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[[Dean]] dreams he is surrounded by brutally slaughtered bodiescovered in blood, while he is bloody and has a knife in his hand, he and is surrounded by brutally slaughtered bodies. He wakes up distressed in his bedroom in [[the Bunker]].
A teenaged girl, [[Claire Novak]], is being put into solitary confinement at a juvenile center after running away -- again. Later, the guard tells Claire that her father has come to visit, and steps aside to let [[Castiel]] enter.
Claire remembers Castiel, as the [[angel]] who [[possessed]] her father [[Jimmy Novak]]. Castiel tells her Jimmy is now in [[Heaven]], and that he has come to see how she is faring. Claire tells him her mother left her with her grandmother and disappeared. After her grandmother died, Claire has been was shunted between foster families and group homes. Claire says the only thing she wants from Castiel is for him to get her out of the center.
Castiel and Claire speak to the home superintendent, who is suspicious of this sudden return of Claire's father. Castiel fails to convince her to release Claire with him. That night Castiel breaks in and helps Claire escape. They go for a meal, and Claire remarks how Castiel has changed. Castiel wants to make amends with her, but Claire has no intention of staying with him, and : she steals his wallet and absconds.
At the Bunker, Dean is enjoying watching a Three Stooges movie on his laptop. He's laughing - maybe a little too much and Sam looks concerned as he brings him a grilled cheese sandwich.
After a call from Castiel, the boys join him in Pontiac to help him find Claire. While [[Sam]] goes to investigate the group home, Cas and Dean have lunch. Cas tells Dean how he's been reflect reflecting on the hurt he has caused people. Dean advises him not to dwell on it -- the opposite of what he does. When he Dean says he's no role model , but Cas protests. Cas asks after Dean, who protests that he's okay, although acknowledging though acknowledges that he still has to deal with the [[Mark of Cain]]. Dean has a flash of his nightmare, and of his time as a [[demon]]. He asks Cas that if to kill him should he should become demonic again, that Castiel would kill him.
[[Rowena]] is still in shackles, and has a new cellmate -- a demon called [[Trish]] , who is being interrogated after she was smuggled up from the depths of [[Hell]] to Earth. Crowley orders Rowena to his presence. He is angry that she once tried to sell him for three pigs, and then left him when he was eight. She is unapologetic but notes that whatever she did, she did it to motivate him to be something better. After she leaves, the demon [[Gerald]] questions why Crowley doesn't kill her, and offers to do the deed himself. Crowley doesn't give him an answer.
Claire arrive at the home of Randy, and a friend of hers from the group home , Dustin Tate. Randy has gambling debts, and was expecting her to bring him money. He suggests she can help out by robbing the local Gas-n-Sip.
Sam has found out that Claire was friends with Dustin. He, Dean , and Cas confront him as he arrives for his job at Wiener Hut and find out Claire's plan. They intercept her at the Gas-n-Sip before she can execute the robbery. She is confronts them - angry at Cas for killing her father and at Sam and Dean for letting it happen. She tells them Randy and Dustin are the only family that she has before leaving.
The Winchesters and Cas retire to a Tiki Bar. Sam tells Cas not to stew on what Claire said, but that he can't back make it better -- for some people their father is everything. Cas reflects that he didn't know his "father" and asks Sam and Dean whether they loved their dad. Sam encourages Dean to tell a story, about a time they were in New York with [[John]] and Dean snuck out to a club. As Dean tells it, he got very drunk, when and John showed up just at the right time. They both acknowledge that John "wouldn't win any parenting awards" but that he was there for them when they needed him. They all agree however that Claire is not in a good situation.
At Randy's house, the loan shark Salinger and his goons are threatening Randy when Claire returns. They lock her in her bedroom, and Salingermakes Randy an offer - give Claire to him and he'll clear Randy's debt. Randy agrees and Salinger goes into the room where Claire is held. Just then the Winchesters and Castiel arrive. Cas rescues Claire while the Winchesters cover the henchmen. As they leave, Dean is attacked. By the time Sam returns Dean has killed everyone. As in his dream, he is bloody on the floor surrounded by bodies. As Sam kneels in front of him, and taking Dean's face in his hands begs Dean to say that he had to kill them all in self-defense. Dean's response is "I didn't mean to do it."
'''Castiel:''' No, the human soul it can only occupy a body while it retains a certain structural integrity, and this vessel it was, it was ripped apart on a sub-atomic level by an archangel.<br>
'''Claire:''' Then how are you-<br>
'''Castiel:''' I was reassembled, ; your father is in Heaven.<br>
'''Claire:''' Well, yay for him. Anyway good talk, you can get the hell out of my life now.
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