Chapter Summaries

Sam, Dean, and Bai Haorui investigated a supposed haunting and then followed reports of Bigfoot in Concrete, where they found enormous tracks and evidence of a liquor-store break-in. Their trail led to Audrey, who revealed that Bigfoot was her sick teddy bear and brought them to her bedroom to meet him.

• Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui dismissed the reported gym ghost after Candice admitted it had helped her up, then heard Gus claim Bigfoot had attacked him.
• Sam, Dean, and Bai Haorui followed Gus into the woods, found enormous fresh footprints, and Bai Haorui sensed that their maker had no ordinary life force or supernatural aura.
• The tracks led to a liquor store that had been broken into, where the trio found stolen sweet liquor and adult magazines.
• The trio followed Audrey after she returned a box of liquor and magazines to the store, and she told them Bigfoot was her sick teddy bear.
• Audrey led Sam, Dean, and Bai Haorui upstairs and knocked on her bedroom door to introduce them to Teddy.

Sam, Dean, and Bai Haorui investigated a wishing fountain that twisted people’s wishes into disasters and discovered it was powered by a cursed Babylonian coin. They learned that only the first person who wished at the fountain could remove the coin and reverse the wishes, while Teddy’s despair continued to worsen.

• Audrey told Sam and Dean that she had wished for a living teddy bear, and they found Teddy drunk and despairing in her bedroom.
• Sam, Dean, and Bai Haorui investigated the wishing fountain, where Dean wished for an extra-long hot dog and got sick after eating it.
• Bai Haorui identified a cursed Babylonian coin bearing Tiamat’s symbol beneath the fountain, and Dean failed to pry it loose even with a crowbar and hammer.
• Sam and Bai Haorui caught a teenager using invisibility, granted by a fountain wish, to spy on a woman showering.
• Dean researched the coin and told Sam and Bai Haorui that only the first person to make a wish could remove it and reverse the wishes.
• At Audrey’s house, a message on Teddy’s whiteboard read, “Life is meaningless.—Teddy bear.”

Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui stopped the cursed coin’s wishes from escalating, but Wes lost Hope when the magic was undone. As they left town, Dean admitted he remembered Hell but refused to tell Sam what he had endured.

• Bai Haorui explained that the magic-created teddy bear could not die, while Dean recognized its despair as something he understood from Hell.
• Sam and Dean traced the wishes to Wes, who admitted he had used the coin to make Hope fall in love with him, and they urged him to retrieve it.
• Todd’s powers spiraled out of control, so Dean distracted him while Sam took Wes to Lucky Chin’s Chinese Restaurant; Hope wished Sam dead with a lightning bolt.
• Wes removed the coin from the fountain, reversing the town’s wishes and restoring Sam, but Hope no longer recognized Wes and left him alone.
• Bai Haorui destroyed the coin’s curse, and Dean confessed to Sam that he remembered everything about Hell but would never describe it.
• Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui drove out of town, with Bai Haorui silently reassuring Dean as Sam rode beside him.

Anna Milton escaped a psychiatric ward after revealing that she knew about Lilith’s plan to break sixty-six seals and free Lucifer. Sam, Dean, and Bai Haorui investigated her and discovered that her sketches accurately recorded events in the Apocalypse, while traces in her ward suggested the angels were involved too.

• Anna Milton warned her psychiatrist about the Apocalypse, then used telekinetic power to knock out a demon disguised as an orderly and escape.
• Ruby told Sam, Dean, and Bai Haorui that demons were hunting Anna and had orders to capture her alive, so Sam persuaded Dean to investigate.
• On the drive, Sam and Dean argued about Ruby and the time they had spent apart, while Bai Haorui urged them to focus on finding Anna.
• The disguised hunters questioned Anna’s psychiatrist and found sketches that matched seals and events they had encountered, including the Samhain Festival and the Rise of the Witnesses.
• Bai Haorui detected traces of demonic, telekinetic, and angelic power in Anna’s ward, and the group concluded that she knew important details about the Apocalypse.

Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui found Anna hiding in a church attic and learned she could hear angel communications, beginning the day Dean returned from Hell. Alastair arrived and overwhelmed Sam, but Bai Haorui fought him until Sam rejoined the fight and froze Alastair with his power.

• Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui found Anna's parents murdered and traced her repeated drawings of a church window to the church where she was hiding.
• Anna recognized the three men and explained that she had been hearing angel radio since the day Dean returned from Hell, when she heard that Dean Winchester was saved.
• Ruby arrived and warned them that Alastair was tracking them; after blood flowed from an angel statue, Alastair entered the attic and Sam hid Anna in a closet.
• Sam's exorcism failed, and Alastair threw him down the stairs before confronting Dean and triggering his memories of torture in Hell.
• Bai Haorui attacked Alastair with his peachwood sword and Pure Yang True Fire, wounding him but taking a heavy blow in return.
• As Alastair raised a black-magic battle-axe against Bai Haorui, Sam returned, fired salt rounds, and used his power to freeze Alastair.

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.