Allow me to make an introduction, Mr. Ketch. Meet the archangel Gabriel.
SAM: Mom is trapped in another reality.
CASTIEL: We needed a spell to open the rift.
We stealth in, we get Mom, we get Jack. Boom. Family reunion.
I understand you may need an archangel for a spell.
DEAN: Let's do this.
(BOTH GRUNT)
(BOTH PANTING)
(CHUCKLES)
- Ah. Well, here we are. - (DEAN EXHALES)
Yeah.
(SIGHS)
You do know where we are, don't you?
Because, not to be a nag, but we've only got 24 hours before...
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just give me a minute.
...the rift closes.
Look, we just got spin-cycled through space and time, okay?
And, yes this is different than my last drop-by.
And what's this "we" crap? Hmm?
You came here to save yourself, so go save yourself. Somewhere else.
Actually, I thought I could help.
- What? - Find the boy and your mother.
If she's in danger, I owe her that.
If she sees you, she'll probably kill you. Again.
Perhaps, but you don't know where you are,
or what's out there, or even...
You get the picture.
Would having a little bit of back-up really be so bad?
Well, this is quite the vacation spot, isn't it?
Yeah, if you had your heart set on Mai Tais, well, sorry.
Down, down, down, down. Get down.
- Is this everyone? - Yes, Commander.
For high crimes of fomenting rebellion against the Archangel Michael,
these humans shall be executed.
(SCREAMS)
Freaking angels.
Not smart.
(SCREAMS)
No.
COMMANDER: Wait.
Charlie?
I know you. You're not the usual human scum.
Not the slickest hook-up line, Captain Charm.
You're with the Resistance. Inner circle.
MAN: She's met with the Nephilim and the other-worlder, Mary.
Michael will want her at the northern camp for interrogation.
Champ, when the Resistance crushes you,
I'm gonna be there to shred your feathers and grind them into dust.
- (GRUNTS) - (CHARLIE CHOKING)
Dean.
Looking forward to it.
(CHARLIE CHOKING)
Dean is in Apocalypse World alone?
Oh, he's with Ketch, so he's not alone.
Because that makes it so much better.
Cass, he wanted to go solo.
- And you let him? - I... (SIGHS)
He didn't give me much of a choice.
Anyways, Dean's right, as long as he's over there and we're here,
we need to be taking care of Gabriel. Getting him right again.
Gabriel? (MUMBLES INDISTINCTLY)
You didn't tell me it was this bad.
Yeah. Well, years of isolation and torture,
and Asmodeus draining his grace.
Come here. Help me out.
Hey, Gabriel.
Hey, pal.
- (GRUNTS) - Okay... Oh.
Just gonna get you to the bed, all right?
- Help you up. It's okay. It's okay. - (GABRIEL WHIMPERING)
- (SAM SIGHS) - (WHIMPERING)
It's okay.
Gabriel, it's Sam Winchester. Remember me?
I don't think he does.
Remember the video you sent to my brother, Dean Winchester, and me
after you supposedly died?
You told us how to stuff Lucifer back in the cage.
(WHIMPERING SOFTLY)
CASTIEL: Sam, he doesn't.
SAM: I know he doesn't.
I'm just trying to see if anything's going on in his head.
All right, well...
Gabriel's grace.
Ketch brought it. Maybe, if he's juiced up, it'll help.
- All right. - (GABRIEL GROANING)
Sam, I don't think he's gonna open up and let the choo-choo in.
A technique for feeding recalcitrant children.
I think a little coercion may be necessary.
- (GRUNTING) - Hey, hey, hey, hey!
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
(CONTINUES WHIMPERING)
- Where have you been? - Out.
Right. Out. Look, Jo, uh, you got a pretty sweet deal going here,
so you might wanna, I don't know, pitch in, drop the attitude,
stay by my side.
Play strip poker?
Shouldn't you be out doing kingly things?
Commanding the angels, inspiring mankind? Stuff?
(EXHALES DEEPLY)
I'm here, aren't I?
On the throne. Available to be worshiped.
We came here to change things. Make Heaven better, help the angels.
Duma. Perfect timing.
Okay, I have a question for you,
and I want you to be straight with me, okay?
Don't you think Jo should show a little bit more enthusiasm
for being, for want of a better word, First Lady?
Pull her weight little bit?
Keep me happy little bit?
Couples' issues aren't my area.
So, that's a yes, okay?
So, you're here with breaking news about my son. Go.
