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|motw= [[Hell Ghosts]] / [[Zombies]]
 
|motw= [[Hell Ghosts]] / [[Zombies]]
 
|outline= As [[Sam]], [[Dean]], and [[Castiel]] battle the damned [[souls]] [[Chuck]] released from [[Hell]] and try to protect a local town, they meet a strange new ally.   
 
|outline= As [[Sam]], [[Dean]], and [[Castiel]] battle the damned [[souls]] [[Chuck]] released from [[Hell]] and try to protect a local town, they meet a strange new ally.   
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|location= Lebanon, Kansas<br>Harlan, Kansas
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|location= Harlan, Kansas
 
|timeline= Immediately after [[14.20 Moriah]]
 
|timeline= Immediately after [[14.20 Moriah]]
 
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Castiel and the Winchesters fight off the dead, which the souls released from Hell by Chuck have reanimated. Castiel picks up Jack’s corpse and leads them into a crypt. Sam secures the door, and for the moment they are safe, although the zombies are still screaming and battering at the door. While they try to find another way out, Jack suddenly rises from the floor. Castiel immediately can see that it’s not Jack, but a demon. He introduces himself as Belphegor. Cas attacks him, ordering the demon to leave Jack’s body, but Sam and Dean insist they may need his help – for now. With some graveyard dirt, and the contribution of some angel’s blood from Cas, Belphegor does a spell. Everything falls silent, and when they open the crypt door, all the zombies are inert on the ground.
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[[Sam]], [[Dean]], and [[Castiel]] are surrounded by the dead, which the [[Hell Ghosts|souls]] released from [[Hell]] by [[Chuck]] have reanimated. As they try to fight the horde off, they realize that they are outnumbered. Castiel takes [[Jack]]'s dead body over his shoulder and together they run into a family mausoleum on the cemetery. While the undead try to get in, Sam, Dean, and Castiel try to understand the situation. Sam asks Castiel if he could revive Jack, but he says he can't. They are trying to come up with a plan to escape when Sam says he hears water. Sam and Dean break open the wall but immediately a zombie tries to squeeze himself in before Castiel smashes him with a stone.  
  
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In the nearby town of Harlan, two young girls play in a bedroom. As one of them looks at herself in the mirror, Bloody Mary appears. The girl’s eyes start to bleed and the girl screams. Bloody Mary steps out through the mirror into the room.
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Jack suddenly rises from the floor. Sam thinks that it's actually Jack, back from the dead, but Castiel informs them that his body is [[possessed]] by a [[demon]]. The demon apologizes and immediately confirms Castiel's statement, and picks up some sunglasses left amongst the trash in the crypt to hide his burned-out eyes. The demon introduces himself as [[Belphegor]] and starts to explain himself but Castiel attacks him, pinning him against the wall. Castiel doesn't trust him, but Sam and Dean convince him that they actually need some support to escape. Belphegor agrees -- he says he is keen for Hell to return to its normal mode of operation. With the contribution of some angel’s blood from Castiel and some graveyard dirt, Belphegor does a spell. Everything falls silent, and when they open the crypt door, all the [[zombies]] are inert on the ground.
  
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Sam and Dean find out that the ghost apocalypse appears localized and decide to go back to the Bunker to work out a plan of attack. Belphegor offers to do a spell to contain the ghosts in a one-mile radius of the cemetery, which will mean evacuating the local town of Harlan. As they head to the town, they pull over to check out an abandoned car, which has blood splatter over the front window. It appears to be the work of a Woman in White.
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In the nearby town of Harlan, Kansas, two teenagers are in a bedroom, listening to music, putting on make up and different jewelry for fun. While one of them is explaining that her mom buys everything for her since the divorce from her father, a mysterious creature appears on the mirror, but stays unseen for the two girls. When one of them takes a look at herself in the mirror, she starts wondering about her reflection in the mirror acting on its own, before blood comes out of her eyes. Suddenly [[Bloody Mary]] is in the mirror and the girl sees blood running down from her eyes. She screams in pain as the touch of her own face with her fingers makes her skin melt. Her friend tries to run away but her path it blocked by [[Mary Worthington]], who has left the mirror.
  
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At another house in Harlan, a mother leads her terrified daughter through their house as they are chased by the ghost of John Wayne Gacy. They take refuge in their garage.
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Sam, Dean, Castiel, and Belphegor are driving. Sam checks the internet for any news, but finds nothing unusual so far. Belphegor says it just takes a bit of time until all the souls from Hell find a person to possess. Sam asks him how many souls that might be and Belphegor assumes about two to three billion spirits. Dean suggests they go back to the Bunker to figure out a plan on how to close the rift, but Belphegor doubts that's even possible. To buy some time and to cut the damage, the demon recommends offers to do a [[spell]] to contain the souls in a mile-wide barrier, through which no ghosts can get in or out. Castiel fears for the people in the small town of Harlan, which is within that one-mile circle. Dean says they are going to evacuate that place, so the ghosts can't harm anyone.
  
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In the town, Sam and Cas pretend to be FBI agents and liaise with the Sheriff, telling him there has been a benzene leak and that they need to evacuate the town. The Sheriff suggests that they can shelter the population at the high school, which is five miles away.  
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With the plan set, they drive ahead but soon come across a car parked oddly by the side of the road. Sam and Dean get out to see what happened, but they find the car empty, with blood splattered at the windows. Sam thinks that this is a [[Woman in White]], possibly the same [[Constance Welch|spirit]] they killed 15 years ago. Dean concludes that all the evil spirits they killed in their whole life might be back.
  
