sentences:  John subsequently contacts Sam by cell phone and tells him he's discovered a way for Sam to break the deal, but he's trapped in the third circle of Hell (it is unknown how he got there as the third level is inhabited by the gluttons).Nina goes to Hell to get it and rescue him, but he stays behind, saying he has something important to do.In the canonical (but yet unmade) season 3, it is revealed that John is in fact Sam's father.