What Happens Next: A Gallimaufry

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More thoughts on Adam Milligan and the Cage

Further to this post:

In 6.11, when Dean talks to Death about breaking into the Cage, he says, “Sam’s soul’s stuck in that box, and our other brother’s trapped in there, too. Michael rode him in,” suggesting a potential ambiguity: that is, that while Sam’s body and soul are trapped, only Adam’s body is. (Also note that Death never confirms this statement; he just reacts to it.) As such, when Death asks Dean to choose - “Sam’s soul, or Adam’s” - it’s not explicitly confirmed that he’d be raising Adam’s soul from hell; only that he’d be bringing him back to life. Given the fact that Castiel rescued Sam’s body from the Cage, and given that Dean had to crawl out of his own grave when Cas resurrected him at the start of S4, it’s clear that bodies and souls are separate things: you need the one to house the other, and they’re not necessarily located in the same place.  

We also know that it’s possible for souls to be removed from Heaven and restored to earthly bodies - not only has this happened to both Adam and the Winchesters, but it’s how Samuel comes back in S6. It’s therefore plausible that, when Death suggests raising Adam, he means fetching his body from hell and his soul from Heaven. 

Similarly, as of S10, it’s confirmed that Jimmy Novak is in Heaven, which means that angels can stay in possession of bodies after their hosts die. Given that angels need consent to possess in the first place, I’d assume the following logic applies: that is, provided the host soul was present and alive when the angel first started possessing the body, they can continue possessing it if and when that soul departs.  

Finally, while the schoolgirls state in the 200th episode that Adam is still in the Cage, we don’t know that this isn’t a fan theory; it’s never stated that they’re quoting from the books, and given that the entire episode is about subtext and reader interpretation, it’s quite possible that this is a fan theory or an assumption, rather than something explicitly stated in the text. And as Dean and Sam don’t know that Jimmy Novak is dead - Cas tells Claire her father is gone, but not the Winchesters - they have no reason to consider that the same might be true of Adam. 

I therefore submit the canonical possibility that Adam isn’t in the Cage, and never was.   

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