Recaps

Sam killed Alastair after Dean learned that his first act of torture in Hell had broken the First Seal, while Bai Haorui saved Dean from dying. The next morning, Uriel told Castiel that their superiors had ordered them to stop hunting the demon responsible for killing angels.

• Sam drank Ruby's demon blood and vowed to question Alastair in Dean's place, while Dean entered the warehouse to interrogate Alastair.
• Anna urged Castiel to stop Dean's torture, but Castiel refused and sent her away.
• Alastair revealed that Dean had broken the First Seal by torturing a soul in Hell, then escaped after water ruined the Devil's Trap and knocked Dean unconscious.
• Sam arrived and killed Alastair with his powers, while Bai Haorui rushed in and used True Gang to stabilize Dean after Castiel could not heal him.
• Sam concluded that demons were not killing angels, and Bai Haorui suspected that something was wrong within Heaven.
• The next morning, Uriel told Castiel that their superiors wanted them to stop hunting the demon responsible for the angels' deaths.

Bai Haorui exposed Uriel as the angel behind the murders and the plot to free Alastair, then helped Castiel defeat him and absorb his power. After Castiel resolved to seek the truth about God, Dean woke and struggled with guilt over breaking the first seal, but Bai Haorui and Sam stood by him as family.

• Bai Haorui told Castiel that Uriel had killed the angels, sabotaged the Devil’s Trap, and freed Alastair, prompting Castiel to question his orders.
• Castiel confronted Uriel in the warehouse, where Uriel admitted his crimes and revealed he wanted to awaken Lucifer and bring about the Apocalypse.
• Bai Haorui intervened when Uriel overpowered Castiel, defeated Uriel, and absorbed his angelic energy with True Fire Soul Devouring.
• Castiel accepted his Angel Blade from Bai Haorui and resolved to find out whether God was still present and what was truly happening.
• Dean woke in the hospital and learned that Uriel had joined Lucifer and that Dean had broken the first seal.
• Bai Haorui comforted Dean as he blamed himself for the Apocalypse, and Sam and Bai Haorui joined him in a show of support.

Bai Haorui, Dean, and Sam awoke in a parallel world with their memories sealed, though their souls still drew them together. As supernatural resentment began driving employees at their office to self-harm, Bai Haorui watched for the ghost and the awakening remnant of his parallel self.

• Bai Haorui recognized the origin resonance with his parallel self and woke in an unfamiliar apartment, retaining his memories and powers.
• Dean and Sam awoke with fragments of their old lives, then encountered Bai Haorui at their workplace and felt an inexplicable familiarity with each other.
• Bai Haorui sensed intense resentment in Room 1444 and discreetly nudged at the seal on Dean's memories while observing the two men.
• Sam dreamed of demons, drew one at work, and questioned Dean about ghosts and vampires, but Dean dismissed him despite feeling drawn to him.
• An earthbound spirit drove Paul to attempt suicide in a microwave, and Bai Haorui cut the power before Dean and Sam arrived.
• The next morning, Ian showed the same obsession with work as Paul had, and Bai Haorui asked Sam if he also thought something was wrong.

Bai Haorui, Dean, and Sam investigated a string of supernatural suicides and discovered that P.T. Sandover’s ghost was attacking workers in the company building. After Sam survived a fatal elevator accident, the three confronted Sandover in the company history exhibit and fought him.

• Bai Haorui stopped Ian from stabbing himself and struck the ghost haunting the restroom, convincing Dean that the suicides were not ordinary.
• Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui traced the attacks to P.T. Sandover, whose ghost haunted room 1444 and targeted workers during economic downturns.
• The three found Sandover’s work gloves in the company exhibit, while Sam escaped a crashing elevator that killed the security guard.
• Sandover appeared and attacked them, and Bai Haorui blocked his assault while Dean and Sam struck him with iron racks.

Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui defeated Sandover's ghost, and Bai Haorui absorbed the same-origin essence that strengthened his soul and mastery of cultivation. Zachariah restored Dean and Sam's memories and challenged Dean to accept his hunter destiny; the three left together, while Bai Haorui resolved to shape his own fate.

