Clip Show (8x22)

Berly and LA tackle Supernatural Season 8, Episode 22: "Clip Show" - opening with the goriest moment of the episode as Tommy Collins's head literally explodes in front of his girlfriend. 

Sam and Dean discover Men of Letters footage showing priests attempting to "cure" demons using purified blood injections. They find a secret dungeon with the prettiest devil's trap ever, then resurrect Abaddon by sewing her head back on. She escapes after her severed hand crawls up her body to remove the bullet - the hosts loved Alaina Huffman's performance making the hand seem alive.

Cas tries apologizing to Dean by buying him a care package (jerky, beer, pie, Busty Asian Beauties) in an adorable convenience store scene. Meanwhile, Metatron recruits him for Heaven-closing trials, starting with killing a flirty Nephilim waitress who complimented his coat.

The devastating turn: Crowley threatens to murder everyone Sam and Dean have ever saved unless they stop the trials. He kills people every 12 hours - Jenny Klein gets charred, and Sarah Blake suffocates while Sam holds her. They can't find the hex bag hidden in electronics in time.

The episode ends with Sam wanting to surrender and Dean insisting they continue, setting up an impossible dilemma for the finale. The hosts were emotionally wrecked by Sarah's death after really thinking they'd save her.

"I've had that hangover. Jaeger man."

Sources:

• https://supernatural.fandom.com/wiki/Clip_Show
• https://www.gotquestions.org/Abaddon-Apollyon.html

Transcript

Berly: 0:01

Welcome to Dinner Wrapped Nightmares, Tipsy Exchange podcast, where we explore the supernatural series episode by episode.

LA: 0:10

Over drinks, we'll discuss the lore, the gore, and what we adore about the Winchesters and their adventures. I'm Burley, and I'm a new fan of the series. I'm Ellie, and I'm here along for the ride. Now let's get tipsy. Okay.

Berly: 0:27

Okay. Okay. You're ready. Are you ready, Freddy?

LA: 0:31

Yeah.

Berly: 0:32

Okay. Hello, LA.

LA: 0:34

Hey, Burley. Our last episode was titled The Great Escapist. And Sam and Dean received a distressing video message from Kevin Tran. Um, and they set about trying to uncover the third trial. The boys made a discovery that sent them to a casino in Colorado to a mysterious recluse who may be able to fill the holes in Kevin's research. Meanwhile, Crowley was on a winning streak. Castiel tried to elude Naomi and the angels hunting him.

Berly: 1:10

I have a new headcanon for us.

LA: 1:12

Oh, I see. Okay.

Berly: 1:13

You remember how when Sam was rescuing Bobby and all that kind of stuff, we were like, why was Bobby's cell just open? Like, what was going on? Why didn't they get attacked all that much? And so I've decided because Eon is being a double agent, like he's hoping both Crowley and Naomi. And in that episode, Naomi was being all, I can be helpful. I can be helpful. I think that Eon snuck into hell and was able to get in there because he's been helping Crowley too. And he's who made it so easy for Sam. Okay. And then I have a question. Do you remember back when we met Henry Winchester and he was talking about how like there were some special hunters that they gave stuff to? Oh yeah. Right? Do you think Samuel Samuel Campbell was one of those hunters? Because remember, he had all those cures, all those recipes for cures in his notebook, in his journal. How did he figure that shit out? Maybe. Maybe he was given that stuff by the minute letters like back in the day.

LA: 2:13

Yeah.

Berly: 2:14

Because they would have still been around whenever he started hunting, right? Maybe if he started young. Is that how you say his name? Eon, not Ion. Ion? Eon? I might be thinking of Ghostbusters. Wasn't that the Ghostbusters name? Wasn't it Eon? Was it? Was it? I don't know. Well, today's episode, let's just move on. Is called Clip Show. It's the 22nd episode of season eight and originally aired on May 8th, 2013. And this opener, holy fuck.

LA: 2:48

I was like, oh, we get all that sweet guy's back. Yeah for him. What's he been doing? I was like, oh, I wonder how this is gonna go. It did not go. It did not go well. I was hoping for him.

Berly: 3:00

No, no. Poor guy has PTSD and a new girlfriend, or who knows how long they've been together, but who adores going to the woods. And so she's all like, I'm so happy like you finally came here with me. And he is obviously terrified. And it is Tommy, Tommy Collins, the brother who they saved from the Wendigo way back in season one. I think that was like the second episode.

