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- 22/22
 * 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"- Gabriel  finds Crowley (Mark A. Sheppard), and with Jo's help the brothers enter his house. To their surprise Crowley shoots his henchmen and gives them the Colt, stating that he wants Lucifer dead because he believes that eventually Lucifer will kill all demons after he destroys humanity. Back at Mitch's house, Mitch  photographs himself, Adam, Ethan, Ellen, Jo and Gabriel , as he believes that this might be their last night on Earth. When the team arrives in Missouri, Gabriel sees Reapers everywhere. He tries to find out why they are there and is subsequently captured by Lucifer, who tries to convince Gabriel to join him, , while showing that his own temporary vessel Nick, overpowered by Lucifer's presence inside him, is dying. Sara arrives  and sends hellhounds after the brothers and the Harvelles, and while trying to help Adam, Jo is fatally wounded. While taking shelter in a hardware store, Adam calls Mitch , who tells him the Reapers are in town because they are waiting for their boss to show: Death, one of the Four Horsemen. Realizing she won't recover from her wound, Jo suggests they build a bomb to blow up the hellhounds, using her as bait to lure the hellhounds inside. Ellen volunteers to stay behind, too, so she can let the hellhounds in and set off the bomb while Adam and Ethan escape.  After a tearful goodbye with Adam, Jo dies in Ellen's arms, who then blows up the building, killing herself and the hellhounds. The brothers find Lucifer in the middle of summoning Death. Dean shoots Lucifer point blank with the Colt. However, he heals instantly and reveals that there are only five beings the Colt can't kill — and he happens to be one of them. Lucifer sacrifices a dozen demons to summon Death, stating that "they're just demons". Meanwhile, Gabriel manages to free himself from his trap and takes the brothers to Mitch's. There Mitch  throws the picture showing them all into the fire, and, together with the brothers, grieves silently over the deaths of Jo and Ellen.
 * 11) A former hunter named Martin, who has been admitted into a mental hospital in Ketchum, Oklahoma, calls Adam and Ethan for help with investigating a case. The brothers get themselves admitted as patients to check out the mysterious creature that has been attacking patients and has made their deaths look like suicide. They find out that they are dealing with a Wraith, a creature that feeds on human brains and disguises itself as a human. The only way to identify a Wraith is through a mirror, which reveals its true form. As the days go by, the Barnes  find themselves hallucinating. After an attempt to kill the hospital's Chief of Medicine, whom they suspect to be the monster, Ethan is locked up and sedated with a heavy dose of tranquilizers. Despite his mind being paralyzed by the tricks the Wraith plays on it, Adam discovers that the Wraith is the nurse who administered their tests in the beginning and kills it with a silver letter opener right before she is able to suck Ethan's brain dry. The two then flee the mental institution and Ethan admits that he has anger issues from everything that has happened.
 * 12) "Body Swap"- Gary, a teenage nerd who resides in Housatonic, Massachusetts, meets Adam and Ethan  and conjures up a body-switching spell, exchanging bodies with Ethan. . Thrilled with his new looks, Gary takes advantage of his new appearance by hitting on women and drinking alcohol. He meets up with Adam, who at first does not realize Ethan is not the real Ethan. The two start working on a case and kill a ghost together, although "Ethan" seems to try to take a chance to kill Adam , unknowingly to Adam. Meanwhile, Ethan  is stuck in Gary's body and has to deal with his strict parents and high school. He finds out that Gary owns a book with satanic symbols all over it and sets off for his locker at high school. After he has retrieved the book, he is shot by Gary's friend Trevor with a tranquilizer gun. He and another friend of Gary's, Nora, take him to a basement and reveal that they have made a pact with a demon, who offered them everything they wanted in exchange for Adam and Ethan. Trevor conjures the demon, who possesses Nora and kills Trevor, whose demands irritate the demon. As the demon tastes Trevor's innards it declares they "taste like moron". The demon (still in the form of Nora) goes after Gary and tries to persuade him to meet Lucifer and "answer one little question" with yes, which would let the Devil into his true vessel. Gary refuses and after Adam  fails to kill the demon, he and Gary manage to exorcise it together. In the end, Gary reverses the spell and the boys take him home. Before leaving, Ethan  tells Gary that he should be glad to have a normal life and a family, but when he and Adam  get into the car, he states that Gary's life "sucked, yet Adam  counters by saying that perhaps they themselves just don't know the good things they're missing out on.
