Thank goodness for these recaps included at the start of the episodes. I really needed them to get back into the swing of things.
Some colleagues are in a bar and the boss, Nate, tries tries to chat up one of his employees (Maddie) with little success. I feel sorry for him. I've recently joined Match.Com so I'm currently feeling a little sensitive to the whole rejection thing. After being turned down, Nate leaves and Maddie notices another guy staring at her. It seems she recognises him as she freaks out a little. The next day she finds Nate dead in his office, having suffered an horrific mauling of some kind. I've had some rejection in my time but so far I've been fortunate enough to avoid being literally ripped to pieces the next day.
My initial guess was werewolf and I think I've nailed it as that is what Sam and Dean are suspecting. Although maybe if they suspect it's a werewolf this early on in the episode then we are due a revelation later on when we find out it is a vicious bunny rabbit or similar!
It is discovered that Nate's heart is missing from his body. So his heart was broken and then stolen..That's tough.
Dean and Sam head over to Maddie's house to question her and we meet her neighbour, Glen. He seems like a really nice guy but one of those nice guys who are also a bit nervous so you know they are most likely hiding something terrible. That being said, I deem myself to be a fairly nice guy and it's true that I'm always nervous but I'm not hiding anything. Honest!
Speaking of stalkers, Maddie tells Dean and Sam that she has been seeing her ex boyfriend, Curt, around a lot lately and it was him that she saw in the bar the night Nate was killed.
Whilst Dean begins investigating Curt, Sam stays behind to watch out for Maddie. During a nice little conversation Sam asks her why she ever went out with someone like Curt and she reveals that it was because she was feeling low during that time of her life and needed the reassurance of Curt. She casually mentions that she was mugged. So this is what I think is happening. She is the werewolf! When she was mugged she was attacked and changed by another werewolf. I think it's possible she doesn't know this herself yet. Maybe Curt isn't stalking her but is watching out for her because he knows what she is and he is trying to stop her from hurting anyone.
Plus Sam seems to really like her and he can't be allowed to have a happy relationship it seems.
I'm rather proud of my theory. I don't even feel like I need to watch the rest of the episode now.
I seriously could write for this series! I've completely nailed it. She is the werewolf! Although I'm confused that she didn't look very "wolfy" when she changed. I'm glad this twist has come fairly early on in the episode because it seems now we are going to have the really interesting dilemma of whether or not Dean and Sam should kill her when she doesn't seem to know what she is.
They decide that if they kill the werewolf that attacked Maddie then Maddie will revert back to how she was. This seems like a neat enough way to resolve the problem but I'm a little irritated by this solution. If they don't feel they have the right to kill Maddie then what gives them the right to kill the other poor person who happened to attack her? Isn't that just bumping the issue back along the chain?? I suppose as long as the eventual person that is killed isn't a hot female then that's fine!!! I find this very annoying.
Dean tracks down the other werewolf which turns out to be the nice neighbour, Glen, and without a seconds hesitation he shoots him several times in the stomach, killing him. I'm feeling increasingly angry.
After apparently saving Maddie from her curse, Sam heads back to her apartment and has sex with her. I just feel I need to remind you that she has killed several people, but that's fine. And poor Glen is still dead...while Maddie gets to have sex with a hot guy. That's completely fine...
Sam wakes up the next day to find that Maddie has now turned back to her wolfy ways and she escapes through her bedroom window. He runs back to Dean and tells him that whatever they did does not seem to have worked and pleads with Dean to help him find another way to save her....Just like they did with Glen....
The episode is now reaching its emotional climax as Maddie accepts what she is and asks Sam to kill her. He obviously can't bring himself to do it. I'm doing a lot of eye rolling right now.
After a lot more crying from Sam, he finally shoots her and the episode ends immediately.
This had the potential to be a really good episode. The dilemma faced of whether or not to kill Maddie could have been really interesting were it not ruined by the callous way that the brothers treated the other werewolf in the story. If that part had been taken out and they had tried some other way to save her (a potion maybe) which ultimately failed, then I imagine I would have found the final scenes really heart breaking, rather than nauseating.
Oh dear, this is not a good start to my return to Supernatural.
RIP Glen. Another nice guy who finishes last. Not even given a second thought. Fucking disgraceful!
