- Sam tries to move on without his brother and becomes hardened and more reckless in the way he hunts. Bobby and his psychic friend Pamela try to contact the other side to find out more about Dean's ultimate fate.
- Dean suddenly returns from the grave and seeks answers to his return with Bobby's help. Sam, trying to move on, becomes more hardened and reckless with his hunts for demons and other supernatural beings. After being reunited, the Winchester brothers meet with with a psychic friend of Bobby's, named Pamela, where they try to contact the other side to learn more about what happened to Dean, while the demoness Ruby, now in another female body with the alias of Kristy, also appears to offer her assistance.—Anonymous
- Dean is astonished to wake up in a coffin from which he can escape, unharmed except for burn marks, suggesting he was pulled out of hell, which he can't fully remember. Bobby needs repeated proof it's no demonic trick before he helps Dean reunite with equally stunned Sam, who swears he tried in vain to strike a deal. Even the bunch of demons Sam was following are stunned and nobody is immune to a mysterious force which bloodily wrecks the eyes of medium Pam when the hunters ask her for a séance. Afterward they summon the being, which she knew as Castiel, and reveals itself to them as a black angel of God, who has a mission for Dean.—KGF Vissers
- We hear harsh breathing, and then a lighter is lit. Dean is in a pine box. He calls for help, but his throat is dry from no use and his voice is raspy and quiet. He looks around as best as he can, and finally breaks the top of the coffin. He digs himself out, and emerges in a field. All the trees have been felled, radiating out from his grave.
Dean walks down an empty road until he comes to a gas station. He knocks on the door, calls out, and when he gets no answer, breaks a window pane to unlock it. He heads to a cooler, grabs a bottle of water to slake his thirst, and reaches for a newspaper to see when and where he is: Pontiac, IL., and, September 18.
Dean washes his face and stares at himself in the mirror. He also examines himself for signs of the hellhound attack, but finds that he has completely healed with no trace of the attack. While examining himself, he finds a raised, red handprint on his shoulder. It appears to be burned into his skin and he does not seem to recognize where it came from.
Dean grabs some more water, candy and a copy of Busty Asian Beauties. As he prepares to leave, a TV and radio switch on. Thinking it is a demon, Dean pours salt along the window, but he is soon crippled by a piercing sound that shatters all the glass in the area. As quickly as it started, whatever it was stops. When Dean can bring himself to his feet, he looks around to catch a glimpse of the culprit...but there's no one there.
Dean phones Sam, but gets no answer. Then he dials another number Bobby.
"Yeah?"
"Bobby?"
"Yeah?"
"It's me."
"Who's me?"
"Dean!"
Dean dials again. Bobby picks up, snarling this time. "Who is this?"
"Bobby, listen to me --"
"This ain't funny. Call again, and I'll kill you."
Dean gives up and decides to try a more direct approach. He steals a car from the gas station and takes off.
When Bobby answers the door, he's shocked into silence...then he grabs a silver dagger and slashes at Dean, who evades and then pins him. "Bobby, it's me!" Dean lets him go, and tells him" Your name is Robert Steven Singer. You became a hunter after your wife became possessed. He's the closest thing to a dad I have! Bobby relents for a second then comes at Dean with the knife again. Dean wrestles it away from Bobby, and swears he's not a shapeshifter. "Then you're a revenant!" Bobby insists.
Dean, knife in hand, says: "If I were a revenant, could I do this?" He then proceeds to cut himself with the blade. Bobby then checks whether Dean is possessed by dousing him in Holy Water. After that he believes that it's Dean, resurrected from Hell. Dean then shows him the large red handprint on his left deltoid.
Bobby asks Dean what he remembers, and as it turns out, not much. He says he recalls being a demon dog's chew toy, then lights out. Then, Dean says, he came to, six feet under. Life has not been easy, Bobby says, explaining that he lost touch with Sam (and, from the looks of Bobby's home decor, reconnected with his ol' pal Jim Beam). "We had to bury you!" Bobby says.
Dean wonders why they'd do something so foolhardy, given their history with zombies and the undead and all. Bobby admitted he wanted to salt and burn Dean's body, but Sam shut him down.
"He said you'd need a body when he got you back home somehow," he says. "And that's not all," Bobby continues, "Sam got quiet. Real quiet. And then he took off." Bobby tells Dean that he hasn't seen Sam in months.
