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Tony comes to visit – the demons have got a new plan, and they need…. Sam’s employee discount. Hee! They’re planning to build the cage of Solomon, and they need lots of equipment. What they don’t tell Sam is that the cage isn’t for Satan himself – it’s for Sam. Doh! Of course, the guys are distracted – Sam wondering what’s up with his parents, and Sock falling for a life-force-consuming succubus whose kiss bestows a short-term high but shaves a year off his life. As Sock has always been an instant-gratification kind of guy, this doesn’t bode well…

As if all this wasn’t enough, the Devil sends Sam out after the Soul of the Week, a tarot-card reader with a nasty attitude. Sam’s visit proves revealing – the cards show that some father figure is lying to Sam about his birth. Before he can learn more, the soul keeps flipping over the card for The Devil, which gives her a clue who Sam really is. She hits him with The Hanged Man, which strings Sam up with an invisible noose, then makes a run for it. Fortunately, Sock is still on his Succubus strength high, so he boosts Sam on his shoulders and takes off down the alley after her. Sock manages to fire off the vessel (a baseball) over a distance and takes out the soul, freeing Sam from the noose.

Sam confronts his dad – what are you lying about to me? Dad says he can’t tell him. Sam goes to Tony. On the upside, he finally learns the truth – his parents made a deal to bear the son of Satan. On the downside, well, he learns he’s the son of Satan, AND he’s thrown into the Cage of Solomon and about to be buried alive. Sam’s dad comes to plead his case, but one of the demons knocks him out with a shovel and throws him in the cage as well. Things look bad for Sam, but then he remembers what Steve’s beatific spirit told him: “Ask him about Cancun.” Tony says that’s the first place the couple vacationed together and they always said it was like heaven. Tony gets a vision: There’s Steve, looking downright angelic, saying that Heaven is even better than Cancun. That’s enough for Tony – he switches to demon form and busts Sam out, but Sam’s dad is left to die.

Sam tells his mom, who seems pretty cold about it all. The Devil stops by to pay his respects, and give Sam some time off, but he refuses to tell Sam the truth. The guys decide to pay tribute to Sam’s dad by building a giant straw man stuff full of fireworks. It’s actually pretty spectacular and surprisingly sweet. It sort of dampens the pain of realizing that (1) Sam may be the Antichrist, destined to bring about the end of the world, and (2) the other demons are going to keep trying to kill him. The guys decline to leave him to his fate.

The guys are so distracted by the pretty lights that they don’t realize what Sam’s mom is really doing – she’s digging. When she finally hits cage level, we hear coughing. “What took you so long?” says Sam’s not-dead dad. DUN!