LA: 3:25

I think so, yeah.

Berly: 3:26

Yeah. And so he's seen some shit. You know, last time he went camping, things didn't go so well for him. He's not so carefree anymore. No, not at all. He brought a fucking blowtorch with him just in case.

LA: 3:38

Yeah, yeah.

Berly: 3:39

Which in there, uh oh, it was adorable. I was like, Pat, I want to go. But Tommy could not enjoy it.

LA: 3:45

He no, no, he couldn't.

Berly: 3:47

So while he's already stressed and like looking outside the window on edge, then he starts hearing noises. And she goes, Oh, is it like a bear? He's like, No, it's not a fucking bear. So when Digo and like pulls out his blow turretch and is freaking out, and the whole time his girlfriend is going, I don't fucking hear anything. Like, what are you talking about? And it's getting louder and he's getting more and more panicked. And then he slams himself up against the door, like to his his back to the door, and is like yelling, like obviously his head is hurting. And then you see just like the blood starting to like well up in his face and like coming out of his eyes.

LA: 4:24

It was like at first it was just coming out of his ear, and I was thinking, Oh, it's from whatever he's hearing.

Berly: 4:29

He burst his eardrum, but then the eyes and the face, like, and it just and he's like screaming. I mean, the actor did a phenomenal job in this very short scene. Like, holy shit! And we got our 71st blood sploogge of the supernatural series because poor Tommy, his head exploded.

LA: 4:50

Yeah, it went all over his poor girlfriend.

Berly: 4:52

All over the girlfriend, all over the wall. I mean, holy shit. And I mean, let's go ahead and just say it right now. It was the goriest thing of the episode, and there was a lot of gore in this episode, too. Yeah, but fuck like LA, it's pouring in Dallas today. So we're on Zoom right now. And so we sat down, like synchronized our watches, and started the episode. And it's like we're texting each other at the same time, like, oh my god, that that opening. Holy shit! Couldn't wait to get on the call. Well, back at the bunker where it's safe and sound and there aren't crazy noises going on. Sam and Dean are going through the men of letters files, looking at everything they have regarding demons, you know, hunting them, exercising them, cases about demon possession. Uh, he said that they had like every demon possession. What did he say? Over the past 400 years, I think it was.

LA: 5:49

Yeah.

Berly: 5:50

And they were up to Lizzie Borden. I thought that was funny. Yeah. Ichabod and Ichabod Crane. I was like, oh, that's a fun little name drop there. They're trying to go through everything to figure out what the fuck Metatron could have meant by curing a demon. Because apparently Metatron did not elaborate. Yeah. Real nice. As to how you accomplished that. Which maybe he didn't know. He's just the scribe. Castell comes walking in. They scooped him up whenever they saw him last. And he's healing up, but not as quickly as he would like. And then he tells Sam, and you're getting worse. Yeah, I know. Sam's like, yes, I know. I know, Castell. Thank you. And Dean is still not happy with Castell. Oh my. Not at all. He tries to come into the back into the library to feed Sam to try and get him to eat. Poor Sammy.

LA: 6:41

I I also really I'm liking uh Dean just being like a little mother hen, taking taking care of care of Sammy.

Berly: 6:47

Well, I mean, that's probably what they did when they were younger.

LA: 6:50

Keeps coming out with the tray and everything. Even though it's not a nutritious meal.

Berly: 6:54

I was about to say the fact, like, whenever you put together the tray for the stew, that's like cute. But the fact that he bothered to put together a tray for this, like Dean comes in and is like, girl, dinner. It's like half a beer, some peanut butter cups, and jerky. Yeah. And then he was like, Yeah, okay, we're running low. Yeah, I need to, I need to go on a run. And whenever Sam was describing how he was feeling, and Dean was like, Yeah, I've had that hangover, Jaeger. And I was like, Yes, yes, I've had that Jaeger hangover as well. Like, still, I don't think I've had Jaeger in coming up on 20 years. And I still can't even smell Jaeger without immediately feeling nauseous. Like, don't do it, kids. Dean, ignoring Cass. Whenever Cass is like, oh, I'll go with you on your food run until Cass is like, I'm sorry. And then Dean's like, oh, you're sorry? What are you sorry for? And just starts naming off all his transgressions. And he goes, Sorry, he's not gonna fucking cut it this time, cupcake.

