Episode 121 : My Heart Will Go On

Sam and Dean try to keep themselves busy by following up a new case where people are dying from bizarre and creative deaths (i.e., being decapitated by a garage door or having a photocopy machine choke a woman with her scarf). They determine there are no spirits or monsters involved, and remain at a loss. Inexplicably, Ellen (very much alive) is Bobby’s wife. She looks up the history of the victims and traces their family trees and discovers their ancestors were all immigrated to the United States in 1912 on the Titanic, a ship that none of them have ever heard of. Also inexplicably, Sam researches the Titanic and learns how it didn’t hit an ice berg and all the individuals passed safely by. He finds an old photo and notices the first officer of the ship is none other than Balthazar. The brothers call Balthazar over who reveals the true story of the Titanic – apparently, since Balthazar hated the movie he went back in time, saved the ship from hitting the ice berg which created a chain of reactions that led to Ellen being alive and no one knowing the uninteresting history of the Titanic. The cause of the bizarre deaths is revealed to be by one of the Fates sisters of Greek Mythology, Atropos who is killing the descendants of the Titanic survivors. Atropos attempts to kill Sam and Dean due to resentment of them escaping death from her and stopping the Apocalypse, though Castiel saves them. Castiel confronts Atropos and discovers how angry she is that no one takes her seriously anymore and that when she went to Heaven, everyone ignored her because of her failure to kill the 50,000 people on the Titanic. Right before Castiel and Balthazar decide to kill her, Atropos warns him that killing her will spark her sisters to kill them and Sam and Dean included. She tells Castiel (who convinced Balthazar to save the Titanic) that saving the 50,000 souls won’t help him when he needs them in his battle against Heaven. She convinces Castiel to tell Balthazar to go back and resink the Titanic, prompting the normal history to resume its pace, Atropos to regain her respect and Ellen is once again deceased.