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Sam and Cas start to make sure the townsfolk are leaving and come across the woman and her daughter still hiding in the garage. As they try to escape, John Wayne Gacy’s ghosts attacks them, slashing Sam. Just in time Castiel arrives and shoots him with rock salt. He heals the wound from Gacy, but when he tries to heal the wound left by the Equalizer when Sam shot Chuck, Sam has a flash of himself with black eyes attacking Dean. Cas says the wound has an energy he has never felt before.
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A mother and her daughter run through their house, trying to get away, while a distorted, laughing voice is audible, asking them to play with him. The walls and interior have blood stains everywhere. Mother and daughter end up in the garage, but can't get outside, and begin to frantically look for a place to hide. A moment later, [[John Wayne Gacy]]'s spirit appears and begins searching the garage for his intended victims.  
  
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Meanwhile, Belphegor takes in the sights of the world, having not been topside for a long time. He explains to Dean that he needs salt and a human heart to do the spell. Dean calls Rowena for help and then finds a bag of salt. Belphegor tells Dean he saw his work as a torturer when he was in hell, and that it was “art”. They hear a scream and find the body of the Sheriff who has been killed by the Woman in White. Belphegor rips out the dead Sheriff’s heart and places it on a pile of salt and does an incantation.  
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Arriving in Harlan, Sam poses as an FBI agent and talks to the local sheriff, while the others wait in the [[Impala]]. Dean tells Castiel to take Belphegor to collect everything he needs for his spell, but Castiel refuses, feeling distraught by the sight of Jack's possessed body. Meanwhile, Sam convinces the sheriff to evacuate everyone due to a benzene leak in a pipe just outside town. The sheriff suggests they move everyone to a high school that's about five miles away from the city center.  
  
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Elsewhere, Sam, Castiel, and the mother and child they rescued are trying to escape from the hell ghosts, when they see the barrier of the spell rush past them. They run and just in time manage to make it to the other side before their ghostly pursuers catch them.  
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While waiting in the Impala, Dean puts Chuck's [[the Equalizer|gun]] into the glove box. Belphegor takes a look around and comments on how good-looking people are these days and that it's been awhile since he was alive on earth. Dean asks about the ingredients for the spell and Belphegor tells him that they need a bag of [[salt]] and a human heart.  
  
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Reuniting with Dean and Belphegor, they drive the family to the high school where the other townsfolk are taking refuge. Dean tends to Sam’s wound, although Sam denies it hurts, and does not tell Dean about his vision. Dean is wrestling with Chuck’s revelation that He has manipulated the Winchesters their whole life. Sam counters that they still did a lot of good and that now, as Chuck is seemingly gone, if they beat this Apocalypse then it will be all down to them.  
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After the local houses are evacuated, Sam and Castiel do one more pass to check inside them. Castiel comes across Bloody Mary's victims while Sam goes inside the home where John Wayne Gacy attacked the family. Sam finds mother and daughter hiding in the garage. When he's about to bring them outside, Gacy's spirit appears, cutting Sam with his knife. Castiel enters the garage and shoots the evil spirit with rock salt before he can attack again. Castiel heals Sam's gash from the ghost, and then tries to heal the wound from when he shot Chuck with the Equalizer. Sam has a vision of himself in the Bunker in alarm mode and he seems to have black eyes and he can hear Dean beg: “Sammy, please.” Castiel is unsuccessful in healing the wound, saying that it contains some kind of energy he never felt before. A second later Sam's phone rings. The sheriff tells Sam that everyone's at the school. Sam, Castiel, the mother, and her daughter are leaving the neighborhood when more ghosts attack them.
  
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As they stow their gear in the trunk of the Impala, Dean says “We got work to do”.
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Dean exits a store with a bag of salt under his arm, talking to [[Rowena]] on the telephone and asking her to meet them for support. When he's back at the Impala, Belphegor mentions that he's been a fan of Dean since his time in Hell. He saw what Dean did to souls and thinks that his way of torturing was art. Dean feels uneasy about this. He asks Belphegor what Hell is like now like with the rift open and Belphegor compares it to an anthill that caught fire. He adds that every door sprang open and the sky cracked. After Dean inquires, Belphegor confirms that even [[the Cage]]'s door is open. Dean wants to know about Michael. As far as the demon knows, [[Michael]] is just sitting in the Cage.
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Sam, Dean and Castiel are surrounded by the dead, which the souls released from Hell by Chuck have reanimated. As these walking corpses are closing in, they start fighting them, but soon realize that they are outnumbered. Castiel takes Jack's dead body over his shoulder and together they run into a family mausoleum on the cemetery. While the undead are trying to get in, Sam, Dean and Castiel try to understand the situation. Sam asks Castiel if he could revive Jack, but he says he can't. They also try to come up with a plan on how to escape when Sam says he hears water. Sam and Dean break open the wall but immediately an undead tries to squeeze himself in before Castiel smashes him with a stone. During this, “Jack” got up, standing now in front of them. Sam thinks that it's actually Jack being back from the dead, but Castiel informs them that his body got possessed by a demon. The demon apologizes and immediately confirms Castiel's statement. Then he picks up some sun glasses left bystrangers to hide his burned-out eyes. The demon introduces himself as Belphegor and starts to explain himself as Castiel attacks him, pining him against the wall, but Belphegor shows no signs ofaggression, saying he can help them. Castiel doesn't trust him, but Sam and Dean convince him that they actually need some support to escape. Sam wants to introduces themselves but the demon already knows them, joking about reading the newspapers in hell. He also assumes that the Winchesters are behind this but Castiel intervenes that God's behind this. Belphegor first doesn't believe them before he realizes they're serious. He tells them that he is just a regular demon in hell that tortures souls and that he likes the way it was beforethe doors were opened. He wants to help them in order to restore hell with all the souls locked up. Belphegor knows a spell that will help them escape. Taking some graveyard dirt from the ground a few drops from Castiel's blood, he claps his hands and the noise from the undead outside is suddenly gone. When they open the door, all the corpses are lying on the ground. Castiel assumes that the spirits have been destroyed, but Belphegor just blasted them out of these bodies. Dean  wonders out loud where they have gone, receiving no answer from the demon.
 
