Recaps

After Alastair drove Sam, Dean, and Bai Haorui from the church, Sam explained how Ruby had rescued him after Dean went to Hell and trained him to fight Lilith. Sam revealed that he and Ruby had become lovers, then recounted leaving Ruby to confront Lilith alone; the chapter ended as Sam entered the house where Lilith possessed a little girl.

• Sam, Dean, and Bai Haorui escaped Alastair and his approaching demons, then treated their injuries at a motel.
• Sam told Dean that Ruby had saved his life and recounted how Ruby returned from Hell, rescued him, and offered to help him kill Lilith.
• Ruby taught Sam exorcisms and black magic, and they grew intimate after she comforted him over Dean's death.
• Sam revealed that Ruby had urged him to prepare before fighting Lilith, but he left after she confronted him about his desire to die.
• Sam sneaked into the house where Lilith possessed a little girl, intent on killing her.

Sam used his power to exorcise a demon and reunited with Dean, Ruby, and Anna, but Castiel and Uriel arrived and declared Anna must die. Bai Haorui fought Uriel to protect her and nearly killed him before Castiel intervened by catching his sword.

• Ruby rescued Sam from demons, and Sam exorcised one with his own power to save her.
• Ruby warned Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui that Alastair's demons had surrounded their motel, then led them to Anna at a cabin outside Palus.
• Dean and Sam accepted that Ruby had saved Sam, but Castiel and Uriel arrived and demanded Anna's death because she could overhear angelic plans.
• Bai Haorui stood against Uriel while Dean and Sam defended the room where Anna was hiding.
• Bai Haorui battled Uriel and drove his peachwood sword toward the angel's chest, but Castiel teleported in and grabbed the blade.

After Anna banished Uriel and Castiel from the cabin, Dean brought the injured group to Bobby’s demon-proof panic room to hide. Anna remained confused about her unexplained powers, and Sam called to Dean from outside as the group settled in.

• Uriel attacked Ruby, Dean, and Sam, while Bai Haorui fought him and inflicted serious wounds before Castiel struck Bai Haorui down.
• Anna used blood-drawn angelic runes to send Uriel and Castiel away, then admitted she did not know how she had performed the spell.
• Dean and Sam suspected Anna’s origins were unusual, and Dean asked Sam to investigate her background while they sought a safer hiding place.
• At dawn, Dean drove everyone to Bobby’s house and brought them into the demon-proof panic room, where Ruby gave them enhanced hex bags.
• Anna heard only silence on angel radio, and Sam called to Dean from outside the panic room.

Dean, Sam, Ruby, and Bai Haorui helped Anna recover her memories through Pamela’s hypnosis, revealing that Anna was a fallen angel who had torn out her Grace. After Anna decided to find it, Bai Haorui connected her fall to meteor sightings in March 1985, and Sam began searching records at Bobby’s house.

• Sam told Dean that Anna had suffered a childhood breakdown because she believed her father was not her real father, and Anna came out to insist she did not know why angels were hunting her.
• Bai Haorui suggested that Pamela use hypnosis to recover Anna’s memories, and Dean brought Pamela to Bobby’s house.
• During hypnosis, Anna panicked, unleashed a force that slammed Dean into a wall, and then woke with her memories restored, revealing that she was an angel.
• Anna explained that she had torn out her Grace, fallen to Earth, and become human, and she said Heaven wanted her dead while Hell wanted to capture her.
• Anna said she needed to find and reclaim her Grace, and Bai Haorui realized her fall nine months before her birth could have been recorded as a meteor sighting.
• Dean sent Sam to search astronomical records, newspapers, and supernatural files from March 1985 while Bai Haorui guarded the house and watched Ruby.

Sam found evidence that Anna’s Grace had landed in Union, Kentucky, but Anna discovered it was gone, and Bai Haorui identified Uriel as the one who had taken it. The group hid in an abandoned barn, where they learned Uriel had threatened to send Dean back to Hell unless they surrendered Anna by midnight, and Bai Haorui prepared to face the angels.

