Leaving is the hardest decision one can make.
Last week Sam was rescued by Dean, Mary and Castiel from the clutches of Toni Bevell and the British Men of Letters. Lucifer found a new vessel in the form of Rick Springfield. Crowley and Rowena tried to trap Lucifer and send him back into the cage, only to be given a lesson in the powers of an Archangel. Crowley was able to escape but left Rowena behind, and now she’s Lucifer’s prisoner. There was also pie.
So where are we this week?
Spoilers below!
A couple (Kyle Warren and Aadila Dosani)walks out of a restaurant talking about avocado toast and quail eggs. It sounds disgusting but then again, I eat cereal for breakfast every morning so what do I know. As they are walking down the street discussing how many stars they’re going to give the restaurant, they hear a baby crying off on the distance. Seeing an abandoned house, they wonder who could possibly be living there. The woman tells her date to call 911 as she goes off to see what’s going on.
Going through the dark, rundown house, the woman hears the sounds of the baby getting louder and louder. Entering a room, she sees a crib. Approaching the crib, she pulls back the blanket, revealing a creepy ass doll. No thanks. She backs away and her date is right behind her. The lights start to flicker and something touches her arm. They try to escape but the door slams shut, trapping them. Nothing good can come from that.
At the bunker, Mary is idly flipping through John’s journal. Even though she’s been back for a while, she is still having a hard time adjusting to her new “life.” When Cass shows up, she asks him when he started to feel like he belonged on Earth. Though he never really felt like he has, despite his relationship with Sam and Dean, he tries to convince Mary that she does belong. She doesn’t seem convinced.
The next morning, Sam and Dean are looking for information about the British Men of Letters. The only piece of information they have a largely redacted letter that mentions the London Chapterhouse. Cass walks in and announces that he has to go. He has gotten a lead on where Lucifer might be and he believes it is his responsibility to capture Lucifer since he was the one who freed him. The boys are a little concerned about Mary. Dean believes she needs rest while Sam thinks she needs a little something more. Mary appears and she’s cut her hair, a sign of her accepting her role as a hunter. She’s found a case in Minnesota which sends the Winchesters on the road.
In Cleveland, Cass is interviewing one of Vince’s fellow band members, Tommy (Woody Jeffreys). Tommy is convinced that Vince is no longer Vince because of his red eyes (and also because Vince threw Tommy like a rag doll out a door). Walking out of the hotel lobby, Cass hears a familiar and unwelcomed voice. Crowley has been following Cass.
In Minnesota, the Winchesters are talking to the ME about the victims from the house. The couple died of hypothermia with their hearts completely frozen. It’s a medical mystery considering that the temperature in the room was pretty normal.
Crowley makes a case for joining up with Cass, but Cass is not buying it. Crowley, strangely enough, does have a point. When they team up they are able to get things done and in this case, they have been following the same Lucifer leads. While Cass was talking to Tommy, Crowley was able to dig up information on Lucifer’s next pit stop. What an efficient team!
The Winchesters enter the abandoned Chamberlin house where the couple was killed. Using instruments they are able to track ghostly signatures. Mary goes off on her own and finds the room with the crib. Looking into it, the creepy doll is still there. Dean calls out to her, and right when she is about the leave the room, the door shuts on her, trapping her in. Dean and Sam rush to get her out, and while they are trying to knock down the door, a ghost child appears and grabs Mary by the arm. The boys burst through and pull her out.
Back that motel, Dean and Sam are hard at work trying to track down some information on the house. Mary, being old school, wants to canvass the neighborhood, but as Sam puts it those methods are “obsolete.” We know there’s something up with Mary and each interaction she has with her sons just seems to solidify her belief that she doesn’t belong there.
Cass and Crowley have tracked down Vincent’s sister, Wendy (Nancy Kerr). As Agent Beyoncé and Agent Zee, they try to ask her some questions, only to have the door slammed in their face. Crowley, not one to follow the rules, appears inside Wendy’s home as she trying to get a hold of Vince on the phone. It looks like Vince was there to heal Wendy, who was confined to a wheelchair. Wendy gives them all the info they need: they he was different when he showed up, that Rowena was with him and that Vince was heading to a cabin he owned.
At the cabin, Vincifer is a little concerned about the current state of his vessel. It looks like it’s starting to burn out. Vincifer is a little fed up with jump from vessel to vessel, so he convinces Rowena to make his vessel permanent.
