Supernatural season 10, episode 2, “Reichenbach,” aired tonight. Read our recap and discuss the episode with fellow fans!
Looking for revenge
The episode opens with a flashback to 2003. A young boy wakes up to the sounds of a fight. Downstairs, he finds his father dead in a pool of blood and Dean with a bloody knife.
That boy was Cole. Sam tries to placate Cole, but he’s been obsessed with finding Dean since he was 13. Sam says Dean would have had a reason for doing what he did. He tries to give Cole the monsters-are-real speech, but Cole thinks he’s a psycho. And since Sam the psycho isn’t saying where Dean the destroyer is, Cole gets to torturin’.
Before Cole can hit Sam with a hammer, his phone rings. He takes a call from his daughter outside while Sam uses a pocket knife that had fallen from Cole’s pocket to escape. After calling Castiel to meet, Sam commandeers a truck.
Elsewhere, Dean visits a strip club and tries to come on to a dancer. When the bouncer tries to stop him, Dean beats him. Outside the club, Crowley is waiting.
Deals with the devil
Over drinks, Crowley says Dean needs to kill to feed the Mark and that he’s there to facilitate. Dean’s going to snap eventually, so why not kill someone who has it coming? He offers up a cheating wife, Mindy, whose ex-husband, Lester, made a demon deal for her life. Dean agrees, but only as a one-time deal.
At Mindy’s, Dean prepares to get to killing, but Lester shows up to watch. Dean tells him he shouldn’t be present while his wife is being killed and accuses Lester of cheating first. Lester spews some misogynistic BS and tells Dean to do his job, so Dean stabs Lester instead and smiles as he dies.
Meanwhile, Sam confirms it was Dean who attacked the bouncer while Cole tracks him.
Shifting alliances
As Crowley deals with Hell meetings, a call comes in — Sam is close by. Dean then arrives and fills Crowley in, and Crowley is not happy. Without Mindy dead, Crowley doesn’t get Lester’s soul. Dean, though, doesn’t particularly care and shoves Crowley.
Crowley, in return, tells Dean to pick a side — human or demon. “Or what?” Dean threatens. He says he’ll call when he needs to kill but otherwise their partnership is over.
Crowley then visits Sam and offers Dean up — for a finder’s fee, of course.
Brother vs. brother
At a bar, Dean considers Crowley’s words when Sam arrives. Finally the brothers are in the same room. Sam says Crowley sold him out and offers to cure Dean, but Dean replies that he would’ve stayed if he’d wanted that. Sam says they can fix whatever’s happened, and when Dean gives Sam a chance to leave, Sam refuses.
Dean continues to taunt Sam, but Sam is there to take his brother home. Dean, though, just laughs. Sam pulls out a pair of handcuffs, but before there can be a fight, a smoke bomb flies through the window. Sam stumbles out of the door, where Cole knocks him out. Again.
Cole then gets his showdown with Dean, though Dean doesn’t remember killing his father. Cole monologues a bit before attacking, and Dean just plays with him.
Meanwhile, Sam comes to and hurries into the bar.
Dean disarms Cole and knocks him down. He makes a Princess Bride reference, but then gets too close, and Cole cuts his face. It immediately heals, and Dean tells Cole that he’s a demon. He puts the First Blade to Cole’s throat but changes his mind about killing him.
Sam then douses Dean with holy water from behind and handcuffs him.
Merciless
Later, Sam, with Dean in the Impala, meets Crowley and pays the finder’s fee — the First Blade. Crowley and Dean share a look before Crowley leaves to pine over his BFF for a bit.
Meanwhile, a bloodied Cole heads to the library to research demons.
That night, Sam drives back to the bunker. He notices wrappers and other garbage all over the Impala. “It’s just a car,” Dean says dismissively, which is the surest sign of all that Dean has gone dark. Sam thinks Dean took mercy on Cole, but Dean says what he did was the worst thing he could’ve done.
“And what I’m going to do to you, Sammy,” he adds, “well, that ain’t gonna be mercy either.”
Meanwhile, the angels…
Castiel and Hannah stop driving, and after Cas tries to heal himself, Hannah does so for him. She wants to stay and help. It’s then that Cas gets a call from Sam, who fills him in on Dean being a demon. Cas agrees to meet him.
As Cas and Hannah drive, Hannah disapproves of the Winchesters, but Cas defends them. However, Cas starts drifting off and they end up running off the road to avoid an incoming truck.
They are eventually picked up by a tow truck. The driver drops them off at her place while she gets tires. Cas falls asleep on the couch immediately, and Hannah covers him with his coat. The next morning, Cas bonds with the driver’s daughter while the driver assumes Hannah and Cas are together. Once they head off, Hannah offers to drive and Cas agrees.
Later, Cas wakes up to find the car parked at a playground. Hannah has gone back to Heaven to speak to Metatron. She wants the remaining bits of Cas’ grace, while Metatron’s price is being let out of prison. He offers to vanish to another planet — even galaxy — but Cas interrupts before Hannah can strike the deal. He doesn’t want this.
After Hannah leaves, Metatron says Cas’ grace still exists, but Cas tells him to keep it. Metatron, though, says that he’ll eventually escape and when he does, “Everybody dies.”
