| “ | As a soldier, I respect your silence, tactically misguided as it may be. For example, when I ask why are you killing my kind, you should answer so I won’t hurt you. Why did you kill them? We Grigori have our own frequency of angel radio. Did you know that? Before he died, my brother called to me. Did you want him to? To draw me out? Kill me, too? | ” |
| “ | I can make you suffer. You killed the last of my kind. You ate their hearts! This is more than fair. Fair? The last one I killed was pretending to be a doctor. Feeding on the souls of humans he was supposed to heal. You do it too. Only you like children. Who told you that? Death. |
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The Hunt for the Grigori is a hunt undertaken by the resurrected Nephilim Jack Kline to hunt down and kill the surviving Grigori as the first part of the plan to kill God.
Progression[]
Prelude[]
After the Nephilim Jack Kline loses his soul,[1][2] God returns to Earth to offer the Winchesters a way to kill him[3] in revenge for the death of Mary Winchester[4] using the Equalizer, a gun created by Chuck himself. Having come to the conclusion that he is in fact a monster, Jack resigns himself to allowing Dean to kill him while Sam realizes that Chuck wants it for his perfect story and is counting upon Dean's desire for revenge. However, Dean refuses to kill Jack despite Chuck's promises to resurrect his mother in exchange and Team Free Will realizes that Chuck has only been using and manipulating them this whole time. With the Winchesters refusing to cooperate, Chuck smites Jack before Sam shoots Chuck in the shoulder with the Equalizer. Fed up, Chuck declares the story to be over and with a snap of his fingers, turns day into night and rips Hell open,[3] throwing open every door in Hell in the process, including the door to Lucifer's Cage.[5] However, the Winchesters manage to avert this Ghostpocalypse.[6][7]
Although the Winchesters believe the threat to be over after the Ghostpocalypse,[7] unbeknownst to them, God soon after begins planning his ultimate ending[8] which involves the brothers ultimately killing each other.[9] Weakened after being shot by Sam with the Equalizer,[3][6] God is eventually able to heal the wound and departs the Earth after convincing Sam to give up on hope.[10] God subsequently begins destroying the Multiverse.[11]
Once God has left the Earth, Billie approaches Jack in the Empty[10] and resurrects him to kill God. As the first step in her plan, Billie directs Jack to go after the surviving Grigori -- fallen angels preying on humans -- in order for him to consume their hearts in order to become stronger.[12]
Battle[]
Billie begins using her knowledge as Death to direct Jack to the Grigori, informing him of each of their heinous acts as they prey upon various people to consume their souls. In this way, over time, Jack kills most of the surviving Grigori, ripping out and consuming their hearts in order to strengthen himself until there are only two left.
In Cushing, Oklahoma, Jack hunts down Sariel where he works in a doctor's office, feeding off of the souls of his patients. Jack kills Sariel and rips out and eats the fallen angel's heart. Before killing Sariel, Jack allows him to broadcast a distress signal over angel radio to draw in Kabaiel, the only surviving Grigori. However, in the process, Jack is caught on a security camera and identified by the local sheriff Jeb Evans due to Dean using one of his FBI aliases to open a file on Jack the previous spring during one of the Winchesters' searches for the young Nephilim.
After Castiel discovers the Men of Letters bunker empty[12] due to the Winchesters heading off to Alaska,[13] he hears one of Dean's cell phones connected to one of his FBI aliases ringing and answers it. After Castiel identifies himself as an associate of "Agent Watts," Jeb reveals that he's calling about a murder committed by someone that Dean had opened a file on the previous spring: Jack Kline. Castiel is shocked to learn that Jack is alive[12] due to his murder months before by God.[3]
Jeb sends Castiel a video from Sariel's office security cameras, telling him that they give them an idea of what went down. In the video, Jack enters Sariel's office, gets his attention from the entryway and then attacks him before the video fritzes out for a second. Jeb admits that the whole thing is spooking people pretty badly and explains that the signal goes out for about two and a half minutes during which time Jack kills Sariel in his office. Castiel wonders why and Jeb instructs him to keep watching. To the Seraphim's shock, the video shows Jack sitting in a chair and eating Sariel's heart.
