Supernatural: Season 9 [Blu-ray]

Really loved the season but I wish they showed more of the car! However I am not so happy with the disc's. I do not like the format. There is no scene selection and the special features are split between discs'.Disc One: 6 episodes and a Special feature consisting of the 2013 COMIC-CON Panel. (This was really fun to watch)Episode 1~"I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here"Sam Winchester is dying from the events of the previous season. He dreams that he's talking with his brother Dean, who is trying to convince him to fight to live, and their late friend Bobby Singer (guest star Jim Beaver), who is trying to convince him to let go and die. Sam decides to follow "Bobby's" advice and crosses paths with Death himself again. Death explains that he has come to pay Sam the honor of reaping him personally, and Sam agrees to go with him so long as his death is permanent this time in attempt to prevent the suffering and death his and Dean's resurrections have caused in the past. Meanwhile, the angel Castiel has been turned into a human. He meets another angel, who is later revealed to have plans to possess him, as the body she is in now is deteriorating due to its inability to contain her. Castiel kills her to prevent her going through with her threat of disclosing his location to other angels, who seek revenge on him for locking them out of Heaven. Not knowing this, an increasingly desperate Dean prays to angels for help in saving Sam's life; this causes them to come attack Dean. However, one angel, Ezekiel, has come to answer Dean's prayers. Due to the extensive damage wrought on Sam's body, he finds that he is unable to heal Sam with a touch as angels normally can. As he has been injured in the fall from Heaven, he suggest that he possess Sam so he can heal him from the inside while at the same time healing himself. Dean agrees to this, and Ezekiel takes on Dean's form to talk to Sam in his head, using Dean's appearance and ambiguous wording to trick Sam into letting Ezekiel possess him. With Dean's agreement, Ezekiel erases Sam's memory of the event and stays hidden in Sam while secretly healing him.Episode 2~"Devil May Care"Sam and Dean take the captive King of Hell Crowley to the Men of Letters bunker to try to get the locations of all the demons on Earth from him. Meanwhile, his demonic rival Abaddon starts a movement to take over Hell. With the help of three demons that take soldiers as hosts, Abaddon captures two hunters and uses them to lure Sam and Dean into a trap outside Eugene, Oregon. Ezekiel briefly takes control of Sam and kills the three demons, causing Abaddon to flee. Sam continues to be unaware of his possession, as Ezekiel made it look like Dean killed the demons. The Winchesters' prophet ally Kevin Tran searches for a way to reverse Metatron's spell and kill Abaddon.Episode 3~"I'm No Angel"An angel faction led by Bartholomew uses an internet preacher to encourage devout people to agree to being possessed by the multitude of fallen angels now wandering the earth. Bartholomew is also actively hunting for Castiel, who is out on his own and struggling to find any stable shelter and food. Increasingly desperate, Castiel meets a seemingly kind-hearted waitress named April Kelly (played by, who offers him food, takes him into her home, and tends to him, leading to them having sex. The morning after, however, April reveals herself to be a rogue reaper hired by Bartholomew to find him. After torturing Castiel for information on Metatron, she kills him when Sam and Dean arrive to rescue him. Dean kills her in retribution and has Ezekiel resurrect Castiel, lying to the others by saying that he had tricked April into resurrecting Castiel before he killed her.~This includes deleted scenesEpisode 4~"Slumber Party"In 1935, hunter Dorothy of The Wizard of Oz fame captures the Wicked Witch of the West and brings her to the Men of Letters bunker. Unable to find a way to kill her, Dorothy traps herself and the Witch inside a jar. In the present, Sam and Dean discover that the bunker's map table is connected to an ancient computer. They call in their tech-savvy friend Charlie Bradbury in the hopes that she can rewire the computer to track the fallen angels, but while they're in the room containing the computer, Dean accidentally releases Dorothy and the Witch. The four hunters work together to stop the Witch's plan to use a key to Oz somewhere in the bunker to bring her minions in Oz to the human world. Dean recognizes the key from his sorting through the bunker's artifacts, but the Witch takes advantage of his knowledge