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|outline= [[Dean ]] escapes [[Purgatory ]] after a year, but his reunion with a "retired" [[Sam ]] is strained. Together they look for [[Kevin]], who has managed to escape [[Crowley ]] with a startling secret.

|timeline= One year after the events of [[7.23 Survival of the Fittest]]|location= 110100-mile Wilderness, Maine (where Dean returns from Purgatory)<br>Clayton, Louisiana (where Benny is buried)<br>Kermit, Texas (where Sam is living)<br>Whitefish, Montana (Rufus' Cabin)<br>Centreville, Michigan (where Channing goes to college)<br>Fairfield, Iowa (where Kevin sets up base in an abandoned church)|prevep= 7.23 Survival of the Fittest|nextep= 8.02 What's Up, Tiger Mommy?

Later, Sam arrives in Whitefish, Montana, at [[Rufus's Cabincabin]]. The moment he steps inside, he's tackled to the ground by [[Dean]], who splashes him with [[holy water ]] and borax, then cuts his arm with a [[silver ]] knife. Sam resists, telling him that he isn't a [[demon]], [[Leviathan]], or [[shapeshifter ]] and that he knows Dean isn't either. Dean performs the tests on himself anyways before pulling Sam into a hug. They talk, and Dean tells Sam that he's been in [[Purgatory]] for the last year. Sam asks how he escaped and what happened to [[Castiel]], but Dean is evasive. He tells Sam that Castiel didn't make it and then asks Sam where he's been. He tried to call and left him messages, but Sam was unreachable.

Sam reveals that he's not hunting anymore. After he was left alone, he fixed the [[Impala ]] and drifted. Dean asks if he looked for him and is hurt when he realizes that Sam gave him up for dead. He storms out and gets one of the phones that Sam left behind to play through the messages. On it he finds a number of messages from [[Kevin Tran]], the prophet [[Crowley]] kidnapped a year ago. Kevin escaped the demons and called Sam, desperate for help. His messages span six months, and in the last one he tells Sam that he assumes he's dead and won't call again. Dean plays them back for Sam and tells him that Kevin was their responsibility. Chastened, Sam uses his computer to process Kevin's last message. In the background is a bus depot announcement for CentervilleCentreville, Michigan. Sam also finds Kevin's girlfriend, [[Channing]], online as a student at Centerville Centreville State College. They decide to look for Kevin there. Before they go, Dean checks over the Impala and is happy with what he sees, but not with what he smells: dog. Sam doesn't admit to anything, though.

On the way to Centerville Centreville they stop at a motel, and Dean has a flashback to his time in Purgatory. He is running through the woods hunting a vampire, and when he has him trapped against a tree he asks him where "the angel" is. The vampire doesn't know, and Dean cuts off his head. He's then tackled to the ground by another vampire and loses his weapon. He's struggling when someone else knocks the vampire down and beheads him: the vampire Benny. Dean is shaken up by his flashback and tells Sam that he wants to leave the motel, but Sam thinks Dean should get some rest. They start arguing and Dean asks Sam how he rationalized his year off. Sam defends himself, but Dean can't believe that Sam looked the other way when people were dying. He also intuits that a woman was involved, but Sam doesn't say anything except that there was a woman, and now there's not.

Later that night, Sam tells Dean that he didn't just stop hunting - he found something that he'd never had before. The woman's name was [[Amelia Richardson|Amelia]], and he met her when he hit a dog. Dean acts pissed that Sam had a dog in the Impala, but when Sam changes the subject and asks about Purgatory, he answers him. Although it was bloody and terrible, Dean says that there was something about being there: it felt pure. After his admission, Dean remembers what happened after Benny saved him from another vampire: Benny revealed that he knew a way for a human to escape Purgatory. He promised to show Dean the way out as long as he let him hitch a ride. Dean agreed to work with him if they looked for Castiel first.

When Dean and Sam arrive in CentervilleCentreville, they go to question Channing. She denies seeing Kevin and tells them that they're over. The boys leave, deciding to split up to look for Kevin. Once they're gone, Channing's eyes turn black and she cuts her roommate's throat. She uses the blood to [[Goblet of Blood blood|call]] her superiors, telling them that although Kevin still hasn't shown up, Dean Winchester is back.

Kevin tells Sam and Dean that after being kidnapped, Crowley took him to a warehouse where he had another [[The Word of God|Word of God tablet]]. He demanded that Kevin translate the tablet, and Kevin told Crowley that it contained a spell to open the gates of [[Hell]]. Crowley went to Wisconsin, where the [[Hell Gates|Hell Gate]] was supposed to appear, while Kevin performed the [[spell ]] that would open the gate. However, it was a trick and the spell Kevin cast killed the two demons guarding him so that he could escape.

