The Hardy Boys Are Daddy's Boys
Updated 2006-03-05 16:00:00
Let's get a few things out of the way first: Chicago city buses have blue stripes, not red, blues guitar rarely accompanies my walks through spooky West Side alleyways at night, and why in the hell did they wait this long to show us the boys in work coveralls? Loving them this week.
In Chicago, Illinois, Sam and Dean investigate a couple of savage murders that we see have been perpetrated by an elongatedly scary shadow. While on the case, Sam runs back into Meg (a.k.a. "Short Lip") and is, thankfully, immediately suspicious of her reappearance in his life. The brothers think they've landed a big one when Sam overhears Meg talking into her Blood Phone and Dean finds out both of the murdered people were from Lawrence, Kansas. So they put in a desperate call to their dad to get him to Chicago. As they prepare for what they think will be a major battle involving whatever demon killed their mother, the boys have a conversation about what they want for themselves after "this" is all over. Sam wants to go back to his "real" life; "this" already is Dean's real life. The conversation is really touching. But as they arrive at the warehouse to throw down with Meg and her Cup o' Demon, they find that the whole situation was an elaborate trap designed to get Daddy Winchester to the warehouse for slaughtering.
The boys get mauled and tied up, but then manage to turn the Elongated Shadow against Meg, who crashes through a window and falls five or six stories down. The brothers figure she's dead, which is annoying, and return to their room only to find...Daddy! ANOTHER moving conversation and ANOTHER mauling by the Elongated Shadow, which the three just barely manage to squeak out of. On the street, in a rush, the three nearly leave together until Dean realizes that they are actually putting their father in danger by being with him. So they split up again, and we all cry and cry and then we end on a shot of RoboMeg resurrected. Crikey, Kripke!