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Supernatural Season 9, Episode 16, Blade Runners recap 🍕 Crowley is in a hotel room in silk pajamas, surrounded by drained bodies, eating pizza and crying at sad movies. Nobody call Hell right now, on Denim-wrapped Nightmares, a Supernatural rewatch podcast.

The King of Hell is now a human blood addict, and Abaddon is taking over his kingdom while he's binge-watching. So Sam and Dean stage an intervention, drag him back to the bunker, and follow the First Blade’s trail all the way to a magical, invisible mansion. It belongs to a Men of Letters reject with a collection problem, and he thinks Dean would make a lovely addition.

Episode Highlights:

• Crowley drunk-dials Dean, and Sam gets to hear the voicemail
• Silk pajamas, pizza, sad movies, and a closet full of “supply”
• Snooki shows up as a crossroads demon
• An intervention, and Crowley goes cold turkey in the dungeon
• Crowley gets sentimental about the moment he and Sam shared in that cathedral
• Crowley steals candy from a vending machine, then roots around in an art dealer’s brain
• The antiquities curator gives Dean her card (only Dean)
• “We’re legacies!” Sam holds Henry’s box up to an empty field, and a smoky portal appears
• Cuthbert Sinclair, the Men of Letters’ master of spells, and his very creepy “zoo”
• The First Blade finally meets the Mark of Cain, and Dean’s arm won’t stop shaking

Both hosts liked Cuthbert as a quirky villain, even if he’s mostly a means to an end. Berly loved Sam and Crowley’s chemistry, and she pitches an arc where helping Crowley through his addiction helps Sam finally accept himself. The gore: a slit throat and a decapitation with a shockingly clean cut. Berly’s continuity complaints: a shapeshifter that transforms without shedding its skin, and a “sex scene” where Crowley stays fully dressed (she has a tattoo theory). Plus, the director, Serge Ladouceur, is usually the show’s DP.

In the lore segment, LA covers the real Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, an 1888 Victorian occult society with ranked grades, secret chiefs, and members like W.B. Yeats and Aleister Crowley. Crowley’s hexagram later became the Men of Letters crest, so the bunker’s glorified book club has real occult bones.

“You don’t know what it’s like to be human.” – Crowley

Your turn, hunters: Would you watch a Sam and Crowley buddy arc? And should Crowley really be the one holding the First Blade? Tell us in the Spotify comments, leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts (it’s how new hunters find us), or send us fan mail. Bonus points for fandom fun facts we missed.

Sources:

• https://supernatural.fandom.com/wiki/Blade_Runners
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermetic_Order_of_the_Golden_Dawn
• https://supernatural.fandom.com/wiki/Men_of_Letters

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Denim-wrapped Nightmares is a Supernatural rewatch podcast hosted by Berly and LA, breaking down every episode of the Winchester saga with lore deep-dives plus cast and crew interviews. Special thanks to David Fesliyan