Crowley's Cut-Rate Abattoir. My Badass Baboo barges in to upbraid Crowley for siccing his minions on the boys, and the entire scene quickly devolves into a screamy round of rampant bitchery, with Crowley eventually calling Castiel out on what he calls "The Big Lie." "The Winchesters still buy it," Crowley sneers. "The 'good' Castiel -- the 'righteous' Castiel -- and as long as they still believe it, you get to believe it, but I got news for you, kitten: A whore is a whore is a whore!" Sassy. Castiel shoves Crowley up against a wall with such force, he ends up denting the thing, and he gets real close to Crowley's face to threaten him like so: "I'm only gonna say this once: If you touch a hair on their heads, I will tear it all down -- our arrangement, everything. I'm still an angel, and I will bury you!" With that, My Badass Baboo flutters off, leaving Crowley alone to rage at the ceiling about synergy and whatnot while we get kicked back up to...

...Autistic Heaven, where we arrive mere moments after we last left the place. Castiel's Voiceover has been explaining that, although he finds his alliance with Crowley distasteful in the extreme, he feels like he had no other choice. Flashback Raphael was much stronger than Flashback Castiel, to the point that Flashback Castiel knew he "wouldn't survive a straight fight," so he "went to an old friend for help." By now, we've shot back down to Earth to watch My Flashback Baboo watching his Flashback Boyfriend as the latter rakes leaves in Flashback Bendy Lisa's yard, and Castiel's Voiceover concedes that at that moment, his flashback self realized he couldn't ask Flashback Dean to sacrifice any more than he already had. It was also at this point in the past, we learn, that Crowley initially approached Castiel with his whole Purgatory proposal, which Flashback Crowley presents as a "simple business transaction." Flashback Castiel, of course, is initially extremely skeptical, and in fact is positively bristling with hostility at the very idea of entering into an arrangement with the flashback demon, but when Flashback Crowley hints that his proposal will endow Flashback Castiel with the power he needs to defeat Flashback Raphael, My Flashback Baboo reluctantly follows Flashback Crowley down to...