Supernatural (season 8)

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Supernatural season 8

Season 8 DVD artwork.
Country of origin United States
No. of episodes 23
Broadcast
Original channel The CW
Original run October 3, 2012 (2012-10-03) – May 15, 2013 (2013-05-15)
Home video release
DVD release
Region 1 September 10, 2013 (2013-09-10)[1]
Blu-ray Disc release
Region A September 10, 2013 (2013-09-10)[1]
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List of Supernatural episodes

The eighth season of Supernatural, an American paranormal dramatic television series created by Eric Kripke, premiered October 3, 2012, and contained 23 episodes.[3] This is the seventh season to air on the CW television network. It is the first season headed by Jeremy Carver as executive producer and showrunner.[4] It aired on Wednesdays at 9:00 P.M. EST on the CW.[5] The season finale aired on May 15, 2013.

Cast

Starring

Special guest stars

Guest stars

Episodes

See also: List of Supernatural episodes

In this table, the number in the first column refers to the episode's number within the entire series, whereas the number in the second column indicates the episode's number within this particular season. "U.S. viewers in millions" refers to how many Americans watched the episode live or on the day of broadcast.

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1501 "We Need to Talk About Kevin" Robert SingerJeremy CarverOctober 3, 2012 (2012-10-03)3X78021.85[19]
A year after he was sucked into Purgatory, the afterlife of monsters, Dean Winchester (main star Jensen Ackles) finally escapes with the help of a vampire named Benny Lafitte (guest star Ty Olssen). As part of their deal, Dean smuggles Benny's soul out of Purgatory and resurrects him before they go their separate ways; Dean's friend Castiel (special guest star Misha Collins), who had been trapped in Purgatory with him in the previous season finale, is conspicuously absent and Dean later reveals that the angel did not make it out of Purgatory with him and Benny. Dean travels to the safe house in Whitefish, Montana, where he meets up with his brother Sam (main star Jared Padalecki), who he learns had given up the "family business" of hunting monsters to lead a normal life with a dog and a girlfriend while Dean was gone. Tension springs up between the brothers because Sam did not even try to save him, Castiel, or the prophet under their protection, teenager Kevin Tran (guest star Osric Chau) who had been kidnapped a year ago by the demon Crowley (guest star Mark A. Sheppard). When Dean checks Sam's discarded phones, he discovers that Kevin has in fact escaped from Crowley on his own and is now on the run, and he and Sam track him down. Kevin explains that Crowley took him to make him translate the Word of God tablet about demons and help him unleash all demons onto Earth, but that he had managed to escape with the tablet, which he has hidden elsewhere for safe-keeping. He also reveals that the tablet has a way to send all demons to Hell and lock them away forever. The Winchesters immediately want to find the tablet and use the spell to banish the demons, but are interrupted by the arrival of demons who have been following them to find Kevin, including Crowley himself, who is being accompanied by Kevin's possessed girlfriend, Channing Ngo (played by Lissa Neptuno). Crowley demands that Kevin come with him and return the tablet, but Kevin once again outwits him and escapes with the Winchesters. Crowley then murders Channing to spite Kevin. The episode ends with Dean receiving a secret call from Benny, who seems to be questioning life outside of Purgatory. The two try to maintain some distance from each other, but Dean tells Benny he should call in an emergency. 
1512 "What's Up, Tiger Mommy?" John ShowalterAndrew Dabb & Daniel LoflinOctober 10, 2012 (2012-10-10)3X78032.51[20]
Kevin demands that Sam and Dean take him to his mother, Linda Tran (guest star Lauren Tom), to make sure she is safe. They find that she is being watched by demons, and kill the demons and rescue her. The group then goes to retrieve the tablet Kevin hid, only to find that it has been stolen by Plutus (played by Gerard Plunkett), who is auctioning it off along with other rare supernatural items. Sam, Dean, Kevin, and Linda attend the auction to find a way to get it back. However, Crowley comes to the auction as well, also seeking the tablet. When the tablet and prophet Kevin (who is involuntarily included in the auction to raise bids) are sold to Linda for the price of her soul, Crowley possesses her and steals the tablet. He is forced to flee her body when Dean comes close to killing him, but still manages to get away with the tablet. Angry that Dean tried to kill his mother, Kevin decides to take his mother and leave for fear that their association with the Winchesters will get them killed. 
1523 "Heartache" Jensen AcklesBrad Buckner & Eugenie Ross-LemingOctober 17, 2012 (2012-10-17)3X78012.13[21]
Although Sam wants to focus on finding Kevin and the Word of God tablet, Dean suggests that they take on a case involving a murderer taking a human heart every six months. Tracking down the crimes from Minneapolis, Minnesota to Boulder, Colorado, the Winchesters discover that all the murders were committed by different people, with no history of violence, and that each likely suspect had an alibi for the other murders. After one of their suspects stabs himself in the eye, Dean learns that each killer had received an organ transplant from the recently deceased athlete Brick Holmes. The Winchesters also learn that Brick was a Mayan athlete who made a deal with an ancient god to live forever in exchange for sacrifices of human hearts each year. When Brick fell in love with a mortal woman in the 1940s, they stayed together even after she became so old she had to pose as his mother. Eventually, Brick committed suicide because he couldn't stand the thought of living without her. Tracking down the woman who received Brick's heart, Sam and Dean kill her, killing the other recipients as well. Meanwhile, Sam contemplates returning to normal life after the hunt for the Word of God tablet is concluded. 
1534 "Bitten" Thomas J. WrightRobbie ThompsonOctober 24, 2012 (2012-10-24)3X78041.86[22]
