I have searched, but 'Dead In The Water' only seems to come up as an Ellie Goulding song. I'll award five internets to anyone who can tell me the original song lyric, including year of release. Unless they're still doing that whole 'we haven't got to awesome songs yet, this is a basic description of the episode'.
Episode three starts like episode two, with a "previously on supernatural" introduction and cue cards with things like 'what happened that night'. There's a brief montage of the previous two episodes to bring viewers up to date with the basic storyline. After the credits, we go to Lake Manitoc, Wisconsin.
According to wiki (so pinch-of-salt time) there is no Lake Manitoc, but there is a Lake Manitowoc, where this is probably parodied from. A lot of the towns - like Jericho, California - don't exist. Some do, like Lawrence, Kansas. And some are jokes, like Brockway, Ogdenville and North Haverbrook (Monoraaaaaail!). I love the sense of humour the creators and writers have in the show.
We see a picturesque house, slightly elevated with a wraparound porch set in the middle of nowhere. Inside, a girl crosses the room to a man sitting at the dining table. She's in a tracksuit, and she kisses him good morning. There's a boy sat on the counter, eating cereal. He teases her for working out, saying guys don't like buff girls, and she smiles back that girls don't like guys who won't move out of their parents.
My search says they used this house in a film Jensen Ackles did as well, called Devour. Again, wiki. According to them as well, this is his favourite episode, and also the episode where Jared bust up his wrist in a bar brawl. Boys! Also, I still live with my parents, there are sometimes valid reasons for that, you know?
The girl leaves the house, and her father warns her to be careful. She says she will. The scene cuts to her, just in a bathing suit, looking out across the lake. She dives in from the jetty she's been standing on, and starts swimming, looking around at the nearby forest nervously. She carries on swimming, and we can hear a voice, growing in volume and intensity. It's hard to make out the words, but she stops, looking around again. We then see her slide down into the water as if something grabbed her feet.
The scene cuts to a truck driving past a hotel, and inside, dirty breakfast plates are laid next to several newspapers. Some have articles circled, some have articles scribbled out, and we see a pen moving to scratch out another one. It's Dean, searching through papers for possible cases, and we see him circle one of the girl who had just been swimming. A blonde waitress comes up and asks him if he'd like anything else. His reaction?
Sure *looks at name badge* Wendy. Make me that pen?
Sam comes over and asks for their check, and Wendy smiles back at Dean as she goes to get it. Dean hangs his head for a moment, then turns to his brother, clearly a little frustrated.
Dean - "You know Sam, we are are allowed to have fun once in a while." *points after Wendy* "That's fun."
Sam looks away, not answering, and Dean shows him the article he's circled. We find out it's a week after she went in, and didn't come out. The lake has been dragged, and no body found. She's the third person to drown in the lake that year, and neither of the other bodies were found, either. There was a funeral two days ago, and an empty coffin was buried. Both boys agree that it's weird. Dean said it's probably for closure.
Sam - "Closure? What Closure? People don't just disappear, Dean. Other people just stop looking for them."
Dean - "Something you wanna say to me?"
Sam - "The trail for Dad, it's getting colder every day."
Dean - "Exactly. So what are we supposed to do?"
Sam - "I don't know. Something. Anything."
Dean - "You know what? I'm sick of this attitude. You don't think I want to find Dad as much as you do?
Sam - "Yeah, I know you do. It's just-"
Dean - "I'm the one who's been with him every single day for the past two years. While you've been off to college going to pep rallies. We will find Dad. But until then we're going to kill everything bad-" *taps paper* "-between here and there. Okay?"
Yeah, this might be another dialogue-heavy post. Look, it's my damn blog, if I want every rant Dean ever has in a fit of self-righteousness, or every Sam emo-fest, I'm going to transcribe. Dean's so passionate in this bit, and I really enjoyed it, not just because it was Dean, but because it's easy to mistake Sam's desire for revenge as him being more about the search for their father. This is a way of Dean asserting that yes, he wants to find their father - Sam would still be in college if Dean hadn't been so concerned that he went for help - but he wants to do it the way he's been brought up. John would have a shit-fit if they hadn't fought the creatures he'd earmarked for them. Whether he knew Sam would join Dean is another matter entirely, but I believe he did.
This goes back to what I was saying in the last episode. When Dean decides on something, you can't talk him out of it, but he will talk you into being on board. You can't argue with the man. I admire his bloody-mindedness. And I think Sam realises when he's beaten too.
