Episode nine is 41.06. And we're starting in Lawrence, Kansas, the boy's hometown. A woman is unpacking boxes in a house, clearly just moved in. She's looking at a photo she has just unpacked, of a couple on their wedding day. She then begins to cry.
Clearly, emotional links to this photograph. I'm trying to remember if it's her husband, or her parents. I'm swaying towards the first option.
A little girl walks in, calling the woman 'Mommy'. She asks the girl why she isn't in bed, and the girl says there's something in her closet. The woman walks into the closet, the little girl sat on the bed, and then turns around, saying that there's nothing in the closet. The girl asks if she's sure, and the woman says yes. She shuts the closet doors again. She puts the girl back into bed, and the girl says she doesn't like the house. The woman says the girl needs to get used to the house, but they'll all be very happy together there.
The woman kisses the girl goodnight, and the girl asks her mother to move the chair in her room in front of the closet, just in case. She does, and leaves the room. She goes back to unpacking things downstairs, and as she does, she hears a rapid tapping, like rats moving through the walls. She goes down into the basement, but can't get the lights to work down there.
While she's down there, something moves the closet doors, the chair giving out slightly. The girl sits up in bed, scared. The doors open, the chair scraping across the floor. In the basement, the mother comes across a trunk, and bends down to investigate. Inside, there's a book with 'Dad' written across it, and pictures of John Winchester. Meanwhile, the girl watches, crying, as the closet doors open fully. While her mother is flipping through the Winchester's early photographs, a flaming figure walks out of the closet, and the little girl screams.
If you couldn't tell by this scene, or the title itself … this is happening in the house Mary died. I actually still can't piece together this part of their lives, to be honest, because Sam got kicked out of the house, so to me that implies that they had a house, but from the first episode, Dean and Sam have lived out of the Impala, or motels. Not once have they gone 'oh, Dad must have returned to our house in Kansas. My best theory is that John sold up not long after the incident, and dragged the boys across country. The house being referred to in regards to Sam leaving was a temporary base.
Oh, and they were adorable as a young family. So freaking cute!
We cut to the outside of the house, and a woman standing in the window, screaming. But we can't hear a sound, until we hear a car speeding by, and Sam wakes up with a start.
Welcome, people, to Sam's premonitions. Shit is about to get freaky.
Sam starts drawing a tree, over and over, on hotel stationery, as Dean sits in the kitchenette of their motel, drinking coffee and saying he's found a few potential cases for their next 'gig' from a few different websites. When Sam continues flipping through his drawings and ignoring the cases, Dean gets arsey.
Dean - "A fishing trawler, found off the coast of Cali. Its crew vanished. And, uh, we got some cattle mutilations in West Texas. Hey! Am I boring you with this hunting evil stuff?"
Sam - "No, I'm listening. Keep going."
Dean - "And here, a Sacramento man shot himself in the head. Three times." *waves hands about to distract Sam from his drawings* "Any of these things blowing up your skirt, pal?"
*fans self* Oh Dean, talk douche some more! Although, it is really rude of Sam to pretend he gives a shit when he clearly has his own agenda. He's such a moody teenager, sometimes.
Sam starts talking about his drawing, saying he's seen it before. Dean asks what, clearly annoyed with Sam by this point. Sam digs into one of their bags, pulls out John's journal, and scans through for a picture. He finds a photo of both of them, with John and Mary, and compares his drawing with the photo, and the tree in the background. He tells Dean that they have to go there next. Dean asks where, and Sam says, "Back home. Back to Kansas." Dean asks where that came from, and Sam starts explaining about the picture. Dean asks him where he's going with it, and Sam says the people who live there now are in danger. Dean asks why, and Sam says he just needs to trust him. Dean says Sam needs to give him more than that, and Sam says he can't. Dean says, tough shit. Sam sighs, and says he has nightmares. Dean's response is, "I've noticed." and Sam explains that they come true.
I'm with Dean, although we've been privy to the suggestion that Sam has premonitions (and sidebar, I get them. I had my first one when I was eleven. They're always small, almost inconsequential things I forget until I'm doing it, but then I have the weird inception thing of thinking it strange then remembering in my dream that I thought it was strange. My last premonition came true recently, and I wish I'd remembered it. We were talking about my nanny's funeral) this has come out of left field a bit. Based on Sam's drawing of a tree, he knows what his premonition is.
