14.07 Unhuman Nature
Title | Unhuman Nature |
Episode # | Season 14, Episode 7 |
First aired | November 29, 2018 |
Directed by | John F. Showalter |
Written by | Eugenie Ross-Leming Brad Buckner |
On IMDB | Unhuman Nature |
Outline | Dean, Sam, and Castiel call on Rowena to help with Jack's worsening health. Meanwhile, Nick continues his murderous hunt to find his family's killer. |
Monster | Nick |
Timeline | A few weeks after 14.02 Gods and Monsters |
Location(s) | Pike Creek, Delaware Lebanon, Kansas Wilmington, Delaware Montauk, New York |
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Synopsis
Castiel tries to heal Jack however, he doesn’t succeed. As he tells Sam and Dean about Jack’s condition, Dean experiences a dizzy spell, but he does't let on to the others. Jack has a seizure and Sam, Dean and Castiel take him to the hospital.
At the hospital, after battling to get Jack admitted, the doctors treat Jack but struggle to find answers. Cas and the Winchesters watch decide to take Jack back to the bunker and find another way to save him.
Sam calls Rowena and gets her to come to the Bunker under the pretense that it is Dean who is sick. Upon Rowena’s arrival, she finds out it is Jack who needs help. Rowena is furious and doesn't want to do anything with the situation, but Sam convinces her to have a look at him. Once she meets Jack, his behaviour towards her changes her mind. Rowena uses her magic to examine Jack and determines that as a Nephilim, he needs his grace to maintain the balance between his angel and human sides. Without it his system is collapsing.
In Delaware, Nick is still trying to figure out who killed his wife and son. He uses information from his former neighbour Arty to meet a crime reporter, Diane Fargo, who reported on the case at the time. The conversation leads him to a former cop, Frank Kellogg, who Nick thinks has more information about his family’s death than he put in the report.
Nick seems to be struggling with an internal rage. One night he Nick meets a woman at a bar and wants to kill her but he fights with that instinct and the woman escapes scared, but unharmed.
At the bunker Jack packs his bag having decided that, if he is going to die, he wants to experience more of life. To his surprise, Dean is supportive and offers to accompany him. Jack and Dean go to get burgers, and Dean also teaches Jack drive Impala. When Dean suggest that they go to a bar to hook up, Jack demures and suggests they go fishing, something Dean has previously told him was a happy memory with his father.
While researching for a cure, Sam speaks to Ketch who tells him about a shaman called Sergei who was consulted by the British Men of Letters to “solve the unsolvable”. Castiel decides to go to Sergei to get help for Jack.
Castiel meets with Sergei the shaman who reveals to Castiel that in exchange for a vial of his grace, he gave Gabriel a powerful cloaking spell which allowed him to hide out in Monte Carlo with porn stars. Sergei gives the grace to Castiel along with a spell to fix Jack. In return he asks for a favour that he will call in at a later date.
Nick finds the police officer Frank and tortures him for what he did to his family. Frank tells Nick that on the night of her death, Nick’s wife called the police because she heard what she thought was a prowler in her house. He further tells that he on his way to the house, he encountered a man named Abraxas. Nick realizes that Abraxas is a demon and that Frank was possessed by a demon when he committed the murders. Still, Nick bludgeons Frank to death with a hammer. Nick realizes that he enjoyed being Lucifer’s vessel, and then prays to the archangel, which awakens something in the Empty.
Following their trip, Dean and Jack return to the bunker, where they meet Castiel at the bunker with Gabriel's grace and the spell. When Rowena performs the spell but to their dismay, Jack’s condition worsens. Castiel calls Sergei and demands to know what went wrong. Sergei tells him that the spell was an experiment.
Rowena proclaims that nothing can be done to cure Jack. They can only be with him until he dies.
Characters
- Sam Winchester
- Dean Winchester
- Castiel
- Lucifer
- Jack Kline
- Rowena
- Nick
- Arty Nielson
- Abraxas
- Sergei
- Frank Kellogg
Definitions
- Alcohol
- Book of the Damned
- The Empty
- Food
- Healing
- Holy Oil
- Grace
- Impala
- Men of Letters Bunker
- Prayer
- Shamanism
- Spells
- Table of Death
- Witches
Music
- "I'm Blue This Mo'ning" by Keith Nichols (APM Music)
- (playing in the diner where Nick meets with Diane Fargo)
- "Let It Ride" by Bachman-Turner Overdrive
- (playing as Dean lets Jack drive Baby)
Quotes
Dean: He's dead.
Nurse: Cause of death?
Castiel: He was stabbed through the heart, and he exploded.
Castiel: Well, if it's grace he needs, he can have mine.
Dean: We don't know that.
Sam: Yeah, yeah. Yeah, he -- he, uh, was pretty rough on Jack at the beginning, and... I don't think he's forgotten. And I know he hasn't forgiven himself. You know, he's lost people, we've all lost people, but, um...
Jack: You once told me you and your father did the exact same thing. It was your happiest memory of him.
Dean: I didn't say that.
Jack: It was how you said it. I could tell. I guess my point is that... if I don't make it... The stuff I'd miss -- it wouldn't be things like Tahiti. Or the Taj Mahal. I'd miss more time with you. I'm getting that life isn't all these big, amazing moments. It's time together that matters. Like this.
Sergei: I don't make house calls.
Castiel: Jack isn't just another sick kid. This is the son of an archangel of the Lord. Who is much more ill now because of your 'harmonics.'
Sergei: And? Science is sometimes trial and error. Victory through experimentation.
Castiel: This was an experiment? You never said that. If Jack dies, I will find you.
Sam: It was what he wanted. I mean, we knew he was going to get worse, regardless.
Dean: Yeah, but it was too risky.
Sam: Yeah, but, Dean, life, all of it, is a risk. Jack knew that. And you made him happy.
Rowena: Watch over him. Stay by his side... as he dies.
Trivia & References
Nick: There's this 'guy.'
Frank: Said his name was 'Abraxas.'
- Abraxas was considered a pagan god by the Catholic church before being branded as a demon in the Dictionnaire Infernal in 1818. Second century heretics known as Basilidians believed Abraxas to be the supreme deity, who created the angels of which the God of Abraham was one.
Minutiae
- "Do you know what your grace is making possible right now? The heartfelt family reunion of Sam, Dean, Cas, Mary, and your very own son Jack. That's right. Your wee boy's over there, and he'll be so glad to see his three fathers. Of course, as far as he's concerned, they are his father. And you? You're nothing to him."