to steal it for herself and begin opening the door to Oz. The witch kills Charlie but Dean forces Ezekiel to bring her back , still hiding everything from Sam. She puts Sam and Dean under her control to find the girls and kill them. Charlie figures out that the Oz books held clues from Man of Letters L. Frank Baum to Dorothy--his daughter--on how to defeat the Witch. After Charlie stabs the Witch to death using the pointed heel of the ruby slippers--thus freeing Sam and Dean from the Witch's control--Dorothy uses the key to return to Oz and free it from the evil forces.Episode 5~"Dog Dean Afternoon"A taxidermist in Enid, Oklahoma is constricted to death by a man with snake-like traits, and a shelter worker is killed by the same man but now with cat-like traits after eating a cat whole. Sam and Dean investigate and find the taxidermist's dog, The Colonel, who witnessed both murders. Dean casts a spell that allows him to communicate with animals but causes him to take on dog-like traits. They question The Colonel and various other animals, discovering that the killer is a man named Chef Leo is using shamanism to take on the traits of various animals by eating them. Chef Leo attacks and mortally wounds Sam, but Sam quickly recovers due to Ezekiel healing him. Chef Leo witnesses this and captures Sam. Chef Leo has been trying to find a way to cure his cancer by gaining the abilities of different animals, and now he hopes to acquire Sam's healing power by eating him. Dean calls a pack of dogs to maul Chef Leo to death.Episode 6~"Heaven Can't Wait"Four people mysteriously combust in Rexburg, Idaho, where Castiel is working as a sales associate at a gas station. He calls Dean, who leaves Sam and Kevin at the bunker doing research, to investigate with Castiel. They visit the crime scene of the newest victim, and Castiel recognizes it as the work of a Rit Zien, a class of angel healers who are able to mercy-kill mortally wounded angels. Unable to differentiate between the temporary and permanent pains of humans, the Rit Zien has been killing those suffering from any distress. Castiel leaves the investigation to go to his boss's house, thinking she'd asked him for a date, but finds that she'd actually wanted him to babysit her infant daughter. There, Castiel is attacked by the Rit Zien, who heard his inner pain and is there to kill him. With Dean's assistance, Castiel kills the Rit Zien instead. Dean then leaves Castiel to his normal life. At the bunker, Kevin is only able to translate the angel tablet into an obscure form of cuneiform. Sam and Kevin make a deal with Crowley: in exchange for allowing him to contact Abaddon with a blood spell, he will translate the tablet for them. After communicating with Abaddon and having her tell him that she has seized control of Hell and is stamping out all his work and followers to remove his influence, a subdued Crowley translates the tablet for Sam and Kevin and tells them that Metatron's spell is irreversible.Disc Two; 6 EpisodesEpisode 7~"Bad Boys"Dean gets a call from Sonny, an old friend who runs a reform school in Hurleyville, New York, asking for his help when a man is mysteriously killed at the school. Sam learns that Dean spent two months at the school in 1995 after he got caught stealing food. Instead of it being a hard time for Dean, he enjoyed it and flourished, along the way having his first romance with a girl named Robin. On the night of a school dance, Dean's father returned to collect him and, despite Sonny's offer to let him stay permanently, Dean elects to leave to reunite with Sam. In the present, Dean meets up with Robin again, though she initially pretends not to recognize him out of hurt that he had abandoned her without a word back then. They eventually patch things up. Sam and Dean go to the reform school, where they talk with a boy named Timmy, whose mother, when disfigured from her death and by Jen Oleksiuk when normal) is a ghost who has been protecting him from perceived threats at the cost of going murderously insane from being tied to Earth. She tries to kill Sam, Dean, and Robin, but is stopped by Timmy with Dean's encouragement. Timmy tells his mother to move on and she listens to her son, returning to her normal self as she departs.Episode 8~"Rock and a Hard Place"Suspecting that the mysterious disappearances she is investigating in Hartford, South Dakota, are linked to the supernatural due to unusual reports she is getting, Sheriff Jody Mills calls in Sam and Dean to help her with the case. Sam and Dean realize that the victims all belong to the same church chastity group and so go undercover as new