History Recap / SupernaturalS13E01LostAndFound

* GoodIsNotNice: Dean is a heroic character, but he is not the most patient or polite of men (as seen during Miriam's story) and his plan up until the end of the episode is to murder a newborn who Kelly and his friend Castiel died protecting, because he is convinced that Jack would TurnOutLikeHisFather.

* HurtingHero: Dean is less-inclined to give Jack the benefit of the doubt than usual because he is still heartbroken by the triple-whammy losses of his recently-reunited mother Mary, his best friend Castiel, and [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg even Crowley]].

* KilledOffForReal: Seemingly Castiel, Crowley, and Kelly, whose deaths all are sticking after the borderline KillEmAll ending of the previous episode. Castiel even gets a hunter pyre to hammer it home. Miriam is also introduced and killed in the episode proper. Subverted with Mary, whom Dean is convinced is dead but is shown to be alive and in Lucifer's clutches.

* StrongFamilyResemblance: Jack [[RuleOfSymbolism pointedly]] doesn't resemble Lucifer's vessel at all; he resembles Jefferson Rooney or ''maybe'' Jimmy Novak (Castiel's).

* PrayerIsALostResort: Dean prays to Chuck for help, alternately begging and ''demanding'' he bring Cas, Mary and Crowley back after everything else he's put the Winchesters through.

Season 13 begins exactly where season 12 left off, with Sam and Dean left to pick up the pieces after the loss of their mother, the demise of Crowley, and the heartbreaking death of Castiel. The birth of Jack leaves the Winchester brothers with differing opinions on how to deal with a Nephilim. After being dragged into the breach, Mary (guest star Samantha Smith) must learn to survive Lucifer and an apocalyptic world.

* NoSale: Miriam stabs Jack in the heart with an angel blade. He stares at it baffled for a few seconds and pulls it out to reveal he's unharmed.

* AntiAntiChrist: As Kelly believed, Jack seems inclined towards this trope overall, being innocent rather than malicious.
* AntiVillain: Lily is a downplayed example. While she doesn't show much in the way of characterization later on, she is sympathetic towards Kelly and Castiel, in contrast to Conrad. With Conrad, she is blasted out of the episode with an angel-banishing sigil and therefore is spared Miriam's fate.

* BewareTheSillyOnes: Miriam is an inebriated, MotorMouth joke character at the fast food place who refuses to believe they don't have French fries and tells an uninterested Dean a long-winded story about her annoying roommate. She turns out to be the villain of the episode, who tries to murder an innocent bystander, Dean, and Jack with little change in personality.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Sam towards both Dean (his big brother) and arguably Jack. Sam defends wet behind the ears Jack to Dean and reaches out to the kid, but is also willing to shoot him to save Dean from an attack by him - though he later apologizes for it. At the end of the episode, Sam takes Jack back home to the Bunker to watch over him with Dean's extremely reluctant permission, given that it's shown that nothing they have can kill him.
* BoyishShortHair: Lily has short hair and looks mildly androgynous, [[OtherworldlyAndSexuallyAmbiguous fittingly for an angel]].

* GlowingEyes: Jack's eye turn glowing yellow right before he uses his powers.
* GoodIsNotNice: Dean is a heroic character, but he is not the most patient or polite of men (as seen during Miriam's story) and his plan up until the end of the episode is to murder a newborn Kelly and his friend Castiel died protecting because he is convinced that Jack would TurnOutLikeHisFather.
* GoodIsNotSoft: Although Sam wants to believe there's good in Jack, he still shoots him to knock him out in order to protect his brother.

* LikeFatherLikeSon: Subverted with Jack and his biological father Lucifer, but played straighter with him and his adopted father Castiel, with whom Jack shares a number of personality traits. Especially notable in that Jack never met Castiel face-to-face - only from within Kelly's womb - and so theoretically never seen Castiel exhibit the behaviors Jack copies.

** Mary's absence is felt after a season of her sons having her back. Dean mourns, believing that Lucifer killed her immediately after she trapped him with her in the alternate universe, while Sam holds out hope that she is still alive and they can save her. The ending of the episode reveal she is in fact alive and that Lucifer has some plan to use her.

* NoSale: Miriam stabs Jack in the heart with an angel blade. He stares at it baffled for a few seconds and pulls it out unharmed.
* OccultBlueEyes: The angels' eyes glow a deep, shining blue when they communicate with one another through Angel Radio.

* StrongFamilyResemblance: Jack [[RuleOfSymbolism pointedly]] doesn't resemble Lucifer's vessel at all; he resembles Castiel's.

* TurnOutLikeHisFather: Dean tries to kill Jack on sight because he is the spawn of Satan and could be capable of destroying the world.

* WouldHurtAChild: Dean averts his normal FriendToAllChildren status and tries to kill the newborn Jack. Likely helping is Dean's grief over the loss of his mom and friends manifesting (as often with Dean) as anger, and the fact that Jack does not ''look'' like a child. In addition, Sam shoots Jack to put him down temporarily and Miriam stabs him in the heart to try to kill him.

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* StrongFamilyResemblance: Jack [[RuleOfSymbolism pointedly]] doesn't resemble Lucifer's vessel at ''all''. He resembles Castiel.

* GenreSavvy: Given their track record with trusting monsters, Dean's refusal to believe that Jack is anything but bad might come across as this.

* SweetTooth: Jack takes after his uncle Gabriel in his love of candy and when eating it, gives us his first real smile to demonstrate his child-like innocence. And it's [[WhenHeSmiles adorable]].

Next: Recap/SupernaturalS13E02TheRisingSun]

* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Capricious as ever, Lucifer is perfectly happy to kill Mary on the spot when he suddenly stops himself and suggests that he might need her alive.

* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Lucifer refrains from killing Mary because he has an idea for her, setting her up as his pawn. ItRunsInTheFamily.

* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Miriam, who is completely smashed and amusingly zany. She shows up drunk in broad daylight to a pirate-themed fast food place and keeps pestering the increasingly irritated cashier for French fries they don't offer.

* {{Jerkass}}: The angel Conrad's only defining quality, lacking the sympathy of his partner Lily and the funniness of Miriam. When Lily sees that Castiel is dead, she says he [[TheWoobie deserved better]], only for Conrad to say, "No, he didn't."

* BurgerFool: Jack stumbles across the sheriff's son and his co-worker at a pirate-themed fast food place, already in uniform and getting ready for it to open for the day. After Clark goes with him and his mother to the sheriff's station, his co-worker gets hassled by an already drunk Miriam and an investigating Sam.

* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Miriam, who is completely smashed and amusingly zany. She shows up drunk in broad daylight to a pirate fast food place and keeps pestering the increasingly irritated cashier for French fries they don't offer.

* PluckyGirl: Male example with Sam, who is determined to believe there is good in Jack, that Mary is still alive and can be rescued, and that Cass can be resurrected. [[SiblingYinYang Dean]] is too devastated to believe any of it and assumes the worst, but so far, Sam seems 2-0, so maybe.

* UnsatisfiableCustomer: Miriam keeps demanding French fries despite being told they don't sell them.

* PowerIncontinence: Jack has little control over his powers. They flare out of control when he's scared or angry and he doesn't know how to direct them at targets that pose an imminent threat.

* HowDidIShotWeb: Jack can make the vending machine rain candy, but doesn't know how he does it.