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Felicia Day returns to “Supernatural” with the key to saving Dean

When we last saw Supernatural‘s lesbian character Charlie (played by Felicia Day), she had returned from Oz to chase down the dark side of her soul. After a pretty vicious fight with Dean (who has a ton of his own evil issues), Dark and Light Charlie fused back together. Pretty badly beaten but determined, Charlie offers to search out the Book of the Damned for the brothers, hoping it might help save Dean.

On last night’s episode, Charlie is trying to outrun some baddies who have a creepy compass that tells them where she’s hiding. Much to their surprise, Charlie gets the jump on them, stabbing one of the men through the throat with her trusty machete, and slicing the other one’s hand. They are after what Charlie has in her backpack, the remaining man explains in a southern drawl. Charlie calls him “Gambit” (ha!) and tells him enough with the sinister mansplaining. Gambit tells her that even if she kills him, more of his family members will come after her and they won’t stop until they get what they want. When Charlie is distracted by the man’s wrist tattoo, he gets the upper hand. As she runs from him, he shoots her in the side, but she manages to get away-for now.

Meanwhile, Metatron (a fallen angel) and Castiel (the angel all that slash fiction is about) are tooling around in Castiel’s car. Metatron has been rendered mortal, and proved useless in removing the Mark of Cain from Dean. However, he does have some info on how to return some of Castiel’s angelic grace, so that’s what they are trying to do. Castiel puts in a call to Sam, to get an update on the Mark of Cain research and also to ask if he can kill Metatron, whose musings about all his new human feelings is really starting to piss Castiel off.

At the Winchester’s, Dean reveals that the Mark is a curse, which he found out from Rowena (a 300-year-old witch, who-surprise-tried to kill Dean). They get a call from Charlie, who is injured. Being the badass that she is, she sewed her damn wound closed with dental floss. She tells them about the “southern-fried d-bags” who have been hounding her since she got the Book of the Damned. She can’t read the book as it’s in a completely bizarro language, but she did find information that confirms the book can undo curses. The brothers find her a cabin to hide out in for a bit until they can get to her.

Sam and Dean grab every language decoder they have and set out to find Charlie. Dean is full of energy and for the first time since he got the Mark, he actually feels a sense of hope. He might even take a long-ass vacation after all is said and done.

At a diner, Metatron is going gaga for a plate of waffles. See, angels don’t eat food for pleasure, but humans do. He shovels the stack of fluffy goodness in his mouth while Castiel grimaces at him. Metatron tries to bond with him about the human delights, but Castiel is too angry about what Metatron did to his boyfriend friend Dean. Metatron is stalling on reuniting Castiel with his grace. He gets the poo cramps (maybe angels are lactose intolerant) and Castiel escorts him to the men’s room. As they enter, a trucker watches them and exposes a big ol’ shiny knife in his pocket.

Sam and Dean arrive at the cabin, and Charlie is exhausted but okay. She has learned that the Book of the Damned was written by a nun about seven hundred years prior who was plagued with dark visions. Oh, and the book is made of the nun’s own skin and blood, so gross. Dean gets all spooky when he flips through the book, so he suggests that they keep it away from him.

Metatron and Castiel leave the diner and run into the trucker who knows their names. The guy is a cupid who is hella pissed that the men/angels (mangles?) royally screwed up heaven. Just as the cupid is about to kill Castiel with his special angel knife, Metatron stabs him in the back, saving Castiel.

At the cabin, Charlie shows Dean a drawing of Gambit’s tattoo so he can research the culty family. Sam is busy trying to translate the Book of the Damned which is in a Sumerian dialect. There ain’t no Rosetta Stone app for that. Charlie determines that the book is in code, which only makes their job about a thousand times harder. However, Charlie loves a nerdy challenge but Sam is trying to hide his hopeless feeling about the whole thing. He encloses the book in a lead lined box.

The lead box was a stellar idea because now Gambit and his henchman can’t track the book with their little compass.

Metatron and Castiel arrive at a library where Castiel’s grace is supposed to be. When Metatron admits that he doesn’t know exactly where it is, Castiel tortures him a bit. Clues are hidden in Metatron’s favorite books and they have to solve riddles they find within to track down the grace.

Dean has found info on the family that has been chasing Charlie. They are the Steins and have a long history of being complete evil dicks. The Steins used spells from the Book of the Damned, which they lost over a hundred years back. Dean warns that using the book, brings unspeakable darkness unto its users, and it’s been calling out to him since he had it in his hands. It wants him to use it for evil. Dean wants to destroy the book, even if it holds the answer to releasing him from the Mark. Sam refuses to give up and insists on at least translating the book, because he can’t face losing his brother again. Dean is insistent though that the book is no good.

As Metatron and Castiel try to track down the grace, they argue about being angels. Castiel still holds tight to the belief that they are part of some big family, but Metatron thinks they are just sad, cogs in a heavenly machine. The whole time, Metatron has been using his blood to write a spell that knocks Castiel out.

While Dean is gone, Sam tells Charlie about the time when the brothers had a chance to close the gates of hell, but Dean refused to let Sam sacrifice himself. It ended up causing a big fight between them. Charlie laments about the life she thought she’d have with a million dollar start up in Silicon Valley and a happy marriage to Scarlett Johansson. Now she’s sleeping with one eye open and happy to be alive. Sam gets it. He kept thinking that one day he’d get back to the life he’d left, but this is his life now and he doesn’t want to do it without Dean.

At the library, Metatron is busy taunting Castiel and recovering his demon tablets. Castiel struggles but recovers his grace at the same time that Metatron runs off with the tablet. Reabsorbing his grace blows the library to bits, and he gets all glowylike.

After killing some dude at a gas station, Gambit runs into Dean. Dean catches a glimpse of the clerk’s dead body in the mirror, and pulls a gun out. Gambit’s henchman grabs Dean, and reveals his mark, which impresses Gambit’s evil tingly parts. Gambit’s name is actually Jake, which is disappointing, and when he spies the gummy bears Dean was buying, he knows they are for Charlie. He asks Dean if he plans to use the book to remove the Mark, but Dean stays mum. Jake confirms that the book can remove the Mark of Cain, but it can also unleash some uber evil, so best not to mess with it. Dean headbutts both men, and manages to get his gun back. He fires an entire clip into the henchman, who finally falls allowing Dean to escape and run back to the cabin.

Jake tracks them down at the cabin, with a fresh set of henchmen but Dean is quickly lighting a fire to destroy the book. As Dean calls out to Sam to burn the book, Stein family baddies burst through the windows attacking Dean and Charlie. Jake grabs Sam by the throat, even as Dean pumps him full of lead. He finally succumbs to a stab wound from Sam, as the book burns away Dean’s chance at being free of the Mark.

Back at Winchester headquarters, Castiel is pissed that he didn’t kill Metatron when he had the chance. Sam tells him to look on the bright side: he got his grace back. Charlie arrives bearing groceries and hugs for Castiel, who she’d never met before. Charlie wonders if Castiel can cure Dean with his angel powers and whatnot, but he can’t. She jokes about him curing her carpel tunnel, and he places his fingers on her forehead and does it.

Dean comes in bearing pizza and the mark of unspeakable evil. They all sit down to eat, but Sam can barely keep a fake smile on his face. He has a secret now. He didn’t burn the Book of the Damned after all. He goes to Rowena to ask her help in saving Dean.

Hopefully Charlie will stick around for a bit, as it’s always a delight to see Felicia Day on our teevees.

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