It’s been a big week for the ‘Supernatural’ family. Without skipping a beat, Sam and Dean decide that it’s time to find Amara and end this.

For those of you who may not know the legendary John Winchester (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) the second Supernatural alum (i:e Lauren Cohan was Bela Talbot) to join The Walking Dead family as a beloved comic book character! So Poppa Winchester gets to experience and maybe unleash a whole other kind of Hell on another fandom and since he’s an emotionally damaged tool in our show who emotionally damaged his sons I am so ready for more emotional damage. I’ve also sort of missed him a few weeks ago when Sam saw the younger version of John so it’ll be good to see him fighting demons again, I mean zombies.

Last week we learned more about what happens to the soulless people Amara leaves behind. Len lost his heart and was going through the motions. Sydney found that she no longer needed to keep her rage locked up. Suspicions regarding Dean’s soul or lack thereof arouse and while we might not get a definitive answer just yet, we have enough new info from this particular episode to distract us for a while.

The episode opens with a young girl, Goldie and her friend eating snacks and talking by the train tracks. Goldie is complaining about her mom and he rules regarding dating and eating. Her friend agrees but ultimately leaves because she has a curfew. Goldie turns around and is approached by Amara. She asks her where her parents are and if she needs any help and Amara tells her that she doesn’t have any parents but she wants to be just like Goldie and then she eats her soul and grows into a teenager. She returns to Hell and Crowley is waiting up for her. He knows what she’s been up to and he’s not happy about it so he grounds her.

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Sam and Dean leave a lead that turns out to be nothing, they’re still in Fall River, Massachusetts looking for more of Amara’s victims. Dean thinks that the soulless people are their best bet to finding her but Sam points out that it’s probably time to enlist Cas too. Dean calls him and he’s watching reruns of trashy talk show TV but Dean tries convincing him to get out of the bunker for a little bit. Sam gets a call at the same time and it turns out that Len is dead.

Cas takes Dean’s suggestion and puts on his coat and starts to head out but when he reaches the door he starts reliving all the awful things that have happened recently between him and Dean, well actually everything that’s happened that involves him hurting people but involves a lot of him and Dean and a lot of Dean’s voice in his head.

Crowley gets a report that Len has been taken care of, he’s trying to prevent any of Amara’s empty people from drawing attention to her. Crowley has a shortage of demons since Amara ate everyone so it’s difficult for all the jobs to get done and there’s no guard on Amara’s door.

Going to investigate Len’s death Sam and Dean find out that it was a clean job, whoever did it wasn’t a disgruntled family member but it’s a mystery who did it. The body smelled of sulfur so the boys have a pretty good idea who is involved and are looking to find the demon responsible and why. They see Goldie brought in, she tried to kill her mother with a frying pan and know they found just what they were looking for in the first place.

Deciding not to leave Cas is back in front of the TV again, watching the news. He seems content in this decision until he notices a familiar reflection in the side-view mirror of a car. Metatron is behind the camera filming stories for the news.

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Back at the police precinct Goldie is in a cell and someone approaches with the keys. She mentions she hasn’t gotten her phone call yet and is wondering if you can order a pizza to jail. It’s not the guard or an officer but one of Crowley’s demons. He opens the cell and approaches Goldie he tells her that Crowley wants the people Amara stole souls from and approaches her with a knife but is stopped by a Devil’s Trap drawn on the ceiling. Sam and Dean appear and tell her she did good. But I have to wonder how that even got on the ceiling. Did Sam stand on his tippy-toes? Did Dean stand on Sam’s shoulders? This isn’t even a little important but I still had to wonder.

Armed with the knowledge that Crowley is involved with Amara (something Dean seems to be a bit surprised about) they bring the demon back to their motel room. And what was with that wallpaper? It looked exactly like the wallpaper in “Changing Channels” (S5E8).

This is something that actually happened on an actual episode of Supernatural and when things get tough we should probably watch it every once in a while. I can’t come up with a good reason for why that wallpaper is in this particular episode and as much as I’d like believe Gabriel is involved in some way, I’m going to go with the idea that it had something to do with some kind of parallel with Cas’ constant TV watching. Or maybe it wasn’t intentional at all and…Oh who am I kidding, I hope it’s Gabriel. I hope it’s a sign we’ll see Gabriel. This is what happens when a show has 11 years of history, you get completely sidetracked by wallpaper!

