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The Acting First-Order Archangel Crowley 100

This post is a sister post to The Acting Supreme Archangel Crowley 100. Please read the start of that one for more context.

I'll log any extra notes in colored text here as well and throw pictures in where I want, which will happen to be some 11th instances anyway.

[Start S2E1]

1: Oh, right. Well, what doesn't this beauty do? Basically, it's a star factory. All the, all the dust and gas you can see, is actually building about... about 5,000 young stars and protoplanets. Most of the universe's stars will come pre-aged, but these ones are only starting out. A few million years to bake, and then voom! Stars everywhere!

2: Mm, thanks for your help. And thanks for your advice. I wouldn't worry though. How much trouble can I get into just for asking a few questions?

3: "Dear Mr. Fell. There is something about which I need to speak with you on a matter of some... ugrency?" Urgency. "Yours very faithfully, Maggie."

4: I thought you, well, it's been such a rough couple of years, between the lockdowns and the internet orders not coming and... I can be out of here in two weeks.

5: Well then that's entirely my fault for not collecting the rent. There. Now, I believe you said you were getting in some Shostakovich records for me.

6: Oh, I can. I'm very good at forgiveness. It's one of my favorite things. Now, you have paid your rent, I have my music, and I know exactly what I'll be doing for the next 21 minutes.

7: I keep planning complicated strategic strikes to spread misery and panic among the humans, and just as I'm about to put one into motion, they come up with something themselves which is so much worse than anything I could have thought of.

8: Well then, I expect it will be fine. Most things are fine in the end. Like this one time, I started to get cold. Now I have this neat blanket. Oh, and this other time, my arms were aching 'cause I had to carry that box for so long. Now they're fine.

9: Tone of voice. You have three reasons for calling me: you're bored, you need to tell someone about something clever you did before you pop, or something's wrong. This was your Something's Wrong voice.

Even though this line is at #9 instead of #11, it is a special number since there are 9 angel ranks in the most influential angelic hierarchy.

10: Anywhere. The crucial part of the plan isn't the taking him somewhere. It's not bringing him back again. We'll bundle him into the Bentley, I'll drive to... Dartmoor and dump him.

11: What, this old thing? I've had it for ages. Such a pity that Hell never really appreciated your talents, Crowley.

12: If you found Gabriel and handed him over to us, you could name your price. I've got all the hosts of Hell hunting for him, and we will find him, but you, Crowley, you know Earth better than anyone.

13: Well, wherever he is, you find Gabriel for me and, and you can have whatever your nasty little heart desires. You could be a Duke of Hell... ...According to what I'm hearing, on a grapevine that obviously doesn't exist, upstairs is seriously troubled about Gabriel's disappearance. I'm hearing that anybody they find involved in this affair will be dealt with.

Beelzebub has 3 of the Supreme title and 3 of the First-Order title in the scene with Crowley in Hell. Two of the three are shared by both titles. Then each title has an instance that is not shared to balance out the scene. Instance #11 here is the one not found with "Acting Supreme Archangel Crowley".

14: Yes. We do a... a little miracle so nobody can spot him even if they're looking for him. No, I mean, especially if they're looking for him.

15: Jim. Right. Sit in this chair. You take his right hand, I'll take his left. We need to make this the tiniest, most insubstantial, fractional half a miracle we have ever performed. No traces of anything miraculous left behind. No, no, no alarm bells ringing in Heaven.

[End S2E1]

[Start S2E2]

16: ♪ Every day

It's a getting closer ♪

♪ Going faster than a rollercoaster ♪

♪ A love like yours will

Surely come my way ♪

♪ A-hey... ♪

17: A miracle of enormous power happened last night. The kind of miracle only the mightiest of Archangels could've performed.

18: I mean, sure, it took me months to nerve myself up to even bring her an LP and then absolutely, we got locked in the coffee shop last night and granted I then made a complete ass of myself, and she already has a partner! But apart from that, I'm pretty sure I'm in love.

19: Mm. Too many of them. There's a pub in Edinburgh. I send them singles for the jukebox, and they send me back copies of Everyday. They say every record they play eventually just turns into that song, which is mad, but they're Scottish, so... Here.

20: It was, um... Err... Um, love! Yes! Yes, um, you see, uh... Maggie, who err, who owns the record shop is in love. It-- it's what humans do. Uh, with Nina, over the road. And, and Ni-Nina doesn't love her back. And, um, well, Maggie's my tenant, so I, um... I did a big, big miracle... uh, to make it so that she and Nina, err.. fell in love.

21: Brown, from Brown's World of Carpets. We met at the Whickber Street Traders and Shopkeepers Association annual meeting several years ago.

22: People would gather and do some formal dancing and then realize they had misunderstood each other and were actually deeply in love.

23: Do you know the rules of the Heavens? Did you set the constellations in the sky? Can you send lightning bolts and get them to report back to you? Did you give wings to peacocks, Job, or teach the ostrich to run?

24: Yes, yeah, yes... I was... I, I was, I was getting to that! For Lo, though your three children are completely dead, God now grants that you may conceive seven more children!

[End S2E2]

[Start S2E3]

25: Jim is in his bedroom upstairs. I told him bookshops are always closed on a Wednesday. As for Inspector Constable, at a guess, they were sent to verify the 25 Lazarii miracle you and I seem to have accidentally performed together the other night.

26: Alright. That's how you lot measure miracles? How many times it could have brought someone back from the dead?

The above line is a findable instance through my transcript only due to the "Alright" to get enough of the letter "A". It has no "P" so qualifies only for the First-Order title.

27: Well, don't hesitate to ask me if you have any other questions about love, Inspector... Constable. I'll just be here helping to run this bookshop while my friend drives my car to Edinburgh.

28: From the confidential journals of A.Z. Fell, Volume 603. Dear Diary, last month Crowley and I both happened to be in Edinburgh. And he insisted I visit a local graveyard at midnight. He had come upon something he said that might amuse me. A statue of the Supreme Archangel himself!

29: I brought you something. Oh, come on. I've already eaten. Roasted chicken, butter potatoes, two helpings of marmalade pudding for afters.

30: It was just this once! I promise we can get seven, even eight pounds for a good one! We can get a room in a proper boarding house, not like the last one. And you'll never go to bed hungry.

31: That is irrelevant. Look, I am good. You, I'm afraid, are evil. But people get a choice. You know, they cannot be truly holy unless they also get the opportunity to be wicked. She is wicked.

32: I mean, I'm just happy when you don't sentence me to the Dung Pits for pissing you off. I mean, a day I don't get sent to the Dung Pits is a good day. I mean, as long as there's a day that nobody rips out my tongue for talking too much. A day when nobody sends you to the Dung Pits or rips out your tongue for talking too-- Am I talking too much? Are you gonna rip out my tongue again?

33: Well observed. Right, so, the plan: Operation Lovebirds. I'm gonna wait until they both happen to be near the awning, then, sudden downpour, they back out of the rain, bump into each other, look into each other's eyes and vavoom.

34, 35, 36: And that is why we need a steady supply of cadavers. We need to cut. If we can't cut, we can't learn. If we can't learn more, a lot more, then how on earth are we going to win the battle against monstrosities like this one? I'm just trying to save lives and teach students. I'll either end up with a knighthood or condemned as a resurrectionist and hanging from a rope.

37: Having realized the error of my ways, I resolved to assist Elspeth and Wee Morag in their noble quest to decrease human suffering. I took time to inspect various lethal security devices in that graveyard.

38: So the rich can afford all these gubbins to protect their rellies from being dug up, and the poor just have to lump it? You're okay with that, yeah?

39: But what? I should let her rot in the ground while I starve? Is that what you'd have me do, Mr. McFell? Because it is certainly not what Wee Morag would want.

40: I bought a bottle of good wine with the proceeds. Gin's faster. Wine's fancier. So we can all toast Wee Morag. We'll toast her, then I'm going. And you can use this money to bury me somewhere where no ghouls will ever dig me back up again.

41: Nah! Nah! N-Do I sound like a goat? Neigh!

♪ O Flower of Scotland ♪

♪ When will we see your likes again ♪

Right come on, let's get cracking. Angel! Angel. Say something that... convinces her that poverty is ineffably wonderful; life is worth living. Go on!

[End S2E3]

[Start S2E4]

42: I do, yes. Shax. Former Admissions Demon, Senior Grade. Now Hell's ambassador plenipotentiary to this corner of the planet. Replacing the demon Crowley.

43: Hello. Have a miserable eternity. We'd like to apologize for the wait and the conditions, but we won't. Cheer up. Things could be worse, and they will be.

44: Hello. Have a miserable eternity. We'd like to apologize for the wait and the conditions, but we won't. Cheer up. Things could be worse and they will be.

45: Just schtum for a minute. So this all happened in a church? And this Crowley was there? In a church, on hallowed ground? Tell me... everything.

46: Don't you Mrs. H me, you cheeky sod. I paid you for 40 bottles and I bloody well want them. What a day. You smashed my whiskey, the heating's knackered, and the girls won't go on stage because it's so bleeding cold. And to top it all off, tonight's magician has just been arrested as a deserter. I'm f--

47: Right, here's the deal. I can grant you temporary license to go back up to Earth as zombies for twenty-four hours.