Bitten is presented as found footage from the perspective of three college students. Brian and Michael are two film school students making a movie depicting the details of their lives in Washtenaw County, Michigan. After a murder occurs while filming, Sam and Dean, who are trying to find a mysterious werewolf-type creature who's been biting and killing students and locals at the college where Brian and Michael attend, the kids hide the fact that Michael has been bitten. Things get out of hand when Michael attacks the neighborhood bully after he threatens Michael's girlfriend, Kate. Things get hectic when Brian confronts his professor for being the werewolf and tries to goad him into biting him as well and succeeds. Dean kills the professor, who thanks him. Sam and Dean believe it to be over until they notice one of Brian's cameras and track it back to him. At the same time, Brian reveals what he has done and gets into a fight with Michael, killing him. He then bites Michael's girlfriend, Kate, because he has fallen in love with her and wants to be with her. Kate kills Brian in revenge and finishes his movie, leaving a message for Sam and Dean that she will feed off of animal hearts and not harm humans, asking for a chance to live in peace. Sam and Dean watch the video, and, having learned that these werewolves can control themselves, and noting that Kate hasn't hurt anyone human, decide to give her the chance she asked for, but agree that if she harms anyone they will hunt her down. 
1545 "Blood Brother" Guy BeeBen EdlundOctober 31, 2012 (2012-10-31)3X78051.78[23]
After searching out and getting beaten by other vampires, Benny calls Dean for help. Dean immediately leaves to meet with Benny in Eagle Harbor, Washington, though tells a confused Sam that he needs to take a day off and deal with some "personal" issues. After Dean meets with Benny and gives him blood bags to help him heal, Benny - surprised by Dean's loyalty - confesses that he is going after his Maker (guest star Patrick Stafford) to get revenge. Fifty years earlier, Benny had fallen in love with a human, Andrea, and had left the vampire nest for her, but his Maker had killed him and told him he was going to rip Andrea's throat out. Dean agrees to help Benny and remembers the times Benny helped him and Castiel in Purgatory. Meanwhile, Sam thinks about his time with Amelia and more about how they got together is shown. When Andrea is revealed to be have become a vampire and Benny is captured, Dean calls Sam for help. Dean and Benny kill the vampires and Benny's Maker while Sam is on his way. Andrea helps Benny, but it is revealed that she simply wants to take over and Dean kills her before she can harm Benny, devastating Benny. Later, Sam meets Benny for the first time, and upon realizing that he is not human, Sam has a difficult time not killing Benny. 
1556 "Southern Comfort" Tim AndrewAdam GlassNovember 7, 2012 (2012-11-07)3X78062.32[24]
During the investigation of a murder in Kearney, Missouri in which a wife killed her husband for an incident from 30 years earlier, Sam and Dean run into fellow hunter Garth. They learn that Garth has stepped into Bobby's role, organizing and leading hunters over the past year. Teaming up with him, they investigate the case. During the investigation, more murders occur over seemingly small incidents, leading the Winchesters and Garth to discover that the murderers are possessed by a specter, similar to a ghost, but possessing people to get revenge for them rather than its own gain. The specter does this through people touching an old penny. Dean, angry with Garth for doing and saying things Bobby would say (such as using his catch-phrase "idjits" and wearing Bobby's hat) eventually lashes out at Garth. Meanwhile, in flashbacks we learn that Sam's former lover, Amelia, lost her husband Don, and the two begin a relationship. Eventually, the specter forces Dean to touch the penny, which leads Dean to want to kill Sam for not searching for him over the last year. Garth breaks the Winchester brothers up by taking the coin from Dean and burning the coin to destroy the specter. Because Garth is a naturally passive person with no wishes for revenge in life, the penny has no affect on him. The episode ends with Dean seeing Garth off, giving him back Bobby's old hat. Sam later tells Dean off about his grudge, warning him that if he can't let go of his anger, Sam will leave. 
1567 "A Little Slice of Kevin" Charlie CarnerBrad Buckner & Eugenie Ross-LemingNovember 14, 2012 (2012-11-14)3X78072.32[25]
Mrs. Tran and Kevin pay a witch to gather ingredients for a demon bomb to use against Crowley, but the witch betrays them and helps Crowley kidnap Kevin. After Sam and Dean investigate a series of demon abductions, a weakened Castiel appears to them with no memory of how he escaped Purgatory. The abductions turn out to be known future prophets, as only one prophet can exist at a time, meaning that one of them will become the new prophet if Kevin dies. Dean has flashbacks of his escape from Purgatory and deals with his guilt for not saving Castiel. Meanwhile, Kevin is tortured by Crowley into translating the tablet and reveals to Crowley that there are more tablets. The Winchesters and a seemingly full-strength Castiel show up. Castiel breaks the tablet in two pieces and Crowley flees, taking one half of the tablet with him. Kevin and the remaining prophets are rescued. Castiel reveals that he chose not to leave Purgatory with Dean, telling Dean that remaining in Purgatory was his penance for his previous actions. Dean is distressed to learn that Castiel stayed behind of his own volition. Castiel then "checks in" with a higher-level angel, named Naomi, who asks about Sam and Dean and tells him that an army of angels rescued him from Purgatory and that he will not remember these periodic check-ins. 
1578 "Hunteri Heroici" Paul EdwardsAndrew DabbNovember 28, 2012 (2012-11-28)3X78082.00[26]
