- Sam and Dean meet a woman in a small town who claims to be a prophet.
- Dean and Sam are saved on the road from a demon attack by a group of citizens from Blue Earth, a small town in Minnesota. They discover that the pastor's daughter Leah Gideon communicates with angels who provide instructions on how to reach salvation.. Their followers believe that the will live in Paradise on Earth after the Apocalypse. Sam calls Castiel and when he arrives, they discover the truth about Leah.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- As Sam and Dean arrive in a small town they discover it is under demon attack. Strangely the daughter of the local pastor is having visions and is giving guidance to the townsfolk as a prophet. Guiding them and advising them she has built up their trust and blind faith. But things are not what they seem as Sam and Dean discover the truth when Castiel shows up.—Anonymous
- THEN
We're reminded that once upon a time, Dean knocked boots with a nice, girl-next-door type named Lisa, who he looked up a season or two back. Turns out she's a single mom with a son -- not his, according to her. But he does save her. She asks him to stay, and he declines, explaining that her life isn't his.
His life, however, isn't going so well. God has forsaken them; Castiel, their angel pal, has lost faith; and they're run out of ideas as to how to stop the Apocalypse.
NOW
Dean is flying down a dark road in the Metallicar, with Sam bleeding in the passenger seat. They tangled with a mess of demons, more than they've encountered before, and it seems they've lost and are on the run. Not fast enough, It seems, and matters aren't helped when they're forced to stop by a massive, flaming metal barrier in the center of the road. Dean moves to turn around, but it's too late -- three demons are on them, and one pulls Dean out of the car through the window.
It looks like it's over -- but suddenly, from a darkened fire truck nearby, a fire hose turns on the demons and douses them with holy water. The demons smoke and hiss, and a man says an Enochian phrase over a bullhorn, exorcising all three at once. "Well, that's something you don't see every day," Dean quips.
The man comes over and asks Dean if he's OK and tells him to be careful. Dean, shocked, asks the guy what outfit this is, and he identifies the group that saved them as the Sacrament Lutheran Militia.
"Hate to tell you this but, those were demons, and this is the Apocalypse," the man says. "So...buckle up."
There are three men in the truck --including the first man's teenage son, Dylan, -- and Dean and Sam thank them, impressed (and more than a little surprised) by their resourcefulness. They explain that they're all on the same team and ask if they can help. After a moment, the men have Dean and Sam follow them into town.
HQ is a church, and the entry to the church is ringed with concrete barriers, pylons and barbed wire. Outside the church doors is a devil's trap, and inside, a wedding ceremony is taking place.
"A wedding? Seriously?" Sam asks? The man beside him, the town bartender (who was also in the fire truck) tells Sam there have been eight so far this week.
Later, the pastor, David Gideon, chats with them and jokes that if they're demon hunters, that they missed a few. Sam asks him if he knows why they're fond of this town, and the man doesn't know. Instead, he leads them to the church basement, where the town's citizens are packing salt rounds and loading jugs with holy water.
Sam asks why they haven't called the National Guard, and Pastor Gideon says he was told not to. "By who?" Sam asks, and the man clams up. Dean presses him -- he can tell Pastor Gideon is logical, and he knows the exorcism at the roadblock was Enochian. Someone is obviously telling them something. The pastor apologizes, but then his daughter, Leah, walks up.
She tells her dad that he's talking to Sam and Dean Winchester, and they're safe. She says she knows all about them, from the angels. Dean is not exactly thrilled, but Leah tells them not to worry -- the angels can't see them there. She knows about the carvings on their ribs, and she knows where the demons are going to be before they get there, and the angels tell her how to fight back.
Dean informs her that she's a prophet, and she smiles. "You're not the first prophet that we've met, but you're the cutest. And I mean that with the utmost respect," he says.
Later, Sam calls Cas from a packed bar and tells him where they are, which is Blue Earth, Minnesota and asks him to help them. Sam talks to the bartender, Paul, who tells him that ever since the Apocalypse started, it's been like one long last call. Sam sits with Dean and asks what his theory is.
