Paranormal Season Five

Paranormal Season Five is the fifth season of Paranormal after Ethan frees Lucifer from Hell, he and Adam become targets of both Heaven and Hell. It aired on the CW.

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Created by Eric Kripke

It aired in 2009-2010

Cast

 * Wes Bentley as Adam Barnes- 22/22
 * Paul Wesley as Ethan Barnes / Lucifer
 * Misha Collins as Gabriel

Recurring

 * Hugh Laurie as Mitch Johnson
 * Mark Pellegrino as Lucifer
 * Rob Benedict as Chuck Shurley
 * Mark A. Sheppard as Crowley

Episodes

 * 1) With the accidental freeing of the fallen angel Lucifer in the climax of the previous season finale by Ethan Barnes (Paul Wesley), the Apocalypse has started. An unknown force whisks Ethan and his brother Adam (Wes Bentley) from the place that Lucifer has started his destructive rise, and transports them safely onto an airplane passing overhead. They seek information from the prophet Chuck Shurley (Rob Benedict), learning that their angelic ally Gabriel has been killed for helping them, but he is unable to tell them much else because he is being watched by angels, who are working against the Barnes to bring on the Apocalypse. Chuck later sends word through a fan of his work named Becky Rosen (Emily Perkins) that the angels have lost the sword of the archangel Michael—a weapon capable of defeating Lucifer—and gives them a cryptic clue as to its location. When Adam and Ethan decode the clue, they are attacked by demons working for Lucifer, including their old enemy Sara Marks ( Jessica Alba) and their now-possessed friend Mitch Johnson (Hugh Laurie). Mitch manages to overcome the demon long enough to stab himself with a demon-killing knife, severely wounding himself in the process. The Barnes defeat the other demons, but Sara flees before they can kill her. The brothers take Mitch to the hospital, then set off to take Michael's sword before the demons do. They find the angel Zachariah (Kurt Fuller) at the place the sword is supposed to be, as Zachariah had purposefully planted the information that led them there in one of Chuck's prophetic visions. Zachariah explains that Adam is in fact Michael's "sword" as Michael's destined human host (called a "vessel"). However, Adam refuses to provide the permission required for Michael to possess him, even when Zachariah threatens to kill Ethan and Mitch and tortures the brothers. Gabriel soon appears and forces a frightened Zachariah to leave with the thinly-veiled suggestion that he has been miraculously revived by God himself. He then hides Adam and Ethan from angelic detection and disappears. Back at the hospital, Mitch is revealed to have been permanently paralyzed below the waist by spinal injuries from his having stabbed himself. Adam tries to bolster his friend's confidence by giving a stirring speech about beating both the angels and the demons, but admits to Ethan in private that he believes that they are all doomed. He also admits that while he forgives Ethan, he can't trust him anymore. Meanwhile, a man (Mark Pellegrino) whose family has been slaughtered by a killer begins having nightmares in which Lucifer appears to him in the form of his wife (Bellamy Young) and tries to convince him to let him take over his body so he can face God and seek justice. The man eventually agrees.
 * 2) Gabriel embarks on a mission to find God and ask him to defeat Lucifer and stop the Apocalypse. For this, Gabriel borrows Adam's  pendant, which he reveals to have the ability to indicate God's presence by glowing brightly. Mitch sends Adam and Ethan  to respond to a frantic call from his friend Rufus Turner (Steven Williams), who is in River Pass, Colorado, a town swarming with demons. Ethan and Adam can't find Rufus at River Pass, but instead find their old friend Ellen Harvelle (Jeri Ryan). She and her daughter Jo (Kate Mara) have been hunting together; they answered Rufus's distress call as well, only for Jo to disappear like Rufus. When the group does find Jo and Rufus, they appear to be possessed by demons—and strangely, they seem to think Ethan, Adam, and Ellen are also possessed. It is later revealed that there are no real demons present, merely illusions brought about by War (Titus Welliver), one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, to trick panicked people into killing each other. While Ellen, Jo and Rufus try to stop people from killing each other, Adam and Ethan  stop War by cutting off his ring finger and taking his ring, causing War to vanish. Adam and Ethan  agree to go their separate ways because neither of them trust Ethan on the job at the moment, and so they part.
