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DEAN WINCHESTER IS SAVED!
...oh, wait. That comes later.
So, Season 3 ended with the brothers Winchester in a bit of a sticky wicket. Well, Dean more than Sam given that he was left to be chained up in thunderstorm Hell while Sam cried the sweet, salty man tears that he's known for crying.
So, naturally... the show's over and there's nothing more to say. G'night, everybody!
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...yeah, this joke doesn't really work as well in text, does it?
Lazarus Rising begins with us getting a happy little recap of the events of All Hell Breaks Loose, Part 2 and the events of Season 3 set to AC/DC's "You Shook Me All Night Long". Naturally, we already know how it ends with Dean in the Pit with his bill having come due and him having been turned into puppy chow.
After the "Now" title card, we get some jump scare shots of Dean's eyes as he's clearly seeing hellish things... and then begins to cough. Lighting a lighter, he finds himself in a pine box and starts calling for help. Getting none, he starts to claw his way out and somehow manages it, finding himself having been buried out in... frankly, the middle of nowhere.
Given what we find out about how Dean's back later on, I'm going to start a counter gag here and now!
The Angels Are Dicks Count: 1
Oh, and all the trees around his grave have been felled... because theatrics.
Following the title card, Dean makes his way down a sun parched highway to a gas station. After finding it closed and no one present, he breaks in and gets his fill of water and finds a handy newspaper of exposition telling him that it's September of 2008 - only a few months after he left. Checking his chest, he finds it wound free, but finds a burn mark in the shape of a human hand on his shoulder that he clearly doesn't remember getting. While he partakes of some Busty Asian Beauties, however, Dean finds himself facing his greatest foe yet... television static! Or, rather, what he believes is demonic interference as all the appliances within the place start going haywire. He attempts to line the doors and windows with salt, but the noise becomes so intense that it starts shattering glass.
It relents, but Dean is left with more questions than answers in the wake of it.
Finding a payphone, he attempts to call Sam and then calls Bobby... who is rather resistant to the idea of Dean being back. More so when Dean arrives at Bobby's place... at least until Bobby puts him through the proper tests with silver and finally holy water.... just to be sure. Bobby is shocked, frankly, since nobody comes back from the Pit. Even if Dean were to claw his way out, his body should have been beyond unusable after four months in the ground.
Sam, apparently, was insistent on burying Dean rather than giving him the hunter's funeral. He's apparently been out of contact with Bobby as well, completely off the radar. Dean fears that Sam made a deal, telling Bobby about the state of his gravesite and the encounter with the presence at the gas station. Getting the GPS on one of Sam's phones turned on, they find that Sam is in Pontiac, Illinois - not far from where Dean was buried. Setting out, they hit up a motel and find a seemingly unimportant brunette shacked up with Sam.
Sam, naturally, reacts the same way as Bobby did. After being pulled off of Dean (and a gay joke - because 2008), Sam is likewise completely confused about how Dean could be back. He claims to have made no deal, saying that he tried everything including trying to make a demon deal without success. That, of course, leaves us with the question as to who or what brought Dean...
Sam has been hunting down Lilith, admittedly with no success apart from a few trails that have gone cold save for the demons around Dean's gravesite. With no answers, Bobby says he knows a psychic they should consult. Sam also gives Dean his necklace back and he ends up asking him about Hell, though Dean insists that he's blacked it out. Sam seems to buy this.
Sam is an idiot, as we see when Dean looks in the mirror and has himself some close-up jump scare eye flashbacks.
After Dean reclaims the Impala (and chides Sam's choice in music in his baby), they head off. Dean asks Sam about the night that he died, how Sam managed to survive Lilith. He describes how her light show had no effect on him. Ruby, he says, is dead so far as he knows. Sam also denies that he's been doing anything with his psychic mumbo-jumbo like Ruby had wanted him to do. Dean seems to buy this.
Dean is an idiot.
