Supernatural: Season 4

2008 · 22 episodes · ★ 8.2

What Season 4 of Supernatural

Season 4 opens with Dean newly back from Hell. Castiel rescues him, an angel sent to recruit him for a war against the demons. Sam and Dean hunt together again across the back roads of the United States, though each is keeping secrets of his own. Sam hides the fact that he's been killing demons behind his brother's back with Ruby's help. The biggest threat is Lucifer, a fallen angel who is about to be set free. If the two brothers don't stop him, the Apocalypse will come. Meanwhile, they face ghosts, demons and creatures like Dracula or a giant, alcoholic teddy bear.

22episodes

Sep 18, 2008premiered

May 14, 2009latest episode

15.6 hrtotal runtime

Season 4 Episodes

4x01 Lazarus Rising
Sep 18, 2008 · 43 min · ★ 8.8
Dean wakes up in his own coffin. How did he return from the dead? What caused the hand-shaped welt on his shoulder? And what happened in the four months he spent in Hell, time he can't remember?
Directed by: Kim Manners · Written by: Eric Kripke · Starring: Misha Collins, Scott Parsons, Jen Halley, Marc Gaudet
4x02 Are You There, God? It's Me, Dean Winchester
Sep 25, 2008 · 41 min · ★ 7.9
After Dean's encounter with Castiel, Dean, Sam and Bobby brush up on their biblical lore when they're attacked by the vengeful spirits of people from the Winchesters' past. They're warned it's a sign that someone is trying to break seals which will bring on the apocalypse.
Directing: Philip Sgriccia · Writing: Sera Gamble · Starring: Misha Collins, Nicki Aycox, Charles Malik Whitfield, Chris Gauthier
4x03 In the Beginning
Oct 2, 2008 · 43 min · ★ 8.5
Back to the future, Castiel sends Dean to 1973 Lawrence, Kansas, where he meets a nice young couple named John and Mary Winchester. Dean's parents. And Mary has a secret.
Directed by: Steve Boyum · Written by: Jeremy Carver · Starring: Misha Collins, Matt Cohen, Allison Hossack, Christopher B. MacCabe
4x04 Metamorphosis
Oct 9, 2008 · 43 min · ★ 7.6
Dark powers. Dean fears Sam is using his paranormal gifts in conflict with God's plan. And an ordinary guy in an ordinary town gets a major case of the munchies. It starts with steak - and moves to human flesh.
Directing: Robert Singer, Kim Manners · Writing: Cathryn Humphris, Ben Edlund · Starring: Dameon Clarke, Joanne Kelly, Ron Lea, Craig Stanghetta
4x05 Monster Movie
Oct 16, 2008 · 42 min · ★ 7.9
In a black-and-white world reminiscent of classic horror flicks, the brothers tangle with a vampire, a werewolf and a mummy who are thinning the crowds at a quaint Oktoberfest.
Directed by: Robert Singer, Steve Boyum · Written by: Jeremy Carver, Ben Edlund · Starring: Todd Stashwick, Melinda Sward, Holly Dignard, Michael Eklund
4x06 Yellow Fever
Oct 23, 2008 · 43 min · ★ 8.6
Hell beckons again when Dean is stricken with a mysterious illness that frightens its sufferers to death. Sam and Dean scramble to find the cause of the disease in time to save Dean from sure death.
Directed by: Philip Sgriccia · Written by: Daniel Loflin, Andrew Dabb · Starring: Sierra McCormick, Jack Conley, Steph DuVall, David Mattey
4x07 It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester
Oct 30, 2008 · 43 min · ★ 8.2
Chomping candy, bobbing for apples. Halloween is such fun. Until gruesome deaths signify another seal is being broken. To stop it, Castiel and another angel plan a mass annihilation of the town.
Directing: Charles Beeson · Writing: Julie Siege · Starring: Misha Collins, Don McManus, Ashley Benson, Lauren K. Robek
4x08 Wishful Thinking
Nov 6, 2008 · 41 min · ★ 8.1
Want to score a hot girlfriend, win the lottery or have your favorite teddy bear come to life? Then plunk a coin in a small town's wishing well and stand back. One problem: The wishes come true with a twist.
Directed by: Robert Singer · Written by: Ben Edlund · Starring: Anita Brown, Ted Raimi, Chang Tseng, Nicole Leduc
4x09 I Know What You Did Last Summer
Nov 13, 2008 · 43 min · ★ 8.2
What happened to Sam during the months Dean was dead? During the search for a girl named Anna Milton, who has a mysterious connection to angels, Sam reveals the astonishing events of the summer.
Directing: Charles Beeson · Writing: Sera Gamble · Starring: Misha Collins, Julie McNiven, Gwynyth Walsh, Anna Williams
4x10 Heaven and Hell Mid-Season Finale
Nov 20, 2008 · 43 min · ★ 7.9
The angels want Anna dead, so Sam and Dean go on the run with the frightened girl, determined to discover the secret that has set the furies of Heaven on her.
