Balthazar

Balthazar is an angel that appears in the sixth season of Supernatural. He first appeared in The Third Man, as a crossroad angel that took Moses's staff from heaven, breaks it into several pieces, and sells them. He was thought to be dead in the Apocalypse as Castiel mentioned, but Balthazar revealed he faked his death to follow Castiel's "shoes", meaning he left heaven for his own free will.

Season Six
Balthazar is first seen when Castiel, Sam and Dean inflitrate his mansion residence after reading his angelic signature left on a boy's ribs. Balthazar had made a bargain for the boy's soul, playing the role of an angelic crossroads dealer. Castiel confronted the angel, in shock that his friend had not fallen during the Apocalypse like he had thought. As it turned out, Balthazar had faked his own death and stolen several Biblical items from Heaven to avoid being killed for real due to the total anarchy "upstairs".

Castiel tried to bargain with his old friend for the release of the child's soul, but Raphael and his angels intervined before anthing could be talked about. Balthazar disappeared just as Raphael inflitrated the mansion and left Castiel to fight him alone.

Still angry over Castiel's leaving him in the burning circle of holy fire a year before, Raphael attacked, saying that he would be in control of Heaven soon. He knocked Castiel down several flights of stairs and beat him before revealing his archangel blade. Before he could deliver the final blow, however, Balthazar returns with a crystal-like weapon and turns Raphael's vessel into salt, forcing him to find a new host.

Amazed that he had returned, Castiel stands to thank him, but Sam and Dean arrive and trap him in a circle of holy fire. When they refuse to release him, he calls Dean a "hairless ape" and turns to Castiel for help, who only says that he "beleives the hairless ape has the floor." The brothers agree to let Balthazar go after he returns the child's soul and the weapons he stole. The angel agrees and lets makes void the contract between he and the boy, but will not return the weapons. Sam threatens to douse him in holy fire, but Castiel releases him before either of the brothers can do anything, saying that his debts to Balthazar had been repaid.

Trivia

 * Castiel notes that he must have owed Balthazar for something either during the Apocalypse or during a previous war, possibly Lucifer's rebellion.


 * Balthazar mentions that the crystal he uses to turn Raphael to a mound of salt was the same weapon used on Lot's wife when she was turned to salt for glancing back at Sodom as she and her family left the wicked city