Chapter Summaries

Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui investigated the deaths of three cops and discovered that a fragment of the Staff of Moses had been used to kill them. Castiel revealed that the staff was among several stolen holy relics scattered into the human world, and the group agreed to track down its holder.

• Colfax died as locusts crawled out from beneath his skin, and Bai Haorui identified the attack as a fragment of the Staff of Moses.
• Sam connected the three dead cops to the killing of Christopher Birch and suggested investigating the Birch family.
• Castiel appeared after Dean called for him, but he could not explain who had pulled Sam out of Hell.
• Bai Haorui inferred that Heaven's civil war had left its relic vault vulnerable, and Castiel confirmed that the Staff of Moses and other holy weapons had been stolen.
• Castiel asked the group to help recover the staff, and Bai Haorui agreed to find whoever held it.

Dean, Sam, and Castiel confronted Aaron Birch over the deaths of the officers who had killed his brother and learned that an angel had given Aaron the Staff of Moses in exchange for his soul. As Castiel and Sam pushed to torture Aaron to uncover the angel’s identity, Bai Haorui offered to read the soul mark without causing him severe pain, though Castiel warned that the angelic brand could burn him.

• Dean, Sam, Castiel, and Bai Haorui entered the Birch house and questioned Darryl Birch about the dead officers and the Staff of Moses.
• Aaron Birch came out holding a shortened wooden staff, and Castiel knocked Darryl unconscious while Dean tried to calm Aaron.
• Aaron confessed that an angel had given him the staff in exchange for his soul, and that he had used it to kill the officers.
• Castiel said he could find the angel by reading Aaron’s mark but warned that the process would be excruciating; Sam agreed, while Dean objected.
• Bai Haorui offered to read the mark with only slight dizziness, but Castiel warned that the angelic brand could burn a human’s Divine Sense.

Bai Haorui examined Aaron’s angelic mark, which Castiel identified as Balthazar’s, before killing a warrior sent by Raphael. Castiel revealed Heaven was in civil war over heavenly weapons, and the group set out to find Balthazar before Raphael could use them to bring about the Apocalypse.

• Bai Haorui gently examined Aaron’s soul and found an angelic mark embedded near his chest.
• Castiel recognized the mark as Balthazar’s, his former close friend, and Dean realized Balthazar had been taking children’s souls.
• A warrior from Raphael’s faction attacked Castiel, but Bai Haorui trapped him in a Five Elements Confinement Array and burned him away with purple fire.
• Dean asked Castiel to explain the conflict, and Castiel said Raphael wanted control of Heaven and planned to end the story according to its original script.
• Castiel said the group had to find Balthazar and his heavenly weapons before Raphael, and Dean understood that Raphael intended to bring about the Apocalypse.

Castiel confronted Balthazar about stealing Heaven’s weapons, but Balthazar rejected his plea to help fight Raphael. When Bai Haorui’s array prevented Balthazar from escaping, Raphael entered the villa in his vessel.

• Bai Haorui gave Dean a Five Emperor Coin to track Balthazar, and the group followed its heat to a villa in the woods.
• Bai Haorui surrounded the villa with a Five Elements Confinement Array, and Castiel teleported inside to confront Balthazar.
• Balthazar admitted he had stolen Heaven’s weapons and said he wanted to enjoy his freedom rather than fight Raphael’s war.
• Castiel asked Balthazar to give him the weapons and help end the civil war, but Balthazar refused and urged him to run.
• Raphael’s presence shook the villa, and Balthazar discovered he could not teleport away before Raphael entered in his vessel.

Raphael seized Castiel and tried to force him back into Heaven, but Bai Haorui intervened and fought the archangel. Bai Haorui trapped Raphael in a Five Elements cage, though the weakening coins showed the prison might not hold.

• Raphael restrained Castiel and urged him to return to Heaven, then choked him while Balthazar hesitated to intervene.
• Bai Haorui burst into the villa and challenged Raphael to keep Heaven’s conflicts out of the human world.
• Raphael attacked Bai Haorui, who dodged the shockwave and blocked it with a shield powered by the Five Emperor Coins.
• Bai Haorui struck Raphael with his peachwood sword and Pure Yang True Fire, then endured Raphael’s counterattack with a protective barrier.
• Bai Haorui summoned the Five Emperor Coins into a formation that trapped Raphael, but Raphael’s holy power shook the cage and cracked the coins.

Bai Haorui burned Raphael’s vessel and wounded his core consciousness, forcing him to retreat to Heaven. Dean trapped Balthazar and made him erase Aaron Birch’s soul mark, but Castiel released him, and the group left the villa with Raphael’s retaliation still looming.

