BWW Recap: CONSTANTINE Unleashes 'The Rage of Caliban'

Perhaps after he wasn't given a a full-season (or a chance to grow on viewers) CONSTANTINE unleashes 'The Rage of Caliban' this week. Let's crack open the spellbook, shall we?

We begin in a suburban house decorated for Halloween. Screams are coming from within the house. The living room is a bloody mess. Bricks from the mantle lay atop a woman who is twitching in the final throws of death. The camera follows a trail of blood up the wall to the ceiling. A man is suspended in mid-air, pleading for his life. The camera moves down the wall to the possible source of the torture: a little girl.

This will be a Zed-free epidsode as back in the magic cabin Chas (Charles Halford) explains to John (Matt Ryan) that Zed (Angelica Celaya) is in art class. John is slightly hung over and hasn't had a shower (he hooked up with a gal last night and had to leave out the window in a hurry with pants and shirt in hand when her boyfriend showed up). He examines the stigmata map and decides Birmingham, Alabama looks the freshest (and bonus, it's only two hours drive away).

John breaks into the home from the first scene, literally sniffs around and then licks a crack in the wall and makes a sour face. He (and us) are startled by the sudden arrival of the angel Manny (Harold Perrineau). Today we learn one of the items on his bucket list: he's never punched an angel (but, he tells Manny,"You are begging for it."). Manny replies that he used to announce his arrival with trumpets (an entire horn section back in the day). We and John roll our eyes.

Manny's there to talk about the rising darkness. John still doesn't understand what's so special about him that he has to be the one to stop it. Manny tells him there's nothing special about him. "It's more of a desperation move." You two!

John conjures up a spell and discovers the girl survived the attach because she was possessed by a child spirit who actually caused all the havoc. It's loose now and looking for a new kid to possess.

Across town, a boy named Henry (Max Charles) screams for his parents. He swears someone is in the room. Dad (Niall Matter) tosses a scary mask at the kid (father of the year here). This freaks the kid out more. Mom (Laura Regan) is pissed. Dad just wants to let the kid be. They no sooner leave then the kid screens again. This time, it's the spirit that was possessing the girl. The parents enter the room again and the boy is completely changed. He tells them he doesn't know why he screamed again.

John meets up with a paralegal in a bar. She has information on the girl (now in protective custody) and that these murders have been going on for 35 years (parents always killed, their only child survives unharmed). One of the survivors, Marcello Panneti (Sean Freeland), is now in his 40s and in a local mental hospital.

Back in suburbia, Henry is in the middle of scaring his parents. Broken lights, birds flying into windows --it's like "The Omen: The Early Years." Fortunately for the family, John has a spell that leads him right to Henry's door. John follows him to school the next day and watches the playground from across the street. A bully picks on Henry. John tries to alert a teacher, but the teacher is less concerned with what John is trying to tell him and more with the fact that there is a strange white guy in a trench coat watching kids on a playground. While the teacher's back is turned, Henry uses his powers to spin a merry-go-round and then hurdle the bully into it like a makeshift Cruisinart.

John gains entry into Henry's home by lying that he is a school counselor and once inside he tells the parents that their son is possessed and he is an exorcist. Dad punches John out. John wakes up in prison. Mom bails John out and begs for his help. John has her knock her son out (she tells the kid the drug is vitamins) and while he's unconscious, John, Chas and mom head to the site of the Panneti murders. They hold a seance. Though the murder happened on the same psychic fault line as the others, it's different.

Henry's due to wake up from his power nap, though. They return to the house. Dad is acting like everything is normal. He flips when he sees his wife with John. The parents fight. Henry tells them to stop fighting just before he hurls a chair across the room at his father. John quickly grabs the hall mirror, says a spell and when Henry tries to wammy John, he holds up the mirror and the glass forces the energy back at Henry.

Henry flees from the home to --whatelse-- a funhouse. John catches up to Henry (now wielding an axe) and immediately knows who is possessing Henry. It's not a ghost, but the soul of Panneti (explaining why the 40 year old Panneti is catatonic). Henry tosses John around like a ragdoll. John finally is able to grab and hold him and binds Panneti's soul to its rightful place.

Final scene: John sits on the roof of a beaten up old pick up truck, drinking a beer and smoking. Children run around behind him, trick-or-treating. His voice over reminds us that only he can stop the rising darkness. And if not, the world will change forever.

And with that, the sixth episode in the 13 episode season draws to a close. We are at the half-way point of the show with only seven episodes of the show left. If you're a fan, make sure you head to http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/save-constantine/ and sign the pettition urging NBC to renew the show for another season. Either way, we'll be back next week. Until then, follow me on Twitter @triggercritic and follow @BWWTVWorld for all the latest updates, scoops and recaps.

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