• Dean and Sam burned Sandover's gloves, destroying his ghost and releasing the same-origin essence that Bai Haorui absorbed.
• Sam urged Dean and Bai Haorui to leave their office jobs and hunt supernatural creatures, then quit; Bai Haorui quit with him.
• Dean turned down a promotion, and Zachariah restored Dean and Sam's memories, revealing that he had placed them in the office life to prove Dean was a hunter by nature.
• Bai Haorui told Zachariah that Dean would not face his destiny alone, and Zachariah disappeared after explaining his test.
• Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui returned to the hospital, drove off in the Impala, and set out together.
• Bai Haorui tested his newly precise control of true gang and true fire, then vowed that he would not become God's pawn and would control his own destiny.

Chuck Shurley tried to probe Bai Haorui’s memories but Nezha’s Samadhi True Fire protected him, so Chuck changed the world’s rules to turn any attempt by Bai to expose him into nonsense. After learning that his life was recorded in books, Dean, Sam, and Bai sought out the author and reached his publisher, where an editor was stunned by their knowledge of the series.

• Chuck froze time and tried to uncover Bai Haorui’s memories, but Nezha’s Samadhi True Fire repelled his power.
• Chuck altered the universe so Bai’s words about him would become ridiculous nonsense, then left Bai unable to remember his visit.
• Dean, Sam, and Bai visited Wonderland Comics, where the clerk revealed their lives appeared in the Supernatural book series.
• Bai realized Chuck was God and tried to warn Dean and Sam, but his words came out as nonsense; he resolved to find a way around Chuck’s rule.
• Dean and Sam decided to find Carver Edlund and went with Bai to Graystone Publishing.
• Dean, Sam, and Bai recited detailed events from the books to the editor, who was astonished by their knowledge.

Bai Haorui learned that Chuck Shurley was God, but an absolute rule twisted every attempt to reveal the truth into absurd nonsense. After discovering Chuck could not read his thoughts about his identity, Bai Haorui resolved to resist the script, while Chuck revealed that Lilith would come for Sam that night.

• Bai Haorui recognized Chuck Shurley as God, but every attempt to tell Dean and Sam the truth became ridiculous falsehoods.
• Dean and Sam confronted Chuck, who admitted he had been writing about them and knew their private details.
• Bai Haorui found his thoughts about Chuck's identity missing from the manuscript and realized Nezha's true fire shielded them from Chuck.
• Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui read Chuck's manuscript at a laundromat, where Dean demonstrated how accurately it predicted their actions.
• Chuck told Dean and Sam that Lilith was coming for Sam that night, then read a passage describing her seducing him.

Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui tried to evade Chuck’s script, but the roadblock and the events at the motel kept them on its path. Dean brought Chuck to the motel, hoping the prophet’s archangel protector would stop Lilith, while Sam faced Lilith alone in his room.

• Chuck explained that his visions compelled him to write, and Dean took his latest manuscript as the group drove away.
• Dean and Sam argued over whether to flee Lilith or fight her, then a washed-out bridge forced them to stay in town.
• Dean tried ordering tofu to defy the manuscript, but the waitress gave him a bacon cheeseburger by mistake.
• At the Matador Motel, Dean prepared protections for Sam and ordered him to stay while he and Bai Haorui went to find Chuck; Sam refused to hide.
• Castiel told Dean that an archangel protected Chuck, so Dean and Bai Haorui forced the frightened prophet to come with them to Sam’s room.
• Lilith appeared behind Sam in Room 307 and approached him as he held a dagger and a holy-water gun.

Lilith tried to bargain with Sam, then attacked him when he refused, but Bai Haorui fought her off and wounded her before she escaped. After Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui drove away, Zachariah confronted Chuck and forced him to keep writing the future.

