User blog comment:Dominic1743/“The Trap” Discussion/@comment-26982641-20200118103412/@comment-108.36.76.116-20200118142301

I think Chuck is playing a very deep game here. There's a huge amount of manipulation going on. I don't believe that what Chuck said he was doing was quite what he said or for the reasons he said. I think there was something necessary, that Sam was resisting because he had hope. I agree that Sam and Dean want to choose their fate, but killing and being killed by their loved ones is not what they choose. I think they are playing out the choice they made of their own free will at the end of season 14, Dean's choice not to kill Jack and Sam's to shoot Chuck.

Maybe Purgatory gives the monsters an even playing field, Remember, Benny didn't thirst for blood there. In Hell, demons  do have power. How do you know those demons couldn't have been knights of Hell? Dean was and had black eyes too, and was far from low level.