5.04 The End
Title | The End |
Episode # | Season 5, Episode 4 |
First aired | October 1, 2009 |
Directed by | Steve Boyum |
Written by | Ben Edlund |
On IMDB | The End |
Outline | Zachariah takes Dean five years into the future to show him the consequences of not helping the angels. |
Monster | Lucifer |
Timeline | August 4th - August 7th, 2014 |
Location(s) | Kansas City, Missouri |
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Contents
Synopsis
Dean enters a hotel, passing a man preaching outside the front door. Once in his room, Castiel calls him to tell him that he believes the Colt may still be in the possession of the demons. Castiel got Dean's location and plans to arrive immediately, but Dean says he needs rest and that Cas should get there the next morning. After going to bed, the phone rings again - this time, it is Sam. He wants to rejoin Dean, but Dean says that their enemies will find a way to exploit their relationship, that being together makes them weaker.
Dean wakes up in the hotel, which was trashed and messed up. Outside, Kansas City appears destroyed and deserted. He finds a little girl crying in the street who attacks him with a knife. Dean knocks her unconscious. He sees the word Croatoan spray painted on a wall just as a large number of Croatoan infected people began to chase him through the streets of Kansas City. They corner him, but members of the U.S. Army came and began killing the infected people.
Dean escapes into a nearby alley hiding while watching the battle. Later at night, he emerged from his hiding place seeing a warning sign that shows that the year was 2014. He hot wires a car and leaves the city. Zachariah manifests in the car with a newspaper and talks about how the Croatoan pandemic has spread as far as Australia. He tells Dean he wants him to see what the future will be like if he says no to being Michael's vessel. Zachariah says he will leave in this reality for three days.
After Zachariah vanishes, Dean goes to Bobby's place. The house is torn apart, and he finds a wheelchair with bullet holes in it. Dean retrieves Bobby's journal and sees a picture of a group of people including Bobby and Castiel outside of a place called Camp Chitaqua. On arriving there, Dean sees a ruined Impala just before he is knocked unconscious.
Dean wakes up cuffed to a wall. Future Dean begins interrogating him. Dean explains he is from the past and spoke about how Zachariah has sent him there. Future Dean doesn't believe him until Dean mentions how an old girlfriend made him try on her pink, satiny panties. Future Dean talks about how the demons planned to finish off the human race with the Croatoan virus.
Future Dean says that Sam, who he hadn't spoken to in five years, got into a showdown with Lucifer in Detroit and died. Future Dean leaves on a mission. For the next few hours, Dean picks the wooden floor getting a nail out and manages to free himself from his cuffs. He escapes and finds Future Chuck. Future Chuck appears to be in charge of organizing supplies. Future Chuck begins asking about the mission he was suppose to be on, and just as a woman, Risa, confronts Dean demanding to know where he was last night. After she leaves, Dean asks Chuck where he can find Castiel.
Dean finds Castiel talking to a group of women, and telling them to prepare for an orgy. Cas instantly knows that Dean is from another point in time. Future Castiel reveals he no longer has his angelic powers. Future Dean returns with a group of men and as they disembark their jeep, Dean shoots one, proclaiming that he had been infected with the Crotoan virus.
Future Dean leads Dean back to his cabin, and they argue about the methods of dealing with the Croatoan infected. Dean asks about the mission and Future Dean says it was to retrieve the Colt, which he has wrapped up in a jacket. Future Dean stated how the demons had been moving the Colt around and how after five years he located it.
He tells Dean that he plans to kill Lucifer later that day, and gathers Risa, Chuck and Castiel to meet up with him and his past self. Future Dean reveals they captured an important demon during the previous week, who had revealed Lucifer's location. Castiel comments that the named place is filled with Croatoan infected and demons and about how dangerous the plan was. After the others have left, Dean begins asking his future self questions. Future Dean tells him that five years ago in Detroit, Sam agreed to be Lucifer's vessel. He pleads with Dean that when Zachariah sends him back, he must agree to be Michael's vessel.
Dean argues that if Michael possesses him and fights Lucifer, half of the planet will be destroyed. Future Dean retorts that half a planet was better then no planet. He says he wished he'd consented to Michael when he had the chance, but by the time of the battle at Detroit, it was too late. As they drive to the mission, Future Castiel tells Dean that he misses being an angel and that he figures he might as well indulge in drugs and sex while he can.
The group searches the city for Lucifer and finally locates the building that they needed to break into. Future Dean, Risa, and Future Castiel gather their weapons. Dean realizes Future Dean is planning on using his friends in a suicidal diversion, while he sneaks around the back of the location, but when he confronts him, Future Dean knocks his past self unconscious.
Dean wakes up hearing gun fire and screaming as Castiel, Risa, etc... are killed in a battle. As Dean runs towards them, he meets Lucifer, wearing Sam as his vessel with his foot on Future Dean's neck, which he casually breaks.