members to continue investigating. Dean discovers that the group councilor, Suzy Lee, is one of his favorite porn stars; unhappy with her old life, she has quit the porn industry and is trying to turn over a new leaf. Wooing her with his genuine admiration for her and her work, he seduces her at the same time that Sam and Sheriff Mills realize that the people taken are members of the chastity group who have broken their vows of chastity. Before Sam and Sheriff Mills can get to them, Dean and Suzy are kidnapped and imprisoned in an old fallout shelter where the rest of the victims are being kept. Dean manages to call Sam and though the call cuts out quickly, the sound of a train whistle in the background clues Sam and Sheriff Mills in to Dean's location. They also deduce that they are dealing with the goddess Vesta, who has been posing as a member of the chastity group to select her victims. Sheriff Mills manages to kill Vesta and rescue the surviving victimsEpisode 9~"Holy Terror"A civil war starts between angels working for Bartholomew and angels working for Malachi, an anarchist, both of whom want to rule the fallen angels, which will end in disaster. Sam and Dean initially investigate with Castiel, but Ezekiel makes Dean send Castiel away. Desperate, Castiel prays for help and is met by an angel named Muriel who is neutral in the war. Castiel convinces her to hear him out and she explains what she knows, but he is captured by Malachi and another angel named Theo who were tracking Muriel. Malachi tortures Castiel for information on Metatron, killing Muriel to try to force him to tell him what he knows. He reveals that many angels died in the Fall from Heaven, including Ezekiel. Malachi leaves Castiel alone with Theo who wants to defect to Metatron's side. Castiel tricks Theo into releasing him, then steals his grace, turning him back into an angel and at least partially restoring his powers. After escaping, Castiel calls Dean to warn him about "Ezekiel." At the same time, Metatron (guest star Curtis Armstrong) meets with "Ezekiel," who is revealed to actually be Gadreel, the appointed guardian of the Garden of Eden until he let Lucifer in and fell into disgrace in the eyes of the Heavenly Host. He was imprisoned in Heaven's dungeon for not stopping Lucifer and was only released by the Fall. Metatron, having grown bored with his solitary rule of Heaven, proposes working together to restore Heaven with angels that they like. Gadreel is initially reluctant, but agrees and is given orders by Metatron to kill Kevin to prove his allegiance. After learning the truth from Castiel, Dean uses a sigil to knock Gadreel out so that he can tell Sam the truth, but "Sam" knocks him out and reveals himself to really be Gadreel, having altered the sigil so it gave him control rather than Sam. Gadreel kills Kevin and leaves, taking with him the angel and demon tablets, but leaves Dean alive to mourn the loss of Kevin and Sam.Episode 10~"Road Trip"Metatron orders Gadreel to carry out two more murders, including an old friend of Gadreel's. Though Gadreel hesitates to kill his friend, he goes through with it in the end. Back at the bunker, Castiel informs Dean that Crowley can bypass the angel and help them talk directly with Sam, who can then cast Gadreel out. After they find and capture Gadreel, he proves immune to Crowley's methods of torture so Dean reluctantly agrees to allow Crowley to possess Sam to communicate with him directly. With Crowley's encouragement, Sam manages to expel Gadreel who repossesses his old vessel to continue his work for Metatron. Abaddon, having tracked them down, arrives and Crowley stays behind to hold her off while Sam, Dean and Castiel escape. Crowley tells Abaddon that rather than the bloody battle between the two of them she has been anticipating, they are in the middle of a "campaign" to win the hearts of their demonic subjects for rulership of Hell. He then leaves before Abaddon can attack him. Meanwhile, it is discovered that Gadreel has restored enough of Sam's health that Castiel can take over healing him through conventional means. Dean tells Sam that he is going to hunt Gadreel alone as he believes that he causes too much hurt to those around him. Hurt by Dean's trickery, Sam tells him that Gadreel is not their problem and bids Dean to go.This includes deleted scenes.Episode 11~"First Born"Crowley approaches Dean for help with finding the First Blade, the only known weapon that can kill Abaddon. Following clues, Dean and Crowley discover that Dean's father had once worked with a hunter named Tara who spent years searching for the Blade. Finding