Paranormal Season Eight

Paranormal Season Eight is the eighth season of Paranormal which deals with Adam being stuck in Purgatory. It aired on the CW.

It aired in 2013-2014

Cast Recurring Episodes
 * Wes Bentley as Adam Barnes- 23/23
 * Paul Wesley as Ethan Barnes- 23/23
 * Misha Collins as Gabriel
 * Hugh Laurie as Mitch Johnson
 * Mark A. Sheppard as Crowley
 * Osiric Chau as Kevin Tran
 * Liane Balaban as Amelia Richardson
 * Curtis Armstrong as Metatron
 * Alaina Huffman as Abaddon
 * 1) "We Need To Talk About Kevin"- A year after he was sucked into Purgatory, the afterlife of monsters, Adam Barnes (Wes Bentley) finally escapes with the help of a vampire named Benny Lafitte (Ty Olsson). As part of their deal, Adam smuggles Benny's soul out of Purgatory and resurrects him before they go their separate ways; Adam's friend Gabriel (Misha Collins), who had been trapped in Purgatory with him in the previous season finale, is conspicuously absent and Adam  later reveals that the angel did not make it out of Purgatory with him and Benny. Adam  travels to the safe house in Whitefish, Montana, where he meets up with his brother Ethan (Paul Wesley), who he learns had given up the "family business" of hunting monsters to lead a normal life with a dog and a girlfriend named Amelia Richardson (Liane Balaban) while Adam was gone.  Tension springs up between the brothers because Ethan  did not even try to save him, Gabriel, , or the prophet under their protection, teenager Kevin Tran (Osric Chau) who had been kidnapped a year ago by the demon Crowley (Mark A. Sheppard). When Adam checks Ethan 's discarded phones, he discovers that Kevin has in fact escaped from Crowley on his own and is now on the run, and he and Ethan  track him down. Kevin explains that Crowley took him to make him translate the Word of God tablet about demons and help him unleash all demons onto Earth, but that he had managed to escape with the tablet, which he has hidden elsewhere for safe-keeping. He also reveals that the tablet has a way to send all demons to Hell and lock them away forever. The Barnes  immediately want to find the tablet and use the spell to banish the demons, but are interrupted by the arrival of demons who have been following them to find Kevin, including Crowley himself, who is being accompanied by Kevin's possessed girlfriend, Channing Ngo (Lissa Neptuno). Crowley demands that Kevin come with him and return the tablet, but Kevin once again outwits him and escapes with the Winchesters. Crowley then murders Channing to spite Kevin. The episode ends with Adam  receiving a secret call from Benny, who seems to be questioning life outside of Purgatory. The two try to maintain some distance from each other, but Adam  tells Benny he should call in an emergency.
 * 2) "What's Up Zappy Mommy?"- Kevin demands that Adam and Ethan  take him to his mother, Linda Tran (Lauren Tom), to make sure she is safe. They find that she is being watched by demons, and kill the demons and rescue her. The group then goes to retrieve the tablet Kevin hid, only to find that it has been stolen by Plutus (Gerard Plunkett), who is auctioning it off along with other rare paranormal items. Adam, Ethan,, Kevin, and Linda attend the auction to find a way to get it back. Crowley comes to the auction as well, also seeking the tablet. When the tablet and prophet Kevin (who is involuntarily included in the auction to raise bids) are sold to Linda for the price of her soul, Crowley possesses her and steals the tablet. He is forced to flee her body when Adam  comes close to killing him, but still manages to get away with the tablet. Angry that Adam  tried to kill his mother, Kevin decides to take his mother and leave for fear that their association with the Barnes will  get them killed. Meanwhile, Adam  has recollections from his time in Purgatory: after much searching, he and Benny locate Gabriel. Benny demands to know why Gabriel  had abandoned Adam when the two of them first landed in Purgatory, and Gabriel  reveals that it had been to keep the leviathan hunting him away from Adam. Though, Gabriel warns Adam  that he should stay away from him, Adam  is adamant that he won't leave without Gabriel  and the three of them start to look for the way out of Purgatory. However, the last shot of the episode is a disconcerting flashback of a screaming Gabriel  being left behind at the portal out of Purgatory.
