Paranormal Season Four

Paranormal Season Four is the fourth season of Paranormal. It deals with Adam and Ethan encountering angels for the first time in their lives as hunters of the paranormal. This season it airs on the CW.

It is created by Eric Kripke

It aired from 2008-2009

Cast
Recurring
 * Wes Bentley as Adam Barnes- 22/22
 * Paul Wesley as Ethan Barnes- 22/22
 * Misha Collins as Gabriel / Jimmy Novak- 10/22
 * Genevieve Cortese as Ruby
 * Hugh Laurie as Mitch Johnson
 * Julie McNiven as Anna Milton
 * Robert Wisdom as Uriel

Episodes

 * 1) "Ressurection"-Four months after he was ripped apart and his soul dragged to Hell by a hellhound, Adam Barnes inexplicably wakes up underground in a coffin, completely whole and intact save for a burn in the shape of a hand-print on his biceps. He manages to escape his coffin, but is ambushed by an unknown entity that manifests as a light that shatters glass and hurts his ears.  when it tries to speak to him. Believing that Ethan made a deal with a demon to bring him back, he tracks Ethan down near where he had been buried, but Ethan is just as surprised at Adam's resurrection as he himself, having tried and failed to bring Adam back.  It is later revealed to the audience that Ethan's s psychic abilities have advanced greatly, as he is now able to exorcise demons with them. It is also revealed that he is now intimately involved with the Barnes  shady demon ally Ruby (Genevieve Cortese), who has returned from wherever Lilith sent her in their last confrontation. Adam and Ethan's friend Mitch Johnson brings the Barnes to a psychic named Pamela Winchester  (Traci Dinwiddie) for help in discovering what pulled Adam  out of Hell. Pamela does find out the name of the being Gabriel, but the sight of Gabriel  burns her eyes out, resulting in her becoming permanently blind, when she disregards his warnings and tries to look at him. Sick of being toyed with, Adam decides to summon the thing together with Mitch while Ethan is away (having his own secret rendezvous with Ruby) in order to find out what it wants, and they perform a ritual to summon it. Gabriel ( Misha Collins) appears  appears, revealing himself to be an angel, not a demon, to a skeptical Adam. He explains that he is responsible for dragging Adam out of Hell.
 * 2) "Rise Of The Witnesses"-Mitch asks the Barnes  for help when fellow hunters of his are being torn apart by vengeful spirits. Ethan is haunted by FBI Agent Herrison  who died in the explosion caused by Lilith; the ghost accuses Ethan  of failing him. Together with Mitch, they find out that they're being haunted by the spirits of the people they couldn't save, which is called "The Rising of the Witnesses," a sign of the upcoming Apocalypse. Sara Marks ( Jessica Alba)  and two twin girls also appear and haunt Adam, Ethan and Mitch. The three find a spell to put the  Witnesses to rest, but have to leave the panic room they are hiding in to do it. As Ethan and Adam hold off the spirits, Mitch performs the spell, but Sara  tries to kill him. Adam  manages to complete the spell and the Witnesses are put to rest. Later, Gabriel appears to Adam  in a dream and reveals that "The Rising of the Witnesses" is one of many seals, which are being broken by Lilith in order to bring on the Apocalypse, in which Lucifer the fallen angel will walk the earth free.
 * 3) "Back In Time"-Ethan sneaks out of the motel he and Adam  are staying at to meet up with Ruby once again. Gabriel appears beside Adam's bed to transport Dean back in time to 1973 in Lawrence, Kansas with the cryptic warning that he must "stop it." There, Adam meets a younger John Barnes (Matt Cohen) and Maria Campbell (Amy Gumenick). The family reunion gets bigger when Adam  meets his and Ethan's  maternal grandparents, Samuel (Mitch Pileggi) and Deanna Campbell (Allison Hossack), who are hunters who have brought Maria up in the life, thus making Maria a hunter as well. However, there is even more to this than Adam  had imagined, as Maria  had made a desperate deal with Kal-Zor that resulted in his appearance the night she died. Adam also finds out that Kal-Zor had fed Ethan his own blood  that night as part of a plan that Kal-Zor hints is even bigger than previously thought. Adam fails to kill Kal-Zor or save his family, and when Gabriel returns him to his rightful time, he admits that there was no changing that because it was meant to happen. Gabriel and the angels only wanted Adam to find out what Kal-Zor was up to for himself. Gabriel then sends Adam to find Ethan, warning him to stop Ethan  from going down the dark path he is on, or Gabriel will, indicating that he will kill Ethan if necessary.