Tara, they cast a locator spell she found that leads them to the "retired" demon Cain (guest star Timothy Omundson), who had trained--and then killed--all the other Knights of Hell except Abaddon, who had escaped his wrath. Cain refuses to help them, even letting in a group of other demons to fight Dean and Crowley, who kill them. Cain reveals that he wants revenge on Abaddon, as she murdered his wife, but is unable to exact it himself because he is bound by his promise to his wife not to kill anymore. Cain also reveals that the spell led them to him because his Mark (the brand Lucifer marked him with when he turned him into a demon) is the source of the Blade's power and he can transfer it to someone worthy. Despite Cain's warnings of an unknown but terrible cost, Dean agrees to bear the Mark so that he can kill Abaddon. Cain asks for Dean to kill him after killing Abaddon and sends him and Crowley to safety as he single-handedly defeats a swarm of demons that arrived to kill them. Having picked up on Crowley giving himself away in small but tell-tale ways, Dean confronts Crowley on having been deceiving and manipulating him all along, including having allowed Tara to be questioned, tortured, and killed by demons so that they would find him and Dean and Dean could prove himself worthy to Cain for the Mark. However, Dean can't retaliate against Crowley yet because he still needs Crowley to retrieve the First Blade from the bottom of the ocean. Running parallel to this plot is Sam and Castiel's attempts to harvest the part of Gadreel's grace that is still inside Sam so that they can use it to track the angel. Removing the grace causes Sam to start reverting back into the state he was before Gadreel possessed him, but Sam refuses to let him stop until they get all the grace they need, even if it means his death. Due to his own brief humanity, Castiel empathizes with Sam's desire to make up for the people who've died from the choices he, Sam, and Dean have made, but refuses to risk killing Sam, instead stopping and finishing healing Sam and eliminating the last of the grace. The spell turns out to be unsuccessful because they didn't get enough grace. Castiel leaves to track Metatron, who he believes holds the key to fixing everything.Episode 12~"Sharp Teeth"After Garth is hit by a car after mutilating a cow in Grantsburg, Wisconsin, Sam and Dean arrive separately to investigate where their friend has been for months. Claiming to remember nothing, Garth escapes the hospital and Sam and Dean follow him to discover that Garth is married to a werewolf and is now one himself after being bitten six months before on a hunt. Garth insists that he and his pack don't harm humans and peacefully coexist. While Sam is more willing to trust Garth, Dean isn't after his long disappearance and due to his suspicious nature. As everything seems to be fine, Sam and Dean are lured into a trap by the local sheriff who is also a werewolf and are forced to kill him when he attacks. Looking for Garth, Sam finds him and his wife Bess missing and is kidnapped by a few members of the pack while Dean finds out that they worship Fenris and believe that when Ragnarok comes, they will rule over mankind. The wife of the minister plans to murder Garth and Bess and frame Sam and Dean to goad the rest of the pack who is willing to live in peace into action, but Dean arrives and kills the three werewolves running the plot. In the aftermath, Garth offers to return to hunting using his new werewolf powers to help, but Dean tells him to enjoy his new life, having realized that all werewolves aren't so bad. Dean tries to make up with Sam who agrees to return to hunting with Dean, but doesn't fully trust him anymore.Disc Three; 6 EpisodesEpisode 13~"The Purge"Dean finds a case in Stillwater, Minnesota where a 316 pound man was killed in his car and was 98 pounds afterwards. Thinking witchcraft, Sam and Dean investigate, leading them to weird suction marks on the man and another victim. After finding the same mark on a personal trainer, Sam and Dean go undercover at a nearby health spa where people mysteriously lose a lot of weight very fast. While tasting the spa's pudding, Dean gets drugged by roofies and they realize the spa's owner is a monster after Dean catches her eating refrigerated fat. At the same time Sam and Dean confront the woman, Maritza, her brother Alonzo kills her husband after he confronts him about the murders. Maritza explains she and Alonzo are Pishtaco, Peruvian parasitic monsters that feed on fat. Maritza set up the spa to harmlessly feed on human fat from her customers without