Bobby introduces Sam and Dean to Pamela Barnes the "best damn psychic in the state" who has been digging into who pulled Dean out of Hell, but has been able to find nothing from the spirits aplenty. Hence... a seance to try to get a look at it. After some Dean and Pamela flirting (and her fulfilling every fangirl's dream by trying to wrangle a threesome out of both of the boys), they get to business. Pam puts a hand to Dean's new branding and begins the Seeing. A being known as "Castiel" apparently tells her to stop... but Pam continues to push things while the electronics go haywire...
...and Pam's eyes get literally burned out of her skull by this "Castiel".
...yeah, the counter's not going up on this one. He did give her fair warning.
Later, Pam is stable and out of ICU, but the boys now have a name to work off of. Sam is reluctant and says they should be trying to go after the demons instead. The demons, however, are already there as the waitress at the diner the boys are at and several patrons make themselves known. There's a tense exchange, but it becomes clear that the demons have no idea what brought Dean out of Hell either... and they're terrified at what crossing whatever it was that did bring him out. The boys leave after it becomes clear that the demons aren't going to act. Sam wants to go back and deal with the demons, but Dean insists they stick with the Castiel case.
In the motel later, Sam sneaks out while Dean sleeps. While Sam heads off, Dean has an encounter with the electronics-disturbing presence again that trashes the motel room and leaves Dean with bleeding ears. Bobby comes to the rescue and the two vacate, Dean ready to summon up Castiel and give him whatfor.
He calls up Sam, the two talking around each other and not revealing what they're doing to the other. Sam is at the diner, Dean and Bobby are going to summon Castiel (despite Bobby's insistence that this is a bad idea - although Dean does agree with that).
At the diner, Sam finds the place with the bodies of the staff and patrons about... and the waitress from earlier who, like Pam, has had her eyes burned out of her skull as have the other patrons. The waitress insists that it's the end - they're all dead. When Sam questions her, she tells him to go to Hell. He then raises his hand... and mentally exorcises the demon!
...again, Dean is an idiot.
Who should walk in after this but the brunette from earlier - revealed to be Ruby, who Sam has apparently been partnered with over the months that Dean has been away. Ruby insists that this isn't a demon who is responsible for Dean coming back as he did... it's got to be something even stronger than that.
At a shed in the middle of nowhere, Dean and Bobby have used spray paint to make "talismans from every faith on the globe" and put Bobby's arsenal to use to be ready for literally anything. Bobby, still reluctant, begins the ritual.
Back at the diner, Ruby and Sam talk about Dean finding out about Sam's psychic stuff and how he's going to be pissed if he doesn't find out from Sam. Sam is reluctant to tell him, but says he will, and says it feels good to save people like he is. He wants to keep going.
Back at the ranch shed, nothing seems to have happened with the ritual... and then the rafters start going haywire. The lightbulbs explode... and in enters a man in a trenchcoat who will be stealing the spotlight for several seasons to come. Dean and Bobby fire salt rounds galore into him, and it does nothing. He approaches.
DEAN: Who are you?
CASTIEL: I'm the one who gripped you tight and raised you from perdition.
Dean thanks him with a stab from Ruby's knife... which does nothing. Bobby attempts to bash his brains out, and Castiel puts him to sleep with the touch of two fingers. He explains, now that they're alone, that he's an Angel of the Lord, demonstrating this when a flash of lightning reveals the shadow of wings on the back wall.
Castiel explains that he did try to warn Pam and that the electronics going haywire was him trying to talk to Dean - certain people can perceive his true form. The current form, however, is a vessel... something his meatsuit prayed for, rather than forced possession as a demon would. Dean is skeptical of all of this, of course, and Castiel cuts to the quick of him.
DEAN: Why did you do it?
CASTIEL: Because God commanded it. Because we have work for you.
...aaaaand that's Lazarus Rising. Yep, ends right there.
Honestly, as far as season openers go, this is a pretty good one. We get a lot of exposition and a lot of new lore dropped on us all at once - in particular the existence of angels within the universe of Supernatural.
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