The Darkness
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| Name | The Darkness |
| Actor | |
| Dates | Before creation |
| Location | |
| Occupation | Destructive amoral force |
| Episode(s) | 10.23 Brother's Keeper 11.01 Out of the Darkness, Into the Fire 11.02 Form and Void 11.03 The Bad Seed |
Before there was light, before there was God and the archangels there wasn't nothing, there was the Darkness. A horribly destructive amoral force that was beaten back by God and his archangels in a terrible war. God locked the Darkness away where it could do no harm, and he created a Mark that would serve as both lock and key, which he entrusted to his most valued lieutenant -- Lucifer. But the Mark began to assert its own will, revealed itself as a curse and began to corrupt. Lucifer became jealous of man, God banished Lucifer to Hell, Lucifer passed the Mark to Cain, who passed the Mark to you -- the proverbial finger in the dyke.
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History
The Darkness is a destructive and amoral force that existed before God. Soon after God came into existence, He along with the archangels battled the Darkness a devastating war where the Darkness was eventually defeated, and trapped. To serve as the lock and key to this cage, God created a Mark, and gave it to his most trusted archangel -- Lucifer. The Mark eventually began assert a will of its own, and began to corrupt Lucifer, which led to his contempt for humanity and fall. Lucifer passed the Mark onto Cain who in turn passed it on to Dean Winchester. To remove the Mark of Cain, without having passed it on to another, would break the lock and unleash the Darkness back in the universe.
After being released, Amara appears, manifesting as both a grown woman and a baby, each bearing the Mark of Cain.
Episodes
10.23 Brother's Keeper
When Sam and Dean exit the bar after the Mark of Cain was removed, Sam comments that nothing bad has happened when suddenly there is a loud clap of thunder, as red lightning streaks across the clouds above them, and strikes the ground surrounding them. The earth begins to shake and from the flaming holes caused by the lightening strikes, black pillars of smoke stream down and converge in field. As the Darkness becomes bigger and bigger, Sam and Dean attempt to escape in the Impala, when they get stuck in a pot hole. As Dean attempts to get the Impala free, the Darkness barrels towards them, engulfing the Impala and the area surrounding it.
11.01 Out of the Darkness, Into the Fire
As the Darkness barreled towards and engulfed the Impala, Dean sees the flash of a woman in a black dress in front of him before he disappears, and Sam is knocked unconscious. As black smoke swirls around them, Dean tells this manifestation of the Darkness - Amara he knows what she is from Death description of her. Amara is surprised Dean knows about the Darkness, but claims to know nothing of Death. When Dean questions her why she hasn't hurt him, Amara tells him that they are bound and will always help each other, revealing that she bears the Mark of Cain. Dean comes to more than a mile away from the Impala.
After the brothers come to, they soon come to learn that the black smoke that was released has caused people to go "rabid" in the town of Superior. With black tendrils on their necks and heads, the infected are filled with a murderous rage, and will attack anyone that is not also "rabid." However, Sam discovers that the bodies will eventually burn out, causes the infected to drop dead.
While at the hospital tending to Deputy Jenna Nickerson wounds, Sam and Dean come across Mike Schneider who was infected by one of the rabids, Before he begins to lose control of himself, he gives his baby daughter to Jenna, and tells her to save her while goes to lock himself away and eventually die. While Sam acts as a distraction to the rabids, Dean and Jenna make their escape from the hospital, Mike confronts them having fully succumbed to the Darkness, and begins asking for the baby. He names his daughter Amara before he begins chocking and eventually dies. At a gas station 40 miles outside of Superior, Jenna takes baby Amara to have her diaper changed. As she is dressing the baby back up she notices a tiny birth mark on body -- the Mark of Cain.
11.02 Form and Void
Sam begins his search for a cure to the Darkness infection by capturing a rabid named George to find any information on the condition, only learning that the rate of infection is random before George succumbs to it. After a run in with the reaper Billie, who tells Sam he is dying, in a moment of desperation Sam goes to the hospital chapel and prays to God for a sign, which he receives in a vision of himself being tortured. As the infection starts to consume him, Sam remembers what Billie said about him being "unclean in a biblical sense" and searches online for information on biblical purification. Sam learns that holy fire can be used for such a purification and uses a sponge doused in holy oil and set aflame on himself, the infection is painfully burned away curing Sam. Now with a viable cure, Sam lures three rabids into the hospital chapel and traps them in a ring of holy fire. The holy fire cures the three and they set out to cure the surviving rabids in Superior.
At Jenna's grandmother's house, Amara begins exhibiting new abilities such as telekinesis. When Jenna and her grandmother Barb witness this, Barb intends to call a priest as she believes the Devil is in Amara. Jenna, however calls Dean prompting him to turn around and race back to the house. When he arrives he is shocked to see Crowley drinking tea in priest garb with Barb, while the two step outside to discuss Crowley's intentions, Jenna checks in on Amara and has her soul consumed. While Dean and Crowley deal with the now soulless Jenna, and each other. Amara suddenly ages into a prepubescent child, and makes her escape from the house.
The next day as Amara is walking down the street, she is confronted by Crowley who offers her some "candy" in the form of a tied up family in the back of a van, accepting the offer with a smile.
11.03 The Bad Seed
While looking at images of nature Amara steps away from her laptop, and stands in front of a mirror, where a dark cloud transforms her reflection into the adult version of herself. When Amara infers doubt after learning how much God did after He locked her up, her older self tells her that it was all because of his ego, and it does not excuse what he did to them. Her reflection tells her she needs to stay focused on her purpose, and that as she grows and becomes stronger, her true purpose will become more clear. Amara will become what she is, and find that she is "mightier than God."