harming anyone, but her brother wasn't content with that and wanted to feed on people until death. Tracking down Alonzo, Sam and Dean kill him and pass it off as a psycho serial killer to the police. Although Dean wants to kill Maritza too, Sam convinces him not to and they send her back to Peru instead. Later, Dean tries to clear the air between him and Sam about what he did to save him, but Sam points out that Dean did it for himself so he wouldn't be alone. When Dean tries to contend that Sam would do the same for him, Sam tells him he wouldn't, leaving Dean stunned.Episode 14~"Captives"To Sam and Dean's surprise, they are visited by Kevin's ghost; since his death, he has trapped in the veil between worlds because spirits have been barred from Heaven by Metatron. Kevin has learned that his mother's alive and asks them to rescue her. Sam and Dean locate Linda in a storage facility in Wichita, Kansas, but are captured by a demon there in the guise of a storage facility employee who is working for Crowley and keeping Linda prisoner. The three manage to break free and Linda gets the satisfaction of killing the demon herself. She is reunited with Kevin's ghost and, despite the risks, decides to take him home with her. Before they leave, Kevin asks Sam and Dean to set aside their issues. Despite promising him they will, they go back to ignoring each other when he's gone. Meanwhile, Castiel is captured by Bartholomew, revealed to be a former subordinate of his who wants Castiel to ally with him to unite all of the angels. However, Castiel doesn't agree with Bartholomew's savage ways and wants to bring an end to the in-fighting he's causing. In a fight, Castiel is forced to kill him in self-defense. Afterwards, some of Bartholomew's followers approach Castiel to join him in his way of doing things.Episode 15~"#THINMAN"In Springdale, Washington, a teenage girl taking pictures of herself is killed in her own bedroom by what appears to be Thinman, some kind of monster that appears in various videos and pictures of unnatural deaths. Sam and Dean find their old ghost hunting rivals Ed and Harry of the Ghostfacers are also there investigating, collecting more stories on Thinman. Sam and Dean are confused because the deaths don't seem related to the supernatural and the pictures seem faked, but then Thinman is caught on-camera murdering a diner manager. After Harry himself narrowly escapes Thinman, Ed confesses that he had invented Thinman to keep Harry from leaving to lead a normal life as their old teammates had, a revelation that infuriates the other man. Sam and Dean are taken captive by the local deputy, who reveals that he and his psychopathic partner-in-crime, a busboy who had killed his boss the diner manager and the girl for petty reasons, have been using Thinman as a cover to go on a killing spree, disguising themselves as Thinman and staging the murders as supernatural occurrences to make it seem that Thinman is real in order to feed the legend. They plan to have "Thinman" kill Sam and Dean next, but when Ed and Harry arrive, they get distracted, allowing Sam and Dean to break free and fight back; in the ensuing struggle, Dean kills the busboy and Harry is forced to kill the deputy to save Ed. Dean then covers up their involvement by staging the scene so it looks like the killers killed each other. At the end of the episode, Harry refuses to forgive Ed for his deception and leaves the Ghostfacers and Ed behind for good.Episode 16~"Blade Runners"Crowley is addicted to human blood, but after the demon he uses to get it betrays him to Abaddon, he calls in Sam and Dean. Crowley, Sam, and Dean team up to locate the First Blade which has passed among various owners since its discovery by an unmanned submarine in the Mariana Trench. Finally, they track the Blade to a rogue Man of Letters named Cuthbert Sinclair. Locating his lair, Sam and Dean learn that Magnus is a collector of creatures and rare objects such as the Blade and as he needs Dean to use the Blade, he imprisons him and sends Sam away. Sam and Crowley manage to get back in, but Sam is captured. Crowley frees Dean who kills Magnus with the First Blade, after which Sam realizes the Blade is having a strange effect on Dean. Crowley then takes the Blade as he doesn't trust Sam and Dean not to kill him and will only give it back to them once they have tracked down Abaddon.Episode includes Deleted Scenes and Audio CommentaryEpisode 17~"Mother's Little Helper"While Dean continues to research Abaddon--something he soon takes a break from to visit a dive bar, only to be pestered there by Crowley--Sam opts to go investigate