FINALLY!
That was me at the end of this episode. Steve Yockey wrote this gem. His last ever for Supernatural. It had a nice slight of hand right there in the middle, and shot the whole season off to the races. Thanks for everything Steve!!
THEN!
Terrible Things!
NOW!
A trio of life-long friends are toasting the eleventh year of their annual camping trip, and I must admit, it looks like the kind of fun I am down for, until some monster comes along and drags out and kills two out of three of the ladies. Yikes!
Back in the bunker, Dean returns from a supply run with a very small bag of supplies, as Sam checks his phone. Sammy has been texting Cass, all stalker like, but there’s been not a peep from the sweetest little angel.
Amusing bit involving ghost pepper jerky ensues, and I love the looks Sam is giving Dean. Heeheehee.
The boys surmise that those mountain lion attacks in Colorado are probably something much worse, so they head on out on another rainy evening. (It’s almost always wet when the Winchesters travel by night, and there is a super dirty joke in there, but I can’t figure it out at this moment.)
Sam has another one of his kill-y dreams, this one with him as the white suited Samifer. Dean has the Colt, and after asking for forgiveness, shoots his brother in the back of the head. I am all, Dammit Dean, the Colt didn’t work the first time on Lucifer!!! What are you doing???
Samifer thinks the same thing as he heals himself, and burns Dean all up!
Sam wakes with a start in the front seat of Baby, and even though Dean pushes, Sam says it’s nothing. Dammit, Samuel!
Dean pulls out their season one Fish and Wildlife IDs once they get to Colorado. Sam is sure it is a ridiculous notion that those old pictures look anything like them anymore, but Dean is positive that they look just the same. Oh, Ford and Hamill, season one was so very long ago. *sigh*
The hats tho
Another amusing bit ensues, as the Sheriff of this town inspects Dean’s ID, then Dean’s face, and seems highly skeptical that it is him. Sam’s reaction to this is hilarious.
Here’s the thing, Dean looks almost the same, while Sammy is the one with different hair, and a less boyish face. I am a fan of this gag.
Anyway, our beautiful boys talk to the sole survivor of the attack, Ashley, and Dean gives her the whole Monsters Are Real speech, and promises they will keep her safe. Once she is convinced that she can tell Dean anything, she fesses up that she actually knows the werewolf that killed her friends, but left her alive to tell the tale.
Sam and Dean find their way to the cabin where Andy the werewolf lives with his brother Josh. They are very bad at the lying. When Sam tries the old Here’s A Silver Pen trick, Josh knows the gig is up, refuses to sign, and slams the door in our boys faces. That’s all Sam and Dean need to confirm their suspicions, and that’s all Andy and Josh need to realize there are hunters on their tail. Andy tells his brother he doesn’t want to hurt people, and he hates the turn they have taken in killing people instead of animals. It’s not how their father raised them. Josh promises his brother that they can go back to the old ways, but first things first, he has to kill the only witness, Ashley.
Ashley calls the boys and tells them that she’s freaked out about being alone, and so the boys bring her to their room at the Sleepy Bear Inn (heeeee), instead of killing the werewolves post haste. Sam is all, take our room, we’ll get another. Dean wants to circle back and kill the werewolf brothers as soon as Ashley is settled, but Sam is all, this seems way too easy. Dean is all, I like easy! Sam heads out to get another room, leaving Ashley with Dean. Ashley low key hits on Dean, and just like last week, I am glad that Dean is all business with these young women. Our boy has grown!!
Ashley confides in Dean that she doesn’t know what she wants to do. Her degree is crap, and her friends are dead. She wonders if maybe it would be better if she knew everything would work out okay, how nice it would be if everything was pre-written. Dean is all, No Thank You.
Sam returns from a food run hours later, only to find Ashley gone and Dean fast asleep. Dean is positive there is no way he would fall asleep and not notice a couple of werewolves dragging Ashley away.
Assuming the worst for Ashley, the boys jump in Baby and head back to the werewolf brothers cabin. Finding her tied to a chair in a back room, Ashley is freed, and the boys embark on a fighty fight with the werewolf brothers.
