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Supernatural 9.10 - Road Trip
by heydontjudgeme
http://heydontjudgeme.com/2014/01/15/supernatural-9-10-road-trip/
It's been awhile, huh?
Last we left everyone, Gadreel had
auditioned for the role of "Sam
Winchester" and nailed it, burn out
Kevin's light and bailed on Dean.
We've suffered for months, but for
Dean it's only been about an hour.
Bob Seger serenades us as Dean
gives Kevin a proper and respectful
hunter's funeral. It's all set up for a
beautiful montage, but instead of
Dean sifting through tomes while
wearing glasses we get him trashing
the room in a fitful burst of anger
and despair.
Let's give him a minute to regroup
and check in on Gadreel.
He's backstage at what sounds like a
One Direction concert, but turns out
to unfortunately be a Justin Bieber
cult gathering. The poorly-coiffed
and dressed singer is a vessel for
Thaddeus, Gadreel's previous
guardian in Heaven's Alcatraz.
Thaddeus tries to explain that his
excessive warden tactics weren't
anything personal, until Gadreel
brings up Abner. Thaddeus
acknowledges the closeness between
Gadreel and Abner, but almost
dispassionately tells Gadreel that he
enjoyed torturing Abner. Makes
sense that Gadreel and Abner would
be foxhole buddies, what with them
both being military men and all.
Gadreel doesn't have time for truces,
forgiveness or fights, he just kabobs
Thaddeus with his own angel blade
and the world is one spoiled celebrity
less.
Meanwhile, Castiel arrives at the
bunker to find it trashed. Dean finally
spills everything to someone and
accepts the possibility that in order
to fix this he may have to kill Gadreel
while he's in Sam. Castiel reminds
him that doing so will flash fry Sam
the Vessel, Dean says he knows that,
that's the one thing he's not a moron
about. He also admits that he was
stupid. Castiel tells him he was
stupid for the right reasons.
Wrong.
He was stupid for selfish reasons. I
mean, I'm all for his initial
selfishness of just wanting Sam to
live, but call a selfish spade a spade.
Moving on.
The only way they can think of to
boot Gadreel out so that Dean
doesn't have to gank his brother's
body is to somehow get Sam
cognizant enough to kick Gadreel's
ass out of Sam's brainpan. Castiel
tells Dean that he before he killed
Samandriel the kid told him that
Crowley had tortured him back to
reset. Okay, in all fairness, Castiel
left out the part where he committed
angelicide. Conveniently, they have
just the agony affliction artist for the
job.
Crowley is still shackled and grumpy.
Dean offers him a hit straight from
the vein for his help, but the King of
Hell has other demands. Like a bit of
pat-n-press from Kevin, but Castiel
simply tells him that Kevin is dead.
Crowley seems actually put off by
this, yet also smug, because he can't
say he didn't warn Kevin. Hang out
with the Winchesters and your
expiration date rivals milk. Crowley
next request is a field trip, basically
all Crowley seems to want is that his
meatsuit doesn't atrophy. Without
another option, Dean agrees. The
only problem is it seems Gadreel
stole the Impala and they're hoofing
it unless Dean gets a set of wheels.
If only he lived in a bunker with an
underground garage spilling over
with gorgeous, mint condition classic
cars. No worries, Castiel has a car,
but he abandoned it when it
randomly stopped chugging along.
Grumpy, Grumpier and His Royal
Smugness take a stroll to the car
and, like Dean suspected, it's only
out of gas. Dean fills up Castiel's g-
ride and the regulators mount up;
Dean in the front, Crowley and Castiel
cozied up in the back. They hook a
left on 21 and Lewis and bounce on
their way. What they don't notice is
the woman eyeing them up from the
curb. Turns out she works for
Abaddon and she's got a tale to tell.
Crowley has Dean take them to the
most corporate of buildings, but
according to him the business is a
front for the NSA to creepily clock
your every move, and not only that
but he has his very own demonic
wiretap, Cecily, working inside said
building. Cecily is fully aware of
Crowley's predicament, I mean, he
waltzed in with Dean Winchester and
Castiel in tow. Seems Cecily is
another demon that sees the sex
appeal in our fine-feathered friend.
Soon enough, Castiel calendars will
adorn every dungeon in Hell.
Crowley has Cecily track down the
whereabouts of the Impala and also
chats her up about Castiel's time as
a living breather and Abaddon's
hostile takeover. Cecily is willing to
help, but is honest about not picking
a side until the battle is won. Cecily's
tracks down Dean's penis metaphor
and they're off once again.