The few angels that we could spare are scanning the planet,
but so far, nothing.
Well, you know, he's a priority, so...
We don't have the manpower.
He's a priority.
Of course.
Wow.
They would never treat my old man that way.
Ever.
If he said, "Scour the Earth," they'd say, "SOS or Brillo?"
Yeah, well, you're not him. Your father created. You inherited.
Yeah? Well, I'm the one on the throne right now,
and you're all gonna treat me that way, okay?
(SIGHS) Uh-huh.
Well, before all of us start treating you like God,
you might try acting like God.
Just a thought.
This is unacceptable.
Ketch, who is wily, it's possible he could fly under the radar,
but the archangel... (EXHALES SHARPLY) The archangel.
I should at least detect a blip.
We're connected.
You might say we're blood brothers.
(BREATH TREMBLES)
Get.
(SCOFFS)
What's the hold-up?
I was just practicing stealth.
You know, the art of infiltrating a hostile and unfamiliar environment
whilst remaining undetected.
Hence, free. Hence effective.
You, I see, prefer the "bull in a china shop" technique.
No, I prefer the "let's find Charlie
"before the angels turn her inside-out" technique.
Remind me again why we're risking everything to find this girl.
Because she's seen my Mom. She's seen Jack. We need her.
And you're sure that's what this is about.
You're sure it's not personal.
We're running out of time. Let's pick up the pace.
Ketch? Come on.
(GROANS)
(GRUNTING)
(BOTH GRUNTING)
Oh, you're a strong one.
Angels will pay double for you. Most of the slaves is a mite scrawny.
(DEAN STRAINING)
(BOTH GRUNTING)
Where were you going to take him?
- (GRUNTING) - You do want to live, yes?
(BOTH CONTINUE GRUNTING)
(GUN FIRING)
You heard him. Where were you gonna take me?
You think I'm gonna tell you?
(SCREAMS)
(PANTING)
Let's try that again.
- The silo. - What silo?
POW camp.
Four, five hours from here. Follow the road.
- Okay, thanks. - (GRUNTS)
(GROANS)
Sam?
What is this? (STUTTERS) Did he do this? Is it Enochian?
It's his story. It starts with his death.
(GROANS)
CASTIEL: Or what appeared to be his death.
"Per usual, my brother had double my brawn and half my brains.
"He assumed the counterfeit me is what vanished that night
"and he thought
- "that he'd stabbed the real thing." - (GAGGING)
"The truth is, the thing Luci skewered was a fake.
"Plenty of fakes to go around."
- (GRUNTS) - (SCREAMS)
CASTIEL: "Everyone believed Gabriel was gone.
"And suddenly, I was free.
"No obligation to God or Heaven or mankind.
"And so I did what anyone would do.
"I moved to Monte-Carlo and shacked up with porn stars."
Well, he goes on and on for quite a while about porn stars and, uh...
Cass, please. (GRUNTS)
Okay, so Gabriel was captured, delivered to Asmodeus.
"For years, I knew nothing but endless torture.
"Asmodeus, once the weakest of Hell's princes,
"grew strong by feeding on my grace."
(SIGHS DEEPLY)
Well, obviously his intellect is intact.
Yeah. So, why isn't he talking to us?
I don't know. Maybe he can't.
SAM: Or maybe he's choosing not to.
Maybe he thinks it's safer that way.
Ready or not, world. New God is open for business.
All right, children. I shall hear your prayers.
WOMAN: Dear, God. Make me a bird so that I can fly.
(OVERLAPPING VOICES)
- MAN: Please, God. Please. - (LUCIFER SIGHS)
Unbelievable. Losers. Whining!
I can't believe Pop put up with it as long as he did.
(OVERLAPPING VOICES CONTINUE)
PRIEST 1: Let us begin.
(PRIEST 2 CHANTING IN OTHER LANGUAGE)
- (WOMAN GRUNTING) - (PRIEST 2 CONTINUES CHANTING)
(CONTINUES GRUNTING)
(CONTINUES CHANTING IN OTHER LANGUAGE)
(IN ENGLISH) Most glorious Prince of the Heavenly armies,
Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us.
(WOMAN LAUGHS)
(IN DEMONIC VOICE) Don't get holier-than-thou with me, Father Davis.
You and your cam-girl addiction.
(LAUGHING)
- Begone, Satan! - (GRUNTING)
You shall no more dare to deceive the human race.
Okay, fellas? Fellas!
Oh, crap.