48: Zombies, yes, the living dead. Then if you are able to find me hard proof that the demon Crowley and this Mr. Fell, who from your description appears to be an angel, are not just associating but actively working together, I will be authorized to grant you freedom from Hell and damnation.

49: Well, I should be the one to collect the proof with this state of the art device. All done. As newly inculcated members of the undead, you will experience periods of blood lust which you will have to satisfy. These cravings can only be quenched by the consumption of living human brains, just to keep you going. Any questions? Good.

While both titles are found in the above, the number found is different. That only happens in the above example. I found the Supreme title twice and the First-Order title once.

50: Who knew living brains could be quite so...

♪ But with muscles well-tensed

And legs far apart ♪

♪ She started a final and glorious fart ♪

♪ Beginning with Chopin,

Her bottom did sing ♪

♪ And went right up the scales

to God Save the King ♪

He's repeating on me, sorry.

51: You're talking to the angel who fooled Nefertiti with a lone caraway seed and three cowrie shells. Aha! Professor Hoffmann's Modern Magic. Ah, there you are. "To Mr. Fell," that's me, "a wonderful student."

52, 53: Can I just say that I do only allow myself one tiny weeny miracle? Just to warm the audience and myself, up. Um... For instance, turning a common turnip into an inkwell. But before... that, everything I do is accomplished by... skillful conjuring alone. Now... I have here a sixpence and a farthing. But if I close my hand thusly, for but the blink of an eye...

54: What about this? We call this one the professor's nightmare. Now, I've got a big piece of rope, a medium sized piece... Ah, with you in a few moments, sir.

The above line is separated from the next due to the subtitles saying Glozier grunts as he enters, then crediting the shopkeeper as the speaker for the next part. If it were credited in the combined form, the count would actually increase and go over 100 eventually.

55, 56, 57, 58: And a wee baby piece. Now, if I gather up the ends here, and collect all of the unequal ends here. Give it a little tug, and they all stretch to become exactly the same length. You see the big piece is the same length as the medium size piece and the short piece is the same length as the other two. See, this one here, this one is the long piece. You can tell it apart from the others, right? Perhaps it's the light. You see, there's the long piece, there's the medium piece, and there's the short piece. Now this is perfect for a talented amateur such as yourself.

Look at that quadruple!

59: Talented amateur! Well, I'll have you know I'm booked to appear in the West End. Uh, the Windmill Theater at 8:30 p.m. tonight. Thank you very much. I'm, I'm looking for something with a bit more scale. Something climactic. Oh. Like that.

60: And now, a master of misdirection, marvelous in his mysteriosity, with miracles at his fingertips. Let us welcome the death defying prestidigitation of the amazing Mr. Fell.

61, 62: I was right next to you. We did loads together. You used to jump on me back, little monkey in the waistcoat. Anyway, whether you do or whether you don't, it doesn't matter. I'm here to inform you, as a representative of the Higher Powers of Hell, that you, Crowley, are in breach of the Infernal Code. Consulting and collaborating with an angel, Fell the Marvelous, aka... Azirapalala. Azirapapap. Aziphapalala.

63: No, what's ridiculous is demons like you doing what they please. And somehow still getting on, while demons like me graft for hundreds and hundreds of millennia and never get a sniff of a promotion! Well, not this time. Expect a Legion to come for you first thing tomorrow. Enjoy your last night on Earth.

64: Thank you for seeing me, your maleficences. I took this photograph of Crowley and Aziraphale together.

65: Who needs a miracle when you've had private lessons from the great Prof. Hoffmann himself. I simply say the magic words. Banana, fish, gorilla, shoelace, with a dash of nutmeg, and... Well, I got it right the time that mattered.

66, 67: Not technically, no. But give me a legion of Hell's finest troops and see what I can do. It's a chance I've been waiting for, Lord Beelzebub. To be clear, you are hereby authorizing me to storm the angel's bookshop, sending wave after wave of demons to besiege it until it falls and we capture the Archangel, destroying anything and everything that stands in our way?

[End S2E4]

[Start S2E5]

68: So you can guarantee no angels, then? Some of those angels are right dangerous bastards. We could be permanently discorporated.

69: I don't think so. You've got an amnesiac Archangel hiding out in your bookshop. I spent last night worrying if he's going to wake up. What if he remembers who he is, what if he's faking it? He could smite me. When Gabriel smites you, you've been... Smited? Smote?

70: Long story, but... I was there. And I do remember, oh, very clearly, the look on your face, Archangel Gabriel. When you told my only friend to shut his stupid mouth and die. And I... Did Not Care For It.

71: I'm in the process of verifying it, but, of course, you can only tell if people are in love by waiting a few days, because humans are weird and that's how it works.

72: Why, la, good mistress coffee seller. Tonight is a meeting of the Whickber Street Traders and Shopkeepers Association. We all are partaking of the hospitality of Mr. Fell.

The above line did not qualify for "Acting Supreme Archangel Crowley" in my transcript due to a lacking "U". It still qualifies for First-Order though.

73: You're demons. Junior bottom of the barrel demons, practically the damned. What are you doing here? What are any of you doing here? You can't just manifest and cause trouble, there are rules.

74: This is something completely bonkers. Are we... Why is everyone talking like they've escaped from Pride and Prejudice?

75: What? No. Not really. That night was the last straw... It's been coming for a long time. I don't think Lindsay actually liked me very much. And, well, I know I'm hard work.

76: You're an outlaw Aziraphale. You have no protection. I have a legion of demons by my side. And I have no intention of harming you, only the humans here with you. You have 60 seconds to hand over the Archangel Gabriel before we begin to kill people.

77: Oh, oh, are you saying this is officially sanctioned. That this attack is consistent with the Rules of Engagement. Well, is it or isn't it? Were you given official permission to launch this attack?

78. 79: Standard Rules of Engagement, clause 112, subsection 3. Civilian non-combatants must be given sufficient time to evacuate the area of hostilities. I mean, Aziraphale can put in a formal complaint to the Dark Council of the Dukedoms of Hell, if you want. But you'll have to delay your attack until they reply. That could take weeks maybe. You lot could all be in big trouble.

Crowley's double for "Acting First-Order Crowley" here only doubles through the rule of counting the hidden "r" in "3".

80: Sure. Right, I just made up a rule they're too stupid to check. I'm getting the humans out of here and then I'm coming back. I won't leave you on your own.

81: Um... It's a bit complicated, but um... probably best if you forget all about it and, and, and do whatever Mr. Crowley suggests.

For both titles, this line only qualifies in my transcript because of the repeated word, "and" to get an extra "n". Two are required for both the Supreme and First-Order titles due to "Acting" and "Archangel". The official subtitles have the word "and" listed only once instead of the three times it is actually said.

82: Right, I'm gonna formally declare this meeting of the Whickber Street shopkeeping thingummy over. I think it'd be best if you all headed back to your shops as fast as possible and, well, forget as much of this as you can. Go on.

[End S2E5]

[Start S2E6]

83: Angels are like bees. Fiercely protective of their hive if you're trying to get inside. Once you're in, well, I mean... is it even faintly possible that an unauthorized demon might be just wandering around in Heaven unescorted?

84: You might be invincible, but you're still stuck out there, and we're in here. You don't frighten me. I had brothers. You don't scare me by making faces.

85: Get back. Get back here now, fast, please. It's for your own good. I am perfectly prepared to take defensive action, should it become necessary. Stay back. Hello? Is there anybody there?

I have to tell you, you can all leave now, and nobody will be hurt.

86: I told you you could ask. However, I am the only First-Order Archangel in the room, or, you know, the Universe, so I'm not gonna answer so much. But you feel free to knock yourself out with all the asking. Anyway, Armageddon the Sequel, that's a nah. What's next on the agenda?

This line is our biggest Clue to consider the rank status. Gabriel specifically says "First-Order" instead of "Supreme". Plus, it has the word "Universe" capitalized in the official subtitles.

87: No speeches, Gabriel. You are not going to Hell. For one Prince of Heaven to be cast into the outer darkness makes a good story. For it to happen twice, makes it look like there is some kind of institutional problem.

88: Which, needless to say, there isn't. You will, I am sure you will be glad to learn, remain an angel. Although, as a kindness, your memory of your time as Gabriel will be erased. You will be demoted to junior recording angel, 38th class.

89: Nobody's at war. You idiots sent an idiot to lead a gang of idiots to attack a bookshop. Those idiots there want their Archangel back so they can fire him.

90: I didn't collaborate with Heaven any more than Gabriel collaborated with Hell. I just found something that mattered more to me than choosing sides.

91: When Aziraphale does come back, I think we need a little us time. After all this, I think we are going for an extremely alcoholic breakfast at the Ritz.

92: You're not helping, angel. Look at you two. You're the hard-bitten one, the "can't trust anyone ever again", and Mr. Wherever-He-Is is the soft one who still believes in magic and people being basically good and all that.

93: Well, yes. You're a leader, you're honest, you don't just tell people what they want to hear. It's why Gabriel came to you in the first place, I imagine. There are huge plans afoot, enormous projects, and I will need you to run them. You are just the angel for the job.