Metatron sits in a bar enjoying the
ambiance and a drink, because that's
what coldhearted asshats do. What's
interesting is who's serving at the
bar, it's Gadreel's pre-prime real
estate vessel. Gadreel walks in,
dumps a bag with the tablet on the
bar and announces that his targets
were officially targeted and while
killing Thaddeus was birthday cake
with extra frosting, killing Kevin went
down like a serving of gruel.
Metatron wants to know about Dean,
though. Well, duh, Gadreel tells him,
no one said, "hey, do me a solid and
kill Dean Winchester", so he's still
alive. Great employee that Gadreel,
but definitely not management
materiel. Metatron gives Gadreel
another name, Alexander Sarver, and
sends him off with a pat on the butt.
Alexander Sarver is primping his
perennials when Gadreel approaches
him, only when he turns around
Gadreel realizes that Alexander Sarver
is the vessel housing his BFF Abner.
And wow, is he not-so-lil-Abner.
Abner asks Gadreel to come back
after his family goes to the movies
so they can catch up. When he
returns, the two giant cherubs dish
what's what. Abner is a computer CS
agent with a family he loves and a
past he's learned from and moved
beyond, Gadreel killed Thaddeus. So,
y'know, same old, same old. Gadreel
is super proud of himself for
avenging them, but Abner is a little
disappointed. He feels like the fall is
their chance at a clean slate; he was
a lazy brat of an angel, but now he's
angel that took an abusive jackass of
a vessel and turned him into a
loving, and loved, family man. He's
not a smart man, but he knows what
love is. He tells Gadreel that's what
matters, finding what you care about
and clinging to it, no matter the
price.
So Gadreel slits his best friend's
throat. For his cause.
And that's how Dean and Castiel find
them, bloody body on the floor,
bloody hands getting washed clean
in the sink. Dean draws his angel
blade, ready to end it, but Gadreel is,
well, an angel, and easily flings Dean
into a bookcase. Thankfully, that
distracts him long enough for Castiel
to sneak up and sucker punch him.
Remember Cecily? Hope you didn't
get attached to her. See Abaddon
paid her a visit and, like Crowley, got
the scoop before it hit the papers.
Unlike Crowley, Abaddon doesn't
stand for fence sitting cowards and
dims Cecily's bulb all the way down.
Back at the lab, Gadreel is bound to
Crowley's reboot chair. Castiel is
confused because he doesn't
recognize who he is and Gadreel is
refusing to abide by social customs
and introduce himself. Dean is
feeling played and betrayed, he's
done; either this angel bails or this
angel gets bladed. Gadreel doesn't
seem to care either way. On the plus
side, it seems Gadreel has actually
been healing Sam and if they can get
Gadreel out of him then Castiel can
fix the rest. On the other plus side,
Gadreel has Sam working a faux-
case involving ghouls and
cheerleaders. Man, if only, huh,
Dean?
Dean gives the go-ahead and
Crowley starts playing Pop the
Bonnet with Gadreel/Sam's cranium.
Clearly it's painful and even though
it's not really Sam, Dean can't
handle the sight and sound so he
walks off. Castiel follows him and
distracts him by telling him that
doing what you have to do isn't
always easy, but it is always
necessary. Dean apologizes for his
behavior, however it's unnecessary;
Castiel gets it. Sam comes first. The
world can burn as long as Sam is
surrounded by water. Crowley
interrupts them to tune in Tokyo and
finally they get his name.
And Castiel is pissed.
Everything, literally everything that's
gone wrong in Castiel's long and
storied existence, down to Castiel's
daddy issues, is because Gadreel
screwed up a BC-ton years ago.
Dean pretty much has to pull Castiel
away before he pointlessly wrings
Sam's neck.
Crowley keeps trying to tweak the
tuning fork, but Gadreel comes back
to the surface and mocks his
attempts. Plan C is up on the table,
Dean demands that Castiel possess
Sam and tell him what's going on.
Great idea, except for the fact that
angel's require consent. Know who
doesn't? Demons. And Crowley is
more than willing to do it as long as
Dean is willing to deal: Crowley fixes
Dean's mess, Dean lets Crowley
walk. Castiel doesn't like this plan,
Dean doesn't care and once again
orders Castiel around like a puppy.
