Chester, Pennsylvania a man in his garage has near misses and finally the garage door falls and decapitates him. Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) both want each other to say something to Bobby (Jim Beaver) and Dean suggests they let him sleep. Bobby doesn't believe it's about Rufus since he had it coming when he met him and the only question was who would go first, Bobby or Rufus. Sam reads an article about Chester and they decide to investigate.
The Impala is no longer an Impala but a Mustang and the number plates changed to KAZ 2Y5, the plates the Impala had when the show first began. Bobby is married to Ellen (Samantha Ferris) who has been hunting with Jo. Now as soon as that happened alarm bells rang, something's not right.
Chester, Pennsylvania They check out the garage. Sam doesn't think it's about vengeful spirits (hey I miss those.) Sam finds what appears to be some sort of tinsel like fibre and thinks it's gold. Dean: "accidents just don't happen accidentally." Sam looks at him when he says that. Dean says they should speak to his next of kin and poses as a genealogy professor. He asks if there have been any violent deaths in the Russo family and Shawn Russo (Jason Schombing) is in danger and could the next Vic. The next Vic actually gets her scarf caught in the copier when a woman appears and throws her keys by the copier and drops another tassel on the floor. How careless was that , leaving clues at the CS? Well, they were crime scenes. Anne (Jill Morrison) wasn't related to the other man.
Ellen tells Bobby accidents have been happening globally. The families came to the US in the Titanic in 1912 and it's just a boat. No one's heard of it. Sam finds the first mate's name is 'IP Freely.' The picture is of Balthazar (Sebastian Roche). The Titanic was meant to sink but he saved it, cos he hated the movie. "God awful Celine Dion wanted me to smite myself." Some would take offence at that especially Celine's fans. Sam tells him they're all dying now and he "totally Butterfly effected history." Dean doesn't want any [Ashton] Kutcher references. Ellen and Jo are alive. Sam posits the descendants of the survivor's are being killed off. Balthazar: "You have me confused with the other angel... the one in the dirty trenchcoat who's in love with you."
Bobby says they're dealing with Fate, at least one of them. Sam comments the sisters from Greek mythology. Dean: "nerd." Thus the gold thread. They can't stop fate but can get an angel to sink the boat. Which is different to dying since they won't have been born. Dean tells Bobby about Ellen and Jo and then Bobby looks at the photo with him and Ellen at the B&E Scrapyard. He doesn't want the ship sunk.
Russo gets run over by a bus anyway (like the bus in season 2.5 Simon Said.) Dean laughs at the sign on the back of the bus, "Justice matters." Sam sees Fate who lures them into a building. Sam tells Dean she looked like a librarian. Dean: "Your kind of librarian or my kind of librarian?" Sam: "Well she was wearing clothes if that's what you mean." (Don't picture the librarian in The Big Sleep movie with Humphrey Bogart, stereotypically she too wore glasses.) Sam and Dean enter the building and time stands still and she turns on the gas cooker. Cas (Misha Collins) arrives in the nick to save them. Sam suggests Dean should use his lighter when the torch goes out. Dean's lighter never works which is just as well and it appears he hasn't replaced the old one yet but then again it may have lit. By some turn of fate, ha.
Cas takes them to white Russia and hates them for stopping the apocalypse. Cas knows her and has to kill her. Sam: "Kill fate." Wouldn't that be great. Balthazar has a weapon. Dean tells him he needs new friends. Cas is "trying to save the ones I have." Cas calls it "tempting fate." Ellen meanwhile tells Bobby "you can't stop fate." She thinks it's easier to sink the ship. Bobby is angry and they'll be missed. Bobby blabs about her and Jo's fate and he needs her. Dean thinks they can meet their fate at anytime. Blondie's One Way or Another plays throughout lots of scenarios, such as in season 3's Mystery Spot episode with the trickster. They have to walk through knife throwers, jugglers with hatchets and fire, as well as dogs. Why walk through them obviously to tempt fate as Cas put it.
Atropos (Katie Walder) says Sam and Dean ruined her life, so did Cas. Cas doesn't want her to get emotional since freedom is better. She's no longer required. This isn't about the movie, it's about souls and Balthazar is under Cas's orders. Atropos tells him it's about 50,000 new souls for Cas's "war machine." That was a clue to purgatory and why it's whereabouts need to be found. If he doesn't sink the ship, she'll kill his fave pets: Sam and Dean. "Fate strikes when you least expect it." Balthazar was meant to kill her. He agrees to sink the Titanic.
Dean wakes up to to My Heart Will Go On on the radio. Dean has to wake Sam up and tells him his dream was weirder and Sam dreamt the same dream. Cas says it wasn't a dream and he had to correct what happened for them. Sam can't believe he killed 50,00 people for them. Cas says what Ellen did, they were never born. Cas wanted them to remember and to know what fate is. Sam and Dean taught him you can make your own destiny, to choose freedom and he wanted them to understand that. Dean "Titanic's not so bad - Winslet's rack." That was Dean's whole raison d'etre for watching it no doubt, ha! Bobby still sleeps and Singer Autos' is now the sign in the photo with Bobby alone.
This was kind of going back to the earlier episodes where Dean used to not believe in fate or destiny - which Cas reminds him of at the end here. Oh so everyone was liking this episode with Final Destination once more, just like from season 1.4 Phantom Traveler. Yet it was different enough to maintain its own identity. Final Destination involved death seeking out its survivors. This episode concerned fate since these people should never have been born. I should say they weren't fated to be born. Also a swipe at Sam and Dean who have forever been "toying" with their own fates and keep bringing each other back from the dead or are brought back by someone else. The argument about making your own destiny has been Dean's from earlier seasons and what the show all entailed in its heyday.
Bobby and Ellen made a convincing couple; they have just enough similarities in their characters to make such a marriage work. Bobby losing another wife - but when it came to the crunch he didn't want to lose her - even if it meant people were being stalked by fate. For Ellen it wasn't the same thing since she was born and she died so her loss and her presence were both felt.
Were we meant to be convinced that Cas having all those souls for his war in heaven was his reason behind not wanting the ship sunk. Considering there are considerably more souls in purgatory for the taking. Balthazar was funny as usual, he did all that on the basis of not liking a song, clearly he showed he can mess with Fate if he feels like it and can get away with it for as long as possible.
Atropos, aka Aisa, was the eldest of the three fates. Her sister was Clotho who spun the thread. Lachesis measured the thread and Atropos took lives by cutting the thread of mortals with the use of her shears. Atropos was also called "inevitable" or "inflexible" and she lived up to this title here. Showing Cas she is a formidable force and she would do anything to ensure Sam and Dean met their fate as he couldn't be around to protect them all the time. He could have just brought them back again as he will say to Crowley.
A bit of a Bad Day At Black Rock from season 3 episode, instead of bad luck we had Fate, though some may argue it's much the same thing. The number of times the Titanic was called boat here, it was a ship. Also Balthazar says what most have been thinking about Cas being in love with Dean. Well I didn't think it, but that's been the joke. He's more in awe of Dean and how he can do whatever he wants and get by, or get away with it no matter what. That's more akin to Balthazar.
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