As a side note, I should say that something quite unusual happened recently. So the last episode I watched was called Croatoan and was about a town where people were suffering from a disease and then disappearing. Literally within a few days of watching this episode I was listening to a new Doctor Who audio play (yes I listen to Doctor Who audio plays, I'm not ashamed!) and the Doctor found himself in the middle of a totally deserted settlement with the word "Croatoan" carved into the walls! I'd never heard this word until I saw it in Supernatural and now it seems to be following me about! Spooky!
In the last episode Dean revealed to Sam that their father told him something about Sam before he died. I hope we find out in this episode what it is as it seems to have been dragging on for ages, but then that may just be because I have been watching the series very slowly.
A young man, Scott, is having a counselling session. He tells his therapist that he has developed the ability to electrocute creatures by touching them and that he killed the neighbour's cat. When the therapist asks him why he would do this Scott tells him because the yellow eyed man that visits him in his dreams told him to. What on earth does the yellow eyed demon have against cats??
I thought Scott was going to be the villain of this episode but he is stabbed and killed as he is getting into his car.
Meanwhile Dean reveals the big secret. Apparently their father told Dean that he needed to save Sam or he may eventually have to end up killing him...That's annoyingly vague and understandably Sam seems to feel the same as me as he flips out demanding to know what that means.
Woohoo! I don't normally get excited by production stuff but this episode (as indicated by the titles) is directed by Rachel Talalay. She was involved with production on the Nightmare On Elm Street movies, directing the 6th film and she has also directed four episodes of Doctor Who, those being the season finales for series 8 and series 9. In fact I have seen her in person when I bumped into a group of Cybermen in London one weekend (like you do!). She was there then! She's a great director. I don't normally notice such things but I'll be looking more closely at this episode now that I know this.
Sam just got blown up! He was exploring a deserted house when he tripped a trap and a grenade blew him to pieces! Fortunately this was all a vision of a young woman who obviously has developed the same gift as Sam for premonitions. All these people discovering super powers....it's all getting a bit too "Heroes" for my liking.
Sam goes to visit Ellen for help. (Is it Ellen or Helen? I really should look that up. In fact I've got a feeling I may even have commented on that before). She tells him that she forgave his dad a long time ago for what he did that caused the death of her husband. When Sam asks what happened she quickly changes the subject. Why won't anyone be straight with each other??
Ava (the girl with the vision) finds Sam and warns him. It's quite funny to see her explain her vision whilst assuming that Sam is going to think she is totally nuts. When he says he believes her and tells her about the yellow eyed demon having a plan for people like them then the tables are turned and she is left thinking that Sam is the crazy one. Dean tracks them down just in time to save them because Gordon is back (from episode 3, this blog is handy if you have a crap memory like me!) and he tries to shoot them both through the motel window.
And now Dean is tied to a chair again! That is definitely worthy of necking your drink in the Supernatural drinking game!
It must have been Gordon who stabbed Scott at the start of the episode! I'm so slow! Can't believe it's taken me this long to twig on to that.
Whilst waiting for Sam to fall into his trap, Gordon hits Dean with the age old Hitler question. If you met Hitler as a child, could you kill that child? Similarly Sam is destined to become part of the demon's army so needs to be killed now.
It's all getting very tense now as Sam is sneaking into the house where Dean is being held captive but also where the trip wire with the grenade is. Surely he can't hit the trap if he knows to expect it. The only problem I can see is that Gordon has actually set two trip wires up so even if Sam misses one then he may hit the next!
Sam manages to escape the traps. I'm not really sure how as they both go off but I'm fairly sure he threw his shoes into the room to set them off. After tipping the police off they come and arrest Gordon. He was a right little shit so I'm glad he's finally been taken care of.
Bit of a strange ending when Dean and Sam go to visit Ava and they find her boyfriend dead with his throat slit. The demon has been there as indicated by sulphur residue. Sam finds Ava engagement ring on the bedroom floor. I'm not sure what we are supposed to assume from this. Has Ava killed her boyfriend or been kidnapped by the demon and the demon killed her boyfriend? Will this be something that is picked up on in the next episode? I hope so because I quite liked Ava as a character and would be good to see her back and get some resolution to this plot. I think we are meant to think she has done it. That way it further emphasises threat that one day Sam will turn evil too!
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