LA: 7:56

I'm out of here. Uh, when Cass is like, oh, well, Sam's more damaged than me. Can we stop saying he's so damaged? Can we just say that he's not well?

Berly: 8:07

The poor kid. I mean, especially because Sam had Cass's back. Sam tried to tell Dean, like, hey, hey, chill out, chill out, man.

LA: 8:17

A different way to describe poor Sam's condition.

Berly: 8:20

It was so funny whenever Dean and Castell are going back and forth and back and forth, and it just would show Sam just kind of sitting there awkwardly every once in a while. Then he finally clears his throat before Dean can storm off to go get more food. And he's like, hey, do we have a room 7B? So they go down to this area that's like in their obviously their basement area for even even deeper down because this it goes so deep. It does. So deep. They walk into the room. It doesn't have a light, apparently, or maybe they need to change the light bulb. I bet you they just need to change the light bulbs. So they've got their flashy lights, and it's like the archives, I think.

LA: 8:55

Yeah.

Berly: 8:55

Because there's more file boxes in here. So they find whatever it is they were looking for. And Dean was like, What are we looking for? And he was like, I don't know. This is what the name of it is. And there was just like a note out to the side that said weird with three exclamation points. That was funny. So I figured it's something we probably need to look at because you know, everything we're looking at so far, we've already seen, and we're not getting any new information with most of the stuff. While they're down there, Dean also happens to notice a weird like semicircle thing on the floor, and then finds out that one of the shelves like rotates out to a hidden compartment of this room. They've got a dungeon. Oh, yeah. They were very excited about it. Well, Dean was. Sam was more like, so we've got a dungeon. And Dean goes, Finally. There's like handcuffs from this hanging from the ceiling, multiple handcuffs from the wall, a devil's trap on the floor, devil's trap on the ceiling. Like this thing is locked down to hold a demon to, or several demons, it looked like.

LA: 10:01

It was nice and neat. I mean, even the devil's devils, like that's the prettiest, most neat devil's trap I think I've seen on there.

Berly: 10:08

They used a giant protractor for it. Oh, did they? They did. That's how they got it. So perfect.

LA: 10:15

Okay.

Berly: 10:16

They were the middle letters. Remember, they were ahead of their time. That's true. That's true. Yep. So they're very excited about their dungeon. And they're like, okay, let's go watch this film that Sam just found that's supposed to be weird. Exclamation point, exclamation point, exclamation point. I loved when they sat down for movie night. Cass was the only one with popcorn.

LA: 10:35

Yeah.

Berly: 10:35

He had like some chippy pop sitting in front of him. And I love that their little library table is so big that they're like having to yell at each other, like, who's that? Who's that? Well, anyway, in the video, we see Josie, sweet Josie, not Josie Abaddon yet, just Josie. And she's filming, she's documenting this exorcism. And there's a really young, cute, hot priest. He was terrified. Oh my god. First time. He was so scared. And then the elder priest was way more confident about what they were doing. And they had this elderly woman chained to the floor. The cuffs had the same magic spell etched on them as they just found in their dungeon. And she's all being malicious and evil, you know, because she's a demon. She's got the black eyes and blood around her mouth, and like and so he's saying what sounds like an exorcism, but they notice that the words aren't exactly the same. They're using different words, one of which translates to wash or cleanse. And then the priest cuts his hand and puts it over her mouth. And things like she lights up, like almost like an angel does, but then everything goes like crazy. And we see Josie pick up the camera and like fix it and is like, what the fuck just happened? And then we see the body of the demon, and there's like you could see a ribcage, you could see parts of her ribcage and everything. So the demon got so panicked, I guess, that it didn't smoke out of one of the human orphases, like orphices like we normally see them do, just straight up burst out of her chest to escape. Yikes. So they're like, fuck. Okay. Yeah, that's something new for sure. Yeah. That was weird. That's something we haven't seen before. Do you think that older priest was like, whoopsie? I think that that showed him on video. I think he straight up did this. He like went, whoopsie Daisy, just like this, with his finger into his dimple. Like, ooh, I will that didn't go the way I play out. They figure out that the older priest passed away in 58. So not too much longer after this crazy weird fucking exorcism that they just watched. But the younger little cutie priest, he's still alive and he's still living in St. Louis. So they're like, let's go. It's worth the drive. But then Dean says, But not you, Cass. You stay here and think about what you did. Sam and Dean meet with the priest who explains that that one thing he was good. He didn't, he didn't need to participate. I do not blame him.

