15.18 Despair
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| Title | Despair |
| Episode # | Season 15, Episode 18 |
| First aired | November 5, 2020 |
| Directed by | Richard Speight, Jr. |
| Written by | Robert Berens |
| On IMDB | Despair |
| Outline | The Winchesters, Castiel, and Jack search for a way to kill Death. |
| Monster | Chuck Billie |
| Timeline | Immediately after 15.17 Unity |
| Location(s) | Lebanon, Kansas The Empty Hastings, Minnesota Death's Library |
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Synopsis
Sam, Dean and Cas are helping Jack into a room in the bunker. He is dying from a spell to kill Chuck. Billie appears and says, they have done enough. Standing with her sickle. She tells them that their plan was doomed, because of them. She can not stop the process of what Jack is going through. She makes him Jack disappear from his chair. He is in the empty. Meg, the empty, is seated in front of him. She asks him how he got there. Then he explodes.
Billie tells them, that Jack is in the empty. It's a place that can absorb the impact.
It was intended for cosmic forces, Chuck. Cas asks if he is dead. She tells them that the Empty is not as powerful as Chuck, if he survives, the cosmic entity will be pissed. It has a beef with Billie for doing this. It won't bother her on Earth, but if summoned it could hurt her. She tells them that she will not bring him back till he gives her the book he took from her library.
Jack is alive, in the Empty. A black goo forms into Meg, again. It is mad. At the
bunker, Sam brings the book to Billie. He drops it on the table and walks away. She reads it and smiles at what she reads at the ending, the ending has changed. Dean demands she bring Jack back. The Empty approaches Jack, he is unable to move. It puts its hands on both of his checks. He is back at the bunker. All three go to him, Billie says no, the boy is mine. Dean goes after her with her sickle and cuts her. She throws him against the wall and disappears. They all go to Jack. Sam picks up the book, it is sealed shut.
Dean is at a table drinking whiskey. Sam comes in. They both can't sleep. Dean
apologizes for pulling a gun on him. Says he was ready and willing to kill Chuck. Now they have no one to help them, no one of power. Amara is gone and Michael is not answering their prayers.
Billie is in her library. One of her helpers tells her that he did the warding she
asked for, to keep out the Empty. He says, I get the plan has changed. She turns and tells him yes, it has.
A woman is making eggs in a kitchen. Charlie is cleaning her weapons on the
kitchen table. She is suppose to do that in another room. She pushes it all aside and the woman puts her eggs down and she eats. They are very good. The woman stands next to the counter and eats. She vanishes, her plates falls to the ground and breaks.
Sam is taking a reading in the apartment Charlie shared with Stevie. She tells
Sam and Dean how she met her, through Bobby on a case. Sam asks her what she saw. Saw or felt nothing. She was cooking and then she disappeared. Jack are by the Impala. He tells Cas he feels different. He was ready to die for Dean, Sam and the world. He tells Jack that they care for him, not because he is useful to them, but because you are you. He mentions how so many of power are so mad that them and he doesn't have his powers anymore. He is scared and so is Cas.
Dean and Sam are telling Charlie of Deaths plan and she had sent Stevie back to
where she came from. Theirs a pattern. Sams phone rings, it's Bobby. He was on a case with one of the apocalypse world people. He disappeared. Sam says, it's spreading, anyone who crossed over and was resurrected are on Billies list. He realizes that Eileen is next. They leave. In the Impala Sam is texting Eileen until it stops. She no longer responds. When they get to Eileen she is gone, just her phone is left on the ground. He is upset and wants to round up everyone being targeted, get them safe and use warding to protect them. Dean wants to end it with Billie, she left her blade, he can kill her with that. Cas goes with Dean, Jack goes with Sam.
Sam is speaking to Donna on his cell. They will meet up. He asks Jack to drive.
He needs to do research and contact people, he needs to drive. Jack is reluctant since he only drove one other time with Dean. He does the driving.
Dean and Cas enter the bunker. They ascend the stairs quickly. Dean asks Cas if
he still has the key to Billies library, he grabs her blade. He wants to burn her library and smoke her out.
At a tall red building like a silo. Donna and Sam meet. She hugs him and tells him
she is sorry about Eileen. She meets Jack again and give him a hug, and tells them that Bobby and his crew are in there. More are coming, Garth, Jodi and the girls. Then Charlie arrives dressed in camos She doesn't want this to happen to anyone else. Inside there are symbols all over the walls. Some are still painting them. Some are children. Bobby tells Sam he is the big man, the one in charge. He has one of Rowena's spells to strengthen the warding. Everyone is busy painting. Jack is one he notices a plant and puts his hand near it and it dies.
Dean and Jack enter Billies library. They separate. Dean comes up behind her.
She knows he is there. Cas is on the other side of her with an angel blade. She says hello boys. She asks, what's the plan to take me down with my own weapon? He mentions that she is killing her friends. He is thrown back against the wall, she reminds Cas how he stabbed her in her back with his blade. Dean pins her against the wall with her blade, and asks her to stop killing his people. She tells him it isn't her, he's in the wrong place.