They continue arguing through facial expressions as Wendy walks past again, Dean taking his focus off of Sam to look at her ass. Sam looks to see what's distracted Dean, and then agrees, Lake Manitoc.
Argh, again, the facial expressions say it all. Dean's eyebrows kinda come down, not in a frown but relaxing from where they were so animated during his speech. He sets his jaw and the face kinda says 'do not piss me off or argue because I will win, and I will beat the shit out of you for it. Again.' Whereas Sam looks like he's going to try to outstare him, and then he raises his eyebrows and rolls his eyes like 'there's just no winning with you.' He jerks his head slightly as he does so, so it almost looks like he's shrugging while barely moving. The debate to carry on Hunting is over and agreed with before Dean looks at Wendy again. Those few movements take three seconds, total. It took me 107 words to explain what happens in those three seconds. This is what I mean about the subtlety of their expressions and the length of time each episode takes. Seriously, they're about 43 minutes long, each. Also, the expression I just described for Sam? It's known to fans as his 'bitch face'.
We get some shots of the Impala driving through the back roads and fields, out into the middle of nowhere, where Lake Manitoc is supposed to be. They pull up at the house from earlier, and knock on the door. The girl's brother answers, and this time, they're posing as agents from the US Wildlife Service, Agent Ford, and Agent Hamill.
In the first episode, Dean tried telling the police his name was Ted Nugent. Expect a lot of old rocker names and sic-fi jokes to come out in their temporary identities. Worth noting - Dean's into Star Wars. And he mocks Sam for being a nerd.
We cut to the father sitting in a chair on the jetty, and the brother leads Sam and Dean out towards him, explaining where his sister had been before she disappeared into the water. Dean asks if she didn't just drown, and was definitely dragged under, and we hear how she's been swimming all her life and wouldn't drown. She was on the varsity swim team, and as safe in the lake as she would have been in the bath.
Since I probably am spoiling the fuck out of the earlier seasons anyway - funny he should say that. Look for how one person almost drowns later. Not so reassuring!
Sam asks if she shows any signs of distress, and the brother says no. He asks about shadows in the water, and the brother says she was too far out. Dean asks about tracks leading into the water, and the brother asks why, what's out there? Dean says they'll let him know when they know. Sam asks if they can talk to the father, and the brother says he's been through a lot and didn't see anything.
The scene cuts to inside the sheriff's office, where the sheriff is asking why the wildlife service would be concerned with the case. Sam's response is "You sure it's accidental? Will Carlton saw something grab his sister."the sheriff asks what could have grabbed her when there's no indigenous carnivores in the lake, and nothing big enough to grab a person unless they suddenly had the Loch Ness Monster. Dean laughs it off, but shoots Sam a look as the sheriff carries on talking.
Dean's expression in that little look says to me 'add Loch Ness Monster to our list of possibles'. Silly sheriff, they'll believe the Loch Ness Monster over, say, a scuba-diving murderer!
The sheriff says Will - the brother - was reacting to his sister's death by imagining what he wanted to, and the mind plays tricks on those who are stressed. He explains that the lake has been dragged, and there was a sonar sweep, just in case. Dean says it's weird, especially as it's the third in the year. The sheriff says he knows, and they're his citizens and he cares about them. The sheriff says it won't be a problem much longer, because the dam on the lake is falling apart and they can't fund a repair job. In six months time, there won't be much of a lake left, or much of a town. But of course the boys would know, as they're from federal wildlife.
There is a relevance to the dam, of course there is. It just won't crop up for a while. This was a bit of a weird scene for me, because most of the questions and talking is done by Dean, rather than Sam. I think they were probably trying to show that Dean could have a serious side (ha! Just wait until the first Trickster episode).
A woman enters, saying that she hopes she's not interrupting, and both boys stand up, looking her her. the sheriff introduces her as his daughter, and Dean shakes her hand, saying it's a pleasure to meet her.
He wants to tap that. I guess he didn't get Wendy earlier, so it's only natural …
The sheriff tells her they're from the wildlife service, asking about the lake, and a boy appears from behind her, looking timid. Dean immediately starts talking to the boy, asking his name, and the boy turns and walks away.
Nice job Dean, getting in with the kids ;) Dean and this kid are going to bond this episode, and prove what I said before. Dean deals with women who would screw him, and kids. Sam deals with everyone else. For the most part anyway, there's a funny episode coming up where Sam has to talk to the girl … ha!