LA: 13:16

Yeah, I think I might be the same.

Berly: 13:18

He was like, I was good after that. You know, I didn't, I didn't need to do anything else. But Father Thompson, he kept trying, he kept experimenting. He thoroughly believed that he could save a demon. And they're like, what the fuck does that mean? And he said, demons are human souls, they're just corrupted and tormented from their time in hell. The father believed he could save them. So yeah, he kept trying. And then Sam is asking him clarifying questions before he accidentally coughs some blood into his hand. So he excuses himself to go to the bathroom to clean himself up and take care of what he needs to take care of. The father is like, is he okay? No. Holy shit, is he okay? And Dean says, No, no, he's not. He's not okay. But he's going to lock hell. Like he's going to close down hell, shut the gates of hell so that monsters like what you saw back then won't come up here and torture humans anymore. And he was like, That guy, really? And Dean, he was so proud of his brother. He was like, I've seen that guy do things that I would have thought were completely impossible. So yeah, that guy. So are you gonna help us or not? And he said, Let me go get Father Thompson's stuff about the weird shit he was doing with his blood. Do with it what you will. Meanwhile, Castiel did not stay put and focus on getting better. He instead decided to pop up to a convenience store and purchase Dean some of his favorite things.

LA: 14:52

It was so cute. I was like, as he was going around, I was like, oh, I see what he's doing. That is adorable.

Berly: 14:59

At first I wasn't sure, but then when he went for the Busty Asians magazine, that's when I was like, oh, he's he's getting a present for Dean to try and get him to forgive him since just doing puppy eyes and saying, I'm sorry didn't work this time. What was it? Like jerky, toilet paper, beer, the the poor little young clerk chasing him around the convenience store. He made it quite a mess. Just leaving doors open, just looking at something, squeezing that egg to see what was what that was all about. And then his desperation for the pie. I mean I did.

LA: 15:38

He's really trying. He really needs that pie so that he can get his apology across.

Berly: 15:44

It was really funny. Well, then Metatron pops in and is like, Cass, leave him alone. Leave this poor. What do you say? Leave the virgin alone. Leave this poor kid alone. I think that you and I have some stuff to talk about. We're both, you know, free thinkers. We're both on Heaven's Most Wanted list. Let's go sit down and chat somewhere. Matatron also explains to Cassial that he's been talking to, you know, his contacts. What do you say? Looking at his heavenly nook and crannies. Is that what he said? Something like that. Spying around. I have some heavenly nook and crannies too. Oh, okay. God given. Anyway, Metatron's not fucking happy with how things are going in heaven. Like he didn't particularly like what was going on with the archangels, but he really doesn't like what's happening now. He said there's all these factions that are going on up there, and they're all at war with each other trying to get control. And that Naomi's part of it, sure, but there's a lot of other shit going on. And he said, we got to punish them. I know how to close the gates of heaven. So now we're closing the gates above and the gates below. In the meantime, Sam and Dean have returned to the bunker. Cass isn't there, but they're going to go ahead and go through Father Thompson's stuff. Like they're not waiting for him. They're not going to go look for Cass because Dean still has a stick up his ass about everything. They find where he was actually successful with a demon. It's another recording. And this is a gentleman who, you know, strapped exactly as though you just saw the woman. And Father Thompson is injecting him with his own purified blood. Like he had gone to confession and purified himself and then took his blood and was injecting it in the demon and like asking the demon, like, How did you feel when you ate those children? And at first, the first thing the demon said was orgasmic. I was like, ugh. And it was like the man's children that he inhabited. Yeah. Oh. Just okay. And so here's my whole thing. Like, la-di dati da question, question, injection, injection, injection. At the and then he puts his hand on the guy's mouth, cuts his hand to put it on his mouth. The white like thing happens again, but this time it heals the demon. It saves the demon because he asks the demon again, like, how did you feel? And he's like, Oh my god, I'm so sad. Why did I do that? And he's all upset. Okay. So what happened to the dude who previously occupied that body?

LA: 18:15

I was kind of wondering that throughout this whole situation. So person still apparently is just gone and then just the demon gets to the demon just gets his body in the new body.