• Lilith destroyed Sam's Devil's Trap and offered to stop the Apocalypse in exchange for Sam, Dean, and Bai Haorui's deaths, but Sam pretended to accept and tried to stab her.
• Dean, Bai Haorui, and Chuck burst in as an archangel's light filled the room, and Bai Haorui defended Sam from Lilith's attack.
• Bai Haorui burned and wounded Lilith, pinned her with True Gang chains, and struck her with a True Fire Gang Qi Bullet as she escaped through the window.
• Dean helped Sam up, and the group left in the damaged Impala while Bai Haorui recovered and Sam stayed silent about Lilith's offer.
• Zachariah confronted Chuck at home and warned him not to interfere with the future, but Chuck threatened to kill himself rather than keep writing.
• Zachariah said he would bring Chuck back if necessary, and Chuck returned to his computer and began writing about Bai Haorui.

Bai Haorui traveled to San Francisco to investigate a supernatural force killing people in Chinatown and driving veteran hunter Old Zhou insane. Meanwhile, Dean and Sam met Adam Milligan, who claimed to be John Winchester’s son, and Dean demanded proof before leaving with Sam.

• Bai Haorui left Dean and Sam to answer Bobby’s call about Old Zhou, who had been hospitalized after investigating a Chinatown death.
• Dean answered John Winchester’s old phone and learned that Adam Milligan claimed to be John’s son and needed help finding his missing mother.
• Dean and Sam met Adam at a restaurant, where Adam described his time with John and the 1967 Impala; Dean challenged him and Adam offered to prove his identity.
• Bai Haorui arrived in Chinatown, sensed a deadly black mist, and learned from Bobby that five young men had died there in terror over three months.
• Bai Haorui reviewed the death records with Bobby and Officer Tom, then went with Bobby to visit Old Zhou at the psychiatric hospital.

Bai Haorui learned that A Xiu had been a trafficked and abused girl who died hoping to return home, while Dean and Sam investigated missing bodies and searched for Kate. The chapter ended with Sam surviving an attack by a creature that dragged him beneath a truck near an open sewer grate.

• Bai Haorui calmed Old Zhou and explained that A Xiu attacked victims through their souls, so he and Bobby sought her past and her obsession.
• Dean and Sam found evidence of fresh blood and remains in an air duct beneath Kate's bed, then told Adam that monsters were real and that John had been a hunter.
• A Chinatown fruit vendor sent Bai Haorui and Bobby to Tailor Li, who recounted A Xiu's abuse and gave Bai Haorui her mother's silver ring.
• Dean discovered signs of ghouls at the cemetery and learned from Lisa Barton that missing Joe had investigated earlier grave robberies with John's help.
• Sam taught Adam to handle a gun, but a creature attacked them at the motel and dragged Sam beneath a truck before Dean and Adam pulled him free.

Bai Haorui found A Xiu’s former home, learned that her resentment kept her ghost from being destroyed, and went to New York to seize Jake Wilson and bring him back to San Francisco. Meanwhile, Dean discovered the real Adam Milligan was dead and raced back to warn Sam, who had prepared to use the ghoul impersonating Adam as bait.

• A Xiu killed a young man in a convenience store, and Bai Haorui and Bobby searched her former home for clues.
• A Xiu attacked Bai Haorui and Bobby with illusions and threads of resentment, but they escaped the basement.
• Bai Haorui went to New York, captured Jake Wilson, and began driving him back to San Francisco.
• Dean found the real Adam Milligan’s body in a hidden room at the cemetery and realized the Adam with Sam was a ghoul.
• Dean escaped the tunnel and raced toward the Milligan home as Sam and the disguised ghoul finished sealing the house’s entrances.

Dean rescued Sam from the ghouls impersonating their dead brother Adam, while Bai Haorui helped A Xiu take revenge on Jake and delivered her soul. The chapter ended with Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui holding a hunter’s funeral for the real Adam.

• Adam knocked Sam unconscious after revealing that he and Kate were ghouls seeking revenge on the Winchesters.
• Dean shot Kate and fought Adam long enough to rescue Sam.
• Bai Haorui prepared an altar and summoned A Xiu, who tore Jake apart in revenge for his abuse.
• Bai Haorui recited Daoist scriptures to deliver A Xiu’s soul, and she thanked him before vanishing.
• Dean burned the real Adam’s body on a hunter’s pyre while Sam and Bai Haorui mourned with him.

