Supernatural: Stairway to Heaven (9x22) | Recap & Lore

Supernatural Season 9, Episode 22, Stairway to Heaven recap 🎳 Angels are blowing themselves up in Cas’s name, Dean can't part from the First Blade, and Metatron is bowling for recruits, on Denim-wrapped Nightmares, a Supernatural rewatch podcast. Cas calls the boys in after one of his angels walks into an ice cream shop and takes out one of Metatron’s angels, plus a lot of innocent people. Cas swears he didn’t order it, and Dean doesn’t believe him. So Sam rides with Cas to chase down a possible double agent, while Dean “interviews” the angels at Cas’s power plant headquarters. Nobody there likes him, and he promised to leave the Blade at home. Episode Highlights: An ice cream shop, an order with exactly 10 blueberries, and an angel in a very questionable coat Dean wakes Sam with a guitar riff at full volume, and Sam still sleeps with a gun under his pillow, even in the bunker Agents Spears and Aguilera, because Cas has noticed the aliases are always popular musicians Metatron is caught playing dress-up in his own trench coat knockoff Tyrus loves bowling (the “symphony of wood”) and calls Metatron a nerd to his face (Booger?) Sam looks great behind the wheel, and Cas finds out he’s accidentally running a cult “Why is six afraid of seven?” Plus a Lord of the Rings door and an Indiana Jones penitent man trap Dr. Flagstaff (her angel name is 18 syllables) and an interrogation that goes from hot to terrifying fast Tessa is back, and Dean is not happy to see her Metatron hijacks every screen in the building with a very convincing offer Written by Andrew Dabb and directed by Guy Norman Bee, whose interrogation scenes are the standouts of the episode. LA loved getting Sam and Cas on their own together. Berly says that since Meta Fiction, she’s finally on board with Metatron as the season’s big bad, partly because Curtis Armstrong is impossible to hate. The gore: some hollowed-out vessels, and Josiah’s makeup, which is genuinely hard to look at. Berly still isn’t sold on reapers being angels. And Dean’s temper is getting scarier every episode. In the lore segment, Berly revisits the Metatron lore from The Great Escapist: the scribe of God, once the prophet Enoch, guardian of the Akashic Records, and namesake of Metatron’s Cube. She tries invoking him again on air, and her vibrations remain unraised. “Because he’s a weird guy, okay? He’s a weird, dorky little guy.” – Dean Your turn, hunters: Is Metatron the big bad you wanted for Season 9? And should reapers be angels or their own thing? 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/Stairway_to_Heaven https://www.gaia.com/article/who-is-archangel-metatron Send us your review! Support the show 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 and Fesliyan Studios. Subscribe, leave a review, and, if you choose to drink, please drink responsibly. Join the hunt at linktr.ee/dwnpod where you can find links to socials and sign up for emails. Until next time, cheers!