I LOVE THIS TWIST SO MUCH.
Well, not unless you heard the sound of my brain exploding.
Or was he ever gone?!
Credit: Dean Buscher/The CW
THAT is the question.
We start with Castiel, injured from his fight with Lucifer, roaming the woods.
He eventually collapses only to wake to two kids poking him with a stick.
Apparently, these children think that poking a dead body is a totally okay thing to do.
Currently, Lucy is in Missouri.
Hey, Lucifers never exactly been a fan of love.
Youve never seen the Prince of Darkness before?!
So he tries his hand at begging, and hes TERRIBLE at it.
(I could not love this plotline more.)
Lucy, sitting next to another, much nicer homeless man, is yelling, Money, hey!
as people walk past him, and with each person, he gets angrier.
However, Lucifer is interested in this guys story.
Oh, also, theres a Kevin Tran in the Apocalypse World.
Hes the one who figured out how to pop crack open the rift with the angel tablet.
And then theres a new Michael who wants to invade and conquer our world.
But hey, at least moms alive!
The boys take it all in theyre pretty used to bad news at this point before crafting a plan.
As for Lucifer, theyre going to kidnap him while hes still weak.
But theres a problem: Castiel hears over angel radio that someone is killing angels.
Asmodeus puts Ketch on the hunt, which leads them all to Sister Jo.
Turns out, Sister Jo is less of a faith healer and more of an angel in disguise.
Her name is Anael, and shes one of very few angels who doesnt seem scared of Lucifer.
She explains that after the angels fell to earth, she found a woman praying for her dying husband.
She then offered to save the womans husband in exchange for her vessel.
Now, shes established a business and gone from being a so-so angel to an excellent businesswoman.
That way, hell have an unlimited supply until hes back at full power.
She has a deal.
After Sam runs into Lucys homeless buddy, they show up at the church where Jo was healing people.
Only, all they find there is Ketch.
He knocks Ketch out with a simple touch to the forehead, and they throw him in the trunk.
Their plan is simple: Take Ketch to the bunker, question him, and then kill him.
But when Sam gets an alert on Sister Jos credit card, they head in a new direction.
Lucy hated it, and whenever Jo gets close to losing all her grace, she loves it.
Sometimes I envy humans, she says.
They can be anything.
Meanwhile, in Heaven, all Jo did was push a button every time a new soul arrived.
Up there, no one would listen to her.
But down here, shes somebody.
When she lost her wings, she says she felt liberated.
She was finally free.
But the second Lucifer utters those words, he sits up.
And hed like Jo to remember that.
He tells him about Jack and Mary being trapped and about his work on the demon tablet.
If only the Donatello had Seamless, this wouldnt have been a problem!
Back at the motel, Lucifer is enjoying himself by reading the Bible: Its wrong.
Has anybody fact-checked this stuff?!
But when the front desk calls and asks for Jos card, she heads downstairs.
Only it wasnt the front desk calling; it was Sam.
The guys talk to Jo, and she asks for their help.
When Lucy opens the door, Sam, Dean, and Castiel are there to greet him.
Lucifer tries to distract them all with compliments Is that a leave-in conditioner?
he asks Sam but its Jo who has a plan.
And then theres the Michael of it all.
As Ketch tells them, Im the lesser of, well, at least three evils.
All he asks is the the boys wait to kill him until hes proven that hes useful.
And they agree…for now.
He knows that Heaven is in need of some angels, and he proposes that he can make them.
After all, he watched his dad do it.
In exchange, he wants to be named the undisputed and unquestioned ruler of Heaven.
Its the only weapon capable of destroying an archangel, but it has to be wielded by another archangel.
Sure, his mouth is sewn shut and he looks terrible, but its Gabriel!
Lets all take a moment and appreciate that Gabriel died eight season ago.
So its safe to say this season is headed in a great direction.
Overall, I thought this episode was a lot of fun.
I loved the Lucy stuff, and so far, I really like Sister Jo.
But that final reveal is what took it to another level.
