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Sam and Dean set out to try the cure on Abaddon, but she escapes when they are distracted by [[Crowley]] calling to threaten to kill all of the people they have ever saved if they don't hand over the demon tablet and back down from the trials. He also starts keeping all demons away from the Winchesters as he has realized they may need one for the third trial and with no Abaddon, Sam and Dean are left without a demon to cure.<ref>[[8.22 Clip Show]]</ref> | Sam and Dean set out to try the cure on Abaddon, but she escapes when they are distracted by [[Crowley]] calling to threaten to kill all of the people they have ever saved if they don't hand over the demon tablet and back down from the trials. He also starts keeping all demons away from the Winchesters as he has realized they may need one for the third trial and with no Abaddon, Sam and Dean are left without a demon to cure.<ref>[[8.22 Clip Show]]</ref> | ||
| − | After Crowley starts killing all the people they have saved, Sam and Dean pretend to make a deal with him. At the ruins of [[Singer Salvage Yard]], Sam shows Crowley the demon tablet to prove he has it while Crowley shows them the angel tablet. Crowley produces a contract many yards long, and Dean insists on reading the fine detail. As he does, he gets close to Crowley and snaps | + | After Crowley starts killing all the people they have saved, Sam and Dean pretend to make a [[Deals and Pacts|deal]] with him. At the ruins of [[Singer Salvage Yard]], Sam shows Crowley the demon tablet to prove he has it while Crowley shows them the angel tablet. Crowley produces a contract many yards long, and Dean insists on reading the fine detail. As he does, he gets close to Crowley and snaps handcuffs on him connecting him to Dean. Crowley is initially amused until they reveal that they have painted a [[Devil's trap (symbol)|Devil's Trap]] on them. Sam and Dean take Crowley to a small church to undergo the third of the Trials - to cure him. They secure Crowley in the middle of a Devil's Trap. |
| − | Castiel arrives, telling Dean he needs his help in undertaking the trials. Dean is reluctant to go, but Sam insists he will be fine. After confessing his sins, Sam starts injecting Crowley with his blood. At one point Crowley bites Sam, and when he leaves to get a bandage, Crowley casts a spell and uses the | + | Castiel arrives, telling Dean he needs his help in undertaking the trials. Dean is reluctant to go, but Sam insists he will be fine. After confessing his sins, Sam starts injecting Crowley with his blood. After each injection, Sam's arms start glowing for a short period of time. At one point Crowley bites Sam, and when he leaves to get a bandage, Crowley casts a spell and uses the blood to send a call for help. Abaddon arrives, and throws Sam through a window, but she tells Crowley she is not there to help him, but to take over ruling Hell. But Sam douses her meatsuit with [[Holy Oil]], setting her on fire. Abaddon is left in such pain she abandons her [[meatsuit]] and flees the scene. Crowley starts regaining his humanity and tries to bond with Sam, tearfully declaring that he deserves to loved and wonders how he could even begin to ask for forgiveness for his actions. Sam suggests he start by going along with the cure and he willingly allows Sam to give him the next injection. |
| − | Dean arrives just | + | Dean arrives just after Sam performs the exorcism and is about to complete the ritual by slapping his bloody hand over Crowley's mouth and begs him to stop warning it will kill him after finding out from [[Naomi]] that God wanted the person doing the Trials to make the ultimate sacrifice to complete them. Sam initially wants to keep going, feeling he has let his brother down too much, but Dean convinces him to stop and Sam lets the Trials go, causing the glowing that had appeared in his arms to disappear. However, he collapses soon afterwards. <ref>[[8.23 Sacrifice]]</ref> |
==Heaven Trials== | ==Heaven Trials== | ||
Revision as of 16:00, 17 May 2013
The tablet says, "Whosoever chooses to undertake these tasks should fear not danger, nor death, nor..." A word I think means getting your spine ripped out through your mouth for all eternity.
– Kevin Tran, after translating the Demon Tablet, 8.14 Trial and Error
Contents
History
In case Heaven and Hell ever needed to be sealed in order to protect humanity, God put in place three trials for each that a being could do to seal them. The information about the trials was encoded on the Tablets.
