4.22 Lucifer Rising
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| Title | Lucifer Rising |
| Episode # | Season 4, Episode 22 |
| First aired | May 14, 2009 |
| Directed by | Eric Kripke |
| Written by | Eric Kripke |
| On IMDB | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1222609/ |
| Outline | As only one seal is left to break. the angels ready Dean and Sam is intent on killing Lilith |
| Monster | Demons, Angels |
| Timeline | |
| Location(s) | Ilchester Maryland |
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Contents
Synopsis
1972 - St Mary's Convent, Ilchester, Maryland.
Azazel possesses a priest at St Mary's Convent, and in the chapel he kills eight nuns. This enables him to speak to Lucifer, through a dead nun, who tells him that he needs Lilith to break The 66 Seals that hold him captive. Lucifer tells Azazel he needs to find a very special child.
Present Day Ruby and Sam stand near a car outside an abandoned house. Sam is upset over the fight with Dean, but when Ruby tells him they can patch things up later, Sam says that there won't be a later, and that he's changed for good.
At Bobby's place, Dean refuses to call Sam. Bobby calls him out on his behaviour, and says he is behaving like his father, in failing to reach out to Sam and tells Dean he is a better man than his father.
At a hospital, Lilith's minion is stealing a baby for her to consume. Sam arrives and overpowers her. Back at the abandoned house, he tortures and interrogates her, and she tells him Lilith will be at St Mary's Convent, Ilchester, Maryland at midnight the next night. Ruby tells Sam they need to keep the demon alive so Sam can feed on her blood. The demon withdraws to the recesses of the possessed girl's mind, so Sam in confronted with the human he can kill.
Dean finds himself transported to what appears to be a luxurious hotel room. Zachariah and Castiel appear and Zachariah says they are keeping him safe in preparation for Lilith breaking the final seal. When he is alone, Dean finally calls Sam, leaves a message apologizing for what he said to Sam.
Sam bundles the possessed girl into the trunkc of the car and they head to that the St Mary's Convent, Ilchester, Maryland. He considers listening to Dean's voicemail, wondering if Dean was right all along. Two miles from the convent they stop, and Sam listens to Dean's message but Ruby has changed it - it is now Dean hurling abuse and Sam and rejecting him again. Resigned, Sam orders Ruby to kill the possessed girl so he can drink her blood in readiness for facing Lilith.
Dean pleads with Castiel to let him see Sam but Castiel refuses. When he confronts Zachariah, he finally admits that they don't want to stop Lilith freeing Lucifer and that the upper echelons of the angels want to apocalypse to happen in order to defeat Hell and bring about paradise on earth. he reveals that Dean's role is too kill Lucifer when he rises.
Later Castiel returns and apologises to Dean for deceiving him. Dean is angry, and argues with Castiel, trying to convince him to help Dean and Sam stop the apocalypse. He initially refuses but then returns, and cutting himself draws a sigil on the wall. Zachariah arrives to stop him, Castiel places a bloody hand on it and Zachariah is sent away. Castiel says he will take Dean to Sam to stop him killing Lilith - because her death is the final seal.
Castiel and Dean visit Chuck Shirley who has forseen that Sam is at the Convent. An archangel arrives, and Castiel says he will hold it off and sends Dean directly to the Convent.
At the Convent, Lilith and her minions have gathered. Sam and Ruby arrives, and Sam easily dispatches of all the demons and pins Lilith to the altar. Ruby sees Dean arrive, adn closes the chapel door, locking him out. As Sam's eyes turn black, he hears Dean shouting his name, but continues and kills Lilith.
As Lilith's blood forms a spiral on the chapel floor, Ruby reveals to an appalled Sam that she has been working with Lilith all along to free Lucifer. She tells Sam he didn't need the demon blood, that the choices he has made all year have helped him tap into his own power.
Ruby says Sam was the only one who could brings this about but before she can say why, Dean finally breaks in and rushes forward. Sam holds Ruby as Dean kills her with her own knife.
Suddenly a beam, of light thrusts up from the spiral of Lilith's blood. Sam and Dean clutch at each other, as Lucifer is freed.
Characters
- Sam Winchester
- Dean Winchester
- Bobby
- Castiel
- Ruby
- Lilith
- Zachariah
- Azazel
- Chuck Shirley
- Lucifer
- Cindy McLellan RN – the nurse possessed by Lilith's “chef”.
Definitions
- Mythological Arc Timeline
- The 66 Seals
- Demon Blood
- Ruby's Knife
- Devil's trap (symbol)
- Angel Lore
- Demon Blood
- Demonology
Music
Carry On Wayward Son by Kansas which has also played over finale clips montages in 1.21 Salvation, 2.22 All Hell Breaks Loose: Part Two and 3.16 No Rest For The Wicked.
Quotes
Zachariah: God? God has left the building.
Castiel: Yeah, well, we're making it up as we go.
Trivia & References
When Zachariah tells Dean his destiny is to kill Lucifer he stand in front of a painting of the Archangel Michael killing Lucifer. The painting is Saint Michel terrassant le Dragon by 15th century Flemish painter Josse Lieferinxe.
In 2.13 Houses of the Holy, Sam notices a similar painting Michael killing Lucifer in the Church they visit This version by the renaissance painter Raphall) Father Reynolds says "That's right. The archangel Michael, with the flaming sword. The fighter of demons, holy force against evil."
Sam: So they're not really the Hallmark card version that everybody thinks? They're fierce, right? Vigilant?
Father Reynolds: Well, I like to think of them as more loving than wrathful; but yes, a lot of Scripture paints angels as God's warriors.
"An angel of the Lord appeared to them, the glory of the Lord shone down upon them, and they were terrified." Luke. Two nine.
A reference to the holodeck in various Star Trek series, which was a virtual reality recreational room.
A reference to the final battle in Star Wars.
Zachariah apparently watched The Brady Bunch, where middle daughter Jan often complained about the attention her older sister got by saying: "Marsha, Marsha, Marsha".
In the 1941 animated Disney movie Dumbo, the eponymous elephant discovers he can fly with the help of his friend Timothy the mouse, who helps him get the confidence by giving him a "magic feather". When he drops the feather, Timothy reveals the ruse, and Dumbo discovers it was his own ability all along.
