- 8.6/1038 votes
#1 - Bluebeard's Castle
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/11/2018
Joe juggles problems with Paco and Beck – and now must contend with a private investigator as well. But resolution is coming, one way or another.
Director: Marcos Siega
Writer: Sera Gamble
- 8.5/1028 votes
#2 - All Hell Breaks Loose (1)
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 5/10/2007
Sam and other "special children" are abducted by the Yellow-Eyed Demon and taken to a ghost town, where the ultimate battle must start.
Director: Robert Singer
Writer: Sera Gamble
- 8.5/1029 votes
#3 - Jus in Bello
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 2/21/2008
FBI Agent Henricksen finally captures Sam and Dean, but is caught in the middle when a horde of demons descends on the small-town jail to eliminate the brothers.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Sera Gamble
- 8.3/1019 votes
#4 - Death's Door
Season 7 Episode 10 - Aired 12/2/2011
As Sam and Dean race the clock on a high-stakes mission, Bobby seeks the help of an unlikely old friend to solve one of the most personal cases of his life.
Director: Robert Singer
Writer: Sera Gamble
- 8.2/1021 votes
#5 - Appointment in Samarra
Season 6 Episode 11 - Aired 12/10/2010
Dean seeks out Death to help get Sam's soul back. Death tells Dean he will help Sam if Dean will agree to act as Death for 24 hours. Meanwhile, Sam decides he doesn't want his soul back and asks Balthazar for a protective spell to keep his soul out of his body. Balthazar tells Sam he needs the blood of his father for the spell to work and since John Winchester is dead, Sam decides Bobby is the next best thing.
Director: Mike Rohl
Writer: Sera Gamble
- 8.2/1020 votes
#6 - Two Minutes to Midnight
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 5/6/2010
Crowley tells Bobby he will give him the location of Death, the fourth horseman, in exchange for his soul. Knowing Sam and Dean need that fourth ring to stop the Apocalypse, Bobby reluctantly agrees. Sam and Dean confront Pestilence, but he unleashes a deadly virus upon them, so Castiel must intervene on their behalf. Dean has a meeting with Death to discuss Lucifer, and an unholy alliance is formed at a very high price for Dean.
Director: Philip Sgriccia
Writer: Sera Gamble
- 8.2/1016 votes
#7 - The Writing Room
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 3/14/2016
Quentin, Alice, Eliot, and Penny travel to England in search of a missing magic button. Julia searches for real meaning in her magic.
Director: James L. Conway
Writer: Sera Gamble
- 8.2/108 votes
#8 - Will You Play with Me?
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 4/4/2018
The group finds what they’re looking for and attempt once and for all to get magic back.
Director: Chris Fisher
Writer: Sera Gamble
- 8.1/1023 votes
#9 - I Know What You Did Last Summer
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 11/13/2008
What happened to Sam during the months Dean was dead? During the search for a girl named Anna Milton, who has a mysterious connection to angels, Sam reveals the astonishing events of the summer.
Director: Charles Beeson
Writer: Sera Gamble
- 8.1/1060 votes
#10 - The Last Nice Guy in New York
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/16/2018
As Beck deals with unwanted advances from her advisor, she brings Joe to Peach’s high society soiree. Joe tries to navigate matters with Benji.
Director: Lee Toland Krieger
Writer: Sera Gamble
- 8.1/1027 votes
#11 - The Kids Are Alright
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/11/2007
Sam & Dean track down changelings that are pursuing mothers and their children. A boy they protect bears a strange resemblance to Dean, which at first makes Dean uncomfortable because he once had a one-night stand with the boy's mother Lisa.
Director: Philip Sgriccia
Writer: Sera Gamble
- 8.1/1018 votes
#12 - Good God, Y'All!
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 9/17/2009
Hunter Rufus Turner calls in Bobby, Sam, and Dean to deal with a demon infestation in his town, but they soon discover the truth is much more horrifying. Meanwhile, Castiel goes to seek the only entity that can defeat Lucifer.
