Sam has another hit to the head, he starts having nightmares, reliving traumatising events in his life. Moments involving all Sam's greatest hits. With each nightmare, he and Dean talk through these moments that both had tried hard to forget. When Dean suggests confronting the stars of these nightmares and they start talking back, will this finally help Sam to forgive himself...

Dean has disappeared to Purgatory, leaving Sam drowning without purpose and lost in grief. Until a woman turns up claiming she has something for Dean, something small and fragile, something with familiar green eyes named Hope.

Sam and Dean are at odds in early season 8, Dean is angry and Sam feels misunderstood. While on a Wendigo hunt, they are separated after a fight and accidentally swop bags, the contents of the bags reveal secrets and lies and each brother realises that everything is not what it seems.