• Sam traced Anna’s fall and her Grace to separate meteor sightings in Ohio and Kentucky, then found a newspaper account of a century-old oak that Anna recognized as the place where her Grace had landed.
• Ruby urged Sam to drink demon blood to regain his power, but he refused, while Bai Haorui worried that Sam’s desire for strength could make him vulnerable to Ruby’s influence.
• Dean, Sam, Anna, Ruby, and Bai Haorui drove to Union, Kentucky, where Anna sensed that her Grace was gone and Bai Haorui detected Uriel’s aura on the oak.
• The group took shelter in an abandoned barn, and Anna heard a repeating Angel Radio message threatening to send Dean back to Hell unless he surrendered Anna before midnight.
• Bai Haorui warned the group that Bobby’s home was likely a trap and proposed holding the barn until Uriel arrived, promising to face Uriel while the others dealt with Castiel.

As midnight approached, Sam’s plan to lure Alastair and the angels to the barn collided with Uriel’s threat to kill Sam and Bai Haorui unless Dean surrendered Anna. Anna offered to give herself up, but Dean refused, and Castiel and Uriel arrived as the two forces closed in.

• Bai Haorui told the others that his formations could restrain demons and angels, while Dean and Anna shared a vulnerable conversation and kissed beside the Impala.
• Ruby left the barn to meet Alastair, and Sam revealed that he planned to lure Hell’s forces into a fight with the angels so they could take Anna’s grace.
• Alastair captured and tortured Ruby, but she refused to reveal the barn’s location and stalled for time.
• Uriel entered Dean’s dream, threatened to erase Sam’s and Bai Haorui’s souls, and revealed that he had Anna’s grace in a vial around his neck.
• Dean returned Anna to the barn at midnight and told Sam and Bai Haorui about Uriel’s threat, but refused to surrender Anna; Anna then offered herself up to protect them.
• Castiel and Uriel entered the barn, with Uriel demanding Anna and Castiel apologizing to her.

Bai Haorui fought Uriel long enough for Anna to reclaim her Grace and leave, while Alastair’s arrival turned the barn into a battlefield. Afterward, Dean revealed to Sam that he had broken under torture in Hell and started the Apocalypse.

• Bai Haorui attacked Uriel for his vial of Grace, restrained Castiel, and fought Uriel until he knocked him down and drove him away from Anna.
• Alastair arrived with demons, pinned Castiel, and fought Uriel as their followers clashed in the barn.
• Anna reclaimed her Grace, restored her angelic power, warned Uriel, and flew away; Uriel and Castiel departed after her.
• Sam admitted he had sent Ruby to find Alastair, and Dean left the barn in anger before meeting Sam at the Impala near dawn.
• Dean told Sam that Alastair had tortured him in Hell for thirty years until he broke, tortured souls himself, and began the Apocalypse; Sam embraced him.

Dean and Sam investigated a murder in a sealed house in Stratton Town while Dean tried to outrun his memories of Hell. At Bobby's cabin, Bai Haorui began a dangerous breakthrough into the sixth cultivation level, while the Winchesters' investigation continued with a new family moving into the haunted house.

• Dean woke from a nightmare about torturing souls in Hell and drove with Sam toward a murder case in Nebraska.
• Bai Haorui told Bobby he needed to enter seclusion to break through to the sixth level, and Bobby agreed to guard him.
• Dean and Sam searched the sealed house, found a creepy doll's head, and met the Carter family arriving to move in.
• Bai Haorui's first attempt to condense his True Fire into True Gang backfired, but he steadied the flames by infusing them with his Dao heart and protective resolve.
• Dean and Sam persuaded the Carter family to stay at a motel for the night, then questioned Mrs. Curry about the dead man, Mr. Gibson.

Dean and Sam investigated the haunting at the old house, where a ghost terrorized the Carter family and Buster disappeared; they identified Rebecca as the likely spirit and tried to keep the family safe. Meanwhile, Bai Haorui condensed True Gang and continued cultivating as the confrontation inside the house escalated.