Dean stifles laughter, and asks him to explain in better detail. Sam finally confesses to dreaming about Jessica's death days before it happened. Dean looks a little stunned, but says maybe it was a coincidence, people have crazy dreams all the time. Sam starts ranting.
Sam - "No, I dreamed about the blood dripping, her on the ceiling, the fire. Everything. And I didn't do anything about it because I didn't believe it. And now I'm dreaming about that tree, about our house and about some woman inside screaming for help. I mean, that's where it all started man. This has to mean something, right?"
He barely took a breath. When Dean rants, it's slow, and punctuated, and he gets louder and gruffer until he's driven his point home. When Sam does it, it's fast and erratic and he gets more and more emotionally connected with his words until it's a little hard to understand what the hell he's actually trying to say.
And all credit to Dean in this section. If someone told me something like this, I would assume they were joking and make fun of them. Dean understands pretty quickly that Sam needs to calm down, and be reassured, and Dean cannot laugh. He makes my girlbits squirm.
Dean says he doesn't know, and Sam, still impassioned, asks how he can not know, and the woman might be in danger. It might even be the thing that killed their mother, and Jessica. Dean asks Sam to slow down, and walks across the room.
Dean - "I mean, first you tell me you've got the Shining, and then you tell me that I've got to go back home? Especially when …"
Sam - "When what?"
Dean - "When I swore to myself that I would never go back there."
Sam says he needs to be sure, and Dean agrees.
Awwwwh, Dean's fighting tears :( don't forget, in his formative years, he witnessed his mother on the ceiling. He would have been just old enough to recognise what was happening, and traumatised enough to remember it. And he pushes that aside for Sam, and this family (and in regards to season nine? FUCK YOU SAM! Can Sam be made to re-watch episodes to remember what the hell Dean has actually done for him, the jumped up little bitch?) and for the job.
So Sam and Dean head back into Kansas, and pull up outside of their old house. You couldn't tell that one of the rooms had once been destroyed in a fireball. Sam asks if Dean's going to be all right, and Dean tells him he'll get back to him on that.
Oh, Sam, like you care! Sorry … he has an adult-tantrum to go back, despite Dean in all his inarticulateness saying how hard that would be for him and it's only when they're outside their old house that Sam's a little bit like 'oh, hey, maybe my big brother will find this difficult.' so no wonder Dean isn't majorly responsive to Sam's lacklustre empathy.
They knock, and Dean starts with his cover story, but before he can even get which company they work for out, Sam blurts the truth, introducing himself and his brother and explaining that they used to live there. They were driving by and wanted to see the old place. The woman repeats their surname, and then says it's strange because she found some of their photos. Dean looks stunned, and she invites them in.
In the kitchen, a little boy is jumping in a play pen, calling for juice. She introduces him as Ritchie, the juice junkie. She introduces the girl from the earlier scene as Sari, and Sari is at the table, doing homework. Dean asks where they came from, and why they decided to buy the house. She says she needed a fresh start.
Definitely lost her husband. Still don't know her name. Dean's taking this well so far, but I think that's because of the promise of childhood mementos.
Sam asks how she's liking it so far, and she says she knows they probably have a lot of happy memories - Dean forces a smile and a nod - but there are issues. Sam asks what issues, and she says the wiring is old because the lights flicker frequently. Dean asks what else, and she mentions the rats, and a problem with the sink, then apologises for complaining. Dean says it's okay, but has she definitely seen rats, or just heard scratching?
I love this bit, because she's trying to be polite about not being overwhelmed with the house, and Dean is on Hunter mode. She must think he's a little perverse, or else he's going to tell her to shove it, but he's like 'flickering lights? Sounds of rats? Are there cold spots too?'
She admits she's only heard the scratching, and Sari asks her to ask the boys if 'it' lived there when they did. Sam asks what she means, and Sari mentions the thing in her closet. Her mother tries to reassure her that she was dreaming, and Sari tells them it was on fire. They leave the house, discussing it.
Sam - "You hear that? A figure on fire."
