I Know What You Did Last Summer
Updated 2008-11-14 09:31:01
THEN! Castiel makes his sparkly entrance upon being summoned by Bobby and Dean. He tells Dean he's an angel of the Lord and shows us the shadow of his mighty, mighty wings. Bobby tells the boys about "The Rising of the Witnesses" and that the prophecy is from Revelation s . Your substitute recapper screams that the show got the name of the book wrong. Bobby says it's a sign of the apocalypse. Castiel tells Dean that the seals are being broken by Lilith. Blonde Lilith the Second doesn't like her Grampy anymore. Castiel tells Dean that once the last seal is open, Lucifer will walk free. A dirtbag demon taunts Sam about his months without his brother, and about all the nasty things he and Ruby do in the dark. Sam uses the Pimp Hand of Ipecac to exorcise it from its host. Dean flips out on Sam, telling him how far from normal and human he's gone, and says that Castiel threatened to stop Sam, unless Dean does. "Sam Hain" brings Pagans and Christians together to mourn the show's lack of attention to detail, then rises and possesses art teacher Don Harding, as Castiel narrates that the raising of "Sam Hain" is one of the 66 seals. Sam uses the Pimp Hand of Ipecac to exorcise Sam Hain, and gets a bloody nose, migraine, and a lot of grief from Uriel, who tells him to ask Dean what he remembers from Hell. Dean has flashbacks of Hell and we're ready for the...
NOW! which rhymes with Wow, which is what we get in "I Know What You Did Last Summer." Anna Milton is at the Connor Beverly Behavioral Medicine Center. She sits on her bed and listens to unintelligible whispers, until her therapist calls her name. The therapist exposits for us that Anna is there because she became hysterical and it took four people to restrain her. Anna says that she understands everyone thinks she's nuts, but "It's all true." The therapist says, "It's okay. You can tell me. I'm here to listen." Don't do it, Anna. Anna can't keep her peace any longer. "The END is coming. The apocalypse." She tells her Lilith is trying to break the 66 seals necessary to free Lucifer from Hell, and he will bring the apocalypse. She adds, "So? Smoke 'em if you've got 'em." She goes back to listening to the angels. You'll never get out girl, if you let them know the truth. They can't handle the truth. The therapist calls her back to earth, and Anna apologizes, saying she was just listening. The therapist says, "So you were saying there are 66 of these seals in the world?" Anna says, "No, there are about 600 possible seals." (The closed-captioning reads 6000.) "And Lilith only has to break 66 of them, and no one knows which 66 she's going to break. That's why it's nearly impossible to stop her. That's why the angels are losing. That's why we're all going to die." You're gonna die in that ward, girl.
Later, an orderly brings Anna her meds, as she sketches a picture of what looks like a stained glass window. When she turns around, she jumps back in horror. When the orderly asks her what's wrong, she says, "Your face! What happened to your face?" His face is all face-like, for the record. He says, "I know, I'm downright kissable," and his eyes turn demonic black. Anna uses telekinesis (which she also can do -- just go with it; she has pretty red hair), to slam him against the wall, knock him out and make her escape. Run Anna, run. The title card flaps its way across the screen on bat-like angel wings.
At a pool hall, Sam is pretending to be drunk, but he's really just hustling some big, burly guy. Go Sammy, go! Good for you, you're spreading your wings. Not that you have any, yet. Or horns, for that matter. Dean plays along, and tries to convince the guy it's not fair to be taking advantage of his drunken brother. Sam, who has already lost "two bills," ups the wager to $500. Dean acts disgusted, while the victim can nearly taste this low hanging fruit. Just when Sam is about to make a killing, Ruby appears at the bar. Sam's face goes from fake-drunk to serious, and he tells his sucker to keep the money. Dean's all, "What?" until he realizes Sam is walking right to Ruby. Then he's all big-brother style mad. As Sam greets her, Dean tells Ruby she's got a lot of nerve showing up anywhere near him. Since she's equally enamored of Dean, she says she just has some information to pass on, and then she'll be gone. She tells the boys about Anna, who seems to be important. Ruby is working off demon whispers that some big-timers have shown up to find Anna, and their orders are to capture her alive. "I just figure that whatever the deal is, you might want to find this girl before the demons do," and Genevieve seems to have mastered varying her facial expressions in this episode. Good job, Gen. Don't let me down. Sam is receptive. Dean is not. Ruby feels she's done her duty, and after bickering back and forth with Dean, she turns to leave. Sam stops her and asks about the hospital Anna is in.
