All Hell Breaks Loose, Part 2
| "All Hell Breaks Loose, Part 2" |
|---|
"All Hell Breaks Loose, Part 2" is episode twenty-two of the second season of the television series Supernatural. It is also the second of a two part season finale.
Plot summary
After the fight between Jake and Sam, Dean has to deal with the repercussions of his interference. He is distraught, he won't eat and forces Bobby to leave him alone. While Dean is alone with Sam's body, he reminisces out loud about their childhood, how it was his unspoken duty to protect him, and how he believes he finally screwed up. Dean asks Sam what he's supposed to do before taking off in the Impala to go to a crossroads. Just as in "Crossroad Blues", he summons the Crossroads demon - this time, in order to make a deal to save Sam's life. The demon refuses to make a deal, saying that she'd rather watch Dean suffer. Dean negotiates though; for Sam's life, she gets to have Dean's soul after only one year. Dean seals this deal with a kiss, and immediately Sam wakes up.
Soon after, Sam is examining his wounds and asks Dean what happened after he got stabbed. Dean says that Bobby patched him up, but Sam is skeptical. Dean repeatedly tells Sam that he needs to rest, and that they've got time. Sam says there's no time. They go to visit Bobby, who is thoroughly surprised to see Sam "up and around." He looks at Dean gravely, and Sam notices.
Bobby then shows Sam and Dean a map of demonic activity in Wyoming: the whole state is a hotbed, except for one area in southern Wyoming. Bobby asks Sam to try and figure it out while he and Dean go and get some supplies. In the yard, Bobby is upset and yells at Dean about his decision to make a deal with a demon. This is cut short after they hear a mysterious noise nearby. When they investigate they discover Ellen, whom they thought to be dead when the Roadhouse burned down.
Inside, she tells them that Ash's important information was stored in a safe at the Roadhouse, and Ellen has it. It's a map of Wyoming, with X's marking spots here and there. Bobby says that these are all churches built by Samuel Colt, the creator of "the" Colt, and that they are all connected by iron railways. Dean deduces that it is a rather large and ingenious Devil's Trap, where the iron and the churches prevent demons from coming in...or from coming out. In the center is an old cowboy cemetery.
Meanwhile, Jake is heading to the exact spot in the center of the Devil's Trap, coached by the Yellow-Eyed Demon. He hands Jake the Colt and tells him that it's the only thing that can destroy him; Jake considers killing the Demon right there, but with some persuasion (the Demon threatens his family), Jake heads to cemetery. As he passes the gravestones, Dean is concealed behind one. Jake is about to insert the Colt into the keyhole, but Sam, Dean, Bobby and Ellen spring out and train their guns on him. He looks at Sam like he's seen a ghost and says that he can't be alive. He then laughs and shows that he has honed his psychic abilities by telling Ellen to put her gun to her head and to shoot if they come near. She fights against his will, but is forced to comply. Jake puts the Colt in the keyhole, and as he does so, the hunters advance on them, Bobby and Dean moving the gun quickly from Ellen's head before it goes off. Sam ends up shooting Jake dead - 4 times in the back, and 3 times in the face even after Jake pleads for mercy - much to Dean's surprise. But the gates have opened, and all hell has broken loose.
Demons start to escape through the gate, in large enough numbers to break the iron rails of the trap. The Yellow-Eyed Demon can now enter the Devil's Trap, and he attacks Dean. Sam attempts to fight him, but the Demon tosses Sam away. Thanking Dean for bringing Sam back, which he claims not to have been expecting, the Demon taunts Dean how he liked Sam better than Jake and then asking him whether he is certain that what he brought back is "100% pure Sam". He aims the Colt at Dean, but at this moment, John Winchester has climbed out of Hell and attacks the demon, pulling him out of his human host. Dean gets the Colt, and when the Yellow-Eyed Demon gets up, Dean fires a clean shot straight to the "heart", killing it. John approaches his boys, smiling, and they have a moment together, though no words are exchanged. A tear drops from John's eye, and he vanishes into a light.
Dean views the corpse of the Demon and says that was for their mother. At the Impala, Sam questions Dean, and Dean tells him about how he died, and that he made a deal. Sam says he will do whatever it takes to get him out of it. Ellen and Bobby are present, and Bobby says that the army has escaped and that the war has just begun. Dean and Sam walk over to the trunk, Dean smiling as he drops the expired Colt inside. Just as Sam said in the pilot episode after Jess died, Dean says, "We've got work to do."
Featured music
Trivia
- This is the shows lowest rated episode to date.
- When The Demon is talking to Dean about Sam's revival, he says "What's dead should stay dead, you know that". Dean also said the same thing in the episode Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things (Supernatural)
- This episode ended a two season long storyline