(LUCIFER SIGHS)
(CHUCKLES)
Okay, first of all, chill. Couple things, guys.
- Not Satan. - (WOMAN SCOFFS)
Minor player. Total nobody. Getting a day rate.
Anthony, what are you doing, man?
(IN DEMONIC VOICE) Just having a little fun.
- Yeah? (SNAPS FINGERS) Beat it. - Mmm-hmm.
(SCREAMS)
LUCIFER: Get out of here.
And don't come back.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
You're welcome.
Who are you?
(CLEARS THROAT) I'm Lucifer.
- No. - Yeah.
Lucifer is the beast. The scourge of mankind.
Oh. Oh.
Ouch.
Man, I gotta hand it to the old man. Perfect marketing.
Okay, little known factoid. Pop made me into the fall guy.
He made me into the all-purpose villain.
But, it sort of worked out okay
because I'm sort of running Heaven right now. (CHUCKLES)
BOTH: Blasphemy!
FATHER DAVIS: As the smoke is driven away...
Nice new suit. Thank you very much.
- Driven before the fire... - Whoa.
Calm down.
- Relax. - PRIEST 1:...and deceits of the Devil.
BOTH: Ahh!
(SIGHS)
Damn it.
MR. KETCH: That hunter may've been a bumpkin,
but his weaponry is cutting edge.
These I don't even recognize.
(SIGHS) Yeah, that's angel-killing bullets.
- You might wanna hang onto those. - Mmm.
(SIGHS)
You don't look good.
Yeah, well, you're not my type either. I'm fine.
We'll take a break.
Your wound may be more serious than we thought.
No, he barely hit me. Come on, we don't have time for this.
Ah, by all means.
What was it with you and this Earthly Charlie anyway?
Old girlfriend? Let me guess.
- She broke your heart. - (GRUNTS)
Dean!
(GROANS)
MR. KETCH: Oh, God, you're burning up. Let's take a look at that wound.
- No, I'm fine. We gotta keep moving. - Do shut up, huh?
(GRUNTS)
How does it look, Mom?
CASTIEL: I must reiterate,
it's not possible for an angel to heal an archangel.
I'm just trying to jolt his mind into thinking straight.
Even then, Sam,
Gabriel, it's possible that he's lost.
(SIGHS)
Taro root, trace of arsenic,
- Basidiomycota and... - (THUNDER RUMBLING)
DEAN: Why don't you just skip the birdseed and give me the flask?
MR. KETCH: Your shortness of breath and delirium
are symptoms of a poison the Men of Letters use
to disable monsters in the field.
Of course it is.
My guess is that the bounty hunter
used a similar toxin to coat his bullets
to hobble his prey at first.
What do you mean "at first?"
Well, if the antidote isn't administered,
then the victim dies a particularly gruesome death.
(SCOFFS) You guys are such dicks.
Yes. Well, guilty.
- (GRUNTING) - Now, then, this will smart.
There we are. Good lad.
- (GRUNTING AND BREATHING HEAVILY) - Good lad. Good lad.
Now, now, just a little more.
- Right. There we are. - (GRUNTS)
(SIGHS)
SAM: Gabriel, you have to dig yourself out of this hole.
Look, I know you think it's safer inside.
No more torture. No more pain. No more expectations.
I've been there.
You were nothing like your family.
You sure as hell weren't like your dad. Me either.
And just like you, I got out. Or I thought I got out.
But then...
Then my family needed me,
and this is my life.
No matter how many times I've tried to fight it,
this is what I was put here to do.
This is where I make the world a better place.
And sure, yeah, hookers in Monte Carlo sounds great,
but your family needs you. Jack, your nephew, needs you.
The world needs you. We need you.
Gabriel, I need you.
So, please, help us.
GABRIEL: Porn stars.
They were porn stars, Sam.
There you are.
(DEAN PANTING)
Okay, okay, okay, okay.
- (GROANING) - This is absurd. You must rest.
Okay, look... (PANTING)
I'll give you the anti-poison merit badge award, okay?
I do appreciate it. But we're running out of time.
(GRUNTS) So, how about you rest? I'm gonna keep going.
In five minutes.
Good plan.
Perhaps we can use this moment to revisit the Charlie issue.
(PANTING)
(GROANS) Not gonna happen.
To your point, we are running out of time.
We don't know where your mother and Jack are.
We don't even know if we'll find this Charlie.
And if we do, a rescue may be impossible.
And stupid.
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
I propose we return home, regroup, reinforce ourselves,
and we may have a shot at saving everyone.