94, 95, 96: You know, as Supreme Archangel, you would be able to decide who to work with. Yeah, I've been looking back over a number of your previous exploits, and I see that in quite a few of them you formed a de facto partnership with the demon Crowley. Now, if you wanted to work with him again, that... might be considered irregular, but it would certainly be within your jurisdiction to restore your friend, Crowley, to full angelic status.

97, 98, 99: Oh. Oh, God. Right, okay. Right. I didn't get a chance to say what I was going to say, I think I'd better say it now. Right, okay, yes, so... We've known each other a long time. We've been on this planet for a long time. I mean, you and me. I could always rely on you. You could always rely on me. We're a team, a group. Group of the two of us. And we've spent our existence pretending that we aren't. I mean, the last few years, not really. And I would like to spend... I mean, if Gabriel and Beelzebub can do it, go off together, then we can. Just the two of us. We don't need Heaven, we don't need Hell, they're toxic. We need to get away from them, just be an us. You and me, what do you say?

100: Good luck? Crowley-- Crowley! Crowley, come back, to Heaven! Work with me! We can be together! You know... Angels... doing good! I-- I need you! I don't think you understand what I'm offering you.

In Before the Beginning, the first finding for the Supreme title is not shared with the First-Order title. Here we are at the end, and the reverse is true. The last finding for the First-Order title is not shared with the Supreme title.

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The distinct count for these lines is 87, instead of 86. That would be the count if we ignored the multipliers. Funnily enough, by coincidence or intention, finding #86 in this group is the one that says "First-Order" in the dialogue.

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If you think these lists and findings are all just a coincidence or I'm not really finding anything of value, please move along. I am playing a game, and I'm playing because I enjoy playing.

If you do find value in these posts, that's great, and you are more than welcome to use both lists to cross-reference and log any further details.

When you can find one title and not the other? How many are shared? What are the stats by character? What do the numbers look like across the different time periods or episodes?

I have these things documented for myself, but I do stop myself from sharing everything. So, you can explore those questions if you want. Or if you do want to save yourself the trouble and just ask me, that's fine too. Then I will be plenty happy to share the information.

#crowley #david tennant #good omens #good omens 2 #good omens s2 #good omens season 2 #good omens meta

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sonkitty · 12 days ago

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Finally unboxed, been saving for a rainy day or whenever the mood struck.

#good omens

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sonkitty · 12 days ago

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The Acting Supreme Archangel Crowley 100

I have referenced I have been working on figuring out this list a few times in past posts, and here we are.

This type of thing is largely why I went through so much effort in making TWO transcripts. One transcript is based on the official subtitles, and one is my version, which is the closest I can get myself to an actual transcript.

The official subtitles lie, and they do so repeatedly. That means I have to be very careful in any extensive word searches I do with the dialogue because the answers change on purpose.

There is a hidden rule that numbers said aloud should have the letters of the words for those numbers considered in the search.

There is another hidden rule that multipliers must be allowed.

In my transcript, with those hidden rules, there are 100 findable instances of the title, "Acting Supreme Archangel Crowley." It adds 2 and subtracts 1 when compared to the official subtitles.

A findable instance is considered to have the appropriate numbers of letters. Among those requirements is 3 of the letter "C" to help narrow down the list to this count of 100.

Every 11th instance in this count from 1 to 100 looks more special than a lot of the other instances in between.

There are also 100 findable instances of "Acting First-Order Archangel Crowley". It seems to be a method to check the rules and confirm how to get these numbers and these lines. It does not have the "11th" instance special.

The lists are not identical though there are many shared lines. Most of the time, the numbers are also not the same. The "Supreme" count leads almost the entire time.

For now, I am giving the lines for "Acting Supreme Archangel Crowley". I'll share the other list another time for anyone who wants to cross-reference on their own time and curiosity.

Edit-The other list is now posted here: The Acting First-Order Archangel Crowley 100.

I'll put in some pictures and notes on those 11th instances, with a few extra notes at the end.

The comma delimited lists of numbers are to indicate where I found multipliers.

I remove the speakers since I'm so familiar with the script and prefer to focus on the dialogue.

As a general reminder, despite how careful and meticulous I try to be, I do still make mistakes.

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[Start S2E1]

1: Ah, well, I mean, more or less. I wasn't... I wasn't, um...I wasn't the original concept designer, but I worked very closely with upstairs on it.

2: Oh, right. Well, what doesn't this beauty do? Basically, it's a star factory. All the, all the dust and gas you can see, is actually building about... about 5,000 young stars and protoplanets. Most of the universe's stars will come pre-aged, but these ones are only starting out. A few million years to bake, and then voom! Stars everywhere!

3: Mm, thanks for your help. And thanks for your advice. I wouldn't worry though. How much trouble can I get into just for asking a few questions?

4: "Dear Mr. Fell. There is something about which I need to speak with you on a matter of some... ugrency?" Urgency. "Yours very faithfully, Maggie."

5: I thought you, well, it's been such a rough couple of years, between the lockdowns and the internet orders not coming and... I can be out of here in two weeks.

6: Maggie, what if I were to just take these Shostakovich records without paying for them? And we'll call it even.

7: Oh, I can. I'm very good at forgiveness. It's one of my favorite things. Now, you have paid your rent, I have my music, and I know exactly what I'll be doing for the next 21 minutes.

8: I keep planning complicated strategic strikes to spread misery and panic among the humans, and just as I'm about to put one into motion, they come up with something themselves which is so much worse than anything I could have thought of.

9: I'm not saying Hell is complicit in this. I'm not saying anyone is complicit. I'm just saying if anyone is found helping him, we are prepared to use Extreme Sanctions.

10: Well then, I expect it will be fine. Most things are fine in the end. Like this one time, I started to get cold. Now I have this neat blanket. Oh, and this other time, my arms were aching 'cause I had to carry that box for so long. Now they're fine.

11: Tone of voice. You have three reasons for calling me: you're bored, you need to tell someone about something clever you did before you pop, or something's wrong. This was your Something's Wrong voice.

Here is our first 11th special instance. This one is special because it is Crowley's first present day instance. He has it after Aziraphale has had 3. Maggie, Gabriel, Shax, and Michael have had 1 already.

12: Anywhere. The crucial part of the plan isn't the taking him somewhere. It's not bringing him back again. We'll bundle him into the Bentley, I'll drive to... Dartmoor and dump him.

13: What if I said Hell was willing to forget everything you did, that we were willing to accept you back, no questions asked with a hefty promotion?

14: If you found Gabriel and handed him over to us, you could name your price. I've got all the hosts of Hell hunting for him, and we will find him, but you, Crowley, you know Earth better than anyone.

15: Well, wherever he is, you find Gabriel for me and, and you can have whatever your nasty little heart desires. You could be a Duke of Hell... ...According to what I'm hearing, on a grapevine that obviously doesn't exist, upstairs is seriously troubled about Gabriel's disappearance. I'm hearing that anybody they find involved in this affair will be dealt with.

16: Jim. Right. Sit in this chair. You take his right hand, I'll take his left. We need to make this the tiniest, most insubstantial, fractional half a miracle we have ever performed. No traces of anything miraculous left behind. No, no, no alarm bells ringing in Heaven.

[End S2E1]

[Start S2E2]

17: A miracle of enormous power happened last night. The kind of miracle only the mightiest of Archangels could've performed.

21: Brown, from Brown's World of Carpets. We met at the Whickber Street Traders and Shopkeepers Association annual meeting several years ago.

22: Yes. So, we all need to talk about the council's proposed rubbish collection times and the Winter Street Lights campaign.

Here is our second 11th special instance. This one is special because it is the first time we find that following what is actually said changes the count. The only reason the title qualifies is because Mr. Brown says "Yes" to start the line. There is a "Y" in the name "Crowley". The official subtitles do not include that "Yes".

23: People would gather and do some formal dancing and then realize they had misunderstood each other and were actually deeply in love.

24: Do you know the rules of the Heavens? Did you set the constellations in the sky? Can you send lightning bolts and get them to report back to you? Did you give wings to peacocks, Job, or teach the ostrich to run?

25: Yes, yeah, yes... I was... I, I was, I was getting to that! For Lo, though your three children are completely dead, God now grants that you may conceive seven more children!

[End S2E2]

[Start S2E3]

26: Great! Well, could I come in and do it inside please? Only 'cause it's really noisy out here and I can't hear anything.

27: Jim is in his bedroom upstairs. I told him bookshops are always closed on a Wednesday. As for Inspector Constable, at a guess, they were sent to verify the 25 Lazarii miracle you and I seem to have accidentally performed together the other night.

28: Well, don't hesitate to ask me if you have any other questions about love, Inspector... Constable. I'll just be here helping to run this bookshop while my friend drives my car to Edinburgh.

29: From the confidential journals of A.Z. Fell, Volume 603. Dear Diary, last month Crowley and I both happened to be in Edinburgh. And he insisted I visit a local graveyard at midnight. He had come upon something he said that might amuse me. A statue of the Supreme Archangel himself!

30: I brought you something. Oh, come on. I've already eaten. Roasted chicken, butter potatoes, two helpings of marmalade pudding for afters.

31: It was just this once! I promise we can get seven, even eight pounds for a good one! We can get a room in a proper boarding house, not like the last one. And you'll never go to bed hungry.

32: That is irrelevant. Look, I am good. You, I'm afraid, are evil. But people get a choice. You know, they cannot be truly holy unless they also get the opportunity to be wicked. She is wicked.

