Carry On

Carry On
Season	15
Episode	20
Overall	327
Series	Supernatural
Airdate	November 19, 2020
Written by	Andrew Dabb
Directed by	Robert Singer
Episode list	Season 15
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Carry On is the 20th episode of Season 15 and the series finale. It aired on November 19, 2020.

Summary

There was something about being there... It felt pure. This episode summary is an official CW press release. It may contain errors. DO NOT CHANGE!

After 15 seasons, the longest running sci fi series in the US is coming to an end. Baby, it’s the final ride for saving people and hunting things.

Plot

Dean wakes up in a bed to an alarm clock, stretches, and Miracle jumps onto the bed with him.

Sam goes out jogging and stops to enjoy the scenery.

Later, Dean goes to the kitchen and finds Sam making breakfast. The brothers shower, get dressed, and Sam neatens up his room while Dean tries and fails. Dean washes dishes and has Miracle lick them off, while Sam does laundry and reads a book. Finally, Dean gets on his laptop. Sam joins him, and Sam confirms that nothing weird is coming on the wire. Dean says that he's got something.

The Winchesters drive to a small town, where a pie fest is going on. Dean cries but denies it to Sam, and goes to get some pie. Sam sits down and waits for Dean, who arrives with six plates of pie. After a moment, Sam says that he just wishes Castiel and Jack could be there. Dean figures that they should keep on living and invites Sam to have some pie. Sam grabs a piece, pushes it into Dean's face, and laughs.

That night, a man, Lyle checks the mail while his wife calls their two children upstairs to the bath. The doorbell rings, and the husband answers the door. There's no one there, and as he turns around two men wearing skeleton masks stab him in the back and kill him from behind. The wife tells the two children to run upstairs, and the intruders come in after them. The children lock the door and run into a bedroom, lock the door and hide. Meanwhile, one of the intruders catches up to the wife and kills her.

The intruder goes into the bedroom and looks under the bed. He doesn't find anything and walks out, while the children hide beneath another bed. After a moment he pulls one of the sons out by his leg.

The next day, Sam and Dean arrive at the house posing as FBI agents, Singer and Kripke. The policewoman says that Lyle's body was drained of blood, the mother was had her tongue cut out, and the children were abducted. When the brothers asked what the killers look at, the policewoman shows them a sketch from the mother of one of the masks. The brothers recognize the face, check their father's journals, and discover he investigated a string of killings that followed the same MO. Dean figures that evil mimes are responsible, and Sam suggests that it's vampires instead. He figures that if the pattern holds and it's the same nest, the vampires will target Canton, OH, next. The brothers look for a house on the outskirts of town that fit the pattern.

That night, the two kills drive up to a house on the outskirts of town. Dean comes up behind one and decapitates him, and Sam shoots the other one in the knees. The killer goes down and Sam shoots him.

The brothers question the still-living killer, removing his mask. Dean asks where the kids are, and the prisoner just laughs. He wonders if they'll let him go if he talks, and Dean tells him that they'll decapitate him dead if the killer talks. The killer caves and says that the kids are with the nest, and every few years they take a couple of kids by grabbing a couple of kids and eventually "juice" them.

Once the brothers have the nest's location, they drive to the barn where it is. They arm themselves and go inside, and masked vampires peer at them from the windows. The brothers find the missing children and lead them out, but four vampires cut off their escape. Sam has the two children run out the back, and the Winchesters attack the vampires.

Sam and Dean decapitate one vampire each, and one of the remaining one knocks Sam down and then helps the other pin Dean down. A female vampire, Jenny, walks in and Dean remembers her from years ago. Dean stalls for time while Sam recovers and grabs for his machete.

Jenny says that she just called dibs but isn't the boss. Sam decapitates her from behind, and the brothers take on the two remaining vampires. The brothers kill one vampire, but the other one impales Dean on a spike in a board rafter before Sam decapitates it. Dean notes that he's not going anywhere and says there's something in his back that went right through him. Sam confirms the blood on Dean's back but can't move him off the spike without causing more bleeding.

As Sam goes to get the first aid kit, Dean asks him to stay with him instead. When Sam agrees, Dean tells him to get the boys somewhere safe. Sam says that they'll do it together, but Dean tells him that's not happening and it was supposed to end with him dying. When Sam begs him to stop, Dean tells him that it's good and they had one hell of a ride. Dean tells Sam not to bring him back because it always ends bad, and there's a few things he needs Sam to hear.

Dean tells Sam that he's proud of him and always looked up to him. He talks about how Sam was always the smart one who never took John's crap, and he's stronger than him. Dean tells Sam that the night he came for Sam at college, he stood outside Sam's dorm for hours because he thought Sam would tell him to get lost or get dead. He was scared of what he would do, and it's always been the two of them. Sam, crying, begs Dean not to leave him because he can't do it alone. Dean tells him that he can, and Sam says that he doesn't want to. He says that he'll be with Sam in his heart every day, every day that he's out there fighting because Sam always fights.

Dying Dean tells Sam that he loves him so much, and admits he didn't think it would be the day but it's okay that he is. He begs Sam to tell him that it's okay, and Sam finally does so and tells his older brother that he can go now. Dean says goodbye and dies. Crying Sam holds Dean's body.

The next day, Sam returns to the bunker and gives Dean a Hunter's funeral pyre. Afterward, Sam wakes up in the morning and goes about his day. He sits alone with Miracle, and notices the names carved into the table. Sam walks through the bunker hallways and looks into Dean's room. He sits on the bed and looks around the room at dean's beer bottles and guns.

