- Sam, Dean, and Ruby discover the existence of a female prophet named Anna Milton, who can hear the voices of angels and thus figures into the plans of a demon named Alastair who wants to use her as a tool against the angels.
- Ruby meets Sam and Dean in a bar to tell that the intern Anna Milton has just escaped from a mental institution and is chased by the demons. The Winchester brothers head to the asylum and they discover the hideout of Anna in a church; the young woman discloses that she can overhear angels since September, 18th, i.e., the day Dean left hell. The powerful demon Alastair attacks Sam and Dean to capture Anna, but Ruby rescues Anna Milton and hides her. Meanwhile Sam discloses his relationship with Ruby to Dean and why he trusts her. Out of the blue, Castiel and Uriel arrive in the hideout of Anna Milton and tell Sam, Dean and Ruby that they want to kill Anna.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- THEN! God told Castiel to spring Dean from Hell blahblahblah God told Sam not to use his demon psychic abilities rahbahbah Uriel tells Sam to ask Dean about Hell yammeryammer Lilith yammeryammer Apocalypse...on with the show!
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Anna Milton sits in a psych ward. A female doctor asks her if she knows where she is and why she's here. "Do you remember what you did? You were hysterical. It took four people to restrain you," the doctor said.
Anna explains that she's trying to warn people. About what? the doctor asks. Anna informs her that she's going to think she's nuts, and she doesn't blame her. The doctor assures her that she'll listen. So Anna spells it out: the end is coming. This demon, Lilith, is trying to break the 66 seals to free Lucifer from Hell.
Lucifer, Anna says, will bring the Apocalypse. "So, smoke 'em if you got 'em." Her gaze unfocuses as hissing voices fill her head. The doctor asks what she's doing, and Anna explains that she's only listening. She continues: There are 600 possible seals, and Lilith only has to break 66 of them.
"That's why it's nearly impossible to stop her. That's why the angels are losing. And that's why we're all going to die!"
Later, an orderly comes in to give Anna her meds, and she rears back in terror. "Your face. What happened to your face?"
"I know. I'm downright kissable." His eyes flash black and he shushes her as he closes the door. She panics, then uses telekinesis to send a dresser flying across the room to knock him out. She runs to the door and escapes.
Flash to: Sam and Dean in a bar, hustling a guy at pool. Sam acts drunk and gets his opponent to up the bet, but at the precise moment that he sinks the balls to deliver the coup de grace, he spots Ruby. Sam abandons the game and crosses to her, much to Dean's dismay.
Ruby delivers the news that a woman named Anna Milton escaped from a locked psych ward yesterday, and demons are keen on finding her. She doesn't know why she's important, just that she is. Orders are to capture Anna alive, Ruby says, so they should probably find her before the demons do. Dean doesn't want any part of it, and Ruby professes not to care. But Sam asks for the name of the hospital.
Following a call to check on the existence of Anna Milton, Sam and Dean embark on a three-day road trip. They snipe at each other in the car, and Dean rips into Sam for cozying up to Ruby while he was in Hell. Dean asks Sam to fill in the details of why he and Ruby are so close, and Sam whacks back at Dean, asking him to fill in the details about his sojourn in Hell. Dean clams up and drives on. Sam does too...but lucky us, we get a view into his memories.
Six months earlier, Sam is burying silver box at a crossroads to summon, yes, the Crossroads Demon. One of them shows up, sharing that he's still sore at Sam for wasting one of his co-workers. Sam looks awful. He gives the demon assurances by way of laying down Ruby's knife and assuring him that there are no devil's traps. He asks if Sam wants to make a deal, but before he can answer, the demon tells him no. Sam stabs him in the hand and offers to take Dean's place in Hell. The demon, again, refuses. It's not about Sam's soul, the demon tells him, it's that they have Dean exactly where they want him.
"You want to kill me?" the demon taunts. "Go ahead. I have made peace with my lord." Sam finishes the job.
