SPN 7.11
It's been ages since I've done this so I'm going for it! It's an in-time review!
THEN:
Whoa! Crazy music for this. But OMG CASCASCAS! :) Okay, he's all glowy and crazy but look, he's THERE! ♥
Yes, so Cas got possessed by a bunch of evil leviathan and disappeared into the water.
(where he is living, comatose, while he recovers from the ordeal shhhh)
Aw, they even gave a close-up of his trenchcoat, that's sweet.
(still don't know what this song is btw, I suck at music...)
Sam sees Lucifer sometimes because he's a little cuckoo, but pain makes him sensible(ish) again.
Frank Devereaux! Is brilliant! And gave our boys new alias and told them to ditch the Impala to make it harder for the leviathan to find them :(
Grrr. Dean's been having nightmares. But apparently this recap is gonna focus on FUCKING AMY and ignore the one about Cas. Grrr.
Leviathans can't be killed.
Crowley has unofficially recruited the boys TO kill them, however, because their Dick of a Boss rejected his advances. Poor baby.
Bobby found out what the leviathans were planning and... and... and...
Well you know the rest.
NOW:
Pheweee... we start with a guy in a leather jacket looking out the window of a diner. He's dishevelled and has a beard and I'm all 'omg Dean? With a beard??' Man, you've really given up since Bobby huh?
But it's not Dean, it's a random.
The waitress notes that, whoever he is, he's been visiting the establishment for a couple of days. He wisecracks... are we sure it's not Dean somehow...?
Anyway, a beefy guy and a slutty girl who I assume is a hooker leave the diner and mystery guy gets up to follow them. The thick plottens.
Random has a knife under his jacket.
Just - hunter then?
Beefy guy is a truck driver. Do you know the sign on one of the trucks outside the diner? Do you?? It's a Wild West couriers sign! :P Like from Back to the Future and Frontierland! Could there be time travel on the way perchance?
By the time our mystery guy reaches the truck stop his prey has gone.
Not in a truck or anything but seemingly into thin air.
Ooooo....
Friendly waitress from before suddenly appears! Ah, I'm betting she's not all she seems then.
Ah. The waitress is the same thing Amy was. Eh. I guess that kinda means the flashback to her in the Previously gets a pass.
Inky titles of tentacle cum. Still pretty icky.
Oh.
:(
We're back to our boys and the title 'week one.'
Week one... after Bobby :'(
We're all in darkness at Bobby's second HQ (once Rufus' shack), Sam and Dean sitting and staring and brooding.
It's sad and emotional, I know. But - ACK - my brain is hateful and is comparing this to that part of New Moon where Bella gets dumped by Edward and just sits there for months. Stupid stupid brain.
Week two.
Dean's drinking (again) now. Staring at Bobby's numbers.
Sam's looking through a journal - their Dad's? Or is it Bobby's? :'(
We montage through to a list of crossed out ideas for the numbers:
ZIP CODE
LOCK
V-MAIL
PASSWORD
BANK#
What did they try it as a password on I wonder...
Week three.
Dean has dedicated a wall in the place to Dick Roman.
I was expecting this obsession to be Dean's first refuge tbh, but I like that they've shown his progression to it.
Also? All this totally fits as the build up to my latest fic, just fyi :p
Sam's the one to break the silence. Of course. There's no doubt he's gonna be the 'healthy' one in this situation.
He wants to know if they should tell Bobby's friends about what's happened.
Oh, and I'm gonna go all out and say Bobby really is 100% dead. Stupid fake cliffhanger last episode *mutter mutter grumble grumble*
Dean, predictably, doesn't answer. He wants to know why Frank hasn't got back to them with info on Bobby's numbers.
I am happy they've got Frank involved :)
Sam tries to get Dean on track. He's all anxious and awkward and 'I...I asked you a question.' Yeah, Sam can see where things are going with Dean and that it's so not good.
Wait - while Dean is mouthing off about this he says 'we should go check on him.' Check on... who? He's looking at the clipboard with Bobby's numbers so I'm assuming Frank? Not... Bobby, at the hospital? Pfft. Stop toying with me show! Just because I love it is no excuse to jerk my emotions around like this!
