Crowley (Mark Sheppard) tortures his own shifter look-alike for info on purgatory. He threatens the shifter's babies with an iridium knife. When that has no effect, he just kills him. Lots of head lopping this season - something for Crowley to look forward to. Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) hand over their latest catch a rougarou to Crowley's lackey. The demon (Conrad Coates) tries to be funny. Dean hates what they have been resorted to doing and asks, "Remember when we used to gank demons?" Yeah we do, a reference to earlier seasons of the show since that's all they used to do most of the time. Dean now feels like he needs a "daily rape shower." Sam knows to get his soul back that's what they have to do. One thing before I forget, how can they be so sure Crowley can deliver on his promise of getting Sam his soul back? They rely too much on what he says and especially since over the past seasons their motto, has been "demon's lie."
Dean again has to ask Sam if he really wants his soul back. Sam replies he's working for Crowley, which should be confirmation enough, but again have to question his response, especially since Sam doesn't feel, either way, anything about what he has to do for Crowley. It's not like he can be disgusted or repelled by it. Sam is taken from their room and so is Dean. That was too quick and easy. It's Meg (Rachel Miner) again. Dean wants to rip her to shreds and she demands info on Crowley. It used to be Meg who was tied up in chairs. These days it's our dudes. Sam laughs at her. She's angry but she can't kill them cos she's running as Crowley's on the hunt for Lucifer's supporters, or as he puts it, "Lucifer's loyalists." She needs them.
Sam tells her to work with them and they need info from Crowley before she kills him. She leaves them tied up. Dean riles up the bald demon when he comes close to him, "You gonna kiss me" He was shifty, even for a demon. Dean is angry at having to work with Meg, she killed Ellen and Jo. Sam says they have insurance, as in Castiel (Misha Collins). He arrives when Sam tricks Cas into thinking they found the Ark of the Covenant, but actually recounts the plot of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Ordinarily Sam wouldn't have pulled something like that. Sam says Cas owes him and he'll hunt Cas and kill him if he doesn't help. Cas asks how.
Sam reminds him it's what friends do - forget that he threatened an angel. Cas can't locate Crowley and they search Samuel's (Mitch Pileggi) office. Sam is getting his soul back. Dean emphasizes it's his grandson's soul, but Samuel can't help. Dean protests they're his blood. He can't help but why does he refuse. It's obvious he wants Mary back but again will Crowley even deliver: the double crossing backstabber that he is. They know how to live without her. Dean: "Don't go down that road." Dean again talks about being his grandson and it's wrong. He should learn from their mistakes. It's their Achilles Heel and "runs in the family." Wanting a loved one back and saving them over and over, which we know Sam and Dean have endured through the years. Sam was quiet on this one. Dean asks what Samuel will ask her when he brings Mom back, that he didn't help her son.
Cas watches porn! Really can't take him anywhere. That's how much Dean has rubbed off on him. Dean berates him he's meant to watch it alone and not talk about it. Samuel agrees to help but they don't trust him. He's probably made another deal with Crowley. Cas tells Samuel when he comments on what he's watching, "We're not supposed to talk about it." Samuel shows them where Crowley is torturing his monsters. Sam asks Cas to come and Meg calls him Clarence (from It's a Wonderful Life. The guardian angel who helped George and finally got his wings, our Cas already has wings, massive Chrysler Building-sized ones!) Sam says they'll all go together. He asks for her knife and kills the shifty bald demon. He did them a favour and keeps the knife since Meg took it from them.
Cas doesn't think it's wise to get Sam's soul as it's been locked in the cage with Michael and Lucifer and they take his anger out on his soul. If they force his soul into Sam, he doesn't know what may happen and it could lock Sam inside forever. Or he could die. Dean knows they can fix him but Cas doesn't know how. Cas: "We fail and Sam suffers horrifically." Sam had to be listening of course...
Cas lets them into the building and the Djinn (Laura Mennell) the one from 6.1, asks them for help. They sense hellhounds and think the salt will hold them but not for Long. Meg can't demon smoke out. Cas realizes Crowley has cast a spell and Sam gives Meg the knife but she doesn't want it. She and Cas kiss and she takes his knife. Cas: "I learned that from the pizza man." The porn he watched. Cas disappears cos of Samuel. Knew he'd sell them out cos his blood is thicker than that of his grandsons. Meg's caught by Christian (Corin Nemec).
