Unity
Written by: Meredith Glynn
Directed by: Catriona McKenzie
Air date: October 29, 2020
Dean hits the road with Jack, who needs to complete a final ritual in the quest to beat Chuck. A difference of opinion leaves Sam and Castiel behind looking for answers to questions of their own.
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- Big Bad Ensemble: It turns out that Billie, who has been helping the Winchesters plot against Chuck all season, has only been doing so in order to usurp his place and enforce her own rule on reality.
- The Bus Came Back: The Empty-as-Meg shows up again.
- Call-Back: Recalling that Sergei was looking for a key to Death's realm in the bunker, Sam and Castiel track it down in order to reach Billie and confront her over the plan.
- Cliffhanger: At the end of the episode, Chuck has had enough of the brothers not following his wishes and leaves Jack to blow up, who slowly glows from the inside.
- Despair Event Horizon:
- Dean has clearly hit his breaking point due to his desperation to defeat Chuck, pulling a gun on Sam when he tries to stop the plan to sacrifice Jack and ranting about how he can't live as Chuck's plaything anymore.
- Amara is crushed when she learns that Dean lied to her as part of the plan and is willing to let her die, to the point that she allows Chuck to absorb her.
- Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?: As Sam is being tortured by the Empty in order to get Death to show herself Sam claims that Billie send him out to get God's Death Book (which the Empty is holding) and claims that Billie still intends to hold up her end of the bargain.
- Duality Motif: Chuck fuses with Amara, one eye bright white, the other pitch black.
- Et Tu, Brute?: Amara feels betrayed upon hearing from Chuck that Sam and Dean intend to sacrifice her, despite Dean promising that he would never hurt her.
- Fusion Dance: Chuck claims that absorbing Amara was this, as she was willing and is still inside him somewhere.
- Hourglass Plot: At this point in the story Chuck and Amara have now swapped their motivations around compared to how they were back in Season 11 with Amara now being the one advocating for the world Chuck created and trying to appeal to him while Chuck wants to wipe the slate clean and start over from scratch.
- A House Divided: Near the end of the episode, Dean is adamant on using Jack as a way to kill Chuck, while Sam and Castiel want to find another way. Sam is eventually reduced to begging Dean, who is pointing his gun at Sam, to stop, which, fortunately, works.
- Immortality Inducer: Adam is kept alive for 300,000 years by his current girlfriend, an angel named Serafina.
- Interspecies Romance: Adam, the first human in the world, and Serafina, an angel.
- The Man Behind the Man: Adam claims that Billie's plan to kill Chuck is his all along.
- Manipulative Bastard:
- Chuck. Everything that the characters have been doing so far in the season have been engineered by him, including Billie's current plan to dispose of him using Jack, because he knew that such a decision would split apart Team Free Will and make Amara lose her trust in Dean.Chuck: What part of "omniscient" do you people not understand?
- To a lesser degree, Billie. She kept the team from knowing that by destroying Chuck, Amara, and Jack, she would become the new God, entailing her with the power to send everyone and everything back to where they belong.
- Chuck. Everything that the characters have been doing so far in the season have been engineered by him, including Billie's current plan to dispose of him using Jack, because he knew that such a decision would split apart Team Free Will and make Amara lose her trust in Dean.
- New-Age Retro Hippie: Adam and his girlfriend Serafina have both the look and the lingo down.
- Oh, Crap!: Sam's reaction when he realizes Billie's true plan, since it would mean anyone who's ever come Back from the Dead would die again, and everyone from Apocalypse World would be sent back (despite the fact that said world was wiped out by Chuck).
- The Omniscient: So says Chuck himself. That said, he didn't foresee Amara's relationship with Dean, which annoys him.
- The Reveal:
- Billie has only been helping the Winchesters against Chuck because she wants to take his place.
- Chuck has been aware of Billie's plan all along, and has been hijacking it for his planned ending.
- Screw Destiny: Chuck intended for Sam and Dean's confrontation over the plan to kill him to end with a desperate Dean shooting Sam. Instead, Sam is able to talk Dean down, with the whole team defying Chuck when he rants about this.
- Secret Test of Character: When Adam presents him with a test, asking him to identify which crystal out of many that has been touched by God, Jack correctly deduces that because God is everywhere, all of them have.
- Slasher Smile: Chuck after absorbing Amara, combined with Mismatched Eyes: one bright white, the other pitch black.
- The Stars Are Going Out: Amara notices that Chuck finally arrives on Earth when she sees many falling stars in the sky.
- The Starscream: Billie is revealed to essentially be this to Chuck — she's only helping the Winchesters against him so that she can take over his position once he's gone.
- Villainous Breakdown: Chuck is enraged when his planned ending of Dean killing Sam out of desperation doesn't happen, flying into a rant about how the brothers and Castiel are "broken toys" who don't do what he wants them to.Chuck: Are you kidding me? After everything, all that? Y-you... you did it again! [...] All of you! I tried, and I tried, and I tried! But you're all just too... stupid, too stubborn, too broken. You know what? I'm over it. I'm over you.
- Yin-Yang Bomb: Essentially how Jack is supposed to kill Chuck and Amara, using the divine spark from Adam's rib to kickstart a chain reaction wherein his grace and soul supercharge and clash, resulting in an explosion.
