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Lily Sunder Has Some Regrets

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February 2, 2017

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Lily Sunder Has Some Regrets is the 10th episode of Season 12. It aired on February 2, 2017.

Summary

ANGELS AMONG US – Lily Sunder (guest star Alicia Witt) steeps herself in black magic, honing her powers for over a century, waiting to exact revenge on a band of angels that murdered her family. Sam and Dean must work quickly to stop Castiel from becoming her next victim.

Plot

File:Lily Sunder Has Some Regrets 000.png

The episode opens with an angel named Benjamin is playing Rampage in an old-school arcade. Suddenly, a woman with red hair with an eye patch and two angel blades appears. The woman battles Benjamin who proves to be no match for her and eventually pins the angel up against a wall. Benjamin begs for help over "angel radio", weaponless and psychically reaching out to the other angels, including Castiel. Lily tells him she's "waited so long" and kills him with an angel blade.

In the bunker, Mary’s is out on a solo shapeshifter hunt while Sam and Dean lament their inability to track down Kelly Kline and her unborn baby. Dean is frustrated that Castiel has been no help, and Sam is frustrated that Dean’s giving Cas the cold shoulder for killing Billie Dean clarifies: “I’m not pissed that he cares about us. I’m grateful.” However, he’s worried that Billie warned about the “cosmic consequences” of breaking their deal.Cas arrives to insist that he did the right thing, and also, he’s taking off on a personal errand that he heard about via angel radio. Sam immediately offers to come with them.Dean reluctantly agrees, if only to keep Cas “from doing anything else stupid.”

In the car, Dean and Cas aren’t speaking, and Sam’s attempts to play peacemaker fall on sullen silence.Cas finally explains that this mission is urgent because Benjamin wouldn’t call for help lightly. Dean snarks that Benjamin probably also wouldn’t make half-cocked, knee-jerk choices. Castiel snaps that what he likes about Benjamin is that “he’s sarcastic, but he’s thoughtful and appreciative, too.” Sam looks supremely uncomfortable as they arrive at the arcade.

When they arrive at the arcade, angel wings are burned on the wall, and Castiel’s baffled at how a warrior like Benjamin was defeated. When Dean finds a discarded angel blade, Cas touches it and realizes it’s not Benjamin’s. Across town, the redhead, Lily Sunder, bolts up from where she’s been meditating and murmurs, “Castiel.” She presses a kiss to an old-timey photo of a child before leaving her hotel.

Cas tells the brothers that he needs to meet his former commander, Ishim, and he needs to go alone. He snipes at Dean, “If I plan to do anything else stupid, I’ll let you know.” Inside, Ishim and Mirabel, the only angels left from Castiel’s original squadron, give him grief for being the angel who caused them all to fall and lose their wings. Castiel responds that sometimes sacrifice is required, but Ishim points out most of the sacrifices seem to come from other angels.

Outside, Sam correctly predicts that Dean’s ready to storm in. Once they’re inside, they cram into the booth next to Cas, while Ishim dispatches Mirabel to make sure they weren’t followed. Ishim tosses dessert money onto the table and leaves, telling Cas to find him at the safe house. Sam and Dean don’t understand why Cas lets him speak to him like that, but Cas says he’s willing to take it if Ishim will help stop the killing.

In the alley, Mirabel is killed by Lily, and Ishim finds her body. Lily appears from behind and fights him for a bit until Cas joins in. Cas recognizes her for a brief second, seeing her in a flashback. The Winchesters join in, but Lily declines to harm any humans, blinding them with angelic light before escaping in her car.

At a safe house, Cas demands an explanation for why Lily’s still alive and explains to the brothers how they knew her. A flashback sequence is shown in 1901, Maine. Before the Apocalypse, angels rarely came to Earth, but Ishim’s squadron is there because an angel fell in love with a human woman, and they had a child. Ishim explains that a Nephilim is a creature with a human soul mixed with angelic grace. These creatures are dangerous because they can grow into their powers and destroy entire worlds, so they’re forbidden by one of the oldest laws in heaven. Hence, Ishim leads his troops to make things right.

The angel Akobel comes out of his house with Lily, and Ishim chides Akobel for taking up with “a filthy animal.” Akobel tells Lily to run inside, and whispers something to her and she does. Akobel passionately defends humans, asking “How could anyone know them and not love them?” Nevertheless, Cas, in a female vessel, reads his death sentence for breaking their most sacred oath while Mirabel stabs him. Ishim tells his squad that he’ll take care of the rest himself, and he goes inside to find Lily.