 * 3) Not sure he trusts himself anymore, Ethan decides to give up hunting and live a "normal" life. At night, his dead girlfriend Julie visits him and tells him that people can never change despite their efforts. Adam, intent on stopping the Apocalypse, continues hunting on his own and teams up with Gabriel to find the Archangel Raphael, as Gabriel believes Raphael knows God's location. They find Raphael's vessel and lure him out,but are no closer to finding God's location. Raphael even claims that God is dead and that Lucifer likely raised Gabriel  from the dead. Adan and Gabriel  leave Raphael trapped in holy fire, but Adam encourages Gabriel to continue his search. After Ethan sends some hunters after some nearby demons, he has to fight the hunters off who wanted him to drink demon blood in order to exorcise some demons as they want revenge as one was killed and the demons told them of Ethan's role in the Apocalypse. Ethan  gets another late-night visit from Julie  who turns out to be Lucifer disguising himself as Ethan's  deceased girlfriend all along. He says that Nick's body was just Plan B, and that his true vessel is supposed to be Ethan. He is convinced that eventually, without any trickery or lies, Ethan will agree to be his vessel, although Ethan  adamantly disagrees.
 * 4) "End Of The World"-Ethan calls Adam late at night and says that he wants to rejoin Adam in the battle of the Apocalypse, but Adam tells Ethan that they're better off apart. Later, Adam awakens five years in the future in an abandoned city and is attacked by humans who have been infected with a demonic disease, the Asmoris virus. After Adam has escaped the assault, Zachariah appears to him and explains that this world is the result of Adam saying no to being Michael's vessel. He then discovers a group of survivors led by his future self. When he sneaks into the camp, he is captured by his future self, who explains that the virus is Lucifer's endgame for destroying mankind. Supposedly, Ethan did not survive the showdown. Later it is revealed that Ethan didn't die, but did in fact say yes to Lucifer, thus letting him in. After having acquired the Colt from demons, Future Adam plans on killing Lucifer and ending the Apocalypse. Walking straight into a trap, Future Adam killed by Lucifer. Lucifer reveals that, whatever choices Adam will make, he will always end up in the same situation. Lucifer leaves and Zachariah appears, teleporting Adam back to the year 2009. When Adam  refuses to be Michael's vessel, even after he's seen what his decision might result in, Zachariah attempts to persuade him with force. Gabriel saves Adam  from Zachariah's wrath just in time. Seeing the future causes Adam  to realize he and Ethan  are stronger together and he and Ethan reunite.
 * 5) "Legends"- Adam and Ethan are reunited and on the hunt again. They reach Canton, Ohio and investigate a string of very strange murders. A man who has found James Dean's car "Little Bastard" is found dead as if he has been involved in a major car crash. Another man is murdered by someone who looks just like Abraham Lincoln. Suspecting that the murders are the work of famous ghosts, the boys do research at the local wax museum where Ethan is attacked by what seems to be the ghost of Mahatma Gandhi. Shortly afterward, two girls report to the police that their friend was kidnapped by Paris Hilton, which leaves the brothers speechless. After finding peculiar seeds in the victims' stomachs, they break into the museum's construction area where they do find Paris Hilton — who is in fact a Leshii, a pagan god, in disguise, trying to settle down after its old home, a deep forest in Eastern Europe, has been cut down to construct a Yugo factory. By touching their possessions, the god can turn itself into famous people and kill their fans in order to feed on their blood. While fighting Leshi, Adam Hilton's roles in House of Wax, saying he has never seen it; The fight scene, which is in a wax museum, also makes a minor reference to the film. In the end, Ethan kills "Paris Hilton" with an iron axe. Before leaving town, Adam tells Ethan that starting the Apocalypse isn't his fault alone as he himself had broken the first seal and that they shouldn't think about the whole vessel thing too much but instead fight together.
 * 6) In Alliance, Nebraska, people are being killed by practical joke devices such as itching powder and joybuzzers. On top of that, a very odd-looking Tooth Fairy extracts a man's teeth. It turns out that an eleven-year-old boy named Jesse is the reason for all of this. Everything he believes becomes reality. After searching his birth records, Adam and Ethan  find out that the boy was adopted, so they visit his biological mother, who lives across the state, in Elk Creek. She tells the brothers that she was impregnated by a demon possessing her and gave up her child for adoption after giving birth to him. Gabriel informs the Barnes that Jesse is an Antichrist, a being half human, half demon, imbued with essentially unlimited powers. Therefore, an Antichrist would be Lucifer's special weapon in the war against Heaven and, as a serious threat, needs to be eliminated. However, Ethan and Adam  believe that Jesse would not turn evil if he is taken somewhere safe. When they try to convince Jesse to come with them, the demon which conceived him interferes and pins them to the wall. It is again possessing Jesse's biological mother. After listening to the demon, Jesse renders it unable to speak in order to hear what Ethan has to say. Ethan tells Jesse that he has a choice and that it will haunt him forever if he makes the wrong decision. After that, Jesse exorcises the demon from his mother. Pretending he wants to say goodbye to his adoptive parents, he goes upstairs and vanishes into thin air, protected by his powers, which makes it impossible to track him down.
