Then!

Castiel and Lucifer escape Asmodeus’ prison! Lucy stabs Cass! Cass stabs Lucy! Sam and Dean reunited with Rowena and shenanigans sort of ensued! Donatello is the current prophet of God!

Now!

Lucifer is wandering around some town in Missouri, weak and grouchy, when he stumbles across a Cupid who is just minding his own match-making business, setting up a meet-cute for a couple that is definitely NOT stand-ins for Castiel and Dean* (The Serious Destiel shippers are grasping at straws these days, people.).

Lucy drains the grace from this haplesss Cupid, and then punches him through the heart, and leaves his mangled body. Dammit, Lucy! But the grace isn’t nearly enough to power back up, and Lucy wanders the town in search of another winged victim, as he laments feeling cold and hungry.

After sort of befriending a panhandler, and doing a piss poor job of panhandling himself, he learns of a faith healer, named Sister Jo, who is actually an angel who has figured out that she is a much better business person on earth than she ever was as a low-level angel pushing a button up in Heaven.

Sister Jo, aka Anael, cuts a deal with Lucifer for her to let him suck out her grace little by little, so she can recharge, and help him get back to full power. It actually benefits her in the end, but we are subjected to some creepy, sorta-sexy scenes of grace-sucking that I was incredibly uncomfortable with.

It was super Ewwwwww-y. And not just because Sister Jo is played by Jensen’s wife.

But! Lucifer reading through The Bible and being irritated by all the things it got wrong is funny, and confirms what Castiel says waaaaaaay back in season four, that The Bible got more wrong than it got right.

Castiel is passed out in a field, and poked with a stick by some kids. After reviving, and scaring the kids off, he makes his way to the bunker to inform Sam and Dean that Lucifer is out and about, and pretty much holds his own against Dean’s predictable annoyance at failing to “Not doing anything stupid.”

So now the hunt is on to find Lucifer, and to send his ass back to the cage? The AU? I’m not sure, but I’m thinking these boys will shove Lucy back in just about any confining space they can at this point. But in the meantime, they are focused on getting Mary and Jack back, and they bring Donatello in to read the Demon tablet, and hopefully find a spell to open the rift to the AU.

I’m thinking this a super-duper long-shot, considering the original spell was on the AUs version of the Angel tablet, but what do I know?

What I do know is that Donatello is approached by Asmodeus-As-Castiel while on a chicken wing run, and is whammied into reporting any progress back to the Prince of Hell.

Asmodeus is irritated that his prize prisoners have escaped, and after blaming a sassy Ketch for a lot of his problems, Asmodeus sends Ketch out to kill Lucifer before he powers back up to full strength. Ketch is dubious he has that level of skillz, but he heads off anyway. Not that he has much of a choice, really.

The beautiful boys, and Cass (who is also beautiful, okay?), head out to follow the trail Lucy has left behind, leading them to the church where Sister Jo has been healin’ folk. They hilariously find Ketch inside the church, and even more hilariously, Cass touches him on the forehead and knocks his ass out, and they deposit him in the trunk of the Impala.

A video of Sister Jo in action reveals that she is an angel named Anaes. Sam puts a google alert on her creidt card, which leads everyone to the motel where Lucy and Anaes are being weird together.

Anaes has got them thinking Lucy is still mostly powered down, so the Winchesters and Cass rush in to his room, and are rapidly disarmed and flung about, until Ketch, escaping the Impala, busts in and detonates a demon bomb. Unfortunately, the bomb goes off after Lucy and Anaes flutter on outta there, so rats to that.

This gif set makes me happy. Can you guess why?

Jensen is hawt.

Ahem.

Ketch pleads his case with the boys yet again, vowing to help them, even though he is working for Asmodeus, and I’m not sure what Ketch is up to, but I am happy to have his devious charm be part of the show for a while. He’s jolly good fun!

Lucifer convinces Duma that he knows how to make new angels, something the current angels have been rending their garments about, and tells them he will be happy to make mucho angels if they install him as the new ruler of Heaven, with Anaes by his side. And those winged dummies fall for it!

Finally, we end with Ketch back at the palace (What? That’s what Crowley called it!), where Asmodeus reveals that he has acquired a heretofore unknown weapon, called the Arch Angel Blade. A weapon made explicitly to kill arch angels, with it’s short and twirly blade. When Ketch points out that the lore suggests that only another arch angel can wield the blade, Asmodeus reveals that he happens to have one in a cell.

Cut to a bloody, disheveled Gabriel, who happens to have his lips sewn shut!

FREAKING GABRIEL!

And why not? Way back in season nine, Metatron uses what seems to be a fiction of Gabriel to try and trick Castiel into joining him, and when Cass figures out its a ruse, he asks Gabriel if he’s really dead. Gabriel waggles his eyebrows and disappears. Gabriel has fooled us many a time, so I am totally fine with it!

Quotes!

Lucifer: “What no ‘Eek!’ No ‘Spare me Dark Master?’ No quaking fear?” Sister Jo: “Should I quake?” Lucifer: “I mean, yeah. Most people sort of do. Yeah.” (elevated by Pellegrino’s masterful delivery)

Dean: “All right. I say we take dickbag here back to the Bunker, find out what he knows, and put a bullet in him, burn his bones, and flush the ashes.” Castiel: “I like that plan.”

Ketch: “I know you think I’m a monster –” Dean: “Because you are.” Ketch: “But even I must draw the line somewhere. And letting Lucifer free upon the Earth? Well, as it turns out, that’s my line. Not to mention the whole Michael situation. I know you want to kill me. I know you can’t forgive me. But if you think about it, I’m the lesser of well, at least three evils. All I ask is that you wait to murder me until after I prove useful.”

Extra!

Look at this screenshot. That is the backdrop from “Supernatural! The Musical” from back in season ten. :O Are kids all over the country puttin’ on a show? Heeee.

Next! Finally, some Mary and Jack action! (Not like that. Get your mind out of the gutter!)

* I was noodling around the interwebs, when I stumbled across a post about the meet-cute scene in this episode, and these dedicated Destiel shippers were CONVINCED that the roller-skating woman represented Castiel, as she was wearing a camel colored coat (the same color as Castiel’s trenchcoat!!), and that the cake-carrying man represented Dean, because he was cute? Or had green eyes, or something. Anyway, they went on about how “Castiel” bowled over “Dean” with her love and the fact that “Dean” was carrying a wedding cake was the PROOF that the show accepted the fact that Dean and Castiel are in love. O_o

Say what you will about these Destiel shippers, they certainly have grand imaginations!!