 * 3) "Heavy Heart"- Although Ethan wants to focus on finding Kevin and the demon tablet, Adam suggests that they take on a case involving a murderer taking a human heart every six months. Tracking down the crimes from Minneapolis, Minnesota to Boulder, Colorado, the Barnes discover that all the murders were committed by different people, all with no prior history of violence, and that each likely suspect had an alibi for the other murders. After one of their suspects (Paul Boyle) stabs himself in the eye, Adam learns that each killer had received an organ transplant from the recently deceased athlete Brick Holmes. The Barnes also learn that "Brick" was actually a Mayan athlete who had made a deal with an ancient god to live forever and excel at various sports under different aliases over the centuries in exchange for sacrifices of human hearts each year. When Brick fell in love with a mortal woman (Patty McCormack) in the 1940s, they stayed together even after she became so old she had to pose as his mother. Eventually, he committed suicide because he couldn't stand the thought of living without her. The recipients of his organs enjoy the power they are suddenly bestowed with and are eager to carry out the murders to fulfill Brick's deal with the god. Brick's wife tells the brothers that they must destroy Brick's heart to end the murders. Upon tracking down the woman who received Brick's heart (Kyra Zagorsky), Adam and Ethan stab her in the heart, sparking a chain reaction that results in the deaths of not only the woman but also the recipients of Brick's other organs. Meanwhile, Ethan  contemplates returning to normal life after they have sealed the gates of Hell, though Adam, having come to re-embrace and enjoy the violence of hunting while in Purgatory, refuses to entertain the notion and wants to keep hunting with Ethan.
 * 4) Bitten"- Most of the episode is presented as found footage from the perspective of three film school students: Brian (Leigh Parker), Michael (Brandon W. Jones), and Kate (Brit Sheridan). The episode starts with Adam and Ethan  finding the footage edited into a movie and waiting to be played for them in the middle of a crime scene at the students' home where there are two unidentifiable bodies. They watch the movie. Brian and Michael had begun making it to depict the details of their lives in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Michael is bitten by a mysterious creature and begins exhibiting paranormal traits . Things get out of hand when he kills a bully (Eric Banerd) in a fit of rage for threatening Kate. Trying to find out what's happening to him, Michael, Brian, and Kate spy on Adam and Ethan, who are trying to find a werewolf who's been biting and killing people at the college Brian, Michael, and Kate attend; this werewolf, Ethan and Adam  reveal, is a "pureblood" werewolf that possesses some unique qualities, including retaining a greater degree of awareness when it transforms than other werewolves. Brian privately realizes that the pure-blood werewolf is one of his professors (David Lewis) and blackmails him into turning him into a werewolf, too. He tells the horrified Michael and Kate what he's done, revealing that he did it because he is jealous of Michael for having power and Kate's love. Brian and Michael fight and Brian kills Michael in the struggle before turning Kate into a werewolf against her will so that they can be together. However, a vengeful Kate kills Brian instead; the two bodies Adam and Ethan  found at the house are Brian and Michael. Kate edits all their footage together into a movie for Ethan and Adam  to watch and understand what happened, finishing with a promise that she will feed off of animal hearts and not harm humans, asking for a chance to live in peace. At that point, Adam and Ethan  (having killed Brian's professor before tracing one of Brian's cameras to the students' home at the start of the episode) finish watching the video. Because Kate is a pureblood werewolf who can control herself and hasn't hurt anyone human, Adam and Ethan  agree to give her the chance she asked for.
 * 5) "Blood Brother"- After searching out and getting beaten by other vampires, Benny calls Adam for help. Adam  immediately leaves to meet with Benny at Eagle Harbor in Bainbridge Island, Washington, though tells a confused Ethan that he needs to take a day off and deal with some "personal" issues. After Adam meets with Benny and gives him blood bags to help him heal, Benny confesses that he is going after his Maker (Patrick Stafford) to get revenge. Fifty years earlier, Benny had fallen in love with a human, Andrea, and had left the vampire nest for her, but his Maker had killed him and told him he was going to rip Andrea's throat out. Adam  agrees to help Benny and remembers the times Benny helped him and Gabriel  in Purgatory killing monsters as well as Leviathans. Meanwhile, Ethan  thinks about his time with Amelia and more about how they got together is shown. When Andrea is revealed to have become a vampire and Benny is captured, Adam calls Ethan for help. Adam and Benny kill the vampires and Benny's Maker while Ethan  is on his way. Andrea helps Benny, but it is revealed that she simply wants to take over and Adam  kills her before she can harm Benny, devastating Benny. Later, Ethan meets Benny for the first time, and upon realizing that he is not human, Ethan has a difficult time not trying to killing Benny.
 * 6) "Southern Luxury"- During the investigation of a murder in Kearney, Missouri, in which a wife killed her husband for an incident from 30 years earlier, Adam and Ethan  run into fellow hunter Garth. They learn that Garth has stepped into Mitch's role, organizing and leading hunters over the past year. Teaming up with him, they investigate the case. During the investigation, more murders occur over seemingly small incidents, leading the Barnes  and Garth to discover that the murderers are possessed by a specter, similar to a ghost, but possessing people to get revenge for them rather than its own gain. The specter does this through people touching an old penny. Adam , angry with Garth for doing and saying things Mitch would say  lashes out at Garth. Meanwhile, in flashbacks viewers learn that Ethan 's former lover, Amelia, lost her husband Don, and the two begin a relationship. Eventually, the specter forces Adam  to touch the penny, which leads Adam wanting to kill Ethan  for not searching for him over the last year. Garth breaks the Barnes up by taking the coin from Adam  and burning the coin to destroy the specter. Because Garth is a naturally passive person with no wishes for revenge in life, the penny has no effect on him. The episode ends with Adam  seeing Garth off, giving him back Mitch's old hat. Ethan later tells Adam  off about his grudge, warning him that if he can't let go of his anger, Ethan will leave.
