Dean is back, free
from possession and ready to rejoin the party. He dives right in, mocking the
horrific abomination of his brother’s beard, reeling a little at the crowds
that now fill the Winchester Cave - who call Sam Chief.
We have reunions with
Cas and Jack - but not Bobby, alas. What we don’t have is Dean talking about
his possession. He claims to not remember anything about being possessed and
insists he’s fine
Everyone gives him
duly dubious looks
But when he goes to shower
he finds a weird scar on his arm - they realise something managed to hurt him
while possessed by Michael -perhaps enough to drive Michael from his host
explaining why Dean was freed at all. This is exciting for everyone because it
points to a weakness in the super dangerous Archangel
And they have a lead.
Cas does his angel mind reading trick on Dean (hey, remember that one?) and
remembers a figure with a spear stabbing Michael/Dean in the arm… a figure that
looks exactly like the one who killed Kaia.
They call Jody about
the attacker (oh why why why did they not get a spin off? Whyyyy?) they learn
she has three bodies with very similar marks to the scars Dean had. Time for
them to set off - without Jack because Dean crushes his little spirit by pointing
out how weak and fragile he is with classic Dean diplomacy. Jack goes to his
room with heart all in tatters…. Awwwww
And Castiel stays
behind because one of the Winchester crowd, Jules, brings in Laura, a victim of
a witches curse who needs woo-woo. I think this is a convenient way of keeping
Castiel off the front like, just like last week because, even if they keep
forgetting it, angels are supposed to be portable nukes and break the story
It does mean we get
to see Jody again - and why oh why oh why wasn’t Wayward Sisters a
thing?! WHYYYYY?! She talks about how hard it is raising three huinters, how
she and Claire continue to have a difficult relationship with them finding a
level with Jody agreeing to bring her in on monster cases but human cases are
off limit. Which makes sense since with humans she has to be involved with
things like evidence etc
She’s very concerned
about getting Claire involved in this hunt because it’s linked to Kaia’s death
and Claire was very upset by this because “first love”...
…
.. what? Since when?
Because Claire and Kaia did not develop anything like that in the Wayward
Sisters episode. I can get why she’s upset because Kaia died SAVING Kaia - but don’t
retroactively call lesbian/bisexual on a character who is dead and another
character who isn’t even here.
All of this makes me
think that I really really really wanted Wayward Sisters to happen with
these excellent characters who could actually have built all this without
deciding to cry lesbian on a corpse.
Dean is having one of
his predictable emotional issues - driving too fast, refusing to talk,
desperately trying to find some way to kill Michael while refusing to talk
about his obvious terror of what being possessed felt like and how helpless he
was.
See, after fourteen episodes we kind of know all this because Dean has patterns. We don’t really need Sam to constantly push Dean to talk or for us to have numerous scenes which are basically trying to vocalise what is already apparent. We don’t need this - we don’t need to vocalise what Jensen Ackles is doing extremely good job of depicting all of these emotions. He’s showing, he’s doing a great job of showing. We don’t need to say.
Investigating they
find several heads mounted on pikes - but also that those heads are vampires.
Jody is confused because she tested the dead bodies (the headless dead bodies)
and they didn’t show vampire signs - it’s more of Michael’s enhanced monster
army. The monsters have been killed by - Dark Kaia! The Kaia who killed our
Kaia! A plot line that would have been fascinating and fun in Wayward
sisters. They briefly tussle with her before she runs off
The gang quickly
realises that Dark Kaia’s spear can totally kill Archangels - so they need that
spear. Using Dean’s tracking abilities (which I’m torn over - because I
recognise this as both a skillset Dean probably would have given the number of
forests they’ve tracked monsters through while at the same time they’ve not
actually done it before) to find Dark Kaia - and Dean, much to everyone’s
shock, punches her out.
She wakes tied to a
chair but she’s hidden her spear - and Dean, again much to everyone’s shock, is
willing to torture her to get his answers. There is a nice moment with Dark
Kaia pointing out that this isn’t entirely alien to Dean - he did threat Kaia
with a gun to make her comply when they first met. Dean is not above using
threat and violence to get his ways: which makes him not entirely
Un-Michaelness. But this insight is also ruined by her completely needing to
vocalise how Dean is being a dick because he’s scared of Michael. I mean… yeah,
we know? Everyone knows? We don’t need you to say
Dark Kaia remembers
what Kaia did because they’re connected - they’re both dream walkers and have
been exchanging dream connections forever. So clearly if Wayward Sisters
happened she’d have stepped into Kaia’s shoes with added angst: and she didn’t
intend to kill Kaia. She was trying to kill Claire.
So more enhanced
vampires attack and despite Sam, Bobby and Mary (hey, Bobby, Mary where are
you?) fighting a gazillion demons in a fist fight last episode, this episode 3
vampires are just too much for Sam, Dean and Jody - and Dark Kaia rescues them
with nifty spear skills. Before making it clear she still doesn’t like any of
them and just wanted to kill the monsters. They warn her if she leaves with the
spear the evil monsters are still going to keep chasing her which she just
shrugs off
She was kind of
angsty about it earlier, how she could never stop and had to keep running and
fighting but now she’s all “meh”. Honestly I think “meh” works better since she
came from the dark dimension of awfulness and probably is used to being chased
and attacked
This wraps up this
storyline for now while everyone recaps: Jody her awkwardness of trying to
raise three hunts and Sam and Dean have a heart to heart where Dean vocalises
his issues AGAIN. It’s not badly done per se, it’s just redundant and I kind of
have issues with writers who treat their audience as having the same level of
deductive reasoning and emotional maturity of a slightly dim jellyfish
Back at the
Winchester Cave Jack is all up in his feelings about Dean not want his liability
self being dragged into a fight and he wants to run away leaving a note
But Castiel and Jules
are magically trying to heal Laura and he sees this and gets kind of hooked on
Laura- there’s a crush there. He stays to help and is utterly emotionally devastated
when they fail and she dies. But Jack has a sudden flash of insight and
realises her life is being drained and a little more shenanigans and Laura is
saved and can go home
I don’t know - this
is a good “hey you’re still a good hunter without super powers” Jack moment.
But I also think it would have been a good “you can’t save everyone” moment.
And have actual dead innocents have some kind of impact again rather than the
Winchesters just happily moving along with legions of dead innocents behind them
who aren’t even noticed unless a Winchester trips over a corpse.
This does leave to a
wonderful moment of Cas supporting and being all paternal to Jack and Jack
saying he has multiple fathers and it’s generally nice
But Jack is also
coughing up blood… I’m guessing being graceless isn’t great for a nephilim.