Dean - "And that woman, Jenny, that was the woman in your dreams?"
Sam - "Yeah. And you hear what she was talking about? Scratching, flickering lights. Both signs of a malevolent spirit."
Dean - "Yeah, well, I'm just freaked out that your weirdo visions are coming true."
Sam - "Well, forget about that for a minute, the thing in the house, do you think it's the thing that killed Mom, and Jessica?"
Dean - "I don't know!"
Sam - "Well, I mean, has it come back or has it been there the whole time?"
Dean - "Or maybe it's something else entirely, Sam, we don't know yet."
They agree they need to get the family out, and Sam demands right then, but Dean says they don't have a cover story.
Sam is back into high-pitched, high-speed, breathless ranting. He's totally ignoring Dean, because Dean has jumped to another conclusion that Sam hasn't considered. That they know someone who died in that house, and that someone might be haunting it. And when someone has been a ghost long enough, they turn malevolent. He's scared their mother is going to torture this family. He's also scared that Sam is showing some pretty out-there powers. He's realising that he doesn't know half of what's going on with his
Dean says they need to chill out, and think of this like any other job.
Mentally preparing himself to gank his own mother.
Sam takes a breath and agrees. Try to figure out what they're dealing with. Look into the house history - from an unbiased angle - and Dean says at least they know that one. Sam asks how much they know, really? How much does Dean remember? And Dean asks if he means about 'that night'. Dean says not much, just the fire, and carrying Sam out of the front door.
He pauses for such a long time between describing the fire and mentioning carrying Sam. He's editing heavily, just for Sam. And a little bit for himself.
Sam looks at him and says, "You did?" and Dean says, "Yeah, you never knew that?"
Yes, Sam, Dean has been carrying you since you were six months. Stop being such an ungrateful little bitch. Sorry … so impacted from the later seasons.
Sam says no, and then Dean says Sam knows their dad's version of events as well as he does, repeating the basics to Sam.
Sorry to keep holding them up - although this is essentially like Bugs in that the entire episode revolves around their issues - but how wrong of John was it to actually give them the truth? Okay, it was unavoidable for Dean, and for a while Dean and John did try to protect Sam from the truth of their lives, but it never lasted. And if John were any type of parent - of human being - he should have gotten therapy for what happened, and sheltered them their whole lives from the truth, coaxed Dean in to believing his four-year-old self had invented that story. I know there wouldn't be any Supernatural and then my life would be devoid of meaning, but lesson to learn, people! Shelter your kids from the paranormal!
Oh, God, I sound like Sam. Carrying on.
Sam asked if John ever had a theory about what killed their mom, and Dean said if he did, he didn't share it with them, but they had asked a lot. Sam says okay, they need to figure out what happened to know what's going on now. Dean agrees, and starts trying to list who to talk to in order to get answers. Sam asks, "Does this feel like just another job to you?" and rather than admit that no, there's too much emotion involved, Dean claims he needs the bathroom and leaves Sam on the car. He walks around the garage they've parked by, and flips his phone open just outside the mens room. He dials John's number, and gets John's answer phone. He leaves a message, fighting tears as he admits he doesn't have a plan for this job. He needs John's help.
It's heartbreaking, watching this stoic guy breaking down on the phone because of the emotional connection with his mother. And even more so to watch a man who struggles with that kind of honesty admitting that he doesn't have all the answers. Dean doesn't often ask for help, but he will when he's out of options, and he always gets so emotionally involved. It nearly always involves Sam in some way.
Back in the house, Jenny is walking a plumber into the kitchen, promising that there's nothing weird in the sink. It's just backed up. He agrees to look into it. Jenny leaves him alone to work on it, and the plumber looks at the U-bend underneath the sink. As he's working, a toy starts moving, a monkey holding symbols begins clapping them together.
He looks up and watches it for a moment, before continuing trying to fix the sink. He cleans out the u-bend and disconnects the power to the garbage disposal. The monkey toy stops moving. He stands up, and checks the disposal unit to be sure it's completely off. Nothing happens. He rolls up his sleeves and reaches into the drain.
After rooting around for a while, we hear metal chink, and see the plumber's arm pull. He takes out his hand and looks at it, dusting it off, and continuing to look in the drain.
