S4.E22

Lucifer Rising

Episode aired May 14, 2009
TV-14
43m

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Jared Padalecki and Genevieve Padalecki in Supernatural (2005)

The brothers prepare to fight the forces of the apocalypse in different camps. While Sam and Ruby hunt down Lilith, Dean joins Castiel and Zachariah to take on Lucifer.The brothers prepare to fight the forces of the apocalypse in different camps. While Sam and Ruby hunt down Lilith, Dean joins Castiel and Zachariah to take on Lucifer.The brothers prepare to fight the forces of the apocalypse in different camps. While Sam and Ruby hunt down Lilith, Dean joins Castiel and Zachariah to take on Lucifer.

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9.3/10

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Trivia
Father Lehne, a priest possessed by Azazel, is named after Fredric Lehne, who played Azazel during the show's second season.

Goofs
The newspaper with the article on the priest killing the nuns is dated for "Friday, October 16, 1972." However October 16th, 1972 was a Monday, which incidentally means that the 13th was a Friday, and thus would have made for a more thematically appropriate date on the article which would have actually been accurate.

Quotes
[Castiel appears, slams Dean against the wall with a hand over his mouth and pulls out a knife. Castiel stares hard at Dean, who nods slightly. Castiel takes his hand off Dean's mouth, bares an arm and cuts himself, uses the blood to draw a sigil on the wall]
Zachariah: [appearing suddenly] Castiel! Would you mind explaining just what the Hell you're doing?
[he advances threateningly; Castiel slams his palm onto the sigil; Zachariah vanishes in a flash of light]
Castiel: He won't be gone long. We have to find Sam now.
Dean Winchester: Where is he?
Castiel: [handing Dean the knife] I don't know, but I know who does. We have to stop him, Dean. From killing Lilith.
Dean Winchester: But Lilith's gonna break the final seal!
Castiel: Lilith *is* the final seal! She dies, the End begins!

Crazy credits
SPOILER: End Credits: When the episode ends, instead of fading or switching to a black-drop with the Executive Producers' names, a white back-drop appears as Lucifer's cage opens.

Connections
References Dumbo (1941)

Soundtracks
Carry On Wayward Son
Written by Kerry Livgren
Performed by Kansas

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Review

Featured review

10/10

A fitting climax to a near perfect season

Ruby is one of the weaker aspects of the show. Both actresses who played her are not the best actresses around and the character is wooden and stiff as a result. Sam's trust in her is perplexing at first. However, the character ends up working because of this final story beat present. It sells all the other aspects and amazingly enough the twist doesn't feel like a cheat. It one of the aspects that makes this a near perfect climax for the near perfect season that I wished to highlight.

Season overall:

season 4 is debatable the best season of the show because it manages to have one of the most intense storyline that causes the Sam and Dean to fight. Their disagreement in this season feels less forced and more real than later brotherly melodrama the show comes up with. There is something more relatable to Sam's addiction than yet another contrived secret that one of them have kept. Apart from that the mythical arch hasn't fully taken over the show and the one offs in this are wonderfully daft and quirky. The season has a balance and freshness that show ends up lacking in later seasons.

Average Episode Score: 8.9545

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