DJariya

Synopsis:

Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) respond to a call from Kevin (guest star Osric Chau), who is terrified after hearing Crowley's (guest star Mark Sheppard) voice in his head. After hearing Kevin's news, Sam and Dean team up with reaper named Ajay (guest star Assaf Cohen), who helps them deal with the second trial from the Tablet. Meanwhile, Dean receives a visit from Naomi (guest star Amanda Tapping) and realizes he must find Benny (guest star Ty Olsson) and ask for a huge favor. Guy Bee directed the episode written by Eugenie Ross-Leming & Brad Buckner (#819).

Episode 19 of 23

chrisih8u

I thought this was a great episode. Loved seeing Bobby again. I was confused about the end, though. Did Crowley really find Kevin or was he imagining it and then ran away?

Interstella5555

I think he was imagining it and theres evidence of this. Do you remember how "Crowley" got in? He blew up the windows with the demon seals. Cut to Sam and Dean returning home and you can clearly see that the windows are fine with the demonic seals intact. The voices in Kevin's head just escalated to full-blown delusion causing him to run away to God knows where. Now the boys are missing a prophet, an Angel, and God's word (tablet). The Winchesters can never catch a break

It was also nice to see Bobby again, although it feels as if this will be the LAST time we ever see him given that he's in Heaven now. He was a great character.

Ropes Pierre

until the next last time. i welcome the episode entitled "Heaven isn't too far away" as my new overlord.

PhantomStranger

It was nice to see Bobby again. I guess they just wrote Benny off the show.

chrisih8u

Oh, yeah. Good catch.

TGM

best episode in quite some time. really miss Bobby, wish they never killed him off, although he seemed confident that he might be back.

collven

Really liked the episode. The only problem was the ease in which Sam found Bobby, and Benny found Sam.

yeek

Hehe I start to think about things like this, but then I tell myself to stop thinking about it. Great episode. This season is really rolling.

riley_dude

Why did they kill Bobby off anyway? Budget cuts?
I wish he been kept a semi-regular

PhantomStranger

I think some actors don't want to spend nine months a year in Vancouver, if they aren't made big financial offers to continue. Hour-long serial dramas that run a full season are grueling affairs on the lead actors. Most of the budget is going to keep Sam and Dean happy.

dhmac

Great episode. The arc this season just seems to get better as it gets into the final stretch.

The pre-credit opening was one of the goriest openings I can remember ever seeing on the show (even if it was all just a hallucination). And I really liked the depiction of Hell as a grisly dungeon (although I was surprised that Crowley didn't have Bobby strapped down in a torture chamber).

If this is the last we see of Benny, I think he did get a good character arc in the show in returning to the world with Dean at the beginning of the season, and then finishing off some business he had, and finally - with no more reasons to stay here - going back to purgatory.

Yeah, the windows were possibly a giveaway that Kevin was hallucinating... however, I do wonder if Crowley could've somehow repaired or replaced the windows just so Sam and Dean would think Kevin ran away instead of being captured.