Dean calls Sam's cell phone account and has his GPS turned on. He hits the cell phone website and triangulates the signal to findout that Sam is in Pontiac, IL., That's close to where Dean was buried.
When Bobby and Dean arrive at Sam's hotel room, the door is answered by a scantily-clad woman. She and Sam act as if she is just a girl he's picked up. Dean and Bobby knock on the door, and a girl answers, asking for her pizza. Dean thinks he has the wrong hotel room until Sam strolls into view.
"Hey, Sammy," Dean says.
Sam attacks Dean with a knife.
"Who are you?" Sam bellows as Bobby struggles to hold him back.
"What, you didn't do this?" Dean says.
"Do what?" says Sam. Bobby calms him down and assures him that it's really Dean. Sam calms down, and they hug it out. he girl asks whether the boys "are together" but Sam says they're brothers. She then takes her leave.
But, bygones. Sam closes the door, and Dean commences the interrogation: What it cost to bring him back? What kind of a deal did he make? Sam insists there was no deal, because no demon would deal. Dean was rotting in Hell, and there was nothing Sammy could do about it.
Bobby points out while this is good news, someone or something else raised Dean.
Sam's tells Dean and Bobby he's been hunting Lilith. He tracked a couple of demons from Tennessee and they happened to head to Pontiac on the same day Dean returned.
Bobby suggests they visit a psychic he knows to see if they can find out how Dean got out of Hell.
Sam then asks Dean what he remembers about Hell; Dean, again, replies, "Not much." Dean goes to wash up in the bathroom, and as he's staring in the mirror, we faintly hear screaming and see flashes of those bloodshot eyes.
The psychic's about four hours up the highway, so Bobby and the boys head out to their cars. "Try to keep up," Bobby says. Dean mumbles romantic notions at his shiny baby.
"What in the hell is that?" There's an iPod jack with the player attached. Sam shrugs. "I told you to take care of her, not douche 'er up!" Dean starts the car, and touchy-feely granola rock fills our ears.
While they're driving, Dean says there's still one thing bothering him. The night he bit it how did Sam make it out? Sam explains he didn't know. Lilith shot a burst of light at him, but it had no effect. She bailed right after that.
Dean asks Sam if he's been using his "freaky ESP" stuff, and Sam adamantly says no, saying Dean asked him not to go down that road, so he didn't. "It was practically your dying wish," Sam says.
"Let's keep it that way," Dean says. Uh-huh. OK.
They reach Pamela the Psychic's place. She's opens the door and you see a woman with dark hair and low-back tat that says, "Jesse Forever," but as she explains to Dean, Jesse obviously wasn't forever. "But his loss can be your gain!" she flirtatiously tells Dean. "You're invited too, grumpy," Pamela tells Sam.
"You. Are. Not. Invited." Dean hisses at him. Pam throws a black cloth painted with glyphs over the table, lights some candles andhas everyone hold hands. She asks for something the mystery demon touched.Dean rolls up his shirt sleeve, and she lays her hand on the red burn. They close their eyes and it begins. "I invoke, conjure and command thee to appear unto me before this circle!" She repeats this over and over again. The feedback kicks in, and the TV turns on by itself, showing a screen full of static. Pamela cocks her head to the side, "Castiel?" she says. "No, sorry, Castiel, I don't scare that easy." She tells them something is whispering its name to her, warning her to turn back. She commands the spirit to show her its face. The high-pitched screech gets louder. "Show me your face now!"
The candles flare, and Pam's eyes glow white as she screams and falls to the ground. Bobby reaches down to take her in his arms, and we see that Pamela's eyes are completely burned out of their sockets.
Back in Pontiac, Sam and Dean retreat to a diner to consider their options as a waitress puts in their order. They have a name, so that's something. On the other hand, it's the name of an entity that burned out a psychic's eyeballs. Dean is ready to work him over, which Sam rightly calls crazy talk. He opts to find the demons he was tracking as the waitress brings the boys their pie. They thank her, and she sits down at their table.
The waitress reveals herself and the other people in the diner to be demons Sam is looking for. She threatens Dean, but doesn't take any action, and doesn't seem to know anything about his escape from hell. The boys leave, although Sam wants to exorcise the demons.
Later that night, Sam sneaks out while Dean is asleep and heads back to the diner. When Dean wakes up, he again hears the piercing sound that he heard in the gas station. Dean's nap is interrupted when, you got it, the TV cuts on by itself, followed by the radio. There's static, there's that high-pitched squeal and the mirrors and windows shatter.