We find out the boy's called Lucas, and he's 'been through a lot'. Dean stops on his way out to ask if there's a local motel they can stay in. When the sheriff's daughter gives him directions, Dean asks if she could show them.
Because 'it's two blocks up' is a difficult set of directions. But I'm still like a pudding-skeleton when he gets like this. Oh, Dean … Sam rolls his eyes when he stops to say that, love how annoyed he gets from Dean just being Dean.
She agrees to go with them, since she's headed in the same direction. They leave Lucas in the sheriff's office, colouring in, and start walking. Dean tells Andrea - the sheriff's daughter - that her son is cute. She says thanks, as Dean starts talking about how great kids are. They stop outside of the hotel, and Andrea turns to Dean, her back to Sam, as she mocks Dean for his sense of direction, "It must be hard, with your sense of direction. Never being able to find your way to a decent pick up line?" and walks off. Dean looks confused as Sam smirks, and teases Dean for his cheesy chat ups.
Sam - "Kids are the best? You don't even like kids."
Dean - "I love kids!"
Sam - "Name three children that you even know."
Dean goes to count on his hand, pausing to think, and Sam walks away. Dean scratches his head and tells him that he's trying to think.
The earlier episodes all seem to play to the idea that Dean thinks he's Casanova but doesn't strike out much. As far as I can remember, that'll change soon, because when they meet Hunger on their search for the four horsemen, he says he wants for nothing because he goes after and gets whatever he wants - food, sex or sleep. I love how Sam's out of his funk enough to mock Dean for trying to be a player. Like I said before, the way Sam and Dean communicate is definitely the big thing that got me hooked. They just seem to relate to each other in a way that makes sense off-screen as well as on-screen. I mean, they don't come across as stilted or unrealistic. I wish all fiction had characters so vivid.
Sam is on his computer in the hotel room, researching all the deaths in the lake. Beyond the three in 2005, there are six more, over the last 35 years. Not one of those bodies were ever recovered. Sam thinks that whatever's out there is picking up the pace. He disagrees with Dean about the 'Lake Monster theory'.
Dean - "So, what, we got a Lake Monster on a binge?"
Sam - "This whole 'Lake Monster' theory it, it just bugs me."
Dean - "Why?"
Sam - "Loch Ness, Lake Champlain, there are literally hundreds of eye witness accounts, but here … almost nothing. Whatever it is out there, no one's living to talk about it."
They discover the victim that disappeared in May was Andrea's husband. Lucas had been swimming with his father and was on a floating wooden platform as his father drowned, two hours before Lucas could be rescued. Sam realises that the only eye witness is Lucas. Dean's reaction?
Dean - "No wonder that kid was so freaked out. Watching one of your parents die isn't something you just get over."
He means Mary, if you couldn't tell already. But I think this scene is a good way of showing that Dean does understand Lucas, which is how he can talk to the kid.
We cut to a playground, where Lucas is colouring again, and Andrea is on a bench. She looks up and smiles as Dean and Sam approach. Dean goes over to talk to Lucas, and Andrea says "Tell your friend this whole Jerry Maguire thing isn't going to work on me." Sam smiles and lets her know that Dean's not doing that.
I love the Jerry Maguire burn. I sat through that crap purely to watch Drake Bell flip Tom Cruise off. Could Drake be a bigger hero of mine?
Dean asks Lucas how it's going, and Lucas carries on colouring in his picture, ignoring his army men toys that are further along the bench he's using. Dean starts picking up the army men, talking about them to Lucas, and playing with them like a kid. Lucas doesn't even flinch as one army man 'dies'. Dean tries a different tack "So, crayons are more your thing? That's cool. Chicks dig artists." He flicks through the stack of drawings and says they're pretty good. He asks Lucas if he can draw too, but Lucas carries on ignoring him. He takes a crayon, and a sheet of paper, and moves further down the bench, starting to draw as he carries on talking. "You know, I'm thinking you can hear me, you just don't wanna talk. I don't know exactly what happened to your dad, but I know it was something real bad. I think I know how you feel. When I was your age I saw something … anyway … or maybe you don't think anyone will listen to you, or um, or believe you. But I want you to know that I will. You don't even have to say anything, you can draw me a picture. About what you saw that day. With your dad. And the lake."