33: I mean, I'm just happy when you don't sentence me to the Dung Pits for pissing you off. I mean, a day I don't get sent to the Dung Pits is a good day. I mean, as long as there's a day that nobody rips out my tongue for talking too much. A day when nobody sends you to the Dung Pits or rips out your tongue for talking too-- Am I talking too much? Are you gonna rip out my tongue again?

Here is our third 11th special instance. I'm not sure what words or phrases help describe why this one is special. It mainly stands out to me because of how long it is for a relatively minor demon character. The story never even tells us his name (Josh) except through subtitles and credits.

34: Gravity. It's, um... a thing that happens when objects are pulled together. In this case, they're all pulled downwards because the Earth is the largest thing around.

35: Well observed. Right, so, the plan: Operation Lovebirds. I'm gonna wait until they both happen to be near the awning, then, sudden downpour, they back out of the rain, bump into each other, look into each other's eyes and vavoom.

36: I did a very good thing then. Now, I don't want Elspeth coming back here with another body. Gotta cut off the demand side of things as well as the supply.

37, 38, 39: And that is why we need a steady supply of cadavers. We need to cut. If we can't cut, we can't learn. If we can't learn more, a lot more, then how on earth are we going to win the battle against monstrosities like this one? I'm just trying to save lives and teach students. I'll either end up with a knighthood or condemned as a resurrectionist and hanging from a rope.

40: Fantastic. Just for what we ink slingers call "atmosphere," was this chap by any chance among those present?

41: Having realized the error of my ways, I resolved to assist Elspeth and Wee Morag in their noble quest to decrease human suffering. I took time to inspect various lethal security devices in that graveyard.

42: So the rich can afford all these gubbins to protect their rellies from being dug up, and the poor just have to lump it? You're okay with that, yeah?

43: I bought a bottle of good wine with the proceeds. Gin's faster. Wine's fancier. So we can all toast Wee Morag. We'll toast her, then I'm going. And you can use this money to bury me somewhere where no ghouls will ever dig me back up again.

44: Nah! Nah! N-Do I sound like a goat? Neigh!

♪ O Flower of Scotland ♪

♪ When will we see your likes again ♪

Right come on, let's get cracking. Angel! Angel. Say something that... convinces her that poverty is ineffably wonderful; life is worth living. Go on!

Here is our fourth 11th special instance. This one actually doesn't really stand out until you see how the rest plays out. Crowley will not have any of these types of lines again until his own ball invitation in S2E5. Otherwise, it mainly stands out because Crowley sings.

[End S2E3]

[Start S2E4]

45: Crowley doesn't have Gabriel. Where would he put him? Gabriel would never go to Crowley, he hates Crowley.

46: Hello. Have a miserable eternity. We'd like to apologize for the wait and the conditions, but we won't. Cheer up. Things could be worse, and they will be.

47: Hello. Have a miserable eternity. We'd like to apologize for the wait and the conditions, but we won't. Cheer up. Things could be worse and they will be.

48: Just schtum for a minute. So this all happened in a church? And this Crowley was there? In a church, on hallowed ground? Tell me... everything.

49: Don't you Mrs. H me, you cheeky sod. I paid you for 40 bottles and I bloody well want them. What a day. You smashed my whiskey, the heating's knackered, and the girls won't go on stage because it's so bleeding cold. And to top it all off, tonight's magician has just been arrested as a deserter. I'm f--

50: Right, here's the deal. I can grant you temporary license to go back up to Earth as zombies for 24 hours.

This line has a hidden required "w" for Crowley's name in "twenty-four". We can see it is also the halfway point of our eventual total.

51: Zombies, yes, the living dead. Then if you are able to find me hard proof that the demon Crowley and this Mr. Fell, who from your description appears to be an angel, are not just associating but actively working together, I will be authorized to grant you freedom from Hell and damnation.

52, 53: Well, I should be the one to collect the proof with this state of the art device. All done. As newly inculcated members of the undead, you will experience periods of blood lust which you will have to satisfy. These cravings can only be quenched by the consumption of living human brains, just to keep you going. Any questions? Good.

54: Who knew living brains could be quite so...

♪ But with muscles well-tensed

And legs far apart ♪

♪ She started a final and glorious fart ♪

♪ Beginning with Chopin,

Her bottom did sing ♪

♪ And went right up the scales

to God Save the King ♪

He's repeating on me, sorry.

55: You're talking to the angel who fooled Nefertiti with a lone caraway seed and three cowrie shells. Aha! Professor Hoffmann's Modern Magic. Ah, there you are. "To Mr. Fell," that's me, "a wonderful student."

Here is our fifth 11th special instance. Like the 33 with Demon Josh, I'm not sure what words describe why this one stands out to me, but the "fooled Nefertiti" seems important to it. Otherwise, it's the first of the two times we'll see Aziraphale have one of these 11th-special instances.

56, 57: Can I just say that I do only allow myself one tiny weeny miracle? Just to warm the audience and myself, up. Um... For instance, turning a common turnip into an inkwell. But before... that, everything I do is accomplished by... skillful conjuring alone. Now... I have here a sixpence and a farthing. But if I close my hand thusly, for but the blink of an eye...

58: What about this? We call this one the professor's nightmare. Now, I've got a big piece of rope, a medium sized piece... Ah, with you in a few moments, sir.

59, 60, 61, 62: And a wee baby piece. Now, if I gather up the ends here, and collect all of the unequal ends here. Give it a little tug, and they all stretch to become exactly the same length. You see the big piece is the same length as the medium size piece and the short piece is the same length as the other two. See, this one here, this one is the long piece. You can tell it apart from the others, right? Perhaps it's the light. You see, there's the long piece, there's the medium piece, and there's the short piece. Now this is perfect for a talented amateur such as yourself.

63: Talented amateur! Well, I'll have you know I'm booked to appear in the West End. Uh, the Windmill Theater at 8:30 p.m. tonight. Thank you very much. I'm, I'm looking for something with a bit more scale. Something climactic. Oh. Like that.

64: And now, a master of misdirection, marvelous in his mysteriosity, with miracles at his fingertips. Let us welcome the death defying prestidigitation of the amazing Mr. Fell.

65, 66: I was right next to you. We did loads together. You used to jump on me back, little monkey in the waistcoat. Anyway, whether you do or whether you don't, it doesn't matter. I'm here to inform you, as a representative of the Higher Powers of Hell, that you, Crowley, are in breach of the Infernal Code. Consulting and collaborating with an angel, Fell the Marvelous, aka... Azirapalala. Azirapapap. Aziphapalala.

Here is our sixth 11th special instance. It mainly stands out to me for a demon getting the 66 at all, as the ending part of a Double.

67: No, what's ridiculous is demons like you doing what they please. And somehow still getting on, while demons like me graft for hundreds and hundreds of millennia and never get a sniff of a promotion! Well, not this time. Expect a Legion to come for you first thing tomorrow. Enjoy your last night on Earth.

68: Thank you for seeing me, your maleficences. I took this photograph of Crowley and Aziraphale together.

69: Who needs a miracle when you've had private lessons from the great Prof. Hoffmann himself. I simply say the magic words. Banana, fish, gorilla, shoelace, with a dash of nutmeg, and... Well, I got it right the time that mattered.

70, 71: Not technically, no. But give me a legion of Hell's finest troops and see what I can do. It's a chance I've been waiting for, Lord Beelzebub. To be clear, you are hereby authorizing me to storm the angel's bookshop, sending wave after wave of demons to besiege it until it falls and we capture the Archangel, destroying anything and everything that stands in our way?

[End S2E4]

[Start S2E5]

72: Oh, it's very important. Yes, I'll need musicians at the Whickber Street Traders and Shopkeepers Association monthly meeting this evening. I trust we'll see you there, with your harpsichord.

73: So you can guarantee no angels, then? Some of those angels are right dangerous bastards. We could be permanently discorporated.

74: I don't think so. You've got an amnesiac Archangel hiding out in your bookshop. I spent last night worrying if he's going to wake up. What if he remembers who he is, what if he's faking it? He could smite me. When Gabriel smites you, you've been... Smited? Smote?

75: Long story, but... I was there. And I do remember, oh, very clearly, the look on your face, Archangel Gabriel. When you told my only friend to shut his stupid mouth and die. And I... Did Not Care For It.

76: I'm in the process of verifying it, but, of course, you can only tell if people are in love by waiting a few days, because humans are weird and that's how it works.

77: You're demons. Junior bottom of the barrel demons, practically the damned. What are you doing here? What are any of you doing here? You can't just manifest and cause trouble, there are rules.

Here is our seventh 11th special instance.

It's special because of yet another transcription difference.

This one is longer to explain, but it's a disconnection with the 22 and Mr. Brown. Mr. Brown's line only counted if you included the "Yes". If you count all preceding 76 instances with my transcript version, the 77 is almost a line from Mr. Arnold.

Mr. Arnold greets Nina saying, "Why, la, good mistress coffee seller. Tonight is a meeting of the Whickber Street Traders and Shopkeepers Association. We all are partaking of the hospitality of Mr. Fell."

