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A Most Holy Man is the 15th episode of Season 13. It aired on March 8, 2018.

Summary[]

Dean Purgatory Blade.png There was something about being there... It felt pure.

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Sam and Dean are close to collecting everything they need to open a rift into the Apocalypse World and possibly rescuing Mary (guest star Samantha Smith) and Jack. The one missing ingredient leads the Winchesters to a black market for religious relics where everything is not always as it seems.

Plot[]

In Malta, a thief enters the Holy Sisters of Malta Monastery, breaks a case, and steals the skull of St. Peter. As he turns to leave, a nun confronts him, but he knocks her out, apologizes, and leaves.

In the Bunker, Sam and Dean ponder over the ingredients that are required for the spell to open the rift to the Apocalypse World. With Castiel searching for the fruit from the Tree of Life in Syria, they focus on how to source "the blood of a most holy man." An online search leads them to a dealer of religious relics, Margaret Astor, who may be able to sell them the blood of a saint. They meet with her in San Francisco, where she openly flirts with Sam while ignoring Dean, much to his discomfort. She asks what it is the boys require. When Sam tells her it's the blood of a saint, she sends them to meet Richard Greenstreet in Seattle with a word of advice to be cautious.

In Seattle, Greenstreet enjoys a doughnut as he greets the Winchesters. They introduce themselves with the aliases Sam and Dean Vaughn of Rhode Island. Greenstreet catches them on their fake identity due to their cheap quality clothing and their lack of knowledge about the rich inhabitants of Rhode Island. Once they confess that they are the Winchesters and need the blood of a saint, Greenstreet admits to having some in his possession. He also suggests that as the boys can't possibly afford to buy it, they perform a job for him as payment. He asks that they get the skull that Santino Scarpatti, a mob boss, had stolen from Malta. The boys grudgingly agree to steal the skull from Scarpatti in return for the blood of St. Ignatius.

Through tracking the airline records of people who have recently traveled from Malta to Seattle, the boys track down thief Antonio Miele, who is staying at the Patricia Hotel. When they reach his room they find Miele dead. A cop busts in the room and throws handcuffs at the boys while pointing a gun at them, forcing Sam and Dean to cuff themselves to the heater as the man frantically searches the room and leaves frustrated and empty handed. After Sam frees them from the handcuffs with a lock pick, they leave the hotel, but when they reach the Impala, they are surprised to find three mobsters waiting for them. They insist the boys get in the back seat of the car while one of them drives them to meet with Scarpatti, forcing at gunpoint Dean to reluctantly hand over the keys.

At the Scarpatti mansion, the mob boss gloats about being a devout Catholic, which is why he had the skull stolen, believing he can give a holy relic like that a proper home. He then reveals that the skull has now been stolen from him, and he tasks the Winchesters with retrieving it for him.

Back at the hotel, the boys try to access Miele's room in search of a lead. They find it cordoned off and a cop standing guard. Dean sets off the fire alarm to create a diversion, allowing Sam to sneak into the room. As Sam searches for clues, he finds a piece of paper with numbers written on it. As he stands up, he is immediately attacked from behind and knocked unconscious with a whack on the head. His assailant takes off with the piece of paper, but he too is assaulted upon leaving the hotel. Dean finds Sam passed out and wakes him up; leaving the hotel, they find Sam’s attacker passed out in an alley. Upon waking up, he confesses that he is after the skull too. This stranger with an European accent is in fact a priest named Father Lucca Camilleri from Malta, who has been given the task of bringing the sacred skull back to the monastery. Along with him, he has brought all the money that the church has to buy the skull back from the thieves. After some arguing, Sam and Dean agree to help Father Lucca get the skull back. Driving in the Impala, Father Lucca remembers what was written on the scrap of paper that Sam had found, which turns out to be the tracking number of a package sent from Malta to Seattle. At the courier service center, the fake cop, Mr. Cromarty, retrieves the package and exits the store, allowing Sam, Dean, and Father Lucca to tail him.

They reach a warehouse and within minutes, another car arrives from which Margaret Astor emerges. Inside, Scarpatti, Ms. Astor, and Greenstreet trade jibes at each other over the skull. Sam is soon captured, and reveals that he is there to purchase the skull. Sam bids the church amount of $634,000 and 2 cents. Scarpatti bids there million and Greenstreet bids 0 dollars. Greenstreet instead offers Mr. Cromarty a million dollars for killing Astor - which he immediately does. A gunfight breaks out and Dean barges in and joins the fight. During the skirmish, Father Lucca is hit with a bullet while saving Dean from being shot by Mr. Cromarty, who is then shot and killed by Sam. Checking on Father Lucca, Sam and Dean are relieved to see that the bullet only grazed him, which Father Lucca calls a miracle. Greenstreet, the only survivor of the shootout, confesses that he has no blood of a saint and he lied just to get the skull. Angry at being used, Dean punches Greenstreet out; he is later taken away in handcuffs by the police, pleading his innocence.

The next day, at the airport, Father Lucca is thankful to the boys for helping him get the skull. He tells the boys that while the world will never be perfect, good men doing good things can make it better. Sam inquires about a Latin title that was attached to the priest’s name. Father Lucca explains that it was an honorary title bestowed upon him by the Pope himself, telling them the Pope also called him un uomo santissimo -- "a most holy man." Sam and Dean are amazed by this turn of events and ask for him for last thing before he departs for Malta -- a small vial of his blood.

At home in the Bunker, a distressed Sam confesses to Dean that he wishes, rather than lurching from one apocalyptic event to another, that they could find a permanent solution to all the evil and monsters, but Dean is only able to tell him that that would be nice. When Sam switches the subject to Father Lucca's blood, asking if Dean thinks it will work, Dean responds that he has "faith."

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  • As Mr. Cromarty tries to shoot Dean, Dean is seen firing the gun he had stolen off of the man he'd knocked unconscious outside. This gun was already seen to have been emptied and discarded by Dean. In the next shot, Dean is back to using only his Colt M1911A1 again.
  • Father Luca Camilleri's ID says "Titlo" instead of "Titolo" (Italian for "Title").

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  • Hungarian: Egy szent ember (A Holy Man)

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