• Mrs. Curry told Dean and Sam that Mr. Gibson’s wife and daughter Rebecca had died, and that she had sometimes heard rustling inside the walls.
• Bai Haorui condensed his first True Gang and spent the night refining more of his True Fire into it.
• Danny said a girl in the wall had drawn a threatening message, and Kate later felt something licking her hand while Buster growled at the bedroom doorway.
• After Buster vanished and the Impala’s tires and hunting equipment were sabotaged, Kate identified Rebecca in a photograph as the girl she had seen.
• Dean and Sam gathered the Carter family inside a salt circle, and Dean went to search the attic while Ted and Brian tried to leave.
• Brian drew a handgun on Dean, but Dean insisted that he would not let anyone die that night.

Dean and Sam investigated the feral people living inside the walls of the house while Bai Haorui completed his breakthrough to the sixth cultivation level. Dean rescued Danny from an underground nest, but a feral boy attacked him as the family pulled Danny to safety.

• Sam fought off a feral girl after she attacked the family, and Dean found Rebecca's journal while searching the attic.
• Danny disappeared upstairs, so Dean and Ted entered the passages in the walls to find him; the feral girl ambushed and killed Ted.
• Sam read Rebecca's journal and concluded that Rebecca had been raped by her father, who imprisoned their daughter inside the house, while Dean promised Brian he would bring Danny back.
• Dean found Danny bound in a cage at the bottom of a dumbwaiter shaft and learned that the feral girl had a brother.
• Dean and Sam helped Danny escape to Susan, but the feral boy attacked Dean, who shot him.

Dean and Sam left the Carter family after stopping the feral siblings, while Bai Haorui emerged from seclusion having reached the sixth level. As Bai Haorui set out to find the brothers, Dean confessed to Sam that he had enjoyed torturing souls in Hell and feared he could never overcome what he had done.

• Brian killed the feral girl after she attacked Susan and Kate, and Dean and Sam left as police sirens approached.
• Bai Haorui emerged from four days of seclusion and confirmed that he had reached the sixth level, Refining Qi into Gang.
• Bobby told Bai Haorui that Sam and Dean had finished the Nebraska case but that Dean was struggling, so Bai Haorui asked where they were.
• Dean told Sam that he had enjoyed torturing souls in Hell and believed saving people could not make up for it.
• Sam stayed beside Dean as they continued driving, unable to comfort him.

Jay Blackburn endured Patrick Vance’s mockery at a bar before joining Charlie Burton and Vernon Haskell to see Jeb Dexter’s sold-out show. Meanwhile, Bai Haorui was ambushed by demons sent by Alastair, and he used his newly acquired true gang to slaughter their ranks.

• Patrick Vance mocked Jay Blackburn’s card tricks, but Lily found the queen of hearts in Jay’s pocket and defended him.
• Charlie Burton and Vernon Haskell arrived, and the three friends left together for Jeb Dexter’s show.
• Bai Haorui drove along the highway, reflecting on his breakthrough to the sixth level of the Three Altars Body-Refining True Fire Art.
• Lieg u and dozens of demons ambushed Bai Haorui by shooting out all four tires of his pickup and surrounding him.
• Bai Haorui unleashed his true gang, killing many demons with his fists, sword, shield, and chains.
• Lieg u ordered the remaining demons to attack in formation, and Bai Haorui continued cutting them down, killing one with a poisoned dagger deflected back at its thrower.

Bai Haorui killed the demon commander Lieg u, then fought off Cassiel and his angels before a much larger angel force cornered him while he was badly wounded. At a theater, Jay prepared to perform the dangerous Hangman illusion after persuading Charlie to support his attempt at a comeback.

• Bai Haorui defeated Lieg u and killed the demons who tried to flee, but Cassiel and a squad of angels attacked him afterward.
• Bai Haorui killed Cassiel and forced the surviving angels to retreat, then began treating his wounds in the woods.
• Dozens of angels led by Michael's adjutant arrived and attacked Bai Haorui while he had little True Gang left.
• At Jeb Dexter's show, Jay told Charlie he planned to perform the dangerous Hangman, and Charlie reluctantly agreed to support him.

