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Supernatural Season 8, Episode 17, Goodbye Stranger recap 🍕 A warehouse full of dead Deans, a hunt for Lucifer’s crypt, and the return of Meg (Rachel Miner) on Denim-wrapped Nightmares, a Supernatural rewatch podcast.

Naomi has been running the most disturbing training program in Heaven, and Berly has some thoughts about putting in a clone request. Back on Earth, demons are possessing local history buffs and digging 15-foot holes all over town, and Cas shows up right on time, acting very strange. He’s not the only familiar face. Crowley’s hostage is someone the hosts never expected to see again.

Episode Highlights:

• A hall of dead Deans, and Berly would like to know where she can download Naomi’s clone request paperwork
• The Spear of Destiny, a mysterious little egg, and a vintage magazine called Voluptuous Asian Beauties with genuinely stunning photography
• Sam coughing blood into napkins, while Dean calls him Doc Holliday
• A town model hung with dirt samples from holes dug overnight without breaking a sweat
• A history PhD in Velcro rollers who is so excited to show off her map
• “I can hear you. I’m a celestial being, and I’m in the very next room.”
• Cas has two conversations at once, and Naomi cannot make up her mind
• Meg is back, beaten bloody and blonde, and LA wants someone to let her shower
• “How’s your noodle?” plus a very good memory of the pizza man
• “Damaged in ways I can’t repair”: way to keep Sammy confident about the trials, guys

Both hosts were thrilled to have Meg back. Her scenes with Cas are adorable, and her talk with Sam might be the first time anyone just listens to him about his missing year. Berly wanted a bigger redemption arc for her, but there’s a peace to her story that lands. A showdown in Lucifer’s crypt had the hosts squirming, and Jensen Ackles and Misha Collins make every second of it uncomfortable in the right way. The makeup on the beaten characters is excellent, and that’s the extent of the gore. The only frustration is Naomi. What does she want, and who is she taking orders from?

In the lore segment, LA comes up empty on Lucifer’s crypt, so she settles for Lucifer’s tomb, via a Lifehacker article from Christmas Eve 2024. A TikTok conspiracy claimed Pope Francis was opening the Tomb of Lucifer, but he was really opening five holy doors for the Jubilee, a ritual that happens every 25 years. One of those doors was inside a Roman prison, the first time a pope has done that. There really is a Tomb of Lucifer in the Vatican Necropolis, under St. Peter’s Basilica, but it predates anyone calling the devil Lucifer, and nobody knows why it got the name. Plus, Berly wonders if Crowley found any Labubus down there.

“I miss the apocalypse’s simplicity. I was bad, you were good, life was easier. Now it’s all so messy. I’m kind of good, which sucks, and you’re kind of bad, which is actually all manner of hot.” – Meg

Your turn, hunters: Did Meg get the ending she deserved? And what do you think Naomi really wants? Tell us in the Spotify comments, leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts (it’s how new hunters find us), or send us fan mail. Bonus points for fandom fun facts we missed.

Sources:

• https://supernatural.fandom.com/wiki/Goodbye_Stranger
• https://lifehacker.com/entertainment/the-pope-opening-the-tomb-of-lucifer

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