Okay...I just rewatched the final half hour, and I didn't know there was room for me to love Cas more, but...there it is.

I still can't get over the coat, and how perfect that was.

The coat killed me.

Sam -- huge and mountain-man bearded -- flinching when Lucifer was lighting those fuses also killed me.

It's not even close to my favorite moment, or the most emotionally intense one, but I still love the way Dean rolled his eyes when Cas said he didn't know how to ride a bike, either.

It looked to me like Rachel Miner was maybe on medication, like prednisone or something. Her face was so incredibly round when it wasn't before, and it didn't look like she'd gained weight anywhere else.

Yeah, when I had the pregnancy random thought I looked at her torso, and it seemed the same teeny torso she'd always had.

Sam doesn't ever seem to go to hospital for injuries or sickness, does he? He always seems to be strapped down to something. And I love it. I think Momoa made a great Conan, but I do think "mighty thews" when I look at Sam's body, especially when he was strapped down for the electro-shock, and straining against those bindings. Fucking huge, man.

The electroshock scene upset me a lot more than I would have expected.

I have to watch it again. I don't think I've really digested everything that happened. They packed an awful lot into one episode, which I think probably explains some of the plot shortcuts.

Yeah, I did fast forward past that on my partial rewatch. I just...I don't want to watch Sam going through that again. That was...I'm so glad, at least, that Cas was able to cure him of that right a way, I'm assuming.

This whole episode is wide open with fic possibilities, primarily of the Emmanuel!Cas variety. But also the ending -- watching Misha play Cas remembering who he was was so painful, and now that he's there with Lucifer, he's going to have nothing to think about but how he believes he failed (the world, heaven, DEAN) while Lucifer taunts him and Meg does ... whatever she's going to do.

I can't believe that Meg will refrain from tormenting Cas.Or the patients. Or the staff. Unless Cas is enough in control to make it clear she is in trouble if she does not stop.

I'm assuming Meg is there explicitly not to torment Cas. Can't speak for the rest of the patients, but my understanding was that the boys knew she was there--that's what they were talking about when they left, about working with a demon.

She's there to watch over Cas, kind of like she was during the entire episode, because Team Free Will is all the shot she has at self defense.

She won't be fucking with him in my scenario.

I had originally wondered if Meg was Daphne, but here's another chance for her to become curiously close to Cas, especially when his defenses are all askew.

Of everyone we met in S1, *Meg* is the only person apart from the boys Winchester that's alive and kicking and comes round to visit. Who would have thought, man? That it would have been a chick, much less her?

The boys are really lousy at watching the details in the deals they make. Meg may have agreed to protect Cas without agreeing not to torment him. I mean I hope you are right. But while the boys are great con men, and great heroes, I've never any sign they are anything but shit as negotiators.

Of everyone we met in S1, *Meg* is the only person apart from the boys Winchester that's alive and kicking and comes round to visit.

"All our friends are dead."

::sobs::

I've never any sign they are anything but shit as negotiators.

What is there to negotiate? They can't keep Cas with them in that condition, they need to figure out how to fight the Leviathans, and Meg's reasoning for looking into Emmanuel!Cas was pretty honest. He's probably her best defense (or offense) against Crowley, so I don't see any reason for her to torment him. Honestly, I'm not sure what she could do to him that would be worse than what Lucifer will.