In the present, Cas tells the Winchesters that he was just following orders, but everyone wonders how Lily was still alive. Ishim says she was a professor of apocalyptic literature, and he took mercy on her, but since then, she’s made a demonic pact to keep her young, strong, and powerful. The Winchesters have heard enough and head out to explain to Lily that Cas is different now, so she needs to lay off, even though the angels warn them that it won’t work.

Once he and Cas are alone, Ishim reminds him that they’re meant to stay away from humans not because the angels are a danger to humans, but because humans are a danger to angels. Cas makes a counterpoint, saying his friendship with the Winchesters has made him stronger. Cas uses his angel mojo to heal Ishim’s cut, as well.

Sam and Dean arrive at Lily’s hotel and they agree that their first plan is to ask her nicely to lay off the angel murder. They find her and offer condolences for what happened to her family but point out that it’s not Cas’ fault that Heaven has rules about Nephilim. Lily’s shocked and sets them straight about what happened inside the house in 1901. In a flashback, she explains that her life’s work was angels. One day she summoned Ishim, and he became obsessed with her. He called it love, but she had to ask Akobel to protect her from Ishim. When the angels arrived, Akobel ordered Lily to take May and run while he distracted them. As Lily desperately gathered her things, Akobel was killed by Mirabel and Ishim entered the house to confront her.He tells her he wanted to break her heart like she broke his by using magic to keep her powerless. Pinning a powerless Lily with telekinesis, Ishim accused her of leaving him for Akobel and murders May in revenge.She concludes her story for the Winchesters: “I had my daughter long before I ever laid eyes on an angel,” revealing that May was human.

The brothers believe her, and Dean rushes to the safe house while Sam stays with Lily. While they wait, he asks why she’s taking her revenge now, after all these years. She explains that before the angels lost their wings, she wasn’t able to hunt them down. Furthermore, she didn’t make a demon pact and instead uses Enochian magic. She touches her eye patch, indicating that it was the price of admission, and she says that every time she uses one of their spells, a piece of her soul burns away. Lily mentions that she used to dream about her daughter every night, but now she dreams about nothing.

Dean arrives to find a weakened Cas. He tells Cas that Lily’s daughter was human, but Ishim scoffs, “Who are you going to believe, your brother or a filthy ape?” Ishim repels Dean’s attack, then attacks Cas, hissing that he used to envy Cas for being chosen by God, but now he's sad, pathetic, and weak. Then he proposes to cure Cas of his human weakness by cutting it out. Dean draws an angel-banishing sigil in blood, but Ishim points out that this will blast all the angels in the room, and Cas might not survive in his weakened state. Dean’s hand immediately drops.

Lily and Sam show up, joining the fight. Lily removes her eye patch to reveal an occluded orb that blasts angel light and overwhelms him, saying she would "never be powerless again". She tries to keep him immobile while he struggles forward. But when he goes to strike a killing blow against her, Castiel appears behind him and stabs him in the back, killing him. With Ishim dead, the Winchesters broadly hint that Lily needs to retire her revenge agenda.

Castiel apologizes and says that he may not have known they were killing an innocent, but ignorance is no excuse. He can’t imagine her loss and pain and says if she leaves there and still can’t forgive him, “I’ll be waiting.” Lily thanks him and leaves.

Back in the bunker, Dean hands Cas a beer, and Sam assures Cas that he’s changed for the better, and the loyalty he showed them took real strength. Castiel affirms that he doesn’t regret what he did to Billie, even if it costs him his life. Apologies out of the way, they start making plans to track down Kelly and her baby that could be even more dangerous than a Nephilim. Sam points out, it’s also a mother and her child. Castiel acknowledges that there was a time when he wouldn’t have hesitated to strike, but now he isn't sure. He ends the episode toasting, hoping to find a better way.