Dean and Sam investigated deaths that matched Jay’s magic tricks, while Charlie admitted he had helped Jay take revenge. Bai Haorui escaped pursuing angels by diving into a river, and his fate remained unknown.

• Dean punched the Chief at Vernon’s address and returned to Sam after realizing he had been tricked into visiting a perverted club.
• Ruby urged Sam to drink demon blood and kill Lilith, but Sam refused to break his promise to Dean and Bai Haorui.
• Jay escaped his hanging act as Jeb Dexter was strangled, and Dean and Sam connected the deaths to Jay’s performances and tarot cards.
• Bai Haorui blasted the golden-winged angel with his remaining strength, then fled into a river as the surviving angels searched for him.
• Dean and Sam confronted Jay, but police arrived after Jay called them, and the brothers were taken away.
• Charlie told Jay he had helped him get revenge, and Jay questioned whether Charlie had used real magic to kill Vance and Jeb.

Jay refused immortality and killed Charlie, ending the magical murders but losing his closest friends. Meanwhile, Bai Haorui, badly wounded and pursued by angels, reached the abandoned cannery where Dean and Sam were preparing a trap, and the chapter ended as he fought twelve angels outside.

• Charlie revealed that he had used a spellbook to become immortal and had given Jay magical abilities while killing Vance and Jeb Dexter.
• Jay rejected Charlie’s offer and stabbed himself, causing Charlie to age rapidly and die; Jay survived, but Vernon left him and Jay walked away from his tarot cards.
• Sam met Ruby and got into her car, while Bai Haorui escaped pursuing angels after being rescued by Dahl and called Sam and Dean for help.
• Bai Haorui lured twelve angels toward the abandoned cannery as Dean and Sam prepared Angel Banishing Sigils inside.
• An angel wounded Bai Haorui during the battle outside the cannery as he struggled against the twelve angels.

Bai Haorui, Dean, and Sam survived an angel attack, then investigated Taylor’s death and April’s claim that she was possessed. At Truman High School, Sam revisited memories from his brief time there in 1997 while Bai Haorui sensed old resentment in a girls’ bathroom and Dean posed as a gym teacher.

• Bai Haorui helped Dean and Sam destroy twelve pursuing angels with the Angel Banishing Spell, then collapsed from his injuries.
• Taylor was bullied at school, lashed out at April, and was later drowned by April, who appeared possessed and left black liquid on Taylor’s hair.
• Sam questioned April in the hospital, and she said she had been conscious while unable to control her body, though she had smelled no sulfur and seen no black smoke.
• Dean and Sam went to Truman High School, where a flashback showed young Sam struggling with being the new student and standing up to Dirk for Barry.
• Sam recognized locker 247 from his past, while Bai Haorui sensed years-old resentment coming from the innermost girls’ bathroom stall.
• Bai Haorui headed to the gym to tell Dean and Sam what he had found, while Dean posed as a gym teacher named Jim Ross.

Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui investigated a ghost possessing bullied students at Sam’s old school and discovered it was Barry Cook, Sam’s childhood friend who died by suicide. Sam blamed himself for leaving Barry behind, but Dean and Bai Haorui reassured him before a flashback showed young Dean waiting at the school while John packed up.

• Little Dean injured Dirk during dodgeball, and Bai Haorui told Dean and Sam that he sensed an angry ghost in the first-floor girls’ bathroom that targeted bullied students.
• Possessed by the ghost, Danny forced Trent’s hand into a food processor, and Sam spotted ectoplasm before the group identified the incident as a possession.
• Dean found that Barry Cook had died by suicide in the girls’ bathroom in 1998, and Sam recognized him as his old friend.
• Mr. Wyatt recalled Barry’s bullying and suicide, prompting Sam to blame himself for leaving Barry at school when the Winchester brothers departed.
• Bai Haorui described how he had fought back against his own bullies, and he and Dean persuaded Sam that Barry’s death was not his fault.
• Young Dean sat in the car watching the school as John packed up and asked where Sam was.

