Supernatural Review: Leviathans are the New Demons

Let us take a moment to mourn the possible true death of one Castiel (Misha Collins) the angel. It appears that this time, his vessel has finally expired, as there were too many Leviathans in one piñata. He will be surely missed and mourned by Supernatural fans everywhere. The show won’t quite be the same without his trench coat wearing antics. Though Cas did get power mad enough to justify his own actions, in the end he tried to remain a true friend to the Winchesters. R.I.P. Cas.

The Leviathans were forced to leave Dean (Jensen Ackles) and Bobby (Jim Beaver) alone for the moment because their vessel, Cas the overstuffed piñata was about to burst open. In a clever maneuver, they deposited themselves into a nearby municipal water system and thus able to use the pipelines to find themselves new bodies.

Sam’s hallucinations escalate where Lucifer is now a constant plague upon his sanity. Kudos to Jared Padalecki for playing a new version of Sam Winchester that I thus dub as Crazy Sam. We’ve had regular Sam, Soulless Sam, Sam with his soul back with no memory, Sam with his soul back but with flashbacks, and now Crazy Sam. As this latest version of the younger Winchester brother, Padalecki has to play a man who can no longer tell what is real and what isn’t. His hallucinations seem so lifelike that he can’t tell if he still is in the cage or is actually out of it as Dean and Bobby tell him.

The majority of the episode has Sam attempt to control the crazy in his head, but it proves challenging as the Lucifer in his subconscious has many tricks up his sleeve. He tries to manage it as best he can though as both Dean and Bobby go off to investigate Leviathan activity.

The Leviathans seem to have their own plans with a head Leviathan in charge. So far they take over humans as their vessels and look for ways to feed on them indiscreetly. This is curious because the way they’ve been talked about by Death, they don’t seem very easy to kill. Why the need to be on the down low if there isn’t anything higher up on the food chain? I don’t think angels or demons can kill them, but then again that’s just my assumption. One thing’s for sure, they aren’t the regular monsters that the Winchesters have fought before.

Dean and Bobby track a small group of Leviathans down to a hospital where one Leviathan (previously in the body of young girl) has discovered that a medical facility was the perfect place to feed without being discovered. How? Through catching Dr. Sexy on TV of course.

Sheriff Jodie Mills (Kim Rhodes) witnessed a Leviathan (whom we shall call Dr. Sexy) eating the innards of her former hospital roommate and calls Bobby to get her the hell out of there before she was next.

After poking around the hospital morgue, Dr. Sexy discovers Bobby, and while he manages to get out, the Leviathans torch his house. Currently the elder hunter’s whereabouts is unknown.

Dean goes in search of Sam after investigating his own Leviathan lead. He tracks his brother to a warehouse of sorts where Sam is shooting an imaginary Lucifer. Dean finally convinces Sam that he’s real by helping him focus on the pain of a recent nasty gash on his palm. Having spent some time in hell himself, Dean tells him that the physical immediate pain on Sam’s palm is different from his hallucinations. True enough, as Sam presses into his wound Lucifer’s image begins to flicker and eventually disappear. While that’s all well and good, this doesn’t seem like a great long-term solution in determining reality. I wouldn’t want Sam to become a cutter just so he could feel pain and hold the crazy at bay.

When the brothers return to Bobby’s they find it burned to a crisp and encounter the Leviathan who is higher in the ranks than the others. It manages to break Dean’s leg and knock Sam unconscious before Dean releases a car on top of it (it doesn’t die though as the black ooze seeps back into the body).

Dean has no choice but to call 911 and in the emergency vehicle they find out that they are being taken back to Sioux Falls General Hospital, aka the Leviathan dinner buffet. To make matters worse, Lucifer pops back and appears in front of Sam, who admits that he isn’t real but he isn’t going anywhere either.

Since season one, the Winchesters have dealt with supernatural entities that use humans as vessels or meat suits. First it was demons, then angels, and now Leviathans. In a way, even though it’s a new group of bad guys, it feels very familiar. We don’t know what the Leviathans want after being cooped up in Purgatory for eons, but them wanting to keep a low profile leads me to wonder whose attention they don’t want to attract. Could it be the real God’s even though he’s MIA? I doubt if Death would do anything about it, as he is a fan of cleaning up one’s own messes.

With Bobby’s sudden disappearance, poor Dean is at wit’s end. He finally admits in a voice message for Bobby that he is not good. They can never seem to catch a break and it’s been once intense situation after another. The elder hunter is most likely still alive but how Dean and Sam are gong to get out of Leviathan General Hospital, well we’ll have to just tune in next week to find out.

Season 7, Episode 2: Hello, Cruel World (originally aired September 30, 2011).

For more Supernatural, click here. Fridays at 9/8C on The CW

Images courtesy of The CW and Jack Rowand