My own ears hear "la" and not what the subtitles say, which is "our" instead of "la". The "our" has a required "u" for the title of "Acting Supreme Archangel Crowley." Mr. Arnold's line is disqualified in following the rules of going by what is actually said, instead of what the subtitles said.

Even if I have been unsure about the "la," I have a basic idea of where the 88 and 99 should be and that the final total should probably be 99 or 100 so that's how I can determine that the "la" is correct after all.

Crowley's chosen line is further special to me in particular as it has a hidden "Earthly Objects" finding in its last sentence. While I can't remember if I chose the line partially for that reason, I used the quote of that sentence in my general posts about the game.

78: This is something completely bonkers. Are we... Why is everyone talking like they've escaped from Pride and Prejudice?

79: You're an outlaw Aziraphale. You have no protection. I have a legion of demons by my side. And I have no intention of harming you, only the humans here with you. You have 60 seconds to hand over the Archangel Gabriel before we begin to kill people.

80: Will you shut up? Get back in there right now, this minute. And you tell that arse Aziraphale and that arch traitor Crowley that unless they send out the Angel Gabriel now, they are toast. T-O-S-T E. Toast... ...Now.

81: Oh, oh, are you saying this is officially sanctioned. That this attack is consistent with the Rules of Engagement. Well, is it or isn't it? Were you given official permission to launch this attack?

82, 83: Standard Rules of Engagement, clause 112, subsection 3. Civilian non-combatants must be given sufficient time to evacuate the area of hostilities. I mean, Aziraphale can put in a formal complaint to the Dark Council of the Dukedoms of Hell, if you want. But you'll have to delay your attack until they reply. That could take weeks maybe. You lot could all be in big trouble.

84: Sure. Right, I just made up a rule they're too stupid to check. I'm getting the humans out of here and then I'm coming back. I won't leave you on your own.

85: Um... It's a bit complicated, but um... probably best if you forget all about it and, and, and do whatever Mr. Crowley suggests.

86: Right, I'm gonna formally declare this meeting of the Whickber Street shopkeeping thingummy over. I think it'd be best if you all headed back to your shops as fast as possible and, well, forget as much of this as you can. Go on.

[End S2E5]

[Start S2E6]

87: Angels are like bees. Fiercely protective of their hive if you're trying to get inside. Once you're in, well, I mean... is it even faintly possible that an unauthorized demon might be just wandering around in Heaven unescorted?

88: Get back. Get back here now, fast, please. It's for your own good. I am perfectly prepared to take defensive action, should it become necessary. Stay back. Hello? Is there anybody there? I have to tell you, you can all leave now, and nobody will be hurt.

Here is our eighth 11th special instance. This one is just me basically knowing that the number 8 has a connection to magic and to Aziraphale, so Aziraphale should probably be who gets the 88. It is the second of his two of these 11th special instances.

89: No speeches, Gabriel. You are not going to Hell. For one Prince of Heaven to be cast into the outer darkness makes a good story. For it to happen twice, makes it look like there is some kind of institutional problem.

90: Nobody's at war. You idiots sent an idiot to lead a gang of idiots to attack a bookshop. Those idiots there want their Archangel back so they can fire him.

91: Correct! This calls much less attention, though. Right, you, you, you, back to Heaven, spit, spot, not another word. Ah-ah-ah! Not you.

92: When Aziraphale does come back, I think we need a little us time. After all this, I think we are going for an extremely alcoholic breakfast at the Ritz.

93: You're not helping, angel. Look at you two. You're the hard-bitten one, the "can't trust anyone ever again", and Mr. Wherever-He-Is is the soft one who still believes in magic and people being basically good and all that.

94: Well, yes. You're a leader, you're honest, you don't just tell people what they want to hear. It's why Gabriel came to you in the first place, I imagine. There are huge plans afoot, enormous projects, and I will need you to run them. You are just the angel for the job.

95, 96, 97: You know, as Supreme Archangel, you would be able to decide who to work with. Yeah, I've been looking back over a number of your previous exploits, and I see that in quite a few of them you formed a de facto partnership with the demon Crowley. Now, if you wanted to work with him again, that... might be considered irregular, but it would certainly be within your jurisdiction to restore your friend, Crowley, to full angelic status.

98, 99, 100: Oh. Oh, God. Right, okay. Right. I didn't get a chance to say what I was going to say, I think I'd better say it now. Right, okay, yes, so... We've known each other a long time. We've been on this planet for a long time. I mean, you and me. I could always rely on you. You could always rely on me. We're a team, a group. Group of the two of us. And we've spent our existence pretending that we aren't. I mean, the last few years, not really. And I would like to spend... I mean, if Gabriel and Beelzebub can do it, go off together, then we can. Just the two of us. We don't need Heaven, we don't need Hell, they're toxic. We need to get away from them, just be an us. You and me, what do you say?

Here is our ninth 11th special instance.

This one is special because it is why I went through all the time and effort of making a whole other transcript. From there, I gathered final tallies for the Book of Lie and Book of Life before revisiting this puzzle. If I keep getting special lines at the 11th instances, should 99 be the end? After all, this thing is linked to the angel ranks, and there are 9 ranks for the angels.

But I got 100, even after some repeated checks. I did later find mistakes and corrected them, but in correcting them with the help of my own transcript, I still got the 100 at the end.

The 99 can still be special since it's in the pocket of the counts in this already special speech from Crowley, that is also serving as the last line with these findings.

[End S2E6]

...

Crowley gets the 11, 44, 77, and 99.

Mr. Brown, a human, gets the 22.

Demons, who are not Crowley, get the 33 and 66.

Aziraphale gets the 55 and 88.

...

S2E1: 11

S2E2: 22

S2E3: 33, 44

S2E4: 55, 66

S2E5: 77

S2E6: 88, 99

...

Even though Crowley actually has no findable instances for both episodes 2 and 4, he is still the character with the most findings at 25.

...

The distinct count for the lines is 86. That would be if we chose to ignore the multipliers.

...

Why 100?

So far, it mainly got me to make those transcripts, then get those counts for the Book of Lie and Book of Life.

Those things aside, is there any further reason? I generally think of 100 as a score on a test or a quiz due to how grading worked in the U.S. when I was a kid.

I skimmed possible biblical meanings and didn't really feel like I gained any understanding from doing that.

I am getting the feeling to try and figure out Crowley's score for the Threshold Tricks, but I don't see what good that would do. My latest attempt, done for just drafting this post, has 135 or 137 so not 100 and could just be plain wrong anyway. If correct, the 100 might still be significant in that a 35 or 37 is added to it. The 37 is at least a more obvious number due to Muriel's rank of 37th class.

...

If you think these lists and findings are all just a coincidence or I'm not really finding anything of value, please move along. I am playing a game, and I'm playing because I enjoy playing.

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sonkitty · 12 days ago

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Most of what I can offer is not connected to Aziraphale but humanity and Crowley's surroundings.

Still, here you go @crowleysgirl56 (and anyone else interested)...

That newspaper is Crowley's metaphorical door.

He was definitely waiting for Shax so that they could meet and exchange information as spies.

Once you get really familiar with the surrounding spaces and the sideburns in S2, you can notice certain finer details. Even though he is in a human space that is the park, and even though we see humans in that park, there is a sort of surrounding zone that is lacking humans.

Please look at the above screenshot. The humans visible in the shot are past the threshold that is the edge of the path in front of Crowley. They are not in the green grass with him. On its own, that doesn't mean much, but it's one of many little things that add up across the season.

The human spy, Agent Fuzuli, enters Crowley's space and gives a password, a metaphorical knock on the door. Crowley answers the door by bringing the newspaper down. They exchange a few words before Crowley sends Fuzuli on his way.

In the above GIF, if you look closely, you can see a group of birds are on that wall and just sitting there, so that's more green grass area for Crowley's space. As in, the animals are also out of that zone.

For some reason, hats are involved with this thing. Agent Fuzuli had a hat. Shax has a hat. The other spy that Crowley yells at for feeding the ducks is wearing a hat. The non-hat-wearing people go about the place ignoring Crowley, as if he is invisible or at least unnoticed.

...

For Shadwell, the main thing I can offer is that particular scene is related to Crowley's biblical curse as the Serpent of Eden (Genesis 3:14):

Because you have done this, You are cursed more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field; On your belly you shall go, And you shall eat dust All the days of your life.

The name of that place is Best Cafe, shown with an egg on the sign, and no one is eating the entire time. Two people drink. I can't see any actual food, and there is no eating.

Even though Shadwell does not wear a hat, he puts a pencil or pen over his ear, and he makes sure to do that while he is entering the cafe.

We repeatedly see throughout both seasons that Crowley does not eat human food, at least on camera. The clues are hinting that he eats dust due to his curse. He drinks repeatedly though, and humans will drink around him.

In the book and S1, the curse is is lifted, at least briefly, at the end. We still don't see the eating in the show, but the narration for both the book and S1 makes sure to say "while they were eating".

I have an unpublished little fanfic of the scene with Shadwell, if anyone's interested. It's very short and just a retelling of some of the scene with some extra references or details noted.

Something that I’ve noticed when looking back at Crowley meeting with other people (funnily enough whilst he’s reading a newspaper:

Anyone else notice he’s sitting on Aziraphale’s “side”.