  
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As they head to the morgue to get a human heart, they hear a scream and find the body of the sheriff, who has been killed by the Woman in White. The demon seizes the opportunity to take the man's heart for his spell. Dean suddenly realizes a ghost is near due to the temperature drop, and gets thrown away by the Woman in White, who says that she remembers Dean taking her home. When she turns her attention to Belphegor, Dean hits the Woman in White with [[iron]], making her disappear. Belphegor does the spell, activating a barrier around Harlan that ends a few yards away from Sam and the others. They manage to cross the line before the spirits can attack again and they see that the ghosts are now trapped inside the circle.
  
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Sam, Dean, and the others bring the mother and her daughter to the high school where the rest of the townsfolk have taken refuge and advise them not to say anything about the things they've seen today, as they don't want to start a panic. The daughter says “Thank you” and Sam brings them both inside. Dean asks Castiel if he's okay. Castiel says that he is and when he tries to say more, Dean immediately turns away, not interested in any conversation.
  
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Two teenager are in a bedroom, listening to music, putting on make up and different jewelry for fun.While one of them explains that her mom buys everything for her since the divorce from her father, a mysterious creature appears on the mirror, but stays unseen for the two girls. When one of them takes a look at herself in the mirror, she starts wondering about her reflection in the mirror acting onher own, before blood comes out of her eyes. Suddenly Bloody Mary is in the mirror and the girl sees blood running down from her eyes. She screams in pain as the touch of her own face with her fingers makes her skin melt. Her friend tries to run away but her path it blocked by Bloody Mary who left the mirror to obstruct her way.
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When Sam comes back, Dean wants to check on Sam's shoulder, where he wounded himself shooting Chuck. Sam is reluctant at first, but lets him take a look anyway. Dean finds no exit wound and asks if it hurts. Sam says it hurts just a little. Dean asks if he remembers what Dean did as a child while tending Sam's wounds. Sam remembers the stupid jokes Dean told him for distraction. He starts with a knock-knock joke and when Sam asks “who's...” he's interrupted by Dean disinfecting his wound. Dean tells Sam how he is wrestling with Chuck’s revelation that He has manipulated the Winchesters their whole life. Sam counters that they still saved people and that now, as Chuck is seemingly gone, if they beat this apocalypse then it will be all their own achievement. As they stow their gear in the trunk of the Impala, Sam says “We got work to do.”
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Sam, Dean, Castiel and Belphegor are sitting in the Impala, driving to Harlan, Kansas, the nearest town to the cemetery. Sam checks the internet for any news, but finds nothing unusual so far. Belphegor says it just takes a bit of time until all the souls from hell find a person to possess. Sam asks him how many souls that might be and Belphegor assumes about two to three billion spirits. Dean suggests to go back to the bunker to figure out a plan on how to close the rift, but Belphegor doubts that's even possible. To buy some time and to cut the damage, the demon recommends to contain the souls, since he already has a spell in mind. He talks about a mile-wide magical soul circle, where no ghosts can get in or out. Castiel fears for the people in the nearby city, but Dean says they are going to evacuate that place, so the ghosts can't harm anyone.
 
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With the plan set, they drive ahead but soon come across a car parked oddly at the road. Sam and Dean get out to see what happened, but they find the car empty with blood splattered at the windows. Dean asks Sam if this looks familiar to him and both remember the Woman in White they hunted 15 years ago. Sam thinks that this could be the same spirit they killed 15 years ago. Dean concludes that all evil spirits they killed in their whole life might be back. A mother and her daughter run through their house, trying to get away, while a distorted, laughing voice is audible, asking them to play with him. The walls and interior have blood stains everywhere.Mother and daughter end up in the garage, but can't get outside. They frantically looking for a place to hide. A moment later, John Wayne Gacy's spirit appears.
 
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Arriving in Harlan, Sam poses as FBI agent and talks the local sheriff, while the others wait in the Impala. Dean tells Castiel to take Belphegor to collect everything he needs for his spell but Castiel refuses, feeling repelled by the sight of Jack's possessed body. Meanwhile Sam convinces the sheriff to evacuate everyone due to a leak in a pipe just outside town. The sheriff suggests to move everyone to a high school that's about five miles away from the city center. While waiting in the Impala, Dean puts Chuck's Equalizer into the glove box. Belphegor asks what it is but Dean says that's nothing to worry about. Belphegor then takes a look around and comments on how good looking people are these days and that it's been awhile since he was alive on earth. Back in his days, they worshiped a penis-shaped stone and everyone was simply ugly. He also says that Dean looks gorgeous. Dean changes the subject and asks when Belphegor leaves Jack's body. He answers he would as soon as he finds another one, adding that he didn't want to possess a corpse since he wanted to blend in. He's asking who this body belonged to and Dean answers that he was kind of their child whereupon Belphegor apologizes. Dean then asks about the ingredients for the spell and the demon says that they need a bag of salt and a human heart. After the residential area got evacuated, Sam and Castiel check inside the houses for signs of evil spirits.
 