Sam, Dean, and Castiel (who has decided to become a full-time hunter) investigate a string of deaths in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma that appear to have been inspired by cartoons – a man's heart literally bursts out of his chest when near a woman he likes, a man hovers in midair for a moment while jumping off a building, and an anvil crushes a security guard. Meanwhile, Dean and Castiel have a heart-to-heart about Castiel's mental state and the ramifications of his actions as "God." The Winchesters and Cas determine that the cartoonish effects are caused by an old man, named Fred Jones (guest star Mike Farrell), who has reality warping powers, and is currently living in a dream world inside his mind while residing in an assisted care facility. Fred is being used by a doctor at the assisted care facility to rob other elderly patients of their valuables. While Dean confronts the doctor, Sam and Castiel enter Fred's mind to speak to him. Sam is able to convince Fred to give up living in a dream world and come back to reality, causing the reality warping effects to end. Fred forces the doctor to kill himself and has Castiel remove his powers so he is no longer a threat even though it leaves him in a mentally damaged state. Castiel decides to return to Heaven to face up to his actions, but is forbidden from doing so by Naomi. Instead, Castiel decides to watch over Fred for a while. In flashbacks, Sam meets Amelia's father who is initially cold towards him, but eventually warms up to him just in time for Amelia to learn that her husband is still alive. 
1589 "Citizen Fang" Nick CopusDaniel LoflinDecember 5, 2012 (2012-12-05)3X78092.06[27]
Sam asked Martin Creaser (guest star Jon Gries) to follow Benny, because he doesn't trust him, once the old hunter is released from the mental hospital in which he has been residing. While following Benny, Martin finds an apparent victim of Benny's and calls Sam. Dean refuses to believe that Benny did it and sets out for Louisiana to find Benny. When Dean finds Benny, he is burying another victim and claims that it is a rogue vampire, named Desmond, who is trying to draw Benny back into the fold by killing a victim each time he refuses. While Dean believes Benny, who is staying in the area as it is his hometown and to look after his great-granddaughter Elizabeth, Sam and Martin refuse to believe him, and Martin knocks out Dean and he and Sam take off to hunt Benny. Before finding Benny, Sam gets a distress text from Amelia and takes off for Texas to find her, leaving Martin alone while Dean teams up with Benny to kill Desmond. Benny's story is proven to be true when Desmond attacks and nearly kills Dean, but Benny saves Dean and kills Desmond. Benny and Dean leave, but Martin, who is mentally unstable and refuses to give up the hunt, takes Elizabeth hostage and forces Benny to return so he can kill him. Elizabeth calls Dean who returns to find that Benny is gone and Martin is dead. In flashbacks, Sam is shown leaving Amelia to give her a chance with her husband, who is a good man. Upon returning to Texas, he finds Amelia fine and living with her husband, and realizes that Dean tricked him to get him out of the way. Sam calls Dean, angry at him for what he did, and learns of Martin's death. Sam hangs up on Dean, only to find that Amelia saw him at her window and has come to the bar to see him. 
15910 "Torn and Frayed" Robert SingerJenny KleinJanuary 16, 2013 (2013-01-16)3X78101.99[28]
When the brothers meet again in the aftermath of the last episode, Sam tells Dean that unless he stops hanging out with Benny, they may not be able to work together anymore. Dean is unsure if he can do that and leaves. After Dean leaves, Sam and Amelia decide that if they both show up at the same place in two days, they will reunite and continue their relationship, even though that means Amelia will have to leave her husband; if they're not both there, they know their relationship is over for good. At the same time, the angel Samandriel, who is being tortured by a demon called Viggor, manages to send out a distress call to Naomi. Castiel, who has been helping people in need as part of his penance, is summoned by Naomi to rescue Samandriel. Castiel asks Dean for help, but Dean refuses to call upon Sam due to the tension between them. Together, Dean and Castiel track Samandriel to Geneva, Nebraska. Because they are outnumbered, they enlist the help of Kevin Tran to create "demon bombs", and Castiel brings in a reluctant Sam to help as well. Samandriel breaks under torture and Crowley himself takes over as he starts talking about the Word of God. Sam, Dean, and Castiel assault Crowley's base to rescue the angel. While they manage to succeed, Samandriel reveals that there is an Angel Word of God tablet before they reach him. After his rescue, Samandriel tries to warn Castiel, who has a flashback of Naomi tying him down and approaching him with an unknown instrument, that "they" are controlling him. After learning what Samandriel revealed to Crowley, Naomi forces Castiel to kill Samandriel for being a traitor. She explains that in the hands of a demon, the Angel tablet could cause great harm. Under Naomi's orders, Castiel kills Samandriel and claims it was in self-defense. He then tells Sam and Dean that he is taking Samandriel to Heaven to be put to rest, though it is really so that Naomi can determine just how much he revealed to Crowley. Samandriel's death and Castiel's actions draw suspiscion from Sam and Dean. After the rescue, Sam ultimately decides to not return to Amelia, who is devastated. Dean also decides to end his relationship with Benny, who is in a deteriorating condition. Sam and Dean reconcile by eating dinner together and watching boxing on TV. 
16011 "LARP and the Real Girl" Jeannot SzwarcRobbie ThompsonJanuary 23, 2013 (2013-01-23)3X78112.01[29]
Sam and Dean investigate the mysterious deaths of two LARPers (Live Action Role Players) in Farmington Hills, Michigan who were playing a game entitled Moondoor. There, they discover that the Queen of Moondoor is none other than Charlie Bradbury (guest star Felicia Day), who had previously helped them against the leviathan. However, she is reluctant to help them again because she believes she will have to leave again if she does. They link the murders to a mysterious Celtic symbol that magically appears on the victim's wrist. While trying to discover what the symbol means and who is causing it, Charlie is taken by the fairy Gilda (guest star Tiffany Dupont), who is the killer, having been forced to harm people against her will. The only way to stop her is to find her master. While spending time with Gilda, Charlie develops feelings for her and they share a kiss. Eventually, Sam and Dean learn that one of Charlie's "subjects", named Jerry, put Gilda under his control and had her taking out his "enemies" so that he could win Charlie's heart, not knowing that she is a lesbian. Dean battles Jerry, ultimately knocking away his spell book (bought off eBay). Charlie destroys the book, breaking the spell and releasing Gilda. Jerry is knocked out by Dean and taken away by Gilda to face punishment from her people. Charlie decides to stop running and remain in the life she has built for herself. She also offers Sam and Dean her help if they ever need it. Sam and Dean realize they need to have some fun for once, so they join Charlie's "kingdom" in battle against its enemies with Dean rallying the troops with a speech stolen from Braveheart before they charge into "battle." 
