The Hardy Boys Get the Night Sweats
Updated 2006-02-11 16:00:00
The episode starts with a man pulling his car into the garage and then promptly getting locked in by an unseen force. The car idles, and the garage fills up with fumes while the man yells ineffectually for help until he suffocates to death. Sam starts awake from a dead sleep having seen a vision of this death, and drags Dean out of bed to drive to Saginaw, Michigan to check it out. Once there, the boys pose as priests to gain entry to the "suicidal" man's home. They don't find out too much, but they sure look disturbingly cute in their collars. Sam has another vision -- this one coming when he's awake and causing him some major brain pain -- and sees the opening dude's brother getting decapitated by a window. Sam and Dean rush to his apartment, but are too late. After asking around the neighborhood, the brothers find that the son (and nephew) of the two dead men had long been physically abused by both, and that the abuse had long been ignored by his still-alive stepmother. Sam gets another vision of the kid, Max, telekinetically sending a knife through this lady's eye socket, and they scramble across town once again. Sam manages to have a heart-to-heart with Max, during which he finds out that Max's "abilities" started around the same time as his and that -- BIG REVEAL! -- his biological mother was killed in the same way Sam's and Dean's mother was, i.e. ceiling-kabob.
But Max freaks out again, and mind-thrusts Sam into a closet in front of which he slides a huge china cabinet. While Sam is trapped, he "sees" Dean getting shot in the forehead by Max, major blood and brains splattering everywhere. This vision sends Sam over the edge, and in a burst of rage, he finds out that he too can move furniture with his brain. He rushes in to save Dean, which works, but then Max just offs himself instead. At the end of the episode, Sam suggests that maybe their mother's death was actually caused by his then-infantile special "abilities." We'll call this the "Marissa Cooper" theory of supernatural events.