credence-barebone-deserves-love asked: While I think that's sound reasoning, I don't think it's quite logical, at least for me. Death and Dean are talking about the Cage when the topic comes up - and Dean says something about how Death is one of the few who can get into the Cage to get souls. Death is pretty honest: If Adam's soul was anywhere else, I'm fairly certain he would have said something because it would no longer be a viable bargain chip as Dean could ask so many others to retrieve a soul from Heaven or plain old Hell.
I take your point, but I also think it’s plausible that Death would ask Dean to choose between Sam and Adam as a kind of test, regardless of whether Adam’s soul was in Heaven or the Cage. Appointment in Samarra is all about Death asking Dean to make difficult choices about who lives or dies; a way of poking at Dean’s saviour complex. Viewed this way, asking him to pick between Adam and Sam is less a literal request - because Death, like everyone else who’s ever met the Winchesters, must already know he’ll save Sammy - and more a neat foreshadowing of what happens with the little girl. Just as Dean eventually kills her to save other lives, so he saves Sam over Adam because, even though Adam is innocent, it’s Sam he loves and Sam who’ll be of more use to the world alive.
That being so, it’s not where Adam’s soul actually is that’s important, but where Dean thinks it is. If Death told Dean that Adam’s soul was already safe, he couldn’t make his point about choice and sacrifice, because there’d be nothing to give up. Think of it like a V for Vendetta moment: Death lets Dean believe a lie, but that doesn’t change the impact of the choices he makes because of it.
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