In the present, Sam and Dean are doing their G-men thing, chatting up the shrink at the hospital. She gives the Winchesters the rundown on Anna, a well-adjusted journalism major with a lot of friends and a bright future. But within weeks, she was overtaken by delusions -- the tragedy of schizophrenia, the doctor says. She shows Sam and Dean a book of pictures she drew, and included among them are portrayals of the Rising of the Witnesses and the summoning of Samhain. Uh-oh! The doctor further explains that Anna's father was a church deacon, and that her delusions had taken on religious overtones at the height of her illness. Sam and Dean decide to pay a visit to Anna's 'rents.
When they reach their lovely home, they see both cars are in the driveway, but nobody answers the door...which was unlocked. They enter, take a couple of steps into the living room..and find Mr. and Mrs. Milton sprawled on the floor, their throats slit.
Sam bends to the ground and samples a substance on the floor: sulphur. Demons beat them there. They frantically try to figure out where Anna was headed, and Sam consults her drawings. Seems she had a fondness for drawing the stained glass window of her church. If you were religious and scared, Sam theorizes, where would you go to feel safe?
Next stop: The church. They guys head in, weapons ready, and call out to Anna. Sam sees her behind a panel and tell her they want to help. They introduce themselves as Sam and Dean.
"Sam? Not Sam Winchester?" she steps out from her hiding place. "And you're Dean? The Dean?" The guys are surprised.
She spills that she's heard the angels talk about the Winchesters. She says that some of the angels think Dean can help save us. And some of them don't like Sam at all. "They talk about you all the time lately," she says. "I feel like I know you."
Dean asks Anna if she remembers when she started hearing the voices, and as it turns out, she can recall the precise date: September 18. The day Dean was raised. In fact: "First words I heard, clear as a bell: 'Dean Winchester is saved.'" Then it makes sense to Dean why the demons want Anna: she's the equivalent of angel radio. Anna seems relieved to have someone believe her.
Hmm.
Anna asks if her parents are OK, but before they can deliver the bad news, Ruby bursts into the church and tells them they need to get going.
A powerful demon followed them from the Milton house, a big timer, and has come to claim Anna. Dean snipes at Ruby and refuses to budge...until they notice a statue of the Virgin Mary weeping blood. Too late! Sam hides Anna. Sam pulls out a flask of Holy Water, but Ruby stops him, telling Sam to get ready to use his powers as Dean chastises her.
"Now is not the time to bellyache about Sam going darkside," Ruby yells. "He does his thing. He exorcises that demon or we die."'
Dean, looking shocked and afraid, stands back as the church door flies open, and an imposing man walks into the room. Dean stretches out his hand to drive out the black smoke, and the demon coughs. "That tickles," he says with a grin.
He informs Sam that he doesn't have the juice to take him on and with a wisp of telekinesis, throws Sam across the room and down a flight of stairs. Dean strides up with the blade, but the demon turns and blocks him, punching Dean in the face until he bleeds from his mouth. Ruby grabs Anna and they get away.
"Hello again, Dean. Don't you recognize me? Oh, I forgot -- I'm wearing a pediatrician. But we were so close...in Hell." Dean's expression registers his familiarity.
"Alistair?" The demon smiles, but Sam sneaks up and plunges the knife into Alastair's torso. It doesn't kill him. "You're going to have to try a lot harder than that, son."
Still, the blade does a lot more than just tickle. As the demon he winces, Dean gets loose, and he and Sam jump through the stained glass window. Alistair pulls Ruby's knife out of his chest and stares at it.
Back at the motel, Dean spits up blood and Sam sews up a wound on his arm, then resets Dean's dislocated shoulder. Dean asks if Sam's sure about Ruby, suspecting that Ruby might have simply delivered Anna to Hell's minions and led Alastair to them. Sam assures Dean that she's on their side. Dean asks Sam why he trusts Ruby so much.
"Because," Sam answers, "she saved my life."
Six months back. Sam, drunkenly stumbling into a dank motel room, is ambushed by two demons. One of them turns out to be Ruby, in a different woman's skin. She takes the knife from Sam as the other holds him down, explaining that Lilith was willing to forgive her, letting her go topside again, if she killed Sam Winchester. Sam, who looks sick of it all, tells her to do it. She raises the knife -- and plunges it into her demon companion's chest. Then Ruby tells Sam it's time to go.
