Rowena

I hate you, because when I look into your eyes I see the woman I used to be, before magic, before the coven. When I was nothing but Rowena, the tanner's daughter. A pale, scared little girl, who smelled of filth and death. I hate you, because when you were born, your father said he loved me, then he went back to his grand wife and his grand house, whilst I lay pathetic and half dead on a straw mat -- my thighs slick with blood. I hate you, because if I didn't, I'd love you. But love, love is weakness. And I'll never be weak again. – Rowena, 11.10 The Devil in the Details

History

Rowena is a natural born witch originally from Scotland, who has been around since the 17th century (or possibly longer), and is the mother of Fergus Roderick MacLeod who is now Crowley and grandmother to Gavin MacLeod. Before Rowena became a witch she was a simple peasant and a daughter of a tanner, who had an affair with a man above her social class. Once Crowley was born he abandoned the two and went back to his rich wife and her grand house.

Rowena would go on to abandon Fergus and flee her village after she was charged with practicing witchcraft. It was during this time that Rowena got the chance to study under the great Milanese witch, Leticia D’albioni, and join the Grand Coven. Despite Rowena having laid with a "non-magic and hatched his spawn," the Grand Coven was willing to overlook her personal life because of the talent she possessed.

Rowena was expelled from the Grand Coven because her magic was considered too extreme: one spell she created was the "Defigere Et Depurgare," which was used to vanquish demons. Rowena's "unpleasantness" with the Grand Coven would ultimately lead to her being banned from performing magic, taking on students, or forming her own coven, as well as sending her on the run for years for having engaged in sex with a non-witch and giving birth to his child. In 2014, 300 years later, Rowena resurfaces to reclaim her lost power base.

Rowena reunites with Crowley and makes several attempts to manipulate him for her own ends. Crowley is aware of Rowena's manipulations yet captures the head of the Grand Coven, Olivette, for her. Under torture by Rowena, Olivette reveals the Grand Coven is now much diminished in its power because it was leveled by the Men of Letters.

Frustrated by Crowley's continued dealings with the Winchester brothers, Rowena attempts to drive a wedge between them. When this fails, she leaves Hell. Sam tracks her down and beseeches her help in decoding the Book of the Damned to reveal how to remove the Mark of Cain from Dean. Rowena agrees to help on the condition that Sam kill Crowley for her. Sam eventually holds her captive with iron shackles so she cannot escape while she decodes the Book of the Damned.

Following Sam's failure to kill Crowley, Rowena determines the ingredients needed for the Mark-removal spell which involves the Forbidden Fruit, a fragment of the Golden Calf, Dean's hair, and her sacrificing someone she loves. Castiel is able to determine it is a young man named Oskar whose family had helped her hundreds of years ago, and of whom she was so fond that she cured him of a terminal disease and rendered him immortal. Castiel summons Crowley who brings them the ingredients as well as Oskar. Rowena kills Oskar and casts the spell to remove the Mark. The spell releases the Darkness at the same time. Rowena's powers become bolstered by the influence of the book which gives her the ability to cast her spells on demons and even angels. She takes the opportunity to escape with the Book of the Damned, Nadya's Codex and Charlie's Code Breaker. She also casts an attack dog spell on Castiel so he will kill Crowley while he is completely immobilized.

Episodes

Rowena enjoying a book after killing the room service.

10.03 Soul Survivor

In a hotel suite in Tulsa, Oklahoma; Rowena is reading a book in front of a fireplace, when suddenly a drop of blood falls on her arm from the ceiling. She looks up, revealing two hotel staff members nailed to the ceiling, smiles and continues reading her book.

10.07 Girls, Girls, Girls

"Well...I'm about as far from Grand Coven approved as it's possible to be. They threw me out many years ago. Disapproved of my methods. Said my magic was too extreme. I was forbidden from using magic, from taking students, from forming a coven. I've been on the run from those utter fannies ever since."

Two demons named Raul and Gerald are running a brothel, using women to make deals, selling sex for souls. Rowena visits the brothel and throws a hex bag to Raul, who immediately begins vomiting black goo -- liquified demon smoke -- and collapses, dead. She leaves with two prostitutes, Elle and Catlin, and takes them to eat at an upscale restaurant. The waiter tells them that Elle and Catlin do not meet the dress code, so Rowena bewitches him with a servitude spell. They are served the finest food and wine. Rowena explains that there are three types of witch: Borrowers, which harness the power of a demon, the Naturals, those who are born with the gift of magic, and the Students, who learn from a Grand Coven approved mentor. Rowena tells them that she was thrown out of the Grand Coven a long time ago for her extreme methods, and was thus forbidden from forming a coven or even using magic. She has been on the run ever since, but offers to take Elle and Catlin under her wing anyway. Just then, the waiter's face turns red and he collapses, dead Rowena, forcing a quick exit from Rowena and the girls.