Hell Trials
After weeks of non-stop work, Kevin Tran finally manages to translate the part of the tablet about closing the gates of Hell. According to Kevin, the tablet reveals that someone must do three trials and read an Enochian spell after each one. Once the three tests are done, the gates can be closed.[1]
Despite Dean wanting to do them, Sam ends up being the one to undertake the trials. Each trial has a serious effect on him. Castiel says they are damaging Sam in ways even he can't heal [2]
First Trial
Kevin manages to translate the section on closing the gates of Hell and learns that the first trial is to kill a Hellhound and bathe in its blood.
Sam and Dean set out to kill a hellhound by looking for someone who has made a deal which is to come due soon. They find a family who has come into good fortune, because one of them made a deal ten years ago with what turns out to be Crowley.
Later, Kevin finds information on hellhounds and calls Dean to tell him about it, telling him it reads "the dire creatures may be seen only by the damned or through an object scorched with Holy Fire." Using this information, Sam and Dean come up with the idea to use glasses scorched by Holy Fire to see the hellhound.
Dean is determined that he will be the one to take on the trials, but in the fight with the hellhound, it ends up being Sam who kills Crowley's hellhound with Ruby's Knife, slashing through its gut, and getting soaked in its black blood. Afterwards, after convincing Dean that he can do the trials and survive, he casts the Enochian spell.[3]
Immediately after, Sam starts suffering the effects of what he has done, coughing up blood.[4] According to Castiel, the trial damaged him in ways even he can't fix, all the way down to the subatomic level.[5]
Second Trial
Eventually, Kevin translates the second trial and reports it to Sam and Dean: Sam must travel to Hell and rescue an innocent soul and "deliver it unto Heaven." Needing a way to sneak in, they summon and torture a Crossroads Demon who tells them that rogue Reapers take humans and souls between Earth, Heaven and Hell for a price and they track down Ajay. Ajay reveals that he took Bobby Singer's soul to Hell on Crowley's orders when he was put to rest and they decide to use him as the soul Sam will rescue. Sam successfully makes a deal with Ajay where he will take him to Hell and back with Bobby in exchange for the Winchesters owing him a favor in the future. Ajay takes Sam to Purgatory where a portal exists that acts as a "backdoor" into Hell and leaves, telling Sam to meet him there in exactly 24 hours. However, Crowley learns of this and kills Ajay with an Angel Sword so he can't pick up Sam.
Sam enters Hell armed with Ruby's Knife and a Purgatory Weapon and finds Bobby who he has to convince of his identity. The two begin making their way out, but are attacked by three demons, one of whom takes on Sam's form to confuse Bobby. Bobby kills all the demons, guessing right which one is the real Sam. The two make it into Purgatory, but are trapped there as Ajay is dead. However, as they come under attack by three Vampires, Dean's friend Benny Lafitte arrives to help them, having been sent by Dean to lead them to the portal out. At the portal, Sam absorbs Bobby's soul into his arm and returns to Earth, but Benny stays behind to hold off more vampires.
On Earth, Sam and Dean are reunited and Sam releases Bobby's soul towards Heaven, but Crowley arrives and traps it, planning to take it back to Hell. However, Naomi intervenes and forces Crowley to retreat before releasing Bobby's soul, allowing Bobby to ascend to his rightful place in Heaven. Having completed the trial, Sam casts the Enochian spell.[6]
This trial is shown to hit Sam harder than the first and he is left in a weakened condition, but develops the ability to sense the Tablets and Metatron, something that Metatron says is happening because he is now "resonating" with them.[7]
Third Trial
After Kevin gets the second half of the demon tablet, he is finally able to learn the third trial which Metatron reveals and Kevin confirms is to cure a demon.[8]
Sam and Dean begin searching for a way to cure a demon and find a film in The Bunker's archives where two priests, Father Max Thompson and Father Simon attempted and failed at a different type of exorcism. They learn from Father Simon that the priests were trying to cure a demon and turn it back human and find that before he was killed by Abaddon, Father Thompson succeeded.
| As spoken in Latin | English Translation |
|---|---|
| Exorcizamus te, omnis immundus spiritus... hanc animam redintegra... |
We exorcise you, every impure spirit... Fix this soul... |
Looking through The Bunker's archives, Sam and Dean find a film where two priests, Father Max Thompson and Father Simon try a different type of exorcism on a possessed old woman. The result is that the woman's chest is burst open. Talking to the Father Simon, they discover that Father Thompson believed it was possible to cure a demon and turn them human again and the ritual was being used to that effect but failed. Listening to a recording of the last attempt Father Thompson made before he died, Sam and Dean learn that he finally succeeded by, on consecrated ground, injecting a demon with his own blood, purified by confession, over a period of eight hours until the demon began to sound human then performed the exorcism while putting his bloody hand over the demon's mouth. The demon became human again.
