4.18 – The Monster at The End Of This Book

4.20 – The Rapture

Jimmy awakens a year after being possessed by Castiel and has one thing on his mind. Seek out his family he left behind after agreeing to become a host vessel for an angel (which we see happen over the course of a number of flashbacks during the episode).  And it was a bittersweet reunion with his family tentative of him after a year away but the moments with his daughter and wife were touching and sad given he really didn’t know what he was in for when he signed up for the post, obviously.

Of course, once word gets out that an empty vessel is going back home the demons come hunting but luckily Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) are searching for Castiel after he escapes them and they arrive just in time to stop the demons from killing Jimmy/Castiel and his family. But when a demon possesses his wife, things change and the Winchester brothers and the former vessel fight to save them.

Meanwhile, Castiel had taken possession of Jimmy’s daughter who fights to save all of them as well and only as Jimmy is dying from a gunshot wound does he offer to become the vessel forever, saving his daughter from the torment and giving her a life to live – the ultimate sacrifice any good father would do.

More importantly than the character establishment of Castiel and his reaffirmation of being a worker for God rather than a worker for humans (or Dean has he points out), was the discovery by Dean that Sam has been drinking the blood of demons in order to get his heightened powers.

That leads to the end scene where Dean and Bobby (Jim Beaver) lock Sam away in order to, my guess, purge him of the demon blood in order to restore him down a path of the good rather than the path of evil he is currently following. Not sure if it is going to work as it looks like he gets a visit from an old friend and Ruby shows up again to give him another dose of the red stuff. It also appears as if we are definitely building toward the moment where Sam and Dean face off against one another because of it.

Dean is also going to be met with a choice which will probably bring us to the finale of the season where he either sacrifices himself, much like Jimmy did in this episode, or let the world succumb to the evils of Hell. And boy, what a ride that’s going to be.

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PCZ: In making up your audition reel what film clips would you use?

ACKLES: My entire three years on Days of Our Lives. I don’t know. There are a lot of scenes that are kind of close to me. Obviously the emotional ones are the ones I kind of remember…you put a lot of yourself into them. The scene where Sam is laying on the bed dead and I’m talking to him, telling him that I’m sorry and all that kind of stuff. Kim directed that episode and I remember going up to his office and saying, “I don’t know how many takes I can do. So what are your camera angles, how many shots are you seeing because I don’t know how much gas I’ll have to do this scene more then a couple of times.” And he adjusted his camera angles and closed off the set and kicked everybody out and allowed me to do my thing and it was kind of cool.

Another one was the grave yard scene in “What Is and What Should Never Be” where I’m on top of my Dad’s grave. And that was [Eric] Kripke. He set it up where it was going to be one shot with two dolling cameras back and forth; one tight and one a little wider. So I basically came in and it was two in the morning and I just walked up and hit my mark and gave it. I really liked how that turned out.

PCZ: If we didn’t know Jared at all do you have a story that would describe him to us?

ACKLES: Going through all my files of Jared stories. There are so many. I could tell you a story about any aspect of Jared. I can tell you when he gets angry how he is. I could tell you when he gets sad how he is. Or if he’s having a fight with a girl friend. With all of those he is a very passionate person about what he does. He loves his family and friends, he loves his dogs…and they love him.

I feel responsible for teaching him this… how he has managed to make it to 26 years and not come across anyone who has not wanted to pull his finger. I unfortunately showed him the ‘pull the finger trick’ and now he does it all the time. We’ll be sitting in the Impala while they’re fixing the camera lens, and he look at me and goes (wiggling his fingers — much to the delight of the audience) all the time.

PCZ: In “Lazarus Rising” the opening scene at the gas station, the windows blow out and you can see in one of the scenes that you have a Band-Aid on your arm and maybe scars. Any comments on that injury?

ACKLES: The great Kim Manners directed that episode. He had a knack for really making things real. If you remember some of his episodes like “Bugs.” He came up to me prior to the episode and asked, “Are you allergic to bees? Because we’re going to have thousands of really stinging bees in this scene.” But in this particular scene he wanted to use real glass instead of candy glass. Because candy glass doesn’t really shatter like tempered glass. So with the windows blowing [up] you kind of see a high and wide shot, that’s actually my stunt double, Todd Scott, who came out of there just completely bloody. But there was still glass all over the ground and I had to fall into frame at one point. So I fell right on a bunch of glass. There were other nicks and cuts and my arms were pretty bloody too. I turned to Kim, “Are you happy?” And he just goes, “Get that cleaned up. We’re going to need you in the next shot.” So I have something to remember him by. [Kim Manners died on January 25, 2009.]

PCZ: If you had a chance to play one of all the Supernatural creatures which one would it be?

ACKLES: I think I’d want to be an angel. Those guys are cool. The way they’ve created and written the angels this year is really neat . They’re all different and when the lights flash and they’ve got the big giant wings…they’re cool. (Pause) Or a vampire!

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Here’s the promo for Supernatural episode 4.20 ‘The Rapture’.

Dean and Bobby lock Sam in Bobby’s panic room so he can detox from the demon blood. However, as Bobby sees more seals are being broken he tells Dean they should let Sam out to help them fight the impending apocalypse. Dean disagrees and goes to Castiel for help. Sam and Dean have a big blowout confrontation. Robert Singer directed the episode written by Sera Gamble

When Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) receive a call on their father’s cell phone by someone claiming to be his son Adam, they’re convinced it’s a demon trying to set them up and go to meet him. What they discover is a surprising revelation that not only reopens an old investigation from their father’s hunting past, but stirs up profound reactions from Dean and Sam as well.

The episode guest stars Jake Abel as ‘Adam Milligan’ and Dedee Pfeiffer as ‘Kate Milligan.’ “Jump The Shark” was written by Andrew Dabb & Daniel Loflin and was directed by Phil Sgriccia.

Check out the sneak peeks provided by the CW Network and Warner Bros Television, then tune in on Thursday April 23rd at 9PM EST to catch an all new episode of Supernatural. Videos under read more!