Directing: J. Miller Tobin · Writing: Eric Kripke · Starring: Misha Collins, Julie McNiven, Mark Rolston, Thunderbird Dinwiddie
4x11 Family Remains
Jan 15, 2009 · 43 min · ★ 7.6
Dad, Mom, two kids and a dog. An all-American family doesn't stand a ghost of a chance against the bloodthirsty force that turns their new home-sweet-home into a haunted house.
Directing: Kim Manners · Writing: Jeremy Carver · Starring: Helen Slater, David Newsom, Bradley Stryker, Alexa Nikolas
4x12 Criss Angel Is a Douchebag
Jan 22, 2009 · 43 min · ★ 7.5
Aging magician The Incredible Jay performs the dangerous Table of Death trick and emerges unscathed. Jay cheated the Grim Reaper, but one of his rivals didn't. He checked out while Jay was doing his act.
Directing: Robert Singer · Writing: Julie Siege · Starring: Richard Libertini, Barry Bostwick, Luke Camilleri, John Rubinstein
4x13 After School Special
Jan 29, 2009 · 43 min · ★ 8.3
Fast times at Truman High. Murder brings Sam and Dean back to one of their old high schools, where they investigate possible demonic possession and take a few trips down memory lane.
Directed by: Adam Kane · Written by: Daniel Loflin, Andrew Dabb · Starring: Colin Ford, Brock Kelly, Candice King, Chad Willett
4x14 Sex and Violence
Feb 5, 2009 · 43 min · ★ 7.6
In a small town in Iowa, three loving husbands kill their wives. Turns out these guys believe in spreading their love around: Each is spending plenty of the family income on strippers at a nearby nudie bar.
Directed by: Charles Beeson · Written by: Cathryn Humphris · Starring: Maïté Schwartz, Jim Parrack, Mark Hildreth, Tosha Doiron
4x15 Death Takes a Holiday
Mar 12, 2009 · 43 min · ★ 8.2
Reapers take a break from work, and that means no one can die. But the escorts to the next world aren't off getting some R&R, unless you call being held hostage by a demon restful and relaxing.
Directing: James L. Conway, Steve Boyum · Writing: Jeremy Carver · Starring: Misha Collins, Christopher Heyerdahl, Alexander Gould, Mike Dopud
4x16 On the Head of a Pin
Mar 19, 2009 · 43 min · ★ 8.7
Can torture be God's work? After seven angels are mysteriously murdered, Castiel and Uriel demand that Dean use the agony-inducing skills he learned in Hell to extract information from Alastair.
Directing: Mike Rohl · Writing: Ben Edlund · Starring: Misha Collins, Julie McNiven, Christopher Heyerdahl, Brent Woolsey
4x17 It's a Terrible Life
Mar 26, 2009 · 42 min · ★ 7.9
At Sandover Bridge & Iron Inc., Dean is Dean Smith, the buttoned-down director of Sales & Marketing. Sam is Sam Wesson, a cubicle-dwelling tech support guy. What the heck is going on? Or is it what the Hell?
Directing: James L. Conway · Writing: Sera Gamble · Starring: A.J. Buckley, Travis Wester, Jack Plotnick, Richard Side
4x18 The Monster at the End of this Book
Apr 2, 2009 · 43 min · ★ 8.7
Familiar plot. Familiar characters. Sam and Dean come across a series of graphic novels called "Supernatural" featuring two demon-hunting brothers named Sam and Dean.
Directed by: Mike Rohl · Written by: Julie Siege · Starring: Misha Collins, Katherine Boecher, Keegan Connor Tracy, Michael P. Northey
4x19 Jump the Shark
Apr 23, 2009 · 42 min · ★ 7.9
Meet the Winchester boys: Dean, Sam and... Adam. The Winchesters discover they have a younger half-brother, whose mother vanishes just as a long-dormant grave robber renews his ghoulish career.
Directing: Philip Sgriccia · Writing: Daniel Loflin, Andrew Dabb · Starring: Dedee Pfeiffer, Heather Feeney, Michael Puttonen, Eby Luking
4x20 The Rapture
Apr 30, 2009 · 42 min · ★ 8.3
The body Castiel walks around in isn't his. Instead, it belongs to a regular guy named Jimmy who wants his body - and his life - back. He gets the body. But the life may be a different story.
Directing: Charles Beeson · Writing: Jeremy Carver · Starring: Misha Collins, Julie McNiven, Wynn Everett, Sydney Imbeau
4x21 When the Levee Breaks
May 7, 2009 · 43 min · ★ 8.1
Dean and Bobby have something frightening locked in Bobby's panic room: Sam, who is corrupted by demon blood. With the apocalypse drawing nearer, Bobby wants to free Sam to fight on their side.
Directed by: Robert Singer · Written by: Sera Gamble · Starring: Misha Collins, Colin Ford, Julie McNiven, Christopher Heyerdahl
4x22 Lucifer Rising Season Finale
May 14, 2009 · 43 min · ★ 8.9
The brothers prepare to fight the forces of the apocalypse in different camps. While Sam and Ruby hunt down Lilith, Dean joins Castiel and Zachariah to take on Lucifer.
Directing: Eric Kripke · Writing: Eric Kripke · Starring: Misha Collins, Katherine Boecher, Rob LaBelle, Juliana Wimbles