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Castiel comes across Bloody Mary's victims while Sam's inside the home where John WayneGacy attacked the family. Sam finds mother and daughter alive in the garage, where they hid successfully. When he's about to bring them outside, John Wayne Gacy's spirit appears, cutting Samwith his knife. Castiel enters the garage and shoots the evil spirit with rock salt before he can attack again. The sheriff's checks the city center, making sure everyone gets out.
 
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Dean just exits a store with a bag of salt under his arm, talking to Rowena on the telephone and asking her to meet them for support. When he's back at the Impala, Belphegor mentions that he's a fan of Dean since his time in hell. He saw what Dean did to souls and thinks that his way of torturing was art. Dean feels uneasy about this. He asks the demon what hell is now like with the rift open and Belphegor compares it to an anthill that caught fire. The demon adds that every door sprang open and after Dean inquires, Belphegor confirms that even the Cage's door is open. Dean wants to know about Micheal. As far asthe demon knows, Micheal just sat there, but now that he got out, he's not sure what he's up to.
 
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In garage Castiel heals Sam's cut in front of the mother's and daughter's eyes. Castiel says that he's an angel and the the thing that attack them was a ghost. Sam says that he's just a regular guy. As he tries to get up, he groans because of the pain in his shoulder. While Castiel tries to heal that one too,Sam has a vision of himself in the bunker. The bunker is in alarm mode and he seems to have powers while he hears Dean beg: “Sammy, please.” Castiel is unsuccessful in healing the wound, saying that it contains some kind of energy he never felt before. A second later Sam's phone rings. The sheriff tells Sam that everyone's at the school and that he takes a final look around. Soon after hanging up, he comes across of the spirit of the Woman in White. Meanwhile, Sam, Castiel, the
 
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At the same time, Dean and Belphegor are trying to find a human heart, since Belphegor prefers a fresh one. They hear a screamand find the sheriff's dead body. The demon seizes the opportunity to take the man's heart for his spell. Sam, Castiel, the mother and her daughter are still on their way out of the residential area as the ghosts attack them again. Dean gets thrown away by the Woman in White, saying that she remembers Dean taking her home back then. In the residential area, Sam and Castiel try to fight against the spirits but are soon outnumbered. The spirits gain the upper hand, but after a while they manage to fight them off.
 
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Dean hits the Woman in White with iron, making her disappear. Belphegor does the spell, activating the magic soul circle that ends a few yards away from Sam and the others. They manage to cross the line before the spirits can attack again and see that the ghosts are now trapped inside the circle.
 
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Sam, Dean and the others bring the mother and her daughter to the high school where everyone elseis and advice them not to say anything about the things they've seen today. The daughter says “Thank you” and Sam brings them both inside. Dean asks Castiel if he's okay. Castiel says that he is and when he tries to say more, Dean immediately turns away, not interested in any conversation. When Sam comes back, Dean asks about the people. They both know they only have one, maybe two days before the actual FBI turns up. Then Dean wants to check on Sam's shoulder, where he wounded himself shooting Chuck. Sam is reluctant at first, but let's him take a look anyway. Dean finds no exit wound and asks if it hurts. Sam says it hurts just a little. Before Dean applies sanitizer, he asks his brother if he remembers what Dean did as a child while tending Sam's wound. Sam remembers the stupid jokes Dean told him for distraction. He starts with a knock-knock joke and when Sam asks “who's...” he's interrupted by Dean disinfecting his wound. They talk about the situation and that God played them and Dean feels he did all for nothing. But Sam thinks they still saved a lot of people and that they can handle the situation. He assumes God's gone, since he left all the other planets after a while as well. Therefore he thinks it's just them now, controlled by no one. So after closing the rift, the two of them would be finally free. The episode ends with them about to close the trunk, saying that they got work to do. Then there's a cut to Sam and Dean from the end of the very first episode where they are closing the trunk.
 
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'''Dean:''' Great. Son of a bitch. Chuck. Man, I knew it. I knew He would do something like this. He's always so squirrelly, you know, with the -- with the -- the robe and the beard and the smile that's, like, half-nice, half "I'm gonna rip your throat out."
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'''Dean:''' Great. Son of a bitch. Chuck. Man, I knew it. I knew He would do something like this. He's always so squirrelly, you know, with the -- with the -- the robe and the beard and... the smile that's, like, half-nice, half "I'm gonna rip your throat out."
 
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'''Sam:''' Dean, this could be our Woman in White.<br>
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'''Sam:''' Dean, this could be ''our'' Woman in White.<br>
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'''Dean:''' Dude, we sent her to Hell years ago.<br>
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'''Dean:''' Dude. We sent her to Hell years ago.<br>
 
'''Sam:''' Yeah, but she could be back.<br>
 
'''Sam:''' Yeah, but she could be back.<br>
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'''Dean:''' Well, if she's back then they're all back. Every last one we ever killed. Let's go.
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'''Dean:''' Well, if she's back, then they're all back. Every last one that we ever killed. Let's go.
 
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'''Dean:''' So with all this going on, what's it like down there?<br>
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'''Dean:''' So, with all this going on, what's it like down there?<br>
 
'''Belphegor:''' In Hell?<br>
 
'''Belphegor:''' In Hell?<br>
 
'''Dean:''' Yeah.<br>
 
'''Dean:''' Yeah.<br>
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'''Belphegor:''' You ever seen an anthill when it's, like, set on fire? Okay, well, there we were, minding our own business, you know, flaying people for eternity, like you do, right? And then, every door in Hell just sprang open, all at once. You know? Souls got out. Sky cracked. And, uh, boom, ta-da, you know?<br>
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'''Belphegor:''' You ever seen an anthill when it's, like, set on fire? Okay, well, there we were, minding our own business, you know, flaying people for eternity, like you do, right? And then every door in Hell just sprang open, all at once. You know? Souls got out. Sky cracked. And, uh, boom, ta-da, you know?<br>
 
'''Dean:''' Wait. Every door? Even the Cage?<br>
 
'''Dean:''' Wait. Every door? Even the Cage?<br>
 
'''Belphegor:''' Yeah, even the Cage.<br>
 
'''Belphegor:''' Yeah, even the Cage.<br>
 
'''Dean:''' And Michael?<br>
 
'''Dean:''' And Michael?<br>
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'''Belphegor:''' Well, last I heard he was just sitting there. Yeah, but if he got out, I mean -- ugh. I mean... he wouldn't hold a grudge, right?
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'''Belphegor:''' Well, last I heard he was just sittin there. Yeah, but if he got out, I mean -- ugh. I mean... he wouldn't hold a grudge, right?
 