• Bai Haorui used the Five Elements Cage and a True Fire strike to burn Raphael’s vessel, forcing Raphael’s injured consciousness back to Heaven.
• Dean and Sam arrived after the battle, and Dean trapped Balthazar in a Holy Fire Formation until Balthazar removed the mark from Aaron Birch’s soul.
• Castiel opened the formation so Balthazar could escape, saying he owed him a favor, then teleported away.
• Dean argued with Castiel and left the ruined villa with Sam and Bai Haorui before they could attract the police.
• Dean drove the group away in the Impala while Bai Haorui treated his injuries and Sam remained withdrawn.
• Dean asked Sam if he was all right, and Sam replied that he was fine.

Dean confronted Sam about his apparent lack of empathy, and Bai Haorui revealed that part of Sam’s soul had been left in Hell’s Cage. The group set out to uncover the Campbell Family’s resurrection deal, recover Sam’s soul, and prevent Raphael from seizing Balthazar’s holy relics.

• Dean challenged Sam over his behavior during the torture of a child, and Sam admitted he had grown hardened since returning from Hell.
• Bai Haorui revealed that Sam’s soul was incomplete and that his pain, compassion, and guilt had been sealed away.
• Dean stopped the Impala and learned that someone had returned Sam’s body and memories without his full soul; Bai Haorui said recovering it would be difficult and linked the mystery to the Campbell Family.
• Sam said he had kept quiet because he did not want Dean to abandon Lisa and Ben, and Dean angrily insisted that Sam’s missing soul mattered.
• Bai Haorui set the priorities of investigating the Campbell Family’s deal, finding Sam’s missing soul, and keeping Raphael from taking Balthazar’s holy relics.
• Dean restarted the Impala as the group faced the uncertainty of building a new order amid Heaven’s conflict and the wider chaos.

Bobby confronted Crowley over his soul, but Crowley used a Hellhound to force him to release him from a Devil’s Trap and warned that Bobby had ten years to live. While Bai Haorui remained in secluded cultivation and secretly heard their exchange, Bobby later tortured a crossroads demon for Crowley’s human name.

• Bobby summoned Crowley and demanded that he return his soul, but Crowley cited the contract’s “best efforts” clause and said Bobby had ten years left to live.
• Bobby trapped Crowley in a Devil’s Trap, but Crowley summoned a Hellhound and forced Bobby to erase the runes and let him go.
• Bai Haorui overheard Crowley and Bobby through his Divine Sense while he continued his breakthrough, and he resolved to settle his debt with Crowley later.
• After speaking with Dean about murders in Wisconsin, Bobby questioned a chained crossroads demon about Crowley’s human name.
• Bobby threatened the demon with her bones and burned them until she begged him to stop, then said Crowley was now the King of Hell.

Bobby learned that Crowley's real name was Fergus MacLeod and began investigating his Scottish past, while Bai Haorui reminded him that they needed Crowley's bones to gain leverage over him. Rufus arrived with a supposedly dead Okami, and the chapter ended with him offering to investigate Crowley in Scotland.

• Bobby learned the demon King's real name was Fergus MacLeod, then burned the female demon who revealed it.
• Bai Haorui said they still needed to find Crowley's bones, and Bobby agreed that a real name alone would not give them leverage.
• Marcy invited Bobby to dinner and a horror movie and asked him to fix her wood chipper; Bai Haorui told Bobby he could go if he wanted.
• Rufus arrived with an Okami corpse, and Bai Haorui discovered the monster was still alive because it needed seven stabs to die.
• Bobby told Rufus about his investigation into Crowley, and Rufus offered to contact his connections in Scotland.

Bobby, Rufus, and Bai Haorui pursued the escaped Okami after it targeted Marcy, while Sam and Dean investigated a separate bloody killing in Wisconsin. Bobby and Rufus killed the Okami, but Sam and Dean’s investigation remained unresolved.

• Bai Haorui sensed police approaching Bobby’s yard, and Rufus hid before FBI Agent Adams and Sheriff Jody Mills searched for him.
• Adams found the empty pit where the Okami had been buried, and Bai Haorui sensed the monster heading toward women living alone.
• Bobby and Bai Haorui rushed to protect Marcy as the Okami attacked her at home.
• Bai Haorui slowed the Okami with his true fire, and Rufus drove it into a wood chipper while Bobby shielded Marcy.
• Marcy declined Bobby’s offer of dinner, while Bai Haorui watched Bobby struggle to bridge the gap between hunting and ordinary life.
• In Wisconsin, Sam examined six claw-torn bodies and found no familiar supernatural signs as Dean waited by the doorway.