Ha! Bet you thought his arm would get shredded in the disposal unit with all this dragging-out of the kitchen sink being unblocked!
He reaches his arm back in, and after the same clinking sound, the unit suddenly switches on, chewing up his arm. As he screams, blood pours straight through the sink into the bucket he had placed under the U-bend. The monkey toy starts clapping its cymbals together again.
Of course he was going to! What are you, new?
Meanwhile, the boys are talking to a mechanic, who once upon a time owned the garage with John. The owner says it's been twenty years since John disappeared, and asks why the interest from the police now? Dean explains that they're reopening unsolved cases, one of which is John's disappearance. They need to hear whatever he can remember about John. We hear that he was stubborn, a bad loser, he had a Marine mentality. But regardless, he loved Mary, and their kids. Sam double-checks that he's talking about before the fire. The owner says yes, and Sam asks if he talked about that night. The owner says, not at first, and Sam presses to find out if he ever did. The garage owner says John must have been out of his mind in grief, because he said something made the fire that killed Mary. When Dean asks what John said did it, the garage owner reassures him it was an accident.
Dean and Sam know better.
The garage owner says it was an electrical fault in the walls or something. He begged John to get some help, but instead John started reading strange books, old books, visiting a local palm-reader.
The next shot is of Sam looking through a phone book, trying to find who John could have consulted. He tells Dean there's a few palm-readers and psychics in town, and starts reeling them off. When he gets to Missouri Mosley, Dean stops him, repeating the name, asking if she's a psychic. Sam flips through again and says yes. Dean goes to the journal and shows Sam an entry, the first one. The first line. "I went to Missouri, and I learned the truth." Dean shrugs and says "I always thought he meant the state." and Sam laughs.
I love Missouri. I just want that out there. I don't think we see her again. And that was a genuinely cute moment between Sam and Dean. There really aren't enough.
In Missouri's house, the boys are waiting as someone leaves their consultancy. She walks behind him, reassuring him that he doesn't have to worry, his wife loves him very much.
And because Missouri is so awesome, I'm just going to quote the hell out of this. Not for analysis, just out of love.
Missouri - "Phew! Poor bastard. His woman is cold-banging the gardener."
Dean - "Why didn't you tell him?"
Missouri - "People don't come here for the truth. They come for good news. Well, Sam and Dean, come on already. I ain't got all day." *they walk through to the consulting room* "Well, let me look at you. Haha, oh, you boys grew up handsome." *points to Dean* "And you were one goofy-looking kid too." *takes Sam's hand* "Sam. Oh Honey, I'm sorry about your girlfriend. And your father, he's missing?"
Sam - "How'd you know all that?"
Missouri - "Well, you were just thinking it. Just now."
Dean - "Well, where is he? Is he okay?"
Missouri - "I don't know."
Dean - "Don't know? You-You're supposed to be a psychic, right?"
Missouri - "Boy, you see me sawing some bony tramp in half? You think I'm a magician? I may be able to read thoughts and sense energies in a room but I can't just pull facts out of thin air. Sit. Please." *they do, and she points to Dean again* "Boy, you put your foot on my coffee table, I'm gonna whack you with a spoon."
Dean - "I didn't do anything."
Missouri - "Well, you were thinking about it."
Sam - *shit-eating grin at Dean* - "Okay, so our dad. When did you first meet him?"
Missouri - "He came for a reading a few days after the fire. I just told him what was really out there in the dark. I guess you could say, I drew back the curtains for him."
Dean - "What about the fire? Do-do you know about what killed our mom?"
Missouri - "A little. Your daddy took me to your house. He was hoping I could sense the echoes, the fingerprints of this thing."
Sam - "And could you?"
Missouri - "I don't … "
Sam - "What was it?"
Missouri - "I don't know. Oh, but it was evil."
How awesome is she? And I wish I could capture the way Dean asks about his mom, like he's still a kid and she died yesterday. I think she took him a little more seriously after that.
At their old house, Jenny is on the phone, talking to someone about the plumber's hand as Ritchie demands juice from his play pen. She's discussing how she might be held liable for his accident, and how she can't afford a lawyer. A noise overhead stops her mid-conversation, and she says she'll call the person back, hanging up and telling Ritchie she'll be right back for him, too. He sits down and starts playing with one of his toys.