 * 7) "Ageless"- Mysterious deaths caused by inexplicable aging lead to Ethan, Adam and Mitch  to a warlock named Patrick, who gambles for high stakes. He challenges people to a poker game in which they don't play for money, but for life years represented by magical poker chips. Mitch sees this game as an opportunity to escape his wheelchair and accepts Patrick's challenge. Losing the game, he begins to age rapidly. Adam  wants to save Mitch  and challenges the warlock to win back Mitch's lost years to prevent him from dying. He bets 50 years, of which he uses 25 to reverse Mitch's  aging process. However, Adam can't keep up with the warlock's poker skills and loses, which causes him to age. Together, the Barnes brothers, and Mitch  try to find a way to save Adam. They get unexpected help from Patrick's accomplice, who thinks that living forever is not natural and causes too much pain. She gives them a spell, one which can reverse the effects of Patrick's magic. Ethan  challenges the warlock to a poker game while Mitch and Adam  perform the ritual. One ingredient of the spell is a trace of Patrick's DNA, so they use a toothpick supposedly used by him. The spell turns out to be ineffective since the toothpick was not really used by Patrick. When frantically searching for another object with the warlock's DNA on it, Adam suffers a heart attack, but Ethan wins the game just in time to save Adam.
 * 8) "Channels"- While investigating a homicide in Wellington, Ohio that was apparently executed by the Incredible Hulk, Adam and Ethan are trapped inside TV land. They suspect the Trickster is the reason for it, and attempt to track him down. Ethan suggests they ask the Trickster for help fighting the Apocalypse, and Adam reluctantly agrees. They encounter him several times, but are unable to trap him until Adam  remembers a warning from Gabriel  about the Trickster, which leads the brothers to believe the Trickster is in fact a far more powerful creature than a simple demigod. They manage to lure him and trap him in a burning circle of holy oil. Since the Trickster is unable to escape, it confirms their suspicions that he is actually an angel. He applauds them and admits he's actually the Archangel Castiel, who voluntarily fell from Grace several years before as he grew tired of watching his brothers fight each other. He trapped Ethan and Adam  because he wants them to agree to be Lucifer's and Michael's vessels, respectively, in order to end the Apocalypse. Castiel also states that the lives of Adam and Ethan  mirror the lives of Lucifer and Michael, since Ethan  rebelled against his father while Adam  remained obedient. Adam still refuses to say yes to becoming a vessel, but before they leave, he frees Castiel  from his trap and accuses him of simply being too afraid to stand up against his own family.
 * 9) "Ghostbusters"- Following a text message from Chuck, Adam and Ethan  arrive at a hotel in Vermillion, Ohio, which is the site for a Paranormal  fan convention. They find out that it was their over-enthusiastic fan Becky who sent the message, and have to deal with several Adam and Ethan wannabes participating in a fictitious ghost hunt. After a convention attendee is seriously injured by real ghosts, the Barnes  brothers start researching and find out that there's a real ghost haunting the hotel, whose name is Leticia Gore. Gore, who supposedly killed four children by scalping them, was the orphanage caretaker. Together with two copycat Barnes hey set out to find Leticia's bones to salt and burn them. When accomplishing their task they accidentally set the ghosts of the boys free. They find out that in fact the three boys killed Leticia's son and that she killed them in revenge for killing her son before killing herself and that only the caretaker was able to keep them under control. With Leticia gone the vengeful spirits lock all participants in the hotel and wreak havoc on them. Ethan and Adam  ask Chuck to keep everyone in the auditorium while they deal with the ghosts, using an actress/Hooters waitress to assume the role of Leticia Gore in order to control the children's ghosts. However, the plan fails when her cell phone rings, identifying her as a human. The ghosts attack Ethan and Adam, but are destroyed by a pair of Barnes  imposters, who were able to salt and burn the children's bones just in time. Upon leaving the hotel, Becky reveals to Adam and Ethan that Belila  did not give the Colt to Lilith, but instead gave it to her subordinate, Crowley, giving them a place to look.
 * 10) "Crowley's Wrath"-