 * 13) "The Return"- The fallen angel Anna (Julie McNiven) has escaped from her prison in Heaven and is planning on killing Ethan  in order to prevent the Apocalypse. She calls Adam and Ethan  and asks them to meet her, but instead  the brothers encounter Gabriel, who doesn't believe she has escaped but suspects there is something she is not telling them. Anna explains that she believes killing Ethan will prevent the Apocalypse as without his true vessel, Lucifer won't be able to bring about the end of the world. However, Gabriel refuses to let her near the Barnes and she disappears. Later, Gabriel meets up with the Barnes and tells them that Anna has traveled back in time to 1980 to stop Maria and John Barnes from conceiving Ethan. The three also travel to the past, which weakens Gabriel considerably. When knocking at their parents' door, Maria recognizes Adam from his earlier visit and tells them to leave immediately, suspecting something bad is bound to happen. John, however, is thrilled to meet "relatives" from Maria's side of the family and invites them in. Anna poses as John's employer and calls him at home, telling him to come to the garage he works at. After arriving there, he is attacked by Anna. The brothers and Maria come to rescue him, and Ethan is able to drive Anna out of the building by using a magical sigil. They flee to a shelter, where Adam has a talk with Maria,  in which he reveals that he and Ethan  are her sons and that she has to leave John in order to prevent her sons from being born. However, she reveals that she is already pregnant. Suddenly, Anna and an earlier Uriel rush into the house, attacking the Barnes, which allows Anna to kill Ethan.  Just as Anna is about to kill Maria, the Archangel Michael, having possessed John's body, enters the room and burns Anna to death. He reveals that Cain and Abel are the brothers' ancestors and that their destiny as Michael and Lucifer's true vessels has been set since those ancient times. While he loves Lucifer, having practically raised him like Adam did Ethan,, he feels he has to kill his brother as he is a "good son" and that there is no such thing as free will, that everything is predestined. He then revives Ethan, erases Maria and John's memory, and sends the brothers back to their time. Despite Michael's words, Adam is still determined to win their way.
 * 14) "Love Kills"- When couples start eating each other to death and killing each other, the brothers investigate and find angelic marks on the victims' hearts. They call Gabriel, who suspects a rogue Cupid to be responsible for the deaths. Gabriel summons the Cupid and asks him about the strange incidents, but the angel of love says he is only acting on higher orders, but that killings are not his work. After examining another victim's body, Ethan  follows a suspicious man and confronts him. Ethan  fights him and grazes him with Ruby's knife, which reveals that he is a demon. The demon flees and leaves his briefcase behind, and Ethan  finds his addiction to demon blood return. Soon, people start dying from binge eating or alcohol poisoning, and Gabriel develops a weird craving for red meat, which leads them to believe that one of the Four Horsemen, Famine, who causes people to give in to their desires, is behind the deaths. They open the briefcase, which contains a human soul of a person. Gabriel l states that Famine harvests the souls of the people he killed and consumes them. Later, Adam and Gabriel set out to face Famine and cut off the finger on which he wears the ring containing his power. They lock up Ethan  in order to prevent him from giving into his cravings and follow the demons who harvested a soul for Famine to devour. Meanwhile, demons enter the room where Ethan is  chained up. Ethan breaks free, attacks the demons and satisfies his thirst. When Adam and Gabriel arrive at the diner in which they suspect Famine to dwell, Gabriel  enters the building in order to attack Famine, but is held up by his desire for red meat. Adam walks in and is assaulted by the demons guarding Famine. Famine then states that Adam  is not responding to his curse because he is empty inside and there is nothing that can satisfy his hunger. When Ethan suddenly appears, Famine offers him the demons guarding himself, but Ethan refuses.  He exorcises them, and Famine devours their essences. Ethan tries to use his powers on the Horseman, but Famine states that Ethan's  abilities will not work on him. Instead of killing the Horseman himself, Ethan uses his powers to destroy the demons Famine had just swallowed, effectively killing Famine. In the end, Adam and Gabriel lock Ethan in Mitch's  panic room in order to detox the demon blood out of his system. When Adam  cannot bear to listen to Ethan's screams anymore, he walks outside and calls to God for help.
 * 15) Adam and Ethan investigate Mitch's hometown of Sioux Falls, South Dakota where the dead are rising from the grave, but instead of attacking humans they are happily reuniting with their families. The brothers turn to Mitch for help,  but he tells them not to worry about it and to leave town. Suspicious, Adam  investigates further and comes face to face with Mitch's dead wife, who seems to have no memory of what has happened to her. Soon the zombies start to become evil one by one, killing and eating their loved ones. The brothers urge Mitch to kill his "wife" before she does the same. Mitch refuses because he wants to spend a few happy hours with his resurrected wife and says that as soon as she turns evil he will take care of it. Shortly after, his wife shows signs of becoming a flesh-eating zombie. Weakened by the disease, she lies down to rest and tells Mitch  that she actually remembers her demonic possession and death. She also delivers a message from Death. As Adam and Mitch prepare to head out to fight the zombies, Mitch's salvage yard is swarmed with them and Adam and Mitch end up trapped. They are rescued by Ethan and local sheriff Jody Mills (guest star Kim Rhodes) who found out the horrifying truth after her son killed her husband. In the end, Mitch  reveals that the rise of the dead took place in his hometown because Death wanted to break his spirit since he stands in the way of Lucifer's plans by helping the Barnes.