Back to the demon at hand, Dean is ready to kill it but Sam suggests they exorcise it in order to save the “meat suit”. The demon is really into being exorcised and that makes the boy suspicious and they realize that the body has been injured and wouldn’t survive an exorcism anyway. Dean stabs him. Sam uses his phone to get coordinates on Amara. He was at the locations they were, trailing her. Sam doesn’t understand why Crowley would allow Amara to walk the earth but Dean knows that Crowley hates Hell and wouldn’t want to be locked up there. He notices a point of interest that Sam marked on their wall map, it’s an asylum and they decide that that sounds very Crowley-esque.

Amara is in her room looking at memes and she has a way of making it sound so vapid, just like the cynical ancient teenage force you would expect her to be. Crowley brings her a snack but she tells him she’s not hungry but luckily it’s not a body image issue and a just being obstinate to Crowley issue. Crowley decides to leave her alone but at the last minutes shuts the door and decides to have an actual conversation. He tells her that he has no idea what he’s doing, her growth rate terrifies her but Amara tells him that she knows he’s just using her for the power she’ll wield and he sounds like an actual parent at this moment.

Sam very candidly asks Dean if they’re really going to do this even though they don’t know anything about Amara but Dean is ready to go in guns blazing. And I hug my Sam and Dean body pillow tighter because I know this is not going to end well.

Crowley tells Amara that he has something that she lacks, he has experience and it’s something he can offer if she’ll give him the chance. She asks him what he wants and he asks for time. He asks her to slow down so he can impart what he knows and in return for her patience he will offer her his protection until she decides she no longer needs it and Amara agrees.

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Metatron is walking around with a handheld camera, getting the story of a victim. He’s wearing a hat that says, “Marv Corps”. His new human business choices are not as regular or wholesome as they seem. He steals from the guy who turns out to be alive and Metatron is more upset that id he lives there’s no story. He tells the man that he can’t save him, not that he would have even if he could but Cas shows up all heroically. He heals the guy and Metatron films him but Cas breaks the camera. The police finally show up and Metatron tries to escape his angel nemesis.

The asylum is oddly guard-free but Sam and Dean are still sure that Crowley is inside. Sure enough he’s in a meeting with demons, discussing the decline in souls. He’s not really paying attention because he’s reading a parenting book.

Cas and Metatron are in a warehouse talking. Metatron is not ashamed of what he’s doing. Just like always he justifies his actions not based on the good they can do but on their ability to affect the world through a particular lens. He is enjoying being the author of reality through the clips of his that make it on the news. He tells Cas that he has simply adjusted to the times. Metatron thinks that Cas is looking for the demon tablet, which he wasn’t but he found it under Metatron’s bed anyway. Cas asks Metatron what he knows about the Darkness. Metatron knows that Cas is broken and that fear is stopping him and he’s not going to tell him but instead challenges Cas to hit him. Cas does more than that and tells him that it’s not fear and then keeps punching Metatron.

Once inside the Asylum Dean uses a recording of Crowley to attract the demons on guard. They approach but get away. Sam tells Dean to go after Amara, which is probably the worst idea ever, and takes on the demons himself. Amara is in her room and knew that Dean would come. He apologizes to Amara and she asks why and then Crowley comes in and stops Dean. He tells Dean that he’s helping Amara realize her full potential. He then tells Dean that he has long since made peace with their bromance and his inability to kill Dean, except tonight feels different and Crowley is pretty sure he’s now ready to do it but Amara stops him.

Three different fights occur at once. Metatron is being tossed around by Cas. Sam takes on the two demons. Deciding at the last moment to put his blade away. There is some absolutely epic hair flipping and I have turned my pillow from the Dean side to the Sam side. Amara tells Crowley she is done with his protection and his captivity. Sam fails to restrain the first demon while he’s knocked out and the other realizes that he’s attempting not to kill them he chokes Sam, which forces Sam to fight and kill him. He handcuffs the demon he first knocked out and makes his way to Amara’s room where he has another vision.