 * 4) After watching Ethan harness his powers and realizing that the woman he is with is Ruby, Adam  angrily confronts his brother. Distance and tension is put between the two brothers as Adam realizes that Ethan is tapping into the demonic blood inside him with Ruby's help and lying to him about it. Ethan argues that he is able to save people and exorcise demons at the same time, but Adam reveals to Ethan what Gabriel said. A hunter who has known the Barnes for years calls on Adam and Ethan  for help in a case in Carthage, Missouri involving a man who is going through a metamorphosis into a Rugaru—a monstrous creature that consumes human flesh. During the hunt, Ethan lashes out at Adam, saying he is tired of how Adam  looks at him like a freak. Tension mounts between them even further as they disagree on how to deal with the man, with Ethan  advocating that they try reasoning with him so that he can try to control himself and Adam believing that the man can't help but give into his monstrous nature. Despite attempting to prevent it, the man completes his transformation when Ethan and Adam's  friend tries to kill both him and his pregnant wife and he can't overcome his instincts anymore. He kills the hunter, but retains enough control to spare his wife. When the man tries to kill Adam, Ethan  is forced to kill him by burning him alive. Seeing what the man went through, Ethan decides to stop using his powers.
 * 5) "Horror Movies"-The Barnes brothers find themselves at a local Oktoberfest celebration in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, investigating a series of suspicious murders being perpetrated by what locals describe and are seen by the viewer in campy scenes filmed in black and white as monsters from classic 1930s horror movies. They soon discover this is the work of a shapeshifter (Todd Stashwick) obsessed with monster movies. The shapeshifter has become infatuated with the local bartender Jamie (Melinda Sward) whom it got close to in an alternate identity as a friend and co-worker (Holly Dignard). Jealous of Adam's  budding romance with Jamie, it captures them both with plans to kill Adam  and make Jamie its bride. Ethan finds and frees Adam and while they battle the shapeshifter (Stashwick), Jamie kills it by shooting it with Ethan's silver-loaded gun, which it deems a fitting end to its own "movie." The next day, Adam and Jamie part with a kiss, and the episode closes out on Ethan guessing which movie Adam would live in.
 * 6) "Ghost Sickness"-The boys head to Rock Ridge, Colorado, a town where a man died of a heart attack without any of the usual symptoms. They determine that the man died of a ghost sickness, which is passed onto Adam. The illness causes a person to experience general anxiety that builds into deadly fear. Ethan contacts Mitch  and finds out from him that the ghost they're after is called a Buruburu. Ethan and Mitch must find a way to save Adam  before his heart stops which is made harder as the ghost has no body to burn. As Adam  is being tormented by hallucinations of Lilith (Sierra McCormick) that reveal that he does remember Hell, Ethan and Mitch  decide to scare the ghost to death. They wrap an iron chain inscribed with spellwork around his neck and Mitch  then roadhauls him behind the Impala, re-enacting his death and successfully scaring the ghost to death. The ghost is destroyed just in time to save Adam, whose heart had come dangerously close to stopping.
 * 7) "Halloween"-A few days before Halloween, Adam and Ethan  launch an investigation into two mysterious deaths in a small town. The brothers find hex bags and deduce that a witch is sacrificing people to summon a dangerous demon named Samhain. Gabriel arrives in town and tells Ethan and Adam that the freeing of Samhain is one of the seals that will lead to freeing Lucifer. To protect the seal by killing the witch, Gabriel  brings a specialist angel named Uriel (Robert Wisdom) to smite the entire town to be sure of killing the witch, but is convinced by Adam not to and to give the Barnes  a chance to stop the witch. Samhain is freed despite their best efforts and after Ruby's knife is knocked out of his hands, Ethan  is forced to use his powers to exorcise the demon, stopping the rise of the ghosts and demons he was causing; however, the seal is still broken. Uriel warns Ethan  against using his demonic powers and says that he will kill Ethan, after he stops helping the angels. Still annoyed by Adam  stopping him from smiting the town, Uriel tells Ethan to ask Adam what he remembers from Hell, implying that Adam does, in fact, remember what happened to him there. Meanwhile, Gabriel reveals to Adam that his true orders were always to follow Adam's orders o test his leadership under battlefield conditions, though even he does not know if Adam passed the test. He confesses that he does not know what the "right" choice would be and that he has his own doubts, though he does not show them. Lastly. Gabriel warns that hard times are ahead and says that he doesn't envy Adam for what is to come.