Fortunately for both our boys, they are spared from continuing this conversation by the phone ringing.
Bobby's phone. From the bag of his stuff I'm guessing they brought from the hospital... and haven't touched since by the looks.
It's a young girl who wants Bobby specifically.
:(
Scared at getting Sam instead, the girl hangs up.
Sam wants to find her and help her, of course. Dean bitches that they need to wait for Frank. He reminds Sam that Frank is working on the numbers Bobby spent his 'last breath' on.
Okie-dokie dead then.
They decide to split, since Dean refuses to leave for anything until he's heard from Frank. But Sam only goes once he's made Dean promise to join him if Frank has no new information.
Oh shit.
Dean's almost full beer is suddenly empty without him seeing/remembering the part in-between... Supernatural related? Or, more likely, is Dean just losing it? Oh Dean, bb. Isn't one hallucinating brother enough for the family? ♥
And look at his face as he puts the empty bottle down! Kinda freaked out but trying to ignore it. He knows he's going off the reservation, but he just doesn't care right now.
God the ANGST. I already love it!
So, Sam puppy dogs his way into the young girl's apartment. Explaining that... Bobby 'passed away' :'( She's young but seems pretty cool. Savvy.
Her Dad's away, but he usually calls every night. The last 5 have been silent. Ah, I'm guessing her Dad is the hunter from the start. Oh dear girly...
Yup, definitely the hunter. There's a picture.
Sam finds the guy's research wall in the wardrobe (careful to hide it from the girl - was it Chrissy? - who believes her Dad is a salesman) and figures out where the guy must have been hunting last.
While Sam heads out to where the missing guy was last, Dean is driving up to Frank's place... in what looks like another Impala?? Y/n?
Oh dear, Frank's place has been stripped clean. This can't be good.
Oooh, but Frank is still there! Yay yay yay!
Ready to point a gun at Dean from behind. In case he's a leviathan. And Dean has to keep his up, in case Frank's a leviathan :p I've been waiting for a moment like this :)
Leviathans don't bleed red guys! That's the way out of this!
Gwyneth Paltrow's a leviathan?!
Smart Dean, listening to me :)
Haha, Frank's scared of a little cut. Oh Frank, I'm SO HAPPY you're back :D
Turns out he's downsized his operation to a trailer a few blocks away. Looking up info on Roman for the boys has put him on the leviathans radar and they are watching him. Oh, don't you dare kill this guy, show, don't you dare!
Frank: There is no pill for my situation sweetie-pop!
LOL ♥
Dean: What's the word on the big mouths?
Frank: Their tentacles are everywhere.
TENTACLES! Did you hear that takadainmate? XD
Anyway, after some badgering, Dean learns that Frank has made what he believes to be some sense out of Bobby's numbers. Turns out Bobby forgot one (I did wonder if there was one missing on Sam's hand compared to what he wrote in his dream, but was too traumatised to check). When you add in the most likely missing number it gives you co-ordinates.
For a field in Wisconsin.
Well, that's not a lake with Castiel in it is it? *mutter mutter grumble grumble*
Apparently this field has been bought by Dick. For nefarious purposes unknown.
Hmmm. Interesting.
Frank wants to stay away, but he knows Dean's stupid, so he suggests heading out there and setting up surveillance.
Sam is investigating what looks like the corpse of the trucker our missing hunter was following. He died from blood loss. The coroner jokes vampire. Sam is unimpressed.
Dean calls in. Explains what Frank learnt about the numbers.
Oh oh, he's gonna want Sam to join him, but Sam won't leave the little girl. Oh, such a lovely set-up for tension ♥
Huh? Wha-?
Dean: Alright well keep me posted [hangs up].
??? When... when did our boys grow up? I... that was... amicable... does not compute ???
Frank: Got the equipment arranged. Come and get your costume on and we can scoot!
Dean [bemused]: Costume? What?
♥ Oh, this is gonna be good! Road-tripping with Frank Devereaux. I.Love.It.
Lol. Frank has them in electrician gear. He has the 'manager' uniform, of course :p
Yikes, turns out Dick Enterprises already has the place/field wired. But luckily Frank knows how to tap into existing surveillance just as well as setting up his own :)
Frank [in surveillance van]: You look terrible. When's the last time you slept through a night?
