
- Will Sam ever get his soul back?
- Where did Meg go, and will she be back?
- Would Dean really kill Samuel?

- Crowley was indeed lying to Sam and Dean!
- Samuel was working for Crowley because the demon promised to bring back Mary.
- Castiel is not winning the fight in heaven.
- Sam's soul has been in the cage with Lucifer and Michael for over a year, and everyone (except Dean) agrees that it's probably too damaged to be safely returned to Sam's body.


- Dean - "Come on, the guy's a friggin' replicant! He needs his soul." A replicant is an artificial human being in Philip K. Dick's sci-fi novel Do Android Dream of Electric Sheep, later made into the movie Blade Runner.
- Crowley - "Best purchase I've made since Dick Cheney." Cheney was vice president under George W. Bush.
- Dean - "All right, all right. Look, Shawshank's a great flick, but let's skip the shower scene, huh?" Refers to Shawshank Redemption, the 1994 film adaptation of Stephen King's "Rita Rayworth and the Shawshank Redemption." Specifically, there is a prison shower scene in which another prisoner comes in while Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is showering and tells him he could be a "friend" to him.



Death is back! And he has an appointment with Dean, who asks for help getting Sam's soul back. Death will help, as long as Dean covers for him for a day so he can have a little vacation. Meanwhile, Sam doesn't really want his damaged soul back and asks Balthazar for help, who says it's possible to work a protective spell -- with the blood of his father. The closest thing Sam has is Bobby ...