Bobby returns as it stops, and Dean convinces him that they need to summon Castiel. He calls Sam, who lies about being at the diner. Sam tells Dean he went to get a burger. Dean tells him he and Bobby are getting a beer.
"Because he'd try to stop us," Dean says. From what? asks Bobby, and Dean replies, "From raising this thing." Dean insists it's time to face it head-on, no more running. "It's high noon, baby!"
"Dean...we could use Sam for this."
"Nah, he's better off where he is."
Really? Sam breaks into the diner, where "Crazy" is playing on the jukebox to a dark and apparently empty room. Upon exploring the joint, Sam comes across a body on the floor. It's one of the demons, and his eyes are burned out. While he's drinking that in, wacky waitress demon ambushes Sam. They scuffle for a bit, until Sam backs up and sees her eyes have been burned out, too! She says she can still smell his soul a mile away. Sam asks what she saw, and all she can say is it's the end. "We're dead -- all of us!" He asks her again what she saw. She comes back with, "Go to Hell."
"Fine," Sam says. "I was going to say the same thing to you." He closes his eyes and concentrates, stretching out his hand. The waitress starts regurgitating black smoke The waitress crumples to the ground, and the black smoke disappears. Sam goes to check the woman's body, but it's too late. She's gone.
"Damn," he says, crouching over her. Then out from the shadows, another woman emerges. "Getting pretty slick there, Sam, better all the time."
"What the hell is going on around here, Ruby?"
Ruby doesn't know. But, as she explains, human souls don't walk out of Hell easy. "The sky bleeds. The ground quakes. It's cosmic. No demon can swing that. Not Lilith. Not anybody."
"Then what can?" Sam asks. Ruby replies, "Nothing I've ever seen before."
Meanwhile Bobby and Dean's are in a building with every spiritual glyph sprayed on every inch of the walls, ceiling and floor. They have magic weapons at their disposal. Bobby still thinks it's a bad idea, but Dean gets him to start chanting.
Ruby and Sam discuss what they're going to say to Dean about what they've been doing the past few months. Sam tells Ruby he will tell Dean what he has been doing, when the time is right.Sam says he hasn't, but he'll tell him in his own time. "I don't know if what I'm doing is right. Hell, I don't even know if I trust you. What I do know is, I'm saving people. And stopping demons. And that feels good. I want to keep going." Hmm.
Bobby and Dean are sitting in the building waiting. Nothing's happening. "You sure you did the ritual right?" Dean asks impatiently. That's when the walls start to rattle and the room fills with howling wind. The bulbs in the light fixtures overhead explode, showering sparks down on them as the doors fly open and a figure slowly walks in.
He walks over the Devil's Trap and is unharmed when Bobby and Dean shoot him with rocksalt. He glides confidently up to Dean, who sneakily palms a blade and asks, "Who are you?"
"I'm the one who gripped you tight and raised you from Perdition," the man says.
"Thanks for that," Dean says, then in one quick motion, stabs in him the chest. As if Dean tickled him with a feather, the man takes the blade by the hilt and calmly pulls it out of his chest. Bobby rushes up to hit the guy with a pipe from behind, and without even looking in his direction, the man catches Bobby's swing, turns and waves two fingers at the grizzled hunter's forehead, causing him to pass out.
"We need to talk Dean," the man says. "Alone."
"Who are you?"
"Castiel," he replies.
"Yeah, I figured that much," Dean growls. "I mean, what are you?"
"I'm an angel of the Lord," Castiel replies.
Dean doesn't believe him.
"This is your problem, Dean," the angel says. "You have no faith." Castiel fills the room with light for a moment. Dean can just barely make out the shadow of his wings.
"Some angel you are," Dean says, "you burned out that poor woman's eyes."
Castiel counters he warned her, his true form can be too much for some to take.
"Buddy, next time, lower the volume," Dean cracks. Castiel apologizes, explaining he thought Dean was one of the gifted few who could hear his true voice. He goes on to explain he's borrowing the body - a vessel, he calls it - of a very devout man. "He actually prayed for this."
Dean still doesn't believe him. "Why would an angel rescue me from Hell?"
"Good things do happen, Dean," Castiel tells him.
"Not in my experience," Dean retorts. "...Why did you do it?"
"Because God commanded it," Castiel says. "Because we have work for you."
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