And we're back to Missouri!
Missouri - "So, you think something's back in that house?"
Sam - "Definitely."
Missouri - "I-I don't understand."
Sam - "What?"
Missouri - "I haven't been back inside but I've been keeping an eye on the place, and it's been quiet. No sudden deaths, no freak accidents. Why is it acting up now?"
Sam - "I don't know. But Dad gone missing and Jessica dying and now this house, it all happening at once. It just feels like something starting."
Dean - "That's a comforting thought."
Okay, I will analyse this - I don't think Sam's collaborated his thoughts so neatly before on this topic, and he definitely hasn't expressed this to Dean. Dean looked a little surprised at Sam's tangent. I wouldn't be surprised if he thinks it's all bullshit, either. But Sam and Dean haven't really faced anything more than low-level spirits so far, so why would any of it carry some deeper meaning? But he'll have to sack up quickly, because even here we're on the verge of delving into Christian lore. We're about to deal with a high-ranking demon. But not in this episode, I don't think.
At the house, Ritchie is playing in his play pen, and as he does, the bolt lifts up and drops away, taking one side of the pen down. Ritchie looks at it for a moment, as the safety catch is removed from the fridge, and the door cracked open. Ritchie gets up as the door opens wider, and toddles over to the fridge. He spots his juice cup and walks forward to retrieve it, climbing all the way in to do so. As he sits there drinking up, the door slams shut behind him, and the catch slides back in neatly.
Ahem, I think in broadcast, that was the end of the section before the ad break, because it fades to black and then we're still in the kitchen. Continuity for DVD sucks, right?
Jenny walks back into the kitchen, talking to Ritchie about there being rats or Mommy is going crazy. She stops, and notices the wide-open play pen. She calls for him, running around the house, and eventually running up to the fridge when she notices milk leaking out. She opens it up, and he's luckily safe. She hugs him, crying in relief.
Sam and Dean knock on the door, and she answers, still breathless. She asks what they're doing there, and Sam introduces her to Missouri. Dean says they want to show Missouri around the house for 'old times sake' and Jenny tells them it's not a good time. Dean starts to tell her it's important, and Missouri clubs him around the head.
She's so bad-ass. She keeps Dean in line. Dammit, she's my hero!
Missouri - "Give the poor girl a break. Can't you see she's upset? Forgive this boy, he means well. He's just not the sharpest tool in the shed. But hear me out."
Jenny - "About what?"
Missouri - "About this house."
Jenny - "What are you talking about?"
Missouri - "I think you know what I'm talking about. You think there's something in this house. Something that wants to hurt your family. Am I mistaken?"
Jenny - "Who are you?"
Missouri - "We're people who can help. Who can stop this thing. But you're gonna have to trust us, just a little."
Dean's face when Missouri says he's not bright is priceless, but he lets it go. Because he can tell just how awesome she is too. And I love how Missouri is like 'we can help' like 'we're the real ghostbusters, bitch!' I am fangirling so hard.
Jenny obviously lets them in, realising how bad-ass Missouri is, because the next scene is in one of the rooms, the old nursery.
Missouri - "If there's a dark energy around here, this room should be the centre of it."
Sam - "Why?"
Missouri - "This used to be your nursery, Sam. This is where it all happened."
Both the boys look up at the ceiling, and Dean gets his EMF reader out as Missouri holds her hands over various objects, trying to get a sense of energies.
Missouri - "That an EMF?"
Dean - "Yeah."
Missouri - "Amateur."
Dean gives Missouri another pointed look, and nudges Sam as the EMF spikes.
Missouri - "I don't know if you should be disappointed or relieved, but this ain't the thing that took your mom."
Sam - "Are you sure? How do you know?"
Missouri - "It isn't the same energy I felt the last time I was here. It's something different."
Dean - "What is it?"
Missouri - *walking into the closet* "Not it. Them. There's more than one spirit in this place."
Dean - "What are they doing here?"
Missouri - "They're here because of what happened to your family. You see, all those years ago, real evil came to you. It walked this house. That kind of evil leaves wounds. And sometimes, wounds get infected."
Sam - "I don't understand."