Nighttime: On the road in Metallicar, Sam's on the phone, finagling a copy of Anna's missing person's report. Dean is suspicious and annoyed that they're taking a three day drive based on the word of a demon. He wants to know why Sam trusts Ruby. Sam says, "I told you Dean, she helped me go after Lilith." Dean asks him to expound upon that. Sam gets his bitch on (which you'll see he does more than once in this episode, I'm just saying). "Sure Dean, let's trade stories. You first: how was Hell? Don't spare the details." Sheesh, I don't blame him for feeling hurt that his brother can't confide in him about his trip to the pit, as well as frustrated that that very same brother wants to be all up in his business, but that still seemed a little harsh, didn't it? I mean Dean was in actual Hell .
Sam flashes back to six months earlier. I tend to be more wowed by Ackles' acting, but I have to give Padalecki props, here. Very few actors, even great actors, are any good at playing drunk. Jared is. A drunken, desperate and bitter Sam summons a Cross Roads demon, because that always ends well. After Sam hollers in frustration, the demon appears at a distance -- wearing a male form, this time. "I was wondering whether to come or not. I mean, you shot one of my co-workers ." Yeah, and then he broke their engagement . As Sam approaches, the demon taunts Sam about burying his brother. Before he'll talk to Sam, he demands to, "See that special little knife of [his]." Sam draws it out and lays it on a table, assuring the demon there are no devil's traps, either. He says he's not there to play games. After the demon taunts him about the Winchesters' repetitive habit of making deals, and claims he won't be making one with Sam, Sam snatches up the knife and stabs the demon through the hand. It doesn't kill him. It just pins his hand to the table. I guess you have to get demons in a more critical spot on their borrowed bodies, or something. I mean, this is the Knife That Can Kill Anything (And Actually Does) . Sam says, "I don't want 10 years. I don't want one year. I don't want candy. I want to trade places with Dean." The demon says, "No!" Sam screams, "Just take me. It's a fair trade." The Sam girls faint. The demon refuses again. Sam doesn't understand why; Lilith wants him dead; she can have him. The demon explains that it's not about Sam's soul. "Dean's in Hell. Right where we want him. We've got everything exactly the way we want it. You want to kill me? Go ahead? I have made peace with my lord."
Flash forward to the Impala. It's clear Sam hasn't shared this story with Dean. He's just churning it over in his mind. Baby's windshield wipers slap out a steady beat; her engine purrs. The boys travel down the road in silence -- in the dark.
Daytime: In ward 42 of the Connor Beverly Behavioral Medicine Center, Sam and Dean wear their suits (pretty!) as they interview Anna's shrink about her confinement and disappearance. Two months ago, Anna was a happy well-adjusted journalism major with a bright future. Then she just flipped. They press the doctor for more information. She explains Anna has schizophrenia, complete with "delusions" that include thinking demons are everywhere. She hands Sam Anna's sketch book, and says it's not uncommon for their patients to believe monsters are real. Dean says, "Well that's just batty." Heh. Flipping through Anna's sketchbook, they first see pictures of a stained glass window and crosses, but then find writing too, things like, "Raising of the Witnesses" and "Samhain the next seal is broken." Do you think they ever wonder if they're delusional? For a second? The shrink goes on to tell them Anna's father was a church deacon, and that when Anna took ill, her symptoms included a plethora of religious references, adding that Anna told her the Devil is about to rise up and end the world. She hopes they find Anna, because it's dangerous for her to be out there alone. Oh, honey. You don't know the half of it.