Sam and Dean are on Rowena's trail, and they find out that she has been responsible for a number of murders at high-end hotels, with the bodies impaled on the ceiling and brains boiled. Later, the women are staying at a hotel when there is a knock on the door. Rowena tells Elle and Catlin that it is probably the hotel manager, coming to find out why she hasn't paid the bill, and that he would be practice for them. When she opens the door though, it is revealed to be a bellboy, whose throat has been slit by demons, who proceed to capture the women. Sam and Dean arrive and kill the demons, and say they are only there for Rowena. She puts an attack dog spell on Elle, and uses this distraction to escape with Catlin. Elle fights Sam, but when the spell runs its course she dies like the waiter. Outside, Rowena tells Catlin that most people cannot withstand the power of the spells, but that Catlin is strong. Catlin punches Rowena and runs away. Rowena begins to recite a spell but is stopped when Dean puts a gun to her head. Before he can act, Cole puts a gun to Dean and Dean is forced to let Rowena go.

At Crowley's base of operations, Gerald tells Crowley that although the Winchesters took down the alpha team, the beta team had a perimeter around the hotel and captured Rowena. She is bloodied and bruised and strung up in chains in a cell. Crowley enters. As Rowena mocks him, in utter surprise, all Crowley can say is "...Mother?"

10.09 The Things We Left Behind

"Of course you had a father! You were just conceived during a winter solstice orgy, and it’s not like I was taking names. What do you want me to say? I … I had a disagreement with the locals and when they set their hounds on me, I had to leave!"

Gerald places Trish in Crowley's dungeon next to Rowena. As Trish attempts to break free from her bindings, Rowena initiates small talk with her, wanting to find out what brought her there. Trish tells her she was smuggled topside as Crowley only allows certain demons out of Hell. When Trish asks why she is a prisoner, Rowena replies that she was a "horrible mother."

When Crowley finally decides to see Rowena, he berates her for being a horrible mother to him, but Rowena deflects that by saying she was motivating him for bigger things. When he brings up she abandoned him when he was eight, she tells Crowley it was because she ran afoul of the locals and had to flee. Rowena tells Crowley she wishes to be a family again, and that he can trust her unlike the demons who will turn on him at the first chance.

After their chat, Crowley and Gerald escort Rowena to the dungeon. It's there that Rowena accuses Gerald of smuggling demons out of Hell, to which Trish confirms. Gerald denies the accusations, and begins to strangle Rowena. When he doesn't listen to Crowley's repeated orders to stop, Crowley stabs Gerald through the neck with an angel blade, killing him. As Crowley leaves the cell, he asks Rowena if she is coming. She smiles and follows him out the door. When Trish reminds Rowena that she said she would get her out if she lied about Gerald, Rowena responds that she'll be back for her "in a flash" and locks the cell.

10.10 The Hunter Games

"I will not apologize for being a career woman! Besides, what’s three hundred years, more or less, to folks like us? Nothing. I’m back now."

Crowley has a vision that he is being assassinated by his own demon henchmen in a hallway, Rowena brings him back to reality where he sits at his throne, staring blankly into space. She shows concern and offers to help him in any way, however Crowley insists that nothing is wrong and tells her she can't do anything to help him. Immediately after he exits the room, she pulls out a hex bag from under his throne.

Rowena sits in Crowley's throne as she is confronted by Guthrie.

Later one of Crowley's henchman Guthrie, finds Rowena searching through Crowley's cupboards. When Crowley enters, Rowena tells him Guthrie is plotting against him. Crowley is suspicious of her, but Rowena promises she only wants them to be a family again. When Crowley goes to meet with the Winchesters, Rowena astral projects herself to spy on them. She hears that Crowley is planning on giving them the First Blade, and where it is hidden. She sends Guthrie to retrieve it, pretending it is at Crowley's behest.

When Guthrie returns with the First Blade, he refuses to give it to Rowena, so she kills him. When Crowley returns, she claims Guthrie was planning a rebellion against him. Crowley remembers his nightmare, which Rowena pretends must've been a prophetic vision. Rowena also warns him about the Winchetsers.

10.14 The Executioner's Song

"Well, duh! Of course I was manipulating you! I am your mother, after all. Manipulation's who we are."

While Crowley is holding court with his inner circle of demons, Rowena begins to admonish him for just giving into a crossroads demon's complaints of not being recognized for his work, suggesting a particularly gruesome punishment for which Crowley obliges. Later Rowena approaches her son about dealing with the high-ranking Grand Coven witch, Olivette, who was responsible for her being put on the run, it's then that Crowley reveals he has been on to Rowena's manipulations from the beginning, but ultimately agrees to help her.

While Rowena begins formulating her plan of attack with Crowley, he is called away by Dean Winchester seeking the First Blade to kill Cain. This forces Crowley to postponed the attack, which Rowena does not take kindly, and begins to argue with him about his trust with the Winchesters, and how they don't care about him.

After Crowley returns, Rowena tells him of her intention to leave, claiming to be heartbroken over the way in which Crowley rules Hell, telling him he is nothing but the Winchester's "bitch."

10.16 Paint It Black

"Poetic justice, if you ask me. For hundreds of years, those hags made me grovel, every attempt to please them futile. High time someone else ran in circles, eh?"