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'''Dean:''' Just when we thought we had a choice. You know, whenever we thought we had free will. We were just rats in a maze. Sure, we could go left. Sure, we could go right. But we were still in the damn maze. Just makes you think, if all of it, you know, everything that we've done... What did it even mean?<br>  
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'''Dean:''' Just when we thought we had a choice. You know, whenever we thought we had free will. We were just rats in a maze. Sure, we could go left. Sure, we could go right. But we were still in the damn maze. Just makes you think, if all of it -- you know, everything that we've done... What did it even mean?<br>  
 
'''Sam:''' It meant a lot. We still saved people.
 
'''Sam:''' It meant a lot. We still saved people.
 
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'''Sam:''' That's what He does, He gets bored and-and-and pulls the ripcord. I mean that's what He did with Apocalypse World, and-and probably with all of them. He moves on and starts another story. You know what? Good. 'Cause if He bailed, it's just us. For the first time, it's just us.<br>
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'''Sam:''' That's what He does. He gets bored and-and-and pulls the ripcord. I mean, that's what He did with Apocalypse World and-and probably with all of them. He moves on, starts another story. But you know what? Good. 'Cause if He bailed, it's just us. For the first time. It's just us.<br>
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'''Dean:''' Yeah, and about 3 billion ghosts.<br>
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'''Dean:''' And about 3 billion ghosts.<br>
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'''Sam:''' Yeah, well, what's one more apocalypse, right? But seriously, if we win -- when we win this, God's gone. There's no one to screw with us, there's no more maze, there's just us. And we're free.<br>
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'''Sam:''' Yeah, well, what's one more apocalypse, right? But seriously, if we win -- when we win this, God's gone. There's no one to screw with us. There's no more maze. It's just us. And we're free.<br>
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'''Dean:''' So, you and me versus every soul in Hell? I like those odds. And you know what that means?<br>
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'''Dean:''' So you and me versus every soul in Hell? I like those odds.<br>
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'''Sam:''' Yeah, me too.<br>
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'''Dean:''' Well, you know what that means?<br>
 
'''Sam:''' We got work to do.
 
'''Sam:''' We got work to do.
 
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'''Belphegor:''' I mean, the last time I was on Earth, I mean, I was human. Ah, it was a while ago. I mean, but, you know, we were all worshiping this giant rock that looked like a huge penis, and... Anyway, folks back then, they were ugly. You know? Had a lot of humps. I mean, a lot. Look at 'em now. I mean, look at you. I mean, you're, uh, you know, gorgeous.
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'''Belphegor:''' I mean, the last time I was on Earth, I mean, I was human. Ah, it was a while ago. I mean, but, you know, we were all worshiping this giant rock that looked like a huge penis, and... Anyway, folks back then, they were, uh, ugly. You know? Had a lot of humps. I mean, a lot. Look at 'em now. I mean, look at you. I mean, you're, uh, you know, gorgeous.
 
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:''Belphegor may be referencing the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudston_Monolith Rudson Monolith], the tallest standing stone in the United Kingdom which dates back to the Neolithic era (10,000 - 4,500 BC), and does look like a huge rock penis. In lore [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belphegor Belphegor] was often times depicted and worshiped in the form of a phallus. Belphegor's remarks about how much better looking people have become, and how he considers Dean to be gorgeous, also could be a reference to Belphegor being associated with licentiousness and orgies.''  
 
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As with every season, the [[title card]] has been updated. Among the images flashing on screen include an [[angel banishing sigil]], an [[Aquarian Star]], a cosmic background, a glowing [[Dean's Amulet|Samulet]], a [[Hell Ghost]], burning [[angel wings]], an iris / rift similar to season 13's title card, and an inverted [[pentagram]]. You can see these images [https://imgur.com/a/cL5c8jO here.]
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Appearing among the [[Hell Ghosts]] are [[Constance Welch]] aka the [[Woman in White]] from [[1.01 Pilot]], [[Mary Worthington]] aka [[Bloody Mary (urban legend)|Bloody Mary]] from [[1.05 Bloody Mary]], and [[John Wayne Gacy]] aka Pogo the Clown from [[14.13 Lebanon]].
 
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Belphegor's interactions with the world around him suggest that he can see just fine even with Jack's eyes burned out. In [[4.01 Lazarus Rising]], a demon who had her [[meatsuit]]'s eyes burned out by [[Castiel]] couldn't see at all, though Flo says that she can "still smell [Sam's] soul a mile away." It implies that demons compensate with their other senses when their eyes are damaged beyond repair. Though in the case of Belphegor, it was only Jack who was missing his eyes, whereas Flo had her eyes and her meatsuit's eyes burned out.  
 