Arriving in Cushing, Castiel checks out Sariel's office for any potential clues. After not finding anything, Castiel opens a locked cabinet containing a case with an angel sword in it. Examining the sword,[12] Castiel remembers when Tamiel told Sam about the Grigori and their angel swords[14] and to his shock, he realizes that Sariel was also a Grigori.
As Kabaiel walks down a street, carrying a similar case with an angel sword, he is followed by Jack. Jack eventually follows Kabaiel into a plant, drawing an angel blade, but is ambushed from behind by Kabaiel. Holding his angel sword to Jack's throat, the Grigori demands to know why the young Nephilim is following him. The two have an altercation that is witnessed by a local transient who runs the other way when she sees Kabaiel's sword. Ultimately, Jack suffers a slash to his abdomen and is captured by Kabaiel.
The transient contacts the police and Jeb calls Castiel before investigating the plant, finding some blood on the floor left by the altercation. When Castiel arrives, Jeb tells him about the altercation that was witnessed by the transient and notes that Kabaiel must've used the sword that she spotted. Castiel asks about abandoned buildings in the area, looking for anywhere that Kabaiel could've taken Jack. After Jeb mentions an old church, Castiel asks him for directions and reassures the sheriff that he intends to find answers before leaving.
In the abandoned church, Kabaiel begins setting out torture instruments and tells Jack that he should heal his wound, but Jack just ignores him. Selecting a blade, Kabaiel tells Jack that he knows what he is and that he's powerful. The Grigori wonders why the young Nephilim doesn't use that power to fight back against him, but Jack continues to remain silent.
Kabaiel admits that as a solider he respects Jack's silence, but he calls it tactically misguided. When Kabaiel demands to know why Jack is killing his kind, Jack should answer so that the Grigori won't hurt him. Kabaiel demands to know why Jack killed the rest of his kind and states that the Grigori have their own frequency on angel radio that Sariel called out to him over before he was killed by Jack. Kabaiel questions if Jack had wanted Sariel to do that in order to call Kabaiel out and kill him too, but Jack just continues to remain silent.
Kabaiel tortures Jack, cutting him with his knife, but Jack refuses to break, stating that Kabaiel can't kill him. Kabaiel angrily states that he can make Jack suffer and that it is more than fair as Jack killed the last of his kind and ate their hearts. Jack reveals his knowledge of Sariel pretending to be a doctor and feeding on the souls of the people that he was supposed to be healing. To Kabaiel's shock, Jack reveals that he knows that the Grigori does the same thing, but that he likes to feed on the souls of children instead.In response, Kabaiel holds his angel sword to Jack's throat and demands to know who told him that and Jack simply tells him that it was Death.
Sensing Castiel behind him, Kabaiel turns around and engages Castiel, armed with an angel blade, in a fight. After a brief battle between the two angels, despite Kabaiel's angel sword, Castiel quickly prevails over his brother and stabs Kabaiel in the chest with his angel blade, killing him and rendering the Grigori extinct.
Shocked to see that Jack really is alive again, Castiel releases him and the two share a hug. After Jack explains the reasons behind his hunting down the Grigori and eating their hearts, Castiel allows Jack to consume Kabaiel's heart as well, completing his mission from Billie.[12]
Aftermath[]
Upon returning to the Men of Letters bunker from having their luck restored by Fortuna, the Winchesters are reunited with Jack. Jack tells the Winchesters about his hunting the Grigori and eating their hearts as well as the fact that he can't use his powers without God finding out about his resurrection and killing Jack again. To Sam and Dean's shock, Jack reveals that eating the angel hearts were just the beginning in Billie's plan to make him strong enough to kill God.[12]
Billie later brings Jack the second part of the plan to kill God -- locate the Occultum which restores Jack's lost human soul. While giving Jack the second step of the plan, Billie reveals that hunting down the Grigori and eating their heart strengthened his body.[15]
Trivia[]
- When Castiel finds Sariel's angel sword, he has a flashback of Tamiel explaining its significance in Angel Heart during the Rescue of Amelia Novak. However, Castiel wasn't actually there for that conversation when Tamiel spoke with Sam.
- It's unknown what Castiel did with Sariel and Kabaiel's angel swords after this as they are never seen or mentioned again.