Castiel obliges and burns off Sam's
anti-possession tattoo so Crowley
can invade Sam's space. Dean tells
Crowley to say "Poughkeepsie" when
he finds Sam; apparently it's a real
Funky Town.
Let's take a quick census. Sam has
now been possessed by Meg, a
siren, Lucifer, an angry civil war
soldier, Gadreel, the Wicked Witch of
the West, and now Crowley. Three of
those were two at a timers. Did I
miss any? Talk about needing a
Silkwood shower with a Brillo pad
loofah.
Inside Sam's head, Sam is pouring
over his research trying to make a
connection between ghouls and
pom-pom when Crowley wanders in.
He quickly spits out the Winchester
safeword and explains everything,
just in time for Gadreel to show up.
Gadreel proceeds to kick Crowley's
ass and in a new twist, Sam saves
Crowley from Gadreel. Gadreel tries to
get Sam to give up control, tells him
that without him pulling the strings
the puppet is dead. Sam doesn't
care, whether it's agency or a death
wish he very literally gives Gadreel
the boot. Gadreel flees to the safety
of his original vessel.
Back in the land of the conscious,
Dean and Castiel unshackle Sam and
pull the pins out of his cushion, just
in time for Abaddon to show up.
Crowley does them one more favor,
he sends them out the back and
stays behind to chat up the prettiest
redhead in Hell. Crowley puts his
name on the ballot, he tells the
demons that he understands: without
a captain they drifted out to sea and
then along comes Mary and they
climbed on to her ship, but he's back
and if they make him student council
president he promises the cafeteria
will serve they're favorite flavor of
infant and they'll each get an afore
mentioned Castiel calendar.
Outside, Castiel heals Sam's botched
acupuncture and gives the brothers
some space. Dean is ready for Sam
to lay into him, but what's Sam
gonna say? That he's shocked Dean
lied to him? Today is Tuesday, too,
ya feel? In an interesting twist,
instead of Sam running away it's
Dean that decides to leave.
Everything he touches turns to dust
and he can't do it anymore. Sam lets
him go, but makes sure to tell him
that what he thinks is the problem
isn't really the issue, but he can go
and find himself.
Dean gets in his car and leaves Sam
and Castiel in the rain.
by heydontjudgeme
http://heydontjudgeme.com/2014/01/15/supernatural-9-10-road-trip/
It's been awhile, huh?
Last we left everyone, Gadreel had
auditioned for the role of "Sam
Winchester" and nailed it, burn out
Kevin's light and bailed on Dean.
We've suffered for months, but for
Dean it's only been about an hour.
Bob Seger serenades us as Dean
gives Kevin a proper and respectful
hunter's funeral. It's all set up for a
beautiful montage, but instead of
Dean sifting through tomes while
wearing glasses we get him trashing
the room in a fitful burst of anger
and despair.
Let's give him a minute to regroup
and check in on Gadreel.
He's backstage at what sounds like a
One Direction concert, but turns out
to unfortunately be a Justin Bieber
cult gathering. The poorly-coiffed
and dressed singer is a vessel for
Thaddeus, Gadreel's previous
guardian in Heaven's Alcatraz.
Thaddeus tries to explain that his
excessive warden tactics weren't
anything personal, until Gadreel
brings up Abner. Thaddeus
acknowledges the closeness between
Gadreel and Abner, but almost
dispassionately tells Gadreel that he
enjoyed torturing Abner. Makes
sense that Gadreel and Abner would
be foxhole buddies, what with them
both being military men and all.
Gadreel doesn't have time for truces,
forgiveness or fights, he just kabobs
Thaddeus with his own angel blade
and the world is one spoiled celebrity
less.
Meanwhile, Castiel arrives at the
bunker to find it trashed. Dean finally
spills everything to someone and
accepts the possibility that in order
to fix this he may have to kill Gadreel
while he's in Sam. Castiel reminds
him that doing so will flash fry Sam
the Vessel, Dean says he knows that,
that's the one thing he's not a moron
about. He also admits that he was
stupid. Castiel tells him he was
stupid for the right reasons.
Wrong.
He was stupid for selfish reasons. I
mean, I'm all for his initial
selfishness of just wanting Sam to
live, but call a selfish spade a spade.
Moving on.