Dean and Sam fought a Lamia while Bobby, Bai Haorui, and Rufus searched for a way to use Gavin MacLeod’s ghost against Crowley. The chapter ended with Rufus arrested for stealing Gavin’s ring and Bobby arranging to meet Jody at the police station.

• Dean and Sam followed the trail to a church, where Bai Haorui told Dean to burn salt and rosemary to drive off the Lamia.
• Rufus found Gavin MacLeod’s signet ring in a museum exhibit, and Bobby planned to use Gavin’s ghost to bargain with Crowley.
• Bai Haorui warned Bobby that Gavin might refuse to reveal where his father’s bones were buried.
• Dean called Bobby to voice his worries about Sam, but Bobby erupted over the burden of helping them while Crowley held his soul.
• Dean realized Sam could barely respond to Bobby’s danger, deepening his concern about Sam’s emotional state.
• Rufus was caught stealing Gavin’s ring, and Bobby called Jody to arrange a meeting behind the police station.

Bobby arranged for Jody to release Rufus so they could use the ring to summon Gavin MacLeod and learn where Crowley’s remains were buried. Crowley appeared to confront them, but Bobby revealed Dean was already in Scotland near the burial site.

• Jody agreed to help Bobby arrange Rufus’s temporary release from the holding cell.
• Rufus returned to Bobby’s house with the ring, and Bai Haorui confirmed it was safe before helping conceal the summoning.
• Bobby summoned Gavin MacLeod, and Bai Haorui persuaded him to reveal where Crowley’s remains were buried.
• Bobby sent the burial address and precautions to Dean while Gavin remained in the summoning circle.
• Crowley appeared and claimed he did not care what happened to Gavin, but Bobby told him he knew where Crowley was buried.
• Dean spoke over Bobby’s phone from Scotland, revealing that he was near Crowley’s old hometown.

Bobby reclaimed his soul and gained ten years of life by trading with Crowley, with Bai Haorui ensuring the deal was safe. As the group considered what came next, Bai Haorui revealed that someone had taken a large part of Sam’s soul and might be connected to the Campbell Family’s mass resurrection.

• Bobby threatened to burn Crowley’s bones unless Crowley returned Bobby’s soul, and Crowley agreed to add ten years of life.
• Crowley restored Bobby’s soul and health, took back his son’s ring, and warned Bai Haorui not to interfere with him.
• The next morning, Dean apologized to Bobby, while Jody reported that she had handled the Rufus situation with the FBI.
• Bai Haorui warned that Crowley would be occupied securing his position in Hell and said the Campbell Family had been making major moves.
• Bai Haorui revealed that someone had taken a large part of Sam’s soul and suspected a link to the Campbell Family’s mass resurrection.
• Bobby answered another phone call as the group faced the prospect of more trouble.

Dean and Sam investigated a surge of missing girls and discovered that vampires were luring victims through a goth scene while stockpiling blood. Their investigation ended with Boris attacking and biting Dean as Sam watched from the alley before charging forward.

• Robert lured Kristen to an abandoned building, where Boris bit her and dragged her inside to join the Alpha's recruitment chain.
• Dean and Sam learned that seven girls had gone missing, and Kristen's room revealed emails from someone claiming to be a vampire who had invited her to the Black Rose.
• A blood bank transport van was attacked, and dark figures stole its blood bags for the Alpha's army.
• At a goth bar, Dean and Sam followed suspected vampire lurers; Dean stopped one boy, who admitted he wore fake fangs to pick up girls.
• Boris attacked Dean, crushed his wrist, and bit his neck, while Sam stood watching before finally rushing at Boris with his knife.

After Boris turned Dean into a vampire, Dean struggled with his heightened senses and thirst, nearly attacking Lisa before fleeing. Samuel revealed a cure that required the turning vampire’s blood, and Dean went alone to find him while Samuel accused Sam of deliberately letting Dean get bitten to infiltrate the vampires.

• Dean panicked over his new vampire senses and fangs, then escaped the motel to visit Lisa and Ben.
• Dean nearly attacked Lisa when he smelled her blood, then frightened Ben before rushing away.
• Samuel arrived and offered Dean a cure, warning that it would fail if Dean drank human blood.
• Dean agreed to get the blood of the vampire who turned him and left for the nest with Samuel’s dead man’s blood.
• Samuel confronted Sam, claiming Sam had known about the cure and might have let Dean be bitten to help them find the Alpha vampire.