16112 "As Time Goes By" Serge LadouceurAdam GlassJanuary 30, 2013 (2013-01-30)3X78122.12[30]
In 1958, a man travels to a secret gentleman's club for initiation into the secret order of Men of Letters, but the order is slaughtered by the demon Abaddon and he is given a mysterious box to protect. The man casts a spell and arrives in Sam's and Dean's motel room in the present demanding to see John Winchester. The man briefly escapes, shocked to learn it is 2013, and tries to steal the Impala before being captured. Before he can explain who he is and what he wants, Abaddon arrives and they are forced to flee after the demon-killing kurdish knife fails to work. To Sam's and Dean's surprise, the man explains that he is Henry Winchester, their long-absent grandfather, and he is part of a secret order known as the Men of Letters, who record and guard supernatural secrets. He also explains that the box he was given must be guarded from Abaddon, who is the last of the "Knights of Hell" - the first demons created by Lucifer and believed to have all been destroyed by the Archangels. Henry doesn't know what the box is, as he wasn't initiated into the order yet, but they manage to track down a surviving member of the order. After learning about his son's life from John Winchester's journal, Henry attempts to return to his time to stop all of this, but is foiled by Dean. At the same time, Sam learns from the surviving member of the order, Larry, that the box contains a key to the greatest storehouse of supernatural knowledge ever known, and he asks Sam to seal it up forever to prevent evil from getting their hands on it. Abaddon reveals herself as Larry's wife, kills Larry, and captures Sam. She then contacts Dean to demand an exchange of the key and Henry for Sam. Dean makes the trade, but a scuffle ensues. In it, Henry is fatally wounded, but manages to shoot a bullet into Abaddon's head engraved with a Devil's Trap, binding her in place and within her body. Dean decapitates her and explains they plan to cut her up and bury the pieces in cement, entrapping her forever. Henry dies, but not before telling Sam and Dean that he is proud of the man his son had become. Sam and Dean bury Henry near his dead friends from the order and contemplate their family's history and how they are now the keepers of the storehouse, if it still exists. 
16213 "Everybody Hates Hitler" Phil SgricciaBen EdlundFebruary 6, 2013 (2013-02-06)3X78142.29[31]
In Belarus, a giant man decimates a Nazi concentration camp while the camp guards desperately try to stop him. The Commandant, Eckhart, casts a spell to escape that burns down the camp and a briefcase the Nazis were trying to protect. In the present, a rabbi, Rabbi Bass (Hal Linden), searches through a college library and finds a book that scares him. He makes a phone call before a mysterious man following him causes him to spontaneously combust. At the same time, Sam and Dean find the abandoned, but still intact, storehouse of the Men of Letters, in Lebanon, Kansas. After two weeks there, Sam discovers the death of Rabbi Bass in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and that he was a member of a secret order of rabbis, called the Judah Initiative, that worked with the Men of Letters during World War II, and they decide to investigate his death. Sam and Dean find themselves followed by the man that decimated the camp, but a young man named Aaron stops him. Aaron is Rabbi Bass' grandson and the last surviving descendant of the Judah Initiative. He was sent the man, a Golem (John DeSantis), after his grandfather died, but lacks the knowledge of how to properly control him. Sam and Dean learn that Rabbi Bass always told tales of battling a society of Nazi necromancers, called the Thule Society, and find the book Rabbi Bass had found and hidden for Aaron. The man who killed Rabbi Bass attacks Sam and Aaron and nearly kills them before the Golem kills him. The group learns the book is the Red Ledger, a logbook of ultimately successful experiments that the Thule performed to learn how to resurrect people. Eckhart and three Thule arrive, disable the Golem, and take back the Ledger. Eckhart reveals to Aaron how to take full control of the Golem, but before he can kill Aaron and the Winchesters, Aaron creates a distraction that allows Sam and Dean to kill two of the Thule. Eckhart then taunts them with the fact that the Thule can't be stopped, and they kill him. After disposing of the Thule bodies, Aaron takes full control of the Golem to continue the fight against the Thule, and Sam and Dean return to the storehouse, where Sam catalogs the Red Ledger, taking on the duties of a Man of Letters. 
16314 "Trial and Error" Kevin ParksAndrew DabbFebruary 13, 2013 (2013-02-13)3X78132.41[32]
Sam and Dean have moved into the Men of Letters bunker. After weeks of work, Kevin finally cracks the instructions on how to close the Gates of Hell and calls Sam and Dean. Kevin states that in order to close the gates, someone must complete three trials. The first trial is to kill a hellhound, bathe in its blood, and recite a spell. The same spell is recited after the completion of each trial. Deciding to track down a hellhound, Sam identifies the Cassity family in Idaho, who, ten years ago, struck oil where there should be none, indicating they made a deal with a Crossroads Demon. At the Cassity farm, Sam and Dean take jobs, while keeping an eye on the family, with the intent of killing the hellhound sent to collect the person's soul. Believing it to be the owner, Alice, Sam and Dean miss the hellhound, who kills Alice's husband, Carl, who they learn made a deal with a demon to get Alice to fall in love with him. Realizing that there is still someone else who made a crossroads deal, Sam and Dean remain so that they don't have to start over. Kevin calls and tells them that only the damned, or an item scorched by holy fire, can see a hellhound, leading Dean to find glasses he can