Dean: "You want forgiveness, find a priest." Dad put his blood first, unlike Samuel who chose a demon over his own grandsons. Samuel doesn't know what Sam is and he wants to protect him. Dean's a stranger. Dean never wants to see him again cos he'll kill him. That's what Dean said to him when they met; that he doesn't trust him but Sam wouldn't let it go just cos he'd been working with them. Also so much for Samuel not knowing what Sam is. The same can be said about Samuel. They don't know who he is, let alone what he is, cos he certainly ain't' family.
Christian tortures Meg for info. Sam bites his arm and Dean must fight ghouls yet again. He comments Shawshank was a great film but he doesn't want the shower scene relived. Or lived even. Sam made a demon trap on the ceiling with his blood. Sam actually came to rescue Dean this time like he cared, with his trusty pipe. Christian still engaged in torture tactics doesn't see them and Meg laughs at Dean behind him. Bet Dean enjoyed killing Christian and unties her. They trap Crowley too and Meg tortures him.
Sam asks for his soul but Crowley can't deliver. He was lucky to get Sam out and his soul is keeping them entertained down there. Sam wants it. Crowley's useless. Crowley pins them against the wall and Cas returns. Crowley: "Haven't seen you all season." Cas has Crowley's remains and asks if he can restore Sam's soul or not. He answers no. Didn't he want to lie to save himself? Is he finally gone for good? Highly unlikely in this show. Meg escapes as per usual. Dean was going to kill her. Cas says it's not good for him up there, he'd prefer to be here and they will find another way to help Sam. Cas takes care of all the monsters there. Sam tells Dean he heard Cas and he listens when demons and angels agree. He doesn't want his soul back and he's better off without it. Sam walks away.
So first he was without his soul for a year and then he wanted it and now he's resigned to not getting it and then not wanting it in the end. Dean's determined to find a way and once he sets his mind on doing something; he does exactly that. No surprise Samuel didn't really care or want anything to do with them. He doesn't know what Sam is yet, yet he let him muck in for a year not cos he saw him as family; but he wanted Mary back. Had an idea that's why he was working for Crowley. Again Crowley couldn't return Sam's soul and lied about it so probably he lied about Mary too. At least Dean had the right idea about family and the 'cousins' from the start. - he didn't trust them or want anything from them. Each having their own idea of family.
Dean's line of needing a "rape shower" was insensitive and uncalled for - especially since it's not the same thing as handing over a bunch of monsters to demons. Could have come up with something different, cos it sure wasn't funny.
Referring back to season 2 when Dean didn't know how Sam would come back after he died and was brought back. All the time he worried if Sam was really Sam and now in season 6, we get an answer to that. At least one possible outcome. Sam did return but not as 'complete' Sam. Who's to say Crowley didn't bring him back in one piece, soul intact cos he didn't want to. Then again Crowley just demonstrated he's not good at much of anything, couldn't bring back Sam's soul so how could he possibly have managed to bring back Sam from the cage? This is proving to be highly unlikely it was him to begin with now. Seeing as Sam was more effective as a hunter without his soul, which was the same reason Samuel wanted him around. He was an effective hunting machine. And in his plan to get Mary back, he got Sam to hunt as many monsters as he could, but it all backfired on him. Thus the lesson, he should have listened to Dean when he said they've been through all that and made their mistakes.
Sam biting his arm in that way was a hark back to seasons 4 and 5 mostly - when Sam was drawn into demon blood drinking and that look on his face, seemed almost a smirk, juts as when he let Dean be bitten by the vampire in 6.5. If Sam had a soul he probably wouldn't have done that let alone think about biting his arm. Then again in past seasons, he did have a soul and still did that. Dean reminding us how Sam and dean both made deals in the past and how they'd always come back to bite them (no pun.)
As for Sam making threats to Cas, would he really be able to kill an angel - his soulless hunting prowess aside? Crowley saying how he hasn't seen Cas all season was true. He hasn't had much to do yet. Lots of references to past demons and monsters they've hunted, such as rougarou, Djinn, hellhounds, ghouls, Meg turning up, Devil's trap, constantly dying for one another. Dean's suggestion Samuel should seek a priest for forgiveness. Sam and Dean played (hot) priests in season 1.
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