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Belphegor mentions Dean's time in [[Hell]], where he was tortured by [[Alastair]], until after 30 years Dean accepted Alastair's deal that he would stop if Dean himself would become a torturer. Belphegor says he got to watch Dean "work" and described the things he did to people as not torture but "art."
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Belphegor mentions Dean's time in Hell, where he was tortured by [[Alastair]], until after 30 years Dean accepted Alastair's deal that he would stop if Dean himself would become a torturer. Belphegor says he got to watch Dean "work" and described the things he did to people as not torture, but "art."
 
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At the end of the pilot, there is a shot of Dean and Sam standing over the trunk of the [[Impala]]. As Sam tosses a weapon into he trunk he says, "We've got work to do" and closes the trunk. At the end of [[2.22 All Hell Breaks Loose: Part Two]], the scene is replayed with the brother's positions reversed. Dean tosses [[the Colt]] into the trunk and says, "We've got work to do." It is also re-created at the start of [[10.05 Fan Fiction]] after Dean announces he has found a case. In "Back and to the Future", Sam says it and closes the trunk, while the image briefly flashes to the Winchesters closing the trunk at the end of the pilot.   
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At the end of the pilot, there is a shot of Dean and Sam standing over the trunk of the [[Impala]]. As Sam tosses a weapon into he trunk he says, "We got work to do" and closes the trunk. At the end of [[2.22 All Hell Breaks Loose: Part Two]], the scene is replayed with the brother's positions reversed. Dean tosses [[the Colt]] into the trunk and says, "We got work to do." It is also re-created at the start of [[10.05 Fan Fiction]] after Dean announces he has found a case. In "Back and to the Future", Sam says it and closes the trunk, while the image briefly flashes to the Winchesters closing the trunk at the end of the pilot.   
 
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Title Back and to the Future
Episode # Season 15, Episode 1
First aired October 10, 2019
Directed by John F. Showalter
Written by Andrew Dabb
On IMDB Back and to the Future
Outline As Sam, Dean, and Castiel battle the damned souls Chuck released from Hell and try to protect a local town, they meet a strange new ally.
Monster Hell Ghosts / Zombies
Timeline Immediately after 14.20 Moriah
Location(s) Harlan, Kansas
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Synopsis

Sam, Dean, and Castiel are surrounded by the dead, which the souls released from Hell by Chuck have reanimated. As they try to fight the horde off, they realize that they are outnumbered. Castiel takes Jack's dead body over his shoulder and together they run into a family mausoleum on the cemetery. While the undead try to get in, Sam, Dean, and Castiel try to understand the situation. Sam asks Castiel if he could revive Jack, but he says he can't. They are trying to come up with a plan to escape when Sam says he hears water. Sam and Dean break open the wall but immediately a zombie tries to squeeze himself in before Castiel smashes him with a stone.

Jack suddenly rises from the floor. Sam thinks that it's actually Jack, back from the dead, but Castiel informs them that his body is possessed by a demon. The demon apologizes and immediately confirms Castiel's statement, and picks up some sunglasses left amongst the trash in the crypt to hide his burned-out eyes. The demon introduces himself as Belphegor and starts to explain himself but Castiel attacks him, pinning him against the wall. Castiel doesn't trust him, but Sam and Dean convince him that they actually need some support to escape. Belphegor agrees -- he says he is keen for Hell to return to its normal mode of operation. With the contribution of some angel’s blood from Castiel and some graveyard dirt, Belphegor does a spell. Everything falls silent, and when they open the crypt door, all the zombies are inert on the ground.

In the nearby town of Harlan, Kansas, two teenagers are in a bedroom, listening to music, putting on make up and different jewelry for fun. While one of them is explaining that her mom buys everything for her since the divorce from her father, a mysterious creature appears on the mirror, but stays unseen for the two girls. When one of them takes a look at herself in the mirror, she starts wondering about her reflection in the mirror acting on its own, before blood comes out of her eyes. Suddenly Bloody Mary is in the mirror and the girl sees blood running down from her eyes. She screams in pain as the touch of her own face with her fingers makes her skin melt. Her friend tries to run away but her path it blocked by Mary Worthington, who has left the mirror.

Sam, Dean, Castiel, and Belphegor are driving. Sam checks the internet for any news, but finds nothing unusual so far. Belphegor says it just takes a bit of time until all the souls from Hell find a person to possess. Sam asks him how many souls that might be and Belphegor assumes about two to three billion spirits. Dean suggests they go back to the Bunker to figure out a plan on how to close the rift, but Belphegor doubts that's even possible. To buy some time and to cut the damage, the demon recommends offers to do a spell to contain the souls in a mile-wide barrier, through which no ghosts can get in or out. Castiel fears for the people in the small town of Harlan, which is within that one-mile circle. Dean says they are going to evacuate that place, so the ghosts can't harm anyone.

With the plan set, they drive ahead but soon come across a car parked oddly by the side of the road. Sam and Dean get out to see what happened, but they find the car empty, with blood splattered at the windows. Sam thinks that this is a Woman in White, possibly the same spirit they killed 15 years ago. Dean concludes that all the evil spirits they killed in their whole life might be back.

A mother and her daughter run through their house, trying to get away, while a distorted, laughing voice is audible, asking them to play with him. The walls and interior have blood stains everywhere. Mother and daughter end up in the garage, but can't get outside, and begin to frantically look for a place to hide. A moment later, John Wayne Gacy's spirit appears and begins searching the garage for his intended victims.

Arriving in Harlan, Sam poses as an FBI agent and talks to the local sheriff, while the others wait in the Impala. Dean tells Castiel to take Belphegor to collect everything he needs for his spell, but Castiel refuses, feeling distraught by the sight of Jack's possessed body. Meanwhile, Sam convinces the sheriff to evacuate everyone due to a benzene leak in a pipe just outside town. The sheriff suggests they move everyone to a high school that's about five miles away from the city center.