wave in a fire made with holy oil. The whole Cassity family arrives to comfort Alice. While Dean tries to find the hellhound, Sam focuses on finding which one of the bickering family members made the deal. Along the way, Sam learns that the deal was made with Crowley himself. Eventually, while trying to hunt what she believes is a wolf that killed Carl, Margo, the youngest family member, is killed by the hellhound, and it is discovered that she believed her family would be happy if they struck oil. The hellhound continues to hunt around the house, indicating that someone else made a deal, as well. Dean learns that the ranch manager Ellie (Danay García) made a deal to save her mother from Parkinson's disease when she was 15. Dean battles the hellhound when it goes after Ellie, but when he fails, Sam kills it and is coated in its blood, making him the one to complete the trials. Sam and Dean give Ellie a hexbag and send her on the run from Crowley, believing that if she keeps hidden, Crowley won't be able to send another hellhound to kill her. After convincing Dean that there is hope for life to continue after Hell is closed, instead of it being a suicide mission like he believes, Sam casts the spell needed to start closing the gates. 
16415 "Man's Best Friend with Benefits" John ShowalterBrad Buckner & Eugenie Ross-LemingFebruary 20, 2013 (2013-02-20)3X78152.10[33]
Sam and Dean receive a text from James Frampton, a cop who helped them on a previous case, asking for their help. Traveling to St. Louis, Missouri, they learn that James has become a witch since they last met and is using magic to solve cases as a police officer. Sam and Dean are unhappy due to their previous encounters with witches, but decide to give him a chance. James' familiar, Portia (portrayed by Mishael Morgan) approaches the Winchesters, revealing that she sent the text, and stating that James is having dreams of killing people who, in reality, are actually dying. Though Dean wants to kill James, Sam convinces him to investigate first, convinced that someone might be committing the murders and placing the memories in James' mind. Sam and Dean chain James down, but while having sex with Portia, who he is in a relationship with, James opens his mind to her. Portia sees his dreams and realizes that all he is seeing are the murders, with no intent or planning to it, and convinces Sam and Dean that James must be innocent. Dean finds a spell in Bobby's notes that a witch could be using to implant false memories in James' mind. Realizing that the police detective investigating the case, Ed Stoltz, is hiding something, Sam, Dean, and James use astral projection to visit the station and discover that Stoltz, who has a grudge against James, is building a case against him using the familiar of another witch as a witness. James questions the familiar, who admits that he was doing so on his master, Spencer's, orders. Spencer kills his familiar and reveals he was jealous of James and Portia, wanting her as his familiar and lover. James battles Spencer to no avail, but when Portia creates a distraction, Sam and Dean kill Spencer with a witch-killing spell from Bobby's notes. James and Portia decide to leave town and start a new life together, rather than fight the case building against him. Dean finally decides to trust Sam's judgement, realizing that Sam can handle the trials after being reminded how important family is due to a psychic attack Spencer inflicted on Sam. However, while Sam insists that he is fine, he coughs up a bit of blood, indicating that not all is fine. 
16516 "Remember the Titans" Steve BoyumDaniel LoflinFebruary 27, 2013 (2013-02-27)3X78162.13[34]
In Great Falls, Montana, a man is hit and killed by a drunk driver, who abandons the scene. The next morning, after being found by a deputy, the man comes back to life, heals himself, and leaves. Sam and Dean, waiting for Kevin to call with the next trial, find out about the apparent zombie from a magazine, and head off to investigate. The man is found dead, again, of a bear attack, and while Sam and Dean are visiting, he comes to life again and they take him with them to determine what's going on. The man, who tells them to call him Shane, explains that after an avalanche seven years earlier, he dies everyday, comes back to life, and has no memory of his life before the avalanche. After a mysterious woman attacks him, Sam and Dean realize that Shane is actually the Greek Titan Prometheus who is cursed to die everyday as punishment from Zeus for giving mankind back the gift of fire. The woman is the Greek goddess Artemis, who is hunting him down. Things get complicated when a young woman, named Hayley, shows up with a young boy, named Oliver, who is Prometheus' son and has the same curse. In order to free both, Sam and Dean decide to summon Zeus and force him to break the curse, learning how to trap and kill him from the Men of Letters books. Zeus tricks Hayley into freeing him from the trap and then proceeds to torture Prometheus, planning to kill him and Oliver over and over again to make him pay eternally for what he did. Sam and Dean convince Artemis to intervene, as she is secretly in love with Prometheus, and she tries to shoot her father with one of her arrows, which can kill a god. Zeus uses Prometheus as a shield, but Prometheus pushes the arrow through himself and into Zeus, killing him. Prometheus dies permanently, and with Zeus dead, the curse on Oliver is broken. Sam and Dean cremate Prometheus and Dean prays to Castiel to look after Sam who he knows is not doing as well as he pretends. Despite Dean's pleas, Castiel does not appear. 
16617 "Goodbye Stranger" Thomas J. WrightRobbie ThompsonMarch 20, 2013 (2013-03-20)3X78172.16[35]
