Jensen Ackles And Jared Padalecki Cameo On The Rookie

“Supernatural” vets Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles are teaming up with “The Rookie” to seek out demons — and the individuals attempting to slay them — within the newest documentary-style episode of the ABC procedural.

This week’s episode sees Nolan and his crew investigating a suspicious suicide: Rich, a former LAPD police officer, has stabbed himself within the coronary heart after spiraling right into a deep obsession with demons and the group of demon hunters he believed was liable for a string of unsolved murders.

Showrunner Alexi Hawley seems within the episode as a documentarian teaming up with Abigail Tierney (Madeleine Coghlan) to interview the LAPD concerning the weird case. As specialists in demon-hunting, Padalecki and Ackles — who play themselves within the episode — are referred to as in by the filmmakers to sit down for an interview the place they share their experiences with the supernatural and their impressions of Rich. (In the fictional storyline, the real-life actors crossed paths with the late officer years earlier at a fan occasion referred to as “Monster Con.”)

“We co-starred on a TV show together for 15 seasons, called ‘Supernatural,'” Padalecki explains to the fillmmakers by way of Zoom. (As if we do not already know!)

“Yeah, we played Sam and Dean Winchester, brothers who tracked and fought supernatural beings,” Ackles provides.

Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles go on to share particulars about Rich. Per Ackles, Rich made such an affect at Monster Con as a result of he wasn’t like different followers, he was “a different beast.”

Padalecki explains that Rich appeared to have a fixation on a specific episode the place they fought a selected demon that Rich acknowledged.

“He seemed to think we knew more about [demon hunting] than we were saying,” Padalecki says. “He kept asking these super pointed questions like he was testing us.”

“We didn’t come up with these stories,” Ackles explains. “We just did what the writers wrote. It’s called acting.”

In the top, Rich had fallen sufferer to the form of manipulation he as soon as sought to reveal. Although he wrongly believed himself to be possessed by a demon, he was proper to attach all these unsolved murders.

The investigation in the end finds {that a} direct-to-video film director was the mastermind of the killings. (Strange, I do know, however stick to me!) He had spun an internet of demonic lies with a purpose to manipulate these near him into murdering individuals who’d wronged him. Luckily, the horrible, no good, very dangerous director had no affiliation with “Supernatural” — fictional or in any other case!

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