Sam is casting the spell to activate the symbols, they light up, then fade. Back at
library. Billie tells Dean, it must be Chuck, your wasting your time. At the silo, a little girl on a cost disappears. One by one they all do. Bobby and Sam look at each other, he disappears in a puff of smoke. Donna senses something, she is gone, too. Billy tells Dean that the wound he gave her is fatal, she shows it to him. It's something she can't survive. One thing she wishes before she dies is to see Dean dead. At the point she disarms him and takes back her blade. Both Dean and Cas are thrown back, they run for the door they came in.
Jack looks around and sees no one but he and Sam in the room. At the bunker
Dean and Cas enter the room. They don't know what to do next. Seen behind Dean is Billie, her and clasped like crushing his heart. Dean clinches his chest from pain. She says, it's been you Dean, all along. Cas helps him out of the room. They fall in front of a book case. When she gets to it, they are gone. She follows them down a hallway. She is still taunting him, scrapping her blade against the brick wall. Isn't it time for the great release of death, she says. Once in a room. Cas pulls out a knife from Deans pocket and cuts his hand. He uses the blood to write a symbol on the door to keep her out. She keeps banging on the door, each time the symbol glows.
They talk about what they need to do, fight. Dean is upset and says he lead them
into a trap, because he couldn't kill Chuck. He is upset with himself, it was Chuck all along. He knows everyone will die and it is his fault. Cas says, there is one thing she is afraid of and can hurt her. He tells Dean about the deal he made with the Cosmic Entity. When Jack was dying he made a deal with him. When he was really happy he would come and take him away forever. He wondered what his happiness would look like. Happiness is not in having but in being. He tells Dean, he sees him self as his enemies. Cas sees him differently, hate and anger is what drives him and that is what he is. All the good and bad are out of love and selflessness. Those around Dean know and see this in him. He tells Dean he is the most loving and selfless person ever knew. He says, knowing him has changed him. From the day he pulled him from hell. He cared about the whole world because of him. Cas crying says, you changed me Dean. Dean asks why this sounds like a goodbye. He tells him it is and that he loves him. The black goo comes into the room, the cosmic entity enters. Billy is behind him, he pushes Dean aside, a handprint in on his jacket like when Cas pulled him from hell. Then goo takes them both.
Jack and Sam leave the silo. Sam tries to call Dean, there is no answer. Jack asks
if it was just them. Images of places empty, playgrounds, gas stations. Dean still on the floor see Sams name on his phone. He doesn't answer it. He puts his face in his hands and cries.
Characters
Definitions
- Alcohol
- Angel Banishing Sigil
- Angel Blade
- Apocalypse World
- Castiel's Handprint
- Chuck's Death Book
- Deals and Pacts
- Death's Library
- Death's Scythe
- Destiel
- Donna's Truck
- Eileen's Car
- The Empty
- Enochian
- EVP
- Food
- Hugs
- Hunters
- Impala
- Key to Death
- Men of Letters Bunker
- Nephilim
- Peen of Death
- Portal
- Prayer
- Queer and Gender Diverse Characters
- Reapers
- Rowena's Spellbooks
- Sammy
- Season 15 Callbacks
- Spells
- Table of Death
- Telekinesis
- Warding Sigils
Music
None
Quotes
Dean: Chuck saw it coming, all of it, your whole plan!
Sam: It was doomed...
Jack: I'm sorry.
Billie: Maybe.
Dean: You said this was a suicide mission.
Billie: No, I said taking out Chuck and Amara would be fatal.
Castiel: It's a chain reaction.
Billie: You got me.
Castiel: Jack. You never needed absolution from Sam, or Dean, or from me. We don't care about you because you're useful or you fit into some grand design. We care about you because you're you.
Jack: God, the Empty, Billie, everyone's so mad at us and I don't have my powers. There's nothing I can do to protect us. I'm scared, Cass.
Sam: Yeah, well if Dean and Cass can pull this off, we shouldn't be here too long.
Bobby: Okay. I brought a bucket. You think it'll work?
Sam: Well, angelic warding, Aramaic, Enochian and I have this. I found it in Rowena's things. A spell, "Praeses Magna." Should boost the strength of all the warding.
Bobby: "Should."
Castiel: Something like that.
Billie: Well, he better work on his aim.
Dean: Thing is, that time, I wasn't trying to kill you.
Billie: Hmm. What's changed?
Dean: Oh, I don't know. Could be that you've started killing all my friends.
Billie: I didn't hurt your friends.
Dean: What?
Billie: You're in the wrong place, Dean.
Castiel: I've got you.
Castiel: Dean.
Dean: Why does this sound like a goodbye?
Castiel: Because it is. I love you.
Dean: Don't do this, Cas. Cas.
Sam: I don't know.
Trivia & References
- "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty."
Minutiae
Jack: I... I only drove once.
- In 14.07 Unhuman Nature, Dean taught Jack how to drive when he was dying for the first time.
- Billie is referencing her first death in 12.09 First Blood.
- "Dad knew who you really were. A good soldier and nothing else. Daddy's blunt little instrument."