Dean infiltrated the vampire nest in disguise, but an encounter with the vampires’ ancient Father awakened a surge of power that let him fight his way out. Samuel gave Dean a cure for his vampirism, which left him vomiting black-red blood in agony.

• Dean entered the vampire nest disguised as a newly turned vampire and learned from Boris that the vampires lured girls into becoming recruiters for the nest.
• Dean tried to inject Boris with dead man's blood, but the Father’s voice overwhelmed the vampires and sent visions into Dean’s mind.
• Dean awakened with greatly heightened power, killed the vampires who attacked him, and defeated Boris as Sam and Samuel arrived at the nest.
• Dean told Sam he could not hear him over the sound of his blood, then drank the cure Samuel had prepared and began vomiting in pain.

Dean and Sam learned that the Alpha was organizing a nationwide vampire army, while Bai Haorui and Bobby destroyed a northern nest and uncovered evidence implicating Samuel and the Campbell Family. Back at Bobby’s house, the group planned to investigate the Alpha and Samuel as Dean’s suspicions about Sam deepened.

• Dean recovered from the vampire bite and told Sam and Samuel that the vampires took orders from their Alpha, who was building an army.
• Dean failed to reach Lisa and asked Sam whether he could still count on him; Sam promised he could.
• Bai Haorui used his Divine Sense to locate forty-seven vampires in an abandoned textile mill, then joined Bobby in destroying the nest.
• Bobby found recruitment records, a map of more than a dozen vampire nests, and a document linking Samuel and the Campbell Family to the operation.
• Bai Haorui told Bobby that Sam was missing part of his soul and might have agreed to use Dean as bait without recognizing the harm.
• At Bobby’s house, the group agreed to watch Samuel and the Campbell Family and search for the Alpha’s main nest, while Dean continued to doubt Sam.

Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui investigated a series of deaths linked to a Truth Curse that forced people to speak their hidden thoughts. As the case led them to a dentist’s clinic, Dean continued to deny that Sam’s missing soul had left him emotionally hollow.

• Sam found a report about four suicides in Calumet City and joined Dean and Bai Haorui in investigating them.
• Bai Haorui identified the deaths as the work of an old Roman god’s Truth Curse, triggered when someone said they wanted the truth.
• At Olivia’s home, Sam pressed Jane’s sister until she admitted the curse had made her say cruel things to Jane, while Dean noticed Sam showed little empathy.
• Bai Haorui warned Dean that Sam was acting from memories without feeling, but Dean insisted Sam was still himself.
• Sam learned that dentist Dr. Conley had killed a patient with a dental drill after the patient spoke his hidden thoughts, and the three went to investigate the clinic.

Dean and Bai Haorui traced the truth curse to a stolen horn that had summoned Veritas, while Dean grew more alarmed about Sam’s missing soul and changed behavior. The group suspected Veritas was working as a news anchor, and Castiel appeared after Bai Haorui summoned him, revealing Heaven’s conflict had drawn him away.

• Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui found a receipt linking Jane and Dr. Conley to Harry’s Horn Shop and learned its thousand-year-old horn had been stolen on the day Jane died.
• Bai Haorui identified the horn as a medium for an old god and concluded that someone had used it to summon Veritas, the goddess behind the truth curse.
• Dean secretly told Bobby that Sam seemed increasingly unlike himself, but Bai Haorui warned Dean not to attack Sam and urged him to focus on finding Veritas.
• Sam suggested Veritas might be working as a news anchor because she enjoyed proclaiming the truth and receiving attention.
• Bai Haorui explained that Heaven was divided over the vacant throne, then summoned Castiel, who appeared and asked Dean why he had called.

Dean and Bai Haorui investigated Veritas’s truth curse while learning that Heaven remained at war and Sam’s soul was missing. The curse pushed Dean toward confronting Sam, and Lisa ended their relationship, leaving Dean heartbroken.

• Castiel told Dean and Bai Haorui that Heaven was still fighting Raphael and refused to help them stop Veritas.
• Sam reported that four bodies had vanished from the morgue and identified Corey as a possible first victim who summoned Veritas.
• Dean triggered the truth curse by wishing aloud for the truth, and Bai Haorui warned him that it could spread over the phone and affect Bobby.
• Dean considered using the curse to question Sam about the vampire incident, but Bai Haorui urged him not to act rashly.
• Lisa told Dean that she and Ben could not remain in his life because his bond with Sam and hunting always came first, then ended their relationship.