Gah, it’s another care love episode. Am I the only one
who doesn’t really care about the Impala?
And to action – we see Dean, unconscious, injured and
handcuffed in his car. Yes, it’s another of those “start the episode half-way”
bullshit openers
So back 48 hours for car washing and plot recapping. They
don’t even point the camera at Dean who doesn’t get all wet and then need to
take off his soaking shirt that’s all skin tight and… Honestly, who has Dean
Winchester, a hose and a tight t-shirt and focuses on a damn car?
Castiel is busy healing (and not understanding Netflix)
and not getting all wet and shirtless either.
So on to a case in Oregon possibly hunting werewolves.
Dean is outraged at Sam’s malicious smoothie drinking (flashbacks nostalgia
love). Dean can’t convince him to party with him in a dive bar though, so Dean
goes alone – only emerging with sunrise and looking… rough. Only to find that
Sam was hosting naked women in the car. Sam is embarrassed, Dean revels in
taunting him for it. Followed by a singalong
Ok, I’m totally loving the brother thing.
Alas all this fun is kind of derailed by Sam getting all
angsty and introspective.
The Sam goes to sleep and wakes up with his Dad – as a young man – driving. Ok. Why not. Sam isn’t a big believer in his dad John being back from the dead – anyway it’s a message/dream/vision saying the Darkness is coming and they’ve got to stop it. Really you need a vision to tell you this?
Sam wakes up for real now to tell Dean that he’s having
ominous visions (as opposed to it being an actual dream? Let’s face it, it wasn’t
a very influential vision). Sam thinks this is all due to him praying so it’s
all divine intervention stuff. Dean is not impressed with empty nonsense as
intervention from an absent, doing-nothing deity.
Dean also isn’t surprised by dreaming about John because
he has lots of dreams about his dad – normal dreams of a normal childhood which
he never had. Sam does the same – but about his mother. Both dream of the
normal life they never had. Sam insists on divine messages.
Dean doesn’t by it – and also has a nice insight than Sam
is looking for some greater divine reason for what happened beyond “the
Winchesters screwed up, again.”
To the case! They still think the dead sheriff has been
killed by some kind of woo-woo. Dean really wants to get everyone call it a
werepire. And a steak house with valet parking - Dean is horrified at giving
his car to someone else. Probably wisely since the valet goes joyriding in it
with her friend. Dean wants everyone to call the monster a werepire (and no-one
is playing). And Dean keeps trying to kill the monster Deputy that just won’t
die while Castiel is on speaker phone. And the damn thing just won’t die (how
wrong was it for me to keep laughing at this?)
While Dean is playing with this, Sam has been jumped and
calls Dean for help. Which, by various means, is how they end up with the dead Sheriff’s
unconscious wife in the back of the car (she was attacked). Castiel has more
research and calls the monsters Nachzehre - and Dean updates his name to ghoulpire
(no-one is playing because they’re all mean). They’re also semi-pack animals and
they need a Charon’s Oble to put in their mouth (a Greek coin traditionally used
to pay the ferryman, Charon, to cross the River Styx). And killing the boss
ghoulpire (I’ll play Dean even if they won’t) turns everyone else back human.
So they need a copper coin. Which means an old penny
because, as Sam geekily points out, modern pennies have very little copper in
them.
Also seeing if Lily Markham, the sheriff’s wife, knows
anything would go easier if she hadn’t found the still living disembodied head
in Dean’s cooler. She starts ominously talking about risking her family and
ruining everything. She then attacks Dean to “make it right” demanding to know
where something is (the body I think). Dean ends up fighting her in the back of
the car which is brutal and nasty. She drives off with Dean in the back seat,
all handcuffed while she goes to put the head back on the body he decapitated.
With them both back they exposition – Lily killed her
husband and didn’t hide the body properly because she’s a knew ghoulpire. He’s the
ghoulpire Alpha and he is creating a lot more baby ghoulpires to have an army
to fight the Darkness. Which means he also intends to turn Sam and has lured
him into a trap using Dean’s phone (and intending him to eat Dean.
Of course that’s not going to happen – so Dean causes a
car crash (and finds the joyriding valet’s purse). We have another really nasty
brutal fight and, thankfully, the valet had a copper coin in her purse letting
Dean kill the Alpha – and turn Lily and all the other ghoulpires human again. Which
includes Lily’s family who were ambushing Sam.
Sam and Dean of course see this as more evidence of the
ominous darkness.
Ok I expected the worst but that was actually really fun –
rather than loving on the car, the whole episode took part in the car. And it
was fun – a nice old school zany monster hunt with Dean at his quipping best
We have some nice introspection about their dreams and
normality which was nice simply because it wasn’t laid on ridiculously thick as
well which I appreciated.
I also really liked the little normal life shot it gave
us – sure they have the Winchester Cave now, but this reminds us how much of
their life they actually spend in their Impala. Sure Sam may be being horribly
cutsey with his “this is home” but it’s true – they live out of that car.
Especially given how much travelling
The fight scenes, despite being in one tiny place and
without lots of weapons actually felt a lot more real and a lot more brutal. I’m
not even sure why, but they did.
More episodes like this! Not everything has to be epic
and sometimes fun is good! Sometimes a day in the life of the Hunters is just
what we need.