A Xiu’s hope of earning money for her family ended when A Fang sold her to Jake, who imprisoned and brutalized her in a Chinatown brothel. After killing A Fang and asking Tailor Li to make her red embroidered shoes, A Xiu returned to the basement and took her own life, believing she could go home.

• A Xiu left her village in Fujian for San Francisco after A Fang promised her a restaurant job, but A Fang sold her to Jake, who forced her into his underground brothel.
• A Xiu escaped twice, but Jake’s men returned her to the basement, where he beat her and eventually carved a scar across her face.
• After Jake caught her third escape attempt, A Xiu began secretly following A Fang and planned to confront her.
• On Lunar New Year’s Eve, A Xiu slipped out and killed A Fang, then went to Tailor Li and asked him to make red shoes embroidered with lotus flowers.
• A Xiu gave Tailor Li her mother’s ring to pass to her family and returned to the basement, where Xiao Mei gave her a candle.
• A Xiu dressed in her clean white shirt and red embroidered shoes, then hanged herself from the ceiling beam.

Dean received an urgent message from Castiel in a dream, but he and Bai Haorui found Jimmy Novak alone in an abandoned warehouse after sensing an angelic presence being destroyed. Jimmy remembered being trapped inside his body during Castiel’s possession and wanted to return to his family, while Sam and Dean argued over whether he should be kept with them as their only lead.

• Castiel warned Dean that someone could monitor their conversations and left him a note directing him to an abandoned warehouse.
• Bai Haorui sensed a surge of angelic energy being torn apart, and Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui found a battlefield at the warehouse and rescued Jimmy Novak.
• Jimmy told them that Castiel was gone and described being a helpless spectator while Castiel used his body, though he knew nothing about Castiel’s secret.
• Jimmy recalled that his possession had begun during dinner with his wife Amelia and daughter Claire, when their television emitted a piercing noise and he collapsed.
• Sam argued that Jimmy should be taken to Bobby’s for hypnosis because demons might target him, while Dean and Bai Haorui insisted he should be allowed to go home.
• Jimmy demanded to see his family, but Sam and Dean said he had to stay with them until they learned what had happened, leaving Jimmy asking whether he was a prisoner again.

Sam secretly drank a dark red liquid, and Jimmy escaped to return to his family while Bai Haorui and the others pursued him. After demons attacked Jimmy’s home and Bai Haorui killed them, Sam’s unstable power left the group worried, and Sam insisted Jimmy had to leave with them to protect his family.

• Bai Haorui saw Sam drink a strange liquid, then learned that Jimmy had escaped and joined Dean and Sam in pursuit.
• Anna warned Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui that Cass had been dragged back to Heaven for punishment and that Hell would target Jimmy; she also cautioned Sam about his growing demonic aura.
• A year earlier, Jimmy’s devotion to Castiel had driven Amelia to fear for him, and Castiel took control of Jimmy before leaving his family.
• Bai Haorui, Dean, and Sam reached Jimmy’s home, where Jimmy reunited with Amelia and Claire and admitted that he had been wrong about God’s calling.
• Roger, possessed by a demon, threatened Claire, but Dean killed him; a second demon attacked Amelia, Sam faltered, and Bai Haorui destroyed it with a fiery punch.
• Amelia believed Jimmy after witnessing the attack, while Dean confronted Sam about his weakening power and Sam told Jimmy he had to come with them.

Jimmy was separated from Amelia and Claire, then sacrificed his freedom to let Castiel leave Claire and possess him again. After Sam drank a demon’s blood, Dean and Bobby locked him in Bobby’s panic room to force him through withdrawal.

• Jimmy sent Amelia and Claire away to keep them safe, but Amelia later called him to an abandoned factory and threatened his family.
• Bai Haorui fought through the demons at the factory and killed their leader, Balthazar, while Dean, Sam, and Jimmy entered through the back.
• The possessed Amelia revealed that Claire and Jimmy had been chosen by Heaven, and Claire’s holy light destroyed the demons threatening her.
• Jimmy begged Castiel to possess him instead of Claire, and Castiel returned to Jimmy’s body before rejecting Dean and leaving.
• Sam drank a demon’s blood, freed Amelia from possession, and frightened Dean and Bai Haorui with his bloodlust.
• Dean and Bobby locked Sam in Bobby’s panic room to help him overcome his addiction, while Bai Haorui watched Sam’s pleas fade into sobs.