Crowley and a [[possessed ]] Channing show up at the abandoned church, and Crowley offers to trade Channing for Kevin, proving that she is still alive by letting Channing talk. Kevin pretends to agree, but lures the demons into a back room where he drops [[holy water ]] on them, allowing him, Sam, and Dean to escape. In revenge, as the group leaves in the [[Impala]], Crowley kills Channing while a horrified Kevin watches.

* [[Crowley]]* [[BennyLafitte]]

* [[Channing]]* [[CastielNgo]]

* [[PurgatoryAlcohol]]* [[SoulsAliases]]* [[The Word of GodBorax]]* [[ProphetDean's Leather Jacket‎]]* [[Title CardDemonology]]* [[Demon Bomb]]* [[Demon Smoke]]* [[Devil's trap (symbol)|Devil's Trap]]* [[Drugs]]* [[Flashbacks]]

* [[Devil's trap (symbol)|Devil's TrapSilver]]* [[Dean's Leather Jacket‎Souls]]* [[Purgatory WeaponsSpells]]* [[Tablet]]* [[Title Card]]* [[Undead]]* [[Vampires]]

'''Sam:''' I don't know whether to give you a hug or take a shower.<br>}}{{TriviaQuote |Text=''[Sam and Dean hug]''<br>'''Sam:''' Dude, you're frigging freakin' alive! I mean, what the hell happened?<br>

'''Sam:''' You were in Purgatory? For the whole year?<br>

'''SamKevin:''' You okay?<br>'''Dean:'[phone message]'' Yeah. Yeah, what do Three months since you say we blow this joint and hit the road?<br>'''Sam:''' Now?<br>'''Dean:''' Yeah, Kevin's not getting anymore foundditched my ass.<br>Haven'''Sam:''' The kid survived a year without us, he'll be okay t slept for another 12 more than four hoursa night. Besides, whenIt's all good in the last time you slept?<br>'''Dean:''' Hmmhood.<br>'''Sam:''' What?<br>'''Dean:''' Is that, uhUh, is that how if you rationalize taking a year off? People will be okay?<br>'''Sam:''' People <i>were</i> okay, Dean. You're okay.<br>'''Dean:''' Wow.<br>'''Sam:''' Look, I did what we promised we'd do. I moved on, I lived my life.<br>'''Dean:''' Yeah, no I'm gettin' that.<br>'''Sam:''' Look, it wasn't like I was just oblivious. I mean, I read the paper every day, I saw the weird stories, the kind of stuff we used to chase.<br>'''Dean:''' And you just said, whatstill alive, not my problem?<br>'''Sam:''' Yes. And you know what, the world went on.<br>'''Dean:''' People died, Sam.<br>'''Sam:''' People always die, Dean. And maybe another hunter took care of it, I don't know, but the point is for the first time I realized that it wasn't only up to eat me to stop it.<br>'''Dean:''' ...So what was it, hmm? What could possibly make you stop just like that? A girl?<br>'''Sam:''' ...<br>'''Dean:''' Was there a girl?<br>'''Sam:''' ...The girl had nothing to do with it.<br>'''Dean:''' There was a girl?<br>'''Sam:'''Yeah, there was. And then there wasn't. Any more questions?

'''Dean:''' It was bloody, messy. 31 flavours flavors of bottom dwelling nasties. Hell, most days felt like 360 degree combat. But there was something about being there... it felt pure. }}{{TriviaQuote |Text='''Channing:''' The last time I saw Kevin was like a year ago.<br>'''Sam:''' When he disappeard?<br>'''Channing:''' Mhm. He stole his mothers car because he thought he was on a mission from God, or something? He was crazy.<br>'''Channing's Roommate:''' Shut up. My friend Adam, who got addicted to Adderall but got a perfs on his SAT's, so it was totally worth it, same thing.<br>'''Channing:''' Shut up!<br>'''Channing's Roommate:''' Serious, mission from God.<br>'''Sam:''' Look, Channing, we know Kevin was here.<br>'''Channing:''' No, he wasn't.<br>'''Sam:''' We understand if you're trying to protect him, but nobody can protect Kevin better than we can.<br>'''Channing:''' I hate Kevin. I wouldn't protect him!<br>'''Dean:''' I thought you two had a thing.<br>'''Channing:''' Yeah, when he was going to Princeton.<br>'''Dean:''' Wow. Just like that?<br>'''Channing's Roommate:''' Uh, yeah.