Rowena remains vexed with Crowley and vents her frustration by ruining the court and casting shocking spells to all those who interferes her, going so far as to hex one of the demons to spawn a second face on the back of his head. She also rebukes Crowley for denying to help her and for choosing the Winchesters over his own blood. She taunts Crowley about his existence is only because of her and again, destroys his palace by casting a spell. Crowley later captures Olivette and brings her before Rowena as a gift, much to her joy. Rowena takes the shackled Olivette and beats her. Olivette reveals she excommunicated Rowena for being too dangerous with magic and that the Grand Coven has already been devastated and weakened due to the Men of Letters, who confiscated all their accumulated spells and potions and placed them in warded bunkers around the world, and revealing that the Winchesters are the only known Men of Letters in the United States. With the assumption that the Grand Coven from which she has been hiding for centuries and which she has been fearfully groveling until now is no longer powerful and authorized, Rowena begins to kill Olivette with a spell, but quickly stops when she realizes death would be a release for Olivette, instead Rowena chose to transforms her into a hamster.

Rowena attempts to kill Dean Winchester with a spell.

10.17 Inside Man

"You say that like it's an insult. But nice girls, they're pathetic. Here's to evil skanks."

Rowena begins her plan to kill the Winchesters, to prepare she draws sigils and symbols in blood on her body, and seeks the aid of a demon subordinate to triangulate the location of the Men of Letters Bunker, however the demon is only able to give her a 10 mile radius to work with. After Dean has hustled money playing, and heads to the bathroom, Rowena enters the bar and casts the attack dog spell on a trio of men that Dean just hustled and unleashes them to attack Dean. When Dean successfully beats the men without killing them, Rowena uses a Gaelic spell on Dean which is supposed to rip him apart, to no avail since Dean bears the very powerful and ancient Mark of Cain. Dean spares her life for the sake of the hexed trio as he knows that Rowena is the only one that can reverse the spell cast on them. Overwhelmed by the knowledge that even her mightiest spell cannot effect Dean, she lacerates and beats herself and reveals Crowley that Dean did this to her in hope of Crowley retaliating. To her surprise, Crowley ignores her and tells her she deserved what she got for going up against Dean and later, forces Rowena to leave unconvinced by her love for him, stating that the only reason she is clinging to him is he is being useful to her. Rowena then packs and leaves her son's palace.

10.18 Book of the Damned

"Shall we discuss terms?"

Sam secretly meets with Rowena to seek her help in deciphering the Book of the Damned and removing the Mark of Cain from Dean. After Sam pleads his case, Rowena simply smiles and wishes to go over the terms of their accord.

Rowena becomes a prisoner... again.

10.19 The Werther Project

"I'm over 300 years old. Beauty sleep isn't optional."

Sam meets with Rowena and asks for her help in decoding the Book of the Damned in the hope it will reveal how to remove the Mark of Cain from Dean. Rowena agrees to help, on the condition that Sam kill Crowley for her. She says she needs a special codex that was created by Nadya –- a witch of the Grand Coven. Rowena knows that the Men of Letters confiscated and concealed it when they killed Nadya.

Sam called Rowena when he found the location of the Codex and she provides him information on an easy to obtain enchantment that can counter the effects of the Werther Box, but she warned Sam that the Cabirian Invocation has a way of fizzling out in inexperienced hands and offers to come help, but Sam declines and hangs up.

When Sam gets bespelled by the Werther Box, Rowena appears and instructs him to bleed himself in order to open the box. When he has lost a dangerous amount of blood, Dean appears, and hits him, breaking the spell. The apparition of Rowena disappears.

After obtaining the codex from the box, Sam secretly takes the codex to Rowena, but he tricks her and manages to shackle her so she cannot escape while she decodes the Book of the Damned.

10.21 Dark Dynasty

"I read you the minute I saw you. And I'm sure you're learning that the line between good and evil is quite flexible. But we part company when it comes to blind devotion. Case in point... the Winchesters. You've made them the family you don't have. Foolish."

Since Rowena has not found a cure for the Mark, Sam argues with her for procrastinating in deciphering the Book of the Damned even though she has Nadya's Codex, to which Rowena replies that she is an, artist and needs time for interpreting the cure for Dean. She also states that her deciphering of the codex could be expedited if she could use magic, since Sam has her in iron shackles. Sam is desperate and demands why she is stalling but Rowena denies, saying that removing the Mark of Cain would insure her life, plus her willingness to have Crowley killed. In addition, Rowena mentions that Nadia also encrypted her own codex so that no one could ever decode it, to Sam's chagrin. When Sam goes to leave, Rowena asks him to go grocery shopping.

He returns with Charlie, who is also there to help find a cure for the Mark, but Rowena is antagonistic toward Charlie, and tells Sam that she does not need an ancillary decoder. Sam retorts by revealing that Charlie wouldn't be her helper, as she would be subordinate to Charlie. Rowena is not impressed by Charlie's confidence in tech, as she has never heard of the school where Charlie learned this magic. Sam tells her that she will find the ancient spells and curses, while Charlie's tech will put it into context. When Castiel is counted in, Rowena is intrigued by him, and taunts that all their discreet and unwilling collaboration must be unbeknownst to Dean, who doesn't even know that Sam didn't destroy the book. Sam, Charlie, and Castiel make a mutual agreement on cooperating for Dean's sake.

