Kevin Tran

Kevin Tran is a teenager from Neighbor, Michigan. He is on advanced placement, and plays the cello. When the first tablet of the The Word Of God is unearthed, Kevin is hit by lightning and becomes a Prophet. The angel Hester refers to Kevin as "the sole keeper of the Word on Earth."

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Kevin in 7.21 Reading Is Fundamental

Appearances

7.21 Reading Is Fundamental

At the same time Dean is releasing The Word Of God from a piece of rock, Kevin is studying. He is struck by something divine, and passes out. When he awakes he is driven by an urge that draws him to The Word, which is at Northern Indiana State Hospital. He manages to steal it from Castiel's room, but Sam and Meg catch him.

It appears Kevin can interpret the Word. However, two angels named Hester and Inias arrive to take Kevin, whom they reveal is a Prophet, to the desert to read the Word, but Dean banishes them, and Castiel, with an Angel Banishing Sigil.

Along with Meg and Castiel, Sam and Dean take Kevin to Rufus's Cabin. Dean takes Kevin to the basement where he starts to translate the Word. Soon the enormity of whats happens gives him a panic attack. Dean gets him to breath into a paper bag to calm down. He tells Kevin not to worry about why he was chosen. Kevin replies that he just wants to be the first Asian-American President of the United States.

Hester and Inias return for Kevin, but when Castiel tries to intervene, Hester attacks him. Meg kills her with an Angel Sword.

Inias agrees to return Kevin home, and says the angels will watch over him there. Kevin hands his transcription of the word to Sam and Dean. What can be read from the translation is of the following:

"Waste not thy time nor your breath upon the Leviathan herd. Point thy blade at the heart of their master, for from him springs all their messages. Leviathan cannot be slain but by a bone of a righteous mortal, as light and good as the Leviathan are hungry and dark, washed in the three blood of the fallen: a fallen angel, the ruler of fallen humanity, and the ruler of fallen beasts."

At home, Kevin's mother is being consoled by a Detective Collins. When the angel's arrive back with Kevin, Detective Collins reveals himself to be the Leviathan Edgar who then kills both the angels.

7.22 There Will Be Blood

At the beginning of the episode we see Kevin in Dick's office taped and gagged. Dick wants him to translate the tablet for him. Kevin refuses, but when faced with the image of his mother being imprisoned and having a knife put to her throat, he agrees.

7.23 Survival Of The Fittest

Kevin is still held captive by Dick at SucroCorp. He meets a young girl named Polly, who is under the influence of the Leviathan additive. He manages to pick the lock of the door to the room he's in and escape. Kevin spots Dick and the other Leviathans having a meeting, then heads for the exit only to be re-captured by Susan. Later, while Dean and Cas try to locate Dick to kill him, Sam finds Kevin and frees him. Kevin tells Sam about the Leviathan plan to kill all the skinny people in the world through poisioned dairy creamer and convinces him to blow up the lab rather than escape. The two head to the lab in time to witness Dean kill Dick with the help of Castiel before both disappear. Kevin warns Sam that more Leviathans will be coming, but Crowley appears and tells them that he has a small army of demons outside to deal with that now that the Leviathans are disorganized with Dick's death. Crowley then procceds to kidnap Kevin for his own purposes.

8.01 We Need To Talk About Kevin

After being kidnapped, Crowley takes him to a warehouse where he has another Word of God tablet that he has somehow located and asks Kevin to translate it. Kevin learns that this tablet is about demons and after having a little trouble, tells Crowley it contains a spell to open the gates of Hell and release demons in into the world. Kevin sends Crowley to a gate in Wisconson while he performs a spell that will open the gate. However, it is a trick and the spell Kevin casts kills the two demons guarding him and escapes.

For the next year, Kevin goes on the run, Kevin repeatedly calls Sam and leaves him messages asking for help, but gives up after six months, figuring that Sam is dead. Kevin learns how to protect himself from demons from the tablet and that there is a way to close the gates of Hell forever and banish all demons from the world before he hides it. Kevin eventually hides out in an abandoned church in Fairfield, Iowa. Kevin goes into town to use the computer at an internet cafe to surf the Internet, but is spotted returning to the church at least a few times by a priest.

After Dean returns from Purgatory, he checks Sam's abandoned phones and find Kevin's messages and he and Sam track Kevin down, his last message to Sam having indicated he travelled to Michigan where his girlfriend Channing goes to college. While she hasn't seen him, they find he used the computer at the college, and track him back to Iowa.

When they find Kevin he sprays them with borax in case they are leviathan. When he tells them he may have a way to banish all demons, Dean is surprised when Sam is not immediately on board with the plan. Sam later apologizes to Kevin for abandoning him.

Crowley and a possessed Channing show up and Crowley offers to trade Channing for Kevin, proving that she is still alive by letting Channing talk. Kevin pretends to agree, but lures the demons into the backroom where he drops holy water on them, allowing him, Sam and Dean to escape. In revenge, as the group leaves in the Impala, Crowley kills Channing while a horrified Kevin watches.

Later, Sam, Dean and Kevin stop at a gas station where Kevin reveals he is not taking things well, overwhelmed by everything he has been through and the murder of his girlfriend.

8.02 What's Up, Tiger Mommy?

Despite Dean's protestations, Kevin insists on checking up on his mother, who he hasn't seen in a year. At the time, Linda is visiting with her friend Eunice sadly discussing the disappearence of Kevin who Eunice insists Linda keep out hope for. With the Winchesters, he finds her house surrounded by demons. After killing two of them, Sam and Dean find that Eunice is possessed as well and kill her in front of a shocked Linda. They then offer to find a safe house for Linda to hide out in, but she insists on accompanying them in the search for The Word Of God.

Kevin and his mom get Anti-possession symbols tattooed on them to prevent demon possession, although Linda admits it's not her first tattoo which appears to shock Kevin.

While tracking down the tablet, Linda proves of use at a pawn shop, using her knowledge of tax law to blackmail the owner into giving them the information they need, which helps them track down Beau, who invites them to Plutus' auction of mystical artifacts.

At the auction, Crowley shows up, and Linda punches him for kidnapping Kevin, impressing Sam and Dean. When Plutus grabs Kevin and adds him to the auction, Linda wins the auction by offering her soul.

After the auction, the angel Samandiriel tries to convince Linda to let the angels guard Kevin, but she refuses as the last time angels tried, they were killed and Kevin got kidnapped. She is then possessed by Crowley after Beau burns off her tattoo.

Possessing her body, Crowley pretends to seal her deal and then teams up with Beau to kill Plutus and his guards and take the tablet. In the fight that follows, Dean nearly kills Crowley - and Linda - with Ruby's Knife, but Crowley flees her body first, leaving her in shock and completely unresponsive. Sam and Dean believe she will recover as she is a strong woman, but Kevin tricks them and flees with her. He leaves a note asking Sam and Dean not to follow them.

Links

• Interview with Osric Chau on Winchester Radio
• Character study experiment - Thoughts running through the head of Kevin Tran at the end of Supernatural Season 7 by Osric Chau