Anna Milton
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| Name | Anna Milton |
| Actor | Julie McNiven |
| Dates | ? - 1985, 1985 - 2010 |
| Location | Killed by Michael |
| Occupation | Angel; Formerly a superior of Castiel and Uriel |
| Episode(s) | 4.09 I Know What You Did Last Summer 4.10 Heaven And Hell 4.16 On The Head Of A Pin 4.20 The Rapture 4.21 When The Levee Breaks 5.13 The Song Remains The Same |
Anna is an angel who, dissatisfied and frustrated with being an angel, chose to relinquish her grace and be reborn human.
Contents
4.09 I Know What You Did Last Summer
Anna Milton is being held in a psychiatric institution (Connor Beverley Behavioral Medicine Center) because she has been trying to warn people the apocalypse is coming and she hears voices. She actually does hear voices - those of the angels. She knows that Lilith is trying to break The 66 Seals and release Lucifer. When a demon tries to kill her she manage to escape, seemingly using some form of psychic power in the process. She takes refuge in the church in which her father was a deacon.
Ruby alerts Sam and Dean to her plight and they track her down, after finding her parents dead. She recognises them, and says she has heard the angels talking about Dean, as the one who may save them. She reveals that some of them don't like Sam. The demon Alistair then appears. He is immune to Sam's powers, and beats Dean, who had encountered him in Hell. In the chaos, Ruby takes Anna to safety, even though Anna is scared because she can see Ruby's demon face.
Later, Sam and Dean meet up with Ruby and Anna. Castiel and Uriel arrive at their hideout to take Anna, with Castiel announcing "She has to die."
4.10 Heaven And Hell
Whilst the Winchesters and Ruby attempt to fight off Castiel and Uriel, Anna slits her wrists and draws a symbol in blood that casts the angels 'far away'. When asked, she states that she does not know how she knew how to do it. ]] Later, with the help of Pamela Barnes, Anna is revealed to be an angel, who was the former superior of Castiel and Uriel, who chose to rip out her Grace and fall to Earth, where she was reborn as human. This disobedience is why the angels want to kill her.
Anna suggests that if she has her Grace restored she will be able to protect herself. Sam locates where Anna's grace fell to earth, but when they get there they find it has been taken. Anna then gets a messages from the angels demanding that she be turned over to them by midnight or Dean will be returned to Hell.
She speaks to Dean of her frustrations with being an angel, particularly the blind obedience to God and the lack of emotion. She reveals that she knows what Dean did in Hell and encourages him to forgive himself. She then kisses him, and they have sex in the Impala.
Later Uriel appears to Dean in a dream and reveals the he is carrying Anna's grace in a phial around his neck.
When Castiel and Uriel appear in person, it appears that Dean has betrayed Anna and is handing her over; however, it is part of a ruse to bring the angels and demons (in the form of Alastair and his henchdemons) together to rid the Winchesters of both. A fight ensues, during which Anna steals her grace back from Uriel. During her transformation back into an angel, which involves an overpowering white light, Alistair disappears. When the light subsides, Anna is also gone, presumably back to Heaven, where Dean imagines she is not happy.
4.16 On The Head Of A Pin
As Dean is torturing Alastair, Anna appears and challenges Castiel about what he is doing and why he thinks God would order torture. She encourages him to rebel, however he rejects the offer. Later as his doubts grow, he calls on Anna and asks her for guidance, but she says he must choose his own course of action. After Uriel's treachery is revealed, Castiel refuses to 'convert'. Uriel attacks Castiel, but he is saved by Anna, who kills Uriel with her angel knife.
4.20 The Rapture
Anna visits Dean and Sam and tells them that Castiel was sent back to Heaven, and that Castiel know something important that Jimmy Novak may know, and encourages them to find him.
4.21 When The Levee Breaks
Anna visits Castiel, and confronts him over his actions in releasing Sam, but he says he is acting on orders, and she is taken captive by other angels.
5.13 The Song Remains The Same
Anna appears in a dream to Dean. She tells him she has been held prisoner and tortured in heaven, after Castiel turned her in. Because of the Enochian Sigils on his ribs, she can't find Dean and asks him to meet her. Castiel arrives instead, and charges that she has
been sent on a mission from heaven, which she denies, insisting she is following her own agenda. Anna says she intends to kill Sam to prevent Lucifer taking him as his Vessel. Castiel says he is willing to kill Anna to protect Sam. Anna travels back to 1978 intending to kill Sam's parents and prevent his birth. When Castiel sends Sam and Dean there as well, she enlists the help of Uriel to kill them. However Michael arrives, killing Anna and sending Uriel back to Heaven.
- In this episode, Anna wielded a blade, although Castiel pointed out it was not a blade that could kill Angels. She did use it to attack Sam.
Trivia
- There is a discrepancy as to when Anna was born: on the Patient History form Sam looks at, it says that Anna's D.O.B. is April 13, 1985. However, later in the episode Sam says, In March '85, a meteorite vanished in the night sky over northwestern Ohio. It was sighted nine months before Anna was born and she was born in that part of Ohio, which would put her birthday in December of 1985.
- Her surname, Milton, may be a reference to the writer John Milton who wrote the epic poem 'Paradise Lost'. The poem describes the Fall of Man, the tempting of Adam and Eve and their being banished from the Garden of Eden. Milton also made reference to fallen angels, Lucifer, the war in Heaven, and the relationship between Heaven and Hell.
Links
- Angel Lore
- Interview with Julie McNiven who plays Anna Milton
- LJ comm for all things Anna