Missouri - "This place is a magnet for paranormal energy. It's attracted a poltergeist. A nasty one. And it won't rest until Jenny and her babies are dead."
Sam - "You said there was more than one spirit."
Missouri - "There is. I just can't quite make out the second one."
Dean - "Well, one thing's for damn sure. Nobody's dying in this house ever again. so whatever is here, how do we stop it?"
I can make out the second one! I think the first time I watched, because she kept standing in the closet, I was hopeful, and then I squealed when it was revealed later on. Seriously. But oh, the boys needed to know who - or what - the other spirit was.
Later, in another room …
Dean - "So, what is all this stuff anyway?"
Missouri - "Angelica root, Van Van oil, crossroad dirt. A few other odds and ends."
Dean - "Yeah, what are we supposed to do with it?"
Missouri - "We're going to put them inside the walls in the north, south, east, west corners on each floor of the house.
Dean - "We're gonna be punching holes in the dry wall, Jenny's going to love that."
Missouri - "She'll live."
Sam - "And this will destroy the spirits?"
Missouri - "It should. It should purify the house completely. We'll each take a floor, but we work fast. Once the spirits realise what we're up to, things are gonna get bad."
They re-use some of those ingredients throughout the show, but I don't think there's another poltergeist for them to repeat this exercise. Which is a little sad, but I guess they have to grow with the show. Vampires and Werewolves get more than one episode though …
Missouri leads Jenny and her children out of the house, and begins reassuring them as they go.
Missouri - "Okay, careful."
Jenny - "Look, I'm not sure I'm comfortable leaving you guys here alone."
Missouri - "Just take your kids to the movies or something and it'll be over by the time you get back. Okay."
Jenny leaves with the kids and Missouri goes back into the house, closing the front door.
In the house, Sam is walking through the rooms, twisting a hammer in his hand. He picks a wall, and taps along it to try and find an empty spot. As he does so, a plug in the wall removes itself, snaking its way along the floor and bringing the lamp it's connected to with it. In the kitchen, Dean is moving pots and appliances to get to where he needs to put a hole. He knocks on the wall and primes an axe as the cutlery draw slides open. He starts knocking a hole in the wall. Meanwhile, Missouri is somewhere dark, the basement, and she finds her corner with a flashlight. She puts a bag in the wall, and yelps as a cabinet slides across the room to pin her to the wall.
This poltergeist has cottoned on quickly. They're all going to get bitchslapped by this thing.
Dean is about to put his bundle in the first hole, when he hears the sounds of knives being unsheathed. He turns, and ducks just as the knives go flying. The first one hits the cabinet, and as it does, Dean turns a table over, and more blades get stuck into the underside of the table. Upstairs, Sam hears the lamp smash and turns just as the flex curls around his neck, choking him and dragging him to the floor. He tries to fight it, to pull it off with one hand, and to throw the bag into the hole with the other, but gives up, both hands flying to his neck to try to pull the flex off him. He passes out, and Dean comes running up the stairs, shouting his name. Dean manages to pull the wire off Sam just before Sam is choked to death, then runs across the room, scooping up the bag, kicking a hole in the wall and shoving the bag in. As he does, there's a huge beam of light that shines out of the hole, and through the window.
Oh, wait, what was that? Did Dean just save Sam's life again? I am so keeping a tally of how often Sam saves Dean and Dean saves Sam. So far, I count Dean saving Sam four times, Sam saving Dean twice, Dean saving a little boy from drowning with Sam trying to help, and Dean saving a family from an ancient Indian curse with Sam trying to help.
The notion that the first episodes paint Sam as the hero are clearly bullshit. I've heard people refer to Sam as a Gary-Stu as well, because he is book-smart and he has these special powers, but I also think that is bullshit. I think Sam was given these out-there abilities and they needed a balance so he needed someone like Dean in his life, a leader and a moral compass. Someone who could cover for Sam's mistakes, but could learn something from Sam too. Whatever else is said in the episodes (glaring at you, season nine!) Sam needs Dean. If he could just get his head out of his ass to see that.
Dean guards his eyes from the light, and when it fades, as Sam gasps for air, he runs back to his brother, untying the lead from Sam's neck and hugging him close.
