Did you guys see this great TV guide interview with Jim Beaver?
http://www.tvguide.com/News/Jim-Beaver-Supernatural-1041550.aspx
Maybe we won't see Bobby again for a while on SPN, but looks like fans can catch Jim on Justified sometime in the future!
This might change after I've watched the whole season over again (which I can't do until I get the DVDs, THANKS A LOT, stupid DVR), but for now, these were my favorite episodes of this season.
"Weekend at Bobby's"
Dean's edge aside, I loved getting insight into Bobby's life. There was so much humor, and pathos, too, because my god, he must be lonely.
"Clap Your Hands if You Believe"
The story-of-the-week was delightful, with evil fairies and alien abduction and "crazy" people who knew what they were talking about. But really, the best part was seeing Sam freed of the constraints of hiding himself from everyone. It was a step beyond knowing why he was acting so strange, and I loved watching him acting at a whole new level.
"Appointment in Samarra"
Death is just an awesome character, and Dean's courage in seeking him was fantastic. It was great to see Tessa again, especially with her attitude toward Dean. She was a little tired of his defiance of the natural order of things.
From episode 15 on, things just got really good. "The French Mistake," because I love the meta. "My Heart Will Go On," because of the way they changed everything. I had to laugh that they were driving a Mustang, because of Kripke planning to have them drive that, and being told by his neighbor that it's a good car for pussies. "Frontierland" and "Mommy Dearest," finding ways to bring back old threads and old guests. Samantha Smith just rocks every time she's on.
"Let it Bleed" killed me, with Dean making that big sacrifice, and I will forever be impressed with Jared Padalecki playing FOUR different versions of Sam in "The Man Who Knew Too Much."
So that's my list of favorites. What's yours?
Yellow Fever is the episode that was the beginning of my slide from Dean Girl to Sammy Girl.
Why? Two words:
Denim shirt
Ahem. Well, anyway, that’s at the end of the show. And I apologize in advance for the pictures. I know Dean was in this episode, too. I just didn't see him :)
The show opens with Dean running for his life, the sound of barking dogs behind him. Hellhounds? Dean trips over a homeless guy’s cart and hollers, “Run! It’ll kill you!” The homeless guy looks from Dean to the dog….a fluffy little pup with a bow in her hair.
Cut to the Impala driving into town 43 hours earlier. The boys pose as Feds (agents Tyler and Perry-too easy) in the morgue, wanting an autopsy on a marathon runner who’d dropped dead from an autopsy. While the boys are observing, Dean has to hold the heart and Sam gets squirted with spleen juice, but not before Dean notices the dead man has an indentation from a wedding ring and he’s all scraped up. The mortician is surprised to discover there’s no blockage in the heart, that’s it’s pretty healthy.
They next pay a visit to the local sheriff, who makes them take their shoes off before entering his office, and has a thing for hand sanitizer. The sheriff knew the dead man, Frank. They were on the same softball team, the Gamecocks. Of course, Dean snickers. Sam asks if the victim was acting scared, and yes, he’d been real jumpy, though the sheriff doesn’t know why. Turns out there are two other victims who died the same way, jittery before they died, and all scraped up.
When they’re walking back to the Impala, Dean is wary of teenagers near the car. Dean. Nervous. Sam gives him a look, and follows him the long way around.
They go to the victim’s neighbor’s house, a guy with a houseful of reptiles. All I could think of, how must that smell! Dean is twitchy, though. The neighbor tells them the victim was freaking out, scared of witches, AlQaeda, Pez dispensers with the dead little eyes. The boys learn that Frank, the victim, had been a bully in high school, had pissed a lot of people off. They also learned his wife had died about 20 years ago. Before they leave, a beautiful big snake slides over Dean’s leg, paralyzing him.
Dean researches the dead wife, a suicide. Sam checks out Frank’s house and finds no signs he’s cursed. As they drive back to the motel, Sam notes Dean’s driving the speed limit, and that he won’t turn left into oncoming traffic because he’s not suicidal. Even he recognizes how weird that sounds. A sound from the backseat draws their attention. The EMF detector is going off, and when Sam points it at Dean, Dean trips. “Am I haunted?”
After the break, Sam comes out of the bakery to see Dean playing drums to “Eye of the Tiger” in the Impala. He hands Dean the box of pie, but Dean tosses it in the front seat of the car (sacrilege). Sam has been talking to Bobby, and Bobby thinks it’s ghost sickness, where he gets scared, then more scared, then terrified, then his heart gives out. Sam theorizes that Frank was the first victim, “our very own Outbreak monkey.” Dean got it from his corpse and has 24 hours to go insane, then die. When Dean questions why him and not Sam, Sam theorizes that all the victims had certain personality types, that they were all dicks. Dean’s offended that Sam thinks he’s a dick. Sam goes on to say the dead men all scared people. Dean protests that he doesn’t scare people.