Lucifer says that killing Dean would be redundant and tells Dean the story of how he fell from grace. Lucifer says he loved God, but when humans were created, he refused to love humans more than God, which God had instructed. Dean says that he will find a way to kill Lucifer and that he will not say 'Yes' to Michael and would never kill Sam. Lucifer begins to lecture him telling him he will inevitably end up at this point. Lucifer leaves and Zachariah takes Dean back to where he fell asleep in the motel room.
Zachariah tells Dean that he needed to say "yes" to Michael to prevent the death of billions, but Dean continues to refuse. Zachariah is upset and threatens Dean, but suddenly, Castiel uses his powers to get Dean to his location.
Dean calls Sam, and they meet up the next day. Dean apologizes for leaving Sam and stated they needed each other to hunt together, that they keep each other human. Dean says they need to create their own future.
Characters
- Sam Winchester
- Dean Winchester
- Castiel
- Lucifer
- Zachariah
- Future Dean
- Future Castiel
- Future Chuck
- Risa
- Rhonda Hurley
Definitions
- Alcohol
- Aliases
- Alternate Universe
- Apocalypse
- Back to the Future
- Camp Chitaqua
- Castiel's Cell Phone
- The Colt
- Croatoan
- Dean's Amulet
- Drugs
- Fights
- Gank
- Heaven
- Impala
- Redemption
- Ruby's Knife
- Samifer
- Sammy
- Singer Salvage Yard
- Unconscious
- Vessel
- Zombie
Music
- "Do You Love Me" by The Contours
- (plays when Dean watches the shooting)
Quotes
Sam: Dean, it does not have to be like this. We can fight it.
Dean: Yeah, you're right. We can. But not together. We're not stronger when we're together, Sam. I think we're weaker. Because whatever we have between us—love, family, whatever it is—they are always gonna use it against us. And you know that. Yeah, we're better off apart. We got a better chance of dodging Lucifer and Michael and this whole damn thing, if we just go our own ways.
Sam: Dean, don't do this.
Dean: Rhonda Hurley. We were, uh, nineteen. She made us try on her panties. They were pink. And satiny. And you know what? We kind of liked it.
Future Dean: No. Absolutely not.
Future Castiel: Uh, generally, yeah.
Dean: What happened to you?
Dean: Thank you, Chuck.
Future Castiel: Thanks. Except I used to belong to a much better club. And now I'm powerless. I'm hapless, I'm hopeless. I mean, why the hell not bury myself in women and decadence, right? It's the end, baby. That's what decadence is for. Why not bang a few gongs before the lights go out? But then that's, that's just how I roll.
Dean: Oh, good God, you're not gonna tell me a bedtime story, are you? My stomach's almost out of bile.
Sam: What made you change your mind?
Dean: Long story. The point is... maybe we are each other's Achilles heel. Maybe they'll find a way to use us against each other, I don't know. I just know we're all we've got. More than that. We keep each other human.
Sam: Thank you. Really. Thank you. I won't let you down.
Dean: Oh, I know it. I mean, you are the second-best hunter on the planet.
Sam: So, what do we do now?
Dean: We make our own future.
Trivia & References
- The Hells Angels are an infamous worldwide motorcycle club, and is considered an organized crime syndicate.
Sam: That's what he said.
Dean: Just when you thought you were out, they pull you back in, huh, Sammy?
- Michael Corleone says "Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in", in The Godfather: Part III, when he tries to enter legitimate enterprises and leave the Mafia lifestyle, but is forced to retaliate after an attempt to kill him fails.
- The Dynamic Duo is the nickname for Batman and Robin.
- Pics taken on set by anteka
- Misha on set posted by Misha
- Behind the scenes shot of Jensen by LilMissX
- Back to the Future is a famous '80s movie 3-parter, in which Michael J. Fox travels to the past and later future in his DeLorean.
Dean: The Bible freak outside the motel. He, what, dropped a dime on me?
Zachariah: Onward, Christian soldiers.
- Onward, Christian Soldiers is a hymn about the many followers of Christ marching together against enemies of Christ, in this case it would be Dean in his unwillingness to help the angels.
Future Dean: Yes. I got a camp full of twitchy trauma survivors out there with an apocalypse hanging over their head. The last thing they need to see is a version of The Parent Trap. So, yeah, you stay locked down.
- The Parent Trap is a movie about twins who are separated at birth.
- The Love Guru was a 2008 comedy movie starring Mike Myers.
- "Sympathy for the Devil" is the name of a song by the Rolling Stones. It was also the title of the season 5 premiere.
- In Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. the Ghosts of Christmases' Past, Present and Future teach Scrooge humility.
Minutiae
Sides, Scripts & Transcripts
Promotion
- Synopsis from SpoilerTV
- Jensen Comments on Filming from EW
- Promo Pics
- Promo Video
- Three Teaser Clips from Chicago Tribune
- Space TV Promo