

Maybe it’s because Cas witnesses her killing a local teen, and even as he sees her power (she tears the young man apart) he also sees that even though she could have killed him, she didn’t. Maybe it’s the number of people she’s killed. Something is different with Thunder Bay something is different with Anna. This is where Cas comes in, finding those deaths that ghost caused, hunting down the ghosts, and using his father’s athame to kill them, an athame that only works for him. They have a habit of showing you these things, usually by demonstration.” The ghosts don’t even know they’re ghosts, they’re just replaying those last hours, and, sometimes, that involves killing others in the way they were killed.

Nothing else exists in their world except the edge of that knife, the feel of those hands around their throat. They become fixated on what happened to them and trap themselves in the worst moment. “ They might have been normal, or relatively normal, when they were still breathing, but once they die they’re your typical obsessives. The ghosts he kills are killers themselves: they weren’t born that way, they didn’t die that way, it’s what they became after they died. He doesn’t want friends he’s not a ghostbuster, thank you very much (but if he was, he’d totally be Peter Venkman.) He takes what he does seriously. Cas is a loner, partly because he and his mother always move around so he doesn’t have the time to develop friendships, partly because he views what he does as a solo occupation.
