Supernatural season 9, episode 2 “Devil May Care” aired tonight. After last week’s angel-focused premiere, this week the brothers took on some demonic challenges.
So what happened in Supernatural season 9, episode 2 “Devil May Care”?
- The episode opens as a burned corpse is dragged into a derelict church bathroom. We’re off to a good start this week!
- Meanwhile, Dean and Sam have stopped at a rest stop where Dean informs Sam that he Zero Dark Thirtyed Crowley after the church and reveals him bound and gagged in the Impala trunk. Don’t be a pouter, Crowley!
- Back in the derelict church, we see a demon cut his vessel’s wrist and drip blood into the bath tub. After an impressive light show, Abaddon emerges, no longer extra crispy. Got to love a good blood spell.
- Back at the Men of Letters bunker, Dean walks in and is greeted by a crossbow arrow. Kevin’s learning new ways to say hello to his friends. Dean looks at the arrow and snarks, “You’re a crappy shot, Katniss.” While we picture Dean reading The Hunger Games, Dean informs Kevin that the angels have fallen.
- Sam brings Crowley into the bunker and they chain him to a chair in the dungeon. Remember when Dean was really excited to have a dungeon? Aw. Now it’s being put to good use. The Winchesters demand the name of every demon and vessel on Earth. Crowley, naturally, refuses, so the Winchesters leave him in time out.
- Kevin, though, is understandably furious about Crowley’s presence after Crowley tortured him and killed his mother. The Winchesters try to talk him down and tell him to stay away from Crowley, instead putting him on research duty with Sam. That’s not likely to end well.
- As the Winchesters deal with Crowley, Abaddon is recruiting. She gives a grand speech to a small group of demons, putting down Crowley as just a salesman. “A king fights. A king conquers. A king does more than sit around reading contracts,” she says. “But the king’s dead. Long live the queen.” Consider us bending the knee because Abaddon is pretty awesome.
- While Sam and Kevin research anything of the supernatural variety, Dean calls around to hunters to warn them about the angels. It turns out the Winchesters have some living friends outside of Garth, Charlie and Jody Mills after all, and that makes us all warm and fuzzy inside. Which means it’s not going to last.
- Meanwhile, Abaddon is on to the action part of her plan; her demons get rid of their old meat suits and take over three soldiers. At least someone is making good on her campaign promises.
- Those same soldiers end up kidnapping a girl who just killed a vampire who picked her up off the side of the road. Abaddon is rounding up hunters. Because she’s awesome like that.
- Sam and Dean arrive at the bus where the dead meat suits were found, using the aliases Stark and Banner. As if we couldn’t love the pop culture references any more. After a hilarious scene where the Winchesters call Kevin to verify their FBI aliases, they realize that Abaddon is still alive. Because it takes more than a Molotov cocktail to kill a Knight of Hell.
- Flash to a dark alley. Abaddon and her cronies are torturing hunters for information about the Winchesters. Abaddon gets one of Dean’s many numbers and calls. Kevin picks up and relays Abaddon’s message to the Winchesters: Abaddon will kill her captives if the Winchesters don’t show up at the designated coordinates. It’s obviously a trap, so the Winchesters are all for it.
- Back in the Men of Letters bunker, Kevin heads into the basement to find some research about killing a Knight of Hell, only to have Crowley, who was mentally replaying his interactions with the Winchesters and the moments of encroaching humanity, call out and taunt him. Kevin takes the bait and opens the door.
- Near Eugene, Oregon, the Winchesters enter the abandoned town Abaddon specified. They find the trapped hunters, Irv and Tracy, and, after they drink holy water, Sam and Dean untie them.
- In the bunker, Kevin tries to fish information out of Crowley, but Crowley simply continues to taunt him. Kevin hits Crowley, and when Crowley keeps wheedling him, Kevin snaps and beats him. Wham, bam, thank you, ma’am.
- Back in Oregon, Tracy refuses to fight alongside Sam; she blames him for the death of her family, since they were killed by demons celebrating Lucifer’s rise. Nice callback to season 5 there.
- In the bunker, a bloodied Crowley offers to return Kevin’s mother if Kevin lets him go. He says that Mama Tran is still alive, and if this means Lauren Tom can return to the show, we’re all for it. Kevin’s resolve weakens as Crowley continues trying to turn him against Sam and Dean.
- Before the battle in Oregon begins, Dean tells Tracy that Sam is human and makes mistakes; she needs to recognize who the real monsters out there are. Meanwhile, Irv offers to play distraction to let the Winchesters and Tracy go since he was the one to break and tell Abaddon about the hunters, but he’s shot before Sam can react. Sam flees into the closest building, only to be surrounded by the possessed soldiers. Nearby, Abaddon confronts Dean. After Dean sprays Abaddon with holy water, he gives Tracy the Impala’s keys and tells her to get to the arsenal.
- Abaddon, it turns out, wants Crowley — or whatever is left of him –and in exchange will offer the Winchesters quick deaths. Deal of the century. If they don’t give up the reigning King of Hell, Abaddon threatens to remove Dean’s anti-possession tattoo and take him over. This is an interesting parallel to Sam, who is currently being possessed by an angel without his consent.
- Sam is knocked unconscious by the three demons, so Ezekiel takes over his body and an explosion rocks the town. Abaddon realizes there’s an angel present and flees. There’s a woman with a survival instinct.
- Dean heads into the restaurant to find the possessed soldiers dead — stabbed with the demon-killing knife — and Ezekiel in charge of Sam’s body. Ezekiel tells Dean that he was protecting Sam. Dean tells Zeke (because Dean needs to nickname all his angel friends) that he feels guilty about anyone demons kill now because he stopped Sam from sealing the gates of Hell. Zeke says that he, from Sam’s mind, knows that Dean acted out of love. Dean replies that he’s trusting the newly-nicknamed angel, and Zeke tells him that he’s is doing the right thing.
- Sam regains consciousness and is impressed when Dean tells him that he came in and killed the three demons to protect Sam. Dean doesn’t have a chance to wallow in the guilt from lying, though, because Tracy arrives with the Impala and, after Tracy extends an olive branch to Sam, the three hunters leave town.
- The brothers return to the bunker, but Kevin is nowhere to be seen. Uh oh. Crowley, though, is still shackled to his chair and we breathe a sigh of relief. Crowley then offers the names of two underperforming demons in exchange for Kevin being his new favorite toy to wind-up. He then suggests that he and the Winchesters come to some kind of arrangement. Because that has worked out so well in the past.
- Dean goes looking for Kevin and finds him trying to leave to look for his mother. He’s clearly shaken from his conversation with Crowley, but Dean assures him that the bunker is still the safest place for him. He tells Kevin that he and Sam need him. “Because I’m useful?” Kevin snaps. “Because you’re family,” Dean replies, assuring Kevin that he and Sam would die for him. The sound you hear is that of melting hearts.
- The episode closes on a broment. Sam’s been thinking about what Tracy said, but Dean assures him that he’s helped more people than he’s hurt. He then asks Sam how he’s doing, and ominous music plays as Sam says he feels better than he has in a long time and that he’s happy. Dean is visibly uncomfortable, and something is obviously going on there because it wouldn’t be Supernatural if a Winchester was happy.