One of Dean's cellphones on the desk rings, and Sam answers it. The call is a sheriff calling for one of Dean's alias, and the sheriff says that they've had a few bodies turn up in Austin without their hearts. He says that Donna told him who to call, and Sam says that he's on his way.

Sam walks out of the bunker door, turning the lights off behind him.

Dean finds himself in Heaven with Bobby, at the roadhouse. Bobby says that Jack made some changes in Heaven before he left, setting some things right. Now Heaven is what it should always have been, with everyone together. John and Mary have a place nearby, and Bobby says that it's the Heaven Dean deserves and they've been waiting for him.

Bobby offers Dean a beer and drinks one himself, and explains that Castiel helped Jack. Dean says that the beer is crap, but it's fantastic because he shared it with John. When he says that Heaven is almost perfect, Bobby tells him that Sam will be along and time is different in Heaven. He asks Dean what he's going to do now, and Dean considers. The Impala is parked nearby, and Dean tells Bobby that he'll go for a drive.

Bobby wishes him well, and Dean gets in the Impala and greets "Baby". He then starts up the Impala and drives off, "Carry on Wayward Song" playing on the radio.

Sam marries and raises a son, who he names "Dean".

Dean drives down the road,

Sam continues raising his son.

Dean continues driving.

Sam helps his teenaged son with his homework.

Dean continues driving.

An older Sam goes out to the garage and pulls the cloth off of the Impala. He gets in, takes off his glasses, closes his eyes, and puts his hands on the steering wheel.

Dean continues driving.

Sam lies in his deathbed, hooked up to monitors. His son sits on his bedside and takes his hand, and Sam smiles. Dean tells him that it's okay and he can go on now, and Sam takes his son's hand and dies.

Dean comes to a bridge and stops. He gets out and walks over to the railing. He hears someone behind him and turns to find the Sam he knew there. The two brothers hug, then go to the railing and look out over the forest.

At the end, Jensen Ackles, Jared Padalecki, and the entire crew thank the fans for their support.

Characters

Starring

• Jared Padalecki as Sam Winchester
• Jensen Ackles as Dean Winchester

Special Guest Star

• Jim Beaver as Bobby Singer

Co-Starring

• Christine Chatelain as Jenny
• Max Montesi as Vampire
• Bentley Thomas Storteboom as Boy #1
• Declan Locke as Boy #2
• Greg Delmage as Lyle
• Victoria Morgan as Mother
• Beckham Skodje as Younger Dean Winchester Jr.
• Brady Droulis as Young Dean Winchester Jr.
• Tina Grant as Officer
• Spencer Borgeson as Adult Dean Winchester Jr.

Featured Supernatural Beings

• Nephilim (Jack, mentioned only)
• Seraphim (Castiel, mentioned only)
• Vampires (Jenny, several unnamed vampires)
• Werewolves (referenced only)

Continuity

• Bobby Singer previously appeared in Safe House.
• Jenny previously appeared in Dead Man's Blood.
• Castiel was mentioned. He previously appeared in Despair.
• Jack Kline was mentioned. He previously appeared in Inherit the Earth.
• Donna Hanscum was mentioned. She previously appeared in Despair.
• Rufus Turner was mentioned. He previously appeared in Safe House.
• John Winchester was mentioned. He previously appeared in Lebanon
• Mary Winchester was mentioned. She previously appeared in Absence.

Trivia

• This is the last episode of Season 15 and of the series overall. On March 22, 2019 Supernatural stars Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, and Misha Collins posted a video revealing that season 15, which would air in the 2019-2020 television season, would be the show's last. On March 31, 2019 Ackles and Padalecki took the stage at a Supernatural convention where they addressed the decision. "This was a community decision," Padalecki said.
• The title of the episode is a reference to the song "Carry On Wayward Son" by Kansas that is played normally at the beginning of each season finale.
  • Season 1 is the only season where the song wasn't played at the finale, but rather at the episode before.
  • "Carry on Wayward Son" was released on November 19, 1976 and the airdate for "Carry on" is November 19, 2020.
  • The episode does not begin with the song. Instead it plays over Dean driving through Heaven in the Impala and then another version as Dean and Sam reunite.
• Dean is revealed to have adopted Miracle, the dog that he found in Inherit the Earth.
• Sam and Dean use the aliases Agents Singer and Kripke, a reference to Robert Singer and Eric Kripke.
• The Winchesters once again compete an old unfinished case from the past, in this case, one of their father's from 1986.
• Sam and Dean once again use John Winchester's Journal as a primary source on a case like they often did in the early seasons.
• One of the vampires is revealed to be Jenny, the girl turned in Dead Man's Blood who escaped with Kate.
• Dean dies permanently and he is reunited with Bobby Singer in Heaven where he reveals that Jack sprung him from Heaven's dungeon and reshaped Heaven for the better.
  • Dean is sent to Heaven, even though he has been in Hell previously. Belphegor once stated that once a soul is cast into Hell, it cannot go to Heaven. So it's possible that Jack either changed the rules or at least made an exception for him.
• Sam continues hunting, has a son named after Dean, eventually dies of old age and reunites with Dean in Heaven.
  • Though his wife's face isn't clearly seen, it appears to be Eileen Leahy.
• Bobby implies that Jack resurrected Castiel, stating that Castiel helped Jack to reshape Heaven to be a much better place.
• Dean and Bobby reunite outside of Harvelle's Roadhouse in Heaven.
• Despite Billie's threats that the Winchesters will go to the Empty upon their deaths, they go to Heaven, presumably aided by the fact that Billie's dead and thus can't ensure their banishment to the Empty.

Deaths

• Lyle
• Jenny
• Several unnamed vampires
• Dean Winchester
• Sam Winchester

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