Supernatural - Point of No Return, S05E18

This episode was crazy awesome. I was overcome with delight more than once with the fantastic interplay of the characters, and was pleased beyond measure at the perfection of the choices made both by the writers and by Dean (Jensen Ackles).

We'll start by addressing the business side of things. Dean and Sam (Jared Padalecki) finally got to meet their younger half-brother, Adam (Jake Abel), brought back from the dead by the angels for some nefarious purpose. He, naturally, ended up being the bate that was the bring Dean to saying Yes to Michael.

Zachariah (Kurt Fuller) really botched to job by doing this. While Dean had given up and was fully ready to say Yes in the hopes of saving some of the world, the confrontation made him change his mind. He had hit rock bottom, he felt he had not other choice, but when he saw Sam bleeding to death, fully believing that he would continue to believe and say No, well Dean just could not disappoint. And not only has he refused yet again, his inability to feel is likely going to go away now that he only has one direction to go - UP - and he's taking it.

But, while the progress of the story line was amazing, I will never forget some other terrific moments of this episode.

1. Bobby (Jim Beaver) pulls out a bullet and tells Dean how he wants to shoot himself with it, but he hasn't because he promised Dean that he would not give up.

2. Castiel is in a fiery rage. The glare he gives Dean prompts the comment "The last person that looked at me like that, I got laid." At which point, the part of me that loves the sexual energy between them literally squealed!

3. Zachariah's assessment of Sam and Dean's relationship was beyond accurate. "You know, Sam and Dean are psychotically, irrationally, erotically codependent on each other, right?" We know, and we LOVE it.

4. When Castiel beat the crap out of Dean because he had given up everything for him, sacrificed everything for him, and the stupid little human didn't care and was going to waste all that effort.

Those were the moments that made this episode far more than a simple (yeah, really simple) matter of hitting rock bottom so that recovery could me made. Not that things are going to be easy. After all, in all likelihood, Michael is now wearing Adam as his meat suit, as Lucifer is doing with Nick. Well, at least Zachariah is dead. He was SUCH a jerk.