so jack in the box, as it is. at least, the jack and heaven bit. is dedicated to retreading meet the new boss for no particular reason.
like the thing about meet the new boss is that do i think it's well thought out as a cas character study? no. but it *is* a cas character study. the things cas does in it make sense for a certain reason. jack in the box does make sense for a jack character study but only insofar as jack is easy to manipulate and will follow orders happily.
and like. the reason cas behaves the way he does on earth in meet the new boss is because he wants love and worship. from everyone. heaven does not generally care about what humans do and believe. they're cattle to heaven. nothing but souls to consume. who cares what they do.
so there's no reason for dumah to have jack turn that guy to salt or whatever. the thing that dumah really wants is for jack to make new angels. there's no reason for jack or dumah to care about people's relationship to christianity.
on the other hand, here's what's been happening. for the entire time jack's alive. he's been raised and taught by people who believe it is their life mission to enact violence on criminals and outsiders. and in fact just recently, jack was offered a solution to not having a soul - wwwd. what would the winchesters do.
and in fact, there have been problems that resulted from this before. with jack. the security guard jack kills in 13x06. the convenience store clerk he strangles in 13x23. the way he kills nick in 14x17.
jack kills the security guard because he's in poor control of his powers, and the winchesters chose to put him in a violent situation, so he accidentally killed someone.
he strangles that convenience store clerk because he's learns from being with the winchesters that violence and torturing people is the correct way to solve problems, he just directs this violence against the wrong target.
he tortures nick to death for the same reasons as aforementioned, and this time he even had the right target. he just didn't know that the winchesters decided that torture was bad this week.
additionally, the other problem is that all of these targets are human. which means that any random violence against them is not inherently justified (cf. dean's killing spree in 10x09). while the winchesters don't tend to have a huge problem with killing random humans, they tend to at least put up token objections.
what dumah really wants, given the population shortage angels have been talking about for multiple seasons, is for jack to make new angels. what she does before that is mostly an attempt to gain his trust.
the way to do that is, well, to ask, like donatello in 14x15, what would the winchesters do.
in fact, in the canon jack in the box, dumah does tell jack that the winchesters will approve of what he's doing. all you have to do is tug on that thread.
the thing dumah should have jack doing is mass killings of monsters, and perhaps human criminals. that is in theory something that the winchesters would approve of. but jack being too indiscriminate about it, or simply taking what they see as their place (remember in 14x18 when dean was pissed off that jack was helping them too much?), would cause them to turn against him in a way he wouldn't necessarily understand.
that's how you do the meet the new boss section of jack in the box.
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