I love this scene, because it's probably the first one in the entire run where Dean is just being completely emotionally honest with anyone, and sensitive to their needs. Those moments are rare, which is probably why I transcribed most of his speech. The ellipses in there are when he's stopping, unable to carry on talking as you realise just how much it affected him to lose his mother. Throughout the show, there's almost an air of jealousy between the boys over their mother, because Dean got four years with her and Sam got six months. Sam has no real idea of what they lost. But the episode where they go to Heaven, they relive each other's memories and it becomes clear that Dean and Mary were close, that Mary gave him so much love and attention and he's been devastated to lose someone so incredible and precious to him. I buy this scene completely. Dean has a real knack for putting himself in others shoes and seeing things from their view point, and expressing it in a way that they trust him implicitly. So when Dean asks you for something, how could you say no?
Lucas still doesn't react, so Dean instead gives him the picture he's been drawing in crayon. It's a stick figure drawing, and Dean claims it's his family. He points them all out, choking on pointing out his mother and calling Sam a geek when he points to the smallest stick figure.
Laugh. Laugh a lot. There are a lot of 'Jared Padalecki is a fucking beanpole' jokes coming up. Sasquatch, Samsquatch, Moose, how's the weather up there … Jared Padalecki is 6'4". By comparison, Jensen is 6'1" and everyone thinks he's short when he has to stand next to Jared. I repeat - Jensen looks like a midget at over six foot, because his co-star is banging his head on door frames. So … if the smallest stickman is a geek, it's clearly about Dean, not Sam.
Lucas still doesn't react. Dean pronounces himself a sucky artist, and says he'll see Lucas around. As he walks away, Lucas drops his crayon and picks up the picture of the Stick Winchesters.
Stickchesters?
Dean approaches Sam and Andrea, as Andrea is explaining that Lucas hasn't said a word to her, or anyone since the incident. Dean apologises, and Sam asks what the doctors make of it. It's Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or a variation of it. Sam says it can't be easy for them, and Andrea says they're living with her father for the time being. When Andrea says she's worried about Lucas, Dean tells her she'd be surprised, kids are tough and can deal with a lot.
He looks at Sam at that point, obviously a reference to the way they grew up. Dean knew for a lot longer than Sam what their father was doing, but I think Sam surprised him when he found out. But that's for Christmas, season three.
Andrea talks about how Lucas used to be, energetic and full of ideas, and now he just sits and draws. Lucas approaches them, and passes Dean a picture he's been drawing in the interim. It's of a house. Dean thanks Lucas, and he walks away wordlessly.
The scene cuts to Mr Carlton, asleep in his armchair. Will walks in, and encourages him to eat, saying he'll cook something. Will washes a fish under the tap, and as he cuts the head off the water changes to a murky brown colour. He notices, and turns the tap off. But once the water's stopped flowing down, the drain backs up, filling the sink with water so dark it's almost sludge. The whispering begins as the water reaches the rim. Will pushes his sleeves up, and sticks his hand in the water, looking for the clog that could have caused the back up. He pulls the plug up, but nothing moves. He sticks his hand back in, searching again, and as he goes to pull it out, something pulls him back in, until his face is submerged. He struggles furiously, but drowns in the sink anyway. Once he's dead, the water recedes.
The scene cuts once again, to Sam walking into the hotel room, telling Dean that they can definitely rule out a lake monster. Dean asks why, and Sam explains that he drove past the Carlton house and saw an ambulance. He tells Dean briefly about the scene we just witnessed, that Will Carlton drowned in the sink. Dean sits and wonders what they could possibly be dealing with, a water wraith or a demon, something that can control water. As he speculates, he inspires Sam, and they realise together that the sink water must have come from the lake, and it's something controlling the lake water. Sam says the draining lake would explain why the body count has gone up, because whatever they're dealing with, it's running out of time. Dean says if it can get through the pipes, it can get to anyone, anywhere. There will be another death again, soon, if they don't work out what's happened, and stop it.
I like how both boys start working through the story on the same lines. Hunting is sometimes the only thing they'll agree on throughout the whole episode. They listen to each other more and trust each other more during a Hunt than at any other time, with anything else.
I also like this in contrast to Wendigo, because it didn't take them long to work out what they were fighting against in Wendigo, Sam had it pretty well sussed early on in the Hunt. But in this one, we're over a third of the way through the episode and they're still clueless. They're still getting a feel for the possibilities.