Berly: 18:26

Which I know, I know we've seen plenty of instances where, like, technically the human's already dead because the demon's done so much crazy stuff, or just straight up possessed a dead body or whatever. Like Ruby getting the comatose body or Meg Masters, whenever they exercised her first vessel, she was dead, like right after that. The only reason she was still alive is because she was possessed by a supernatural entity, right? So maybe it's something like that. But yeah, I wish that they would have put in a little bit of exposition there that like the demon had killed this man too, or something. Cause I'm just sitting here being like, what? So like you saved that demon and so now he just gets to have that body?

LA: 19:07

Right?

Berly: 19:07

Or does he get to smoke out and go to heaven?

LA: 19:10

I don't know. I was kind of wondering the same thing.

Berly: 19:12

Or if he smokes out, is he still just gonna go right back to hell because of all the things that he did to get to hell in the first place and just get re-corrupted and retwisted again?

LA: 19:21

Lots of remaining questions.

Berly: 19:22

Oh no, I had a joke prepared and I didn't say it.

LA: 19:25

Uh-oh.

Berly: 19:26

Rewind back to the church. They're talking to the priest, and he tells Sam and Dean that Father Thompson really wanted to clean their taint.

LA: 19:35

I'm sorry? What? I don't remember that part.

Berly: 19:39

You just gotta wash that taint. Wash that taint away. Scrub that taint away. He said. Take good care of your taint.

LA: 19:48

I mean, I guess that's good advice.

Berly: 19:52

That should be an outtake because that joke did not go the way I wanted it to. Sam and Dean decide, oh my god, this is like a really good idea. We should try this. We should, we should go and do our own experiments on a demon and see if we can't do this thing that Father Thompson did, see if we can't clean a demon's taint. And Sam's like, well, let's go get one. And Dean says, We already have one tagged. And so they go and dig up Abaddon. That was funny. They're like, We have needle, we have thread, we've seen young Frankenstein multiple times. Like, we're set. We have everything we need. Sure. Fortunately, it works whenever they sew Abaddon's head back on her body. She does, in fact, come back to life. Yes.

LA: 20:39

And she's doesn't look she doesn't look her badass self anymore. No, she looks a bit of a mess.

Berly: 20:44

Her lipstick smeared all over her face, her makeup's all kinds of fucked. Um, her hair still looks decent. Yeah.

LA: 20:52

You know, her updo was still there.

Berly: 20:55

Yeah, she still had that going on. And whenever she comes back to life, she immediately tries to jump up to get them and can't move. And they're like, ha ha ha, you still have that bullet in your mouth. So she's not happy about that. And then she says something about clawing their eyes out, and they're like, Yeah, we decided you didn't need your claws. Kitty doesn't need her claws. So they fucking chuck cut off her hands, but then they left them right there by her.

LA: 21:17

Yeah.

Berly: 21:18

So whoopsie Daisy, we got another, we got another oopsie on here. So she's pissed, understandably. Then they get a phone call from Crowley. So Sam and Dean are like, excuse us, we need to step outside of the room. And Crowley is asking them if they've seen the news, if they've seen something that happened up in Denver somewhere. They go and Google it and look at it and they see the Tommy Collins and see what happened to him. And they're just like, why is he showing this to us? Like, they don't put two and two together yet that Crowley did it. They're just like, okay, that's a coincidence. Somebody we saved unfortunately passed away, and it was really weird. And you know, maybe this is a case, but whatever. We'll look at it later. They go back in the room to resume their conversation with Abaddon and get to work on their experiment. But guess what? She she ain't there. She escaped. And that scene was so fun. Where she pulled the bullet out? Yeah. The hand. I'm assuming that was Elena Huffman's hand in the special effects. But I mean, even just the hand moving the box and like peeking up over the side and then pulling itself along the table and like crawling up her body. I'm assuming that's her own hand. She did phenomenal. I thought that was so cool. It was like making me think of that scene in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. And she goes up in her mouth and digs that bullet out and gets out. And I assume she took both her hands with her and she just left. She did not stick around. I will say, whenever they answered the phone, she was like shocked to hear Crowley's name. She was like, Crowley.

LA: 22:54

Yeah.

