james norman beaver jr. played sam and dean's dad on supernatural.
james norman beaver jr. played sam and dean's dad on supernatural.
who plays sam and dean's dad on supernatural?
james norman beaver jr.
while the series does not have many lead characters, there are many recurring characters. jeffrey dean morgan portrays john winchester, father of sam and dean. making an appearance in the pilot episode, john does not return until nearly halfway through the first season, after which he becomes a recurring character until his eventual death in the second season's premiere episode, though his spirit returns to help his sons in the season finale. later in the series, it is announced that john winchester fathered a third son with another woman; a half-brother to sam and dean. according to writer john shiban, it was decided early on that john would die. the writers found that having the brothers being separated from their father "split the show". shiban noted that "... the boys were looking for dad, and they were looking for a monster of the week, whatever that is, whatever case crosses their path. it became difficult, because we thought it was like – 'what is dad doing? is he doing more interesting things than the boys are doing, or what?'" they believed morgan was initially reluctant about returning to "supernatural" for the second season because of his recurring role on the series "grey's anatomy". future appearances of the character have been hindered by morgan's busy schedule.
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kevin is now so focused on translating the tablet that he has somewhat let himself go and has a very disheveled appearance. he has also sent his own mother away so he can work in solitude, explaining to dean that he can't enjoy the world he is trying to save until it is saved. though he doesn't believe it is possible to get the ingredients needed for the bomb as they are very rare, he gives them the list and castiel is able to get them. it is shown in "trial and error" that kevin lets himself go completely while he focuses on translating the tablet, believing that closing the gates of hell will be the only way he can go back to a normal life. eventually, after weeks of non-stop work, he cracks the instructions and calls sam and dean to let them know. kevin learns that in order to close the gates, someone must complete three trials and recite an enochian spell after each one. kevin has only cracked the first trial which is to kill a hellhound and bathe in its blood. despite sam's advice to slow down, kevin begins taking (and its indicated overdoing) stimulants to keep awake and eventually calls sam and dean to inform them that he has learned that a hellhound (which is naturally invisible) can be seen through an object scorched with holy fire such as a pair of glasses, giving them a way to see the hellhound so they can kill it. in "taxi driver," kevin is under so much stress that he is hallucinating crowley in his head and that crowley is mentally torturing him. panicked, he calls sam and dean and hides, but has also deciphered the second trial: sam must rescue an innocent soul from hell and release it into heaven. after sam leaves to rescue bobby singer's soul from hell, dean stays with kevin, trying to calm him down. kevin is so freaked out he hides in a closet and later hides his half of the tablet somewhere, believing it will take the pressure off of him. after dean leaves, kevin demon-proofs garth's houseboat even more, but crowley shows up and reveals he killed kevin's mother and got his location from her smartphone. when sam and dean return they find the boat deserted. in "the great escapist," kevin is trapped in an illusion of garth's houseboat and is tricked into translating crowley's half of the demon tablet by demons pretending to be sam and dean. at the same time, a prerecorded message kevin prepared is sent to sam and dean with his notes on the tablet. while sam and dean aren't able to figure out the trial from them, they eventually lead them to metatron, the angelic scribe who wrote the word of god. eventually kevin realizes the truth as the demons are too polite and sends them into a trap. crowley confronts him and kevin refuses to reveal more than the fact that crowley has no idea the power he could've gotten from his half of the demon tablet and that he won't break. not caring as he has the angel tablet, crowley strangles kevin who is rescued by metatron. metatron takes kevin back to the hotel where he lives and heals him and kevin reveals that he has crowley's half of the demon tablet with him. with that half of the tablet, kevin has learned the third trial: cure a demon. kevin is left confused as to who metatron is when metatron reveals knowledge of the third trial as well. after sam and dean pretend to make a deal with crowley to stop him killing people they've saved, kevin digs up the first half of the demon tablet and reunites the two halves, giving the tablet to sam and dean who send him to the men of letters bunker for safety. when dean and castiel need to know the third trial to close the gates of heaven, they take the angel tablet to kevin who is distraught as he believed that it would be over once he was done with the demon tablet, causing an angry castiel to yell at him that he is a prophet until he dies. after completing the second trial, dean calls kevin who tells him that while he has found trials on the angel tablet, he doesn't see anything that matches what they have done. when naomi shows up to tell dean and castiel that metatron is really trying to expel all angels from heaven, kevin listens, but is unable to confirm what she has said. he later tries to leave the bunker, but stops when alarms start going off, signaling the fall of all angels to earth.
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