Supernatural: Return of the Croatoan Virus

The fourth episode of Supernatural was on last night and was probably the best episode of the season so far. The title of this episode was "The End", this was the name because it was about Dean being sent into the future by Zachariah so that he would see how the future would be if Dean said no to Micheal and stayed on the path of trying to kill Lucifer. I liked this episode because it Incorporated old stories from the show including the colt and the Croatoan virus. This episode along with a similar episode from the third season when Castiel sends Dean into the past was too much centered around Dean and there was not enough Sam.

The episode starts with Dean getting to his hotel room and getting a call from Castiel, because Castiel thinks that he has gotten a lead on how to find "the colt". Dean does not believe him because he did not think that the demons wold keep a demon killing gun around. Soon after Dean goes to sleep Zachariah wakes him up so that he can send him into the future. Dean wakes up in the year 2014 to find that the town he went to sleep in is now totally destroyed. Dean ventures outside of find out what happened and is attacked by a little girl, after Dean gets away from her he finds "CROATOAN" painted to a wall. Once he saw this he knew he was in trouble because he remembered going to a small town a few years ago, in season 2, and finding "CROATOAN" carved into a tree and everyone in the town went nuts because they wee infected with the demonic virus that caused them all to become vicious killers. As Dean was running away from the crowd of infected "croats" the US army comes in and shoots them all to bits. After Dean escapes from the town he notices that the town had been fenced off by the government because it was a "Hot Zone of the Croatoan Virus". Dean decided to go to a friends house to see if they could help him, but he was interrupted by Zachariah telling him that this is what will happen if he continues on his current path and that the only way out is to say yes to Michael. Dean eventually finds a underground survivors camp where he learns that these people are fighting the demons and "croats" and are being lead by him. After Dean was discovered by future Dean he was locked up so that the rest of the people in the camp would not freak out because there were two Dean Winchesters. Eventually past Dean escapes and starts to talk to the rest of the people in the camp like Castiel and Chuck, a prophet. Meanwhile future Dean was on a mission and when he returns he shows everyone tat finally after five years he found a way to kill Lucifer, he had found the colt. The whole group of people went to kill Lucifer and they were all killed except for past Dean because Lucifer knew that without Dean Sam would never say "yes". After Dean confronts Lucifer in Sam's body he is sent back to 2009. After Dean gets back he goes to see Castiel and calls Sam so that they can get back together to start hunting again.

I liked this episode much better than the three before it because it had more of the earlier stories in it. I thought that it was really good that Dean had to face Sam after Lucifer had entered his body because it forced Dean to Look at what would happen to him if he cut Sam out of his life. Future Dean was being very mean and harsh with everyone in his camp and it showed what Dean would become if he obsessed over killing Lucifer with the colt. I thought that it was not a good idea to re-introduce the colt onto the show because it was better when they did not have it because it made their lives easier. I would have thought, like Dean, that the demons would not keep a gun around that was built to kill demons. I thought that it was awesome that in this horrible dystopian future where everything is the worst possible outcome the president of the United States is Sarah Palin. Even though there were some things that were not as great the episode was still the best of the season and I would rate it 4.5 out of 5.

The colt was introduced in the first season to Sam and Dean by the father John. I found this video on YouTube from the episode.