Characters

Main Cast

Recurring Cast

Co-Starring

Alicia Witt as Lily Sunder
Ian Tracey as Ishim
Tiara Sorensen as Mirabel
Jessa Danielson as Castiel
Ava Sleeth as May
Nils Hognestad as Akobel
Miranda Edwards as Benjamin

Featured Supernatural Beings

Angels
Nephilim (mentioned only)
Seraph (Castiel, Akobel)

Trivia

The episode was watched by 1.75 million viewers and got a 0.6 rating.
This episode features the first time an angel's wings have been seen burned into the ground following their death since Castiel killed Rachel in Season 6's Frontierland.
Previously, it was stated that angels had not appeared on Earth for approximately 2,000 years. The sole exceptions were Gabriel, Metatron, Grigori, Reapers and Cherubim. The fact that Castiel had appeared on Earth 100 years ago on Heaven's orders implies that there has been another retcon to the story.
- Showrunner Andrew Dabb did state that the writers intended to re-write Castiel's backstory. This maybe the first example.
This episode marks the first appearance of regular angels since We Happy Few.
It is revealed that before Jimmy Novak, Castiel had used a female vessel for an unknown period of time. He eventually stopped using this vessel for reasons unknown at some point in the past which led to him needing Jimmy to interact with Dean when he returned to Earth in 2008.
- Chronologically, this makes Castiel the first known angel to use vessels of different sexes. The other angels were Raphael and Hannah.
Four actors/actress who took part in this episode, also portrayed other characters previously. Ian Tracey portrayed Lee Chambers, Nils Hognestad portayed Chris the hairdresser in Season 7, episode Shut Up, Dr. Phil, Tiara Sorensen portrayed Greed and Jessa Danielson portrayed the fake vampire victim in Season 6, episode Live Free or Twihard.

References

The diner Castiel meets Ishim and Mirabel at is "The Wright Stop," which is named after episode director Thomas J. Wright.
Benjamin is seen playing the video game, Rampage.
Dean mentions Rosemary's Baby when referring to Klines' unborn child.
Dean calls Lily "One Eyed Willy",a pirate whose treasure a group of teenagers are on the hunt for in the 1985 adventure comedy film The Goonies.

