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[[Sam]] and [[Dean]] return to [[the Bunker]], and Dean claims to have no memories of his time possessed by [[Michael (Apocalypse World)|Michael]]. He’s taken aback by Sam’s position as leader of the AU Hunters who’ve made the bunker their home base. [[Jack]] and [[Castiel]] welcome him home, and then Dean retreats to his room. Jack and Cas tell Sam that [[Nick]] left to “take care of some personal business,” and that he’d been in a dark place before he left. Their most pressing concern now is how Dean is really doing, why Michael would give up his [[vessel]], and what Michael’s plans are.
In his room, Dean strips off Michael’s clothes and discovers a scar on his shoulder. He has no memory of how he got it, and shows it to Sam and Cas. Dean demands that Cas search his mind to discover what could’ve hurt Michael. Cas sees some of Dean’s memories of Michael before putting one hand over the scar. He sees Michael stabbed by [[Dark Kaia|a hooded figure]] with a [[Kaia's Spear|two-pronged spear]], who Dean recognizes from [[The Bad Place|The Bad Place]].
In Sioux Falls, [[Sheriff Jody Mills|Jody]]’s at work, texting with [[Claire Novak|Claire]], when Sam, Dean, and Cas call her to ask if she’s seen any activity at [[Portal|the rift]]. She hasn’t, but she recognizes the description of Dean’s scar from several headless bodies found around town. They prepare to go to Sioux Falls to track down [[Kaia Nieves|Kaia]]’s killer, who has proven capable of hurting Michael. Feeling responsible for Kaia, Jack wants to go but is denied. Another hunter, [[Jules]], arrives with an injured girl she’d saved from a [[Witches|witch]]. Cas tries to [[Healing|heal]] her but can’t, and decides to stay behind to continue trying to save her life while Sam and Dean go to Sioux Falls.
In the [[Impala]], Sam tries to get Dean to open up; to understand anything about Michael, why he let Dean go, and what he wants. Dean doesn’t have answers, other than racing toward what might prove to be a useful weapon against Michael. When they meet up with Jody, she hasn’t told Claire about the thing that killed Kaia, since she doesn’t have any solid information. She tells them about the bodies they’d found, and Dean insists on heading out into the woods to track the killer immediately.
At the bunker, Jack packs a bag and leaves a note, intent on running away. On his way out he overhears Cas and Jules still trying to heal the witch’s victim. Cas explains the girl’s situation, that they called [[Rowena]] for advice and are attempting a [[Spells|spell]] to cure her. Cas asks if Jack was going somewhere. He says no and joins them. Cas and Jules assemble the spell while Jack gets to know the cursed girl, [[Lora]]. She tells him she ran away from home where she’d been treated like a kid. The witch kindly took her in, but then locked her up and cursed her. Jack assures her Cas will heal her.
After daybreak in Sioux Falls, they press on through the woods and find three [[Vampires|vampire]] heads on pikes at an encampment. The heads might match Jody’s bodies, but she’d tested them and thought they were human. Dean has a flash of memory and recognizes the place where Michael was stabbed, before being attacked again by the hooded figure, who looks exactly like Kaia. She runs off, and they pursue. Sam suspects that the vampires were sent by Michael to hunt Kaia, but Dean insists it doesn’t change their plan.
Cas and Jules work the spell, but instead of reversing the curse it accelerates it, aging Lora before their eyes. In the woods, Jody ignores another phone call from Claire. She has no idea how to break this news to Claire about Kaia’s murderer. Sam expresses concern for Dean working this case, but Jody suggests he might need it. Dean catches up to Kaia outside a cabin and knocks her out. Inside the cabin, they restrain and question her. They learn she’s from that alternate universe, that she’d been trying to kill Claire, not Kaia, but she refuses to tell them how she got there. She antagonizes Dean, knowing he’s not Michael anymore. She tells them Michael keeps sending [[Monsters|monsters]] after her, as we see three [[werewolves]] tossing her camp.
At the bunker, Lora dies from her curse. Jack wishes he still had his [[Grace|powers]] so he could’ve saved her, but then makes a sudden realization and asks to see the witch’s body. In the morgue, Jack explains his theory of what happened to the witch after Jules [[Witch-Killing Bullets|shot her]]. The witch was stealing the girls’ youth, and the spell continued sucking the girls’ life force after she died. He pulls the cursed necklace off the witch’s body and smashes it, releasing Lora’s trapped life force. She awakes, healed.
Meanwhile Dean insists they need to “break” Kaia so she’ll give them the weapon that can hurt Michael. Dean angrily justifies hurting Kaia to get it. The wolves close in while Kaia tells Dean he’s just like Michael, and always has been. This Kaia has some of Kaia’s memories of Dean-- shoving a gun in her face and forcing her to help him. Dean sees his actions in a different light as Kaia calls him out for being scared. She tells them about her meeting with Michael, where he tried to recruit her and take her weapon. Dean tells her to stop because he remembers now. Sam realizes they need to leave if Kaia is still a target, but it’s too late to run. The monsters have found them.
Sam, Dean, and Jody are overpowered by Michael’s superwolves, while Kaia is still tied to the chair. Dean draws his gun, the werewolf holding him down says the bullets won’t hurt him, so Dean instead shoots Kaia’s chair, smashing it and freeing her. Kaia escapes, but returns a moment later with her spear and kills all three superwolves. Sam warns her that as long as she has the spear, Michael and his monsters will continue to chase her, but she’s used to it and flees into the woods. Back at their cars, Jody knows she has to tell Claire that she found Kaia’s killer, and the truth as far as she knows it about Kaia’s death.
In Jack’s room, Cas tells Jack that Jules is returning Lora to her mother. Cas apologizes for not having been there for Jack, with everything they’ve been going through. Jack tells him it’s okay, and Cas tells him he’s proud of him for saving Lora. He assures Jack that he has the heart and mind of a hunter, and offers to take him on a hunt. Jack coughs, but accepts the offer gladly. He brushes off the cough with the fact he’s human now, and Cas offers to make him some soup.
In the car, Dean apologizes to Sam for putting them all in danger because he hadn’t wanted to face what Michael used him for. Dean describes his memory of most of his time with Michael as feeling like he was underwater, drowning, fighting to breathe. And now Dean feels responsible for all the people Michael is hurting now.
In his room, Jack coughs again and tosses a blood-stained tissue into the trash atop dozens more.
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