After ruthlessly killing thousands of copies of Dean, a brainwashed Castiel is sent by Naomi to get the angel tablet before Crowley can get to it. At the same time, Sam and Dean find a case where people die of having their eyes burned out and organs liquified and checking it out, discover that all of the people were possessed and digging for something. Trying to find out what the demons are looking for, they find out that Castiel is looking too and is in fact the one killing the people. Castiel claims to be looking for the second half of the demon tablet while the demons are searching for Lucifer's Crypts so they can find a parchment to translate it without a Prophet. Learning the location of the person telling the demons where to find the Crypts from a captured demon, the three find and rescue Meg (guest star Rachel Miner) who is able to point them to the right Crypt as well as tell Sam and Dean the truth. Searching the Crypt, Dean and Castiel find the tablet. When Naomi attempts to make Castiel kill Dean and take the tablet, Castiel beats him, but continuously begs Naomi to let him stop. She finally tells him to choose between "us or them". Dean manages to reach the real Castiel and he breaks free of Naomi's control. He then leaves to protect the tablet from all threats to it, including Dean (but not before healing Dean and apologizing). Crowley shows up and Meg holds him off to allow Sam, Dean and Castiel to escape. She succeeds, but Crowley kills her. He later meets with Naomi who he shares a history with, though Naomi is at least somewhat satisfied as Castiel is doing what he is supposed to do. Dean, having learned the truth about Sam's illness from Castiel, tells Sam to stop pretending and that he will help him carry the burden. Castiel is seen heading to an unknown destination on a bus away from his friends and enemies. 
16718 "Freaks and Geeks" John F. ShowalterAdam GlassMarch 27, 2013 (2013-03-27)3X78182.23[36]
Hunting vampires in Conway Springs, Kansas, Sam and Dean encounter a rather unusual team of hunters composed of orphan kids, including Krissy Chambers (guest star Madison McLaughlin) who they met in season seven's "Adventures in Babysitting." The kids, Krissy, Aiden and Josephine have lost their families to a nest of vampires they are hunting and they live under the protection of an adult hunter named Victor who is training them while letting them also live a normal life. However, Dean grows suspicious as one of the vampires acts out of character and claims innocence. Investigating, Dean finds evidence that the vampire can't have been turned more than a few weeks before and is thus innocent and searching for the nest, he finds a vampire that the kids were sent after that supposedly killed Krissy's father, but has just been turned. Sam and Dean realize that Victor has been trying to create the next generation of hunters by hiring a vampire to kill their families and turn people so they can get "revenge." Victor kidnaps Sam after he figures it out and in the confrontation that follows when Dean and the kids return, Krissy manages to take down the vampire with dead man's blood and Victor kills himself when he realizes that he is going to be left alone. Using the vampire's blood, the group is able to turn the last victim back to human using the cure from "Live Free or Twihard" and the kids decide to stay together and be hunters, protecting the town they live in, but not actively seeking out threats. While Sam and Dean accept this, it just increases Dean's determination to close the gates of Hell as the kids are in serious danger as hunters as long as they are open. 
16819 "Taxi Driver" Guy BeeBrad Buckner & Eugenie Ross-LemingApril 3, 2013 (2013-04-03)3X78191.90[37]
Kevin starts hallucinating that Crowley is talking to him in his mind and contacts Sam and Dean to let them know about it and that he has deciphered the second trial which is to free an innocent soul from Hell and release it into Heaven. Torturing a Crossroads Demon, they learn that a rogue Reaper can take mortals and souls in and out of Heaven and Hell for a price and track down Ajay (Assaf Cohen), who reveals that he took Bobby Singer (special guest star Jim Beaver) to Hell on Crowley's orders when his flask was burned. Sam heads to Hell with Ajay on a mission to rescue Bobby while Dean is forced to stay behind and deal with an unnerved Kevin who hides his half of the tablet. Ajay takes Sam to Purgatory where a backdoor to Hell exists and tells him to meet him in twenty-four hours, but Crowley learns of this and kills Ajay. Sam manages to rescue Bobby, but the two are stranded in Purgatory without Ajay to bring them home. While with Kevin, Naomi (guest star Amanda Tapping) visits Dean and claims Castiel is still crazy and that he misinterpreted her orders and that she is on their side. Though Dean doesn't trust her, Naomi reveals that Sam traveled to Hell through Purgatory. Finding Ajay dead, Dean calls Benny (guest star Ty Olsson) to ask him to die and get Sam out the same way he got Dean out. Benny agrees and rescues Sam and Bobby from vampires in Purgatory, but stays behind to hold off some more as they escape, having never intended to leave as he doesn't fit in on Earth. Sam releases Bobby's soul into Heaven, but is stopped by Crowley who has figured out their plan. However, Naomi intervenes, drives Crowley away and allows Bobby's soul to go to Heaven. Despite more precautions, Crowley finds Kevin through his mother and captures him and all of his notes on the tablet. But when Sam and Dean arrive, they find no signs of struggle and the windows Crowley broke still intact, leaving Sam and Dean with no clues on the third trial and no Kevin who they believe is on the run. 
16920 "Pac-Man Fever" Robert SingerRobbie ThompsonApril 24, 2013 (2013-04-24)3X78202.38[38]
Charlie brings Sam and Dean a case in Topeka, Kansas where the victim's insides have been liquefied. As Sam is still recovering from the second trial, Dean benches him and decides to teach Charlie how to hunt. After the coroner refuses to let them see the body, Dean decides to break in that night, but before he can, a second victim is discovered. At the crime scene, Sam shows up, refusing to stay behind and together they investigate only to learn that the coroner has cremated the bodies and they determine the monster is a "bastard off-shoot" of a Djinn. Charlie leaves to secretly donate money to a brain-dead woman, but is captured by the Djinn who is actually the coroner and put into a fear-induced dream. While searching for Charlie, Sam and Dean learn about the woman who is actually Charlie's mother. They locate Charlie and kill the coroner, but are unable to free her from the Djinn's poison, so Dean enters Charlie's dreams to break her out. Dean finds her trapped in a nightmare of a videogame she stole and sold as a kid where she must endlessly defend her mother from super-soldier vampires. Dean realizes that Charlie's fear is of losing her mother and he gets her to realize that her mother is long gone and let go. Once she does, she returns to the waking world where Sam has killed a second Djinn, the coroner's son and the true culprit behind the deaths. Charlie leaves, but is invited to visit again to look through the Men of Letters' archives. Dean finally agrees to let Sam hunt again and start the search for Kevin. Charlie decides to let her mother go and has her taken off of life-support, but first reads The Hobbit to her one last time like her mother used to do to Charlie when she was a child. 