Sam says the only thing they know for sure is that it has something to do with Bill Carlton (Will's father) as both his kids have now been killed. Sam's been asking around, and Chris, Lucas' father, was Bill's Godson. There's a familial connection between the recent deaths. They decide to go and visit Mr Carlton.
Bill Carlton is sitting on the jetty by the lake, looking pained, as Sam and Dean approach. They ask to speak to him, and he says he doesn't care who they are, he's already answered enough questions. Sam tells Bill that Will saw something in the lake, and asks if Bill did too. Sam explains the theory he and Dean have, that there's a connection in some way to his family, and Bill bemoans the fact that his children are gone. He says it's worse than dying, and tells them to go away. Sam and Dean walk back to their car.
Sam - "What do you think?"
Dean" I think the poor guy's been through hell. I also think he's not telling us something."
Sam - "So now what?" *Dean looks around* "What is it?"
Dean - "Huh." *looking at a house nearby, the one from the beginning of the episode.* Maybe Bill's not the only one who knows something *pulls out the drawing from where it's in his pocket, folded, and opens it up, holding the picture up in front of the house.*
We hear Andrea's voice, while the shot still shows Sam looking up at the house, saying she doesn't think it's a good idea if Dean and Sam try and talk to Lucas. The shot cuts to inside her house, where Dean is pleading with Andrea to just give him a couple of minutes, even if he doesn't say anything. Sam tries to explain that they think this is going to escalate and more people will suffer. She says they all just drowned, and Dean says they'll go if she really believes that, but if she can accept there's the slightly possibility that there's something else going on, then she'd let Dean talk to Lucas.
She shows him into Lucas' room, where he's once again colouring, surrounded by army men. Andrea and Sam wait just outside the door as Dean squats down in front of Lucas, asking if Lucas remembers him. Dean looks through the pictures that Lucas has already done, two of which are of a bike, and carries on talking to Lucas.
Dean - "You know, I, uh, I wanted to thank you, for that last drawing. But the thing is, I need your help again." *looks down at the picture Lucas is colouring for a moment, then pulls the other out of his pocket, putting it in front of Lucas.* "How did you know to draw this? Did you know something bad was going to happen? Maybe you could nod, yes or no for me." *pauses* "You're scared? It's okay. I understand. See, when I was your age, I saw something real bad happen to my mom. And I was scared too. I didn't feel like talking. Just like you. But see, my mom? I know she wanted me to be brave. I think about that every day. And I do my best to be brave. And maybe your dad wants you to be brave too."
Lucas looks up at this point, at his mother, and then hands Dean another detailed drawing of a house, with a gate and the red bike with it. There's a white chapel in the picture as well. Dean thanks him for the new picture.
I just realised I've done a huge chunk of description without much explanation. Mainly because where I might want to have commented, it would be to repeat myself. I think the only thing I could possibly pick up on is that, when Dean first begins explaining about seeing Mary die, the shot focuses on Sam's face, and you can see that Dean's never told him any of this before. Maybe because Dean would pass it off as a chick-flick moment and never give it the gravity it deserves, unlike in this situation where he can be free to express it without immediate repercussions.
The scene cuts to the boys driving in the Impala, talking.
Dean - "Andrea said the kid never drew like that 'till his dad died."
Sam - "There are cases, going through a traumatic experience could make certain people more sensitive to premonitions, psychic tendencies,"
Dean - "Well, whatever's out there, what if Lucas is tapping into it somehow?"
Sam - "Ehh-"
Dean - "I mean, it's only a matter of time before somebody else drowns, so if you got a better lead, please …"
Sam - "Alright. We got another house to find."
Dean - "The only problem is there's about a thousand yellow two-stories in this county alone."
Sam - "See this church? I bet there's less than a thousand of those around here."
Dean - "Oh, college boy, thinks he's so smart."
Sam - *laughs briefly, then turns serious* "You know, um, what you said about mom. You never told me that before."
Dean - *focusing on the road* "It's no big deal." *looks at Sam* "Oh, god, we're not going to have to hug or anything, are we?"
Yeah, I know I've seen this all before, but I don't remember everything about the episodes (maybe like, 80%) so I can still say - called it! And I was serious about throwing in whatever dialogue I want to. This section in particular, only takes maybe a minute of screen time, and yet we see them working through the case, trying to rationalise how to go about protecting the rest of the town from this threat, while at the same time trying to understand each other, trying to bond with each other. And for all the bravado? Sam and Dean hug a lot. Like, Joey and Chandler level hugging. Also, remember Sam's comment, right at the beginning. God, I was wetting myself when I heard him say that. So … sometimes like when you're fed demon blood?
