Alastair ties Ruby down and tortures her by slicing her with her own knife over and over again.  He wants to know where the angel is, but she knows that if she talks he'll just kill her.  She offers to take him to her instead.  The next morning, Castiel (Misha Collins) and Uriel arrive to take Anna.  When Sam asks how they found their hiding spot, Anna figures out that Dean gave her up when Uriel threatened to kill Sam.  Yes, Dean chose his brother over a girl he had sex with, which is something many of us wouldn't do.  Anna agrees to go with them, but Alastair and Ruby show up to spoil the going away party.

It's time for an epic battle between angels and demons!  Well, it's not really epic since there's only two angels and a few demons, but it's still pretty cool.  While Uriel kicks some demon ass, Anna grabs the vial and smashes it on the floor, unleashing her grace.  She's filled with a blinding white light that everyone aside from Alastair shields their eyes from.  The evil Brando-esque demon is obliterated into nothingness, and once the light disappears Anna is gone as well.  She's back to living her humdrum life in Heaven, so no more Impala sex or chocolate cake for her.

After all the angels are gone, Sam and Dean share a drink in front of the Impala.  Before Alastair was wiped out, he mentioned that Dean once showed a lot of promise.  Sammy wants to know what the demon was talking about, and Dean is finally willing to open up.  He admits that his time in Hell may have seemed like four months, but it actually lasted about 40 years in Hell-time.  He was sliced, carved and tortured in all sorts of horrible ways, every single day for years.  Whenever his body would fall to pieces, they'd make him whole again just so they could start all over.  At the end of every day, Alastair would offer to end the pain if Dean would pick up the weapons and become the torturer.  Dean resisted the offer for 30 years, but there eventually came a time when he couldn't take it anymore.  He agreed to Alastair's offer, and he ripped up souls with wild abandon for the next 10 years.  Now Dean has to live with the guilt of what he's done every single day.

Sam tries to comfort his brother by telling him he held out longer than any normal man could, but Dean doesn't want to hear it.  "I wish I couldn't feel anything, Sammy," he says with tears running down his face.  "I wish I couldn't feel a damn thing."

Did I mention how Jensen Ackles knocked that final scene out of the freakin' park?  On that emotional note, Supernatural signs off until January 15 of next year.  The wait for new episodes may be hellish, but at least the series ended 2008 with a bang.

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