@@ Line 17: / Line 17: @@
 == Plot ==
+[[File:Lily_Sunder_Has_Some_Regrets_000.png|thumb]]
+The episode opens with an angel named Benjamin is playing Rampage in an old-school arcade. Suddenly, a woman with red hair with an eye patch and two angel blades appears. The woman battles Benjamin who proves to be no match for her and eventually pins the angel up against a wall. Benjamin begs for help over "angel radio", weaponless and psychically reaching out to the other angels, including Castiel. Lily tells him she's "waited so long" and kills him with an angel blade.
+In the bunker, Mary’s is out on a  solo shapeshifter hunt while Sam and Dean lament their inability to track down Kelly Kline and her unborn baby. Dean is frustrated that Castiel has been no help, and Sam is frustrated that Dean’s giving Cas the cold shoulder for killing Billie  Dean clarifies: “I’m not pissed that he cares about us. I’m grateful.” However, he’s worried that Billie warned about the “cosmic consequences” of breaking their deal.Cas arrives to insist that he did the right thing, and also, he’s taking off on a personal errand that he heard about via angel radio. Sam immediately offers to come with them.Dean reluctantly agrees, if only to keep Cas “from doing anything else stupid.”
+[[File:Lily_Sunder_Has_Some_Regrets_001.png|thumb]]
+In the car, Dean and Cas aren’t speaking, and Sam’s attempts to play peacemaker fall on sullen silence.Cas finally explains that this mission is urgent because Benjamin wouldn’t call for help lightly. Dean snarks that Benjamin probably also wouldn’t make half-cocked, knee-jerk choices. Castiel snaps that what he likes about Benjamin is that “he’s sarcastic, but he’s thoughtful and appreciative, too.” Sam looks supremely uncomfortable as they arrive at the arcade.
+[[File:Lily_Sunder_Has_Some_Regrets_002.png|thumb]]
+When they arrive at the arcade, angel wings are burned on the wall, and Castiel’s baffled at how a warrior like Benjamin was defeated. When Dean finds a discarded angel blade, Cas touches it and realizes it’s not Benjamin’s. Across town, the redhead, Lily Sunder, bolts up from where she’s been meditating and murmurs, “Castiel.” She presses a kiss to an old-timey photo of a [[May|child]] before leaving her hotel.
+Cas tells the brothers that he needs to meet his former commander, Ishim, and he needs to go alone. He snipes at Dean, “If I plan to do anything else stupid, I’ll let you know.” Inside, Ishim and Mirabel, the only angels left from Castiel’s original squadron, give him grief for being the angel who caused them all to fall and lose their wings. Castiel responds that sometimes sacrifice is required, but Ishim points out most of the sacrifices seem to come from other angels.
+Outside, Sam correctly predicts that Dean’s ready to storm in. Once they’re inside, they cram into the booth next to Cas, while Ishim dispatches Mirabel to make sure they weren’t followed.
+Ishim tosses dessert money onto the table and leaves, telling Cas to find him at the safe house. Sam and Dean don’t understand why Cas lets him speak to him like that, but Cas says he’s willing to take it if Ishim will help stop the killing.
+[[File:Lily_Sunder_Has_Some_Regrets_003.png|thumb]]
+In the alley, Mirabel is killed by Lily, and Ishim finds her body. Lily appears from behind and fights him for a bit until Cas joins in. Cas recognizes her for a brief second, seeing her in a flashback. The Winchesters join in, but Lily declines to harm any humans, blinding them with angelic light before escaping in her car.
+[[File:Lily_Sunder_Has_Some_Regrets_004.png|thumb]]
+At a safe house, Cas demands an explanation for why Lily’s still alive and explains to the brothers how they knew her. A flashback sequence is shown in 1901, Maine. Before the Apocalypse, angels rarely came to Earth, but Ishim’s squadron is there because an angel fell in love with a human woman, and they had a child. Ishim explains that a Nephilim is a creature with a human soul mixed with angelic grace. These creatures are dangerous because they can grow into their powers and destroy entire worlds, so they’re forbidden by one of the oldest laws in heaven. Hence, Ishim leads his troops to make things right.
+[[File:Lily_Sunder_Has_Some_Regrets_005.png|thumb|left]]
+[[File:Lily_Sunder_Has_Some_Regrets_006.png|thumb]]
+The angel Akobel comes out of his house with Lily, and Ishim chides Akobel for taking up with “a filthy animal.” Akobel tells Lily to run inside, and whispers something to her and she does.
+Akobel passionately defends humans, asking “How could anyone know them and not love them?” Nevertheless, Cas, in a female vessel, reads his death sentence for breaking their most sacred oath while Mirabel stabs him. Ishim tells his squad that he’ll take care of the rest himself, and he goes inside to find Lily.
+In the present, Cas tells the Winchesters that he was just following orders, but everyone wonders how Lily was still alive. Ishim says she was a professor of apocalyptic literature, and he took mercy on her, but since then, she’s made a demonic pact to keep her young, strong, and powerful. The Winchesters have heard enough and head out to explain to Lily that Cas is different now, so she needs to lay off, even though the angels warn them that it won’t work.
+Once he and Cas are alone, Ishim reminds him that they’re meant to stay away from humans not because the angels are a danger to humans, but because humans are a danger to angels. Cas makes a counterpoint, saying his friendship with the Winchesters has made him stronger. Cas uses his angel mojo to heal Ishim’s cut, as well.
+[[File:Lily_Sunder_Has_Some_Regrets_007.png|thumb]]