 * 8) "Your Wish Has Been Granted"-Adam and Ethan  investigate Concrete, Washington, a small town where the wishing well really works. A teddy bear comes to life, a boy who is always bullied gets super strength, someone wins the lottery, and the town geek gets a hot girlfriend. The brothers realize that while everyone is happy now, the end result will be disastrous because the magic will inevitably go wrong. The boys find that the origin is a magic coin that causes a fountain to become a wishing well, being that the coin's power is drawn from the pagan goddess Tiamat. The only way to reverse the wishes is for the person who put the coin there to remove it. It turns out to be the geek and he is reluctant to do so, but after one of the wishes results in Ethan's death, he removes the coin, reversing all the wishes. Ethan  melts the coin down. At the same time, Adam helps the kid who was bullied keep up his new image of strength to prevent bullying in the future. With Ethan having asked about what Uriel had meant by what Adam remembers of Hell, Adam finally admits to Ethan that he does remember everything that happened in Hell, but refuses to tell him anything else, since Ethan wouldn't be able to understand.
 * 9) "Death Among Us"-Ruby returns to give Adam and Ethan a lead: other demons are searching for an escaped mental patient named Anna Milton (Rachel Nichols), who was locked up after she went into hysterics because she heard angels talking in her head about the upcoming Apocalypse and needed to be restrained after trying to warn people. Adam and Ethan  investigate and find that Ruby was telling the truth and that Anna's claims about the Apocalypse are uncannily accurate. After finding her parents dead at her home, Ethan and Adam  track Anna to her father's church, where Ruby arrives to warn them that one of the "heavy-hitter" demons looking for Anna has been following them since Anna's house. They are unable to escape before the demon attacks them. It is then revealed that the new demon, whose name is Alastair (Mark Rolston), knows Adam from his time in Hell. While Alastair takes Ethan out, and beats up Adam, Ruby escapes with Anna. Ethan  recovers and stabs Alastair with Ruby's knife; while it doesn't kill him, it gives the Barnes  the chance to flee to safety. Believing they were set up by Ruby, Adam lashes out at Ethan for trusting her, so Ethan  tells him what happened during the months Adam was in Hell. Ethan's account is shown in Flashbacks, It shows him show him encountered Ruby (Anna Williams) again for the first time since Adam's death , while drunk and trying in vain to bring Adam  back. Though Ruby had been tortured and eventually released from Hell by Lilith only on the condition that she kills Ethan , she had only agreed to it to trick Lilith into setting her free, as she still wanted to help Ethan. However, Ethan rejected her because she couldn't bring Adam back from Hell , and demanded that she leave her host body to spare the host. Ruby acquiesced and possessed the body of a brain-dead coma patient (Cortese) whose life support had just been cut so that she would not be usurping someone else's life. She then returned to Ethan and he agreed to let her teach him how to use his powers to kill Lilith and avenge Adam. . In the meantime, she made him quit drinking and provided him with some physical comfort when she seduced him. She finally earned his trust when she came after him and saved him from a trap Lilith had prepared for him, even though he had threatened to kill her if she tried to intervene. After the last flashback, Ruby briefly takes a different host (Michelle-Hewitt Williams) to find the Barnes  and give them Anna's location. There, Adam  extends an olive branch of sorts to Ruby (Cortese) due to his appreciation of how she helped Ethan in his absence, and Ethan  is forced to break the news to a devastated Anna that her parents are dead. The episode ends on a cliffhanger, with Gabriel and Uriel appearing and demanding to be taken to Anna so that they can kill her.
