Somewhere else, Uriel sits alone in a snow-encrusted park until Castiel materializes beside him, and as this episode's now entered its utterly bizarre -- albeit utterly enjoyable, given who stars in it -- Last Temptation Of Castiel phase, I'll try to keep things brief. Long story short, Uriel's received his revelation from their superiors, and those superiors want the current investigation into the garrison members' deaths shut down immediately. Uriel interprets this as a sign the situation's deteriorating Up There, but Castiel believes divine will is still at work, and that they're being punished for failing to save the seals. Uriel's all, "You're crazy, bitch," and flutters the hell on out of there before he ends up with a sucking neck wound of his own. My Poor Little Sweet Baboo sits on the park bench all by his confused lonesome for a while until...

...later that night, he calls out for Anna's assistance, and after he says the magic word, she materializes at his side to demand, "What do you want from me?" Castiel levels those beautiful blue eyes at her and admits, "I'm considering disobedience." Hee. "He's awfully polite, don't you think?!" He is indeed, Raoul. "We should invite him to supper!" Raoul, don't start. "What!?" We've already had words regarding your eating habits, and I don't even want to begin discussing the impossibility of having a fake angel from the television set over to dine with an imaginary gay dragon from the Internet, so don't start. "I'm sure I don't know what you mean! He'd be a charming companion at the table!" Never mind.

Now, where was I? Oh, yeah: Castiel politely admits he's considering disobedience, and Anna -- fallen angel that she once was -- finds this a spectacularly brilliant idea, like, duuuuuuh. Of course she would. "Good," she nods, and My Poor Little Sweet Baboo's forced to disagree. "No, it isn't -- for the first time, I feel..." He's unable to finish the sentence, but given the fact that tonight's secret word is apparently "doubt," I'd be willing to bet a few bucks that's where he was going with this. Anna confides that "it only gets worse" and that "choosing one's own course of action is confusing" and "terrifying," but Castiel doesn't want a lecture on free will -- he wants, quite simply, to be told what to do next. Awww. He's so simple and needy! "No," Anna flat-out refuses, for she is a bitch who will stop at nothing to hurt My Sweet Baboo's supposedly nonexistent feelings. "I'm sorry," she cruelly continues, "but it's time to think for yourself." And with that, she vanishes just as strangely as she'd arrived. Castiel, lost, stands alone on the frozen park walkway for a moment before the valve on a nearby water fountain catches his eye. He considers it for a moment before heading back to...