Rowena taunts Charlie and her laptop, and Castiel enters with his favorite snack as a human, pork rinds. Charlie asks Rowena about the nun who wrote the Book of the Damned, and Rowena replies that she was a hermit nun, Agnes, and that she was incinerated at the stake by the men of the church. Rowena mentions that her and Charlie are similar, however Rowena believes Charlie has too much trust in the Winchesters. Charlie confesses that the Winchesters are like her brothers, but Rowena tells her that her loyalty would be her undoing. Because Rowena won't leave her alone, and even tried to talk her into witchcraft, Charlie tells Castiel that she has to leave for two hours, or even one, just to get away from Rowena.

When Charlie and Rowena start arguing, Castiel calls Sam to let him know that Charlie wants to leave. Sam says it is too dangerous, however, so Castiel moves Rowena to another room, and chains her there. Rowena felt that Charlie was being the dramatic one, and believed that determining a cure would go faster if Charlie accepted her help. She also mentions that Crowley is her son, which surprised Castiel. Castiel leaves her, and finds out that Charlie has left for a motel, where she is later killed by Eldon Styne.

10.22 The Prisoner

"Right, you don’t! Your brother’s a walkin’ freakin’ time bomb, and the clock, she’s a ticking. So you will kill my son, and you will do it my way, now!"

Sam decides to end the work to remove the Mark and kill Rowena, but changes his mind once he receives an email from Charlie with how to crack the codex. Rowena confirms she can now remove the Mark, but demands that Sam kill Crowley before she will as she doesn't trust him to keep up his end of the deal otherwise. After Sam fails, he calls Rowena to tell her and give her Crowley's warning. While Rowena is left worried, she insists Sam keep trying.

Rowena makes her escape with the Book of the Damned, Charlie's Code Breaker, and Nadya's Codex.

10.23 Brother's Keeper

"Impetus bestiarum. I'm afraid, Fergus, that in all your long life, you've never seen what a real witch can do with real magic. I'm terrifically pleased it's the last thing you'll ever see. Dele malum hoc."

Following his failure to kill Crowley, Sam tries to threaten Rowena into helping with bullets filled with witch killing brew. However, Rowena is not intimidated as Sam needs her to crack the Book of the Damned and to cast the spell. She offers a new deal: her freedom and the codex in exchange for removing the Mark. Sam agrees and Rowena determines the ingredients needed for the spell which includes her sacrificing the person she loves most. Castiel is able to determine it is a young man named Oskar who's family had helped her hundreds of years before and she had grown so fond of she cured him of a terminal disease and made him immortal. Castiel summons Crowley who brings them the ingredients and Oskar. Rowena is happy to see Oskar despite her protests of loving no one and is horrified that she will have to kill him. However, she is forced to go through with it and casts the spell to remove the Mark. She succeeds in removing the Mark, but unwittingly releases The Darkness at the same time. After using the book's power to remove the Mark of Cain, her powers are super charged by the book's influence. Rowena takes the opportunity to escape with the Book of the Damned, Nadya's Codex, and Charlie's Code Breaker. She casts an Attack Dog Spell on Castiel so he will kill Crowley while he is immobilized.

11.03 The Bad Seed

"...and they shall know us far and wide and fear us. And we shall be known as the... Mega Coven! Mega Coven. See, because it's greater than Grand Coven. So it's not grand, it's mega! It's the Mega Coven. I don't think you're followin'."

Rowena stands before a trio of witches in an abandoned warehouse, at her altar she declares that they shall be known as the "Mega Coven" to the confusion of the trio. When one witch questions why they would join her, Rowena tells them that the Grand Coven is obsolete and and falling apart. She tells them of how she compelled an angel to kill her son, the King of Hell. But one witch tells her, she made a deal with Crowley only the day before, she declares Rowena "delusional as ever." As the trio begins to leave, Rowena pulls out the Book of the Damned and performs an incineration spell, killing the trio of witches where they stood.

At a restaurant, Rowena sits with two witches, pitching them to join her new Mega Coven and offering them power they could never get while in the Grand Coven. The witches appear to agree to join, when suddenly a demon possessed waiter attacks. One witch attempts to fend him off with a spell, but is too late and has her throat slit. Rowena makes her hasty retreat, using a spell to block her exit with furniture.

Sometime later, Rowena comes out of a brick building, disguised in a blonde wig and speaking in an American accent, carrying her suitcases towards a yellow Taxi. She quickly realizes that the driver is actually Dean Winchester and sends him flying across the alley, pinning him to a wall. Before she can kill Dean, Sam appears from nowhere and places her in iron shackles. Back at the Bunker's dungeon, Dean is chaining Rowena to the chair while Sam is searching her luggage for the Book of the Damned, but is only able to find Nadya's Codex and Charlie's code breaker. When Sam goes to retrieve Cas, Dean threatens to call Crowley unless she helps them, Rowena eggs him on, telling him if she is dead, there will be no one to remove the curse from Castiel. A panicked Sam returns to the dungeon, telling Dean Cas has gone missing. The trio pile into the Impala and track Cas down using his phones GPS. Dean parks the Impala in the general vicinity of where Cas' GPS brought them, and tells Sam to take Rowena one way, while he looks another. When Dean tracks Castiel down, Rowena and Sam show up not long after as Castiel starts attacking Dean. With a gun to her head, with witch-killing bullets, Sam orders Rowena to remove the curse. Once done, Sam briefly takes his attention away from Rowena to place her back in shackles, but Rowena is able to use the momentary lapse to her advantage and uses a spell to send Sam's gun flying across the room, along with Sam. Before either Winchester can do anything, Rowena traps them behind a cage and makes her escape.