 * 10) "Angels VS Demons"-Anna banishes Gabriel  and Uriel by cutting her wrists and drawing a mysterious symbol in her blood, though she doesn't know how she knew to do it. Wanting answers, Adam and Ethan  call upon Pamela, who uses hypnosis on Anna to unlock her memories of her mysterious early years. Doing so restores Anna's memories of what she truly is: a fallen angel who had become human by ripping out her Grace which she describes as being like an energy that is intrinsic to angels. Ethan manages to track down her Grace, which would turn her back into an angel and restore all her powers, but when the group goes to retrieve it, they find that it has already been taken. Anna receives an ultimatum from the angels, that she is to be given to them or else Adam  will be sent back to Hell. The group seems to be at a loss for a plan. That night, Anna approaches Adam  and tries to broach the subject of what happened in Hell. Although he can't talk about it, she offers him reassurance and kisses him, which culminates in them making love in the Impala on her last night on Earth. Meanwhile, Ruby goes to Alastair with the proposition of her handing over Anna if he will let her and the Barnes  go. He instead captures and tortures her with her own knife for the others' location. At the same time, Adam  is forced to give their location away to Uriel, who has invaded his dreams and is revealed to be the one who took Anna's Grace, under threat to Ethan. The demons and angels arrive and battle each other. During the confusion, Anna retrieves her Grace from Uriel. In a flash of light, she becomes an angel again and she and Alastair vanish. Gabriel and Uriel, too, leave, in pursuit of Anna. It is revealed that Ruby and Adam  betraying the others was all part of Ethan's plan to get the angels and demons to fight it out to give them the opportunity they needed. In the episode's ending, Adam tells Ethan that it was forty years in Hell instead of four months and that every day, Alastair tortured him and then offered him release from the torture if he tortured souls himself. After thirty years, Adam  finally gave in, but is now haunted by his actions.
 * 11) "The Boys"-Since the previous episode, Adam and Ethan have been hunting non-stop at Adam's insistence. This episode has them investigate a murderous ghost of a young female who died in the house she had 15 years ago in a suspected haunted house in Stratton, Nebraska. Complications ensue when a family of five moves in, and the "spirit" turns out to be two humans, a young pair of sibling feral children who are the product of incest and years of abuse and who are willing to kill to protect their home. The brothers fail to get the family to leave, but when the son is kidnapped  by the ghost, they look to Ethan and Adam to rescue the boy. The ghost was revealed to be a young girl who died here named Gwen. The spirit uses telekinetic powers to attack people. Adam manages to rescue the son, but is forced to shoot the feral brother dead in self-defense telepathically by the ghost while the father of the family is forced to stab the ghost girl to death to protect his wife and daughter. In the ending, Adam  reflects on the children with pity, sympathizing with them on what they had become after a lifetime of abuse because of how he himself had tortured souls in Hell after being tortured to the breaking point. He believes that he is even worse than the feral children because they hadn't understood what they were doing and took no pleasure in it, whereas he had in Hell, having relished the opportunity to inflict pain on others after having endured so much himself.
 * 12) "Magicians"-Adam and Ethan attend a magician's convention in Sioux City, Iowa where it seems that real magic is being performed. Their investigation leads them to Charlie (John Rubinstein), Jay (Barry Bostwick) and Vernon (Richard Libertini), three friends who were famous magicians in their day but have now been replaced by flashier, younger magicians. Jay's despair over this drives him to perform numerous tricks on-stage that should have killed him and yet come out unscathed, while magicians who had irritated the three older magicians die of mysterious wounds reflective of the trick at the same time. Adam and Ethan  suspect that Jay is a witch and go after him, but he is innocent. After Charlie is the next victim of his death tricks, Jay realizes that Vernon must be the one responsible and agrees to help Ethan and Adam flush him out. However, Vernon is also innocent; the real witch is Charlie, who has faked his death and restored his youth. He had been protecting Jay because he regards Jay and Vernon as true friends, and offers to grant them both eternal youth and immortality as well. Jay refuses the offer and uses a trick to kill him for good in order to save Adam and Ethan's lives.  However, with Charlie dead and Vernon refusing to speak to him, he is left sad, bitter, and alone. Seeing this, Ethan  finally agrees to a proposition Ruby had made earlier in the episode to rejoin her in hunting Lilith and practicing his powers, despite that he has strong reservations against one of the unrevealed methods they are using because he doesn't want to spend the rest of his life hunting.
 * 13) "Reunion"-Adam and Ethan discover that  a spirit is haunting one of their old high schools. While investigating the haunting, Adam and Ethan relive their high school experiences through flashbacks, recalling how Ethan (Collin Ford)  was picked on by the school bully while Adam  (Brock Kelly) was Mr. Popular. Initially, they believe it to be the ghost of a friend of Ethan's  who killed himself the year after they left, but when the ghost attacks Ethan,  and calls him by name even after they burn the friend's bones, they realize it's someone else. They learn that the ghost haunts the bus and possesses people there and realize the bus driver is the father of the kid who bullied Ethan. Ethan  beat him in a fist-fight before they left the school and gave him the nickname "Dirk the Jerk." The brothers learn from Dirk's father that he died at age 18 before graduation and that he lived a hard life, losing his mother shortly before Ethan  met him and gaining a lot of anger as a result. He got picked on a lot and kids called him "Dirk the Jerk." After learning that Dirk was cremated and that he is tied to a lock of hair kept on the bus, Adam and Ethan confront Dirk while he possesses two people and Adam burns his hair, destroying Dirk's spirit. In the end, Ethan visits a teacher who gave him the advice to follow his own path in life, but is unable to respond when asked if he's happy.
