So okay, nothing will ever match the perfection that was Episode 300, but I'chiliad wondering how Dean is doing keeping Michael locked away in his mind and there's a Monster of the Week to be bagged, and the show must continue. Let'southward jump right in!

Bone Appetit

Information technology may be a graphic symbol flaw that the MotW eats people's organs and eyeballs, but man, you cannot fault his mise en place. Top Chef would be proud, provided, you know, he wasn't eating Padma or Tom. Too? He wears a serpent effectually his cervix, has a sure flair, and oh aye, sees the future with his snake optics. Curiouser and curiouser.

Upgraded

Squad Free Will version 2.0 breaks in and finds the organless cadaver and the repast in process of (over)cooking. It isn't until Dean blames witchcraft that we see it's more like Team Free Volition version ii.five (?) with the add-on of our favorite spellcaster, Rowena MacCleod. She's provided them with a tracking spell after weeks of this monster eluding them, and she wants a trivial gratitude, fifty-fifty if they are late for supper. Rowena has chemical science with all of them—she and Sam geek out over books, she and Dean fight similar a married couple, she flirts with a dislocated Castiel and Jack only looks upwards to her, in his puppy-eyed way. And I dear it.

Jack finds a snake skin and also starts coughing and everyone looks at him, concerned. "I'g not dying," he says, exasperated, merely c'monday—Iii Men and a Nephilim wouldn't be the same without you, Jack! Rowena notices black marks on the vics, and while Dean snarks at her near the bigger outcome beingness the missing eyes and cannibalism, she keeps her cool, tells Jack to exist a dearest and bring the snakeskin and sashays out of the room. Take I mentioned lately that I honey her, and her portrayer? Ruth Connell, y'all slay me.

No-Tell Cabin

Rowena and Sam research, and she tries to discover out what happened with Jack. Why he's live. And besides? How is Dean keeping Michael locked abroad? "Because he's Dean," replies Sam. "And Dean is…Dean." Fair enough!

I love the interactions between Rowena and Sam. They have a mutual respect I admire. If information technology weren't for the pesky future of Sam killing her? I'd say they were quite the couple.

Michael Knocking Down the Door, Hallelujah

Dean and Cas talk about the struggle of keeping Michael locked up, and Dean says he'south fine, because he has to exist. He reminds Cas of his promise of Plan B—that he goes in the Ma'lak box if Michael makes any sort of an appearance. Meanwhile wee Jack coughs up more blood in the bathroom and ends up using a little of his power (and his soul) to heal himself. Is Jack going to die the decease of 1000 cuts? 'Cause is he keeps using his soul this fashion it looks like he might.

Union of the Serpent

While Dean calls them an AV Club (which Cas helpfully defines as a place for people who can't play sports—and I feel personally attacked) Sam and Rowena figure out that the monster is a Gorgon, who is sadly not like the Medusa in Clash of the Titans only is paralyzing vics with a venom and then avid on their bodies (like the feeding habits of a snake). And likewise? It sees the futurity by consuming human eyes. Oh. And ew.

FB-Eye

Dean and Cas go Fed conform and Cas is stern, which we need more than of, TBH. The gorgon leaves Dean a notation telling him he sees him doing the investigation (and him and the tall human being and red-headed witch chasing him) and to back off, but, weirdly, doesn't mention Cas or Jack. Sam deduces that the gorgon tin't see angels, and that this is their chance to accept the element of surprise.

And They Telephone call Information technology Puppy Dearest

Rowena wants to mix up an antidote to the gorgon'south poisonous substance and needs anti-venom to exercise and then. And how will they become it? She and Sam, in a performance (at least for herself) that Rowena deems "magnificent", deed as bickering couple to a cute doggie, which is actually a transformed Jack, thanks to a Rowena special spell. Jack, after suffering offscreen a tour with a rectal thermometer, manages to steal the anti-venom and Rowena is suitably proud of him. Which he eats upwards. Jack's growing upwardly, for certain, but his fiddling boy need to please and to help is always present.

Rowena as well asks once again virtually Jack's current state, and Sam tells her they are being careful and that'due south all she needs to know. "Fine, don't tell me. Simply using dangerous mysterious magic regardless of the toll—that's a very on-brand 'me' thing to practice," she says. Sam, smirks and says, "Well, thank you." "Of class, Samuel," she says, and her sass is killer as usual, "Until very recently I was the villain." HA! Don't intendance what anyone says—Rowena is the best.

Striking Again

So the gorgon takes another victim and I'k going to confess—I didn't actually treat this monster of the week. He left me common cold, knife skills or no. Sam calls Maggie and she tells Sam that they have to behead the gorgon with a silverish bract to take him out. (Side note: I however like Maggie. She's sweetness and, is portrayed well, and I similar her evolution.)

