South Dakota and a woman leaving and closing a diner for
the night – taking a package of food she leaves for the homeless person
outside. A genuinely good person – oh she’s so dead. Yes, something stalks her.
In her fear she drops her keys (including their nifty taser attachment) and
scrabbles after them under her car. When she hears footsteps approaching she
pulls herself all the way under to hide – only to have her pursuer life the car
off her and be consumed in blue fire. The fire also reaches out and covers her
as well.
She’s surprisingly unburned – but she is alive. The figure picks her up and drops her down a hole in the ground – it looks like a bunker or an oubliette, with a metal lid.
At the Winchester cave, Sam is zonked from lack of sleep,
and apparently so is Kevin, both of them researching some way to reverse
the spell that locked the angels out of heaven and getting them out of
everyone’s hair. Dean is naturally worried about Sam having no energy given the
whole mortally wounded and possessed by an angel thing. Worrying interrupted by
a call from Sheriff Mills – Jodie Mills (Last
seen in season 8 but she’s been around for a while). She has a case for
them – 4 missing people and one eye witness reporting someone lifting an SUV.
Definitely spooky shenanigans.
4 victims with evidence of super strength at each scene;
and they all belonged to the same church group. After checking to make sure
Jodie’s ok with getting involved after her last near-death experienced from
Crowley’s magic (she is – the more she knows the safer she is), Sam presents an
angel theory – super strength and all churchy folk could be harvesting vessels
after all. And Dean breaks Jodie’s bubble – nah, angels = bad thing. They
should probably make pamphlets “Why Angels Are Dicks.”
They talk to the witness (the homeless man the woman,
Honour, gave food to) but the blue fire doesn’t sound like angelic white light.
So time to investigate the only connection – the church and its perky
representative. They find out all the victims were part of a members only
abstinence group – yes, Sam and Dean join that as well. Dean is just thrilled,
but Sam thinks maybe the monster is stalking virgins (Dean, again, jumps to
dragons which is a nice ongoing theme). She returns with a virginity pledge
which, of course, Dean snarks that it’s a bit too late for that; so he has to
become a born again virgin. Which I’m sure is cheating somewhere along the
line.
To the first meeting, led by Suzy; and Sam has to remind
Dean to bow his head during the silent prayer. Suzy deftly prevents Tammy
inflicting awful poetry on the group by making Sam and Dean tell them why they’re
seeking to re-virginise. Sam, truthfully, tells them every relationship he’s
had has ended badly (understatement). Dean’s explanation sounds more like he’s
reading a bad erotic novel. Thankfully it ends and Dean is sure he recognises
Suzie from somewhere. Sam listens to malicious gossip from Tammy about the
missing Honour while Dean offers to escort Suzie home to get some books (what
with people disappearing and all). And yes, Dean is hoping to have sex with the
chastity counsellor.
Sam returns to Sherriff Jodie to reveal the shocking
gossip that 2 of the victims – Honour and Pastor Fred – were having sex. As was
one of the other victims, Barbara with her fiancé (who claims it didn’t count
because it was under 30 seconds. Ouch -
though making a case that awful sex shouldn’t count is worth getting behind). Bad
born again virgins! No… exactly what do you take off a born again virgin as
punishments? It seems a bit mild to remove cookies from people so practiced in
self-denial. The blue fire took Barb right after her 30 second flop. New theory
– the blue fire is actually going after people who break their chastity vow.
Over to Suzie’s and Dean is not-even-trying to be subtle
about drool over her. And when he gets a call from Sam he hangs up on him,
unanswered – and sneakily lights candles for mood lighting. She kind of breaks
the mood when she starts sobbing about her friends and asking Dean to pray with
her
Unable to get in touch with Dean, Sam and Jodie talk
about why she goes to church – she’s looking for comfort and stability about
Bobby’s death and Crowley trying to kill her. Sam thinks most people are
looking for comfort but Jodie puts in an exception for those that have it –
mentioning Sam and Dean and how close they are.
Back at Suzie’s, Dean gets an armload of chastity books,
answers a call from Sam – and sees a porn DVD with Suzie on the cover – that’s
where he’s seen her before. He hangs up on Sam again, focusing on the fact
Suzie was a porn star rather than the case. When she returns he speaks to her
in Spanish and she realises he’s seen the film which she is not happy about and
she wanted to leave behind when she moved. He praises her – starting well with
how she’s talented and a good, worthy person, going through to the skeevy with
her being his “good memories” in between the bad things he’s seen before moving
on to outright creepy with him praising her sexual skills. There then follows a
script right out of a porn film
Meanwhile, in the bunker, Honour examines her
surroundings using her taser as a torch. And something keeps moving behind her
to freak her out. She trips over a body on the floor (hurting her leg) and
finds some emergency supplies, including a lantern. In the light she sees Neal,
Barbara (the 30 second couple) and the Pastor (now conscious) who are all
trapped down there with her. Blue fire fills the room – and when it disappears
the pastor is missing. They then hear him screen.