Rowena summons Lucifer.

11.09 O Brother Where Art Thou?

"It’s not easy being a parent; knowing when to hug your child, when to kill him."

A hooded and shackled Rowena is brought before Crowley and the Winchesters. She surmises they want her help to deal with the force that was released when the Mark of Cain was removed. Dean tells her everyone in the room holds a piece of the puzzle to stop the Darkness, Rowena is then filled in on Amara being God's sister, and is shocked at learning the truth, as back her day people would be burned at the stake for merely suggesting God had a sister. Knowing that her decoding the Book of the Damned is pivotal to their plan, she wants to know would be in it for her, to which Crowley agrees to call off his assassins, until the next time she crosses him. She asks what is in the Cage that is so important, when they tell her Lucifer, Rowean elated at the prospect of meeting the "Original Dark Prince." With everyone in agreement, Rowena is taken to the Bunker, where she is given Nadya's Codex and Charlie's code breaker. After some studying, Rowena finds the spell necessary to communicate with Lucifer without opening the Cage, and along with Sam and Crowley journey's to Hell to perform the spell.

Crowley leads the trio to "limbo," a desolate area in the furthest reaches of Hell. There Rowena paints warding sigils around a cage, and performs the first part of the spell -- which activates the warding sigils, as a ring of holy fire surrounds the cage. The second part of the spell causes the flames to rise high above, once they die down a figure appears in the shadows with glowing red eyes -- Lucifer. As Rowena and Crowley watch Sam's conversation with Lucifer from a distance, Rowena becomes enamored by the fallen angel. Eventually, the illuminated spell-work on the cage begins to fade and the fire around the cage begins dying. Crowley looks startled, but Rowena looks intrigued. As Crowley questions why the warding failed, Rowena simply tells him to follow her, and leads him away.

11.10 The Devil in the Details

"Don’t you be daft. After Lucifer stops the Darkness, he’ll ascend to his throne... in Heaven and I’ll be by his side, a loyal follower."

During a recurring nightmare, in which she is experience Christmas morning with a child-like Crowley, the dream is suddenly interrupt by Santa Claus kicking the door down and impaling Crowley with a candy cane, when Rowena asks who he is because he is a new element in the dream, Santa pulls down his beard and reveals himself as Lucifer, causing joy to fall on Rowena.

After Sam is transported into the Cage, Rowena and Crowley have absconded to another room. While Rowena sits at a table, Crowley begins to choke her telling her she betrayed him in his kingdom. But she tells it's not his kingdom, it's Lucifer's and she is also his. Crowley questions how long she has been working for Lucifer, she tells him not long and Lucifer came to her in a dream. Telling him her allowing Crowley to capture her was all apart of Lucifer's plan. She tells Crowley that once Lucifer defeats the Darkness, he will ascend to Heaven and take the throne with her by his side as his queen.

Rowena has her neck snapped by Lucifer.

While Crowley and Rowena are about to have tea, Crowley excuses himself, but unbeknownst to him Rowena slips a hex bag in his pocket, allowing her to eavesdrop on his conversation with Dean Winchester. She reveals this fact to Crowley when he returns to her, however Crowley turns it around on Rowena, telling her he drugged her tea, causing Rowena to double over in a coughing fit, allowing Dean to place a witchcatcher around her neck. Furious, Rowena demands Crowley remove the collar from her neck, he tells her would, if not for the fact that the collar allows him to control her, and proves this point by forcing Rowena to hop on one leg, which she does, much to her chagrin. With Rowena in their control, Dean and Crowley force her to perform a spell to send Lucifer back to the Cage, with the caveat that the spell will only work as long as Lucifer doesn't take a vessel to anchor himself. Rowena performs the spell and is seemingly successful, when Lucifer disappears in blinding white light. With everyone regrouped, Crowley declares the team-up a "trainwreck" and over, when Sam questions what to do with Rowena, Crowley tells him she is staying with him Hell.

With everyone taking their leave from Hell, Crowley sits in front of a fireplace and has Rowena massage his temples. During this time, he asks his mother why she hates him. Rowena goes on to tell him about her life before magic and how his father abandoned them after his birth and with tears in her eyes, that if she didn't hate him, she would love him and love is a weakness. Unexpectedly, Castiel appears in the doorway. However, Castiel soon reveals himself to actually be Lucifer, who had gained consent from Castiel before Rowena finished the spell. As Crowley tries to flee, Lucifer flings him to the wall and approaches Rowena. He removes the witchcatcher from her neck and tells her she deserves a reward for her help in freeing him. As he closes in seemingly to kiss Rowena, Lucifer asks her if anyone else is capable of opening the Cage. When Rowena tells her only she is capable, he snaps her neck, twisting it around her body.