While waiting in the Impala, Dean puts Chuck's gun into the glove box. Belphegor takes a look around and comments on how good-looking people are these days and that it's been awhile since he was alive on earth. Dean asks about the ingredients for the spell and Belphegor tells him that they need a bag of salt and a human heart.

After the local houses are evacuated, Sam and Castiel do one more pass to check inside them. Castiel comes across Bloody Mary's victims while Sam goes inside the home where John Wayne Gacy attacked the family. Sam finds mother and daughter hiding in the garage. When he's about to bring them outside, Gacy's spirit appears, cutting Sam with his knife. Castiel enters the garage and shoots the evil spirit with rock salt before he can attack again. Castiel heals Sam's gash from the ghost, and then tries to heal the wound from when he shot Chuck with the Equalizer. Sam has a vision of himself in the Bunker in alarm mode and he seems to have black eyes and he can hear Dean beg: “Sammy, please.” Castiel is unsuccessful in healing the wound, saying that it contains some kind of energy he never felt before. A second later Sam's phone rings. The sheriff tells Sam that everyone's at the school. Sam, Castiel, the mother, and her daughter are leaving the neighborhood when more ghosts attack them.

Dean exits a store with a bag of salt under his arm, talking to Rowena on the telephone and asking her to meet them for support. When he's back at the Impala, Belphegor mentions that he's been a fan of Dean since his time in Hell. He saw what Dean did to souls and thinks that his way of torturing was art. Dean feels uneasy about this. He asks Belphegor what Hell is like now like with the rift open and Belphegor compares it to an anthill that caught fire. He adds that every door sprang open and the sky cracked. After Dean inquires, Belphegor confirms that even the Cage's door is open. Dean wants to know about Michael. As far as the demon knows, Michael is just sitting in the Cage.

As they head to the morgue to get a human heart, they hear a scream and find the body of the sheriff, who has been killed by the Woman in White. The demon seizes the opportunity to take the man's heart for his spell. Dean suddenly realizes a ghost is near due to the temperature drop, and gets thrown away by the Woman in White, who says that she remembers Dean taking her home. When she turns her attention to Belphegor, Dean hits the Woman in White with iron, making her disappear. Belphegor does the spell, activating a barrier around Harlan that ends a few yards away from Sam and the others. They manage to cross the line before the spirits can attack again and they see that the ghosts are now trapped inside the circle.

Sam, Dean, and the others bring the mother and her daughter to the high school where the rest of the townsfolk have taken refuge and advise them not to say anything about the things they've seen today, as they don't want to start a panic. The daughter says “Thank you” and Sam brings them both inside. Dean asks Castiel if he's okay. Castiel says that he is and when he tries to say more, Dean immediately turns away, not interested in any conversation.

When Sam comes back, Dean wants to check on Sam's shoulder, where he wounded himself shooting Chuck. Sam is reluctant at first, but lets him take a look anyway. Dean finds no exit wound and asks if it hurts. Sam says it hurts just a little. Dean asks if he remembers what Dean did as a child while tending Sam's wounds. Sam remembers the stupid jokes Dean told him for distraction. He starts with a knock-knock joke and when Sam asks “who's...” he's interrupted by Dean disinfecting his wound. Dean tells Sam how he is wrestling with Chuck’s revelation that He has manipulated the Winchesters their whole life. Sam counters that they still saved people and that now, as Chuck is seemingly gone, if they beat this apocalypse then it will be all their own achievement. As they stow their gear in the trunk of the Impala, Sam says “We got work to do.”

Characters

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Music

  • "The Famous Final Scene" by Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band
(plays during "The Road So Far" recap of events and the opening scene until the title card; also played in 9.10 Road Trip)
  • "Gimme What I Want" by Tony Stafford, Jr., Michael Smith, and NineOneOne (Extreme Music)
(playing in the girl's room when Bloody Mary attacks)
  • "Too Good to Be True" by Lon Rogers & the Soul Blenders
(playing from the car stereo of the Woman in White victim; also played in 13.11 Breakdown)

Quotes

Dean: So, what? Chuck throws friggin' zombies at us now?!

Sam: I don't know if they're zombies, Dean. I think -- I think whenever the souls came up from Hell that they-they just...

Dean: They what? Just jumped into the nearest body?
Dean: Great. So we go outside, we get ripped apart. We stay in here, w-what, starve to death?!

Castiel: Well, I wouldn't starve.

Dean: Well, good for you.
Dean: Great. Son of a bitch. Chuck. Man, I knew it. I knew He would do something like this. He's always so squirrelly, you know, with the -- with the -- the robe and the beard and... the smile that's, like, half-nice, half "I'm gonna rip your throat out."
Castiel: He's an abomination!
Belphegor: You're an abomination with that stupid, dumb trench coat.
Sam: Dean, this could be our Woman in White.

Dean: Dude. We sent her to Hell years ago.
Sam: Yeah, but she could be back.

Dean: Well, if she's back, then they're all back. Every last one that we ever killed. Let's go.
Dean: Rowena, we need your help, so move your ass. What? No, I'm not... Move your exquisite ass, please. Alright? Great.
Dean: So, with all this going on, what's it like down there?

Belphegor: In Hell?
Dean: Yeah.
Belphegor: You ever seen an anthill when it's, like, set on fire? Okay, well, there we were, minding our own business, you know, flaying people for eternity, like you do, right? And then every door in Hell just sprang open, all at once. You know? Souls got out. Sky cracked. And, uh, boom, ta-da, you know?
Dean: Wait. Every door? Even the Cage?
Belphegor: Yeah, even the Cage.
Dean: And Michael?