The first time we see Crowley in S2 (after Angel Crowley that is), he’s sitting alone on their bench on the side usually occupied by Aziraphale. Considering he seems casually surprised by Shax’s appearance I wouldn’t have thought it was a planned meeting. However if it is a planned meeting, much like his meeting with Shadwell in the above gif from season 1, what does that say about him deliberately sitting on the side that Aziraphale would usually occupy?

A reference to “Our side” perhaps? Or maybe a deliberate act of defying Hell by not sitting on the side usually reserved for demons/the fallen?

I found the comparison super interesting when I realised it (I was actually looking for a different gif when I made discovery by accident).

Does anyone else have a more in depth meta on this positioning? Would love to hear your thoughts about it!

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sonkitty · 12 days ago

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And now here is Crowley with the ultimate dad joke of all dad jokes.

Secret Daughter Muriel's name means "shining sea".

With the shiny angel disguise and first letter of his name, Crowley is now also a "Shining C".

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sonkitty · 14 days ago

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"I think you BOTH might be on to some things."

Oh, thank you.

"What would you say if Muriel and Maggie are related?"

Well, I wouldn't say it's impossible, just that I tend to connect Maggie more strongly to the Metatron and/or Shax.

With Muriel, I connect her to Crowley and otherwise, Nina. There's also possibly some kind of connection with Muriel and Mrs. Sandwich. Mrs. Sandwich sees Muriel through the window and comments when Muriel first arrives on Earth. It's the only time a Muriel scene lacks a Crowley bookend. Additionally, Crowley crossed the bookshop with Mrs. Sandwich first before his whole first entry stuff with Heaven and Muriel.

"I got chills & tears when I saw it was possible."

Oh, magic! "I'm working with the magic words. Original text:

I simply say the magic words: Banana Fish Gorilla Shoelace with a dash of nutmeg"

Only because we have brought up the topic of precision in the past, I am going to point that Aziraphale says, "and..." after "nutmeg" for anyone who doesn't already know that last part was cut for this search.

Oh, and for anyone who hasn't read the more in-depth supplemental "Book of Life" stuff I documented, I will also add that you can find "Book of Life" in the version from Greta: "Banana, fish, gorilla, shoelace with a dash of nutmeg. Dumbkopf!" You can only get it thanks to the "k" in "Dumbkopf".

"My instinct was correct, the anagrams have multiple solutions. (Turn it and turn it and turn it...)

One of these is:

Muriel is Crowley's angel-spawn. He had a final batch of mighty adagios: atoms.

Same letters, another way:

Maggie is their possibly human grandchild, a naif to chase most fall woes away.

This one has a leftover "h.""

Oh, those are very fascinating finds indeed.

"I have a few more in work for Maggie, and one about the demon's flat, but they're not complete yet.

Make of it what you will, I'm probably moving on to another input set."

I'm filing away the idea in my head for now, as I tend to do with Good Omens fandom posts.

Kinship

@sonkitty and @vidavalor

I think you BOTH might be on to some things. What would you say if Muriel and Maggie are related?

I got chills & tears when I saw it was possible.

I'm working with the magic words. Original text:

I simply say the magic words: Banana Fish Gorilla Shoelace with a dash of nutmeg

My instinct was correct, the anagrams have multiple solutions. (Turn it and turn it and turn it...)

One of these is:

Muriel is Crowley's angel-spawn. He had a final batch of mighty adagios: atoms.

Same letters, another way:

Maggie is their possibly human grandchild, a naif to chase most fall woes away.

This one has a leftover "h."

I have a few more in work for Maggie, and one about the demon's flat, but they're not complete yet.

Make of it what you will, I'm probably moving on to another input set.

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sonkitty · 14 days ago

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My mom passed away yesterday, and I am very sad about it.

Good Omens 2 content on this blog will likely continue on as it has been because making such posts is something I enjoy doing. Still, this personal life news felt worth sharing.

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sonkitty · 16 days ago

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I don't have anything to add to your last two parts @kayleefansposts.

I just wanted to give some follow-up info to the "all ranks" numbers for anyone curious.

It broke down like so:

S2E1: 14

S2E2: 14

S2E3: 19

S2E4: 19

S2E5: 13

S2E6: 14

The total across all 6 episodes is 93.

I double-checked that 13 since it broke a potential pattern of 14, 14, 19, 19, 14, 14. As best I could tell, that 13 is, indeed, the correct number.

I explored some other counts out of general curiosity, to break down things a bit more, and I did run across another 13 in doing so.

The most likely connection in the context of this specific puzzle is that 13 is the same number of times I could find "Acting Supreme Archangel Crowley" in a given line but not "Acting First-Order Archangel Crowley." Meanwhile, 14 is the number of times I could find "Acting First-Order Archangel Crowley" in a given line but not "Acting Supreme Archangel Crowley."

That's all for now. Anything more will probably just be on my own blog for if/when I share more on the overall final counts. Both Acting titles got 100 in the end.

Precision

I finally had a chance to read through @sonkitty 's more recent metas on language used in the script, and anagram-hashed phrases throughout it.

It inspired me to take another look at the anagram & word salad play that I had done last year, regarding the Back Room Record covers, the Amazon playlists, the Book Club reading list...

She provided a number of keywords & key phrases that she's found, things like "Book of Life", and looking for the boxes.

So I went back to some of the words I had found, and some of the terms that are repeated throughout the season, like "Just" and "Technically." And I've started to compare the number of letters.

I haven't *solved* the puzzle yet. But holy shit, some of these numbers are PRECISE.

Like, there are exactly 7 "x"s, and exactly 7 words that contain the x:

Cardboard box

Exactly

extreme sanctions

Jukebox

Matchbox

Shax

Suggestion Box

Or Z:

Aziraphale

Beelzebub

Dine at the Ritz

Frozen Peas

Ritz

Zombie

That one's a bit of a judgement call, since my count has 8 Z's. But I figured the names were the most likely.

If you want to play around and see for yourself, Excel has some nifty string functions. To count the letters in a word (this word is in cell C22):

=LEN(C22)

And to find individual letters (x, z, etc), where the chosen letter is in cell T5:

=LEN($C22) - LEN(SUBSTITUTE(LOWER($C22),T$5,""))

Add, subtract, multiply as you like.

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sonkitty · 16 days ago

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Trickery Episode 4: Looking (with Transcription)

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Trickery Episode 4: Looking

I was aware that, as I described The Sideburns Scheme and Earthly Objects as games, they were like games I was playing as a member of the audience.

In around mid-December 2023 is when a season 3 for Good Omens was announced as intending to be six episodes. That was the same day I would later publish my first "Tangibility Thing" post. I was relieved and happy about the news, but it didn't really slow me down or change my play much in these games I was exploring for Good Omens 2.

For the sideburns thing, I want to add that one of the reasons Crowley's sideburns are short in the private room with Aziraphale is that even though they are both supernatural beings, their relationship is very similar to a human partnership.

While I was in Michigan, besides discovering and clarifying some rules on the Earthly Objects game-like thing, I studied Crowley's sunglasses. I was sad about the sunglasses and the moving reflections, but maybe I had it wrong or there was something more to it than I thought.

My question was, "Are Crowley's sunglasses an earthly object?" As stated, I had initially gone with the given idea from others that they are a door instead. Thresholds are special in Earthly Objects, so doors are special. And if doors are special, that's quite relevant to the theoretical Rule Breaking of the Final Fifteen.

Now, if you're going to ask such a question, possibly switched in the phrasing as, "Are Crowley's sunglasses a door?", do you know how to start finding the answer?

I've never seen anyone else even come close to asking, so I would suspect your answer is No. If your answer is Yes, you've got a big thumbs up from me.

In any case, I do know how to start finding the answer.

The question at hand is, "Do the sunglasses themselves have a threshold?"

Then the next question is... "If those sunglasses do have a threshold, how do you find it?"

The game provides an answer, further suggesting that what we have here is, indeed, a game.

Thresholds are indicated to have a special supernatural element to them, so we want to look for any special supernatural element to the sunglasses.

You find the thresholds of the sunglasses by looking at the times Crowley removes them from his face and has a subtle demonic hiss sound.

So, I studied those 3 instances. Notice that there are 3.

Crowley: You can do better than that. [demonic hiss sound]

Come on, think!

[demonic hiss sound]

I studied diagrams of sunglasses because I did not know the exact words to describe where Crowley was touching, but he was touching a specific part of the sunglasses. Based on putting those ideas together, I guessed that the end pieces are the thresholds. The thumb tip and consistency of the touches turned out to be quite relevant to determining that was basically a demonic tool. For the demonic tool, the sunglasses are effectively in Door Mode. With Crowley's angry lightning walk in episode 1, the thumb is hidden.

And...it dawned on me. Humans use sunglasses as an accessory. This touch put the sunglasses in Accessory Mode. When Crowley is gritting his teeth before shooting out lightning, he is touching the sunglasses with his face. I credited him for a full solo set just for that. I was greatly impressed and entertained. Like, I already love this actor-character combination so much, but this ridiculous game made me love the combination even more.

I suspected Crowley touched the sunglasses with his face again in episode 3 after he tosses the keys to Aziraphale.

I was very uncertain about a potential third touch being when he watched Aziraphale leave for Edinburgh and admitted my skepticism. I had nothing better at the time so logged it as a hesitant possibility.