Rowena is resurrected.

11.18 Hell's Angel

"Oh, I can be useful. Provide you with information on the troublesome brothers and Lucifer... their plans. And even if it is born out of my own self-interest, I-I care about you. I'm someone you can talk with. Confide in. Have you... have you ever had that?"

Rowena is shown to be alive, having survived her encounter with Lucifer through the use of a spell. Having found herself in the company of a weakened Amara, Rowena proceeded to use her abilities with magic to heal Amara. When Amara realizes Rowena is Crowley's mother, she questions her if she is trying to bring her back to Crowley, Rowena assures her that is not the case and tells her how much she and Crowley loathe each other. She tells Amara how she died and of her resurrection and that she has a score to settle with Lucifer, and promises to fix Amara so she can destroy her enemies. As the healing sessions continue, Amara questions Rowena why she is helping her, as she doesn't detect the capacity for concern or kindness within Rowena. Rowena tells that she wants revenge on Lucifer, but also that she wishes to be by Amara's side when she remakes the universe in her image, and in the mean time she can spy on the Winchesters and Lucifer for her. As Amara tests out her strength, the show of power appears to frighten Rowena. When she spies on the Winchesters and Crowley and overhears their plan, she lies to Amara and tells her they are paralyzed with fear, and have no clue what to do. As Crowley and the Winchester argue about their plan, a message appears stating "Back from the dead, Fergus!" on a metal wall.

Rowena, now having abandoned Amara, has joined the Winchesters in an abandoned church where they plan on summoning Lucifer, to eject him from Castiel's vessel and send him back to the Cage. When Crowley asks Rowena where she's been this whole time, she tells Crowley like him, she has been in hiding from Lucifer. Crowley goes on to threaten her not to muck about like the last time and do her job as the holy fire and warding will only hold for so long against an archangel. Once Lucifer is summoned, Rowena quickly hides behind a corner panicked and remains there even after Lucifer gets free. When Amara arrives and tells everyone she had been tracking Rowena since she left her side, Rowena takes the opportunity to flee once Lucifer and Amara face each other.

11.22 We Happy Few

"Aye. I came face-to-face with the Darkness. The apocalypse bell’s been rung a few times in our day, but when I looked inside her, I saw it. Not just the end of the world, Heaven and Hell. The end of magic."

Believing the end is near, Rowena pays a visit to Clea. Not trusting Rowena, Clea instantly pulls a gun on her and asks what she wants. Rowena tells Clea she needs a second witch for a spell, Clea in turn is not inclined to help her, knowing of her "impetuous little fits." When Rowena tells Clea that the world is ending, Clea shows Rowena her tarot cards, revealing she is aware that the end is near. Rowena entreats to Clea that the spell she is working on is from the Book of the Damned and can buy them centuries more of life by going back in time. Still sensing Clea isn't on board, Rowena tells her of her encounter with the Darkness, and that it will be the end of everything, including magic. Clea agrees to help, under the condition they go to the Greek antiquity time period.

Rowena attacks Amara.

As Rowena and Clea are preparing the spell, Sam appears out of nowhere telling Rowena they need to talk. When Rowena threatens Sam, Clea senses Sam's aura is under potent protection and she should hear him out. When Sam tells them God is back, and they want Rowena's help, Rowena refuses -- claiming to only serve magic, not God. However, Clea tells Sam she is interested. When Rowena shows surprise at Clea, Clea points out to the cross around her neck, telling her she serves both. As Rowena continues to refuse, Clea points out that they have a chance to fight and win, rather than escape, telling Rowena and Sam she can enlist other witches to help in the fight. Rowena continues to protest, prompting Clea to pick up her tarot deck, which shows the sun card, telling Rowena there is a chance.

Rowena, having been convinced to join the fight, arrives at the abandoned power plant. Upon the arrival of Chuck, Rowena immediately begins to ingratiate herself to the Lord, apologizes for her past deeds. Rowena, Crowley and Lucifer begin fighting over the order of the attack wave, once a decision is made, Rowena communicates with Amara through astral projection, telling Amara that she is with God as they speak. As Rowena steps outside of the abandoned power plant, Amara appears out of nowhere. Amara reveals that she knew Rowena's betrayal of God was a trap the moment she made contact with her, but doesn't care as all she has wanted was a face to face with her brother. Amara makes a veiled threat about how she can repay Rowena, which prompts her to attack Amara with a spell. The spell has no effect on Amara, who tells Rowena that it tickled, and mocks Rowena for thinking the power of one witch could hurt her. Rowena retorts, she isn't one witch and soon attacks again, this time with the pooled power of Clea and three other witches, which sends Amara to the ground. Amara soon stands up and deflects the magic back at Rowena, knocking her down and sending blow back to Clea and the other witches, killing them. As Amara approaches the prone Rowena, the second attack wave begins, as the angels in Heaven fire a blast of energy, sending Amara to her knees.

