Posh Bela and her accent return this week to irritate both Our Intrepid Heroes and the long-suffering audience as the boys head to a coastal resort plagued, as of late, by a series of bizarre dry-land drownings. Turns out each victim spotted a triple-masted ghost ship in the hours before they died, and it"s further revealed that each victim was responsible for the death of a blood relation in the past, some by accident, others by intent. After the usual amounts of initial misdirection followed by clever investigation (and some massively grating amounts of Bela-related aggravation, including a scene in which she heartlessly violates the Impala"s dignity by getting it towed, for which she must die), Sam and Dean discover that the ghoul responsible (a sailor on the ghost ship, natch) had been hanged by his own brother (the ship"s captain) for some sort of seafaring infraction. The sailor"s corpse was cremated, but not before his colleagues amputated his right hand, which is on display at the local maritime museum. Posh Bela finagles a set of invitations to the museum"s rather conveniently timed donors" gala, and our uncomfortably tuxedoed protagonists help her swipe the grisly artifact from its display case, fully intent on salting and burning it to halt sailor boy"s reign of terror. One problem: Bela immediately sells the waxy thing to a European client. One bigger problem: She spots the ghost ship seconds after the sale goes through. So, it"s up to Darling Sammy and his mad latinating skillz to save the day, which he does by effecting a reunion between sailor boy and the ghost of his homicidal brother, wherein the unquiet spirits basically destroy each other.
They should have let the twee cow drown.