User blog comment:Rafe Adler/"A Most Holy Man" Discussion/@comment-1031724-20180309193519

I haven't seen a whole lot of noir movies but I did recognize it was trying to follow that style, having seen such episodes in Charmed and even MLP (though they were black and white for the gangster/investigation scenes).

I didn't notice until I read the trivia article but it is unique in that no supernatural beings appear this episode. Even Castiel isn't there as he's away looking for fruit from the Tree of Life. Though I think this is the fourth, first three being The Benders, Family Remains, and #THINMAN.

Kinda saw the ending coming, that they wouldn't get the blood from Greenstreet (I suspected they'd give the skull to Lucca instead of him, they took it a step further that Greenstreet didn't even HAVE the blood), and that Lucca would be the most holy man they needed.