After they both lose their guns, Dean ends up trapped against the wall by a growling Josh, and Andy has Sam’s gun pointed at Sam, who is on the floor, begging Andy to not shoot. Andy looks back an forth, clearly having trouble deciding what he wants to do. A shot rings out, and Josh slumps, and then falls to the ground dead.Andy says his brother was a monster, and he wasn’t going to stop. The Andy says he’s a monster too, and shoots himself dead.
Sam and Dean are surprized by this turn of events. Relief is also in there. Sam thinks it all went down much too easy, and I was thinking the exact same thing! Ashley freaks out a bit, and when Dean reaches out to comfort her, she dodges him and trips and is impaled by the antlers of a fallen deer head. The boys are even more flummoxed.
Then Ashley laughs, bewildering looks are exchanged by Sam and Dean. Ashley pulls herself free of the antlers, and when Sam asks “What are you?” she laughs and announces that she is really Lillith.
OG Lilith
LILLITH!!! The same demon that Sammy killed way back in season four that started the apocalypse, and dammit, what is she doing here????
Well, seems as though Chuck woke her up in the Empty, and brought her back down to earth for some Winchester shenanigans. Sam pulls his demon knife, and then Dean pulls his angel blade, and Lilith compliments him for the upgrade. She tells the boys that she was supposed to seduce Dean, and get the Equalizer, but since that didn’t work, she put Dean to sleep and got them back to the cabin. When the boys try to attack, Lilith demon flings them, knocking Sam out cold.
The moment Dean realizes that Chuck is still writing their lives is a heart breaker.
Dean says he will take her to the gun, and they jump in Baby, and drive back to the motel. Lilith fills Dean in on some of Chuck’s plan, and calls God a low rent Dean Koontz, an excellent burn if I say so myself.
Sam has another dream while passed out, this time Dean is sporting the Mark of Cain, and the red shirt of Demony Badness. (Wardrobe dept is on point for these dream scenarios) As the boys fight by the door, Sam crashes through the railing onto the floor of the bunker. Dean slams him into the map table, and grabs Sam by the neck, holding him against the electrics.
Sam begs Dean not to kill him, but Deans eyes turn black. He reveals the First Blade, and sticks it in Sam’s gut. Demon Dean watches his brother die with an eerie detachment, and then lets Sam’s lifeless body fall to the floor.
Sam snaps out of his dream, grabs the demon knife, and runs out the cabin. Everyone is gone, but Sam spies a truck, which he definitely boosts.
Back at the motel, Dean tells Lilith that he’s the dummy, and they didn’t bring the gun with them. Lilith is not having it, and begins slicing into Dean, bloodying that pretty pretty face first. Lilith is happy to torture him, reveling in The Hard Way (dirty!).
Sam must have put the pedal to the metal, because suddenly he bursts in the door, aiming a gun at Lilith.
BOOM
A devil’s trap bullet slo-mos right into Lilith’s skull. She is trapped in the spot, and Sam tells her they upgraded. Sam threatens her he can kill her, he already did it once, and Lilith is all Ooooooh, so scared. She reminds him that she let him kill her. Dean is all Le’t Go!
Our boys hightail it outta there, just as Lilith pushes the bullet from her skull, and freezes our beautiful boys steps away from the car. Taunting ensues, and then Lilith realizes that the gun in in the car. Of course it’s in the car! She easily finds it in the glove box, and when Sam says he’s not worried, they’ll get it back, Lilith laughs, and melts the gun into a pile of useless-ness. Lilith disappears, and the boys are freed.
Back in the bunker, Sam is trying to call Cass, but its going straight to voicemail. Dean says they’ve warned him about Chuck and Lilith, that’s all they can do.
When Dean tells Sam about his conversation with Lilith, about how his plan is to have the boys kill each other one way or another, something clicks for Sam.
Sammy tells Dean about his dreams, and how every single one of them ends with them killing each other.
Dean is all, you’re just telling me this now? (Right?) Sam is all, I just thought it was some crazy PTSD. (Fair)
Sam is pretty sure he is seeing Chuck’s ideas because of their shared bullet wound, and Dean is pretty hopeless about their chances fighting Chuck. Gah! I can’t take it when Dean is sad like this.
You know what? This was a great reveal for the boys, thinking they were free, and realizing that they aren’t. A heart breaker, but great. And I think Sam and Chuck’s connection will be the key to them taking him down., even though that’s the thing that’s freaking them out right now. We shall see!
NEXT! Witches! And I think that’s Eileen!