The only way they can think of to
boot Gadreel out so that Dean
doesn't have to gank his brother's
body is to somehow get Sam
cognizant enough to kick Gadreel's
ass out of Sam's brainpan. Castiel
tells Dean that he before he killed
Samandriel the kid told him that
Crowley had tortured him back to
reset. Okay, in all fairness, Castiel
left out the part where he committed
angelicide. Conveniently, they have
just the agony affliction artist for the
job.
Crowley is still shackled and grumpy.
Dean offers him a hit straight from
the vein for his help, but the King of
Hell has other demands. Like a bit of
pat-n-press from Kevin, but Castiel
simply tells him that Kevin is dead.
Crowley seems actually put off by
this, yet also smug, because he can't
say he didn't warn Kevin. Hang out
with the Winchesters and your
expiration date rivals milk. Crowley
next request is a field trip, basically
all Crowley seems to want is that his
meatsuit doesn't atrophy. Without
another option, Dean agrees. The
only problem is it seems Gadreel
stole the Impala and they're hoofing
it unless Dean gets a set of wheels.
If only he lived in a bunker with an
underground garage spilling over
with gorgeous, mint condition classic
cars. No worries, Castiel has a car,
but he abandoned it when it
randomly stopped chugging along.
Grumpy, Grumpier and His Royal
Smugness take a stroll to the car
and, like Dean suspected, it's only
out of gas. Dean fills up Castiel's g-
ride and the regulators mount up;
Dean in the front, Crowley and Castiel
cozied up in the back. They hook a
left on 21 and Lewis and bounce on
their way. What they don't notice is
the woman eyeing them up from the
curb. Turns out she works for
Abaddon and she's got a tale to tell.
Crowley has Dean take them to the
most corporate of buildings, but
according to him the business is a
front for the NSA to creepily clock
your every move, and not only that
but he has his very own demonic
wiretap, Cecily, working inside said
building. Cecily is fully aware of
Crowley's predicament, I mean, he
waltzed in with Dean Winchester and
Castiel in tow. Seems Cecily is
another demon that sees the sex
appeal in our fine-feathered friend.
Soon enough, Castiel calendars will
adorn every dungeon in Hell.
Crowley has Cecily track down the
whereabouts of the Impala and also
chats her up about Castiel's time as
a living breather and Abaddon's
hostile takeover. Cecily is willing to
help, but is honest about not picking
a side until the battle is won. Cecily's
tracks down Dean's penis metaphor
and they're off once again.
Metatron sits in a bar enjoying the
ambiance and a drink, because that's
what coldhearted asshats do. What's
interesting is who's serving at the
bar, it's Gadreel's pre-prime real
estate vessel. Gadreel walks in,
dumps a bag with the tablet on the
bar and announces that his targets
were officially targeted and while
killing Thaddeus was birthday cake
with extra frosting, killing Kevin went
down like a serving of gruel.
Metatron wants to know about Dean,
though. Well, duh, Gadreel tells him,
no one said, "hey, do me a solid and
kill Dean Winchester", so he's still
alive. Great employee that Gadreel,
but definitely not management
materiel. Metatron gives Gadreel
another name, Alexander Sarver, and
sends him off with a pat on the butt.
Alexander Sarver is primping his
perennials when Gadreel approaches
him, only when he turns around
Gadreel realizes that Alexander Sarver
is the vessel housing his BFF Abner.
And wow, is he not-so-lil-Abner.
Abner asks Gadreel to come back
after his family goes to the movies
so they can catch up. When he
returns, the two giant cherubs dish
what's what. Abner is a computer CS
agent with a family he loves and a
past he's learned from and moved
beyond, Gadreel killed Thaddeus. So,
y'know, same old, same old. Gadreel
is super proud of himself for
avenging them, but Abner is a little
disappointed. He feels like the fall is
their chance at a clean slate; he was
a lazy brat of an angel, but now he's
angel that took an abusive jackass of
a vessel and turned him into a
loving, and loved, family man. He's
not a smart man, but he knows what
love is. He tells Gadreel that's what
matters, finding what you care about
and clinging to it, no matter the
price.
So Gadreel slits his best friend's
throat. For his cause.
And that's how Dean and Castiel find
them, bloody body on the floor,
bloody hands getting washed clean
in the sink. Dean draws his angel
blade, ready to end it, but Gadreel is,
well, an angel, and easily flings Dean
into a bookcase. Thankfully, that
distracts him long enough for Castiel
to sneak up and sucker punch him.