There's no answer at the Milton family home, so the Winchesters, being Winchesters, find their own way in. Her parents are lying on the floor dead, and traces of sulfur remain. On the Milton mantle is the family's mail, and pictures and whatnot. Sam studies the photos as Dean sums up what they know so far. "Okay, so I'm girl interrupted ..." (even though he's been rehymenated?) "I know the score of the apocalypse, just busted out of the nut-box, possibly using superpowers, by the way. Where do I go?" Sam recognizes something in a picture taken outside the Milton's church. It has a stained glass window that looks just like the ones Anna drew over and over in her sketchbook. Sam says, "If you were religious, scared, and had demons on your ass, where would go to feel safe?" And heh, Dean looks stumped, or maybe he's just thinking.
Church bells toll as they find Anna hiding at her church. Sam calls out to her, and says, they're here to help. "My name is Sam; this is my brother, Dean." Still in hiding, Anna says, "Sam? Not Sam Winchester?" He stammers out a yes, and she reveals herself. "And you're Dean? The Dean?" Oh, like he needs to hear that from any woman. She knows about him, because the angels talk about him. She admits she knows Dean was in Hell and that Castiel gripped him tight and raised him from perdition. "And some of them think you can help save us." She catches her breath and turns toward Sammy. "And some of them don't like you at all." Sam looks upset, but I think he should note she used the qualifier some . She says the angels talk about the boys all the time lately, so she feels like she knows them. When Dean asks, she clarifies that she doesn't talk to angels; she just sort of overhears them in her head. Not all the time, but a lot, and she can't shut them out. Dean says, "So they locked you up with a case of the crazies, when you were just tuned into Angel Radio?" That was Aerosmith rocking the house. After a short break the Black Crowes will shake your money maker, right here on W-A-N-G Angel Radio -- all angels, all the time .
Anna's relieved to finally talk to someone who knows she's telling the truth. She looks right at Dean. "Yes. Thank you." Sam asks her when the voices started. "I can tell you, exactly: September 18th." Dean says, "The day I got out of Hell." Anna says those were the first words she heard: "Dean Winchester is saved." Dean says it makes sense that the demons are hunting for her. "You're 1-900-ANGEL." I like my W-A-N-G, better. Anna asks if her parents are okay. The boys ready themselves to tell her, when Ruby bursts in. I think Pastor Jim's concept of hallowed ground was bogus. Poor Anna retreats in fear, because she can see Ruby's true face. Sam tries to calm her, while Dean thinks she might be wise to be afraid. Ruby insists that they have to hurry. A big time demon is coming. She claims he followed the boys from the Miltons' house. While Ruby and Dean snark at each other, a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary begins to cry tears of blood. Ruby says it's too late. Sam steers Anna toward a closet so she can hide, because a demon who managed to track the Winchesters sight unseen would never think to look there? Okay, show. Ruby tells Sam he has to "pull" the demon right away. Dean starts to object, but Ruby convinces him that if Sam doesn't, they'll all die. The demon bursts through the door, and Sam holds out his Pimp Hand of Ipecac. The demons eyes roll back in his head, then return to normal. He coughs and says, "Oh, that tickles." Is it YED? I hope it's YED. I don't know how it could be YED, but I want it to be him. "You don't have the juice to take me on, Sam." Without laying a hand on him, the demon flings Sam across the room and down the stairs. Dean pulls out The Knife That Can Kill Anything (And Actually Does) , so I can call it that one more time before it needs a new name, which it totally will, because it proceeds to leave this demon alive and kicking.
Ruby goes into the closet to retrieve Anna, who screams at the sight of her. Meanwhile, the demon sneers at and pounds on Dean. "C'mon, Dean. Don't you recognize me? Oh, I forgot -- I'm wearing a pediatrician." He continues to beat the stuffing out of the boy. "We were so close. In Hell." Nose and mouth bloodied, Dean looks him in the eye and says, "Alastair." Alastair turns just as Sam approaches, and sinks the The Knife that Can Kill Anything (Except Some Things) into the demon's chest. Alastair struggles and is clearly in pain, but it's also pretty clear he's not going to die. Since Sam has lost the knife to (well, in ) Alastair, the Winchesters can't win, so they take a dive out the church window. Knife in hand, Alastair looks down at them, but does not follow. As far as we can tell, anyhow.