17021 "The Great Escapist" Robert Duncan McNeillBen EdlundMay 1, 2013 (2013-05-01)3X78212.07[39]
Kevin is held captive by Crowley in an illusion of Garth's houseboat and is brought Crowley's half of the demon tablet by two demons pretending to be Sam and Dean to translate. At the same time, the real Sam and Dean receive a message from Kevin saying he is likely dead and sending them all of his notes on the tablet. Though they are unable to figure anything about the third trial out from the notes, a symbol in them points to an Native American tribe in Colorado that they think Metatron might be connected to. At a casino, they find the tribe is apparently gifted with immortality in exchange for giving Metatron gifts of stories and locate Metatron himself (guest star Curtis Armstrong). Metatron explains that after God left, the Archangels decided to take over the universe themselves and not wanting that, he left and cut himself off so completely that he is unaware of who the Winchesters are or that the Archangels are all either trapped or dead. Sam and Dean try to convince Metatron to help them with their task. Kevin figures out Crowley has captured him and confronts Crowley who tries to kill him as he is no more use to him, but Metatron rescues Kevin who takes the second half of the tablet with him. Kevin and Metatron both reveal the third trial: to cure a demon. At the same time, Castiel hides from the angels by visiting restaurants in the Biggerson's chain using their similar layout and his ability to teleport to evade capture. One of the angels, Ion, reports to Naomi that, "we try and orient ourselves, but it's as if we are in every Biggerson's at once, trapped in a quantum superposition." Castiel is eventually caught and Naomi reveals that she has wiped Castiel's memory many times and he has taken part in many atrocities he can't remember (e.g. Death of the firstborn from Plagues of Egypt). However, Ion betrays them to Crowley who forces Naomi to flee and Crowley retrieves the angel tablet from Castiel's torso. After Kevin figures out the truth, Crowley leaves Castiel to Ion who Castiel eventually kills and escapes. He ends up on the road in front of Sam and Dean, badly injured and asks for their help. 
17122 "Clip Show" Thomas J. WrightAndrew DabbMay 8, 2013 (2013-05-08)3X78222.07[40]
Searching through the Men of Letters archive for clues on how to cure a demon, Sam, Dean and Castiel locate a film of a strange exorcism. Investigating, Sam and Dean learn that the priests were testing out a theory that a demon could be cured of being a demon and that one continued his efforts until he was brutally killed. Listening to a recording of his last attempt, Sam and Dean learn that the priest succeeded and turned a demon back into a human and learn the process from his notes and the recording. They put Abaddon back together to try it on her, but Crowley calls to reveal that he has begun killing people that they have saved and while they are distracted, Abaddon escapes. Sam and Dean race to protect Sarah Blake (from season one's "Provenance"), but despite all of their efforts to protect her, they fail as Crowley has set up a spell to do the job rather than send demons. As Sarah dies, Crowley calls the Winchesters and taunts them, telling them that unless they surrender the demon tablet and stop the trials, he will kill everyone they have ever saved and will be keeping his demons away from them as insurance. Despite this, Dean is determined to continue despite them having no demon to cure. At the same time, Castiel is approached by Metatron, who reveals Heaven is in chaos and wants to seal it up to prevent the war from spreading to Earth. He suggests Castiel do the three trials needed to seal Heaven and reveals that the first requires killing a Nephilim, the offspring of a human and an angel. Although reluctant to kill the nephilim (played by Linda Tomassone) because she has done nothing wrong, Castiel does so to protect Metatron when she fights back against them. 
17223 "Sacrifice" Phil SgricciaJeremy CarverMay 15, 2013 (2013-05-15)3X78232.31[41]
Pretending that they want to give into his demands, Sam and Dean capture Crowley so they can use him for the third trial. They take him to an abandoned church and Sam begins injecting Crowley with his purified blood as part of the demon-curing process. Elsewhere, Castiel and Metatron try to complete the second Heaven trial by retrieving the "bow" of a cherub (in Supernatural, an angelic version of Cupid), but Naomi and her forces capture Metatron. Castiel enlists Dean's help in completing the angel trial and they succeed in persuading a cherub to give them her bow. Meanwhile, Crowley uses a blood spell to call upon other demons for help, only for Abaddon to answer his summons by trying to kill them both so that she can overthrow Crowley and rule Hell herself. Sam forces her to retreat by engulfing her in holy fire, and a tearful Crowley begins showing signs of becoming cured. Naomi appears to Dean and Castiel to tell them that she has learned that Metatron seeks revenge for how he was forced to leave to escape her breaking into his mind after God left and that he is actually tricking Castiel into helping him perform a spell that will expel all angels from Heaven. She also tells Dean that completing the demon trials will kill Sam. At Dean's insistence, Castiel brings him back to the church before returning to Heaven, where he discovers that Naomi has been killed by Metatron, who then takes him hostage. Finding that Sam is willing to die to atone for how often he has let him down, Dean talks Sam out of finishing the trials anyway, but the effects of the trials continue to ravage Sam's body and his life is left hanging by a thread. Meanwhile, Metatron completes his spell by extracting Castiel's grace (the essence of an angel that gives them their power and status as an angel), then sends the now-human Castiel back to Earth. Dean, Sam, Castiel, and Crowley look up into the night sky as thousands of angels begin to fall. 