The scene cuts to them approaching a white church with a steeple, similar in style to the one drawn in Lucas' picture. They look to the side, and find a house with fencing identical to the picture as well. The next shot of them is inside the house, where Dean is apologising for the intrusion and asking if a child lives there, describing the one drawn in the picture. The woman says there's not been a boy there for a very long time. She explains that Peter, her son, has been gone for 35 years now - the same amount of time that people have been drowning in the lake - she says neither she nor the police knew what happened, that he just disappeared. We see a line of army men on the counter, and Sam nudges Dean so they're on the same page. She says what Bill said, that losing Peter was worse than dying. Dean asks if Peter disappeared from the house, and she says he never came home after school. Dean and Sam look at some of her photos, including one of Peter with Bill Carlton when they were children.
The scene then cuts back to the lake, where Bill is talking to the lake, saying it's taken everything from him, and he has nothing left. He says he think he understands it, and knows what the lake wants.
The scene cuts back to Sam and Dean talking in the car, discussing how it's all connected to Bill, and Bill's hiding something, and while he is, everyone he loves is being punished.
Dean - "So what if Bill did something to Peter?"
Sam - "What if Bill killed him?"
Dean - "Yeah, Peter's spirit would be furious. It'd want revenge. It's possible."
And just like that they've worked it out, with about a third of the episode to go. But we've seen them gather evidence, talk to witnesses, and try to come up with plausible theories, so I can get behind them settling for a malignant spirit.
The Impala pulls up to the Carlton house. Sam calls for Mr Carlton, as Dean watches the lake, and we hear a motorboat engine. Dean points it out to Sam, and they run down the jetty as Mr Carlton's boat picks up speed away into the lake. They yell furiously at him to come back out of the water, and he ignores them, his boat suddenly leaping out of the water and throwing him into it.
This actually looks like fun to me.
At the sheriff's office, Lucas is rocking back and forth, and Andrea asks him what's wrong. Lucas says nothing as Sam and Dean walk in, Andrea calling them over. The sheriff walks in with them, and notices that Andrea's on a first name basis with Sam and Dean. Andrea tells her dad that she brought him dinner, and while they're talking Lucas looks close to tears. Andrea tells her dad she heard about Bill and asks what's happening at the lake. While the sheriff says they don't know, Dean notices the state that Lucas is in. Lucas hears his grandfather say that he and Andrea would be better at home, and he rushes up to Dean, tugging his arm urgently. Dean asks him what's wrong, but he still won't talk. Dean tries to reassure him it's okay, as Andrea rocks him back and forth, trying to soothe him. Andrea walks Lucas out, and he continues looking at Dean like he's trying to tell him something.
I give the screen that look all the time, Lucas. He can't understand it, not right away. Not with me anyway, the way he's watching as you go makes me think he's clued in, even if he doesn't immediately voice it or realise it.
The sheriff walks into his office and Sam follows. The sheriff tries to understand what Dean and Sam saw when Bill's boat got attacked, that there was something in the water, and Bill, who is a good swimmer, just sinks to the bottom, never to be seen again. He says he doesn't believe it because he's sonar-swept the entire lake, and it sounds impossible. He calls them out on not really being Wildlife Service. Dean looks surprised, and the sheriff says he's checked, and the department's never heard of an Agent Ford or and Agent Hamill. He tells them that the only reason they're not being treated as suspects is because a neighbour saw him going out as they pulled up to the house. The sheriff threatens to arrest them for imitating government officials if they don't drive away and pretend they'd never been to town in the first place. They agree to leave.
We see the army men scattered on the floor, and Lucas drawing again, as Andrea goes to run a bath.
Bathtub scene! Told you …
Andrea stops on the way to the bathroom and asks what Lucas is still doing up. She encourages him to go to bed and leave the drawing, which is a black circle, scribbled over and over.
We see the Impala pulling up to a T-junction, with a road sign pointing to Milwaukee. Dean hesitates, and Sam tells him the lights are green. Dean pulls forward, and drives away from Milwaukee as Sam tells him that the Interstate's in the other direction.
Andrea plugs up the bath and turns on the tap, as the whispering starts.
The scene then cuts back, again to the boys.
Sam - "But Dean, this job, I think it's over."