Oh man Dean, if even the crazy paranoid guy who probably tries not to sleep at all if he can help it is noticing this then you know things are bad...
But can I say again how much I'm loving having Frank around this episode? :D
I ♥ you Frank. Never leave us! ...well, except when the episodes don't call for you anymore anyways.
Awww, Dean has fallen asleep in his chair ♥
This is good. Except for where it means Sam can't get through to him.
The voicemail Sam leaves suggests he's just checking-in though, so we're good. For now.
He's figured out what the missing hunter was hunting and it's something I can't spell so I won't :p What it wasn't was the Japanese fox demon thing that nabbed him.
Unless I'm wrong and the eyes on that waitress weren't the same as Amy's... which is a possibility we can't rule out of course.
Aaaaah! Sam has found the waitress! But he doesn't know she's the waitress! Well, he knows she's a waitress but not - oh, you know.
Heh. So the waitress and the hooker are working together. Oh Sam. You been played.
Aw, Dean waking up when he didn't mean to fall asleep = adorable.
Dean: How long was I out?
Frank: About 36 hours.
Dean: What?! Why didn't you wake me?
Frank: Not your butler.
♥ ♥ ♥
You know what? I'm imaging Bobby contacting Frank at some point before the end. They would have bitched at each other but eventually Bobby would have managed to slip in something like - 'Listen you idjit, things are getting bad, now if something happens to me, shut up, it might, and if it does, those boys are gonna come looking for you, especially Dean. Now if they do, I want you to take care of them for me. No, I'm not asking you to babysit, just... do what you can, alright? Make sure they don't take any stupid risks... yes, stupider than usual. Just, make sure they eat once in a while and catch some zees now and then. Slip 'em some pills if you have to. Remember you owe me, Frank... okay... what? No I don't have any LSD, what are you -?'
Anyway...
While Dean was out one of Dick's employees, a naughty little girl called Amanda, turned up with some other randoms to survey the land with the intent to build something. Frank doesn't know what... yet.
Frank: Patience grasshopper.
Dean: Yeah, well patience and me aren't really on terms.
Frank: Well then go out and kill something or whatever you kids do to blow off steam.
No, seriously, STAY FOREVER?
Oh my GOD, we're having a moment and everything!
Frank: Did I mention you look awful?
Dean [exasperated]: Yes. Maybe because somebody I cared about just got shot in the head. And this is like shoving a rock up a hill, and - [realising he's about to bare his soul to a nutty guy he hardly knows] Screw you.
Frank: Here's my advice you didn't ask for - quit.
Dean: What?
Frank: You wanna keep going?
Dean: I want Dick Roman on a spit! (oh Dean... more than living?)
Frank: But you're gonna drive yourself into the ground first. Good plan.
♥ ♥ ♥
Holy shit, this has taken a turn I wasn't expecting -
Frank: Do what I did when I was 26 and came home to find my wife and two kids gutted on the floor. Decide to be fine until the end of the week. Make yourself smile because you're alive and that's your job. And do it again the next week.
Dean: So fake it?
Frank: I call it being professional. Do it right, with a smile. Or don't do it.
Oh, wow. Frank, bb, you just jumped from quirky awesome to angsty awesome and I will LOVE YOU ALWAYS ♥
...but Dean? Um, I kinda need you to not 'do it' okay? Because you're being all relatively healthy and shit right now when you're supposed to be going off the rails so I can get all emotional about it and stuff. Alright?
Anyhow, little girl calls Dean because she hasn't heard back from Sam. And Dean finally listens to his brother's voicemail and apparently little Sammy has made a mistake. Dun dun dun.
Somewhere dark and undefined, Sam is tied to a chair unconscious.
He wakes up and finds out he's not alone, there's plenty of other conscious and semi-conscious guys stashed in the same place. Including our missing hunter. He's been fed on three times already. Three or four feedings and you're dead...
Back at Chrissy's, Dean rushes to help. He goes to search the guy's room too but, hee, he's not quite as tactful as puppy dog Sam.
Dean: Look, I don't have time to hold your hand here, so -
Chrissy: What are you saying?