Dean isn't sure, and Sam points out that the angels are sending people to do their dirty work, which he finds strange. Dean points out that they're all going to die in a month or two anyway since, hello, it's the end of the world. "These people aren't freaking out. That they're running to the exits in an orderly fashion -- that not such a bad thing."
Sam asks what happened to saving them, but he's interrupted when the church bells start ringing -- Leah's had another vision.
There's a group of demons five miles down a nearby road and the Pastor asks for volunteers to confront them. The bartender is among the posse, and so is the first man who greeted them, Rob, as well as his wife Jane and son Dylan. Sam and Dean also volunteer to lend a hand. The pastor asks the church to join him a prayer. When he starts with "Our father in heaven," Dean murmurs, "Yeah, not so much."
The prayer continues, and Sam notices Paul the bartender isn't joining in. In fact, he irreverently pulls out his flask and takes a pull.
The Sacrament Lutheran Militia sneaks up on a large house outside of town and is soon greeted by its demonic occupants. A massive melee ensues, with Sam and Dean taking out multiple opponents, Dean with salt rounds, Sam with Ruby's knife. The militia folks do plenty of damage on their own, and before long, the action is over and the good guys are victorious.
As the group walks away, Sam marvels to Dean that this is what it's like to have backup.
The boys are about to get into the Metallicar when Dylan runs up and asks to ride back with them. Sam and Dean are game -- he saved them a couple of times already. While the rest of the trucks drive off, Dean and Sam open the Impala's trunk and pull out their usual celebratory beers, tossing one to the kid. "Don't tell your mom," Dean says.
Dylan smiles and says he won't before taking a long sip. It's his last. Two hands come from under the car and drag the teenager down before Sam and Dean can react. Sam pulls a demon out from under the car and finishes her with the knife, but it's too late -- Dylan is dead.
At the boy's funeral Jane and Rob don't accept Dean's condolences. "This is your fault," Jane tells him. Pastor Gideon delivers a solemn eulogy during which he says he has no easy answers for what's going on, and it's at that point that Leah falls to the ground and has a seizure. When she comes to she tells the assembled that Dylan is going to come back, that on Judgment Day everyone will be reunited with their loved ones. She tells the congregation that Heaven has chosen them, and that they will be given paradise on Earth. Paul doesn't look all that convinced.
Leah continues that all that we have to do is follow the angels' commandments: No drinking, no gambling, no premarital sex. "Dean, they basically just outlawed, like, 90 percent of your personality," Sam jokes.
"Whatever, when in Rome," Dean replies. Sam can't believe that Dean is cool with that, and he explains that he's not. It's just that he's not a prophet, and they're not locals -- it's not his call. He tells Sam he'll catch up with him later, and heads off to chat with Leah.
She's napping on a couch when Dean enters, and Dean asks her if she's on the level... about Paradise. He wants to know what the angels are telling her, everything. "And you can skip the rainbows," she says.
Leah tells him that he knows there's going to be a big prizefight, and it's going to get ugly. "But after we win -- and we will -- the planet gets handed over to the chosen. And it's finally peaceful," she says with a smile. No monsters, no disease, no death. You're just with the people you love.
Dean points out that the caveat there is that you have to get past the velvet rope. She points out that he, too, is chosen. "More like cursed," he says.
Leah sympathizes that it must be difficult, being the vessel of Heaven and having no hope.
Sam chats with Paul in his very empty bar. Paul pours Sam a drink and admits he's a little sick of the holy rollers. Sam says he noticed that the man wasn't the praying type, and he tells him that neither is half of the congregation. A short time ago, most of them were in his place, getting drunk and banging the nanny. Now they're warriors of God.
Paul says he doesn't want to be a hypocrite. He's never prayed, and he's not going to start now, he says, and if he's going to hell, he's going honest. He asks Sam what his deal is, and Sam says he believes, he's just pretty sure God stopped caring a long time ago.