“Dean, all we do is scare people,” Sam points out, so adorably.
“Then you’re a dick, too.”
“Apparently I’m not.” Also so adorably.
To combat it, they need to kill the ghost that infected Frank, and they suspect his wife. Sam asks why Dean is waiting in the car when they’re parked in front of the hotel and Dean sheepishly admits the fourth floor is too high for him.
Later, in the hotel room on the 1st floor, Dean’s researching, when words start jumping out at him, like, “Are you gonna cry?”and You’re dying. Again. Loser.” The clock overhead is ticking like a heartbeat. Moments later, Sam walks in to see the clock smashed and Dean drinking a beer. He reveals that the wife isn’t the ghost because she was cremated, then chides Dean not to pick on the rash erupting on his arm. Dean starts choking and coughs up a wood chip into the sink. Sam declares him their biggest clue.
“I don’t wanna be a clue!” Dean protests.
The boys drive out to an abandoned mill…hey, the Impala is getting a lot of air time. Dean doesn’t want to go in, so he fortifies himself with a drink. Sam offers him a gun, but Dean refuses, afraid it will go off.
“I’ll man the flashlight,” he says.
The EMF goes nuts, but Dean realizes it won’t work with him around. Sam finds a wedding ring on the floor. It belonged to Frank. The boys investigate further, and hear a sound in a locker. Sam opens it…to release a cat, while Dean screams his head off. Sam stares.
“That was scary!” Dean says with a goofy grin.
They continue on to find pictures of Frank’s wife in the mill, photos and sketches. When they rip one, the mill comes to life, and Dean sees a ghost over Sam’s shoulder. Sam turns, aims his gun, and Dean bolts. Sam finds him by the trunk of the Impala. They’ve found their ghost.
After the next break, the boys are back in FBI mode at the sheriff’s office. Dean is drunk and declares the young adorable deputy awesome. Sam wants to know the cause of death of Luther, the man whose ghost they saw. The deputy tells them the sheriff is out, but he’s scrubbing his skin with a Brillo pad. “They know,” he says to himself. “They know what we did.”
The boys walk into a prison, and Dean is freaking out about the fake FBI badges. Sam hushes him as they approach a prisoner, Luther’s brother, Mr. Garland. Mr. Garland tells them everyone was afraid of his brother, but that Luther had been kind, and had a crush on Frank’s wife. Her husband killed Luther, because he thought Luther had something to do with his wife’s disappearance. Frank road-hauled him, but got away with it because Frank was a pillar of the community and Luther was a freak. Garland forgives Frank, because he’d been afraid for his wife, and he spread that fear to Luther, who’s now spreading it to everyone. (Why now? Was that explained? This all happened 20 years ago.)
As they walk out, Dean realizes what his rash is-road rash. He’s ready to burn some bones to get healthy, but Sam knows it’s not going to be that easy. Bits of Luther are all over the road. Dean blows up.
“We’re hunting a ghost-exactly. Who does that? We search out things that want to kill us. You know who wants to do that? Crazy people?” He lets out all his frustrations about diner food and truckstop waitresses with bizarre rashes and Sam’s gassiness. Dean quits, walking away, only to encounter the evil dog with a bow.
Sam returns to the hotel room to find a tense and sweaty Dean waiting. When Dean asks what they’re going to do now, Sam turns and says, “You’re going back.” Dean doesn’t know what to make of it when Sam adds, “And about time.” Then Sam’s eyes glint yellow. Dean demands the demon get out of Sam, who, omigod is sexy when he’s possessed, but Sam tells Dean he’s not possessed. This is what he’ll become. This is what he wants to become. He pins Dean to the wall , his hand on his throat. Dean snaps to and Sam is normal, demanding to know what’s wrong. Dean can only stare, wondering if it was a hallucination or not.
While Dean is in the motel watching Pokey get road-hauled on TV, Bobby comes to help, presenting Sam with a book on the supernatural in Japanese. Bobby can read it and speak it. Sam is impressed. Bobby’s theory is that the ghost can be scared to death, because it’s born of fear. It is fear.
Meanwhile, Dean hears hellhounds at the door of the motel room. The door bursts open and the sheriff comes in, clearly sick. He yells that Frank was his friend and made a mistake and the sheriff didn’t bust him, so what? They fight, and the sheriff has a heart attack on the floor of the room.
Moments later, Lilith appears, her cheerful little voice so at odds with her evilness. She asks Dean if he remembers the fun he had in hell. He asks why he got infected and she tells him he knows why. (Now we do too. I hadn’t made the connection.) She tells him to listen to his heart and starts yelling “Ba-boom, ba-boom!” faster and faster, and his heart keeps pace.