Berly: 22:55

Oh, and she did confess that she is the one who killed Father Thompson. Like she knew what Sam and Dean were going to try to do to her. So that could also be why she was just like, fuck this, I'm out of here. Castell and Metatron are having brunch and chit-chatting. They bounced over to California. And this is when Metatron is talking more about the trials to close heaven and that he can't do it because he's just a scribe. He's just a pencil pusher. But Castile, he's a warrior, he's a fighter. So together they can have the strength and the brains to accomplish this. We're going to be able to make this happen. But it's not going to be easy. And the first task, the first trial is that they have to cut out the heart of a Nephilim. Am I saying that right? Nephilim. That's how they said it. Yeah, yeah. Nephilim. And it just so happens that the only Nephilim on the planet right now is their waitress at this restaurant in California. A niphilum, Nephilim is uh the spawn of a human and an angel, and they are forbidden. Weren't they giants? Yeah, I guess back in the day. Yeah, I think back in the day they were supposed to be giants or something. Anyway, I remember that. They are they are off limits, cannot exist.

LA: 24:12

Abomination.

Berly: 24:13

Yeah. So we shouldn't feel bad about murdering her. But Cassiel does seem a little troubled. Yeah. Because she called him cute and funny.

LA: 24:24

Oh, yeah, that was cute.

Berly: 24:25

You know?

LA: 24:26

What did she ask him?

Berly: 24:28

About his coat. She complimented his coat.

LA: 24:29

Oh, yeah, she said it was cool. He's like, no, actually, it's a bit warm.

Berly: 24:34

Yeah. And then here's my whole thing. She was there and she's flirting with them. And then later on, she's like, I know what you are. I can see your halos. Well, then why interact with them at all? Why not try to play it under the radar? Tell your manager that you're sick and you need to leave and get the fuck out of there. If you know they're angels and they're at your restaurant, I wouldn't leave that to chance that they don't know what she's like.

LA: 24:58

She's like, oh, they don't recognize me.

Berly: 24:59

She thought she was gonna get away with it because her eyes weren't lit up yet. Yeah. Maybe. Well, Crowley has realized that Sam and Dean aren't going to figure out what happened on their own. So he calls them back while they're like, fuck about Abaddon. They don't have time to go after Abaddon, though, because Crowley like lets them know I want you to stop what you're doing, and I want you to give me the demon tablet. Like, stop the trials, stop all this bullshit. Or I'm going to kill somebody every 12 hours. And I'm going to be killing very specific people. I'm going to go and find all the people that you have saved on your past cases and kill them.

LA: 25:42

All that hard work.

Berly: 25:43

I'm just going to take over. Yeah. He's like that saving people, hunting things. Like, I know why y'all do what you do. And uh so I'm gonna go undo it. I'm gonna go and kill all those people that you've saved. And I love that he was like saying like my extensive research team, and he's reading the Carver Edland books. That was pretty funny.

LA: 26:04

I really like it when he keeps referring to all this, like this huge team he has behind him, his his RD department and this research, like okay, okay, Crowley.

Berly: 26:14

His research is that he's reading Carver Edlin books, fantasy books. But hey, there it that's helping him. He's figuring out, oh, well, this one was saved. Let's go kill that one. So they've got Tommy, he gives them an address to another city, and they figure out it's Jenny Klein, no, not been Edn's wife, the cute little baker intern chick who was in uh shut up Dr. Phil, that the two witches were fighting and thought that she was having an affair with the husband and all that other kind of stuff, and she ate the cupcake with the bloody heart and all that.

