And in a single bound, Supernatural is back on winning form after a couple of slightly shaky episodes.
Castiel is back in the mix (yay!), bringing with him a civil war in Heaven, angels trading in souls and religious artifacts and some of the most gruesome scenes ever witnessed in the show.
The Third Man opens with a series of shocking deaths; policemen involved in a cover-up as Sam and Dean discover - all killed in the style of Old Testament plagues.
Turns out in post-nonpocalypse Heaven, things have gotten a bit chaotic, factions are feuding over who should take control and certain angels have gotten a bit light-fingered and made off with powerful WMDs from the Heavenly armoury.
Not only is this episode rather gruesome, but the return of Castiel also brings back a welcome shot of deadpan humour to add a bit of light to the darkness.
The switch in roles in the characters of the Winchester brothers is also highlighted in The Third Man - with Sam now the hunt-hungry, poon hound, while Dean is the the more conservative and reserved one (as he is still very much attached to his superhawt girlfriend and her son).
The contrast is actually so striking - particularly after their reactions to Castiel's "torturing" of a child to find the name of the 'weapons-dealing' angel - that Dean even points out that "something isn't quite right" with Sam after his mysterious return from Hell.
A blockbuster script from Ben Edlund that reassures me that Supernatural can still deliver the punches when it has to, even if I remain slightly concerned that the show might just be covering old ground with just different set decoration.
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