a report of the good people of Milton, Illinois spontaneously turning into violent killers. He meets an ex-nun who had encountered the Men of Letters under similar circumstances in 1958. She reveals that Abaddon had been present at her convent and removing people's souls before encountering Henry Winchester and Josie Sands (guest star Alaina Huffman) of the Men of Letters. When Abaddon was about to possess Henry, Josie persuaded Abaddon to take her instead. Abaddon left with an oblivious Henry with the intention of studying the Men of Letters from within before destroying them. Now she has demons working for her stealing souls again in order to turn those souls into an army of demons. Sam kills the demon responsible for stealing souls in Milton and releases the captive souls to return to their bodiesEpisode includes Audio CommentaryEpisode 18~"Meta Fiction"In Ogden, Utah, several angels have been slaughtered for refusing to join Metatron, who claims he can get them back into Heaven. Several angels want Castiel to lead them against him, but Castiel refuses. Castiel is approached by Gabriel, who says he survived and came out of hiding to be the leader against Metatron. Castiel realizes this is an illusion created by Metatron. Metatron views the whole angel war as a story and wants Castiel to play the villain by leading angels against him, and even though he will fail, Metatron claims he will let him back into Heaven and give Castiel a power supply for his new grace which will burn out and kill him if he cannot soon recharge it~Disc 4; 5 Episodes and Special Features include Behind the Scenes of Supernatural A Fan's PerspectiveEpisode 19~"Alex Annie Alexis Ann"In Sioux Falls, South Dakota, a young woman named Alex (Katherine Ramdeen) is arrested, but while the police officers are gone, is attacked by a vampire who shows a familiarity to her. Sheriff Jody Mills kills the vampire and calls in Sam and Dean for help. They discover that Alex was kidnapped eight years ago by a "family" of vampires led by Celia and that they are now after her as she ran away from them. Tracing the nest to O'Neill, Nebraska through a bus ticket, Sam and Dean confront one of the vampires while Jody protects Alex. Before being killed, the vampire reveals that Alex lures humans to the nest for the vampires to feed on and is not innocent after all. Before Sam and Dean can reach them, the "family" attacks Jody and Alex and kidnaps Alex who is revealed to have run away out of guilt over her actions. Returning to the nest to kill the vampires, Sam, Dean and Jody are captured and Jody finds Alex turned into a vampire. Alex saves Jody from Celia who Jody kills. At the same time, Dean breaks free and kills the other two vampires, but shows pleasure in doing it, disturbing Sam. As Alex has not fed, Sam and Dean are able to cure her and Jody decides to take care of Alex as long as she needs her as they can relate, both having lost their entire families.Episode 20~"Bloodlines"In this back-door pilot for a proposed new TV series (Supernatural: Bloodlines), five different mafia-esque monster families are running the underbelly of Chicago, Illinois. One is a family of shapeshifters run by Margo Lassiter, whose leadership is thrown into question when her younger brother David returns home to claim his place in the family business. The other reigning family in town is made up of werewolves, lead by Julian Duval. The Families paths with Sam and Dean cross when they meet Ennis, a man with a personal vendetta against the monsters when his girlfriend is murdered by a mysterious figure with silver claws who kills David's brother Sal. The Winchesters warn Ennis about heading into the hunter lifestyle, but Ennis refuses to listen and starts down a dangerous path. David is revealed to be having a romance with Violet, the werewolf sister of Julian, which could bring on a full-scale war between the Five Families with the humans caught in the middle. After Violet is kidnaped, Sam, Dean, David and Ennis team up to save her, learning that the thing that killed David's brother and Ennis' girlfriend is actually a man driven insane with revenge by the death of his son at what he believes to be the Families hands and wants to drive them to war. Ennis kills the man in revenge for his girlfriend's death and decides to take up hunting to protect Chicago from the monsters despite a mysterious phone call from his supposedly-dead father while Sam and Dean must leave due to a lead on Metatron. At the request of his father, David rejoins his family and prevents the war by revealing the truth of the murders to his sister who is not