Supernatural (season 9)
Episodes

Supernatural (season 9)

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No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	US viewers (millions)

173	1	"I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here"	John Showalter	Jeremy Carver	October 8, 2013	4X5052	2.59

Sam Winchester (Jared Padalecki) is dying from the events of the previous season. He dreams that he's talking with his brother Dean (Jensen Ackles), who is trying to convince him to fight to live, and their late friend Bobby Singer (Jim Beaver), who is trying to convince him to let go and die.

174	2	"Devil May Care"	Guy Bee	Andrew Dabb	October 15, 2013	4X5051	2.33

Sam and Dean take the captive King of Hell Crowley (Mark A. Sheppard) to the Men of Letters bunker to try to get the locations of all the demons on Earth from him.

175	3	"I'm No Angel"	Kevin Hooks	Brad Buckner & Eugenie Ross-Leming	October 22, 2013	4X5053	2.34

An angel faction led by Bartholomew (Adam Harrington) uses an internet preacher to encourage devout people to agree to being possessed by the multitude of fallen angels now wandering the earth.

176	4	"Slumber Party"	Robert Singer	Robbie Thompson	October 29, 2013	4X5054	2.19

In 1935, hunter Dorothy (Tiio Horn) of The Wizard of Oz fame captures the Wicked Witch of the West (Maya Massar) and brings her to the Men of Letters bunker.

177	5	"Dog Dean Afternoon"	Tim Andrew	Eric Charmelo & Nicole Snyder	November 5, 2013	4X5056	2.15

A taxidermist (Forbes Angus) in Enid, Oklahoma is constricted to death by a man with snake-like traits, and a shelter worker (Kris Neufeld) is killed by the same man but now with cat-like traits after eating a cat whole.

178	6	"Heaven Can't Wait"	Rob Spera	Robert Berens	November 12, 2013	4X5057	2.36

Four people mysteriously combust in Rexburg, Idaho, where Castiel is working as a sales associate at a gas station. He calls Dean, who leaves Sam and Kevin at the bunker doing research, to investigate with Castiel.

179	7	"Bad Boys"	Kevin Parks	Adam Glass	November 19, 2013	4X5055	2.01

Dean gets a call from Sonny (Blake Gibbons), an old friend who runs a reform school in Hurleyville, New York, asking for his help when a man is mysteriously killed at the school.

180	8	"Rock and a Hard Place"	John MacCarthy	Jenny Klein	November 26, 2013	4X5058	2.39

Suspecting that the mysterious disappearances she is investigating in Hartford, South Dakota, are linked to the supernatural due to unusual reports she is getting, Sheriff Jody Mills (Kim Rhodes) calls in Sam and Dean to help her with the case.

181	9	"Holy Terror"	Thomas J. Wright	Brad Buckner & Eugenie Ross-Leming	December 3, 2013	4X5059	2.42

A civil war starts between angels working for Bartholomew and angels working for Malachi, an anarchist, both of whom want to rule the fallen angels, which will end in disaster.

182	10	"Road Trip"	Robert Singer	Andrew Dabb	January 14, 2014	4X5060	2.21

Metatron orders Gadreel to carry out two more murders, including an old friend of Gadreel's (Dan Payne). Though Gadreel hesitates to kill his friend, he goes through with it in the end.

183	11	"First Born"	John Badham	Robbie Thompson	January 21, 2014	4X5061	2.65

Crowley approaches Dean for help with finding the First Blade, the only known weapon that can kill Abaddon. Following clues, Dean and Crowley discover that Dean's father had once worked with a hunter named Tara who spent years searching for the Blade.

184	12	"Sharp Teeth"	John Showalter	Adam Glass	January 28, 2014	4X5062	2.76

After Garth (DJ Qualls) is hit by a car subsequent to mutilating a cow in Grantsburg, Wisconsin, Sam and Dean arrive separately to investigate where their friend has been for months.

185	13	"The Purge"	Phil Sgriccia	Eric Charmelo & Nicole Snyder	February 4, 2014	4X5063	2.46

Dean finds a case in Stillwater, Minnesota where a 316 pound man was killed in his car and was 98 pounds afterwards.

186	14	"Captives"	Jerry Wanek	Robert Berens	February 25, 2014	4X5064	2.12

To Sam and Dean's surprise, they are visited by Kevin's ghost; since his death, he has been trapped in the veil between worlds because spirits have been barred from Heaven by Metatron.

187	15	"#THINMAN"	Jeannot Szwarc	Jenny Klein	March 4, 2014	4X5066	1.93

In Springdale, Washington, a teenage girl taking pictures of herself is killed in her own bedroom by what appears to be Thinman (a pastiche of Slender Man), some kind of monster that appears in various videos and pictures of unnatural deaths.

188	16	"Blade Runners"	Serge Ladouceur	Brad Buckner & Eugenie Ross-Leming	March 18, 2014	4X5065	1.86

Crowley is addicted to human blood, but after the demon he uses to get it betrays him to Abaddon, he calls in Sam and Dean.

189	17	"Mother's Little Helper"	Misha Collins	Adam Glass	March 25, 2014	4X5067	2.25

As Dean takes a break from researching Abaddon to visit a dive bar, he is pestered there by Crowley. Meanwhile, Sam opts to go investigate a report of the good people of Milton, Illinois spontaneously turning into violent killers.

190	18	"Meta Fiction"	Thomas J. Wright	Robbie Thompson	April 15, 2014	4X5068	1.60

In Ogden, Utah, several angels have been slaughtered for refusing to join Metatron, who claims he can get them back into Heaven.

191	19	"Alex Annie Alexis Ann"	Stefan Pleszczynski	Robert Berens	April 22, 2014	4X5069	2.10

In Sioux Falls, South Dakota, a young woman named Alex (Katherine Ramdeen) is arrested, but while the police officers are gone she is attacked by a vampire who shows a familiarity to her.

192	20	"Bloodlines"	Robert Singer	Andrew Dabb	April 29, 2014	4X5070	2.03

In this back-door pilot for a proposed new TV series (Supernatural: Bloodlines), five different mafia-esque monster families are running the underbelly of Chicago, Illinois.

193	21	"King of the Damned"	P. J. Pesce	Brad Buckner & Eugenie Ross-Leming	May 6, 2014	4X5071	1.59

Castiel calls Sam and Dean in to interrogate one of Metatron's followers (Gordon Michael Woolvett). Sam and Dean are able to trick the prisoner into revealing that Metatron has a secret portal into Heaven for his followers and is amassing an elite ground force for an unknown reason.

194	22	"Stairway to Heaven"	Guy Bee	Andrew Dabb	May 13, 2014	4X5072	1.74

In Dixon, Missouri, an angel blows himself up in Castiel's name, killing one of Metatron's angels and several humans. This causes several angels to doubt Castiel's leadership despite Castiel saying he would not order such attacks.

195	23	"Do You Believe in Miracles?"	Thomas J. Wright	Jeremy Carver	May 20, 2014	4X5073	2.30

After Dean attacks Gadreel with the First Blade, Sam and Castiel lock him in the bunker's dungeon out of fear of what the Blade is doing to him.

Sentence(s)

Supernatural's ninth season had an average viewership of 2.19 million U.S. viewers.

final_sentence: Supernatural's ninth season had an average viewership of 2.19 million U.S. viewers.