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* [[Female Angel]]
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|location= Lebanon, Kansas<br>Caribou, Wyoming |prevep= 9.08 Rock and a Hard Place|nextep= 9.10 Road Trip
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The Melody Ministry Glee Club bus pulls up to a biker bar. Upon entering, the choristers and bikers reveal themselves to be opposing factions of [[angels]]. A fight ensues, and the bikers are killed.
In the [[Impala]], [[Ezekiel]] assures [[Dean]] that [[Sam]]'s health is improving, though he's uncomfortable with the Winchesters taking a job that involves Angels. Sam resurfaces, noticing the time gap when Ezekiel had been in control, and Dean lies, insisting it's leftover damage from the [[trials]]. The Winchesters arrive at the biker bar, where [[Castiel]] poses as a federal agent, hoping to prevent more angel deaths. Ezekiel briefly appears to Dean, conveying his disapproval of Castiel's involvement.
[[Malachi]] and the blonde chorus leader, both anarchist angels, meet with [[Bartholomew]]'s lieutenant to discuss a truce, uniting in order to defeat [[Metatron]] and take control of [[Heaven]]. The lieutenant refuses, and Malachi murders her and her henchmen.
With Sam outside, Dean admits to Castiel that Sam is still damaged from the trials, and that they can't work together until Sam has recovered. Later at the Bunker, Dean tells Sam that Castiel wanted to work alone. Sam discovers the obituary of one of the dead angel bikers, William Edwards, and that all of the bikers were born-again Christians who, thanks to [[Buddy Boyle]], consented to being a [[vessel]]s for Bartholomew's followers.
The blonde chorus leader attends a Utah bible study group, recruiting students as angel vessels. Celestial energy coils in the air over their heads, but Bartholomew's henchmen swoop in and kill everyone before the angels can take the host bodies. Metatron and Gadreel meet many times, and Gadreel agrees to work for him, but Metatron hedges, giving Gadreel the name of an enemy he must kill in order to prove his loyalty.
Castiel prays for assistance in a hotel room, and the angel [[Muriel]] appears. Though she's hesitant to be seen with him, she admits that Malachi and Bartholomew are fanatics, and that angels who fail to pick a side are soon killed. Suddenly, Malachi's men break in and steal them away to be tortured. Castiel insists Metatron duped him into causing the angels to fall, but Malachi believes Castiel can influence Metatron, and kills Muriel as retribution for the angels that died in the fall, including Ezekial. Malachi leaves Castiel to be tortured, but his torturer [[Theo]] begs Castiel to arrange for Metatron to raise him to Heaven. Castiel plays along, assuring Theo a place in Metatron's army, but as soon as he's freed, Castiel grabs an [[angel swordblade]], slits Theo's throat, consumes his [[grace]], and kills him. Malachi returns to find all his men dead and Castiel gone.
In [[the Bunker]], [[Kevin Tran]] finds a section of the [[angel tablet]] that's so obscure that it's as if Metatron wanted to keep it hidden from a [[prophet]]. Later, Kevin notices Sam's frequent disappearances. Castiel calls Dean to inform him that Malachi leads the Angel opposition, Castiel is once more an angel, and Ezekial died in the fall. Dean asks Kevin for a spell that would hobble an angel, so that one could speak to the vessel's owner without the residing angel listening in. Kevin uses the angel tablet and an old Men of Letters book to find a [[angel suppressing sigil]] which Kevin and Dean paint in the storeroom. Kevin knows Dean is withholding information, but trusts him anyway.
* [[Metatron]]
* [[Bartholomew]]
* [[Female Angel]]
* [[Malachi]]
* [[Muriel]]
* [[Theo]]
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* [[Angel Blade]]
* [[Angel Lore]]
* [[Angel Suppressing Sigils]]
* [[Angel SwordWings]]* [[Fights]]* [[Get this]]
* [[Grace]]
* [[Heaven]]
* [[I Did What I Had to Do]]
* [[Men of Letters Bunker]]
* [[Single Perfect Tear]]
* [[Smiting]]
* [[Tablets]]
* [[Trials]]
* "Bad Luck" by Social Distortion
:''(plays in the bar during the angel battle between the bikers and the Melody Ministry Glee Club)''
* "Wrong Path" by Jonny Redmond (Source in Sync / Imagem Production Music)
:''(playing in the bar while Sam, Dean and Cas are drinking beers)''
* "Tears in My Beer" by Lionel Wendling, Christian Seguret & Olivier Andres (Kosinus)
:''(plays during Dean and Castiel's conversation in the bar)''
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{{TriviaQuote |Text=
[httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20131229070523/https://storify.com/superwiki/holy-terror-live-tweets Live tweets during the episode] from [[Jared]] and [[Jensen]], [[Misha]], [[Osric Chau]], [[Orlando Jones]], and [[Ryan Curtis]].
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|Promotion=
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iALzINygVoE Sneak Peek]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV0mRq0P80s Promo]
* [http://www.blogtalkradio.com/mediablvd/2013/12/08/winchester-radio-supernaturals-holy-terror-w-special-guest-osric-chau Listen to Winchester Radio's discussion of this episode Discussion with special guest Osric Chau]
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==Episode Meta==
*Chan, Suzette. 2014. [http://www.sequentialtart.com/article.php?id=2549 Supernatural Talk: Tarts talk about 9.09: Holy Terror]. ''Sequential Tart'', February 17; [https://web.archive.org/web/20190523025901/http://www.sequentialtart.com/article.php?id=2549 archive link]
*Scott, Lyda. 2013. TV Review: 'Supernatural' - 'Holy Terror.' ''Blogcritics'', December 8; [https://web.archive.org/web/20131213151523/http://blogcritics.org:80/tv-review-supernatural-holy-terror/ archive link]
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