LA: 26:47

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Berly: 26:48

We don't get to see a cameo from that actress, though, because whenever they get to her house, they're already too late. Like she's like charred crispy. And so Crowley's like, I'm not kidding. I'm not fucking around. Here's your next address. And so they show up to the next address, and it's Sarah Blake from the episode Provence, where they had the little girl ghost in the painting and the adorable librarian in that episode. And Sam's just like, oh my God, we fucked. We really have to save this one. Castile has decided that the compliments and flirting that that waitress did weren't that serious or impressive, you know. So yeah, Metatron, let's go do it. Let's go, let's go cut her heart out. Yeah. So they're following her through a dark park, and that's when she like spins around and lets them know she knows who they are, and she reveals her true nature with her eyes lighting up, and she's able to kind of hold her own. She's fighting them both, but Metatron had called her an abomination, so she's really trying to get him, and so she's distracted, thinking that she took Castille out. She's got Metatron, has him up against the wall and is like, I'll show you an abomination. And Castillo comes and gets her from behind with his angel blade. It's like, I'll show you a clean taint. I'm aware the joke didn't make sense, but I'm gonna keep referencing it because why not? Yeah, why not? And Metatron is saved. But the Nephilim is no more. Sam and Dean go through Sarah Blake's hotel room and are putting all the sigils all over the place to try and demon proof it, take care of that, saying if anybody shows up, we'll take care of them. And they also figure, like, hey, like we know this is a setup, but a demon setup means there's gonna be demons there and we need another demon because we don't know what the fuck happened to Abaddon. So win-win, right? No problem. While they're talking, they end up finding out that Sarah is married and has a kid. Didn't she say he's one year old? Yeah. And she talks with Sam and is like, you are not the same. You've you've grown up, but I miss your old hair. Crowley calls them again and kind of does a countdown and reminds them that you can't stop this. The only way you can stop this is if you bring me the demon tablet and stop trying to do the trials. And they're like, Oh, well, you're not here. There's no demons here, and we've got the thing. And he's like, No, like my mother was a witch. I've learned some shit. You guys are fucked. You're not gonna be able to stop it. So they are looking for a hex bag as Sarah Blake. Oh, what did he say? He said that, you know, he had Tommy. I don't remember what he was trying to say, but he he was saying it was poetic that because Sam took Sarah's breath away, that she is like basically suffocating to death, is what was happening with her. Obviously, Jenny Klein being baked to death makes sense, but I don't remember what he said, why Tommy's head exploding made sense for him. But it made sense for some reason. Anyway, moving on. They're tearing about the room, trying to find the hex bag. Sam is starting to realize that Sarah's like literally about to die. So he stops looking and just kind of holds her for her last moments while Dean continues trying to look for the hex bag. And sure enough, they don't find it in time. And then Dean throws his phone and they find the hex bag. I couldn't figure out was the hex bag in Dean's phone or did it break the TV whenever he threw it at the TV? Because it just showed like some electronic parts on the floor and the hex bag like among them. But I don't know enough about electronic parts to know where they came from. Like, was that his phone or was it the TV? I think it must have been the TV. Okay. Okay. But anyway, yeah. And it must have been tiny. It must have been a small little hex bag. So yeah, he knew what he was doing and he put it somewhere that they were they would have never found that. You know, the only reason why they found out where it was at all was just pure coincidence from Dean getting pissed off and throwing his phone like that.

LA: 30:52

Yeah.

Berly: 30:54

Back at the bunker, Sam is saying, we gotta do it. Like we gotta give in to Crowley's demands. We gotta go give him the tablet. We gotta stop doing this because I don't wanna we just watch somebody die. Like I don't wanna, I don't wanna do that again. Like I want the people we saved to be saved. We have to stop. But Dean is like, no, like we we have to. We're too close. We gotta keep going. We have to persist. And that's basically how the episode ends. It was written by Andrew Dabb and directed by Thomas J. Wright. Okay, so gore, like we already said, the goriest of the gore was the was the opening intro, Tommy's head exploding. But then we had like the charred body and the whole Abaddon scene was great. The hand, the Adams thing handle like it. She did so good with it crawling up and doing stuff and really making it seem like her hand had a mind of its own was very cool. And then you know, the chart or I already said the chart body. And then Sarah Blake, that was just devastating. That was just so sad.

LA: 31:53

Yeah, that was really sad.

Berly: 31:54

So sad.

LA: 31:55

I really didn't think she was gonna go.

Berly: 31:57

Yeah, I thought they were gonna save her. I did too. I thought they were gonna save her, that they were gonna get the best of Crowley, but nope. So I wonder if we're gonna get to see any other past characters that they've saved from previous episodes in the season finale.

LA: 32:11

Yeah, I mean if they just work fast, you know, maybe nobody else has to go.

Berly: 32:16

Right. Like figure it out quickly.

LA: 32:18

Right. But I would imagine maybe there'll be at least like one more, one or two more before they figure it out, maybe.

Berly: 32:24

I would think so. Because he said he's gonna do it every 12 hours.

LA: 32:27

They just love bringing people back just to kill them. Right? Did you adore anything about this episode? Uh I like I really thought it was cute, Castell going and buying the little care package for Dean. I thought that was adorable.