happy with his return.Includes Deleted scenes and Audio CommentaryEpisode 21~"King of the Damned"Castiel calls Sam and Dean in to interrogate one of Metatron's followers. Sam and Dean are able to trick the prisoner into revealing that Metatron has a secret portal into Heaven for his followers and is amassing an elite ground force for an unknown reason. Before they can get more out of him, however, he is assassinated by a spy in Castiel's ranks. In response, Castiel meets with Gadreel to discuss him becoming a spy for his faction. Castiel is ambushed at the meeting, but Gadreel insists he had nothing to do with it. Castiel attempts to convince Gadreel that he is fighting for the wrong side and that he should become Castiel's spy. At the same time, Abaddon (guest star Alaina Huffman) travels back in time to 1723 and kidnaps Crowley's son Gavin to use as leverage against him. Crowley agrees to help Abaddon kill the Winchesters and leads them to where he has hidden the First Blade, but secretly warns Dean of the trap. After sending Sam on a wild goose chase, Dean confronts Abaddon alone and succeeds in killing her, with the Mark of Cain protecting Dean from her powers. The Winchesters allow Crowley to live, but he teleports Gavin away so he won't be returned to his own time to die.Includes Deleted ScenesEpisode 22~"Stairway to Heaven"In Dixon, Missouri. an angel blows himself up in an ice cream parlor claiming to do it for Castiel, killing one of Metatron's angels and several humans. This causes several angels to doubt Castiel's leadership despite Castiel saying he would not order such attacks. Metatron's side is outnumbered so he meets with Tyrus, the leader of an independent faction of angels at a bowling alley. Tyrus refuses to join saying if Metatron killed him the rest of his angels would join Castiel. Another suicide bomber attacks Metatron and the blast kills Tyrus. Dean finds another bomber who turns out to be Tessa the Reaper. The other angels view Dean as a savage killer and insist he only talk to her for answers. Tessa says she was tormented by pain from the human souls trapped on Earth since Heaven was closed and although she was too much of a coward to kill herself before, she will happily die for Castiel's cause. Tessa impales herself on the First Blade, making it look like Dean killed her. Metatron contacts Castiel's side saying Tyrus's angels have joined him and Castiel does not care about the other angels, only winning the war before he dies when his new grace burns out. Metatron offers the rest of Castiel's angels amnesty if they join him now. The angels demand Castiel kill Dean to prove he is a worthy leader. Castiel refuses, so all his angels abandon him for Metatron. Gadreel is disturbed to learn Metatron planned all this by brainwashing the suicide bombers into thinking they were dying for Castiel.This includes Deleted ScenesEpisode 23~"Do You Believe in Miracles"After Dean attacks Gadreel with the First Blade, Sam and Castiel lock him in the bunker's dungeon out of fear of what the Blade is doing to him and heal Gadreel who reveals that Metatron intends to convert humanity into following him instead of God. As the power Metatron draws from the angel tablet makes him unstoppable, Gadreel and Castiel decide to infiltrate Heaven to break the tablet and his power while Sam goes after Metatron himself. Dean summons Crowley who helps him escape and start tracking down Metatron, but Dean has Crowley leave after Sam agrees to help him. The two track down Metatron, but Dean proves no match for him and is fatally wounded. In Heaven, Gadreel and Castiel are found out and locked in Heaven's dungeon, but Gadreel sacrifices himself to free Castiel and convince the angel Hannah to help him. Castiel finds and shatters the angel tablet, reverting Metatron to a regular angel and forcing him to flee before Sam can kill him. Metatron confronts Castiel, arrogantly telling him that he will rule both humanity and the angels who he sees as beneath him, not knowing that Castiel is broadcasting his words to every angel in existence. The angels turn on Metatron and Castiel locks Metatron in Heaven's dungeon rather than kill him. While the other angels look to Castiel as their leader once more, Castiel would rather be a regular angel and is faced with the fact he will die soon unless he replenishes his grace. Dean succumbs to his injuries and dies, and while Sam tries to summon Crowley to make a deal to resurrect him, Crowley visits Dean, revealing that the Mark of Cain won't let go of him. After instructions from Crowley, Dean opens his eyelids, revealing demonic black eyes.

