I was not expecting much, if any, Castiel this season, so yet another episode with him makes me very, very happy. Maybe we’ll see him one more time?

We open with an over achieving high school student, Kevin, who is very regimented about his cello playing and studying for his exams to get into Princeton. He seems to be deficient in the essay part of applying to college, so there’s that (no one’s perfect).

Meanwhile, our intrepid Winchesters begin chip, chip chippin’ away at the Very Important chunk of rock they shenanigan-ed out from under Dick in the previous episode, only to bring on a violent thunderstorm, which happens to attack our high schooler Kevin just as he is getting down to studying. A smooth, square rock covered in ancient scribblings pops out of the lump of hardened clay after a few whacks. Also, this storm awakens our sweet little angel Castiel from his loony bin slumber while he is being watched by good ol’ Meg. Yay! Seems the storm has affected everything from arrogant weather men to women in their last month of pregnancy.

The boys get a call from good ol’ Meg, and they take their new black indecipherable rock to Indiana and Cas, while Kevin steals his mom’s car and is driving like an obsessive freak, flashing us some goony eyeballs. Oh Kevin… suddenly breaking all the rules. Castiel is all zen, wearing his trenchcoat over his booby hatch pj’s, and suddenly fond of silly jokes. (“He’s been like the naked guy who wakes up at the rave and is totally useless.” – Meg)

Of course Cas knows what the black rock is, The Word, which is the notes of Metatron, not the transformer Megatron (hee Sam), but the scribe of God who dictated history as God was making this damn world. Cas bails after another Winchester/Meg spat, breaking The Word as he goes. And I gotta say, the beautiful boys are being awfully harsh to Meg here. She stuck around and kept an eye on Cas so they should stop being such bitches towards her. Sheesh.

While the boys are busy being cranky with Meg, Kevin shows up and steals The Word, and it seems he can’t let go of it, even after gigantic Sam uses his massive arms to try and pry it from him. Hmm.

Cas tries to apologize to Dean by playing an awesome game of SORRY with him. I loved that game. But Cas is not willing to jump back into the fight, no matter how hard Dean tries, while pining about the Neanderthals poetry and how he was betting on them over the homo sapiens. Kevin knows The Word is for him, and even when he magically repairs the pieces he still isn’t sure what he is. Dean is obviously still mad at Cas for his releasing of the leviathan, and finds Cas’ apology insincere.

Turns out Kevin can read The Word, but before he can get very far a couple of Cas’ old angel buddies show up to take away Kevin, who is a prophet! Castiel nick-of-times into the room and makes amends with his old garrison buddies Hester and Anias.  Poor, sweet Castiel is having a hard time dealing with reality, and after Dean sends the angels away with a handy sigil Kevin totally freaks the eff out. Like you do. (“That’s Kevin. He’s in Advanced Placement.” – Sam)

Anyway, Sam and Dean fill ol’ Kev in on the deal, and get him to decipher The Word, and everyone agrees that he doesn’t want to be a prophet. Unfortunately, he ain’t got no choice, yo. Learning that Kevin is Amber Alerted all over the place, Meg spots some of Crowley’s demons tailing them. Cas calls Meg and gets their location, freaking poor Kev out all over again as he pops in the back seat between good ol’ Meg and ProphetKev. That poor kid. Apparently, Cas thinks we are all very boring, repetitive sex and war and all, and Castiel is the sweetest little angel with Kevin and Dean and everyone. He would prefer to watch the bees, and doesn’t want to fight anymore. So.Cute.

At the cabin Kevin is worried that he is in a sex torture dungeon (hee) and Sam and Cas make up. (“You seem troubled. Of course that is a primary aspect of your personality, so I sometimes ignore it.” – Cas) Cas is so ZEN. Then Meg heads out to stop the trailing Crowley demons (She has The Knife? I keep losing track of who has that thing), proving yet again she is on their side and OMG I hope I am right about her. For realz.

Prophet Kevin was not prepared to factor in the supernatural in his plan, and has his third freak out. Dean gives him a sort of pep talk, and Kev finally rallies and translates The Word, seemingly accepting his place as a prophet instead of becoming the first Asian POTUS. Hester and her friends show up after some shoddy angel proofing, but even after some weak pleading and some revenge bashing of Castiel, Hester gets ganked by Meg because she is Cas’ BFF these days.

The remaining angels take Prophet Kevin back home to keep an eye on him after he hands the Winchesters his translation of The Word, and they are met by what was supposedly a lawman but is really a leviathan who apparently trumps angel. Boo.

Our beautiful boys get their angel blood for the anti-leviathan spell from Cas right before he takes off to who knows where, and Prophet Kevin is apparently taken by our old leviathan friend, Raoul? Whew!

Next week: blood gathering, Crowley and other shenanigans, I’m sure.