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Sam ws eventually reunited with his soul when Dean approached [[Death]] for help.<ref name="six11" /> Death himself liberated it from Hell and personally delivered it back to Sam's body, despite his protests. Death installed it with the promise that a wall would be erected in Sam's mind which will prevent him from remembering his torment in Hell, but advises him to not "scratch away at it" lest the wall collapse and his memories come flooding back -- though he suggests that this may happen over time regardless. Castiel says of the soul's condition once it is returned that it feels like it has been skinned alive.<ref name="six12">[[6.12 Like a Virgin]]</ref>
As Castiel got closer to accessing [[Purgatory]], he plead with the Winchesters not to fight against him, but they refused. Castiel touched Sam's forehead, which cracked the mental barrier that was planted there by Death, saying, "I'll fix him when this is all over." The breaking of the wall in Sam's mind caused him to have a breakdown; and become trapped inside his mind with the memories of what he did when he was soulless and what happened to him in Hell. Sam managed to overcome this long enough to make his way to help Dean and Bobby in their efforts to stop Castiel. However, Sam began hallucinating [[HaluciferHallucifer|Lucifer]] and slowly went insane until Castiel transferred the madness into his own mind, solving Sam's problems but driving Castiel insane instead. According to Castiel, Sam's hallucinations of Lucifer are an "aftertaste" of his time in Hell and simply projections of his own mind.
* [http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/09/09/supernatural-dvd-sneak-peek/ Jared, Jensen and Kripke talk about Sam and his soul.]