+Sam and Dean arrive at Lily’s hotel and they agree that their first plan is to ask her nicely to lay off the angel murder. They find her and offer condolences for what happened to her family but point out that it’s not Cas’ fault that Heaven has rules about Nephilim. Lily’s shocked and sets them straight about what happened inside the house in 1901. In a flashback, she explains that her life’s work was angels. One day she summoned Ishim, and he became obsessed with her. He called it love, but she had to ask Akobel to protect her from Ishim.  When the angels arrived, Akobel ordered Lily to take May and run while he distracted them. As Lily desperately gathered her things, Akobel was killed by Mirabel and Ishim entered the house to confront her.He tells her he wanted to break her heart like she broke his by using magic to keep her powerless. Pinning a powerless Lily with telekinesis, Ishim accused her of leaving him for Akobel and murders May in revenge.She concludes her story for the Winchesters: “I had my daughter long before I ever laid eyes on an angel,” revealing that May was human.
+[[File:Lily_Sunder_Has_Some_Regrets_008.png|thumb]]
+The brothers believe her, and Dean rushes to the safe house while Sam stays with Lily. While they wait, he asks why she’s taking her revenge now, after all these years. She explains that before the angels lost their wings, she wasn’t able to hunt them down. Furthermore, she didn’t make a demon pact and instead uses Enochian magic. She touches her eye patch, indicating that it was the price of admission, and she says that every time she uses one of their spells, a piece of her soul burns away. Lily mentions that she used to dream about her daughter every night, but now she dreams about nothing.
+Dean arrives to find a weakened Cas. He tells Cas that Lily’s daughter was human, but Ishim scoffs, “Who are you going to believe, your brother or a filthy ape?” Ishim repels Dean’s attack, then attacks Cas, hissing that he used to envy Cas for being chosen by God, but now he's sad, pathetic, and weak. Then he proposes to cure Cas of his human weakness by cutting it out. Dean draws an angel-banishing sigil in blood, but Ishim points out that this will blast all the angels in the room, and Cas might not survive in his weakened state. Dean’s hand immediately drops.
+[[File:Lily_Sunder_Has_Some_Regrets_009.jpg|thumb]]
+Lily and Sam show up, joining the fight. Lily removes her eye patch to reveal an occluded orb that blasts angel light and overwhelms him, saying she would "never be powerless again". She tries to keep him immobile while he struggles forward. But when he goes to strike a killing blow against her, Castiel appears behind him and stabs him in the back, killing him.
+With Ishim dead, the Winchesters broadly hint that Lily needs to retire her revenge agenda.
+Castiel apologizes and says that he may not have known they were killing an innocent, but ignorance is no excuse. He can’t imagine her loss and pain and says if she leaves there and still can’t forgive him, “I’ll be waiting.” Lily thanks him and leaves.
+[[File:Lily_Sunder_Has_Some_Regrets_010.png|thumb]]
+Back in the bunker, Dean hands Cas a beer, and Sam assures Cas that he’s changed for the better, and the loyalty he showed them took real strength. Castiel affirms that he doesn’t regret what he did to Billie, even if it costs him his life. Apologies out of the way, they start making plans to track down Kelly and her baby that could be even more dangerous than a Nephilim. Sam points out, it’s also a mother and her child. Castiel acknowledges that there was a time when he wouldn’t have hesitated to strike, but now he isn't sure. He ends the episode toasting, hoping to find a better way.
 ==Characters==
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 ===Recurring Cast===
-==== Co-Stars ====
+==== Co-Starring ====
 * [[Alicia Witt]] as [[Lily Sunder]]
 * [[Ian Tracey]] as [[Ishim]]
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 *The episode was watched by 1.75 million viewers and got a 0.6 rating.
 *This episode features the first time an [[Angel's Wings|angel's wings]] have been seen burned into the ground following their death since [[Castiel]] killed [[Rachel]] in [[Season 6]]'s ''[[Frontierland]]''.
-*This episode features a plot twist where the supposed good guy, [[Ishim]], turns out to be the bad guy while [[Lily Sunder]] is in fact the good girl.
 *Previously, it was stated that angels had not appeared on Earth for approximately 2,000 years. The sole exceptions were [[Gabriel]], [[Metatron]], [[Grigori]], [[Reapers]] and [[Cherubim]]. The fact that Castiel had appeared on Earth 100 years ago on Heaven's orders implies that there has been another retcon to the story.
 **Showrunner [[Andrew Dabb]] did state that the writers intended to re-write Castiel's backstory. This maybe the first example.
@@ Line 48: / Line 91: @@
 **Chronologically, this makes Castiel the first known angel to use [[vessels]] of different sexes. The other angels were [[Raphael]] and [[Hannah]].
 * Four actors/actress who took part in this episode, also portrayed other characters previously. [[Ian Tracey]] portrayed [[Lee Chambers]], Nils Hognestad portayed Chris the hairdresser in [[Season 7]], episode ''[[Shut Up, Dr. Phil]]'', [[Tiara Sorensen]] portrayed [[Seven Deadly Sins|Greed]] and [[Jessa Danielson]] portrayed the fake vampire victim in [[Season 6]], episode ''[[Live Free or Twihard]]''.
+=== References ===
+*The diner Castiel meets Ishim and Mirabel at is "The Wright Stop," which is named after episode director [[Thomas J. Wright]].
+* Benjamin is seen playing the video game, [[Wikipedia:Rampage (video game)|Rampage]].
+* Dean mentions [[Wikipedia:Rosemary's Baby (novel)|Rosemary's Baby]] when referring to Klines' unborn child.
+* Dean calls Lily "One Eyed Willy",a pirate whose treasure a group of teenagers are on the hunt for in the 1985 adventure comedy film [[Wikipedia:The Goonies|The Goonies]].
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