Moriah

Season	Episode	Overall
14	20	307

Series

Supernatural

Airdate

April 25, 2019

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Moriah is the 20th episode and the season finale of Season 14. It aired on April 25, 2019.

Summary

There was something about being there... It felt pure.

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DO NOT CHANGE!

Sam, Dean and Castiel are thrown into an epic battle. Meanwhile, Jack becomes disenchanted with all the lies, and an old friend from the past shows up.

Plot

After breaking out of the Ma'lak Box, a furious Jack blasts Sam, Dean and Castiel across the room and disappears. Castiel wonders how Jack could have broken free when the box was designed to hold an archangel and Sam reminds him that Jack wasn't. Castiel angrily tells the brothers that they should never have tried to lock Jack away. Dean counters by saying he wanted Jack dead causing Castiel to storm out.

Sam reluctantly agrees with Dean that Jack has to die though they have no idea how to kill him. Castiel tries to get into Hell asking to look at the design of the Cage but is turned away by the demon at the gate. Behind him a voice tells him that they are screwed revealed to be God/Chuck Shurley. Chuck tells Castiel that he got his prayer and that Jack is a big problem.

Meanwhile Jack wanders around the city hearing the lies people tell each other. He yells at everyone to "STOP LYING" causing time to briefly pause before everything reverts back to normal.

Sam and Dean head to Mirror Universe - a face recognition technology company - to see if they can track Jack's face. When Dean tries to use his fake FBI badge he blurts out the truth that he's looking for the Devil's son and his ID his fake. Quickly they realise that everyone is incapable of lying as fights break out between the company staff as they all tell the truth. This also leads to; Sam announcing his favourite singer is Celine Dion and not Elvis as he claims, the President of the United States revealing his entire tax history and links to Russia and North Korea and a demon he made with Crowley on National Television, and one of the news reporters revealing he's in love with the other. Everything is chaotic.

Jack visits his grandparents again but is accused by his grandmother of being a liar because after he left they phoned around and no-one had heard of him. She demands to know what he's done to her daughter causing Jack to snap and his eyes to flare gold.

Castiel arrives with Chuck who points out the chaos caused when no-one can lie. Dean angrily demands to know where he's been and Chuck prepares to sing before Dean smashes his guitar angrily.

Chuck teleports them all back to the Bunker and shows them just how bad everything is by turning on the radio revealing, among other things, that the Queen of England is a lizard before he snaps his fingers and reverts things so the truths were never told. He presents Team Free Will with a gun he calls "the Equalizer" that can kill Jack but to work means whoever pulls the trigger will also die - Chuck cannot use the gun because if he dies then reality will be destroyed. Castiel openly despises the idea saying that he called Chuck back to restore Jack's soul not kill him.

Dean insists that it's the only way and Castiel can either support it or walk away. Castiel walks away driving to a graveyard where Jack appears saying he's been looking for him.

Back in the bunker, Dean tells Sam that he's going to be the one to kill Jack and Sam states that he's not going to let Dean and Jack die at the same time storming out of the room angrily.

Jack and Castiel talk where Jack reveals he knows that killing Mary was a mistake but he still can't feel anything without a soul. He also didn't harm his grandmother, leaving before he did anything else.

Sam confronts Chuck and asks him if what the Apocalypse World version of Michael said was true about God and the alternate worlds; that Chuck gets bored and abandons them. Chuck evades the question asking if Sam believes what Michael was saying but admits that he does see what's going on in this world because this version of Sam and Dean are his favourites - they're "his show". Sam angrily demands why Chuck doesn't bother to step in and why the fate of the world always lands on their shoulders but Chuck simply responds that they're his boys. He also reveals that he's known all along where Jack is and Dean has already left the bunker with the gun.

Back at the graveyard, Castiel and Jack continue to talk when Dean arrives. Castiel stands between the two ordering Jack to run but Jack knocks him aside. Accepting what he's done as wrong, Jack kneels and tells Dean he understands why he has to die.

Sam arrives and runs towards the pair shouting at Dean to stop. As he gets closer, Chuck appears and stops him from moving further forward. Sam demands to know if he's enjoying what he's seeing but Chuck shushes him.

Dean cannot bring himself to kill Jack and drops the gun as Castiel hurries back over. Chuck angrily states that this is not how the story is supposed to end leading Sam and Dean to realise that Chuck has been playing them all along, creating their suffering for his own entertainment. Chuck orders Dean to kill Jack promising to bring Mary back from the dead if they do.

Though hesitating briefly, Dean refuses saying it's not what Mary would have wanted and Chuck can go to Hell for all the suffering he's put them through. In retaliation, Chuck snaps his fingers killing him. Whilst Castiel tries to heal Jack as he dies, Dean tries to fight Chuck who merely throws him through a headstone. Sam grabs the gun and fires at Chuck hitting them both in the shoulder.

Furiously Chuck states that if this is how they want it then the story is over. He welcomes them to The End and vanishes with darkness plunging over them all. Dean is confused at how Chuck killed Jack if the gun was the only thing that could and Castiel calls back to what Chuck told him earlier in the episode: "he's a writer. Writer's Lie."

Jack wakes up in The Empty to see The Shadow and Billie standing over him, the latter tells him that they need to talk.

In the graveyard, the ground shakes and fiery cracks form in the ground with ghosts rising from them. Castiel realises it is the souls being released from Hell - Chuck has triggered the Apocalypse. An army of zombies rise up surrounding the three as the monsters that they defeated return from being sent to Hell - The Woman in White, The Killer Clown, and Bloody Mary.

