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• Will Mary ever adjust to being back on earth?
• Did Cas "heal" the Impala too because Dean fixed the heavily-damaged car incredibly fast.
• Will a Winchester ever NOT try to bury their problems in work?
• Why did Dean point out the "cool bike"...the motorcycle parked outside the gas station where they were fueling up? It looked like a British model; perhaps they are already being followed by the British MOL enforcer....
• How did Moriarty manage to "wall himself up" in his basement?
• Did Rowena really manage to securely stash Lucifer at the bottom of the ocean?
• Are Cas and Crowley partners now in their shared search and goal of locking Lucifer back up?
• Will Sam and Dean be able to go forward having been left yet again by one of their parents?
• Is this the last we'll see of Rick Springfield as Lucifer's vessel? Now that it's on "rapid deterioration" mode at the bottom of the ocean. We know that Lucifer islooking for something permanent...will he attempt to go after a Winchester again? Sam? Mary?????
• When will see Mary again? How much will she have to do with Sam and Dean's lives going forward?
• Will Mary's leaving bring them together? Or cause a rift?
• Mary's wearing a ring around her neck inthis episode; larger than something she'd wear. Is it John's wedding ring? If so, how did she get it since he was alive when she died? Did Sam and Dean bring it home when John died in the hospital? And if so, when did they give it to her?

• Dean and Mary are very much alike.
• After all his time with Sam and Dean, Cas is still an incredibly awkward fake federal agent.
• Lucifer is tired of having to change vessels.
• Rowena has some balls after all; she actually banishes Lucifer!
• Mary takes the somewhat selfish move of leaving Sam and Dean to "figure things out".
• Mary, in fact, DOES remember her time in heaven where she lived in a heaven of her own memories with John by her side and Sam and Dean as small children.

• Dean and Mary both love bacon.
• Dean and Mary both love loud classic rock.
• The haunted house is in St. Paul, Minnesota.
• Usually, an iron chain would immediately eject a ghost from the body of the possessed person, but this did not happen this time; not until Sam burned the bones.
• The motel room the Winchester stayed in was set designer Jerry Wanek's tribute to Prince with the male and female symbols in the room divider screen.
• Jensen has stated in interviews that getting the Dean/Mary dynamic right has been a challenge.
• Writer Robert Berens did not explain the meaning of the title of this episode...saying, instead, that it was "personal".

• Cas calls himself "Agent Beyoncé" which makes Crowley assume he is then "Agent Jay Z"...Beyoncé's husband.
• Allusions to Jane Fonda in leg warmers...a reference to her 1980's work out videos.
• The names of Mary, Dean, and Sam as agents refer to the Partridge Family TV show from the '80's (Shirley, Cassidy, Bonaduce...interesting that Mary took the character's name from that show; Shirley Partridge...while she gave Sam and Dean the real names of the actors who played the sons on that show...hmmm...)
• Lucifer says he does not want his vessel to deteriorate to the point that he looks like Keith Richards...Rowena, once she double-crosses him, say he'll look even worse after the spell; more like Iggy Pop than Keith Richards. I guess Iggy Pop is the pinnacle of aging rock star decay.
• Rowena used the ash from a Harthorne tree to paint a sigil on Lucifer for her spell. In Celtic and Druid mythology, the Hawthorn tree is guarded by faerie folk and is believed to grow at the portals between this world and the spirit world. Witches were also thought to make their brooms from the wood of the Hawthorn tree.

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EPISODE 4: AMERICAN NIGHTMARE