quickly decides he doesn't want to pay the fee for his freedom. Especially since he can actually hear the book begging him to use it. Dean leaves to get snacks, mostly to get away from the book. Charlie gets Sam to admit what happened between them. How when he tried to close the gates of Hell, Dean stopped him and saved his life. The fall out from that, that Sam admits he meant none of it. But Dean is still hurt, and Charlie knows it. Meanwhile, Dean runs into our bad guy, who has chased Charlie all the way to this town. The fight isn't pretty. Our main baddie gets away, and Dean empties an entire clip into the lackey before he goes down. It's this that makes Dean decide there's only one way to deal with the book. They need to burn it. Back at the cabin, Dean throws holy oil onto the fire before the men attack. He commands Sam to throw the book into the fire...

You know....in every season Sammy does something stupid. It's like, if Sam doesn't do something stupid, something is wrong. For a single few minutes we're left believing that Sam listened to Dean and burned the book....they'll just find another way. He switches the book with another in the midst of Charlie and Dean kicking ass. And he keeps it; hiding it from the two. But that's fine, he plays it off like he burned the book, and they head back to the bunker with pizza, and it's all well. Charlie said, they do stupid things for each other. There isn't any lengths either of them won't go to for one another, especially to save the others life. At the very end, Sammy is giving the book to someone, someone stupidly powerful and whom shouldn't be trusted, Rowena. This is going to end badly.

As for our angel, Castiel has Metatron, who leads our baby-in-a-trench-coat to a library. We might believe he's going to give Cas his grace back, but we all knew it was a matter of time before the little weasel got free. Cas still has Metatron's grace, but that doesn't stop the little shit from hurting our Cas and getting what he really came for. Remember the Demon Tablet? Yeah, I forgot about it entirely until Metratron pulls it out of a hollow book. Despite the spell Cas is being afflicted with, he manages to find his grace and get it back. His wings are a little worse for wear, but that happens with all he's been through...or all angels being ejected from heaven...he loses Metatron, but with his grace back, he at least has a fighting chance. Cas makes his way back to the bunker, and our ragtag family is back together, eating pizza, and keeping secrets.

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