Point made. There's another fade-to-black-for-commercials, and then:
The boys are back in the kitchen, with Missouri, and they're investigating the damage left by the poltergeist.
Sam - "You sure this is over?"
Missouri - "I'm sure. Why? Why do you ask?"
Sam - "Oh, never mind. It's nothing, I guess."
I don't know what Sam's on about either. It's his crazy intuition, I guess.
Jenny walks in at that moment, calling a hello and all three turn towards the door. She walks in and sees the state of the kitchen.
Jenny - "What happened?"
Sam - "Hi. Sorry. Um, we'll … we'll pay, for all this."
Dean's face when Sam says that 'like hell we will!' Dean hustles hard for his cash! But because he was thinking 'fuck no', Missouri had to bitch-slap him one more time.
Missouri - "Don't you worry. Dean's gonna clear up this mess."
I know she's riding him for giggles, but since he saved Sam's ass and put the last bundle in, she should cut him some slack.
Missouri - "Well, what're you waiting for boy? Get the mop. And don't cuss at me."
Dean stares at her, and she stares back.
Because Missouri can hear him saying 'son of a bitch' about the whole thing. This time, I'm with Dean (of course!)
The boys and Missouri leave, Dean helping Missouri down the steps. Jenny follows them out. They look back at her for a second, then carry on walking. Jenny shuts the door behind them and turns out a light.
Later, Jenny is in bed, reading a book. She yawns, puts the book to the side, and reaches over to turn out her light. She lays down for a few moments, and then the bed starts moving. She starts to scream. Outside, Dean and Sam are in the Impala, watching the house.
Dean - "Alright, so tell me again, what are we still doing here?"
Sam - "I don't know, I just-I still have a bad feeling."
Dean - "Why? Missouri did her whole Zelda Rubenstein thing. The house should be clean, this should be over."
Sam - "Yeah, well, probably. But I just wanna make sure, that's all."
Dean - "Yeah, well, problem is, I could be sleeping in a bed right now."
My poor future husband has been through enough for one night :( yeah, in a few seasons time, he'll say he was complaining over nothing.
Dean leans his head back to sleep in the car, and Sam squints up at the house. Jenny is pounding on the window the way she did in Sam's dream at the beginning of the episode. He taps Dean on the shoulder, saying, then yelling his name as he climbs out of the car. Dean sits up, looking at the house.
And he looks totally freaked that Sam's vision is right there in front of him.
Dean gets out of the car too, as Sam races around it. Dean starts yelling to Sam to grab the kids while he gets Jenny. They push their way into the house. Jenny, seeing them coming, runs around the shaking bed, to the door. She tries the doorknob, but it won't budge. At the same time, in the open closet in Sari's room, the flaming spectre reappears. Sari sits up in bed, watching it, completely frightened.
Dean runs to the room Jenny's in, calling her name. She says she can't get the door open, and he orders her to stand back. He kicks the door open and runs in to grab her, telling her to come on. She holds back, mentioning the kids, and Dean reassures her that Sam has them. She lets him pull her out the house.
Sam already has Ritchie, and goes running to Sari's room, but stops when he sees the flaming spectre. He's ignoring Ritchie's calls for his mother. Sam runs around the edge of the room, scooping up Sari and telling her not to look. Dean and Jenny are the first ones out the door, and they look back to the empty doorway.
Sam runs down the stairs, putting Sari and Ritchie on the floor. He tells Sari to take Ritchie outside and not to look back. There's a snarling noise, and then Sam is dragged to the floor, and dragged back through the house, as Sari screams and runs out with her brother.
Sari and Ritchie run up to Dean and Jenny, and while Jenny hugs Ritchie, Dean asks Sari where Sam is. She tells him that he's still inside, and something grabbed him. At that moment, the front door slams shut.
Dean goes back to the Impala, digging around in the trunk, pulling out a shotgun and some salt rounds. While Jenny checks on her kids, Dean runs back to the front door and starts trying to kick his way in. Meanwhile, in the kitchen, Sam is being slammed against the walls and the counters. Dean starts hacking away at the front door with an axe as Sam gets thrown across the room, and into a door, where he's pinned. He tries to fight it, but can't even move his hands off the door. Dean manages to cut a hole in the door and screams for Sam, as the flaming figure appears in front of Sam.
