Mother’s Little Helper, directed by the sweetest little angel on earth!

On to the recap!

We cold open with a relatively vanilla couple having a relatively vanilla conversation about meatloaf, when the wife, fed up with dumb questions from her hubby, grabs a candlestick from the mantle behind him and proceeds to smash his skull as she continues relaying the menu for the evening. Several frustrated wives feel the inner joy of this fantasy playing out in their own living rooms.

This episode was another with the boys off doing solo gigs, with Dean increasingly distant and seemingly very uncomfortable in his own skin, and Sammy off to take care of some shenanigans in Ohio or whatever. And another glimpse into some Men of Letters history which I like more and more.

Dean: Surly and probably drunk, Dean basically tells Sam to go screw about the case in Illinois, claiming that finding and killing Abaddon is the priority. While Sammy is off saving souls, Dean is at the bar with his new partner, Crowley. After much cajoling and quippy comebacks, Crowley head off to the restroom, and Dean stops a “hunter” from following Crowley to the head. The “hunter” acquiesces, and leaves. Dean accuses Crowley of still using, and Crowley accuses Dean of being addicted as well… to the First Blade! Dean claims he just wants to kill Abaddon, and stomps off, and Crowley says to the “hunter”, who is actually a demon that Dean is “ready”. (Whatever that means, CROWLEY)

Sammy: Rebuffed by a tense and focused Dean, Sammy heads off to try and figure out what the dickens is going on in Milton, Ill. (Illinois, Ohio, same difference) He runs into the awesome Jenny O’Hara, playing Julia, who was a novice nun at the local nunnery back in the day, and tells him a story about Grandpa Winchester and a pre-Abaddon Josie in 1958. We see how Abaddon ended up in Josie, and Sammy figures out that she is culling souls from all around the world to build a soulless demon army. After a tussle with a local nun/demon, and the playing of a recording of the demon exorcism on his cellie, Sammy frees the captured souls (at least the local ones), and heads back to the bunker to let Dean know that yes, Abaddon is a much more urgent threat than he realized and the two brothers grimly sit down for more research. It is not a happy or uplifting ending.

So we finally have these two back on the same page, but with Dean being all cranky, and Sammy being all puppy dog. Boys.

I find it interesting that Dean has made all these friends, while Sammy still really only has Dean. Sam is friendly with the likes of Castiel and others, but Dean has bonded with almost everyone he works with. I have no idea if that means anything, but there you go.