Prepare yourselves, Supernatural family, for this is just the beginning of the misery Sam and Dean will be put through for the rest of the series, right? I mean, there is no way our beautiful boys get out of all of this easy. At least, that’s what I expect after all these years.
THEN!
Jack is a Winchester!
Jack saved Sammy!
Jack ain’t got no soul!
Jack killed Nick!
Jack killed Mary? (Yup)
NOW!
Sam and Dean return to the bunker, looking for Mom and Jack. Over beers, they talk about how great it is that Jack saved Sam. As the hours pass, the brothers begin to become alarmed that no one has shown up at the bunker, and they pull out their cell phones and make some calls. The people they can reach don’t have any leads, and messages are left for everyone else.
Castiel returns their call, and is worried that Jack and Mary were last seen together. He finally shares the sad tale of Felix’s untimely demise via Jack’s powers.
There are feelings of impending doom all around, and when they track Jack’s phone, he is all over the map. Literally.
Exhausted from his planet hopping, Jack ends up back at the scene his of multiple crimes, and sees that he’s missed several calls from his brothers.
Jack has a Mary flashback, where they talk about his birth mother (sweet), and then Nick appears!
Nick’s really a manifestation of Jack’s subconscious (OR IS HE????), and he proceeds to give some advice: There’s no coming back from killing Mary. (He’s not wrong?)
Jack’s cell signal cuts off, so Sam and Dean head out to the last place it pinged, Dean already bracing himself for the worst.
As they pull up to the cabin, there are some excellent camera drone shots that continue throughout the episode, and I want to give props.
Sam finds poor, torched Nick, and Dean finds a pile of ash out back. Not good, ya’ll!
Cass gets his own Mary flashback. It’s back before Mary and Cass really knew each other, before she called him one of her boys. It is cute and sweet, and pulls at just the right heartstrings. (Not crying yet!)
Cass sucks it up, and joins the boys in the cabin. It is clear that Dean knows Mary is dead, but he ain’t ready to admit it, and takes out his anger on Cass. Cass tries to explain, and he is clearly remorseful for his actions, but Dean isn’t having any of it.
Rowena calls, confirming their worst fears: Mary is longer on this earth. Dean takes out his anger on a chair, while Sam and Cass are frozen with grief.
What’s next? We fight!
Sam and Dean head out to Rowena, with the intention of finding some kind of resurrection spell, while Castiel goes to Heaven to see if Mary is there. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could get confirmation on our deceased loved ones? As much as it is a horror for Sam and Dean, at least they’ll know.
Jack shows up at Rowena’s with the same freaking plan as Dean! He confesses to killing Mary accidentally, and then asks for a resurrection spell. Rowena stalls long enough for Sam and Dean to come a knocking, and angry that she tried to trick him, Jack grabs her, and spirits them away!
He takes her to the bunker, and has a sweet Mary flashback. She is patient and kind with him, and then Sam and his grief beard make an appearance. Suddenly this flashback is a Sam flashback, which is weird? But also a quick lesson in parenting. (Not crying yet, but close!)
Unsure of what to do next, Sam and Dean have a heart to heart at Rowena’s. Sam begins to climb down off his guilt tower as he and Dean talk about how they were complicit in ignoring the troubles with Jack.
As Rowena begins whipping up a spell, Jack has another chat with subconscious Nick, giving Rowena the willies, as she watches him talk to no one. She tells him that they need Mary’s body to apply the spell.
Yeah, there ain’t no body.
Castiel gets Duma to appear at Heaven’s gate, asking to be let in. Duma knows who he’s looking for, and tells him Mary is at peace with John, in a very special corner of Heaven. Awwww!
Back at the cabin, Rowena tells Jack she can’t do the spell without a body. Jack insists on trying anyway, even after Rowena counsels him not to, citing his terrible emotional state (and lack of body). Jack pushes Rowena aside, sending her back to her flat. She immediately calls our beautiful, grieving boys, and warns them as to what Jack is up to.
It’s not good! There’s a Buffy episode Jack (and Dean) should have watched first!
Jack does the incantation, and the sky goes pink and swirly, as the wind whips up around him. Sam and Dean arrive, but Jack kills the engine in Baby before they get to the cabin. (Holy crap, Jack has become scarily powerful!) The boys jump out of Baby, and run toward Jack as lightening comes out of the sky!
Jack turns to his brothers, “It didn’t work.” and he flies away, leaving Mary’s resurrected but lifeless body behind.
Dean finally gets his flashback as he holds his mother’s body, weeping. It is simple and sweet. Mary sleeping on his shoulder during a long ride in Baby.
Fine, show! You finally break me, and there are tears. Are you happy now???
Jack has put himself in a corner, as Nick voices his worst fear. If Sam and Dean can’t trust him anymore because of what he did, then he can’t trust them.
Welp, that is a whole lotta bad. Not gonna lie. Even if that really is Nick, or Lucifer, or just Jack being mean to himself, it is nothing but Bad News for the little nephilim.
Back in the bunker, as Sam grieves by looking at familiar pictures, Cass enters and tells him that Mary is in Heaven, and at peace. Dean comes in, dubious of Cass’ story, and he tells them that he actually got to see her in her perfect Heaven with John. No guilt, just joy.
Wondering what they do next, Dean tells them they do what they always do. It is painful and sad, and then we see shots of Mother Mary through the seasons (including her and John’s brief reunion! *sobs*), as her empty shell, incapable of life, burns in a pyre built right in the middle of a dirt road.
The final shot is of Mary’s M. W. carved into the table next to her son’s S. W. and D. W. in the bunker.
When will these men get a break???????
NEXT! Everyone want to “stop Jack”, except maybe Duma?