'Supernatural' | 'Lily Sunder Has Some Regrets' S12E10 Overview
SPOILER ALERT!
Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) are out of confinement, and with the reaper off their backs, it’s time to wait and see what cosmic consequences might be heading their way. But first, it’s time to introduce a brand new psychopath…
Lily Sunder (Alicia Witt) is an angel-killing vigilante - very ‘Kill Bill’ with her eye patch and dual angel-blades. She starts off with the angel Benjamin, but not before Benjamin calls his angel brethren - including Castiel (Misha Collins) to him. Lily comes across as creepy and slightly unhinged right from the start, and Witt does an excellent job portraying the heartbroken woman bent on revenge.
After the confrontation at the end of Episode 9, Dean and Castiel are sniping at each other like an old married couple. When Sam tries to stand up for Cas’ actions, stating that Cas thought he was doing ‘the right thing’, Dean disagrees. Whenever they think they’re doing the right thing to save one another, worse things occur: Lucifer’s original release from the cage, the return of the Darkness, and several other moments over the years. What will Billie’s consequences be? The wait to find out will certainly be tense…
As the story unfolds, members of Castiel’s former flight are being murdered. Two of the surviving flight members, Isham (Ian Tracey) and Mirabel (Tiara Sorensen), suspect that Castiel is responsible, until Lily shows up on the attack.
This episode flashes back to a former time when both Castiel and Benjamin were in female vessels, and on a mission. While angels seem to be essentially asexual in their true forms and happy to inhabit human vessels of any sex, they still use gendered pronouns. The show might have been completely different if Cas had kept his female vessel when he returned to earth!
The rest of the episode descends into dark territory, with violent ex-lovers, murders and heartbreak, as well as dealing with the concept that ‘just following orders’ does not excuse anyone from being responsible for violent or harmful acts.
Castiel has really become a Winchester now, and trusts his human friends more than his angel wing mates. Collins may have hinted at a return to the bad-ass ‘Season 4 Cas’, but what is becoming clear, especially in this episode, is how much Cas has changed since coming to earth - gradually become so much more human over the years, and now questioning his past actions.
There are some delightful moments between Sam, Dean and Cas – an affectionate bromance indeed, which lightens an otherwise heavy story. Cas’ friendship with humans has made him stronger, not weaker as Isham believes. And Dean reinforces this by saying, “Cas is our family, so we can’t let you hurt him”.
Ultimately, the boys are left questioning how they will deal with Kelly and the child of Lucifer when they eventually find them. It’s a moral dilemma that an angel might not hesitate to consider, but now? We’ll just have to wait and see.
Watch ‘Supernatural’ on the CW at 8pm EST, Thursdays. Airing on Eleven at 9:30pm Mondays in Australia.
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