Bobby and Sam drive out to the mill, where Sam lures Luther’s ghost out, wraps an iron chain etched with spellwork around his neck and hauls him behind the Impala until he disintegrates. I hate that they used the Impala like this.
The three of them meet up on the side of the road to drink beer….ahhh, that denim shirt. Guh. Sam asks Dean what he saw, seriously, and Dean sees a flash of yellow in Sam’s eyes. Of course, he doesn’t tell the truth.
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Okay, this is my very first recap ever and I wrote it as I watched, so I didn't know the end before the beginning, though I'd heard somewhere that there would be a fight between the boys.
Opening scene, a woman with a meat tenderizer. Ohhhhh, not good. Her husband comes in, late, and she’s not happy. She tells him they’re going to a party and now he’s pissed. Uh-oh, he’s really pissed and beats her to death with the tenderizer. Told you. NOT good.
After the open, Dean wakes in a motel room to see Sam’s bed empty. He hears Sam in the bathroom on his cell, presumably talking to Ruby. And guh, are these boys beautiful. Sam’s found a news article about the man who killed his wife, and adds it’s the third man in two months to kill his wife.
The boys pose as lawyers this time. This is a new one. They go visit the husband in jail to find out what happened. He wasn’t possessed, he knew exactly what he was doing while he was doing it. Dean pulls out a bill for a stripper, not explaining how he got it. The husband confesses that he met the girl named Jasmine at a bachelor party and that she was everything he wanted. Jasmine had promised the husband they’d be together if his wife was out of the picture. He was supposed to meet the stripper after but she never showed. He doesn’t know her address or even her real first name. He says if he doesn’t get the death sentence, he’ll just kill himself.
Acting as an FBI agent, Sam goes to the office of the beautiful doctor who works for the sheriff’s department, who did the autopsies on the dead women and tox screens on their husbands. Dr. Cara Roberts is suffering from a hangover. Sam gently teases her, “Rough night?” “Fun night,” she replies. “Rough morning.” After inspecting his badge again, closely, she reveals that all three husbands had a high level of oxytocin in their blood, a hormone produced during childbirth, lactation and sex. Presuming the first two weren’t happening in these men…. No, she doesn’t know what causes such high level of oxytocin.
She is so flirting with Sam, and when Dean comes in, she blows him off. They leave, and Sam offers his cure for a hangover-a greasy breakfast. Dean says something to Sam as they walked out, but even though I rewound it three times, I didn’t understand.
Dean investigated the other husbands in the meantime, and those men had also hooked up with girls from a club called The Honey Wagon. But each man hooked up with a different girl. Sam suspects a love spell. Dean is just tickled they’re on an actual case involving strippers.
They visit the strip club where Dean has a hard time focusing on what the manager is telling him, because there are girls dancing all around. Sam comes in, having spoken to Bobby, natch, and Bobby’s theory is sirens, from the Greek myths. Sam’s a bit surprised Dean knows. Sam says they have a siren song, and Dean teases that it’s “Welcome to the Jungle,” or “Cherry Pie.” They theorize that it’s the same girl cloaking herself as different “dream girls.” They also realize that even if they find her, they don’t know how to kill her.
Meanwhile, one of the strippers slips over to a young man in a booth. She follows him home, where he’s caring for his invalid mother. They have sex on the couch, and in the mirror we see her extremely creepy reflection. Love it! After sex, she tells him that his mom takes up too much of his time and she could be with him forever if only his mother wasn’t around. He agrees to bash his mother’s brains in. He picks up a poker from the fireplace and disappears into his mother’s room. The siren dresses and leaves.
The next morning, Dean is looking at Sam’s phone on the table. He dials the last number and Ruby answers. Dean scowls and hangs up as Sam comes in. Sam’s been to visit the last victim/murderer in jail. Sam’s phone rings and Dean flinches, but it’s Bobby, who has some lore from a dusty Greek poem. To kill a siren, they need a bronze dagger, covered in the blood of a sailor under the spell of the song. When Dean asks what that means, Bobby says he doesn’t know, they’re dealing with “three thousand years of the telephone game.” He doesn’t think it’s an actual song, but a toxin she gets in their blood. She reads their minds and becomes just what they need.
“A Supernatural STD,” Dean observes.
Bobby believes a dose of her own venom will kill her, too. Sam has an idea. Bobby warns them to be careful, that sirens are tricky bitches.
Cut to Sam going back to the doctor. Ohhhhh. This time he brings Dean, wanting the blood samples from the husbands, believing the siren’s toxin will be there.
And whoa, there’s another FBI agent assigned to the case. He quizzes the boys, asking them their director’s name and badge numbers. The boys give him a card with their director’s name on it, and the agent dials, only to get Bobby, who reams him for asking stupid questions. Bobby hangs up, and there’s a row of phones in his kitchen, each with a different label for different agencies. LOL.