Sam and Dean arm themselves with iron bars from a fence and Castiel with his angel blade as the zombies close in and attack.

Characters

Main Cast

Recurring Cast

Guest Stars

Lisa Berry as Billie
Rob Benedict as God

Featured Supernatural Beings

Angels (Duma, mentioned only)
Archangels (Alternate Michael, Lucifer, and Michael, mentioned only)
Crossroad Demon (Crowley, mentioned only)
Demons (Mamie)
Horsemen (Death, mentioned only)
Leviathans (mentioned only)
Ghosts
Nephilim (Jack Kline)
Primordial Entities (God and The Shadow; The Darkness, mentioned only)
Reaper (Billie)
Seraph (Castiel)
Vengeful Spirit (Mary Worthington)
Violent Spirits (John Wayne Gacy)
Witch (Rowena MacLeod, mentioned only)
Woman in White (Constance Welch)
Zombies

Continuity

This episode picks up right after the events of Jack in the Box.
Billie previously appeared in Nihilism.
The Shadow previously appeared in Byzantium.
Mrs. Kline previously appeared in Gods and Monsters.
John Wayne Gacy previously appeared in Lebanon.
God previously appeared in Alpha and Omega.
Mary Worthington previously appeared in Bloody Mary.
Constance Welch previously appeared in Pilot.
Duma was mentioned. She previously appeared in Jack in the Box.
Rowena MacLeod was mentioned. She previously appeared in Absence.
Mary Winchester was mentioned. She previously appeared in Absence.
Lucifer was mentioned. He previously appeared in Game Night.
Alternate Michael was mentioned. He previously appeared in Ouroboros.
John Winchester was mentioned. He previously appeared in Lebanon.
Kelly Kline was mentioned. She previously appeared in Byzantium.
Crowley was mentioned. He previously appeared in All Along the Watchtower.
The Darkness was mentioned. She previously appeared in Alpha and Omega.
Michael was mentioned. He previously appeared in Swan Song.
The Archangel Blade was previously featured in Let the Good Times Roll.
The Soul Bomb was mentioned and was previously featured in Alpha and Omega.
Its revealed that God heard Castiel's call in Game Night and has returned due to that and the threat from Jack.

Trivia

Moriah is the name given to a mountainous region by the Book of Genesis, in which context it is the location of the sacrifice of Isaac.^[1]
This is the first season finale to air in April.
This is the second season finale to not feature all of the main characters with No Rest for the Wicked being the first one.
This is the third season finale to set in a graveyard with Swan Song and Alpha and Omega being the first two.
This is the third season finale to feature a Nephilim with All Along the Watchtower and Let the Good Times Roll being the first two.
This is the fourth season finale to feature God with Lucifer Rising, Swan Song and Alpha and Omega being the first three.
This is the first time Castiel interacts with God, while back in Season 11 it was Lucifer who used Castiel as a vessel.
Jack Kline is killed by God in this episode and is thrown into The Empty but awakens for an unknown reason.
This is the first time Jack meets God.
This is the first time Jack interacts with Billie.
Sam's favorite singer is revealed to be Celine Dion though he always lies and claims its Elvis. Celine Dion was previously mentioned in My Heart Will Go On where Balthazar told the Winchesters that without the movie Titanic, she would've become a destitute lounge singer in Quebec.
- In addition, its shown that Dean hates Celine Dion. He tests his ability to lie by stating "Celine Dion rocks" and is pleased with the result.
A newscaster states that Donald Trump, while under Jack's mind control, spent more than two hours disclosing his entire tax history, deep ties to Russia and North Korea, and a demon deal Trump made with Crowley. However, this was undone by God along with all the other effects of Jack's mind control leaving only Sam and Dean to remember the truth.
- This is a reference to the current controversies with President Trump in the real world.
God reveals that The Darkness is in Reno playing keno, which turns out to be her favorite.
God reveals that he actually can't restore a soul, stating that souls are complicated, even for him.
God plunges Earth into chaos to punish Team Free Will for their defiance against him.
When God releases all of the souls of Hell upon the Earth, former enemies Constance Welch, Mary Worthington and John Wayne Gacy can be seen resuming their previous activities.
This episode marks the first God kills someone on-screen.
Kelly Kline's mother reveals that to the rest of the world, Kelly is missing and no one knows where she is. Kelly is feared to be dead by her family and friends with her parents having discovered that Jack lied about his identity after Jack's last visit.
Its confirmed that there are multiple Archangel Blades by God's comments when he is playing with one in the bunker. Sam's comments about the Winchesters having gotten it from another world suggest that its Michael's archangel blade, the one used to kill both Gabriel and Lucifer.
The God's choice in setting "The End" scenario resembling some pop cultures:
- When the spirits from the Hell unleashed, the scene depicted it resemble the scene of the unleashing of Angel of Death from The Ark of Covenant from 1981 movie Indiana Jones and the Raiders of The Lost Ark. There are some similarities of camera view and animation between both of the scene.
- The God's choice in ending the world by reanimating zombies from their graves is resembling Zombie Apocalypse, a particular scenario within apocalyptic fiction. In a zombie apocalypse, a widespread rise of zombies hostile to human life engages in a general assault on civilization.
As of this episode, all known Nephilim are deceased.