 * 14) Ethan and Adam  take on a case in Bedford, Iowa in which three men inexplicably beat their wives to death. The brothers realize that behind the murders is a siren, a creature that can take different forms and desperately needs love, compelling people to kill others or themselves as a show of devotion. The siren has been posing as different strippers at a strip-club to meet and seduce men. Adam suspects that the siren is a doctor who Ethan  took an attraction to and made love with while Adam was at the strip-club and bonding with the FBI agent assigned to the case. However, the FBI agent reveals himself to be the siren; it had taken on the form of  Adam's younger brother, Ethan, in order to get close to him and take Ethan's place. The siren puts Adam and Ethan both under its spell and then pits them against each other in a fight to the death for its love. The ensuing fight sees Adam  poised to kill Ethan with an axe before Mitch shows up and kills the siren with its own venom by dipping a bronze dagger in Adam's blood  and flinging it into the fleeing siren's back. The siren's death breaks its hold over its victims. Although Mitch tells them that they hadn't been themselves under the siren's influence, bitterness and tension between the brothers remains, particularly about the cruel things they had said to one another, Adam said that Ethan is no longer the person he knew, while Ethan   belittled Adam's  trauma over Hell under the siren's spell.
 * 15) Adam and Ethan  investigate the town of Greybull, Wyoming where people are miraculously surviving would-be fatal injuries and illnesses. They discover that Alastair (Christopher Heyerdahl) has kidnapped the town's reaper as part of a scheme to break one of the 66 seals by killing two reapers under the solstice moon, and they seek Pamela's help to stop him by using astral projection. She sends the brothers into the spiritual world, where the reaper Tessa (Lindsey McKeon) finds them and recognizes Adam, reawakening his memories of their first encounter. She has come to take over reaping duties for the missing reaper, but gets spirited away by demons instead for them to use as the second reaper sacrifice. The brothers find the building where the demons are hiding, but are trapped by demons, who then go after Pamela and their inert bodies. Alastair succeeds in killing the local reaper, but Adam and Ethan , having been taught how to use their spiritual abilities by the ghost of a young boy named Cole, manage to break the trap holding Tessa before Alastair can kill her. Tessa repays the favor by freeing the brothers and the three escape before Alastair and the other demons can stop them. Ethan  is pulled back into his body by Pamela, who has been mortally wounded by a demon. Believing that Pamela cannot see what he is doing, Ethan  uses his powers to exorcise the demon. However, it is too late to save Pamela, who begins to die due to Tessa beginning to reap the souls of Greybull. Alastair tracks Adam down alone and confronts him, but is captured by angels. Gabriel explains to Adam that he had been the one who led them to this case because, although he and the other angels had known Alastair's plan, they hadn't been able to get to Alastair because the building the demons hid in was protected against them. Tessa then enlists Adam's  help in convincing Cole to cross-over. After they succeed, she warns him to be wary of the angels and what they promise. At that moment, Pamela finishes in pulling Adam back into his body. The brothers are helpless to save or even reassure the dying Pamela, who spends her last words privately confiding in Ethan  that she knows what he did to the demon, that she knows what is inside him, and that, whatever he thinks of what he's doing, it is wrong. The episode ends with Adam  asking what she said and Ethan does not answer.