Dean locked Sam in the anti-demon room to force him to quit drinking demon blood, while Bai Haorui gave him Clear Heart Talismans to ease withdrawal. As the seals broke and Bai Haorui left to investigate three disasters, Sam faced a hallucination of Alastair and then encountered his younger self, who accused him of ruining the normal life he had wanted.

• Dean refused to release Sam until he had quit drinking demon blood, and Sam reluctantly accepted Bai Haorui's Clear Heart Talismans.
• A withdrawal hallucination made Sam believe Alastair had chained him up to torture him, but the talisman burned Alastair and ended the vision.
• Bobby reported that three disasters linked to breaking seals had killed species in Key West, blinded a fishing fleet in Alaska, and led a teacher to kill sixty-six children in New York.
• Dean refused to risk Sam's life for the Apocalypse, and Bai Haorui left to investigate the three sites while Dean and Bobby stayed with Sam.
• Sam awoke to a vision of his fourteen-year-old self, who blamed him for abandoning their plans for a normal life and failing to protect Jessica.

Bai Haorui destroyed a demon haunting a school and helped the murdered children pass on before traveling to Alaska to investigate Hell Mist. Meanwhile, Dean pledged himself to Heaven in hopes of sparing Sam from becoming its weapon, and Bai Haorui learned that the Alaska incident had left a fishing crew blind or insane.

• Sam's hallucination of Little Sam ended when his final Clear Heart Talisman broke, leaving him sobbing over his belief that he was a monster.
• Bai Haorui met Mike at a school where a demon possessed Mr. Smith and haunted the classroom of the sixty-six murdered children.
• Bai Haorui destroyed the demon, soothed the children's painful memories, and helped their spirits pass on before warning Mike that the seals were breaking faster.
• Dean summoned Castiel and pledged himself to serve God and the angels, hoping to spare Sam from increasing his Hell-blood dose.
• Bai Haorui reached the Port of Nome and learned from Old Ryan that Hell Mist had blinded the fishing crew and driven the other men mad.

Bai Haorui destroyed the Hell Mist and a sea monster, then purified the waters around Key West before racing back after sensing trouble with Sam. Sam escaped with Castiel’s help, and Bai Haorui set out to find him while Dean went to meet the angels.

• Bai Haorui burned away the Hell Mist, restored Old Ryan’s sight, and promised to treat his brothers.
• Sam’s withdrawal worsened as he hallucinated Dean’s accusations, and Castiel secretly released him from the demon-proof room.
• Bai Haorui killed the monster polluting Key West’s waters and performed a ritual to clear the sea of lingering resentment.
• Castiel let Sam leave, then watched as Anna was arrested for treason against Heaven.
• Sam escaped Bobby by taking his shotgun, punching him, and driving away to find Ruby.
• Bai Haorui returned to the scrapyard, warned Dean that the angels wanted the Apocalypse, and began divining Sam’s location as Dean went to meet them.

In 1972, Azazel slaughtered the nuns at St. Mary's Convent and spoke with Lucifer, who ordered him to find a child carrying the blood of Cain and Abel. In the present, Dean was taken by Zachariah, Sam chose to use Cindy’s soul to gain strength against Lilith, and Bai Haorui raced toward the convent before black fog blocked his road.

• Azazel possessed an old priest at St. Mary's Convent, murdered the nuns, and summoned Lucifer, who ordered him to find a child with the blood of Cain and Abel.
• Bobby confronted Dean about abandoning Sam, and Dean suddenly vanished into a pure-white room as Zachariah’s angelic presence appeared.
• Sam and Ruby captured Cindy, tortured her for Lilith’s whereabouts, and learned Lilith would break the final seal at St. Mary's Convent.
• Ruby stopped Sam from killing Cindy and urged him to use her pure soul for power; Sam dragged Cindy to the car and locked her in the trunk.
• Bai Haorui sensed Dean’s disappearance and Zachariah’s presence, failed to reach Dean or Sam by phone, and sped north toward the convent.
• Thick black fog rose across the highway, and Bai Haorui braked his pickup just short of it.