'''Dean:''' Cliff notes? I went to Purgatory, Sam hit a dog.}}{{TriviaQuote |Text='''Crowley''' (to Kevin): Now, remember. Feel like a winner. Be a winner.

'''Kevin:''' Only the stuff about closing the gates Gates of Hell. Forever.<br>

'''Kevin:''' Banish all demons off the face of the Earth. Lock them away forever. That could be important, right?<br>'''Dean:''' Closing the gates of Hell forever? Yeah! Yeah, that could be important.

'''Amelia:''' You're gonna take the dog?<br>'''Sam:''' Look, I-I would. He's... not mine.<br>'''Amelia:''' He's not anybody's.<br>'''Sam:''' I-I spend a lot of the time on the road.<br>'''Amelia:''' Don't you think you're responsible?<br>'''Sam:''' Why do you think I brought him here?<br>'''Amelia:''' Roberta, could you hand this man his trophy on his way out, please? Maybe if you were such an upstanding guy you wouldn't have hit him in the first place?<br>

'''Dean:''' Spanky the Demondemon, yeah I heard about you. You're the one that uses too much teeth, right?

'''Crowley:''' Dean, you're looking...well let's just say Purgatory didn't do you any favors. Where's your angel?<br>

'''Crowley:''' There's that grade-school zip. Missed it, I really did.<br>'''Crowley (to Sam):''' Moose! Still with the pork chops. I admire that.

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This is the first episode to be written by [[Jeremy Carver]] since [[5.18 Point of No Return]]. Jeremy left Supernatural at the end of Season 5 to write and produced the US version of Being Human with wife Anna Fricke'''Benny:''' I think you had it right, bud. <br>It was announced on April 4, 2012 '''Dean:''' What's that Jeremy would return to Supernatural as co-showrunner with Bob Singer, to replace Sera Gamble who left Supernatural to develop her own series. [http?<br>'''Benny://www''' Purgatory was pure.deadlineI'm kind of wishin' I had appreciated it more.com/2012/04/supernatural-sera-gamble-jeremy-carver-co-showrunner/ source]You know? Like you. }} |Trivia_References=

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Ty Olsson who plays Benny previously appeared as the vampire bartender When [[Dean]] is releasing [[EliBenny]] in 's [[2.03 Bloodlustsoul]]from his body onto Benny's bones he speaks the words: ''Anima. Corpori. Fuerit corpus totem resurgent''. Which translates as "Soul. Body. Whole body shall be raised."

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The scene in which Dean stands transfixed in front of a vending machine, and two boys run past pretending to shoot each other, is a shout out reference to the final scenes in the movie ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0887912/ The Hurt Locker]'', where a bomb disposal expert finds it hard to adjust to civilian life after coming home from Iraq. He finally admits to his family that , "there There is only one thing I love" and returns to the adrenaline charged life on the front lines.

'''Kevin:''' You know I'm not gay, right?<br>:''This is a reference to the campaign in support of LGBT Youth [http://www.itgetsbetter.org/ "It Gets Better."] The campaign was created in response to a number of students taking their own lives after being bullied in school in September 2010.''}}

|Minutiae={{TriviaQuote |Text=This is a reference the first episode to be written by [[Jeremy Carver]] since [[5.18 Point of No Return]]. Jeremy left ''[[Supernatural]]'' at the campaign in support end of LGBT Youth season 5 to write and produced the U.S. version of ''Being Human'' with his wife Anna Fricke. [http://www.itgetsbetterdeadline.orgcom/2012/04/supernatural-sera-gamble-jeremy-carver-co-showrunner/ "It Gets Better."was announced on April 4, 2012] that Jeremy would return to ''Supernatural'' as co-showrunner with [[Robert Singer]], to replace [[Sera Gamble]] The campaign was created in response who left Supernatural to a number of students taking their develop her own lives after being bullied in school in September 2010series.

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A Winchester demonstrating that were he is not supernatural using [[Holy Waterholy water]], [[Silversilver]] , etc ... was also seen in [[4.01 Lazarus Rising]] when [[Dean ]] sees [[Bobby ]] after returning from [[Hell ]] and in [[6.01 Exile on Main St.]] when a soulless [[Sam ]] reunites with Dean.

This is the sixth time we have seen the Winchesters hug. The others were seen in [[2.22 All Hell Breaks Loose: Part Two]], [[3.11 Mystery Spot]], For a continuing tally see [[4.01 Lazarus Rising]], [[6.01 Exile on Main St.]], and [[6.12 Like a VirginHugs]].

Aside from the [[1.01 Pilot|Pilot]], this is the first premiere episode not to feature [[Bobby Singer]].

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