Series 2, Episode 19: Folsom Prison Blues

Time for a bit of a marathon viewing session. I've scheduled to watch the final episode with Leanne this Saturday. It's kind of become a nice little tradition for us to watch the final episodes together. Well it's not a tradition yet as we've only done it once. But it will become one! 

After an abandoned section of a jail is opened up, a spirit escapes and kills one of the guards. 

Three months later and Dean and Sam are arrested after being found breaking and entering into, well I'm not sure what is was to be honest. Don't think it matters, the most important thing is that all of their previous crimes are coming back to bite them and it looks like they are going to be doing a long stretch in prison. Two good looking guys locked up with a load of other sex starved men...anything could happen!

One of the cops comments that it seems disappointing that after all their previous escapes that it comes down to simply triggering a motion sensor which got them caught. I'm guessing that they allowed themselves to get caught in order to get access to the jail where the spirit is. Good plan but I have no idea how they'd then escape afterwards! I'm fairly sure I'm correct because they seem very eager to find out exactly which jail they are going to be sent to. It's like Supernatural meets Prison Break! I imagine. I don't know, I've never seen Prison Break.

Check out that pouty face!

Dean and Sam are locked up in separate cells but fortunately the cells are exactly opposite each other so that they can still chat. Not so fortunate is that Sam's cell mate keeps giving him "funny looks". 

It doesn't take long for them to get themselves in trouble when Sam accidentally bumps into someone in the canteen. Is it called a canteen? That doesn't seem to sound right for a prison. Feeding hall maybe? Anyway, that's irrelevant. It causes an altercation whereby Dean and a big guy get into a fight and are thrown into solitary confinement. 

This prison's idea of solitary confinement is a little odd. Even though they are locked up separately, it's still possible for Dean and the other guy to see and hear each other through the windows in the cell doors. Not very solitary.

That being said, Dean's confinement soon becomes a whole lot more solitary when the spirit appears and kills his fellow prisoner. 

The brothers find out that the spirit is most likely the ghost of an prisoner who was beaten to death by guards in the old part of the prison. I can't quite remember how they found this out. Truth be told, I started to watch this episode yesterday and I've already forgotten parts of it!

The good thing about this episode is seeing how the brothers cope when all their usual helpful devices are taken away from them. They have no guns and don't even have anything to use to set fire to the blood stains in the abandoned cell. Fortunately Sam is able to steal some of these things when Dean creates a diversion in the canteen (feeding hall? Dining hall?) by starting a fight. Maybe he could have picked a less painful diversion! Pretended to be ill or something!

After being taken to the infirmary along with the big guy he was fighting, it's not long before the spirit appears again. Honestly, don't leave prisoners alone with Dean in this place! Especially if they've just had a fight! We get a better look at the ghost this time and in a slightly surprising twist, it looks rather feminine. In fact it looks very feminine! It's a lady ghost! A nurse by the looks of it. I'm now slightly confused.

According to one of the older prisoners, the nurse that used to work at the prison liked to kill her patients. What a charming woman!

Oh no! Now Sam and Dean have had a little fight in the exercise yard! (Yes I know the name of that one, there was a sign on the wall). They are taken away. Does this mean Sam is the next one to be targeted? Maybe the ghost has the hots for Dean.

In yet another twist, it's now been revealed that one of the guards who has been giving them such a hard time is actually the man who put them up to finding the ghost in the first place! Dean and Sam knew this but I didn't! They shouldn't keep things from me like that! I get confused very easily! Anyway he lets them escape.

Hendrickson (he's the police officer obsessed with catching them, I probably should have mentioned him earlier) seems to smell a rat and suspects that they've been allowed to escape. I'm assuming he is going to be a recurring character. Actually I get the feeling he's been in the show before but I can't quite remember!

As Sam and Dean head for the grave of the nurse, they are being persued by Hendrickson after their lawyer lets slip that she was asked to research the burial place of the nurse. Or has she? No she hasn't. She's told the police the wrong cemertary on purpose. I like her. I hope she comes back. Next time I'll even try to make a note of her name!

A fairly good episode. There feels less of an overall story arc to this season compared to the last. The finale is just round the corner and at the moment I can't really see them building to anything. Isn't the yellowed eyed demon still around somewhere?