Sam and Dean retire to their motel room, to lick their wounds. As Dean spits blood into the bathroom sink, Sam grunts and groans as he stitches up his own arm. Why he doesn't let Dean do it, I don't know. Dean asks if he's almost done. "Because I've got a dislocated shoulder over here." Oh, that's why you're not doing the stitches. Sorry, Dean. Dean takes a swig from a bottle, and then gives it to Sam, who pours the alcohol over his wound to disinfect it. Is it wine? It looks like wine. Red wine. I hope it is. I'm going to decide that it is, because I like the biblical imagery. Dean says, "So, you lost the magic knife, huh?" You can tell he's making the effort to be tough, and coaxing Sam to follow along. Sam says, "Yeah, saving your ass. Who the Hell was that demon?" I wonder how many times they've played this game, how many times they've performed this ritual of mending themselves then steeling themselves. Now would be the perfect time to put on a mindless movie, curl up in bed, polish off that wine (with some chocolate) and just have a good cry, but not when you're a Winchester boy. Okay, and to be fair, not when Hell's minions are on your tail, or the tail of a pretty little redhead, either. Dean just answers, "No one good." to Sam's question about Alastair. Oh, come on, we deserve more than that, Deano. Ignoring our need to KNOW EVERYTHING, Dean frets over finding Anna. Sam knows Ruby won't let them down. He snaps Dean's shoulder back into place (which makes me think of my friend Sunil, who keeps dislocating his shoulder; hi Sunil). Dean asks if he's sure about Ruby. "Because I think it's just as likely she used us to find Radio Girl and then brought that demon in, to kill us." Sam is sure Ruby took Anna to keep her safe, and she just hasn't called because they're probably being watched by the demon. He figures the reason Alastair let them go was that he is counting on them to lead him to Anna. If he couldn't find her in the church closet, I wouldn't worry too much, boys. Sam says they just have to lay low and wait for Ruby to contact them. Dean needs to know why Sam trusts Ruby so much. Sam says he already told Dean. Dean says, "I'm not trying to pick a fight here. I -- I really want to understand, but I need to know more. I deserve to know more." Hello Pot, Kettle's on line one. Sam says, "Because -- she saved my life."
Flash back to six months ago. A drunken Sam enters his motel room and is ambushed by a male demon with a wicked left hook. A blonde, female demon (not Cassidy; she can act and her voice doesn't make the hair on the back of my neck stand at attention) attacks him from the front. She takes the Knife That Might Kill Some Things, Who Knows and thanks Sam for keeping it warm for her. He says, "Ruby." She says she was in a nasty corner of Hell, and Lilith only let her come topside to kill Sam. He dares her. She raises her arm and plunges the knife right into... the male demon. Excellent choice, Blonde Ruby II. She tells him to get his car keys. They have to go now.
Sam and Ruby drive through the night. In Metallicar. Ack! It's a wonder Dean didn't rise out of Hell right then and there. I wonder if that's what he had to watch, over and over, as part of his (not so, as it turns out) eternal torment. Can't you hear him? "Remove the unclean thing. The seat on which sits the Abomination is a holy seat." He picked up that accent in Hell. And what's up with Baby, huh? Why didn't she just stall out, and refuse to move? Okay, I'll cut Baby some slack. She was hurt and confused. She just wanted to feel alive again. She just wanted to feel, at all. Blonde Ruby II wants French Fries. She says, "I just escaped Hell, I deserve a treat." When Sam is unresponsive, she launches a massive guilt trip about being a fugitive for his sake -- she came back for him. Sam and I say, "Who asked you to save me?" I'm just trying to help. Blah blah blah. Can you save Dean? Blee blee blee. No, nothing's that powerful, bloo bloo bloo. Sam gets angrier, and Metallicar's tires squeal as he pulls her up too short on the side of the road. If she can't save Dean, Sam has no use for her -- he orders her out of the car. She tries to talk, but he interrupts. "Whose body are you riding, Ruby?" She doesn't understand why Sam cares, but finally says, "Some secretary." Sam tells Ruby to let her go, "Or I send you right back to Hell." Blonde Ruby II sighs.
On the foot of a hospital bed there's a sticker that reads, "Doe, Jane 45-098-R3." Genevieve Cortese lies comatose, with a respirator down her throat. One doctor tells another (or a nurse, or a someone), "All right, pull it," and he removes the contraption. We hear the monitor's telltale flat line sound. Seven seconds after the respirator was removed (yes, I counted), the girl springs to life and sits up in her bed, gasping for breath. "Who do I have to kill to get some French Fries around here?" Hee.