Sam wants Dean to keep the extra FBI agent busy, and the agent shows Metallicar love. Dean is pleased.
Sam stays with beautiful Dr. Roberts, telling her they know a specialist and want to test the blood to try out a theory, only the blood’s gone. Huh. Maybe my theory is wrong.
Dean and FBI boy are throwing back shots at the strip club and comparing classic rock knowledge. The FBI agent reveals that he found flowers at the crime scene, and he discovered the same flower was at every crime scene. Dean remembers seeing that flower before.
Cut to Dr. Robert’s office, where that flower is in a vase. Yeah, whatever, Sam looks terrific in a white shirt and loose tie. Together they go over security tapes (which they have, but she doesn’t lock her door) and discover the tapes have been tampered with. They discuss the case. She asks if he’s ever been in a relationship where he really loved someone but wanted to bash their head in. He kind of grins. Dean, maybe…..She offers him a drink and she starts talking about her ex-husband. Did I mention Sam looks really good? She talks about people changing, that she felt like she was married to a stranger. His phone rings and…yeesh, he looks REALLY good. He doesn’t answer. Ruby or Dean? I thin Ruby. Dr. Roberts talks about having no regrets and living life. Then she starts talking about his lips and….oh, wow, let me rewind that. I’m feeling a bit breathless here.
Hmm, okay. Back in motel room, Sam calls Dean. Dean apparently was the one who called, and he figured out the flowers are hyacinths, and that they’re from the Mediterranean. (Dean would know this?) Dean has the same suspicion as me, that Dr. Roberts is the siren. She’s only been in town two months and her husband dropped dead. Sam can’t believe it and Dean figures out that Sam had sex with Dr. Roberts. Dean goes off on Sam sleeping with monsters, Madison, Ruby and now Dr. Roberts. Sam insists he feels fine. Dean doesn’t want to meet up. He’s determined to handle it by himself. Sam hangs up and throws the phone across the room. Dean calls Bobby for back-up, and then he calls the FBI guy. Wow, he didn’t even think that one over. He must really like this guy.
FBI guy sees Dr. Roberts walk into the club. Dean joins him on the stakeout. Dean appreciates the fact that FBI guy trusts him.
Oh, MAN, I didn’t see that coming. FBI guy is asking Dean how he thinks the siren is infecting her victims. Dean mentions injections or physical contact, and shares his flask with FBI guy, who says, “Or saliva.” Damn, Dean gets it now, too. Too late.
FBI guy is the siren. His reflection in the rearview mirror is CRRRREEEEEEPPPPY. He wants Dean to kill Sam so FBI guy can be Dean’s brother, since he can’t trust Sam anymore. Dean agrees.
After the commercial, Sam walks into the motel room to see FBI/siren guy sitting on the bed, and Dean jumps him from behind, holding a big-ass knife to his neck. At the FBI/siren’s urging, Dean slices Sam’s neck, just a little. The siren tells Sam that he gave Dean what he wanted, and it wasn’t a girl in a g-string, but a little brother who looked up to him. He tells Sam that watching someone kill for you is the ultimate in devotion. Then he spits on Sam’s mouth, and tells the brothers to fight it out, that whoever wins can have him.
Dean starts, saying the brother he knew was gone. It’s not the demon blood or the psychic ability, but the secrets, like calling Ruby. He asks Sam what he’s not telling, and Sam says it’s none of his business. They used to be in this together.
Sam counters by saying he can’t get Dean to help him hunt down Lilith because Dean’s too weak, he’s holding Sam back. Sam declares himself stronger and smarter, and accuses Dean of sitting around feeling sorry for himself, whining about the souls he tortured in hell. Dean throws his knife at Sam, then Sam pins Dean to the door and beats the hell out of him, saying Dean can’t stand in his way anymore. They break the door down in the fight (isn’t that the same motel where Sam and Ruby were when Dean came back from hell?). Sam is on his back, catching his breath, and Dean breaks the glass for the fire ax.
“Tell me again how weak I am,” he taunts Sam, and as he raises the ax, Bobby shows up. He stabs Dean in the arm (blood of a sailor) and then throws the spear at the siren, who’s bolting. Sam protests, but Bobby hits his mark, and the siren goes down. As the spell breaks, the brothers look at each other, stunned by words that can’t be unspoken.
Oh, hell, I knew it was going to be another side of the road moment, with the boys drinking soda this time because the boys are driving. Bobby reveals it only took one call to discover the agent Nick Monroe wasn’t real.
Dean asks if Sam will say good-bye to Dr. Roberts, but he says no. Sam says he didn’t mean the things he said, that it was the spell talking. Dean doesn’t believe him. Neither do I. Do you?
The rift is getting bigger, y’all. I think I need to watch a few first season episodes to soothe me…..