With the assault on Amara having failed, a disoriented Rowena picks herself off, and looks around. Seeming spotting something coming in the distance.

11.23 Alpha and Omega

"Now, Fergus was bright. Walked before his first birthday, but he hated pants. Hated them. He'd run 'round the village, his wee banger just flapping in the breeze."

After Amara has severly wounded Chuck and taken her leave, Rowena enters the building to tell the group they need to take a look outside. As Rowena, Dean, Sam, Chuck, Cas and Crowley walk outside, they begin to look around as Rowena taps Dean on the shoulder, turning him around and pointing to the sky. They all look up and see the sun. The sky around it is bright red/orange. At the Bunker, the group soon realizes that the sun is dying while Rowena tends to Chuck, telling him she'll go an make some tea. In the library Chuck and Rowena are drinking tea sharing stories about Crowley and Adam and Eve, while Crowley is off to the side drinking a glass of whiskey.

Later, when Sam suggests the only way to keep the universe from being destroyed is to even the scales by killing Amara, with light as powerful as "10,000 suns set to supernova." Chuck's weakened state he is in no position to help, Castiel suggests using souls, which Rowena agrees is a good alternative telling Sam and Dean if they collect enough souls, she can build bomb to take out Amara. With the vengeful spirits Sam and Dean collected from Waverly Hills, ontop of Billie's raid of the Veil, Rowena has enough souls and creates a soul bomb, with Dean being the only one who would be able to get close to Amara, Rowena tells him he wouldn't be smuggling the bomb, but actually be the bomb. Rowena places her hand on Dean’s chest and tells him to activate the bomb, all he will have to do is press his index and thumb together. Rowena begins an incantation over the crystal which is in her outstretched hand. As she finishes she pushes her other hand towards the crystal and Dean. A stream of bright, white light hits Dean in the chest for several seconds. Dean groans and hunches over in pain, she tells Dean he has an hour before he becomes a literal ticking time bomb.

After taking Sam and Dean to Mary's grave site; Sam, Cas, Crowley, Chuck and Rowena pull up in the Impala to the Lazy Shag bar, which has closed for the day. Though does not stop the group from entering to drink wait for Dean to detonate the bomb. At the Lazy Shag, Sam, Crowley, Rowena and Castiel run outside as the sun streams in through the windows. Outside, they all look towards the sun which begins shining bright once again, as Rowena and Crowley exclaim that Dean "did it."

12.02 Mamma Mia

"I can't believe I'm once again down some dank hole seeking the Devil. When does it end? It's exactly why I'm retiring to Boca Raton. With Ben."

Rowena seeks to start her life over again as she no longer wants to have anything to do with the supernatural. However, both Crowley and Lucifer intend to use her because of her vast knowledge and her ability to decipher the Book of the Damned. Crowley is the first to reach her, by interrupting her date with a man named Ben. Despite her insistence that she wants to retire, Crowley orders her to help him send Lucifer back to his Cage, if not, then he will expose her true nature to Ben. Rowena reluctantly agrees, and the two set up a trap for the archangel.

When Lucifer confronts Crowley in his throne room, Rowena appears and uses a spell to paralyse Lucifer and enable Crowley to throw acid on him, thus weakening his vessel. However, Lucifer is able to resist Rowena's magic and heal his injuries caused by Crowley. Seeing no other option, Crowley flees the scene, leaving Rowena behind. Rowena tries to inform Lucifer of her desire to be elsewhere and start a vacation, but Lucifer refuses to let her go since he wants to keep his enemies "close". Rowena is taken prisoner, and she screams in horror.

12.03 The Foundry

"Until you forced me to get back in the game, I'd tried to forget about Lucifer. I loathe him, and I loathe that I had any part in letting him out of the pit he belongs in."

Later on, Lucifer takes Rowena on a short trip to Wendy Vincente's house, whom he promised his vessel to heal of her condition. He then ties up Rowena inside a cabin in the woods. Realizing his vessel is already decaying, Lucifer requests Rowena's help in strengthening it. Rowena makes up an excuse of not knowing where the Book of the Damned is, but Lucifer is not fooled. Instead, he threatens to snap Rowena's neck clean off if she doesn't obey his orders. Rowena agrees and begins applying a spell on Lucifer's vessel, but soon reveals that she was using a spell that would not improve the vessel's condition, but rather, speed up its decaying process.

Furious, Lucifer tries to threaten her, knowing she cannot destroy him, and while Rowena agrees to this, she banishes both Lucifer along with his rotting vessel to the bottom of the ocean. Just then, Castiel and Crowley arrive, having been searching for her. They find her enjoying a cup of tea. As the three leave the cabin, Rowena expresses her regret in having any part in freeing Lucifer, which she why she is willing to help them send Lucifer back to his Cage once they have the archangel cornered. She tells Castiel to call her when the time comes.

Rowena wearing her latest beau, courtesy of Crowley.

12.08 LOTUS

"Well, dear. I'm a witch, he's an angel."

In Boca Raton, Rowena is enraged when she discovers that her latest fiancé has run a background check on her and has been lying and using her. While Rowena argues with the man, Crowley comes to get her help in imprisoning Lucifer, eventually blowing the man's head off, touching Rowena as the nicest thing Crowley has ever done for her.