 * 16) In Cheyenne, Wyoming, someone has found a weapon that can kill angels and is responsible for several murders. Having captured Alastair, Gabriel and Uriel demand that Adam use the torturing skills he learned in Hell to extract information from him so they can stop the murders. Adam  refuses, but they transport him there and refuse to let him leave until he finally agrees to it. Anna comes to Gabriel when he is alone and questions the morality of forcing Adam  to torture Alastair, going so far as to question if God is even the one giving orders anymore, but Gabriel rejects her and forces her to leave when she suggests that he work with her. Meanwhile, Ethan calls Ruby  to help him locate Adam  because he doesn't believe that Adam could get that information. Ethan  then begins drinking Ruby's blood in order to regain his diminished power. Drinking her blood is how his powers have grown so much early in the season, and his decision to not drink it is why his powers had weakened. Alastair refuses to break despite the torture a vengeful Adam inflicts on him, but does taunt Adam by telling him that Adam had  broken the first seal when he began torturing people in Hell. An unseen force then frees Alastair, who tries to kill Adam and exorcise Gabriel. Ethan arrives and uses his increased power to torture and kill Alastair after the latter admits that no demon is behind the angel murders. Adam  is subsequently taken to a hospital for the injuries he sustained from Alastair's attack. Gabriel seeks Anna out and pleads for her to tell him what to do, but she tells him that he must learn to think for himself. Gabriel oon realizes who is behind the murders and Alastair's escape: Uriel. Uriel had killed the angels who refused to join him in releasing Lucifer, and had freed Alastair to kill Adam  and keep the blame on the demons. When Gabriel  refuses to join him, Uriel tries to kill him, but is killed by Anna instead, saving Gabriel. Gabriel visits Adam  in the hospital and confirms that Adam broke the first seal with his actions in Hell. Adam  is left shattered by the revelation, telling Gabriel  to find someone else to save the world, because he can't.
 * 17) "Not Is All What It Seems"-Adam Smith  is a sales director and Ethan Neeson is a tech support associate at a company. With no memory of who they really are, Ethan experiences dreams about fighting ghosts and vampires with Adam. They are brought together when Ethan's  co-workers start becoming obsessed with work, committing suicide, and Adam sees a ghost. Using advice from the Ghostfacers website, Adam and Ethan  learn how to defeat the ghost. Afterwards, Ethan wants to take up a life of hunting, but Adam declines and rudely ends their partnership. The next day, Ethan dramatically quits his job while Adam, after being offered a promotion by his boss, reconsiders and decides to quit as well. But his boss reveals himself to be the angel Zachariah (Kurt Fuller), who after restoring Adam's memories, explains the whole thing was to show that Adam that he is meant to be a hunter.
 * 18) "The Book"-Adam and Ethan  are shocked to discover a book entitled Paranormal that accurately details their lives. They track down the author of the book, who turns out to be a prophet named Chuck Shirley (Rob Benedict). Once he realizes who they are, Chuck explains he has visions of the brothers that he then turns into cheesy novels. Chuck reveals that he had a vision of this encounter, and had also had a vision of Lilith coming for Ethan.  Lilith (Katherine Boecher) finds Ethan alone, but neither have the power yet to harm each other. Having lost her desire to free Lucifer once she learned that she is destined to die right before the Apocalypse, Lilith suggests that Ethan  give her his and Adam's lives in exchange for her ceasing her attacks on the seals. When Ethan  tries to stab her with Ruby's knife instead, the two attempt to kill each other, only for Adam  and Chuck to rush in on the confrontation. Earlier, Gabriel had discreetly informed Adam that if Chuck were to be put in danger, the archangel protecting him would intervene to destroy the threat; taking heed of his advice, Adam  brings Chuck to Lilith, with the resulting archangel appearance chasing the demon off and saving Ethan.  At the end of the episode, Chuck has a horrible vision of the future, but Zachariah prevents him from telling Ethan and Adam  about it. Hopeless, Chuck contemplates suicide, but Zachariah dismisses the idea by saying that he would only bring Chuck back to life, and tells Chuck to just keep writing.
 * 19) "Long Lost"- In Windom, Minnesota, a 19-year-old boy named Sam calls Adam and Ethan  looking for their father, John, claiming to be his son. Adam and Ethan suspect that Sam is a monster trying to lure them into a trap, but find out that John was indeed the boy's father. Unlike his half-brothers, Sam  has had no experience with hunting or the paranormal until the recent disappearance of his mother. Ethan tries to teach Sam to hunt so that he may defend himself in the future. Adam  goes alone to find the thing that killed Sam's mother and is trying to kill Sam. Eventually, he gets trapped in a crypt with no way out, where he finds the real Sam's corpse ; the Sam that is with Ethan  is the ghoul who killed and ate Sam  take on his form. The ghoul and his sister, in the form of Sam's mother ambush, Ethan. They had wanted revenge on John for killing their parents years ago, but since they cannot kill him as he had already died in the second season, they decide to kill his remaining sons instead. Adam  returns in time to kill the ghouls and save Ethan from being eaten alive. Afterward, they give Sam  a hunter's funeral to honor the half-brother they never knew.
