Season 8 episode 3
Episode three opens with a straight MoTW. Like mailmen, runners do not fail too well. We had the runner in "Faith" from season 1 and the haunted ship episode where the female runner gets axed.
After title card, Sam and Dean are walking and talking--Dean immediately hones in on the runner with his heart ripped out. Somehow, Sam has managed to trick Dean into a farmer's market. Dean guilts Sam about choosing fresh produce over saving lives.
Dean notes the chubby guy beat the younger one and the cop (detective?) gets pretty heated that Dean insinuates maybe he's the guy. Another comment made about Thor
Sam goes to Paul, the chubby runner. Pretty unexciting conversation.
So Eleanor is not his mom but Betsy, Brick (Or Rick?)'s long time lover. In an interesting twist of a deal with the devil, Brick made a deal with the Mayan maize god, Kakaw (sp?)--eternal youth and strength and in return, a sacrifice twice a year. Betsy was so in love that she turned a blind eye to his discretions, and admits he likely committed suicide because he too was in love, and knew she would die and he would be alone.
So Betsy clues them in on the "king daddy monster" the stripper Brenda who has his heart, which is the key. They follow the rabbit down the Bunny Hole (see what I did there?) to find Brenda, with a feather earring that is a year old outdated fashion that likely is supposed to represent the Mayan-ness of it all.
Question: If Brick is 1000 years old, why is he white? With blue eyes? Were it post 1500s, I could believe he's a crossover from an illicit relationship with a Spainard, but who knows?
Brenda goes to grab Dean's heart in a very Indiana Jones and the Hidden Temple sort of move, and he stabs her straight in the transplant organ and her and all her cronies die.
Sam and Dean report back. Betsy seems to have a pretty even keel about it all. Live or die, it didn't really matter to her.
Back in the car, Dean espouses how much he understands what it means to be a warrior. Sam doesn't. He wants to go home to Amelia and their dog. Name Ryan, apparently? He adjusted to the normal life over 90000 times (IT'S OVER 9000!) than Dean ever could with Lisa, and Dean doesn't seem to get it. He tried his best at the normal life, and he couldn't hack it, and he doesn't seem to get that Sam ever could. (Because, besides hacking computers and having long hair, what can Sam do better than Dean, when the board is an even playing field?)
But we get a flashback of Sam having a surprise birthday party held by Amelia in a really saturated world where the power of the sun is also like, over 9000 because everything is SUPER green. (Plants are green, by the way, because chlorophyll doesn't do a good job of absorbing that wavelength and, as a result, reflects it.) But Sam likes his saturated world with soft focus and misses it in a way Dean never could.
After title card, Sam and Dean are walking and talking--Dean immediately hones in on the runner with his heart ripped out. Somehow, Sam has managed to trick Dean into a farmer's market. Dean guilts Sam about choosing fresh produce over saving lives.
Dean notes the chubby guy beat the younger one and the cop (detective?) gets pretty heated that Dean insinuates maybe he's the guy. Another comment made about Thor
Sam goes to Paul, the chubby runner. Pretty unexciting conversation.
So Eleanor is not his mom but Betsy, Brick (Or Rick?)'s long time lover. In an interesting twist of a deal with the devil, Brick made a deal with the Mayan maize god, Kakaw (sp?)--eternal youth and strength and in return, a sacrifice twice a year. Betsy was so in love that she turned a blind eye to his discretions, and admits he likely committed suicide because he too was in love, and knew she would die and he would be alone.
So Betsy clues them in on the "king daddy monster" the stripper Brenda who has his heart, which is the key. They follow the rabbit down the Bunny Hole (see what I did there?) to find Brenda, with a feather earring that is a year old outdated fashion that likely is supposed to represent the Mayan-ness of it all.
Question: If Brick is 1000 years old, why is he white? With blue eyes? Were it post 1500s, I could believe he's a crossover from an illicit relationship with a Spainard, but who knows?
Brenda goes to grab Dean's heart in a very Indiana Jones and the Hidden Temple sort of move, and he stabs her straight in the transplant organ and her and all her cronies die.
Sam and Dean report back. Betsy seems to have a pretty even keel about it all. Live or die, it didn't really matter to her.
Back in the car, Dean espouses how much he understands what it means to be a warrior. Sam doesn't. He wants to go home to Amelia and their dog. Name Ryan, apparently? He adjusted to the normal life over 90000 times (IT'S OVER 9000!) than Dean ever could with Lisa, and Dean doesn't seem to get it. He tried his best at the normal life, and he couldn't hack it, and he doesn't seem to get that Sam ever could. (Because, besides hacking computers and having long hair, what can Sam do better than Dean, when the board is an even playing field?)
But we get a flashback of Sam having a surprise birthday party held by Amelia in a really saturated world where the power of the sun is also like, over 9000 because everything is SUPER green. (Plants are green, by the way, because chlorophyll doesn't do a good job of absorbing that wavelength and, as a result, reflects it.) But Sam likes his saturated world with soft focus and misses it in a way Dean never could.