Remember Cecily? Hope you didn't
get attached to her. See Abaddon
paid her a visit and, like Crowley, got
the scoop before it hit the papers.
Unlike Crowley, Abaddon doesn't
stand for fence sitting cowards and
dims Cecily's bulb all the way down.
Back at the lab, Gadreel is bound to
Crowley's reboot chair. Castiel is
confused because he doesn't
recognize who he is and Gadreel is
refusing to abide by social customs
and introduce himself. Dean is
feeling played and betrayed, he's
done; either this angel bails or this
angel gets bladed. Gadreel doesn't
seem to care either way. On the plus
side, it seems Gadreel has actually
been healing Sam and if they can get
Gadreel out of him then Castiel can
fix the rest. On the other plus side,
Gadreel has Sam working a faux-
case involving ghouls and
cheerleaders. Man, if only, huh,
Dean?
Dean gives the go-ahead and
Crowley starts playing Pop the
Bonnet with Gadreel/Sam's cranium.
Clearly it's painful and even though
it's not really Sam, Dean can't
handle the sight and sound so he
walks off. Castiel follows him and
distracts him by telling him that
doing what you have to do isn't
always easy, but it is always
necessary. Dean apologizes for his
behavior, however it's unnecessary;
Castiel gets it. Sam comes first. The
world can burn as long as Sam is
surrounded by water. Crowley
interrupts them to tune in Tokyo and
finally they get his name.
And Castiel is pissed.
Everything, literally everything that's
gone wrong in Castiel's long and
storied existence, down to Castiel's
daddy issues, is because Gadreel
screwed up a BC-ton years ago.
Dean pretty much has to pull Castiel
away before he pointlessly wrings
Sam's neck.
Crowley keeps trying to tweak the
tuning fork, but Gadreel comes back
to the surface and mocks his
attempts. Plan C is up on the table,
Dean demands that Castiel possess
Sam and tell him what's going on.
Great idea, except for the fact that
angel's require consent. Know who
doesn't? Demons. And Crowley is
more than willing to do it as long as
Dean is willing to deal: Crowley fixes
Dean's mess, Dean lets Crowley
walk. Castiel doesn't like this plan,
Dean doesn't care and once again
orders Castiel around like a puppy.
Castiel obliges and burns off Sam's
anti-possession tattoo so Crowley
can invade Sam's space. Dean tells
Crowley to say "Poughkeepsie" when
he finds Sam; apparently it's a real
Funky Town.
Let's take a quick census. Sam has
now been possessed by Meg, a
siren, Lucifer, an angry civil war
soldier, Gadreel, the Wicked Witch of
the West, and now Crowley. Three of
those were two at a timers. Did I
miss any? Talk about needing a
Silkwood shower with a Brillo pad
loofah.
Inside Sam's head, Sam is pouring
over his research trying to make a
connection between ghouls and
pom-pom when Crowley wanders in.
He quickly spits out the Winchester
safeword and explains everything,
just in time for Gadreel to show up.
Gadreel proceeds to kick Crowley's
ass and in a new twist, Sam saves
Crowley from Gadreel. Gadreel tries to
get Sam to give up control, tells him
that without him pulling the strings
the puppet is dead. Sam doesn't
care, whether it's agency or a death
wish he very literally gives Gadreel
the boot. Gadreel flees to the safety
of his original vessel.
Back in the land of the conscious,
Dean and Castiel unshackle Sam and
pull the pins out of his cushion, just
in time for Abaddon to show up.
Crowley does them one more favor,
he sends them out the back and
stays behind to chat up the prettiest
redhead in Hell. Crowley puts his
name on the ballot, he tells the
demons that he understands: without
a captain they drifted out to sea and
then along comes Mary and they
climbed on to her ship, but he's back
and if they make him student council
president he promises the cafeteria
will serve they're favorite flavor of
infant and they'll each get an afore
mentioned Castiel calendar.
Outside, Castiel heals Sam's botched
acupuncture and gives the brothers
some space. Dean is ready for Sam
to lay into him, but what's Sam
gonna say? That he's shocked Dean
lied to him? Today is Tuesday, too,
ya feel? In an interesting twist,
instead of Sam running away it's
Dean that decides to leave.
Everything he touches turns to dust
and he can't do it anymore. Sam lets
him go, but makes sure to tell him
that what he thinks is the problem
isn't really the issue, but he can go
and find himself.
Dean gets in his car and leaves Sam
and Castiel in the rain.
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