Dean - "I'm not so sure."
Sam - "If Bill murdered Peter Sweeney and Peter's spirit got its revenge, case closed! The spirit should be at rest."
Dean - "Alright, so what if we take off and this thing isn't done? You know, what if we've missed something, what if more people get hurt."
Sam - "Well, why would you think that?"
Dean - "Because Lucas was really scared."
Sam - "That's what this is about?"
Dean - "I just don't wanna leave this town 'till I know the kid's okay."
Sam - "Who are you? And what have you done with my brother?"
Dean - "Shut up."
Told you Dean was on it. And again, this underlines the notion that Sam is out for revenge, and Dean is out to save people. Yeah, Sam agreed to come and investigate. They investigated, they failed, but they worked it out. Too late sure, but it's done. They can get on and find their dad and get revenge for Jessica. But Dean's not thinking of next week, or next month, he's thinking that one of the people they're trying to help might be giving away a huge clue. And he'd be right.
Meanwhile, Andrea's bath is run, and she's checking the temperature with her fingers. She climbs in and sits back, the water almost overflowing. And the water pouring from the tap suddenly goes the same colour as when Will was cooking, the sludgy black colour of the lake water. The whispering gets louder as Andrea washes her face. The sludge spreads through the water, and we can hear the whispering saying 'come play with me' before something tries tugging Andrea under the water. She screams, gripping the side of the bathtub, as Lucas begins banging on the door.
I'm not going to discuss how the sludge permeated, it's obviously the spirit still encompassed by water. But how comes Andrea and Will could fight when Billy and Sophie Carlton couldn't? Is it purely because they were out of the lake? Supernatural isn't immune to inconsistencies, but this one just smacks of the pretty lady surviving so Dean can get some. When duh, I'm here, right?
Andrea's still fighting, but it looks like something is forcing her head under the water line, and her grip on the ceramic bathtub is slipping with the water splashing around. Andrea is fully submerged.
We cut to Sam and Dean, standing outside on the porch, Sam asking if Dean's sure about this. As soon as Dean presses the doorbell, Lucas opens it up, flying out and hyperventilating. Dean tries appealing to him, and Lucas runs back to the bathroom door. Sam and Dean run after him as the water spills out from under the bathroom door. Dean gives Lucas to Sam to get him out of the way and kicks the door down. Sam reaches into the tub and pulls as hard as he can, grabbing hold of Andrea and forcing her out of the tub, despite the spirit trying to pull her back in. She falls on him, gasping for air.
I know they've just saved her from drowning, but I would be mortified to be laying naked on a guy who was fully clothed, while his brother - who was into me - kept my son out of danger. But all three of them could see my hoonanny. This is one bone of contention a friend of mine has with the show (probably the only person actually reading this), that regardless of what they try to do, they are a little misogynistic in the show. So of course the pretty lady just happens to end up naked.
The scene cuts to the early morning, and Sam sitting with Andrea, asking about her experience, as Dean is in another part of the house, flipping through yearbooks and papers for some connection between Andrea and Bill Carlton. Sam reassures Andrea that she's not going crazy and asks for her to talk about what happened, no judgements. She says that she heard a voice say 'come play with me'. Dean finds a book, a photo album, labelled 'Jake - twelve years old' and flips through. He stops on a page, his eyes widening, and he seeks Sam and Andrea, asking her if she recognises any of the kids in the pictures. She says no, except for her father. Dean says Chris' connection was to the sheriff, not Bill, but Sam counters that it was both of them. Andrea asks what they're talking about, what they mean by that, but Dean is distracted by Lucas.
Lucas is just staring out of the window, and he goes outside after Dean speaks, heading out into the local woodland and ignoring his mother as she tries to appeal to him to talk. He stops, and looks at Dean, who tells Andrea to take Lucas back into the house and to stay there. Andrea grabs Lucas, and he goes willingly. Sam and Dean dig in the spot that Lucas had pointed out, quickly striking something metallic. They discover it's a red bike, the same one that Lucas has been drawing. As they pull it from the ground, someone asks "Who are you?" They turn and see the sheriff, gun in hand and pointing at them.
Sam tells him to put the gun down, and the sheriff demands to know how they knew the bike was there. Dean asks him if he helped to kill Peter. He says "You can't bury the truth, Jake. Nothing stays buried." Andrea can see the altercation from outside of her kitchen window, and she sends Lucas to his room in case her father shoots Sam or Dean.