 * 7) "A Little Slice Of Kevin"- The Trans pay a witch to gather ingredients for a demon bomb to use against Crowley, but the witch betrays them and helps Crowley kidnap Kevin. After Adam and Ethan  investigate a series of demon abductions, a weakened Gabriel appears to them with no memory of how he escaped Purgatory. The abductions turn out to be known future prophets, as only one prophet can exist at a time, meaning that one of them will become the new prophet if Kevin dies. Adam  has flashbacks of his escape from Purgatory and deals with his guilt for not saving Gabriel . Meanwhile, Kevin is tortured by Crowley into translating the tablet and reveals to Crowley that there are more tablets. Adam, Ethan and Gabriel intervene and save Kevin from Crowley. Gabriel  breaks the tablet in two pieces and Crowley flees, taking one half of the tablet with him. Kevin and the remaining prophets are rescued. Gabriel  reveals that he chose not to leave Purgatory with Adam, telling Adam  that remaining in Purgatory was his penance for his previous actions. Adam  is distressed to learn that Gabriel  stayed behind of his own volition. Gabriel  then "checks in" with a mysterious angel named Naomi (Amanda Tapping), who asks about Ethan and Adam and tells him that an army of angels rescued him from Purgatory and that he will not remember these periodic check-ins.
 * 8) "Hunteri Heroici"- Adam, Ethan, and Gabriel  (who has decided to become a full-time hunter) investigate a string of deaths in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma that appear to have been inspired by cartoons – a man's heart literally bursts out of his chest when near a woman he likes, a man hovers in midair for a moment while jumping off a building, and an anvil crushes a security guard. Meanwhile Adam and Gabriel, have a heart-to-heart about Gabriel's  mental state and the ramifications of his actions as "God." The Barnes and Gabe  determine that the cartoonish effects are caused by an old man, named Fred Jones (Mike Farrell), who has reality warping powers, and is currently living in a dream world inside his mind while residing in an assisted care facility. Fred is being used by a doctor at the assisted care facility to rob other elderly patients of their valuables. While Adam  confronts the doctor, Ethan and Gabriel  enter Fred's mind to speak to him. Ethan  is able to convince Fred to give up living in a dream world and come back to reality, causing the reality warping effects to end. Fred forces the doctor to kill himself and has Gabriel remove his powers so he is no longer a threat even though it leaves him in a mentally damaged state. Gabriel decides to return to Heaven to face up to his actions, but is forbidden from doing so by Naomi. Instead, Gabriel  decides to watch over Fred for a while. In Flashbacks, Ethan  meets Amelia's father who is initially cold towards him, but eventually warms up to him just in time for Amelia to learn that her husband is still alive.
 * 9) "Resident Fang"- Ethan  asked Martin Creaser (Jon Gries) to follow Benny, because he doesn't trust him, once the old hunter is released from the mental hospital in which he has been residing. While following Benny, Martin finds an apparent victim of Benny's and calls Ethan. Adam refuses to believe that Benny did it and sets out for Louisiana to find Benny. When Adam finds Benny, he is burying another victim and claims that it is a rogue vampire, named Desmond, who is trying to draw Benny back into the fold by killing a victim each time he refuses. While Adam  believes Benny, who is staying in the area as it is his hometown and to look after his great-granddaughter Elizabeth, Ethan and Martin  refuse to believe him, and Martin knocks out Adam and he and Ethan  take off to hunt Benny. Before finding Benny, Ethan  gets a distress text from Amelia and takes off for Texas to find her, leaving Martin alone while Adam teams up with Benny to kill Desmond. Benny's story is proven to be true when Desmond attacks and nearly kills Adam, but Benny saves Adam  and kills Desmond. Benny and Adam  leave, but Martin, who is mentally unstable and refuses to give up the hunt, takes Elizabeth hostage and forces Benny to return so he can kill him. Elizabeth calls Adam who returns to find that Benny is gone and Martin is dead. In Flashbacks, Ethan is shown leaving Amelia to give her a chance with her husband Don. Upon returning to Texas, he finds Amelia fine and living with her husband, and realizes that Adam  tricked him to get him out of the way, a realization that greatly upsets him.
 * 10) "Torn And Frayed"-
 * 11) "LARP and the Real Girl"-
 * 12) "As Time Goes Foward"-
 * 13) "Everybody Hates Hitler"-
 * 14) "Trial And Error"-
 * 15) "Man's Best Friend with Benefits"-
 * 16) "Remember The Titans"-
 * 17) "Goodbye Outsider"-
 * 18) "Fanatics And Geeks"-
 * 19) "Taxi Driver"-
 * 20) "Pac-Man Fever"-
 * 21) "The Great Escapist"-
 * 22) "Clip Show"-
 * 23) "Sacrifice"-