Sam sits in a darkened, ramshackle cabin. The visible light is from the sun's rays, streaming through broken blinds or shudders -- or a piss poor boarding-up job. A nearly empty bottle of booze sits on the table before him, along with a beer bottle, a pizza box, a crumpled up napkin and some other debris. He's loading or cleaning his gun (not a euphemism) when there's a knock on the door. He opens the door to find Ruby, holding a paper and claiming it as her proof. "This body is 100% socially conscious. I recycle. Al Gore would be proud." Oh my word, she found a personality! She explains that she made sure the patient's spirit was gone before she moved into the empty "apartment." She asks Sam if he's happy, but he ignores her and asks why she's there. She says although she can't bring Dean back, she can help Sam get Lilith. His eyes flicker. "You want me to use my psychic whatever?" She starts to mount her argument, but Sam tells her, "Skip the speech. I'm ready. Let's go." Huh. No foreplay. Well, Ruby wants some. She says that while in Hell, she learned Lilith was brewing up an apocalypse. Ruby doesn't want Sam to half-ass it, like before. They need to get it right. Sam says, "Okay, what do you want from me?" He takes a swig from his bottle as Ruby watches. "Well a little patience... and sobriety. Promise me that, and I will teach you everything I know."
Flash forward to Sam and Dean's motel room. Dean says, "So? What'd she teach you?" Scholar Sam replies, "Well the first thing I learned -- I'm a crappy student." We flash back to Sam and Ruby. They've got a demon bound to a chair, placed upon a Devil's Trap, and Sam raises his Pimp Hand of Ipecac, but all he gets for his troubles are a bloody nose and a lot of lip from the demon. Ruby finally plunges the knife into the demon's neck. He dies, and she says, "Not funny." When they return from burying the corpse, Sam slams the shovel down and gets some aspirin from his bag. The Devil's Trap has been breached, so Ruby crosses it as she tells Sam to give it some time. "It will get better." He laughs as he chases down the aspirin with some booze. Ruby says, "I'm not talking about pulling demons. I know losing Dean was..." Sam stops her. He doesn't want to talk about it. Dean would be so proud. Sam says, "You know what, where the Hell do you get off slapping me with that 'time heals all' greeting card crap." Sammy, I think the phrase you're searching for is, "Touchy-feely self-help yoga crap," bitch. Ruby reminds him that she was once human and still remembers what it feels like to lose someone. She closes in on him and lays a hand on his shoulder. Lucky duck. "I'm sorry." Sam cuts her off. "Don't... I can't." Angry tears threaten to rain from his eyes.
Ruby's face and voice grow soft as she tells him he's not alone, then moves in for a kiss, and what a kiss it is. Sammy growls, and allows himself to feel it for a moment, then pushes her face away with his hands. He stands up, brushes by her and walks into the next room, sits down and asks her what she's doing. She tells him it's okay, and he says, "It is anything but okay." When she asks him what's wrong, he says, "Where do I start?" But? He can't take his eyes off her. Ruby slips off her jacket as she approaches him. "Is it because of the body? Because I told you it's all me inside of here. There's no one else." She kneels in front of him, right between his legs and... hold on, my son just wandered in. I've got to chase him out of the room. That's better. I'm fighting some wicked glare on my TV screen, and I can't do anything about it, because my curtains are down, waiting for me to launder them, but I'm pretty sure Ruby is doing something with her hands, just out of sight. I think she's just taking Sam's hands and putting them on her body. "And it's nice inside this body, Sam. Soft and warm." Woooo ! Sam inhales sharply. "What are you doing?" She grabs his hands and moves them up her stomach. "Isn't it 'cause you're really scared to go there with a demon -- because it's wrong, and it's bad, and we shouldn't?" She nuzzles his cheek, and Sam makes bitey motions with his mouth. His breath comes as hot and heavy as my prose is purple. He grabs her little face in his enormous hands, and kisses her. Still locked at the lips, he slides his hands down her side, beneath her arms, then lifts her in one swoop from her knees and up onto his lap. Oh my, I didn't know I had a size thing, but that was hot. I think, let me watch again to be sure.
