Abandon All Hope...

Abandon All Hope... is the 10th episode of Season 5.

Synopsis


Sam, Dean and Castiel search for Lucifer to try and kill him with the Colt. They are aided in their dangerous quest by fellow hunters Bobby, Ellen and Jo.

Plot
Castiel finds Crowley, and with Jo's help the brothers enter his house. To their surprise Crowley shoots his henchmen and gives them the Colt, stating that he wants Lucifer dead because he believes that eventually Lucifer will kill all demons after the humans are dead. He also informs them that Lucifer will be at Carthage, Missouri.

Back at Bobby's place, Bobby photographs himself, Sam, Dean, Ellen, Jo and Castiel, as he believes that this might be their last night on earth. When the team arrives in Missouri, Castiel sees Reapers everywhere. He tries to find out why they are there and is captured by Lucifer, who tries to convince Castiel to join him, while showing that his own temporary vessel Nick, overpowered by Lucifer's presence inside him, is dying. Meg arrives and sends hellhounds after the brothers and the Harvelles, and while trying to help Dean, Jo is severely wounded. While taking shelter in a hardware store, Dean calls Bobby, who tells him the Reapers are in town because they are waiting for their boss to show: Death, one of the Four Horsemen. Realizing she won't recover from this, Jo suggests they build a bomb to blow up the hellhounds, using her as bait to lure the demonic dogs. Ellen volunteers to stay behind, too, so she can let the hellhounds in and set off the bomb while Dean and Sam escape. After a tearful goodbye with Dean, Jo dies in Ellen's arms, who then blows up the building, killing herself and the hellhounds. The brothers find Lucifer in the middle of summoning Death, and Dean shoots Lucifer with the Colt. However, he is healed instantly and reveals that there are only five beings the Colt can't kill—and he happens to be one of them. Lucifer sacrifices several demons to summon Death, stating that "they're just demons". Meanwhile, Castiel manages to free himself from his trap and takes the brothers to Bobby's.

There, Bobby throws the picture showing them all into the fire, and, together with the brothers, grieves silently over Jo and Ellen's death. Before the screen fades to black, The Camera zooms in on Jo's face in the picture as Dean looks at it burn.

Characters

 * Sam Winchester
 * Dean Winchester
 * Castiel
 * Nick/Lucifer
 * Bobby Singer
 * Ellen Harvelle
 * Jo Harvelle
 * Meg
 * Crowley
 * Death (unseen)
 * Mr. Pendleton (the banker)

Featured Supernatural Beings

 * Angels
 * Demons
 * Hellhounds
 * Reapers
 * Horsemen (Death - unseen but presence made known)

Featured Music
"Everybody Plays the Fool" by Main Ingredient

"Oye Como Va" by Santana

Continuity

 * The Winchesters go after the Colt thanks to Becky's information from the previous episode.
 * After acquiring the Colt, the Winchesters attempt to kill Lucifer with it, just as the Future Dean tried to do in The End.
 * Lucifer, inhabiting Nick's body, was last seen in Free To Be You and Me.
 * Ellen and Jo were last seen in Good God, Y'all.
 * Meg was last seen in Sympathy for the Devil.
 * Hellhounds were last featured in No Rest For The Wicked.

Quotes

 * [Crowley is about to seal the deal with a (male) banker with a kiss]
 * Crowley: Your choice. You can cling to six decades of deep-seated homophobia, or give it up and get a complete bailout for your bank's ridiculous incompetence.


 * Dean: Oh, uh, excuse me for asking, but aren't you kind of signing your own death warrant? I mean, what happens to you if we go up against the devil and lose?
 * Crowley: Number one, he's going to wipe us all out anyway. Two, after you leave here, I go on an extended vacation to all points nowhere. And three, how about you don't miss, okay! MORONS!


 * [Jo leans in towards Dean as if to kiss him, then puts a finger to his lips]
 * Jo: No. Sweetheart, if this is our last night on earth, then I'm going to spend it with a little thing I call self-respect. (laughs and leaves)
 * Dean: ... If you're into that sort of thing.


 * Lucifer: Castiel, I'm told you came here in an automobile.
 * Castiel: ...Yes.
 * Lucifer: (with genuine perplexity) What was that like?
 * Castiel: Um... slow... confining.
 * Lucifer: What a peculiar thing you are.


 * Lucifer: (to Sam) I was a son. A brother, like you, a younger brother, and I had an older brother who I loved. Idolized, in fact. And one day I went to him and I begged him to stand with me, and Michael... Michael turned on me. Called me a freak. A monster. And then he beat me down. All because I was different. Because I had a mind of my own. Tell me something, Sam. Any of this sound familiar?