Series 2, Episode 4: Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things

Before I begin the blog entry for this episode, as a little side note I have to say that the Doctor Who announcement as mentioned in the previous entry was a monumental let down! They announced that they were doing a spin off series based at the school where Clara works (but without Clara). If this had just been announced with no build up then it would have been moderately exciting but as they teased the reveal over the space of several hours then it was hugely hyped up. I wanted more episodes to be discovered!!

Anyway on to more cheerful things with episode 4 of Supernatural.

We are introduced to a woman called Angela who has had a big falling out with her boyfriend. She storms off in a car and ends up crashing and presumably dies. There was an awful lot of blood and she wasn't moving so I'm guessing she is pushing up daisies. 

Meanwhile Sam has suggested that they take a trip to visit their mother's grave. It's not exactly my idea of a fun weekend but whatever floats your boat.

Whilst visiting the grave, Dean notices the burial place of Angela and see that everything directly around her (the grass, flowers etc) has died. Dean wants to investigate but Sam is sceptical because of the way they have just "stumbled on to a hunt". But isn't that how they start all their investigations?

Dean starts to investigate alone and discovers that Angela's boyfriend has also been killed. Well apparently it was ruled as suicide when he slit his own throat. Really? Why would anyone kill themselves that way?? We know better though because we saw someone do it to him. I'm just confused why they would assume it was suicide in the first place!

Dean heads back to the motel to tell Sam what he has uncovered and catches Sam watching porn on the room's television. Shocking! I thought better of Sam. Surely if any of them was going to be watching porn then it would be Dean! I'm genuinely disturbed by this. Sam seems to be slightly different in character this episode. 

Angela has been brought back to life by her friend Neil who it seems harboured an unrequited love for her whilst she was alive. She's all over him like a rash now which, from someone who has experienced unrequited loved myself, is both gratifying and a little disturbing. I mean she's a zombie for goodness sake! Yuk! She'd be all cold and smelly.

After killing her ex boyfriend for cheating on her I'm guessing her next target will be the girl he cheated with. The identity of this girl has not been revealed yet but as we have only seen one other female in the episode then I think it's a safe bet to assume that Angela discovered her boyfriend cheating with her house mate (whose name I don't recall, let's just call her "Ms Slutty").

I was right. Angela sneaks away from Neil to kill Ms Slutty. Fortunately Sam and Dean show up in time to fill Angela full of silver bullets. Unfortunately it turns out that silver bullets don't kill zombies. I could have told them that! Do they not watch The Walking Dead!? To be fair, I don't watch The Walking Dead either so for all I know it might be the case that silver bullets do kill zombies, I just thought that that was always a wearwolf thing. And golden bullets can kill Cybermen, just so you know.

Instead they lure Angela back to her grave where they impale her through the chest and bury her again. You have to feel a bit sorry for her. By all accounts she was a lovely kind girl when she was alive. It was only when she was cheated on and killed that she went a little psycho and everyone can have an off day like that! 

Just when I thought we were going to get the same ending of the car driving off into the distance, Dean pulls over and him and Sam have a little chat about their father. It all gets quite emotional when Dean reveals that the reason he has been acting all crazy recently is due to guilt at his father's death. He has assumed (correctly) that the reason their father died was because he made a deal with the demon to save Dean from his car crash injures. 

I still want to know what he whispered in Dean's ear before he died! I'd be tempted to believe he was telling Dean that he wasn't really going to die and it was all some elaborate trick for the demon but Dean seem genuinely upset so their father must definitely be dead. Besides they burnt the body so I can't see any going back from that!

You can see why this case would have affected Dean so badly. Neil brought Angela back to life because he couldn't accept her death, which is exactly what Dean is struggling with in the case of his father.