Five hours later. Um, yeah. That was hot. Sam's kisses turn so hard he's biting her, now. He slinks her shirt up over her head and it falls to the floor. She returns the favor. We see Cortese's bare back. The D.P. is just teasing us, now. Wait, there it is. The bare, Padalecki back. And shoulders. Aye de mi. I can't really describe what happens next because the shoulders flex and I have to go search for my vocabulary, but you get the picture, yes? The camera pans from Sam and Ruby to the fireplace, because we're all about the subtle imagery here in the Supernatural fandom. Walk through the fire and let it burn.
Cut to poor Dean, mouth agape. It's clear from his expression that Sam did not keep the details of that flashback to himself. Finally he speaks. "Sam?" Sam comes out of his reverie long enough to reply, "Yeah?" Dean says, "Too much information." Sam says he warned Dean he was going to come clean. Dean looks away. "Yeah, but now I feel dirty. Okay, well uh... brain-stabbing imagery aside, so far all you've told me about is a manipulative bitch who uh... screwed you, played mind games with you, and did everything in the book to get you to go bad." Slightly exasperated, Sam says there's more to the story. I bet there aren't any more shoulders, though. The crew just doesn't play that nice. Dean then says words that have never before parted his lips in this particular order: "Just... skip the nudity, please." Sam nods and looks down. "Pretty soon after... that, I put together some signs -- omens, that Lilith was in town, and I wanted to strike her first."
Flashback to above five months ago, at the ramshackle cabin, now of bonus ill repute! Sam takes off on a foolish kamikaze mission to kill Lilith, despite Ruby's pleas for patience. He doesn't have the Pimp Hand of Ipecac exorcism mojo down yet, so he says he'll bring the knife for back up. Ruby accuses him of wanting to die, so that he doesn't have to go on without Dean. I think she's just looking for more angry inter-species sex -- but although Sam pushes her against the wall, and brings his face right to hers, he then walks out the door. It's daytime. He arrives at a lovely house in a neighborhood full of the same. Through the window, we see a girl with long blonde hair, seated at a table. Knife at the ready, Sam slips in the back and scares the Hell out of the absolutely nothing in a closet that he mistakes for a room. He rounds the corner and we can see the girl more clearly, now. She's practically dressed like Alice in Wonderland. He's ready to stab her when she turns and cries, "Please, I want to go home."
Sam is still in shock when he is attacked from behind -- by two demons. He drops the knife. One of the demons says, "Lilith sends her regrets she couldn't make it." Ruby appears, picks up the knife and does away with Sam's first assailant in short order. As she takes on the other, she barks at Sam, "Take the girl and run!" The other demon is a formidable foe. When Ruby loses the knife, he pins her to the wall, by her neck (I think the stunt coordinator needs an intervention, regarding his addiction to this move). He says, "Ruby, you're in so much trouble. When we get you down in the basement, the things we're going to do to you..." Then he starts to gag. Ruby looks over his shoulder to see Sam. His magical Pimp Hand of Ipecac is finally out of beta. The demon loses strength and drops Ruby to her feet, as he falls to the floor in a cloud of his own filthy essence, which burns an expressway through the floor and straight back to Hell. Sam's nose bleeds, as does Ruby's lip. She says, "Sam?" He says, "I'm okay." He gasps for breath as he adds, "Thanks." Flash forward to Dean and Sam in their room. Sam explains that Ruby came back for him, and whatever Dean wants to say about it, she saved him. "More than that, she got through to me. What she said to me -- it's what you would have said." Ooh, do you see that look on Dean's face? Fight. Fight. Fight. Fight. No wait, more talking. From Sam. "If it wasn't for her, I wouldn't be here." Dean considers this as Sam waits with a half-resigned, half-hopeful expression on his weary young face.
