A brawl at Hitomi Plaza (Ha!
We see you, writers!)
returns Michael to his favorite vessel and leaves us with quite the midseason finale cliffhanger.
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He reminds his minions not to ruin their appetite for the feast to come the next day.
One of those minions?
Garth the werewolf, whom Michael recognizes from Dean’s memories.
Garth says he’s choosing the winning side for the sake of his family.
Cas finds him and assures him that this existential crisis is normal.
“We’ve all been through it.
It’s something of a rite of passage around here.”
Cas says they don’t need that burden, and neither does Jack.
That’s … a heck of a thing to tell your surrogate son.
But hey, it’s not all bad.
He plans to pretend-swallow and then spits it out like he did with his childhood cough syrup doses.
Then he’s summoned to do just that and hangs up with a hearty “Balls!”
that would make Bobby proud.
Garth omits the news about his unwelcome power-up when he passes on the intel about the spear.
That’s definitely one way to build an army.
Of course, this is absolutely no help since Michael’s plan is going down tomorrow.
May you never stop disappointing us, Ketch.
At the recycling facility, Dean’s downright cheerful, despite Baby’s broken tape deck.
In the recycling center, Bad Place Kaia sneaks up on the duo and threatens Dean with her spear.
She counters with an offer: Have “the special boy” send her back to the Bad Place.
(More information about that soon, yo, show!)
(Next page: Could everybody hey stop snapping?)
For some reason, Michael left Sam alive.
Soon enough, Jack will stop caring about the difference between angel armies and monster ones.
But Jack staunchly insists that his family will come for him.
He’s not wrong.
Sam goes all Ichabod on the henchmen and sneaks Jack out with an assist from Garth.
But in the Hitomi Plaza parking garage, Garth’s assailed by Michael’s voice in his head.
“He won’t let me stop,” Garth gasps as he wolfs out and attacks.
“I’m sorry!”
Sam chokes him out without much damage, and Garth is trussed up and deposited into Baby’s trunk.
He’s been such a reliably enjoyable recurring character.
Fingers crossed that someone can find a way to depower him.
By now, Cas and Dean have arrived.
(Yep, Sam launched a solo assault to rescue Jack.)
Cas heals Jack’s werewolf scrapes while Dean badly and hilariously twirls the spear.
Upstairs, Michael waits impatiently, fidgeting and sipping from his highball glass, until they arrive.
Then he smiles and launches into the fight.
He hands Cas a beating with his vessel’s statement ring and tosses around Sam and Jack.
“He’s gone,” Michael says.
And with a snap of his fingers, we fade to black.
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