Sam returns to the motel where Dean is in bed. Sam says he's been drinking, and he would have had more, but there's a curfew. He updates Dean -- they've shut down the cell towers. No cable, no Internet, cut off from the outside world. Sam is freaking out that the town is turning into a fundamentalist compound, but Dean insists that he doesn't care. "What difference does it make?" Dean says.
Sam is enraged that Dean seems to want to stop fighting and roll over. Sam tells Dean he can't do this to him. "I got one thing, one thing keeping me going. Do you think you're the only one white-knuckling it here, Dean? I can't count on anyone else -- and I can't do this alone," Sam says.
Dean abruptly walks out, saying he needs to clear his head, even if it is past curfew.
Around the same time in the church basement, Leah runs up to her father weeping. She says the angels are angry and have told her that the town cannot go to Paradise. Jane, sitting nearby, is shocked. She says they're doing exactly what the angels have told them to do, but Leah says some people aren't following orders. Pastor Gideon and Jane demand to know which ones.
Sam is brooding in the motel room when Cas shows up, stumbling around more than usual. He tells Sam that his message was long and he found the sound of his voice grating. Cas is drunk.
Sam asks what happened and Cas slurs, "I found a liquor store...and I DRANK IT." He tells Sam not to ask stupid questions and to tell him what he needs. Sam fills Cas in on what's happening in the town, including their discovery of a new prophet, Leah Gideon.
"She's not a prophet," Cas blurts, cutting Sam off. All the names of the prophets are seared into his brain, he says, and Leah Gideon is not one of them.
"Then what is she?" Sam asks.
Cut to Dean walking into the bar, where the Pastor and Rob are manhandling Paul the bartender. They're trying to run him out of town. Pastor Gideon attempts to de-fuse the situation, but Paul is refusing to leave, reminding Rob that they grew up together and that he stood up for him at his wedding.
Jane tells him that was then, but now he's standing against the flock. It doesn't matter that he fights with them. They're believers, and he's not. Paul refuses to leave, and as Dean moves to help hold order, a couple of men hold him back as Jane shoots Paul. He slumps to the floor, dead.
Dean returns to the hotel room with blood on his hands -- not his, Paul's. He tells Cas and Sam what happened, and Cas, still smashed, informs them that "it's starting."
Cas fills us in on what's really happening. Leah is not a prophet, but "the Whore of Babylon," a demonic entity which rises when Lucifer walks the Earth. She bears false prophecy and has the power to read minds and take human form. The real Leah was likely killed months ago. All of the demons are likely under her control, and the Enochian exorcisms are fake. Cas translates it to mean, "You breed with the mouth of a goat." It's an angelic joke, he explains, but it sounds funnier in Enochian.
It's a massive con to spill innocent blood in Heaven's name, with the goal of condemning as many souls to Hell as possible. Dean asks how they "go pimp of Babylon all over this bitch." Cas produces a stake carved from a cypress tree in Babylon, saying this is what can kill "the Whore." But it must be wielded by a true servant of Heaven. Which pretty much rules out everyone on Team Winchester. They only know of one possible recruit.
At the church, Jane is crying to Leah over what she did to Paul, and Leah explains that the angels understand what she did -- Paul was a sinner, she says, and he would have only taken the town down with him. She tells Jane that it's not a sin to strike down evil and Pastor Gideon doesn't agree with that, and says murder is not OK. Leah reminds her father that he always taught her to have faith.
Soon Leah is in front of the congregation again, calmly telling the assembled that the angels have informed her that at midnight the final judgment will take place. But there's one obstacle -- there are still sinners among them. She says she's been given instructions and names. Pastor Gideon whispers to her to calm down, and she turns to him and tells him to let her go, or the next sinner she names will be him.
The pastor walks outside to clear his head, which is when Cas confronts him, identifying himself as "an angel of the Lord."