All right, look.
I'm gonna repeat myself.
(GRUNTS)
Charlie is not gonna give the angels what they want.
Your Charlie wouldn't.
They're gonna kill her. A hundred percent.
And I'm not...
What?
What's the story you're not telling me?
Charlie was like family.
She was a sister to me.
She did more for me and Sam than I can even say.
And she was...
She was butchered.
And we couldn't get there in time, and I...
You feel you failed her.
I know I did.
(CRIES)
(THUNDER CRACKING)
That, I understand.
All right, well, what about your story you're not telling me?
Oh, I've had many failures.
Friends and colleagues who have died on my watch.
The only difference is, I didn't try to save them.
Duty and all that.
Rubbish.
Well, you do suck.
(SNIFFS AND SIGHS)
(SIGHS) What the hell?
Perhaps rescuing this Charlie will wash some of the stain off my hands.
(DEAN GRUNTS)
Impossible and stupid, huh?
You say that like it's a bad thing.
Come on. (GRUNTS)
COMMANDER: One more time.
The location and number of bases the Resistance holds.
(SIGHS)
One more time,
bite me.
- (GRUNTS) - (WHIMPERS)
You're trying my patience.
Sorry, sorry. I'll try harder.
Bite me!
(BOTH GRUNT)
(PANTING) This is pointless. She dies.
(INHALES DEEPLY)
(GRUNTS)
Is it helping?
(STUTTERS) I don't know.
(CELL PHONE BUZZING)
- Hello? - ASMODEUS: Samuel.
- (GASPING) - I hope you're having a pleasant day.
It's come to my attention you boys have something that belongs to me
and I'd like it back.
- I dunno what you're talking about. - Oh, I believe you do.
And I'm a give you one chance to return him to me.
No harm, no foul.
I'm hanging up.
Do not hang up on me.
Gabriel is of no use to you in his current condition.
Should you choose to resist me,
I will have no choice but to take him by force.
I will reduce you and that sad
little bunker of yours to ashes.
You got 10 minutes to decide.
Now you can hang up.
(DIAL TONE)
(GABRIEL BREATHING HEAVILY)
Nothing in this universe is worth my time or talent. Nothing.
Humans, angels, all flawed beyond redemption.
Lucifer...
It's all because of Pop's little propaganda machine.
Spewing poison about me for centuries.
I'm done.
So you're just giving up?
No.
No, I'm gonna re-focus.
I've come to realize the key to finding my bliss is fatherhood.
- You? - Yeah. I mean, it's obvious, right?
I just devote myself to finding Jack.
We're gonna combine our powers.
I'll remake the world in my image,
with pathetic little people who worship me.
Me. Me.
Love that plan. It's an awesome plan.
Finding your bliss?
- Yeah. - (SCOFFS)
(STUTTERS) So humans don't like you. Oh, wow.
I'm sorry.
Instead of bellyaching about it, why don't you make Heaven right?
Make good on your promises. Make angels.
Give the existing ones their wings back.
Yeah, I can't really do that.
- What? - I lied.
So, uh, just keep that to yourself, though, okay?
So you know, it's not the humans,
it's not the angels, it's not your father's propaganda that's killing you.
It's your complete failure.
You say you want to find your son, but you don't.
Not really.
So you sit there because you're afraid. You're afraid of him.
Afraid of looking into his eyes and seeing nothing but contempt.
You can't replace your father.
You can't create anything. You have nothing.
You might as well go back to the cage.
(CHOKING)
(GRUNTS AND GASPS)
(SIGHS)
And now you don't have me.
The silo. Well, he wasn't kidding.
Gratifying.
Now what?
COMMANDER: The Resistance will be broken.
It is being broken.
One by one, your leaders
are being rooted out and destroyed.
(GROANING)
COMMANDER: Soon there'll be none of you left.
CHARLIE: No. No.
(CHARLIE WHIMPERING)
CAMMANDER: For high crimes, the prisoner Charlie Bradbury,
like all traitors before her, will be executed.
(GRUNTING)
- (WHIMPERING) - All hail Michael.
(MEN SCREAMING)
We gotta get you outta here.
Who the hell are you?
No time. We gotta go now. Go!
(GROANING)
All right, I did what I could do with the bunker's warding,
but who knows if it's enough.
- How is he? - I don't know.
(LIGHTS FLICKERING)
(ALARM BLARING)
(GABRIEL GASPING)
(ALARM CONTINUES BLARING)
(ALL GRUNTING)
(SCREAMS)
(ALL GRUNTING)
(SCREAMS)
Thanks.
