Crowley kidnaps Lisa and Ben in the hopes of keeping the Winchester's from interfering in his plans for purgatory along with Cas, who still helps Dean.
March 15th 1937 Providence, Rhode Island
As a writer types, the door opens. HP Lovecraft (Peter Ciuffer) is killed. Sam (Jared Padalecki) comments at least Dean (Jensen Ackles) tried with Cas. There's nothing in the journals on how to stop Cas (Misha Collins) from opening Purgatory. Moishe Campbell of the New York Campbell's made a copy of the journal and Cas took the original. Sam knows the name HP Lovecraft. Dean was "too busy getting it on with women."
Cthulu Talisi by Lovecraft is read by Ben (Nicholas Elia). Lisa (Cindy Sampson) watches TV with her boyfriend who is killed and she and Ben are abducted. Ben calls Dean but doesn't get out of the widow quickly enough. It could only be Crowley's (Mark Sheppard) plan of course, using them as insurance. Calls Sam, 'Jolly Green' as in giant. Dean must assume Cas knows. Sam and Dean summon Balthazar (Sebastian Roche). Cas told him about Crowley. Dean thinks maybe he's decent and he's asking him for help. Sam wants to call Cas instead.
Bobby (Jim Beaver) meets a man as a journalist who has a collection of Lovecraft's letters. He's too late as Cas has already been here as he describes a man with a "Columbo trenchcoat." There was a party on the 10th March of a black magic cult and they opened a door to another dimension. Bobby talks to one man who tells him about the maid and her son.
Dean tortures a demon for info. It was obvious he would break the circle. It's Dean's fault. Sam doesn't listen to him and goes ahead and calls Cas. Who shows up but doesn't reveal himself to Sam and confronts Dean instead. Crowley's "top- coiffed heroes" a reference to Sam and Dean. Cas only stop Crowley if he finds purgatory. Balthazar calls for Cas who lies about Crowley. Balthazar calls him a rotten liar since he wants to take all the souls into himself and if he explodes he'll take the planet with him. Bobby tells the son he believes in monsters and he admits the spell worked and something came through and took his mother . Bobby is the first person to say sorry about her and shows her photo. Bobby looks surprised but he knows the woman.
Dean is being careless when he breaks the circle himself and Cas arrives to save him again. Dean can't believe him. Cas thinks of him like family and he did everything he asked, he answered Dean's calls and wanted one thing. Cas feels he's earned purgatory. Cas: "Stand behind me the one time I ask." Dean will find Lisa and Ben himself.
The boy's mother was Ellie (Kim Johnston Ulrich) who is hiding out but Bobby found her easily enough. This house isn't safe and he knows what she is. She's from purgatory and is a friend. Ellie came though the door but didn't open it and likes it here. Dean took the sword to stop Eve. Bobby needs to know how to open the door. Think she should have listened to Bobby about protecting her cos she couldn't protect herself.
Dean drinks some more. Balthazar didn't like Cas's answers and wants to help him. He's changed his tune pretty quickly after calling them "howler monkeys." He's found Lisa and Ben and he takes them there. Sam's caught out again. Lisa's possessed courtesy of Crowley. She calls Dean Ben's real father but she's joking and lying like demons do. Lisa would have been better off if she didn't meet him. Dean's about to exorcise her using his Latin and he doesn't need a book to read from now. She stabs herself and Dean exorcises her. Sam's still out cold. Ben has to use a gun now, something Dean never wanted him to do.
Cas arrives at the hospital and heals Lisa and Dean wants him to make her forget about him and their lives together. Cas is sorry and Dean must thank him but nothing's changed. Cas knows he wanted to fix what he could. They were both in a car crash and Dean pretends to be the other driver. "Their lives can get back to normal now." One thing I have to add quickly is what about the things Lisa may still have at her house about him, photos or other stuff, won't she wonder who that is, presumably she still recalls where she lives. Also Ben might still have something of his too. Saying goodbye was hard for him.
Dean doesn't tell Sam he knows. Dean threatens to break Sam's nose if he talks about Lisa or Ben. That's not nice! Ellie is caught by Cas. At least the Lisa and Ben storyline was finally concluded this season, they were kind of out of place the way they kept creeping back into Dean's life when he'd left them. Cas would always be one step ahead of the Winchester's as they always have been struggling to find his plans. Bobby should have been more insistent and more instrumental in protecting Ellie knowing she was up against Cas and Crowley and what they're capable of.
Dean not knowing of HP Lovercraft especially when he's into movies, but he's also heard of books too, even if he hasn't read them, such as The Da Vinci Code. Also what hasn't he head of Metallica's "The Call of Ktulu." Great scene between Cas and Dean, as always, in that Cas still wants to help Dean after what they've done to each other and in terms of Cas's betrayal of them. Still after everything Cas had done for them, Dean can't see his way of approving Cas's plan for purgatory and his dire need for those souls. It's another question of free will. Dean has that freedom to choose and he knows opening purgatory isn't in the best interests of humans and earth. Yet Cas also now fully grasps this same concept of free will, needs those souls and will do whatever it takes.
A particularly heart wrenching episode for Dean having to deal with saying goodbye to Ben and Lisa for good and still battling Cas and his pans. No wonder he threatened to break Sam's nose if he talks about them.
Bobby wouldn't really be shocked for sleeping with Ellie -a creature from purgatory, that was summoned from purgatory by Lovecraft and his black magic circle. All of the Winchester's have faced such demons. Sam and werewolf, Madison. Dean kissed the crossroads demons several times and a vampire in season 1. Ben reading Lovecraft when this episode mentioned him and was about Lovecraft opening the door to purgatory. Ben's graphic novel, entitled, Cthulhu Tales Volume 2: Whispers of Madness, published in 2008.
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