I was concerned about this idea because faces just plain move as it is when people express themselves. Well, in the first two examples, the word "human" is in the dialogue, and Crowley has short sideburns.

He himself has no dialogue during the cuts for these face touches, and the camera focuses on his upper body and head. I even checked other scenes that might be similar, and he would do things like a little twitch where only one side of his face maybe perhaps touched the sunglasses but not both.

The third touch was so, so questionable, but he still had the short sideburns, so maybe?

In any case, I had a lot of notes of when the sunglasses were touched and removed from Crowley's face.

I was looking for something about why they are managed the way they are in the Final Fifteen. I had been certain of my claim on Rule Breaking, but I had to admit, his touches on the sunglasses had to matter.

I determined the answer to, "Are Crowley's sunglasses an earthly object?" was sometimes, which surprised me. Their role is dependent on context. They have that Door Mode and Accessory Mode that can be set by what he does with his thumb, especially the thumb tips.

I guessed that when Crowley is putting his sunglasses back on in front of Aziraphale in the Final Fifteen, he is touching the thresholds of those already existing thresholds for his own overall sunglasses that are his door.

Around these events with the game idea and sunglasses, I returned from Michigan.

The original draft of the post this video is based on stated that I had my thoughts about being sad with the sunglasses around this time. Chances are, I was still thinking of it, so that's why I had my times mixed up.

Even so, with that thought in mind, another one occurred to me, probably through that crying that had happened over two weeks earlier.

Something was important about windows. The people Crowley is seeing are the ones to the right of his car window, and the reflections are not always there during this part.

See, when I chose the name Earthly Objects for this game-like thing, I chose it because it's in the dialogue, in singular form, and it's clear the story cares about the likes of Heaven, Hell, and Earth. It's a better name for a game than Tangibility Thing or Material Objects. Earthly Objects makes it special and linked to the story of Good Omens or Good Omens 2 itself.

But that's not all this name does.

It broadens the idea of what can be in play.

We don't just physically touch windows here on Earth. In fact, a lot of times, we don't use windows for physical touching at all. We use them for looking.

Looking through a window can be an earthly object touch because people look through windows on Earth to see things.

And there is definitely plenty of window usage in Good Omens 2, isn't there?

Nina and Maggie watch Crowley from a window when he shoots out lightning in episode 1. They use the windows in their call for help to those out in the street while Crowley is gone. They interact with Crowley through windows when he fixes the power. Mrs. Sandwich sees Muriel from a window. Crowley tells Gabriel about his Operation Lovebirds plan while they both look out a window together. Crowley has a whole big sequence of looking through a window when he makes it rain for Maggie and Nina in episode 3.

The Metatron is assumed to be watching the argument of the Final Fifteen through a window.

So, I worked on windows. I found there was something about blurs and passing and sharing.

Some window looks were simple, but I wasn't interested in those. I wanted to understand the more complex ones for reasons I did not know or only knew subconsciously. I've found my subconscious can and does play ahead of me; it's so weird.

I determined that complex window scenes had three basic steps.

Step 1 is that the looker looks. Maggie gets a really big, notable such look when she sees Crowley smoking because that looks like a blur passing to her, from Nina.

Step 2 is that the window sees. The camera shows what the looker saw, but it also makes sure to include some part of the structure,

the window frame itself, so that the audience can figure out that is the looking through a window.

Step 3 is that the looker is then seen clearly behind the window pane with at least some of the window frame visible.

For these steps, the "threshold" of the complex looks is when the look is happening and no earthly object by the looker is being visibly physically held and touched.

For the third step, a confusing possible consistency is that the looker does not have to be shown from the front of the window behind the window frame. With both Mrs. Sandwich and Crowley in episode 3, it's more that they are seen from a different angle, but that's where they are. The front view has to do with continual earning of points while "holding" the look.

I determined that the scene with Maggie looking at Crowley when he shoots out lightning was the one most like a tutorial on how these looks work. It is the first time such a thing happens in the story, and it happens after a sideburns tutorial.

In fact, now that I thought about it, that sideburns tutorial is more like a dual tutorial on both the sideburns game and the Earthly Objects game.

And then there was the tempest.

When Crowley makes it rain, the rain itself seems to earn its own 3 points. There are 3 cuts involving the rain, the rain drops into a coffee up, on a human, and on that human's glasses. Once that part is extracted, and I tried to figure out Crowley's points, I came up with 9. As in, he had 3 solo sets of 3 points. Not only that, the first point that set off the whole thing was Crowley rubbing his hands together in three different ways. I suspected that might even be 3 points itself but dropped that idea given the timing with when the rain earns its 3 points.

We have even more 3s happening!

I was very unsatisfied with my windows post, but I still posted it, probably because sometimes I've found that making the mistakes public helps me recognize them better. It's like, knowing someone else could be watching and relying on me makes me want to be more dependable or reliable, so I question harder or better. That, in turn, helps me find the answers better. I don't know why the game works that way for me, but it does. It's honestly really embarrassing...but interesting too.

I corrected the windows post over time and knew I wanted to go over some stuff happening in the ending but just plain needed more time and space to think on it to explain it.

I just vaguely knew it was special and threshold-related like the other things I had found.

I don't remember exactly when in the following process I contacted archangelween, but I did, I was that excited about growing closer to figuring out something with the sunglasses and the windows. They were the only person who had ever reached out to me by a private message for all the work I put into my posts.

Nonetheless, I went off and thought some thoughts. By that, I mean I moved away from my computer, stood up, started pondering, and sat down in front of a blank TV.

For the first threshold thing I mainly found, Crowley touched the door while touching the door.

How do you do that for a window?

You look through a window, while looking through a window.

I could not believe I had an answer after all my posting and thinking, but I did.

Now I had to take that idea of looking through a window, while looking through a window, over to what actually happens at the end of episode 6.

Other thoughts happening around this time, I think, were a realization that for as much possible Rule Breaking that Crowley and Aziraphale might be doing, other characters were still following the rules, even if they had no dialogue. Muriel is holding a book and waving through a window. Nina waves at Crowley through a window. Even though Maggie is sleeping, her arms are touching the counter.

Something was very different or off about the Metatron and his play. The way I put it was that it was like he was cheating without realizing it or the story would not let him play fully, just partly.

When Crowley gets into his car, the camera work is very, very deliberate at lacking confirmation on his physical touches for things that are not thresholds. We know he is touching things because of his position, and his movement, and the audio, but we still don't see the physical touches as he starts his car, for instance. I had been thinking that was part of the Rule Breaking to end the story or the game or whatever.

But now I had these window ideas in my thoughts.

I had some pieces.

How do you tell the audience Crowley is looking? You stick two tiny dots of white light in the lenses of his sunglasses.

Crowley's sunglasses don't usually reflect anything, but when they do, the most common type of reflection is light.

How do you tell the audience that the window is seeing? For his sunglasses, that would be the moving reflections.

But I was stuck.

Something still didn't quite fit.

I suspected Crowley's touch on the sunglasses before he left the bookshop was relevant to what was happening with this windows thing. But I've got two things answered within the scene itself of how you tell the audience a given thing is happening.

But how do you tell the audience how step 3 is managed?

You look at the open car window. Crowley is layered within. Step 3 is effectively cancelled out because there is no window pane on the door to the car, and he was layered within. That's why it was important for me to figure out the blurs pass or share with the other complex window looks. A blur is on that open window during his Step 2 of getting in the car and seeing through the sunglasses.

This factor also gave him a 3-in-1 touch since he had his two lenses and the open window.

I wrote one of my favorite posts I have ever written about Good Omens 2.

I explained my understanding of Crowley's sight.

I acknowledged an uncertainty about some simple window looks he had and what they might have to do with what I cover. I remarked a strange thing that happens is that when he passes the open broken window of the bookshop earlier in the episode, when we see him, most of his body has already passed it.

I remarked that I was not sure what extra meaning the nightingale song could have in what I was going to cover.

And...as I laid out my meaning of speculative "rule breaking", I said we would actually start with the Metatron because the scene is structured to indicate he is looking through a window, but we never see Step 2, when the window sees.

Crowley and Aziraphale do it too when they are in the bookshop. They each look toward the window at some point, and we never see Step 2.

The truly startling thing was that after Aziraphale leaves, Crowley looks at Nina, and then Step 2 is reached but not step 3.

Eventually, I led into the open car window. I admitted uncertainty because the answer itself was actually really hard to reach.

I also pointed out that there was likely some meaning to these looks being reserved for humans.

Another trait of this sequence is that Crowley's movement helps clue an audience player into the looking happening specifically through that open car window. The human reflections disappear at times when turning on the car and turning off the song. The reflections also don't show what's in front of him or at other angles besides some mix of light and darkness that doesn't seem to be anywhere within the car. It might mean or be something special, but I couldn't make it out as anything logically in his line of sight.

I was very proud of myself and pleased with the post.

And now something else clicked.

I have four threshold-related things now that I found since looking into the sideburns. I've got the door to the car, the bigger thresholds, that coffee shop entrance, and now this windows thing.

These things also have a pattern to them. They all have a 1, a 2-in-1, and a 3-in-1.

For the door to the car, Crowley has the watch's touch as a 1, the clothing as a 2-in-1, provided the hand positions allow for it with whatever that pocket thing is, and the skin contact as a 3-in-1.