Bai Haorui fought off waves of Hellhounds and demons while Dean learned that Heaven planned to let Lucifer rise and use him as Michael’s vessel. Castiel turned against Zachariah and helped Dean escape, warning him that Sam would break the final seal by killing Lilith.

• Bai Haorui killed twelve Hellhounds and six demons, then prepared to face twenty-two more approaching enemies.
• Zachariah told Dean that Lilith had to break the final seal and refused to explain how Dean could stop her.
• Dean left Sam an apologetic voicemail and tried to call Bai Haorui, but neither answered.
• Zachariah revealed that Heaven intended Lucifer to rise so Michael could possess Dean and fight him, even at the cost of billions of lives.
• Castiel admitted he had known Dean was Michael’s vessel, but said he had lost faith in Heaven’s plan and would help Dean escape.
• Castiel warned Dean that Sam, not Lilith, would break the final seal when he killed her, and that Heaven had been guiding Sam toward that act.

Dean learned that Sam planned to kill Lilith and unknowingly break the final seal, so he and Bobby raced toward St. Mary's Convent to stop him and find Bai Haorui. Bai Haorui defeated Lilith’s demons at a gas station, but fifteen angels arrived as Dean and Bobby sped toward Maryland.

• Castiel sent Dean to Bobby and explained that Sam had to be stopped and Bai Haorui could break the script.
• Sam ignored missed calls from Dean and Bai Haorui, accepted Ruby’s encouragement, and set out for St. Mary’s Convent with Cindy in the trunk.
• Bai Haorui killed forty demons sent by Lilith, then sensed fifteen angels approaching the gas station.
• Dean told Bobby that Heaven intended to bring about the Apocalypse and have Michael possess him, and the two drove toward St. Mary’s Convent.
• Bobby called Bai Haorui repeatedly but could not reach him as Dean raced to reach Sam before midnight.

Sam and Ruby reached St. Mary's Convent with Cindy unconscious in the trunk, where Sam prepared to face Lilith, believing her death would stop the Apocalypse. Meanwhile, Bai Haorui defeated a squad of Heaven’s warriors but, already wounded and exhausted, was ambushed by elite demons and left struggling against the bone demon.

• Ruby reassured Sam that killing Lilith would stop the Apocalypse, then dragged the unconscious Cindy into St. Mary's Convent as fuel for the plan.
• Sam followed Ruby into the convent and confronted Lilith, who awaited them at the altar.
• Bai Haorui defeated fourteen warriors of Heaven and their elite angel at an abandoned factory, but suffered a deep chest wound and used much of his strength.
• Thirty-two elite demons and two high-ranking demons attacked Bai Haorui near a roadside supermarket, and he burned the front ranks with a wall of Samadhi True Fire.
• Bai Haorui killed the scaled demon with his peachwood sword, but the bone demon struck him with its whip, leaving him injured and slowing.

Bai Haorui fought through successive attacks by demons and Heaven’s warriors as he raced toward St. Mary's Convent, arriving just after Sam killed Lilith and broke the final seal. Lucifer emerged from Hell and vanished after confronting Bai Haorui, leaving the apocalypse underway.

• Bai Haorui defeated a bone demon and the remaining demons, then killed seven warriors of Heaven, their silver-winged angel leader, and the last three warriors in a parking lot battle.
• Bai Haorui drove north, defeated thirty-seven elite demons and two powerful demons at an abandoned farm, then used the Lotus Seal True Fire to destroy eleven warriors of Heaven and a golden-winged angel.
• At St. Mary's Convent, Lilith revealed that she was the final seal and that Ruby had manipulated Sam into killing her to release Lucifer.
• Sam killed Lilith, broke the final seal, and then killed Ruby after she admitted to betraying him.
• Lucifer emerged from the fissure as Dean and Bobby arrived, followed by the badly wounded Bai Haorui.
• Lucifer recognized Bai Haorui as a threat, promised a future fight, and disappeared into black smoke as the apocalypse began.