Sam and Dean set out to try the cure on Abaddon, but she escapes when they are distracted by Crowley calling to threaten to kill all of the people they have ever saved if they don't hand over the demon tablet and back down from the trials. He also starts keeping all demons away from the Winchesters as he has realized they may need one for the third trial and with no Abaddon, Sam and Dean are left without a demon to cure.[9]
After Crowley starts killing all the people they have saved, Sam and Dean pretend to make a deal with him. At the ruins of Singer Salvage Yard, Sam shows Crowley the demon tablet to prove he has it while Crowley shows them the angel tablet. Crowley produces a contract many yards long, and Dean insists on reading the fine detail. As he does, he gets close to Crowley and snaps handcuffs on him connecting him to Dean. Crowley is initially amused until they reveal that they have painted a Devil's Trap on them. Sam and Dean take Crowley to a small church to undergo the third of the Trials - to cure him. They secure Crowley in the middle of a Devil's Trap.
Castiel arrives, telling Dean he needs his help in undertaking the trials. Dean is reluctant to go, but Sam insists he will be fine. After confessing his sins, Sam starts injecting Crowley with his blood. After each injection, Sam's arms start glowing for a short period of time. At one point Crowley bites Sam, and when he leaves to get a bandage, Crowley casts a spell and uses the blood to send a call for help. Abaddon arrives, and throws Sam through a window, but she tells Crowley she is not there to help him, but to take over ruling Hell. But Sam douses her meatsuit with Holy Oil, setting her on fire. Abaddon is left in such pain she abandons her meatsuit and flees the scene. Crowley starts regaining his humanity and tries to bond with Sam, tearfully declaring that he deserves to loved and wonders how he could even begin to ask for forgiveness for his actions. Sam suggests he start by going along with the cure and he willingly allows Sam to give him the next injection.
Dean arrives just after Sam performs the exorcism and is about to complete the ritual by slapping his bloody hand over Crowley's mouth and begs him to stop warning it will kill him after finding out from Naomi that God wanted the person doing the Trials to make the ultimate sacrifice to complete them. Sam initially wants to keep going, feeling he has let his brother down too much, but Dean convinces him to stop and Sam lets the Trials go, causing the glowing that had appeared in his arms to disappear. However, he collapses soon afterwards. [10]
Heaven Trials
Metatron reveals to Castiel that Heaven is in chaos since the defeat of the Archangels and that many factions are fighting it out for control. In order to "lock the angels in a room" to force them to sort out their differences and keep the war from spilling over onto Earth, Metatron has decided to seal up Heaven as well as Hell, but needs Castiel's help to do it as he doesn't feel he could do the trials but that Castiel could. Castiel eventually agrees to work with Metatron to close Heaven up. As the Scribe of God, Metatron knows the trials without the angel tablet.
Metatron reveals to Castiel that the first trial is to kill a Nephilim, the child of an angel and a human and cut out their heart. There is only one in existence, but Metatron knows who she is and he and Castiel trail her at night to kill her. As she is an innocent woman, Castiel hesitates, but when she attacks and overpowers both him and Metatron, Castiel kills her with his Angel Sword and completes the first trial.[11]
Metatron tells Castiel that the second trial is to obtain the bow of a Cupid. Metatron has ascertained that Dwight Charles - a bar tender - will be shot by a Cupid's arrow. He and Metatron start watching Dwight, but Naomi arrives and abducts Metatron. Castiel turns to Dean for help. When they see a delivery woman arrive at the bar, they think she will be the one that Dwight falls in lvoe with. However she is the Cupid, and she causes Dwight and his regular customer Rod to fall in love.
Outside the bar, Dean and Castiel tell the Cupid they need her bow, which appears as a mark on her hand. She tells them how chaotic Heaven is, and willingly helps them.
Back at the bunker, Kevin has been examining the Angel Tablet, and calls Dean to tell him he cannot find any mention of the trials Castiel has undertaken. Just then Naomi arrives and having interrogated Metatron, she tells Dean and Castiel that Metatron's plan is to close Heaven - but also to expel all the angels. When Castiel finds Metatron, he extracts Castiel's Grace from him, telling him its the final part of a spell that will acheive what Naomi described. He sends Cas back to Earth, and completes the spell, causing all the angels to fall to Earth.[12]
