A man sees his trash cans rattling for no apparent reason. Then a light flickers. Then all the lights on the street start flickering. All pretty odd, but it’s the ominous cloud in the sky that begins chasing after him which really freaks him out. Until it takes over his body.
A week later, Sam’s got his face buried in a book, and Bobby calls him up to tell him if he’s going to break Dean free of selling his soul, he’s not going to find the answer in a book. When he goes to get Dean to head out on the road, Sam walks in on his brother having sex. After getting past this, Dean wishes the war would just start already, then they head to Nebraska to check out a crop failure.
When they go into a house, they find the TV on and three dead bodies on the couch in front of it. After he steps out the porch, Dean gets beat down by a man with a gun, Isaac, a man Bobby is well acquainted with. They find out the cause of death was dehydration and starvation, and the people just sat down and never got up, though nobody’s sure why since they had plenty of food in the kitchen. Isaac doesn’t want to work with the boys because he’s angry about the coming war they caused.
The guy who earlier had been possessed by the cloud walks into a store and touches a woman, getting her to believe the shoes another woman is holding are nice. Because getting a woman to come to that conclusion apparently requires supernatural intervention. She goes up to the other woman and says she wants those shoes. She’s told they’re the last pair but follows her out the store to again ask for them. She bashes her head into a car and takes the shoes. Shoe sales are dangerous.
Upon arrival, Dean uses the time to hit on a girl. Bobby tries to find out whether the woman was possessed, but she comes up clean. They review the security tapes and at least get a good look at the guy but don’t get very far in determining that he was at fault. Sam confirms the man’s name is Walter and that he went missing about a week ago, the night the devil’s gate opened. They track him down. Bobby advises waiting until they figure out what Walter’s capable of before they go after him, but Isaac has other plans, as he shows up there with his wife (Tamara) and is ready to go after him. Heading after Walter, Isaac gets stopped by someone else, who also turns out to be a demon. The rest of the people in the bar, also demons, aren’t happy to see him either. One of them touches him and gets him to drink drain cleaner, killing him. Sam, Dean, and Bobby drive through the wall and rescue Tamara.
She turns out to be irrational and wants to go back to the bar. Bobby informs them they’re up against the 7 deadly sins, live and in the flesh. The family was killed by sloth, the shopper was killed by envy, and Isaac was killed by gluttony. Bobby manages to talk some sense into Tamara, who agrees to assist them when they do actually come up with a plan.
They capture Walter and interrogate him. He wants to have a little fun… seeing people’s insides on their outside. He accuses them all of being guilty of sin. They make quick work of him with an exorcism, but not before he warns the others will be coming, so they prepare for it.
Isaac shows up, possessed by one of the demons. He gets to her by talking about the past, and she jumps out of the building and attacks him, the perfect opening for the other demons to enter the house. Bobby traps one of them and exorcises him. Unsurprisingly, lust goes after Dean, but he’s got the willpower to dunk her head in holy water. Pride and a couple other demons attack Sam, but he’s rescued by a knife wielding girl who takes them all out, though none of them can figure out how she’s killing demons with a knife. She knows who he is, even if he doesn’t know her. Two of the possessed humans do survive, but they have to burn the others.
Sam asks the question: if they let out the 7 deadly sins, what else did they let out? He then asks Bobby whether they can win the war but doesn’t get a response.
Sam keeps pushing Dean to try to save himself and find a way out of the deal. Dean tells him why he doesn’t want to be rescued. If they try to screw up the deal, Sam dies, so if Sam tries to find a way, Dean says he’ll stop him himself.
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