Rowena participates in the planning for defeating Lucifer and is skeptical about the idea of using the British Men of Letters' hyperbolic pulse generator to exorcise Lucifer out of President Jefferson Rooney. The group is able to use Kelly Kline and Lucifer's child to lure him to their motel where Sam use the generator to begin exorcising him. As the generator does its work, Dean signals Rowena who begins reciting the spell to send Lucifer back to his Cage. Lucifer vacates from Rooney, believing to have finally locked Lucifer back up, both Rowena and Crowley disappear before the secret service arrives after Castiel announces that Rooney is still alive.

12.11 Regarding Dean

"You help those other than yourself. But me? I've done terrible things and I told myself it was fine. It was the price of power. And power's what matters, right? Then I met God and His sister. The two most powerful beings in the universe, wasting it on squabbling with each other. I thought if -- if they can't be happy, or at least satisfied. How can there be any hope for me?"

After Dean is cursed, Sam calls Rowena for help. Rowena, who is using her powers to cheat at poker, suggests that Sam find the witch who cast the curse and kill him. After finding the glyph used in the curse, Sam sends it to Rowena and notifies her that they have found the witch who cast the spell, but he is dead and Dean isn't getting better. Rowena joins the Winchesters and is intrigued by the memory-less Dean. Rowena then tells Sam that the spell is Druidic magic belonging to the Loughlin family. Rowena recognizes the dead witch as Gideon Loughlin and tells Sam that the only way to break the curse before Dean dies is to get her the Black Grimoire. Instead of taking Rowena with him, Sam leaves her to watch over Dean until he can get the Loughlins to give him the reversal spell. While waiting, Rowena explains her current motives to Dean, knowing he won't remember it. The two then listen over the phone as Catriona and Boyd Loughlin capture Sam.

Following Sam's capture, Rowena locates the Impala and uses it to reach the Loughlin house. Rowena leaves an unconscious Dean in the car with a note explaining the current situation, another note to stay and notes in the weapons locker directing him to his gun and the witch-killing bullets. In the house, Rowena confronts Catriona who recognizes Rowena and taunts her about their past. Rowena and Catriona engage in battle, but Rowena is no match for the other witch who prepares to kill Rowena with a shard of glass. Before she can, Dean interrupts and kills Catriona and Boyd with witch-killing bullets. Rowena is then able to use the Black Grimoire to break the curse and save Dean's life.

The next day, Rowena departs in a cab, but not before Sam makes her give him the Black Grimoire. Sam promises that the Winchesters owe Rowena "a small one" for her help however.

12.13 Family Feud

"I'm your Mother dear. Who better to crush your shriveled heart."

Rowena is summoned by Sam and Dean to help them once again. Rowena does not wish to participate in anything the brothers have installed for her, but they insist and offer her something she really wants in exchange. The brothers ask her to locate someone important, and when Rowena inquires the identity of said person, they reveal to her that it's her grandson, Gavin.

The trio go to meet Gavin at a bus stop. Gavin initially believes his father is sick, but the brothers tell him they lied and proceed to introduce him to Rowena. Gavin is needed in order to investigate the wreckage of The Star, a trading ship he was supposed to be on but due to Abaddon's intervention, he ended up in the present timeline. When Gavin discovers that his fiance had boarded the ship and suffered brutal assault from the crewmen, he decides to travel back in time to protect her to ensure she does not become a vengeful spirit.

Rowena's charred corpse, left by Lucifer.

Rowena agrees with Gavin's decision, and stops Crowley from interfering when he tries to prevent Gavin from going back in time, and to his death. She also modifies the blood sigil spell slightly so that it can be used to return Gavin to his own time, without the need to connect him to a blood relative. In the aftermath, Rowena admits that she saw Gavin as "a lovely boy," but she accepted his death because it would teach Crowley the pain and agony she suffered when she was forced to kill Oskar, a child she loved more than her own son, to remove the Mark of Cain. After explaining her motive to avenge Oskar's death by sending Gavin back to 1723, she leaves when her bus arrives, leaving a heartbroken Crowley to contemplate on what happened.

12.23 All Along the Watchtower

When Sam tries to get a hold of Rowena to help in sending Lucifer back to the Cage, he is shocked to hear Lucifer's voice on the other end. As Lucifer plays with a lock of Rowena's hair, he tells Sam of how he stomped her head in and set her on fire just to be sure she was actually dead, as Rowena's charred corpse lies on the floor at Lucifer's feet.

13.07 War of the Worlds

Arthur Ketch is revealed to be alive, searching for Rowena and torturing witches to do so. After being captured by Sam and Dean, he reveals to them that Rowena was captured by the British Men of Letters several years ago, where he discovered that she uses a powerful charm that could revive her if she is ever killed. He agreed to help her escape in exchange for having the same charm implanted in himself, telling them that the charm can only be used once before it needs to be recharged, hence his crusade for Rowena.

External links

• Rowena's Coven, Ruth Connell Fan Site
• Fanfic about Rowena on Archive Of Our Own
• Rowena Cosplay on Tumblr