Production

It was announced on April 4, 2012, that showrunner Sera Gamble was leaving the show to work on developing other projects. Jeremy Carver, a longtime writer on the series, took over as showrunner for the eighth season.[42] On May 3, 2012 The CW officially renewed Supernatural for an eighth season.[43][44] It airs on Wednesdays at 9:00 pm on the CW. Series star Jensen Ackles directed the first episode to be produced for this season but the third to air.[45][46] "Trial and Error" was the thirteenth episode to be produced this season but the fourteenth to air.[47]

Casting

Ty Olsson was cast as Benny, a dark and dangerous vampire who helps Ackles' character Dean Winchester escape from Purgatory,[48] where he ended up at the end of the seventh season. This is not the first time Olsson has appeared on Supernatural; he previously appeared as the vampire Eli in the second season episode "Bloodlust".

Liane Balaban was cast as Amelia, a love interest to Jared Padalecki's character Sam Winchester.[49]

Amanda Tapping - best known as Samantha Carter of Stargate SG-1 and Doctor Helen Magnus of Sanctuary - appears in seven episodes as the angel Naomi, described as being different from any other angel to have appeared in the series so far.[9]

Even though Khaira Ledeyo had the role of Kevin's mother in the seventh season, Lauren Tom was cast in the role for season eight.[10]

DJ Qualls returned as the hunter Garth in "Southern Comfort",[12] as did Felicia Day as hacker Charlie Bradbury in "LARP and the Real Girl" and "Pac-Man Fever".[11] Jon Gries returned as Martin Creaser, a hunter and old friend of the Winchesters, in "Citizen Fang". The character also appeared in the fifth season episode "Sam, Interrupted".[13] Jim Beaver reprised his role as Bobby Singer in "Taxi Driver".

Writing

"Why use flashbacks? Because fans usually hate it when the brothers are separated, so that's why they're being reunited quickly."

—Robert Singer.[50]

The season features two flashback stories in parallel to the episode's main story, one showing Sam's relationship with Amelia and another showing Dean's time in Purgatory. Jeremy Carver said he will keep the "evil always forward" at least for a few more years. Originally, series creator Eric Kripke planned only five seasons, but Carver drew up a plan which would carry the series through a total of ten seasons.[51] With the ending of the Leviathan story arc, the Winchester brothers will again deal with angels and demons. However, Carver says this approach to angels and demons is completely new.[52] Executive producer Robert Singer described the inspiration for the season as "Raiders of the Lost Ark".[53]

Reception

IGN gave season 8 an 8.5/10, for the return of the demons/angels storyline and adding characters Benny and Naomi to the mix, but it also criticized Sam's sub storyline that got "fizzled" and dropping the tablet trials at the last minute.

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