There's a knock on the door. "Housekeeping!" Dean booms, "Not now." The woman's voice is insistent. "Sir, I've got clean towels." I don't quite get Dean's expression here. I mean, I know he wants to get rid of her, but his face doesn't jibe. It's more like: oh, clean towels, well why didn't you say so? He opens the door and asks the heavy-set, African American housekeeper why she didn't just leave them there. She barges past him and into the room, where she promptly draws the shades, then hands Sam a slip of paper. "I'm at this address." Sam doesn't know what to think. I yell, "It's Ruby in a new meatsuit, you dummy," but he doesn't listen to me. Housekeeper Ruby says, "Go now. Go through the bathroom window. Don't stop. Don't take your car. Don't pass go. There are demons in the hallway and in the parking lot." Sam says, "Ruby?" She admits to possessing the housekeeper for a minute. "Sue me." Sam starts to ask about the soft, warm body that threw itself at him and gave us Sammy shoulders. Housekeeper Ruby says, "Coma girl? Slowly rotting on the floor back at the cabin, with Anna, so I've got to hurry back. See you when you get there. Go!" She walks out the door, and I wonder why she doesn't teleport any more. She did that last season. You think she would when she's left her sexy meat suit out for the maggots. Dean's face is all WTF and we cut to...
The boys making their way through the woods to Casa Ramshackle. Ruby (Gen) lets them in and Sam asks Anna if she's okay. She says, "Yeah, I think so. Ruby's not like other demons. She saved my life." As Sam nods, Dean says, "Yeah, I hear she does that." He looks at Ruby and you can see her wonder what he'll throw at her this time. Dean's look is still guarded. "I guess I... uh... ahem. You know?" Ruby shoves down the smile that tickles the corners of her mouth, crosses her arms defensively and says, "What?" Dean looks from her to Sam and back again. "I guess I owe you for... Sam. And I just wanna... ahem... you know?" Ruby stares at him. "Don't strain yourself." Dean looks relieved. "Okay then, is the moment over?" When she rolls her eyes, he finishes: "Good, 'cause that was awkward." Anna asks for permission to call her parents to let them know she's all right. Sam sits down next to her as he struggles to find a gentle way to break the news of her parents' death. As soon as he says he's sorry, she knows, and dissolves into tears. Sam, Dean and Ruby look like they feel utterly useless. Anna cries out, "Why is this happening to me?" Sam lays his hand on her back, and in the midst of her sobs, Anna gasps, and sits straight up, terror overwhelming her face. "They're coming," and the lights dim. Sam hides her in a back room, because hey a closet was all they needed to hide her before, while Ruby tries to secure the cabin door. Dean and Sam arm themselves. Ruby asks for her knife and Dean says, "Uh, about that..." Ruby can't believe they've lost it. "You're kidding." Dean smirks. "Hey, don't look at me." When Sam says, "Thanks a lot," Dean gives him his best wise-ass smile. Ruby berates them for their timing, until a loud buzzing zoom sort of noise closes in on them. The cabin door flies open and the trio assumes battle positions, as they prepare for the onslaught of...
...Angels! It's not demons, of course, because Anna hears angels, not demons, you sillies. Castiel walks in the door, soon followed by Uriel. Ruby looks terrified and her eyes turn demon black. Dean says, "Please tell me you're here to help. We've been having demon issues all day." Uriel sneers at Ruby as he says, "Well I can see that. You want to explain why you have that stain in the room?" I bet Ruby wishes he'd call her a mud monkey, instead. Castiel, who is still beautiful, cuts to the chase. "We're here for Anna." Dean says, "Here for her like here for her?" Uriel commands him to stop talking. "Give her to us." Sam looks on in disbelief. With one of his few remaining drops of faith he asks, "Are you going to help her?" Castiel says, "No. She has to die." Sam closes his mouth. Dean just stares at his strange savior, who never flinches, never blinks, and damn it, we fade to black and get slapped with a "TO BE CONTINUED..." card.
Coming up next week; we get to see another Winchester have sex, and it's not with Ruby. Oh, boys, don't you know these things never end well?
Cindy figures if the previews aren't lying, her stint as Demian's substitute is going to go out with a bang. She's loved covering for him almost as much as misses reading him (and don't tell anyone, but she misses that overgrown lizard, too). You can e-mail her at CynthiaMcLennan[at]gmail.com. In the meantime, she'll be scouring romance novels to restock her scarce supply of purple prose. To the smutmobile. Away!
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