Director: Philip Sgriccia
Writer: Sera Gamble
- 8.1/1020 votes
#13 - The Song Remains the Same
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 2/4/2010
The angels send Anna back in time to kill John and Mary Winchester before they can conceive Sam knowing that if Sam was never born then Lucifer won't be able to use him as his vessel. Castiel sends Sam and Dean back to 1978 so they can stop Anna, and the two brothers are reunited with their parents. Mary recognizes Dean as a hunter since he visited her in the past once before but tries to keep the truth from John.
Director: Steve Boyum
Writer: Sera Gamble
- 8.0/1029 votes
#14 - Salvation
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 4/27/2006
John has realized where the demon will strike next and the Winchesters head there to stop the next killing. But Meg begins killing John's friends and demands the Colt or she'll keep going until everyone John knows is dead.
Director: Robert Singer
Writer: Sera Gamble
- 8.0/1025 votes
#15 - Crossroad Blues
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/16/2006
Dean calls a demon to make a deal to save a man named Evan Hudson, in exchange for himself. While making the deal, the demon confronts Dean’s worst nightmare about their dad.
Director: Steve Boyum
Writer: Sera Gamble
- 8.0/1027 votes
#16 - Heart
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 3/22/2007
Sam and Dean investigate a brutal death and discover that the killer is a lycanthrope: a werewolf.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Sera Gamble
- 8.0/108 votes
#17 - We Have Brought You Little Cakes
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 4/19/2017
Quentin, Eliot, Julia and Margo enact a risky plan to protect Fillory; Penny questions fate, and Kady makes a deal to help him.
Director: Chris Fisher
Writer: Sera Gamble
- 8.0/1020 votes
#18 - When the Levee Breaks
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 5/7/2009
Dean and Bobby have something frightening locked in Bobby's panic room: Sam, contaminated by demon blood. But as the apocalypse draws nearer, Bobby wants to free Sam to battle on their side.
Director: Robert Singer
Writer: Sera Gamble
- 7.9/1017 votes
#19 - Let It Bleed
Season 6 Episode 21 - Aired 5/20/2011
A demon kidnaps Ben and Lisa to get to Dean. Sam and Dean are forced to join with an unlikely ally to free them.
Director: John F. Showalter
Writer: Sera Gamble
- 7.9/1025 votes
#20 - Time is on My Side
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 5/8/2008
Sam and Dean discover a doctor who, back in 1816, became obsessed with finding the secret of eternal life by taking people's vital organs. Meanwhile, Bobby finds Bela and Dean leaves Sam to confront her.
Director: Charles Beeson
Writer: Sera Gamble
- 7.9/1027 votes
#21 - Bloodlust
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/12/2006
Sam and Dean encounter a vampire hunter whose obsession may get them all killed.
Director: Robert Singer
Writer: Sera Gamble
- 7.9/1020 votes
#22 - Meet the New Boss
Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/2011
Castiel doesn't kill Sam, Dean and Bobby but warns them not to interfere in his business. Assuming his new role as God, Castiel sets out to right some of the wrongs in the world. Dean decides they should bind Death and order him to stop Castiel, but the former angel is one step ahead of them, leaving Dean to face a very angry Death. Meanwhile Sam struggles to deal with the broken wall in his head.
Director: Philip Sgriccia
Writer: Sera Gamble
- 7.9/109 votes
#23 - A Flock of Lost Birds
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 1/23/2019
Brian takes a friend out for ice cream; Sam is one week away from retirement.
Director: Chris Fisher
Writer: Sera Gamble
- 7.9/1017 votes
#24 - The Born-Again Identity
Season 7 Episode 17 - Aired 3/23/2012
Lucifer drives Sam to the breaking point and Sam ends up in a mental hospital. Desperate to save his brother, Dean calls every hunter he knows for help. One of the hunters gives him the name of a healer who turns out to have a very familiar face.
Director: Robert Singer
Writer: Sera Gamble
- 7.9/1025 votes
#25 - Fresh Blood
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/15/2007
The brothers capture a female vampire named Lucy who has no idea how she became one, which leads them to Dixon, a male vampire who is a little too giving. Gordon returns with a vengeance leaving Sam in danger.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Sera Gamble