Sam, Dean, and Bai Haorui helped Barry confront his grief and release his anger, then reunited with Amanda before leaving town. The chapter ended with the Impala heading toward the sunset and a 1997 flashback to the brothers’ departure from school.

• Sam recalled leaving Barry behind and apologized to him in the girls’ bathroom, where Barry’s ghost trapped him and confronted him about his broken promise.
• Bai Haorui and Sam persuaded Barry to let go of his hatred, but Barry possessed Colby and attacked Dirk McGregor in the school parking lot.
• Sam and Dean stopped Barry from killing Dirk, and Barry accepted their reassurance before fading away; Bai Haorui secretly cursed Dirk with nightmares of Barry.
• Dean reunited with Amanda, who revealed she knew about his hunting life, and they exchanged goodbyes and her phone number.
• As the brothers and Bai Haorui drove away, Sam and Dean reflected on their past and affirmed that they were family.
• In a 1997 flashback, Little Sam waved goodbye to Barry while Little Dean left school with him, and Amanda watched Little Dean go.

Bai Haorui drove to Amarillo to help Bobby hunt the vampires of the Thorn Brothers Grand Circus, while Sam and Dean investigated a string of husbands who had murdered their wives. Cara Roberts revealed that all three husbands had abnormally high oxytocin levels, leaving Sam with a possible clue to the killings.

• Adam Benson confessed to killing his wife Vicki after a stripper named Jasmine promised they could be together if Vicki died.
• Bai Haorui headed to Texas after Bobby called about the vampires, stopping at Joe's Barbecue to bring Bobby food.
• Dean and Sam began investigating the murders in Bedford and learned Adam had been captivated by Jasmine before killing Vicki.
• Bai Haorui met Bobby near Amarillo, and they planned to scout the circus before attacking after its show.
• Sam questioned Cara Roberts, who told him the three husbands had oxytocin levels dozens of times above normal.

Bai Haorui and Bobby infiltrated Marcus’s vampire-run circus, rescued captive performers, and fought their way toward Marcus’s underground lair. Meanwhile, Dean and Sam investigated a siren who had driven men to murder, and the chapter ended with Bai Haorui and Bobby facing Marcus.

• Dean and Sam learned that Wiley and Snyder had been lured into affairs with women who vanished, and they suspected a siren was behind the murders.
• Bai Haorui sensed twelve vampires at the circus, while Bobby identified Marcus and Jessie and Bai Haorui noticed a trance-bound trapeze performer with signs of abuse.
• Dean and Sam failed to find the women at the Honey Wagon, then learned from Bobby that a siren’s spell might be a toxin and that a bewitched victim’s blood could help kill her.
• Bai Haorui and Bobby rescued three captive girls and fought through the circus vampires, then descended toward Marcus’s lair as Dean and Sam went to retrieve blood samples from Dr. Cara.
• Bai Haorui and Bobby confronted Marcus and his remaining vampires underground, where Bobby vowed to avenge Tom and the others.

Bai Haorui and Bobby killed Marcus and raced to Bedford, where they rescued Sam and Dean from the siren Nick Monroe. Afterward, the brothers made peace, though their buried resentments remained unresolved.

• Bai Haorui killed Marcus with his peachwood sword, and Bobby helped him finish off the fleeing vampires.
• Sam and Dean found that Cara's blood samples had disappeared, while Nick Monroe claimed authority over their investigation and took Dean to the strip club.
• Nick controlled Dean and Sam, making Dean cut Sam and provoking the brothers into fighting over their longstanding grievances.
• Bai Haorui and Bobby burst in before Dean could strike Sam with an axe, freed the brothers, and killed Nick with a bloodied bronze dagger.
• Dean and Sam recovered, apologized for the things they had said under the siren's influence, and agreed that they were okay.

