Changes

The original ending of the episode was to have featured Sam walking along a road towards the Roadhouse. Dean wouldve appeared to greet him and then said "There's some folk in here that have been waiting to see you." Inside the Roadhouse would've been as many former cast members as they could get (appearing as their characters, and Kansas would play "Carry On". reportedly Misha would be there, but as Jimmy Novak, not Castiel. Unfortunately due to covid restrictions, especially the requirement to quarantine, this ending was changed.}}{{TriviaQuote |Text=In a [https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/how-supernatural-filmed-during-covid-19-1234772638 ''Variety'' article], director [[Robert Singer]] talks about COVID-19 restrictions, quarantine, and which cast members were on set for the series finale. Some fans were upset by the news that [https://twitter.com/mishasnovak/status/1306853261408980995 Misha wasn't included.] Jensen also [https://screenrant.com/supernatural-final-season-15-script-changes-pandemic/ confirmed] that there had been changes to the script due to COVID. Both [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3LRydtQZVY Misha] and Jared [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csmqSQAQHHg later went into detail] about these changes to the ending, specifically saying that there was supposed to be a large scene in Heaven of all of Dean's friends, family, and loved ones from earlier episodes, but that it wasn't possible because the 14-day quarantine would've been inconvenient to cast members. However, It is unknown whether there had been time to invite former cast members before the COVID shutdown. [https://twitter.com/katramdeen/status/1330629428448096256 Kat Ramdeen said on Twitter] that she was already available in Vancouver and was not contacted, but also stated that if she were to have appeared it would have had to serve the story. [[Samantha Ferris]] [https://twitter.com/samanthajferris/status/1330683416417771523 said on Twitter] that she and [https://twitter.com/ChadLindberg/status/1330658189335957505 Chad Lindberg] weren't approached about being in [[Season 15]] at all (despite many other [[Season 15 Callbacks]] prior to COVID restrictions being enacted), and were surprised to see [[Harvelle's Roadhouse]] in this episode.