The secret’s out!
Not only are our hunters trying to figure out the identity of the “mystery man” a.k.a.
Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles) but there’s also still the matter of the Akrida.
JoJo Fleites as Carlos Cervantez, Meg Donnelly as Mary Campbell, and Drake Rodger as John Winchester on ‘The Winchesters’.Skip Bolen/The CW
We knew we were building to a kiss.
And then it was like we sort of had to live with the consequences too.
So it was exciting.
Richard Speight Jr. on ‘The Winchesters’.Skip Bolen/The CW
And then we live with the consequences for the rest of the season.
It was really fun to dive into that.
We have two great partners in that with Meg and Drake, who really embraced that as well.
It’s always a little scary to see how that dynamic changes.
And then to your point, it does change the group dynamic, but in a really fun way.
This episode gave us our first Winchester death and revival!
This is a guy who puts himself in harm’s way.
I loved that line about how he’s still punching things.
And those things don’t go away quickly and they don’t go away easily.
Last week unearthed the photo of Dean!
Going forward, are John and Mary digging more into who this guy is?
And we’ll see more glimpses as we go along.
That feeling of a sense of both a surprise and inevitability was really exciting.
And we’re not just throwing Easter eggs around.
This is all building to something that will pay off in episode 13.
Is that an Easter egg, or was that just something fun?
I’ll be really honest with you, that came from mostly just a place of fun.
He reached out to Rob, and then Rob and I had a conversation.
It was so fun to see Richard back in character.
Nic [Chatree Sridej], who wrote the episode, did a really terrific job capturing his voice.
And then on the day, we really encourage all of our actors to embellish, to improvise.
There’s so many lines in there that it’s just Richard being Richard.
You end this episode with a big reveal.
As we’re heading toward the end of the season, are we focusing more on the Akrida?
The fallout of what happens at the end of this episode will last through the end of the season.
The Winchestersairs Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT on the CW.