While they're in the car, Ruby complains that she wants fries and explains to Sam that she came back from Hell to help him.
Sam, who is less than thrilled to see her, asks Ruby whose body she's riding. Turns out to be a secretary. Sam pulls over.
"Let her go," he snarls, "or I send you back to Hell." Ruby looks shocked at Sam.
Moments later in a nearby hospital, a brain-dead Jane Doe is being pulled off of life-support. She flatlines for a moment, then suddenly her eyes pop open and she sits up, awake and coherent. "Who the hell do I have to kill to get some french fries around here?"
Ruby finds Sam holed up in a squat and hands him a copy of the DNR certificate from the hospital -- proof that Jane Doe's body was free of its spirit and therefore available for rent. She tells Sam that she can't help him get Dean back, but she can get him one thing she knows he wants: Lilith. Sam asks if she wants him to use his psychic powers, and before she can answer, he tells her he's ready. Oh, no he's not, she counters, but she's willing to prepare him. Sam asks what she wants in exchange for training him.
"A little patience...and sobriety. Promise me that, and I will teach you everything I know."
In the present, Dean asks Sam what Ruby taught him. "Well, the first thing I learned, is that I'm a crappy student."
Six months ago: Sam's first attempt at an exorcism fails, and his nose bleeds. His first possessed subject laughs at him. Ruby shuts the guy up by stabbing him through the throat. Sam collapses in frustration, and Ruby tries to comfort him by talking about Dean. Sam doesn't believe she could possibly know how he feels, but she reminds him that she used to be human. And, to punctuate the moment, she seduces him. He resists her at first, given the fact that she's a demon in a dead girl's body...but after a moment he gives in. Lips mash. Shirts come off, and it all gets very torrid very quickly.
In the present, Dean is grossed out. "I told you I was coming clean," Sam says.
"Yeah, well, now I feel dirty," Dean replies, asking Sam to skip the nudity.
We jump to the part where they figure out that Lilith is nearby. Ruby warns Sam that he's not strong enough to take her on by himself, but he heads out anyway, sneaking up on a house with a little girl sitting at a table. He heads into the place and creeps up on the child -- who turns out to be nothing more than a regular kid. She pleads to go home just as two demons grab Sam and start pummeling him, knocking the knife out of his hand. Looks like lights out for Sam Winchester, until Ruby steps in, grabs the knife and wastes one of the demons. She steps up to the second, telling Sam to take the girl and run. But the other demon is too strong for Ruby and disarms her, assuring her of new, improved tortures waiting for her in "the basement." Then he begins to choke and coughs up smoke as Sam uses his powers to exorcise him. In the present he explains to Dean that Ruby came for him, saved his life and took care of him while Dean was in hell. Dean's expression softens.
This Winchester family togetherness moment is interrupted by a maid delivering fresh towels. She marches into the room, shuts the curtains, hands Sam a note and says, "I'm at this address." Yep, it's Ruby, temporarily possessing housekeeping. She informs them that demons are waiting for them in the parking lot and in the hall, so they need to leave the car and sneak out of the bathroom window.
Sam and Dean oblige and meet up with Ruby and Anna at the hideout, where Dean grudgingly apologizes to Ruby. When he's pretty sure all is well, Anna cheerily asks to call her parents. Sam breaks it to her, gently as possible, that her mom and dad are dead. She doubles over with grief as Sam puts his hand on her back to comfort her. Then she suddenly straightens up. "They're coming."
The boys take up battle positions, and Ruby asks for the knife. "Yeah...about that," Dean stammers. Ruby begins to chew them out for their clumsiness when the walls start to rattle and the electricity wavers. The door blows off... and into the room walk...Castiel and Uriel? Ruby's eyes go black.
A relieved Dean asks them if they've come to help, and Uriel asks why they're palling around with "that stain," referring to Ruby.
"We're here for Anna," Castiel says. Dean asks what they want with her, and Uriel tells him to stop talking.
Sam asks, "Are you gonna help her?"
"No," Castiel replies with a hard look on his face. "She has to die."
To be continued...
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