The sheriff says he doesn't know what the hell they're talking about and Dean says "You and Bill killed Peter Sweeney thirty-five years ago, that's what the hell we're talking about." as Andrea comes running up, pleading with her father as Dean and Sam explain that Peter's haunting the water, he's pissed off, and he was going to take Andrea, and Lucas, and anyone else he cares about to make him suffer, and then it will come for him. The sheriff asks how he knows that, and Sam says it's what it did to Bill. Jake says they're insane, and:
Dean - "I don't really give a rats ass what you think of us. But if we're going to bring down this spirit, we need to find the remains, salt them, and burn them into dust. So tell me you buried Peter somewhere, tell me you didn't just let him go into the lake."
Hunting lesson! With malevolent spirits, salt and burn, baby.
We see Lucas near the house, peering over some of the stuff littering the porch, and start to hear the whispering again. Lucas starts to walk towards the lake as Andrea asks Jake if any of it's true, and he says of course not. He says Dean and Sam are dangerous liars. Andrea catalogues some of the deaths and demands her dad looks her in the eye and tell her the truth. He looks away, giving away the fact that he had a hand in Peter's death.
Jake explains that he was playing at the lake with Bill, and Peter was there. Peter was the smallest, and he got bullied a lot by Jake and Bill. One day, the bullying went too far, and they were holding his head under the water as a joke. They held him under for too long and he drowned. He turns to Dean and admits that yes, they let the body go into the lake.
At this point, Sam looks like he wants to beat the shit out of Jake. It's like, bitch face 2.0.
Jake tells Andrea that they were kids, it was an accident, but that doesn't mean he has anything to do with the drownings, or that a ghost is involved.
Nobody likes a skeptic, Roy.
Dean says they need to get away from the lake, as far away as possible, right then. Andrea looks away and gasps, and we see Lucas making his way to the lake, bending down at the water's edge. Jake shouts for Lucas, and they all start running towards the lake, all of them screaming for Lucas as he tries to reach in for an army man floating on the water. A grey hand reaches out and grabs Lucas, dragging him into the lake. As they get nearer to the lake, Jake sees a head emerge.
Creepy as fuck, right? Trying to remind myself that I used to do my make up exactly like that, but I'm a fucking wuss so it's not entirely working.
Dean and Sam jump into the water, Sam telling Andrea to stay on the jetty before joining Dean in searching for Lucas. As Dean and Sam dive down after coming up for air, Jake starts walking down a bank, talking to Peter and trying to appeal to him. Andrea begs him not to, and Jake swims out, begging Peter to take him instead. Dean and Sam surface again for air, and Dean shouts at Jake to get out, as we see a boy deep in the water. Jake is pulled down, and Dean dives down again. Sam joins him, and comes back up a moment later, shaking his head at Andrea, who starts screaming in distress. Dean comes up out of the water, dragging Lucas with him.
Someone give me a bag of Cheetos, I stopped and started and transcribed that entire scene for you, even with the creepy picture there staring at me every time I open this window. Three minutes left, with credits.
The boys make their way to the Impala, throwing their bags in. Sam turns to Dean and says "Look, we're not going to save everybody." Dean says he knows, as Andrea calls to them. She and Lucas approach with a plate in Lucas' hands. It's a lunch that they made for the guys, and Lucas insisted on making the sandwiches. He speaks for the first time in the episode, asking if he can give them the plate. They smile, and Dean takes the plate, walking with Lucas to put it in the car. Sam asks how Andrea is, and she says it's going to take a long time to get through.
I want to interrupt to say, Jared folds his arms and his shirt rides up. You see a little bit of happy trail and the band of his pants. Not that I'm a complete pervert, or anything, but, um, yum. Genevieve is a lucky lady ;)
Sam says sorry, that she lost her father, but she smiles at him and reminds him that he and Dean saved Lucas. That whatever her father did, he at least loved her and Lucas, and that's what she wants to focus on. Dean sits on the backseat of the Impala, next to the sandwich platter, and looks at Lucas. He makes sure that, now Lucas is talking, he can parrot the phrase 'Zeppelin rules.' which earns Lucas a high-five. Dean tells Lucas to take care of his mom as she approaches with Sam. Andrea kisses Dean and thanks him, and taken aback, his reaction is to tell Sam to move his ass. They climb in, smile and wave at Andrea, and drive off.
And that's the end of episode three!
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