Dean busts a hole in the door big enough to go through, and he runs in, pulling out his gun and shouting Sam's name. As he finds him and walks closer, he too spots the flaming spectre. He raises his gun to shoot, and Sam tells him not to. Dean asks why? And Sam says, he knows who it is.
Okay, normally I clearly just like to write out the ending as it happens because that's where all the action is, the accumulation of everything that's happened, but … you know who it is too, right? Right? I'm sorry to quote so much dialogue in one episode, but needs must. They're going to get a chance to talk with their mom.
Sam - "I can see her now."
The flames start to disperse, and Mary appears. Dean lowers his shotgun slowly.
Dean - "Mom?"
Mary - "Dean. Sam. I'm sorry."
Sam - "For what?"
Okay, whenever someone talks about the feels on Supernatural … Dean looks stunned, and close to tears, and like he's regressing as soon as he says 'Mom' and Sam's actually crying, still pinned to the door.
Mary flickers across the room, and looks upwards.
Mary - "You get out of my house. And let go of my son."
Mary bursts back into flames, and the boys watch with tears in their eyes. The flames go up to the ceiling and disperse, and Sam is freed from his position against the door. Dean starts looking around.
Dean - "Mom?"
Sam - "… now it's over."
And that's it. That's all they get out of their mother. Verbally, anyway. I think the writers realised that, doing this, it would have more of an impact for Dean, because Sam barely knew their mother. For Sam it would be like 'that's what Mom was like?' but for Dean, he might as well have been four again. He wanted her back, it was so obvious to see, but it's not possible.
Lucky for us, this is supernatural, where talking to ghosts, visiting heaven and travelling through time with your angel buddy are all entirely possible. Dean's going to have more FEEEEEEELS moments with Mommy.
Outside, in the daytime, Dean is looking through some of the photographs that Jenny has given them, the box open in the Impala. He looks up and thanks Jenny for them, and she says they're his, she doesn't need to be thanked. He shuts the photos away.
By the house, Sam is sitting on the stoop, as Missouri walks out.
Missouri - "Well, there're no spirits in there any more. This time for sure."
Sam - "Not even my mom?"
Missouri - "No."
Sam - "What happened?"
Missouri - "Your mom's spirit and the poltergeist's energy, they cancelled each other out. Your mom destroyed herself going after that thing."
Sam - "Why would she do something like that?"
Missouri - "Well, to protect her boys, of course. Sam, I'm sorry."
Sam - "For what?"
Is that Sam's only response? I guess I understand it, it's annoying to hear 'I'm sorry' when you're grieving. I don't know why he's not making the connection with Mary being sorry she couldn't raise them and stop them from being hunters like she wanted (SPOILER!) and with Missouri feeling sorry that he's only just starting a pretty shitty road through life. She can read his thoughts, she can read Deans, she knows Johns.
Missouri - "You sensed it was here, didn't you? Even when I couldn't."
Sam - "What's happening to me?"
Missouri - "I know I should have all the answers. But I don't know.
Dean calls over to ask if Sam's ready, and Sam starts walking down the path, Missouri following him. Dean and Jenny say bye at the car, and Jenny thanks Sam on the way back to her house. She stops when she reaches Missouri.
Missouri - "Don't you boys be strangers."
Dean - "We won't."
Missouri - "See you around."
The boys climb into the Impala and drive off, Missouri watching them go. Back in Missouri's house, she walks in and into her consulting room.
Missouri - "That boy. I mean, he has such powerful abilities. Why he couldn't sense his own father, I have no idea."
Missouri walks through a beaded curtain halfway set in the room, towards the man on the couch.
John - "Mary's spirit? Do you really think she saved the boys?"
Missouri - "I do. John Winchester, I could just slap you. Why don't you go talk to your children?"
John - "I want to. You have no idea how much I wanna see them. But I can't. Not yet. Not until I know the truth."
Just like every other deadbeat out there, huh, John Winchester? However, it's nice to end on something other than Sam and Dean leaving town. And we haven't even touched on Sam's abilities.
Next episode is Asylum. Nice bit of brotherly angst-filled drama coming up!
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