The Hardy Boys Get Religion
Updated 2006-01-22 16:00:00
An atmosphere-heavy, plot-light episode finds Dean getting electrocuted in the first scene while killing a monster that was after a few woolen-short-pantsed Dickensian orphan types. His heart is "irreparably" damaged by the shock and he's given a month to live. Gasp! Sam logs onto the internets and finds a "faith healer" in Nebraska, which proves you should never trust anything you read online. Meanwhile, Dean is busy "dying" by dusting himself with talcum powder and limping around with his hands shoved into his pockets. During the first healing ceremony they attend, Dean is called to the stage courtesy of his penchant for muttered heckling, and is indeed cured during a nicely-shot laying on of hands. But when it turns out that a young man of roughly the same age and physical fitness (which is "Hubba Hubba" on the President's Physical Fitness Scale) died of a heart attack at the exact moment Dean was "cured," the boys know something is up. A few tarot cards and a brain tumor sob story (played by Darla from both Buffy and Angel) later, and it becomes clear that someone has made a deal with The Reaper (also dug out of the Buffy art direction closet). That someone is the preacher's wife, who has a non-role until she gets to go a little Alec Baldwin in Malice at the end. Did you guys ever notice how sometimes, the folks involved with tent revivals are sort of creepy? No? Okay, I guess it's just me, then.