At the motel Sam and Jodie move out – Dean and Suzie have been gone an hour and, if the creature goes after vow breakers – that means they’re in trouble.
And Dean and Suzie open her door – only to be overwhelmed by blue fire that leaves them both unconscious.
In the bunker, the others aren’t in good shape –Barbara
clawing at the walls until her fingers bleed in desperation and thirst and then
drinking the blood. The bunker is opened to drop in Suzie and Dean, before
being closed and buried again. Dean tries but he can’t get out.
Sam and Jodie arrive at Suzie’s to find obvious evidence
of blue fiery kidnapping and go back to hit the research. And Jodie finds
Vesta, Roman goddess of the Hearth and the vestal virgins. The virgins who
broke their vows were buried alive.
Dean manages to get a call to Sam, though heavily distorted,
through the air vent. He can’t pass on any information but Sam does hear a
whistle which leads them, in classic TV detective show fashion, to find trains, somewhere, anywhere
in the area which will magically lead them directly to the location (oh I am
too used to tropes I think). Neal has the bright idea to serve up Honour to the
creature since it always takes the weakest and Honour has hurt her leg – Dean naturally
objects to this, quite vehemently.
Jodie and Sam complete their research and, yes, find the
location – but they need a special stake soaked in virgin blood to kill Vesta.
Damn, where to find a virgin? Why, Tammy the gossip of course who is busy
organising pickles (not a euphemism). Tammy will not give up blood and thinks
they’re psycho, pagan devil worshippers so Jodie punches her in the nose and
uses a handkerchief to sop up the blood. Go Jodie.
They arrive at the location, an old abandoned farm, and Sam
finds the trap door. He rushes to open it and gets knocked out by Vesta –
leaving Jodie to take over. Which she does with gusto – mocking her for being a
pathetic goddess, how everyone forgot about her (sucks to be Lindsey Lohan –
ouch!) Of course, Vesta hits back – she now uses Christianity to her own means
(she even has a sweater set)
While Dean works at unscrewing the trap door from below,
Vesta ties Jodie to a table ranting about “trollops” and “born again virgins”
where she eats their livers. She stabs Jodie in the chest with a wooden stake.
Sam attacks Vesta, having regained consciousness, and Vesta throws him back, zapping
him with a taser. But she pulls back – Sam’s liver is no good. He’s all “duct
tape and safety pins” inside. He shouldn’t even be alive – which is when Jodie
stabs her from behind with the stake which kills her. Everyone is rescued and
doctored.
They make their goodbyes to Jodie and Sam talks to Dean
about something being wrong with him. Dean, obviously, tries to distract him
from it and blames the trials. Sam is worried he will never feel fully ok and
this is how he will always be – broken and damaged inside. Dean hates that he’s
blaming himself and prepares to spill the big secret – but Ezekiel interrupts,
warning Dean that Sam could eject him and die. Dean asks how much longer – and Ezekiel
promises, rather ominously, it won’t be long
Dean and Suzie – no. Yes it’s this week’s comic relief, but
it’s skeevy even setting aside the fact that Dean is literally ignoring a case
for the chance to have sex with her. Suzie has joined a chastity support group.
She leads a chastity support group. She has a small library on chastity. She is
willing to help Dean as a member of said group. How many more signs does a
woman have to give that she is not interested?
And him being even more interested because she is a porn
star? Uckies fetishism. Especially since she is doing her very best to move on
from her old profession.
(And don’t tell me she is interested because she
willingly, enthusiastically, joined in the flirting and had sex – at the time
when Dean started pursuing her she was adamantly not interested. In fact, her
not being interested and sending out every reasonable signal that she wasn’t
interested and then his flirting ending with him having sex and not being
slapped in the face is even worse because it reinforces they idea that “not
interested” just needs “persuasion”).
It’s not like Dean couldn’t go to any part of the world
and find a queue of people joyously willing to have sex with him – and has done
so in the past – pursuing someone because they’re unavailable and/or because he’s
fetishising them as a porn star is plain skeevy
Ezekiel definitely has an evil plan prepared.
And Jodie is awesome and we could use more of her