 * 20) Gabriel appears to Adam  in a dream and says he has something important to tell him, but that they need to meet somewhere private. At the meeting spot, however, Adam and Ethan find Gabriel's  human vessel, Jimmy Novak, instead, who cannot recall what Gabriel wanted to tell Adam. The brothers suspect that Gabriel has been attacked by other angels and dragged back to Heaven, where Anna fears that he will receive a terrible punishment for whatever he found out and wanted to tell Adam. Jimmy tries to return to his family and normal life, despite Adam and Ethan's concerns about his and his family's safety. Their fears prove true when demons aim to capture Jimmy by possessing his wife and kidnapping his daughter. Adam, Ethan and Jimmy are captured trying to rescue them and Jimmy is shot. However, Gabriel possesses Jimmy's daughter and he and Ethan kill the demons. Ethan, whose powers are failing from a lack of demon blood, drinks blood from a demon in front of a horrified Adam and Gabriel, so that he can exorcise Jimmy's wife. Not wanting his daughter to have to suffer as Gabriel's vessel , Jimmy has Gabriel possess him once again, but Gabriel refuses to tell Adam what he wanted to talk to him about, having learned his "lesson" that he serves Heaven and not humanity and certainly not Adam. Adam and Mitch then trick Ethan and lock him in Mitch's  panic room to detox from the demon blood which he is now addicted to.
 * 21) Adam and Mitch lock Ethan in Mitch's panic room so he can detox from the demon blood, where Ethan suffers from withdrawal symptoms, including hallucinations of being tortured by Alastair (Heyerdahl), berated by his teenage self (Ford), receiving support from his mother (Jennifer Connolly), and being rejected by Adam. As Mitch sees more seals are being broken, he tells Adam they should let Ethan out to help them fight the impending Apocalypse. Adam disagrees and goes to Gabriel for help. Gabriel tells Adam that he must swear to serve God in order to save Ethan, Adam does so. However, Gabriel goes behind the hunters' backs to secretly free Ethan from the panic room for an unknown purpose. When Anna confronts him on it, Gabriel  turns her over to other angels to be taken to Heaven for punishment, still without explaining his motives for releasing Ethan. Ethan tries to dodge Adam and Mitch , and feeds on Ruby, who says that she has been missing because she has been working to uncover more information on Lilith. She reveals that few seals remain to be broken, and that only Lilith can break the last seal. Adam finally finds the couple ; he tries to kill Ruby, and, when Ethan defends her , has a blowout confrontation with Ethan  about the dark choices Ethan has been making, calling him a monster. The two brawl violently, ending with Ethan  leaving with Ruby after Adam tells him to never come back.
 * 22) Ethan and Ruby capture Lilith's minion (Juliana Wimbles) to question her on Lilith's whereabouts. Once they get the information, Ruby stops Ethan from killing the minion because she wants him to drink all the other demon's blood in addition to her own. Ethan hesitates to kill the innocent person being possessed, but gives in after hearing a paranormally -altered voicemail from Adam in which "Adam" threatens to kill Ethan the next time he sees him. Meanwhile, Adam is transported to a room without any exits, where Zachariah explains to him that high-ranking angels such as himself are not trying to stop the final seal from being broken, in fact, they have secretly been manipulating events to start the Apocalypse, for they believe that it will cleanse the earth and bring Paradise. Adam's  task is not stopping the Apocalypse from starting, but ending it once it has. Adam is furious at Gabriel l for deceiving him. Although Gabriel refuses to help at first, he changes his mind and helps Adam escape,  banishing Zachariah with a blood sigil. After getting Ethan's location from Chuck, Gabriel transports Adam there while he stays behind to confront Chuck's archangel. Adam arrives in time to see Ethan confronting and overpowering Lilith, but Ruby keeps him from warning Ethan that Lilith's death is in fact the final seal. Goaded by both Lilith and Ruby, Ethan kills Lilith with his powers, unwittingly breaking the final seal. Ruby then reveals that she has been deceiving Ethan all along to lead him to this moment, having worked for Lucifer the whole time. When Adam finally manages to break in, Ethan distracts Ruby by grabbing and holding her in place so that Adam is able to kill her with her own knife. With the last seal broken, the brothers look on in terror as Lucifer begins to emerge from his opened cage