Standing ovation for Mark Sheppard’s performance tonight and the writer’s arc for Crowley this season.

Crowley tried so hard to stuff the humanity now sitting inside…and I felt when he sat in that chair and said “I never lied”….he sort of accepted his strange state of being a demon with traces of humanity lingering somewhere. Crowley from long ago would have never been caught dead talking so openly with a hunter. He needed Dean to know that he did not anticipate his death….he didn’t puppet Dean in his schemes. He might have not cared about how he got hell back…but he didn’t mean to take Dean in as collateral damage. His decline of Sam’s summoning was his first and final gift to Dean and for all that he did for him. You’d have to be blind to ignore the connection (in sort of a kinship way) he has with Dean…especially now that Dean is a demon.

One of the best character developments I’ve had the pleasure to watch unfold on television.