Dean: I'm saying go wait in the living room. Your dad might not want you to know everything about him.
Oh Dean :p
Haha. Love it - Chrissy was faking with Sam. She knows EVERYTHING. I like it, that she was basically playing Sam. Smart idea of her Dad's I guess - as long as people think she doesn't know anything about the life then she'll be a little safer, hunters won't force her to tag along and help with jobs, evil things might be less likely to try and interrogate her. Not foolproof, but it's something.
Aw, bless her, she wants to come too because she doesn't trust that Dean won't just fail to come back like everyone else. Wow, she even burned her Dad's research, so Dean will have to take her if he wants to know where to go. Smart cookie.
Aw, and now we're having a little re-cap of the show for Chrissy's benefit in the car and she's all blown away about the idea of Sam going to college. Sweet. Oh, and John's journal is wrong, the thing I can't spell likes to work in pairs, which is why Sam and Chrissy's dad both got blindsided by the two of them. Dean knows otherwise cos he caught wise to the gig during a hunt while Sam was at Stanford. Geeze, Dean, you could have at least updated the journal after that job, you know? Ugh, men. So disorganised.
Oh, selfless Sammy goads the monster I can't spell into feeding off him and not Chrissy's dad. I wouldn't have expected anything less from you bb.
Hee! Chrissy spots the monsters they need to follow, then this -
Dean [holding out his fist]: Alright!
Chrissy [with disdain]: What century is this? No one fist-bumps anymore.
Dean: Come on, give it up. Good work.
Chrissy: You're a dweeb.
Dean: [wiggles fist, insisting]
Chrissy: [reluctantly bumps it]
Dean: [slaps a handcuff on her and ties her to the steering wheel]
♥ Oh Dean, your methods my be unorthodox, but your heart's in the right place.
Aw, he still won't let her go, even when he learns there's an element of revenge in this for her. Because monsters killed her mum. I just, my heart is all squishy! Dean knows what's right and healthy, he just chooses not to fix himself, because he doesn't deserve to be anything but broken :(
So in he goes.
Fight fight fight.
Dean has the upper hand then - oh Chrissy! You got out after all huh?
Chrissy's run for her dad gives the monster a juicy hostage, forcing Dean to let his captive monster go.
Huh... interesting eyebrow raise from Chrissy though. Is this a plan? ...that would be kind of annoying. Maybe it was just secret on the fly communication.
Yup, her frightened little girl thing is all an act. As soon the waitress tries to eat up her dad she's a badass kid again, whipping a knife from her sleeve and stabbing the unspellable monster right in the heart, fuck yeah!
Sam finishes off the other one and... ah, so they both die all shrivelled up and horrible. Guess the waitress wasn't an Amy monster after all.
We'll call that my second mistake. My first being the freaking time travel part of this episode it turns out :( Maybe next week??
Cut forward to Chrissy's dad in hospital. Dean urges him to quit, just like Frank told him to. He and his daughter could still lead regular lives.
Chrissy's dad: You ever know anyone who left the life?
And that's the message we've always had in this show, isn't it? Once you're in, there's no getting out. Hunting changes you and you can't go back, even if you do live long enough to try.
I know fic is all about finding a balance between hunting and regular living, but I got to admit, I do like the bleak either/or attitude to this in canon. So beautifully tragic ;)
Aw, cute goodbye between Dean and Chrissy.
She was okay :)
The Impala may be fake in the next scene, but the talk about feelings isn't. Or rather, the not-talk. Sam's not okay, but he's not gonna elaborate. Guess he doesn't have to. He wants to work.
Sam: Should I even ask?
Dean: I'm fine.
Sam: Fine? Really?
Dean: ...you're right, we should just... work. Right? Figure out a way to kick Dick Roman's ass. I mean, hey, we are the professionals.
Oh god, ouch ouch ouch. Dean, you trying to smile like Frank told you to might be one of the scariest things I've seen on this show. Oh bb...
But seriously, this 'faking it' thing is gonna backfire, right? You're gonna breakdown soon? Right? I mean, you've seen where that method of coping led Frank - hidden from the world, paranoid, alone. That's not living Dean! So... you're going to breakdown from the strain of it. Right?
