User blog comment:Touchinos/“Last Call” Discussion/@comment-74.132.82.188-20191206194456/@comment-108.36.76.116-20191206213850

I found this episode extremely satisfying. I thought it was Agent Dux, like Van Damm as Frank Dux in Bloodsport.

I do not think Castiel messed up. I think something is happening to all three of them. Dean killed death, Sam released the Darkness, and Castiel opted in, when he acted like a true Winchester and stabbed Billie, cosmic consequenses be damned. Those consequenses are happening. Seperately, they are all becomming more like each other. Castiel fishing, barely able to heal, and going all ragey on the djinn? Sam getting drunk on margarittas with a woman and making a giant pancake and bacon breakfast? Dean brooding online, looking for a case, passing on the food, caring about what's right? Yes, he did care before, but he's saying so and judging openly now (Castiel like? Willing to smite humans.)

It's their last call, having a hurrah, before they get down to business. Sam's was cut short by Castiel's arrival. Notice how they are putting other things aside to get on with the bigger job at hand. Dean seemed more in control of himself, passing on the woman, drinking, but stopping, to get on with the case. He is fully committed now, whatever it takes, even to the point of killing a human who is a former friend, turned monsterous. He has taken up the resposibility to judge others, because he cares so much, and admits it now.

Sam seemed to set things aside once Castiel appeared, pulling back from Eileen. He let Castiel do what was needed, whatever the cost.

Castiel, the formerly rule following angel without insight is no more. He has leveled up in wisdom, understanding the human soul. Dean once said to him, "...you don't think anybody's lying. I think everybody's lying. It's a gift." It looks like Dean has passed that gift on to Castiel, who was willing to do whatever it took, even threatening the girl, setting aside his old rules and scruples. The stakes are too high for any of the Winchesters, even an adopted brother, to let anything get in their way.

I think there is a reason the three have not all been together. I think they are becoming more. Getting Sam + Castiel = more power, That surge that blasted Sam to the wall, don't think it was a mistake, I think it's the cosmic consequences that will happen when all three unite against Chuck. (Keep it clean- being serious  here). Sam and Dean were like a hot knife through butter monsters earlier. Now, Dean handily beat the best fighter his dad ever saw, and didn't take long on that monster.