Back at the motel, Sam looks into the lore and has found some information on Mylings, vengeful child spirits. While it looks like that this might be what’s going on but Mary is not so sure. She believes that the child who grabbed her was scared, not angry. Sam dismisses her thinking that she may have misinterpreted the ghost child’s intentions. Dean makes the plan to go find the bones and burn them. A series of memories flood Mary and she’s forced to sit down. Using this, the boys leave her, concerned that she needs rest. Once the boys leave, Mary gets on the phone and starts digging up information on the former owner of the house.
On the phone, Cheryl (Gwenda Lorenzetti), tells Mary about her son Lucas (Christian Convery). While living in that house, her son died suddenly with no known cause. Mary asks Cheryl for Lucas’s description and from that she is able to confirm that it was Lucas’s ghost who grabbed her.
At the cemetery Sam and Dean are burning the last of the bones. Sam shares his worries about their mom. Dean is happy that she’s back but thinks she’s just trying to adapt but Sam believes she’s struggling and that she’s using hunting to bury her true feelings.
When the boys return to the motel, they find that Mary is gone and she took the weapons bag with her. At the abandoned house, Mary makes her way to the room with the crib, hoping to see Lucas again. He appears in front of her and she calls out his name, hoping to gain his trust. Lucas takes her to a boarded up door and points. She breaks it and makes her way down to the basement. Right then Sam calls and Mary tells them where she is. While Sam and Dean believe that everything should be ok because they salted and burned the bones, it’s clearly not. Interference cuts into their phone call, and so the boys head back to the Chamberlin house.
Back at the cabin, Rowena is writing some glyphs on Vincifer’s chest, assuring him that the spell will make the vessel last longer than normal. Trusting her, he pushes her way, leaving her to cast the spell. Of course, Rowena has no intention of being Lucifer’s puppet. Casting the spell, Lucifer’s vessel starts to decay rapidly. Oh he’s been tricked! And he’s pissed. Coming after her, he starts breaking down. They both know that she can’t defeat him, but she can displace him. Casting another spell, she sends him to the bottom of the ocean. It’s pretty awesome.
At the Chamberlin house basement, Mary is trying to get Lucas to tell her who or what is binding him to the house. He points to a brick wall, “Him,” he says sadly. So a spirit has been binding Lucas to the place and it’s probably the same spirit who’s been killing people. The house shakes and Mary runs up. Encountering a male ghost, Hugo Moriarty (Cameron Grierson), Mary realizes the truth. It’s the father of a little girl who died when they lived in that house and the ghost children in that house are bound to him. Drawing Mary to him, Hugo lays his hands on her chest and possesses her just as Sam and Dean arrive.
So a possessed Mary knocks the boys around for the a bit. Hugo clearly doesn’t want them to save the children he’s captured. After a little big a struggle, Mary is able to free herself for a second and tells Sam and Dean to go into the basement. Sam leaves, leaving Dean to deal with Mary. Sam, down in the basement, finds a fake wall. Grabbing a sledgehammer, he knocks it down, revealing Hugo’s skeleton. Mary starts to follow Sam but Dean stops her. This momentary distraction gives Sam enough time to burn the bone and rid the house of vengeful spirit. With the ghost dead, the children are able to leave.
In the end, Rowena meets with Cass and Crowley and promises to aide them should they find Lucifer. Like Cass, she understands her part in releasing Lucifer into the world and so she wants to be the one to put him back. The Winchesters save the day, but it was Mary who really came through. Back at the bunker, Dean apologizes to Mary for sidelining her even though it was her case and she was right. Mary, of course, doesn’t think she did anything worthwhile and that it was Sam and Dean who saved her and saved the children. Dean tries to comfort Mary by telling her that she’s home now, but she strongly disagrees.
Everything she has been feeling comes out. She misses John and her young children and that being with them now reminds her of everything she lost. Mary tells her sons that she has to go and figure some stuff out. Dean is visibly heartbroken while Sam accepts her decision. Gathering her things, Mary leaves the bunker, the loud creak of the door adding weight to her decision.
Next week we see the boys dressed like priests and looking into a weird culty community. Cool. Cool, cool, cool.
Supernatural is on Thursdays at 9pm PST on The CW.
The Thoughts So Far:
- This was an absolute bummer of an episode. Not because it was bad, but because it was sad all around. A father so distraught that he kills himself in a truly horrific way and then Mary leaving for an undisclosed period of time. The idea that she was pulled from Heaven is very sad, very Buffy-esque.
- Now that Rick Springfield is gone, who is the next Lucifer vessel? I was hoping Rick would be around for a little while longer. He was pretty good.
- I enjoyed the Cass and Crowley comic relief of this episode. It needed it. I also want an episode was just the two of them going on a case.
- Also, how awesome was Rowena. I know she’s a powerful witch and all, but the number she did on Lucifer really highlighted her power.
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