Verdict? Not what I was expecting. And yet Sam and Dean's reactions to everything were fairly predictable throughout. A nice, quiet, easy plot that ambled along without many surprises. Some set-up that suggests there's a plan in the works for the leviathans, which I'm happy about. I thought the guest star girl (a non-famous one this time I believe?) was nice enough. And Dean, oh Dean... his grief was a thing of beauty... although not as much as I was expecting.
As seems the norm for this season, a lot of what's happening feels like a slow build to something bigger in the works for later. I thought Bobby's death would be the beginning of a payoff, but it looks like it was just a teaser. Which I'm fine with... but the longer they work on this build up of hidden emotion and having the boys fail to deal with things (well, Dean anyway - Sam does seem to be dealing as he goes), the bigger the payoff needs to be to compensate. And I'm still iffy about whether the show is good enough to deliver anymore.
Best part of the episode in any case was Frank Devereaux hands down XD It was him that made me think Slash Fiction was going to be worthwhile as well.
I might even go as far as to say...
He's saving the season for me...
No... would I?
...maybe I would.
He is awesome :D
Overall though...
THEN:
Whoa! Crazy music for this. But OMG CASCASCAS! :) Okay, he's all glowy and crazy but look, he's THERE! ♥
Yes, so Cas got possessed by a bunch of evil leviathan and disappeared into the water.
(where he is living, comatose, while he recovers from the ordeal shhhh)
Aw, they even gave a close-up of his trenchcoat, that's sweet.
(still don't know what this song is btw, I suck at music...)
Sam sees Lucifer sometimes because he's a little cuckoo, but pain makes him sensible(ish) again.
Frank Devereaux! Is brilliant! And gave our boys new alias and told them to ditch the Impala to make it harder for the leviathan to find them :(
Grrr. Dean's been having nightmares. But apparently this recap is gonna focus on FUCKING AMY and ignore the one about Cas. Grrr.
Leviathans can't be killed.
Crowley has unofficially recruited the boys TO kill them, however, because their Dick of a Boss rejected his advances. Poor baby.
Bobby found out what the leviathans were planning and... and... and...
Well you know the rest.
NOW:
Pheweee... we start with a guy in a leather jacket looking out the window of a diner. He's dishevelled and has a beard and I'm all 'omg Dean? With a beard??' Man, you've really given up since Bobby huh?
But it's not Dean, it's a random.
The waitress notes that, whoever he is, he's been visiting the establishment for a couple of days. He wisecracks... are we sure it's not Dean somehow...?
Anyway, a beefy guy and a slutty girl who I assume is a hooker leave the diner and mystery guy gets up to follow them. The thick plottens.
Random has a knife under his jacket.
Just - hunter then?
Beefy guy is a truck driver. Do you know the sign on one of the trucks outside the diner? Do you?? It's a Wild West couriers sign! :P Like from Back to the Future and Frontierland! Could there be time travel on the way perchance?
By the time our mystery guy reaches the truck stop his prey has gone.
Not in a truck or anything but seemingly into thin air.
Ooooo....
Friendly waitress from before suddenly appears! Ah, I'm betting she's not all she seems then.
Ah. The waitress is the same thing Amy was. Eh. I guess that kinda means the flashback to her in the Previously gets a pass.
Inky titles of tentacle cum. Still pretty icky.
Oh.
:(
We're back to our boys and the title 'week one.'
Week one... after Bobby :'(
We're all in darkness at Bobby's second HQ (once Rufus' shack), Sam and Dean sitting and staring and brooding.
It's sad and emotional, I know. But - ACK - my brain is hateful and is comparing this to that part of New Moon where Bella gets dumped by Edward and just sits there for months. Stupid stupid brain.
Week two.
Dean's drinking (again) now. Staring at Bobby's numbers.
Sam's looking through a journal - their Dad's? Or is it Bobby's? :'(
We montage through to a list of crossed out ideas for the numbers:
ZIP CODE
LOCK
V-MAIL
PASSWORD
BANK#
What did they try it as a password on I wonder...
Week three.
Dean has dedicated a wall in the place to Dick Roman.
I was expecting this obsession to be Dean's first refuge tbh, but I like that they've shown his progression to it.