(BOTH GROAN)
Your warding wasn't designed for the likes of me, Samuel.
- I've come to claim what's mine. - (BOTH PANTING)
(GABRIEL BREATHING HEAVILY)
(GABRIEL WHIMPERS)
ASMODEUS: Oh, I missed you, boy.
I'm gonna have to punish you rather severely, I'm afraid.
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
(GABRIEL GRUNTING)
And as for you two...
(BOTH GRUNTING)
(GASPS)
(GRUNTING)
Gabriel. What are you doing, son?
You know too well what I can do to you.
I broke you!
You're too weak!
(BOTH GRUNT)
Not anymore.
Oh, by the way,
I always hated that dumbass suit.
(ASMODEUS GRUNTING)
(SCREAMING)
(BOTH BREATHING HEAVILY)
CHARLIE: So to recap, there's another world.
A better world with no Michael. And it has another me?
DEAN: Uh, had.
And you were friends with her. Me? Her?
Yes, very.
How very?
She was into chicks.
Oh.
I like her.
DEAN: Look, I know this is a lot of information,
everything I'm telling you, okay?
But, we're running outta time here. I need to know where the Nephilim is.
Jack. And my Mom's with him, right?
- Your mom? - Yes. She's from our world, too.
Uh... (SCOFFS)
Last I heard, they were fighting somewhere in
what remains of Dayton, Ohio, but I don't...
- Wait. Your mom? - Yeah.
(SCOFFS) Why would I believe any of this?
Because of that.
Wow.
GABRIEL: Whoa. (STUTTERS)
Too much information.
Okay, slow down. I'm not processing.
- (GROANS) - CASTIEL: And there's more.
Michael wants to come to this Earth and destroy it
and we may need your help to fight him.
- What? - Yeah. (CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
Welcome to the team.
Uh, yeah. Not so much.
I mean, thank you for the rescue, and for the redemption arc,
but, uh, I'm not really a "team" guy.
So, I'm gonna bounce, okay?
Um, but, you know, it's been, um...
What's the opposite of fun?
That.
No, Gabriel, don't... You can't just walk away.
If Michael comes here, he will end this world.
And the last time the world was ending, I put my money on you.
I think you can pull it off again.
CASTIEL: No.
You cannot turn your back on your father's creation.
Castiel, my father turned his back on his creation.
Guess it just runs in the family.
No, Gabriel. Please.
(CRACKLING)
Okay, this thing's gonna be closing any minute. We gotta get it going.
MR. KETCH: Dean, you need to go through.
Bring back Sam, and your angel, and Gabriel, and the bloody Navy Seals.
Whatever help you can get.
- But I should stay. - Wait, what?
If we're going up against Michael, we need to be ready.
We need to know what he's up to, where your mother and Jack are.
I'm staying, too.
Are you kidding me?
You got Michael and a billion angels on your ass.
Dude, this is my home.
My friends are here and they're in trouble.
If you really do have a way to take down Michael, get back here and do it.
Until then, this is my fight.
I don't wanna lose you again.
That's not your call.
Dean, it's closing.
(CRACKLING)
Go.
- (DEAN GRUNTING) - Dean. Dean. Hey, hey.
- You're hurt. - No, no. I'm fine. I'm fine.
SAM: Hey, the rift, it's...
Where's Mom? Where's Jack?
(PANTING)
Long story. So Mom and the kid, they're not with Michael anymore.
Ketch and Charlie just stayed back to try to find them.
There's a Charlie over there. She kicks ass.
To... Uh, Charlie Bradbury?
Yeah.
What's this? (STUTTERS) What... What did I miss?
It was a demon incursion led by Asmodeus.
Sorry, Asmodeus got in here?
(STUTTERS) Yeah, and Gabriel killed him.
Gabriel?
Well, that's great. So he's back. Where is he?
CASTIEL: He just left.
What do you mean, he left?
(STUTTERS)
We asked Gabriel to help us and...
And he said no.
He doesn't get to say no.
We still have his grace, though, right?
Sam?
Uh...
(STUTTERS) We used his grace to heal him.
So it's gone. It's all gone.
So if it's gone, then that means that we can't open that door again.
If we can't open the door, then I should have never come back!
(YELLS) Son of a bitch!
Every time!
Every time we get close,
it always falls apart.
Every freaking time.
Dean,
we will find Gabriel.
We will.
We'd better.