Belphegor: Well, last I heard he was just sittin there. Yeah, but if he got out, I mean -- ugh. I mean... he wouldn't hold a grudge, right?
Dean: Hey, do you remember when we were little? What I would do to distract you whenever I'd rip off a Band-Aid or something like that?

Sam: Yeah. You'd tell some stupid joke.

Dean: Yeah. Knock, knock.
Dean: Just when we thought we had a choice. You know, whenever we thought we had free will. We were just rats in a maze. Sure, we could go left. Sure, we could go right. But we were still in the damn maze. Just makes you think, if all of it -- you know, everything that we've done... What did it even mean?
Sam: It meant a lot. We still saved people.
Sam: That's what He does. He gets bored and-and-and pulls the ripcord. I mean, that's what He did with Apocalypse World and-and probably with all of them. He moves on, starts another story. But you know what? Good. 'Cause if He bailed, it's just us. For the first time. It's just us.

Dean: And about 3 billion ghosts.
Sam: Yeah, well, what's one more apocalypse, right? But seriously, if we win -- when we win this, God's gone. There's no one to screw with us. There's no more maze. It's just us. And we're free.
Dean: So you and me versus every soul in Hell? I like those odds.
Sam: Yeah, me too.
Dean: Well, you know what that means?

Sam: We got work to do.

Trivia & References

"Back and to the Future" is a reference to the Back to the Future films, as well as the fact that Sam and Dean are once again facing enemies from their past. It may also be a reference to the much-repeated line "back and to the left" from the 1991 film JFK.
The name on the crypt that Sam, Dean, and Castiel take refuge in is "Carver," a reference to previous Supernatural writer and showrunner, Jeremy Carver.
Belphegor: Anyway, I'm guessing this whole, uh, Hellmouth thing is kind of, uh, you?
In Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the Hellmouth was the doorway to Hell located beneath the town of Sunnydale which the protagonists have to keep closed. It's mentioned in the series finale that there is also one in Cleveland, Ohio. In addition, Belphegor was one of the main antagonists in the Buffy novels The Gatekeeper Trilogy.
Belphegor: I mean, the last time I was on Earth, I mean, I was human. Ah, it was a while ago. I mean, but, you know, we were all worshiping this giant rock that looked like a huge penis, and... Anyway, folks back then, they were, uh, ugly. You know? Had a lot of humps. I mean, a lot. Look at 'em now. I mean, look at you. I mean, you're, uh, you know, gorgeous.
Belphegor may be referencing the Rudson Monolith, the tallest standing stone in the United Kingdom which dates back to the Neolithic era (10,000 - 4,500 BC), and does look like a huge rock penis. In lore Belphegor was often times depicted and worshiped in the form of a phallus. Belphegor's remarks about how much better looking people have become, and how he considers Dean to be gorgeous, also could be a reference to Belphegor being associated with licentiousness and orgies.
Dean: Hey, Casper.
Reference to Casper, the Friendly Ghost. In 1.01 Pilot Sam also refers to the Woman in White as Casper when questioning Dean about shooting her in the face.

Minutiae

As with every season, the title card has been updated. Among the images flashing on screen include an angel banishing sigil, an Aquarian Star, a cosmic background, a glowing Samulet, a Hell Ghost, burning angel wings, an iris / rift similar to season 13's title card, and an inverted pentagram. You can see these images here.
Continuity Error: Belphegor's right hand had Castiel's blood and graveyard dirt, which he used to banish the ghosts outside the mausoleum from the corpses they were possessing. However, when he claps his hands and cast the spell, his hands were completely clean. Later, when they exit the mausoleum, Belphegor raises his right hand gesturing for a high-five, though it's stained with blood and dirt.
This is the third episode where the "The Road So Far" recap song has continued playing into the start of an episode, after 2.21 All Hell Breaks Loose: Part One and 14.01 Stranger in a Strange Land. Unlike those two prior instances, the music in "Back and to the Future" is not diegetic.
Appearing among the Hell Ghosts are Constance Welch aka the Woman in White from 1.01 Pilot, Mary Worthington aka Bloody Mary from 1.05 Bloody Mary, and John Wayne Gacy aka Pogo the Clown from 14.13 Lebanon.
Hell is revealed to have a newspaper, but terrible Wi-Fi. Though, Belphegor may have been being sarcastic.
Belphegor's interactions with the world around him suggest that he can see just fine even with Jack's eyes burned out. In 4.01 Lazarus Rising, a demon who had her meatsuit's eyes burned out by Castiel couldn't see at all, though Flo says that she can "still smell [Sam's] soul a mile away." It implies that demons compensate with their other senses when their eyes are damaged beyond repair. Though in the case of Belphegor, it was only Jack who was missing his eyes, whereas Flo had her eyes and her meatsuit's eyes burned out.
Belphegor mentions Dean's time in Hell, where he was tortured by Alastair, until after 30 years Dean accepted Alastair's deal that he would stop if Dean himself would become a torturer. Belphegor says he got to watch Dean "work" and described the things he did to people as not torture, but "art."
At the end of the pilot, there is a shot of Dean and Sam standing over the trunk of the Impala. As Sam tosses a weapon into he trunk he says, "We got work to do" and closes the trunk. At the end of 2.22 All Hell Breaks Loose: Part Two, the scene is replayed with the brother's positions reversed. Dean tosses the Colt into the trunk and says, "We got work to do." It is also re-created at the start of 10.05 Fan Fiction after Dean announces he has found a case. In "Back and to the Future", Sam says it and closes the trunk, while the image briefly flashes to the Winchesters closing the trunk at the end of the pilot.

Sides, Scripts & Transcripts

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