I have watched every season of Supernatural to date, and I have to say that even though it's my second-least favorite of all time (only after Season 7), this 9th season still manages to be wonderful.In this season, Sam, Dean, and Castiel have to deal with the lingering effects of Sam's failure to finish the Trials in Season 8, and the consequences of Dean's attempts to save his life. Castiel must also learn how to operate as a full-fledged human for the first time in his life. I won't spoil anything, but I will say that there is an entirely new piece of mythology introduced in the middle of the season, and it will change everything you know about demons and the story of Cain and Abel forever.The season is, as usual, also chock-full of angels, demons, and monsters-of-the-week. It's an emotional rollercoaster, for sure, and I enjoyed the ride despite how intense it sometimes got.This DVD set includes all 23 episodes of Season 9 (including episode 9.20, which was the "backdoor pilot" for the cancelled show "Supernatural Bloodlines." I'd honestly just skip that one if I were you; it really is a waste of an hour.) It is also full of bonus features, from the Gag Reel to deleted scenes to interviews with the cast and crew. It also includes a "Mockumentary" written and directed by Misha Collins, and I have to say that that alone is almost enough to justify purchasing this set. It is beyond hilarious!So even though Season 9 doesn't top the list of my favorite seasons thus far, it is still definitely worth a watch. Jensen, Jared, and Misha have once again delivered amazing performances, and the guest stars this season are very engaging as well. If you're a Supernatural fan and you haven't watched Season 9 yet, I'd suggest you get this ASAP. You're really missing out if you don't.

The movie studio’s restraint in allowing these two well-built studs to keep their clothes on for the most part continues to amaze me. Save for an opening scene a season or so back in which Jared Padelecki is shown working out his frustrations minus a shirt they stay covered. If the show ever had any innocence it has lost it long since. The line between Heavenly Angels and Hellish Demons has long since been blurred.The season picks up as it moves past the opening episodes and catches its stride. I continue to marvel that the pair can roar across the countryside in that car with the engine growling and not pick up any tickets. Giving it a name, I suppose, would violate Dean’s macho image but he sets more store by that automobile than he does most people. One suspects he does his own maintenance though we rarely see him do more than gas it up.The writers are not above poking fun at the actors’ personas. Having Jensen converse in dog and offer to smell butts and having the pair embrace their virginity were good for a few laughs. This pair are no angels. Although Angels and Heaven, Demons and Hell play key roles in this series there is nothing remotely religious about it.

Bought this for my partner for Xmas as she is a serious supernatural fan and was seriously gutted that she couldn't view or buy it here in the UK.ordered this from Amazon .com in USA. After checking on line whether this blue ray would play on UK players I ordered it and payed for express delivery hoping it would turn up before Xmas.was given a delivery date of 23rd of December,close I know! However,the package arrived on the 14th so well done to Amazon for getting it to me so quickly.UK is now running season 9 on TV but only in standard definition not HD.having watched a couple of episode's I think that season nine is very good and follows on from the last season very well.my missus was over the moon to receive this for Xmas! Plays fine as this box set is'nt region coded i.e A,B or C. Shall definitely be ordering from Amazon US in future as a lot of shows and films are released earlier in the US.So high praise to Amazon for making my partner's Xmas a happy one.

I haven't watched the series yet- no doubt it will meet expectation. I bought this on the back of a previous reviewers comment that the region 2 Import DVD is all in English. So I just wanted to say I checked it when it arrived and its all good!- just some bits on the box written in foreign language and thats it. Menu's, text on screen etc all English- no difference to |UK version spottesd in my brief skip though. A pain having to pay the extra cost, and more than a little annoyed as to how the UK fans are being treated but better than waiting another 12mths for the UK release! One grumpy husband (who is resigned to waiting until next year) will be much happier on his birthday next month!

I have just had my DVDs turn up in the post and I can confirm that any uk residents that have not seen season 9 of supernatural will be able to watch it through these DVDs. I am very happy as i have watched supernatural since the beginning and was very upset when I found out that sky living was not picking up supernatural so I read the reviews from pervious customers and have risked buying this as it as paid off. So fans buy it u won't be disappointed with the outcome :-)

i ordered the NTSC dvd version after finding a "hack" for my DVD player online http://www.videohelp.com/dvdhacks . You can easily reprogramme your DVD player to be "no region". it worked and am very pleased!! as its now broadcasting on E4 the release is a few weeks away yet....so if you can't wait this is a way around it if you don't have bleu ray.

This was ordered for my daughter's Christmas. I am wary of buying US imports as I worry that they won't play but I read the feed back on this site and everything was fine. The order showed a long delivery time but the item arrived early and there were no problems with playing it.

Probably the only legal way for the beleaguered British Supernatural fan to get to see season 9 in the UK. This US version plays perfectly on my blu-ray player, the delivery was timely, and the set was received in perfect condition.