For the bigger thresholds, the pub had two doors, the music shop had one door, and the elevator had three buttons instead of three doors.

For the coffee shop entrance, the 1 was the shoe on the edge of sidewalk. The 2-in-1 was the two thresholds touched on the car. And the 3-in-1 was the three digits on the door panel.

For the windows...well, there was at least a 3-in-1 for the layering with the open car window and sunglasses.

At first, I thought things went that looking at Nina's window was a 1, then looking at Maggie's window was a 1, and then the two dots of white light in Crowley's sunglasses were a 2-in-1.

Going through these numbers this way was becoming an annoyance as it made typing and explaining the ideas more difficult, especially with just "1". There had to be a better word or way to say it; I just didn't know what the words were yet.

I knew the phrase "hat trick" is sometimes used in games and involved the number 3 though what games and what plays in particular, I couldn't say. I just knew the phrase existed.

Despite feeling like I lacked certain words I still wanted, it did feel like it was time to make a post about Crowley and thresholds.

These threshold things, I decided, were Threshold Tricks, at least until a better name came along. I was a little hesitant on the phrase, but I still used it.

Parts of the Tricks themselves sometimes did have something resembling extra dimensions. The Door Trick has a 3-in-1 skin contact touch due to the three curled fingers and 2-in-1 clothing touch thanks to the crossed legs.

The Heaven elevator might have extra dimensions because Crowley's got his back against two doors, and he himself has two different appearances.

When I described the bigger thresholds, especially for the pub, I still had some hesitance. The story is a work of deception and hard to read, so I often had this lingering, nagging sense of, "What if I've got this wrong? What if I'm not understanding the clues because they aren't strong enough or clear enough?" At some point, the entire thing can't be lying to you because then what do you have left? So, I just hesitantly built on my solutions because it was feasible to do so. The findings just let me keep going, so I did.

I was still having issues with the sunglasses, but I focused on what I had of the four other threshold things.

I remarked that if you asked me, Crowley should be earning multipliers for these Tricks, "not that the show is ever going to really tell us. I don't expect a manual or a score card."

With further consideration on the windows threshold thing, it took me a few days, I think, to realize I had that wrong. Those two dots of white light were for Nina's and Maggie's windows. Crowley actually gets one such light after he looks at Nina's window and before he looks at Maggie's window. The equivalent of that Trick's "1" was actually a touch Crowley has on the car with his hand between those two looks.

All the same, I had four Threshold Tricks total.

Next time, we're going back to those sunglasses.

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sonkitty · 17 days ago

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Well, I think that in season 2, Crowley is the Acting Supreme Archangel and that Saraqael knows that on a more conscious level than the other angels. The behavior of the other angels just seems to sort of fall in line due to how they react to him when they do. Meanwhile, Saraqael actively approaches and speaks with Crowley when Crowley is with Muriel.

If they weren't friends when Crowley was an angel, they seem to have probably been on friendly terms as acquaintances.

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In the elevator, my take on that scene is not that the others are avoiding eye contact. I found it to be an intriguing puzzle that has led to many interesting things.

But for now, I will focus on this puzzle.

The four angels are looking at him like he is a big thing of nothingness that is Crowley. He is looking at them like they are nothingness that is four angels with amusing mixed reactions to him.

The reflective surfaces, the heavy shadows, the lighting, and the acting are all trying to convey that each side is invisible to the other.

When that light starts to go up over Crowley, Uriel looks down first, then Muriel. Michael maintains their gaze so is implied to be an exception.

And for those of you who love the much finer details you will almost certainly not catch unless you know what to look for...watch Muriel's left thumb and index finger. That light going up was probably Muriel's doing.

So back to the one cut that has Saraqael in that sequence. Welcome to Muriel's special Pocket Frame of...Angel Arms! Haha!

My interpretation of Saraqael's reaction is along the lines of thinking that this scenario is expected business of Crowley.

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I want to know why Saraqael wasn't in the scene where Muriel reported to Michael and Uriel.

And if Saraqael is the one who told Muriel to investigate why Gabriel said no to Armageddon instead of just to verify the miracle.

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My opinion of Saraqael in general is that they are not that good, not that bad, probably has their own agenda.

There are times I suspect Saraqael is lying with their eyes. We can tell that Michael and Uriel do not recognize Gabriel but are looking for him. Saraqael seems to possibly recognize him when suggesting they discuss things inside (the bookshop) in S2E2 and then puts up with his antics the entire time. They quietly observe him and Michael in the moment of almost recognition that happens.

When Gabriel's memories are returned to him in S2E6, we get a cut for Michael and a cut for Uriel to show that they are now seeing and recognizing that he is Gabriel. Meanwhile, Saraqael gets no such cut.

As things were left in season 2, Saraqael is the closest thing Aziraphale and/or Crowley have to an ally in Heaven.

Saraqael is a mystery to me

This post is dedicated to Saraqael. I find her pretty interesting as a character, because I honestly don't know what to do with her.

The fandom in general seems to view her as one of the good guys. She does not participate in the power games of Michael and Uriel, but focuses on doing her job instead. Even lesser angels like Muriel are treated friendly and with respect by her, something we have rarely seen in heaven before.

Moreover, Saraqael is witty and intelligent, and does not hesitate to let other people know it. She is the only angel who is not fooled by Crowley's disguise in heaven and seems suspicious about Aziraphale's explanation for the 25 Lazarii miracle, telling him "We will keep a very close eye on you" (for more about the ways in which Saraqael shows competence, see this post by @ao3cassandraic).

But then again, Saraqael does not seem to question the atrocities of heaven very much, either. In her eagerness to carry out her duties, she seems quick to perform even the most cruel of acts, like erasing Gabriel's memory or turning Nina and Maggie into salt. At first, I thought that she is simply amoral. Not immoral, but amoral, literally having no sense of morality. Like Muriel, who is cute and nice, but does not see what the problem with killing Job's children is.

But when I watched the series again and read some of the opinions about Saraqael (for example this post by @vroomvroomwee), I started to rethink my notions about her. If we take her amorality and her utter obedience to heaven for granted, then it becomes obvious that her behaviour in at least two scenes in the series is pretty much out of character.

The first scene is the one in which she catches Crowley in heaven. Based on what we've seen so far from her, one would imagine her to immediately sound an alert, throw him out etc. But she does nothing of this. Instead she encourages Muriel, whom she has just accused of "collaborating with the enemy", to "go on" and "show him the trial". She intentionally shares confidential information with a demon.

That's not what you would expect a loyal and obedient angel like Saraqael to do, and it's risky for her, too. Crowley would have watched the trial anyway, so even if she wanted him to see it, she could have stayed in the background and pretended that she never noticed him. But it looks almost as if she wants him to be aware of the fact that she is permitting him to know about the trial. Her reminding him of their common past points in the same direction.

And in the scene where the angels are in the elevator with Crowley, Muriel looks nervous, wedged in between their superiors and probably afraid of being punished for helping Crowley. Michael seems annoyed and Uriel has a very stern face. All of them are looking straight, avoiding eye contact with Crowley. But Saraqael's expression is very hard to decipher. Unlike the others, she is openly watching Crowley, and she does not seem upset or worried about the fact that he has just managed to get past heaven's security mechanisms. To me, she looks curious or even amused, as if she were fighting back a smile.

For some reason, Saraqael does not seem to perceive Crowley as a threat. And she is making efforts to show him that there is no need for him to perceive her as a threat, either. Her behaviour towards him gives the impression that she is trying to build trust between them.

The second scene in which Saraqael acts out of character takes place shortly after, when the Metatron enters the bookshop and chastises Michael for talking nonsense. @most-normal-eccles-cake-ignorer analysed it very neatly in this post. Saraqael is the only one besides Crowley who seems to recognize the Metatron immediately, but her reaction is very odd. She looks up and fold her hands, probably silently calling to God. And yet her expression is not one of pure devoutness, but one of fear, and she gives the Metatron an anxious side-eyed look. It appears almost as if she is asking God for succour against the Metatron. And that although whenever she talks to him she shows nothing but reverence.

Taking these two scenes together and seeing how they do not quite align with the initial assumption of Saraqael being a completely submissive angel, I conclude that Saraqael has much more of an own agenda than one would assume at first glance. That would also be more fitting for someone of her intelligence. Her opinion of Crowley is most likely different from heaven's official standpoint, and so is her opinion of the Metatron.

That's why I'm wondering whether Saraqael's obedience is in fact just a strategy to survive in a corrupt system. An user in this Reddit thread on her brought up the idea that she isn't on board with heaven's plans, but is "more politically saavy [sic!] than Crowley" and "knows when to keep her mouth shut". Maybe her tactic is to gain and maintain a position in the celestial hierarchy that allows her to have some important influence. Because since she is so conscientious, she gets assigned many tasks. And we do not know whether she actually carries them out in the way heaven wants. We don't know whether she would have truly wiped out Gabriel's memory and turned Nina and Maggie into salt, or whether she would have just pretended to do it like Crowley pretended to kill Job's goats. But that's just a theory. I'm very curious what Saraqael's actual character arc in the finale will look like.

What are your opinions on this peculiar angel? Let me know in the comments!

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