Berly: 32:43

That was cute. That was cute. What about you? Uh Abaddon. I really enjoyed that scene. I really enjoyed that scene. I thought Elena Hoffman killed it. I I thoroughly enjoyed that. Uh, but other than that, I'm just and it was it was cool to see the people brought back from season one, season two. Well, I guess Ginny Klein was actually sooner than that. I wonder why they picked her. They're like, let's cook her. Let's just bring her back. Maybe they just couldn't get anybody else. And so Jenny Klein, the writer, was like, kill me off, kill off my character. Char her up and bake her real good.

LA: 33:19

What about Lore? Since we're going to most likely see her again, we're gonna talk about Abaddon. Yeah. And there were a few lengthy articles, but we found a succinct summary over at gotquestions.org. I like that. I like that name. Got questions? Yes, I do. All right, the name Abaddon or Apollyon appears in Revelation 9.11. They had as king over them the angel of the abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek Apollyon. In Hebrew, the name Abaddon means place of destruction. The Greek title Apollyon literally means the destroyer.

Berly: 34:00

Oh, damn.

LA: 34:01

Kind of cool.

Berly: 34:02

Yeah. I have a feeling she's gonna fuck some shit up then, right?

LA: 34:06

I hope so. Oh, that's gonna be fun. In Revelation 8, nine, eight through nine. John describes a period during the end of end times when angels sound seven trumpets. Each trumpet signals the coming of a new judgment on the people of earth. When the fifth angel blows his trumpet, the abyss, a great smoking pit, will open and a horde of demonic locusts will rise out of it. Fun. Yay. Revelation 9, 1 through 3. The creatures will be given the power to torture any person who does not bear God's seal. Verse 4. The pain they inflict will be so intense that sufferers will wish to die. Verse 6. Abaddle Abaddon, this is really it's really lightning the mood. Right. Abaddon Apollyon is the ruler of the abyss and the king of these demonic, demonic locusts.

Berly: 34:56

I remembered her talking about how like how much delight she takes in killing people. When she was talking about Father Thompson, she was like, Yeah, that was sloppy. Like I just had to get him off the board. He was he was fucking shit up for us. But what I did to the men of letters, that shit was art.

LA: 35:11

I want to see it. Maybe they'll give us a a flashback.

Berly: 35:15

Yeah, because we followed Henry. We didn't get to see everything that she did to all the men of letters before she went and followed him. Right. So it would be fun to see. Yeah, what she did.

LA: 35:26

See what distraction she could come up with.

Berly: 35:28

And then locusts. Do you remember when we were at that pool party and that locust was coming near us and B was freaking out? And so I like flicked it and it like went wing.

LA: 35:39

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Berly: 35:41

That noise it made.

LA: 35:44

Oh well, back to Abaddon. Abaddon Apollyon uh is often used as another name for Satan. Oh however, scripture seems to distinguish the two. We find Satan later on in Revelation when he is imprisoned for a thousand years, Revelation 21 through 3. He is then released to wreak havoc on the earth, verses 1 through 8, and ultimately receives his final eternal punishment in verse 10. Abaddon Apollyon is likely one of Satan's underlings, a destroying demon, and one of the rulers, authorities, and powers mentioned in what is how do you say that? Ephesians Ephesians. Ephesians? Sure. Ephesians 6, 12. I think I don't think I'm saying that right. Uh John Bunyan's classic allegory, The Pilgrim's Progress, includes a memorable scene in which Christian does battle with a demonic monster named Apollyon. True to its name, Apollyon nearly destroys Christian. The pilgrim in his armor withstands the attack and wields his sword to repel the fiend. Bunyan's Apollyon is a symbolic repres representation of our spiritual enemy, but the inspiration for the character is literal. The Abaddon Apollyon of Revelation is a real being who will one day inflict real pain on people. Oh, let me say that.

Berly: 37:13

Oh God. Really, really landed this with the whammy there. Yeah. Wow. Look forward to it. Right? Well, quote to close it out when Dean asks Sam how he's holding up, Sam says, My whole body hurts. I feel nauseous and like I'm starving at the same time. And everything smells like rotting meat.

LA: 37:38

And Dean says, I've had that hangover. Jaeger man.

Berly: 37:42

Cheers.

LA: 37:43

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