Amara strikes up a deal with the King of Hell. She tells him that she’ll spare his life if he offers safe passage to Dean. Crowley agrees and she tells him to get out of her room. Dean picks up the blade but Amara tells him he can’t do it, she says that they’re even, he saved her, she saved him. She asks him what is going on between them but she knows that it has something to do with Dean being the first person she saw after so long. He represents God’s creation and she can’t help but be fascinated. And as much as I was little creeped out by this scene I have to say that Amara isn’t wrong, Dean Winchester is quite fascinating and we should all be so lucky to gaze upon him as the first thing we see after being released or you know, waking up in the morning. Dean asks Amara what she’s here to do and she tells him she wants to settle a score. He points the knife at her chest but he can’t do it and like the moose he is, Sam comes crashing into the room. She throws both brothers against the wall and walks out.

Jensen Ackles, Jared Padalecki & Yasmeene Ball as Sam & Dean Winchester & Amara in Supernatural Photo: CW Gif: itsokaysammy via Tumblr

Cas continues beating Metatron, who asks that Cas just end him. Cas puts down his fists. And Metatron legitimately asks for help. Metatron is frustrated with the little indignities of life, the nuances that humans are used to. But Cas tells him that he is right he’s tired of being used and manipulated by everyone, which is why he won’t allow Metatron to manipulate him now. So Metatron tells him that in order for creation to occur it took work and sacrifice. God had to give up the only thing he had ever known, he had to betray and lock up his own kin, the Darkness, his sister.

Back at the bunker Dean is angry with Cas that he left Metatron go. Cas takes it for only a moment, defending the fact that he is very much human and very weak and that he put him in traction. He is sure that Metatron can’t do anything without “Angel Radio” knowing and when Dean goes to ask again, Cas turns the tables and asks on Dean and asks how Amara got away. Dean uses the excuse that she stopped him but Sam and Cas share a look that they don’t quite buy it. Dean makes a quip about possibly getting God’s attention and Sam decides to check the lore.

As he walks away I initially thought he was going to reflect on what he suspects happened between Dean and Amara but instead we see him rethinking the vision we didn’t fully get to see earlier. It’s not surprise it debilitated him. fingers are seen pushing through cracks and then the camera pulls out to reveal the Cage!

The Cage in Supernatural Photo: CW

The episode ends with everyone reflecting on what has happened in their way. Crowley is downright miserable on his throne. Dean is drinking. And Amara is walking the streets.

Next week Sheriff Donna Hanscum (Briana Buckmaster) returns! You’ll remember her from “Hibbing 911” (S10E8) and they’re hunting rabbits or ghosts or something.

Best Lines

“Midnight snack?”

“For now”

“Seems insane to leave our one and only angel friend on the bench”

“Socially acceptable binge watching”

“A man can’t live on caviar alone”

“Our ranks have a been a bit thin since Amara ate everyone”

“Keep forgetting about you and Crowley’s summer of love”

“I know what it is!”

“If arbitrary words attached to domesticated animals counts as [learning about] the world”

“I’ll leave you to your memes”

“There was a time I could bring you back from the brink with the snap of my fingers, not that I would have, but I’m not that guy anymore, I can’t save you”

“Do you have any idea how much stuff I had to steal and the pawn to pay for that?”

“Asstiel”

“Gif length glimpses…”

“I am reality’s author”

Cas: What do you know about the Darkness?

Metatron: The band?

Metatron: The band? “You have gone full wuss”

“It’s not fear”

“Girl’s grown up, should have known it wouldn’t be long before the boys came sniffing around”

“What can I say fatherhood changes a man”

“You trying out some sort of no kill policy?”

“Settle an old score, the oldest score”

NEXT ON HIDDEN REMOTE: ‘Supernatural’ Recap: Season 11, Episode 5 “Thin Lizzie”

For the record I think Dean still has his soul but once again the brothers are keeping secrets from each other. Just when they hard started to sort of kind of open up too! Cas is clearly displaying signs of PTSD, which is so sad and I just want to hug it out of him and binge watch Supernatural with him. On the most important note of the episode, season 11 has taken the sibling thing to the highest of powers. It seemed like that ended with Michael and Lucifer but knowing that Amara is God’s sister, once again we’re discussing sibling sacrifice and with the Cage’s instability it’s only a matter of time before the boys are forced into once again choosing a side. Except whose side are they on this time? Unburden your emotional turmoil in the comments!

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Supernatural airs Wednesdays at 9/8c on The CW.