I thought it was another non-story-arc-related episode, where some bizarre circumstance (or perhaps even a trickster god) was causing havoc, but our boys would solve it and then go on their way. Instead, we find out that this boy, who was adopted and who's sealed file indicated that he had no father, had some pretty special powers. The urban legends and stories we tell our children which the boy believed were the ones that were coming true.
Sam and Dean went to meet his birth mother, Julia (Ever Carradine*), to try to figure out why the boy is what he is. And it turns out that she was possessed for 9 months throughout her pregnancy...and that she was a virgin. That's right, folks, this kid is the Antichrist and this episode is important. But what is an Antichrist? Just half-human and half-demon...which side will guide him?
Sam and Dean don't want to kill him, after all he's just a kid, but Castiel (Misha Collins) believes the boy need to die. Sam argues that if the boy, Jesse, is told all the facts, perhaps he'll make the right choice. Cas tells Sam that he didn't make the right choice...which was totally unfair since Cas is one of the people who withheld the facts. I don't think anyone believes Sam would have killed Lilith if anyone had had the sense to tell him that would start the apocalypse.
Jesse is stronger than anyone thinks, though. He turns Cas into an action figure, and when Julia shows up infested with a Demon, he tells it to shut up so that he can listen to what Sam has to say. Sam tells him the whole truth about what's going on, and about the danger Jesse is to his family. In the end, the boy leaves, neither with the Demon nor with the Winchester brothers. Only time will tell whether it was the smart idea to leave the boy alive. How different would the world be if Sam had never been born?
I am very excited about where this whole apocalypse thing is going. Can it be stopped? Should it be stopped? What do you think?
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