Here it is! Ladies and gentleman an episode of our two favorite boys on a non-extensive-plot-line hunt. Not of course without great one-liners. Just plain boring and simple...well as boring and simple as you would expect out of the lives of Sam and Dean Winchester.
It opened up with an irrelevant murder (just like the good old days of seasons one and two) of a man getting crushed to death by a car on the tenth floor of his apartment. Yeah, you heard me. Driving up in the Impala and in the stylish fashion of false FBI agents, Sam and Dean arrive at the crime scene. "This feels wonky," says Dean of the regular-Joe case routine. "You know you wanna work this case, Dean," comments Sam, and that's not all he says. "By the way, thank you." "For what?" Asks Dean. "Amy. I know you didn't wanna let her go, but it was the right thing to do. Thanks." "No problem." Really Dean? You know Sammy is going to find out, better it comes from you.
In the apartment, the EMF reveals ghostly activity. "Some kind of ghost?" Remarks Sam. "With a license?" ..."License to kill," says Dean. (HAHAHAHAHA, sorry that was worth it). Later Dean finds a poker chip revealing the victim to be "dead and sober." Sam wants to check out a place called Jane's that the victim visited and sends Dean to investigate the AA meetings. "Congrats on your sobriety (Dean? Sober? Don't make me...hahahahha!), I'll go find out where Jane's is," says Sam. "I gave up AA for lent," replies Dean. "We're not Catholic." "Always with the details." Probably the most useless paragraph, but entertaining all the same.
Anyway, Dean discovers the victim has flowers sent to a little girl's grave, Elizabeth Durrin's. Why? Turns out the victim ran her over in the driveway. In other news, a man is mauled to death in a diner bathroom by a dog no one else saw. Sam finds out that he ran a dog fighting operation. "Do dogs even have ghosts?" Questions Dean. "First I've heard of it," says Sam. "You know it does make sense. Vengeance on the guy that Michael Vick-ed you." (HAHA.) This victim, like the other one, tried to turn over a knew leaf. Unfortunately for them, they still died. Just "another day at the office" for Sam and Dean. A common feature in both murders? Red dirt, aka an apple farm. "Wow, I'd be pretty interested in that if I ate apples." I wonder whose mouth that came out of...
Driving out to the apple farm, the boys almost run over a man in the middle of the road. The man says he was put on trial and sentenced to death for murdering a convenience store clerk and his wife. Makes sense, except he just got off parole. He was jumped outside of a place called Neil's Tavern and put on trial in a barn on the apple farm. "Well look, I'm gonna go out, I'm gonna go try and find that barn. You coming?" Asks Sam. "I'm gonna go check the bar." "To work or drink," he condemns. "I haven't decided," remarks Dean.
Sam leaves Warren, our friendly convict, and sends Bobby symbols Warren gave him to look up. At the bar Dean flirts with the bartender. Shocker. Mia, the bartender, gets Dean to talk about what's bothering him. So, yeah, everything. "You ever do something behind someone's back because you had to?" He tells her. Much later, and drunk, Dean waits for Mia outside the bar. He is captured by Osiris, the god of authority, and he judges you on your guilt and kills you for it, depending on how deep it runs. "This guy hones in on people who feel guilty," says Bobby to Sam. "Who does that sound like to you?" Cough, Dean, cough.
Mia finds Dean's phone and calls Sam, telling him he's not there. Warren doesn't stay inside the circle of salt like Sam told him, and gets himself killed by the ghosts of his victims. But that's not important. Anyway, Sam gets the phone back and finds red dirt on the ground. He races to barn on the apple farm and finds Dean in an Egyptian-style courtroom bound in chains. Sam demands to be Dean's lawyer (practice for what his college education may have given him...long story. Let's not get into that). Osiris agrees and calls three witnesses. The first one he calls, Jo. The object, to increase Dean's guilt. Sam cross examines her, yeah it's as funny as you might think. When Joe doesn't enhance the guilt, Osiris calls Sam to the stand. Sam then calls Dean and tries to erase his guilt and win him his life. It works, until Osiris threatens to call his last witness...he never does, but it's implied Amy is the last witness. We all know what would have happened it he did call her. Osiris sentences Dean to death.
Bobby of course has a solution for a temporary rest--you have to stab him with a ram's horn. Where do you get a ram's horn? Why, a synagogue. Too bad Sam gets busted by the rabbi. He gets away with it nonetheless and back at the motel room, Dean fights with his guilt over Jo. Osiris gives her the detail of being the ghost to kill Dean. Luckily Sam corners Osiris outside the Tavern going after another unsuspecting victim and stabs him in the back. Jo disappears, but not without leaving a lingering feeling of guilt in Dean's core and rubbing her hand affectionately across his cheek.
The episode ends with our boys drinking a six-pack and leaning against the Impala (the good old days!). "So, who was it?" Asks Sam. "Who?" "That whole, final witness thing." "No idea. Honestly, that could be just about anybody dead we know." Key word in that sentence, "honestly." Even after a whole episode centered around guilt and the purpose being to come clean to Sam, Dean still lies to him. Very disappointing.
Questions, remarks, disappointments, suggestions for Dean? See you next week!
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