Anyhow, Jack and Cas burst in on the gorgon (who says he is actually a demigod) and he stalls by telling Jack a fable of a craven and a snake and the snake steals the chicken'due south eggs past swallowing them whole so the chicken boils an egg and chokes the ophidian and this may be one of the longest run-on sentences I have ever written. It seems to milkshake Jack, and the gorgon manages to paralyze Cas (sigh…tin can Cas get it correct the first time even once? Delight?) and throw Jack around before Sam and Dean come to assist. Unfortunately, the gorgon repeatedly smashes Dean's caput into the wall, knocking him out cold, and what does that mean for keeping his guard upwardly to continue Michael trapped????

When the gorgon tries to escape Jack beheads him (Become JACK!) and then checks on Cas. When Rowena's remedy doesn't work Jack heals Cas with his powers, to Cas' dismay. Cas is alarm. Sadly? Dean is definitely non.

Bunker Bound

They go Dean back to the Bunker just Cas tin can't heal him (Due to Michael? Or only Cas beingness…Cas?). Jack wants to aid merely Cas says no. He cannot fire off any more of his soul to help them. Jack is helpless. And no amount of Cas' soothing him, telling him to cherish the people he loves while he has them, helps. Jack hates having powers he can't utilize.

"I tin can't think nearly losing him, or Sam, or yous," Jack says to Cas, and the little male child he all the same is shows through. I have to say, I know there is a faction of fandom that doesn't like Jack, but what Alexander Calvert has done with him has made me love him. He balances innocence and frustration and hopefulness and all of it so well. Finally, Cas and he discuss the chicken and the snake story and Cas tells him information technology'south virtually being willing to give up the affair you dear to impale the affair you hate. And the foreshadowing is strong, my friends. Strong indeed.

Search and Seizure

Dean interrupts their talk by freaking out and trashing the med bay, shouting "Where is HE?!?!", because Michael is gone. Broken gratuitous, out of his head. Everyone knows that can't be good. Dean starts to bluster about how they should have sunk him in the bottom of the sea and then they all hear the scream. Maggie's scream. Oh, human! CHUCK DAMN IT!

Maggie runs to Sam before she is burned out and killed, reminiscent of my love Kevin Tran, only one body of many, and so emerges Michael's new vessel. And it's none other than Rowena herself.

Dude Looks Similar a Lady

Michael explains that Rowena said yes after he convinced her he would kill anybody in the Bunker, even those she cares nigh (and she does intendance, doesn't she?) if she didn't let him in.

(Side note of appreciation for ane last look at Jensen Ackles' Michael, eh? So dapper. So charming. Then evil.) Maybe Rowena permit him in thinking she could control him. Information technology didn't thing. Michael never intended to keep his discussion.

Rowena causes Cas, Sam and Dean to not be able to breathe, to go bullheaded, so to simply hurt, all while Jack watches, trying to get an angel blade into his mitt. And this? This is when things get VERY interesting.

Michael tries to floor Jack, but information technology doesn't work. Jack'southward eyes flash yellow—he is willing to burn off his soul for all of them—and he knocks Michael to the footing. "It'south worth the cost," he says. "I should have killed you when I had the run a risk," Michael says, and Jack replies, merely confident plenty, "I feel the same." Michael is furious, and man, Ruth Connell is portraying him well, with Alexander Calvert presenting Jack as a more than worthy foe. "I am the commander of the host!" Michael shouts, blasting Jack to no avail. "The cleanser of worlds!" Once again, an ineffective smash. "I will not be challenged by a Kid!" Boom. Nothing. "I'm not a child," Jack spits, approaching, and Michael is stunned. "I am the son of Friction match," Jack says. "I'm a hunter. I am a WINCHESTER." And did anyone else cheer? Or was it just me?

Jack, optics aglow, casts Michael out of Rowena into a swirl of angelic light that he burns away. "You won't hurt anyone. Ever once again," Jack promises, sucking the remaining grace into his body, stunning Cas, Dean and Sam.

"Jack?" Dean asks, when the room has gone quiet. "Michael. He's expressionless," Jack says. Sam stumbles, trying to enquire him if he's okay, and Jack interrupts with a niggling smile and blazing eyes. "I'thou me once again," he says, his wings unfurling, and nosotros close on the glowing face of the nephilim boy who now seems to be a man.

What an ending! What can this mean for our dearest Jack? Can this much power even exist controlled? Possibly we'll find out more in next week'due south episode, "Peace of Listen". Come across you and then.

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