"Yeah, right," says Pastor Gideon, but before he can turn away, Cas touches his shoulder and teleports him to Sam and Dean. They sit him down and fill them in on what's going on, and the Pastor refuses to believe them -- it's his daughter. But they insist it's not and remind him him of what hangs in the balance -- if he doesn't help them, many people will die and many more souls will be condemned to hell. Dean hands him the stake.
Outside Cas, who told the preacher he's a poor example of an angel, is holding his head as Dean hands him painkillers for his hangover. Dean tells him he's a big expert on deadbeat dads, and he's gets it, he knows how he feels.
"How do you manage it?" Cas asks sadly.
"On a good day," Dean growls in reply, "you get to kill a whore."
Jane and Rob are hauling a woman pleading for her life into the church basement, where Leah instructs them to pull her in the storage unit with the rest. They throw her in with a large group of other people, begging for mercy. Leah instructs them to throw kerosene on the ground at light it, but Jane balks at this. She points out that there are children inside. Leah doesn't care. She smiles calmly.
As she walks into Pastor Gideon's office, she pauses to gaze into the mirror and admire her true horrible face, which flashes for a moment. That's when Cas jumps her. He holds her arms behind her back as Pastor Gideon rushes her with the stake. She pleads to her daddy not to hurt her, then utters a curse that incapacitates Cas. With a wave of her hands, she telekinetically slams Sam, Dean and Pastor Gideon against a far wall, knocking them to the ground.
She runs out of the room and alerts Jane, Rob, and her assembled holy warriors that her father is now a demon. When he charges into the room, flanked by Dean and Sam, they all struggle. The stake flies to the ground, and Leah tells Jane and Rob to light the kerosene. Sam stops Rob and knocks away his lighter.
Leah attacks Dean, forcing him to the ground and putting her hands around his neck. He sees the stake within his grasp and reaches for it as she laughs at him. "Please!" she gloats. "Like you're a servant of Heaven! This is why my team is going to win. You're the great vessel? You're pathetic, self-hating and faithless." She chides him for sitting back and watching the end of the world happen.
Dean finally grasps the stake and knocks her back. "Don't be so sure, whore." He takes it in both hands and plunges it into Leah's chest.
Oddly, the stake starts to burn and she convulses before collapsing, stone cold. Dean did it...but how?
Jane doesn't understand. How are they going to get to Paradise now? Dean apologizes to her and breaks the bad news -- they're headed in a different direction.
Sam asks how Dean was able to kill "The Whore," since the deed could only be done by a servant of Heaven, and he writes it off to a lucky shot. The boys pull Cas and Pastor Gideon out to the car and put him inside. Sam asks Dean if he's thinking of doing something stupid, "like Michael stupid," and Dean insists he's not.
They get the Pastor and Cas back to the hotel, and Dean tells Sam he's going outside to pull some bandages out of the trunk of the car. After a moment, Sam hears the Metallicar's engine roar to life, and he realizes that Dean is leaving him there. Dean drives for a while in the night.
Cut to daylight, and Dean knocks on the door of a modest house. Lisa, his old flame, answers. She surprised to see him. He asks about Ben, then after a bit of awkward small talk, he tells her that he knows how the life that he lives is going to end for him, and he's OK with that.
But he wanted her to know that when he pictures himself happy, it's with her and Ben. Lisa says she knows, and invites him inside, but he politely refuses. He tries to leave, and she chides him for dropping that bombshell and then taking off. He warns her that things are going to get bad, that over the next few days she's going to see some crazy, trippy things on her TV. But he tells her she shouldn't worry, because he's making arrangements for her and Ben, that she's going to be OK. The people he's negotiating with aren't getting anything from him without agreeing to a few conditions.
Lisa pleads with him not to do whatever he's thinking of doing. She begs him to stay for an hour, to at least say goodbye to Ben, but he says it's better if he doesn't. She hugs him, and a tear streams down her face. He says goodbye to her, turns and gets into the Impala, and drives away.
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