Sam, Dean, and Bai Haorui investigated why nobody in Grebul Town had died for ten and a half days and discovered that a demon had likely taken the town’s reaper. Their attempt to summon the last person who died was interrupted by Alastair, who escaped after clashing with Bai Haorui and testing Sam’s strange resilience.

• Sam, Dean, and Bai Haorui traveled to Grebul Town after Bobby reported that its residents had stopped dying, and Jim Jenkins survived being shot through the heart.
• Bai Haorui sensed no reaper in town but detected demonic energy near the funeral home, while Sam and Dean concluded that the souls remained in their bodies because no reaper was collecting them.
• Sam, Dean, and Bai Haorui went to Cole Griffith’s grave to summon his soul, but the cemetery caretaker revealed himself as Alastair.
• Alastair attacked Dean, but Bai Haorui blocked the attack and fought him with his peachwood sword and purple-gold True Gang.
• Alastair struck Sam with demonic energy, but Sam remained unharmed, and Alastair fled into the night after Bai Haorui charged him.

Bai Haorui helped Dean and Sam prepare to enter the Spirit World to find the missing reaper and stop Alastair from breaking a seal. After Pamela sent them out of their bodies, they found Cole Griffith and Tessa, but black smoke abducted Tessa, leaving Dean and Sam to learn ghost abilities from Cole.

• Bai Haorui warned that Alastair had not fought at full strength, while Sam and Dean learned that demons planned to kill a reaper beneath the solstice moon to break a seal.
• Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui went to Pamela for help; Bai Haorui protected their bodies while Pamela sent Dean and Sam into the Spirit World.
• Dean and Sam met Cole Griffith, who told them black smoke had driven off the reaper who came for him.
• Dean recognized Tessa as the reaper who had once come for him, and she agreed to delay reaping Cole while they dealt with the demons.
• Cole revealed that he had seen the black smoke at his funeral, but the smoke burst into the house and abducted Tessa.
• Dean and Sam practiced moving objects with Cole's guidance, trying to learn ghost abilities in time to fight the black smoke.

Dean and Sam stopped Alastair from killing another reaper, while Bai Haorui protected Pamela and their bodies from more than thirty demons. After the group reunited, Pamela warned Sam that the darkness inside him was devouring him, and Dean told Bai Haorui that Heaven had factions targeting him.

• Cole showed Dean how to use telekinesis, and Dean and Sam entered the funeral home in the spirit world to confront Alastair.
• Alastair killed one reaper, but Dean and Sam freed Tessa by bringing down a chandelier onto the iron ring trapping her.
• Bai Haorui defeated the high-ranking demons who attacked Pamela and the brothers' bodies, while Dean and Sam saved Tessa and thwarted Alastair's plan.
• Castiel told Dean that the reapers had returned and admitted Heaven was divided; Dean confronted him over the angels who had tried to kill Bai Haorui.
• Dean encouraged Cole to leave with Tessa, and Tessa warned Dean that the angels' promised second chance came at a price.
• After Dean and Sam returned to their bodies, Pamela warned Sam that the darkness inside him was consuming him, and Dean cautioned Bai Haorui about Heaven's factions as they drove away.

After Uriel abducted Dean to interrogate Alastair, Dean refused to torture him, while Castiel struggled with his orders. Sam asked Ruby to help find Dean, and Bai Haorui pursued the angels.

• Castiel closed the eyes of a dead angel and vanished, leaving police to find her body surrounded by scorched wing marks.
• On the road, Dean argued with Sam about Pamela’s death before Bai Haorui reassured him that he would protect their friends.
• At the motel, Uriel demanded Dean interrogate Alastair, and Bai Haorui fought Uriel until Castiel intervened and Uriel escaped with Dean.
• Bai Haorui pursued Uriel, while Sam called Ruby for help finding Dean.
• In an abandoned warehouse, Dean refused to torture Alastair and asked Castiel to speak with him alone.
• Ruby arrived to meet Sam, and Sam told her that Dean could not interrogate Alastair.