Also? All this totally fits as the build up to my latest fic, just fyi :p
Sam's the one to break the silence. Of course. There's no doubt he's gonna be the 'healthy' one in this situation.
He wants to know if they should tell Bobby's friends about what's happened.
Oh, and I'm gonna go all out and say Bobby really is 100% dead. Stupid fake cliffhanger last episode *mutter mutter grumble grumble*
Dean, predictably, doesn't answer. He wants to know why Frank hasn't got back to them with info on Bobby's numbers.
I am happy they've got Frank involved :)
Sam tries to get Dean on track. He's all anxious and awkward and 'I...I asked you a question.' Yeah, Sam can see where things are going with Dean and that it's so not good.
Wait - while Dean is mouthing off about this he says 'we should go check on him.' Check on... who? He's looking at the clipboard with Bobby's numbers so I'm assuming Frank? Not... Bobby, at the hospital? Pfft. Stop toying with me show! Just because I love it is no excuse to jerk my emotions around like this!
Fortunately for both our boys, they are spared from continuing this conversation by the phone ringing.
Bobby's phone. From the bag of his stuff I'm guessing they brought from the hospital... and haven't touched since by the looks.
It's a young girl who wants Bobby specifically.
:(
Scared at getting Sam instead, the girl hangs up.
Sam wants to find her and help her, of course. Dean bitches that they need to wait for Frank. He reminds Sam that Frank is working on the numbers Bobby spent his 'last breath' on.
Okie-dokie dead then.
They decide to split, since Dean refuses to leave for anything until he's heard from Frank. But Sam only goes once he's made Dean promise to join him if Frank has no new information.
Oh shit.
Dean's almost full beer is suddenly empty without him seeing/remembering the part in-between... Supernatural related? Or, more likely, is Dean just losing it? Oh Dean, bb. Isn't one hallucinating brother enough for the family? ♥
And look at his face as he puts the empty bottle down! Kinda freaked out but trying to ignore it. He knows he's going off the reservation, but he just doesn't care right now.
God the ANGST. I already love it!
So, Sam puppy dogs his way into the young girl's apartment. Explaining that... Bobby 'passed away' :'( She's young but seems pretty cool. Savvy.
Her Dad's away, but he usually calls every night. The last 5 have been silent. Ah, I'm guessing her Dad is the hunter from the start. Oh dear girly...
Yup, definitely the hunter. There's a picture.
Sam finds the guy's research wall in the wardrobe (careful to hide it from the girl - was it Chrissy? - who believes her Dad is a salesman) and figures out where the guy must have been hunting last.
While Sam heads out to where the missing guy was last, Dean is driving up to Frank's place... in what looks like another Impala?? Y/n?
Oh dear, Frank's place has been stripped clean. This can't be good.
Oooh, but Frank is still there! Yay yay yay!
Ready to point a gun at Dean from behind. In case he's a leviathan. And Dean has to keep his up, in case Frank's a leviathan :p I've been waiting for a moment like this :)
Leviathans don't bleed red guys! That's the way out of this!
Gwyneth Paltrow's a leviathan?!
Smart Dean, listening to me :)
Haha, Frank's scared of a little cut. Oh Frank, I'm SO HAPPY you're back :D
Turns out he's downsized his operation to a trailer a few blocks away. Looking up info on Roman for the boys has put him on the leviathans radar and they are watching him. Oh, don't you dare kill this guy, show, don't you dare!
Frank: There is no pill for my situation sweetie-pop!
LOL ♥
Dean: What's the word on the big mouths?
Frank: Their tentacles are everywhere.
TENTACLES! Did you hear that takadainmate? XD
Anyway, after some badgering, Dean learns that Frank has made what he believes to be some sense out of Bobby's numbers. Turns out Bobby forgot one (I did wonder if there was one missing on Sam's hand compared to what he wrote in his dream, but was too traumatised to check). When you add in the most likely missing number it gives you co-ordinates.
For a field in Wisconsin.
Well, that's not a lake with Castiel in it is it? *mutter mutter grumble grumble*
Apparently this field has been bought by Dick. For nefarious purposes unknown.
Hmmm. Interesting.
Frank wants to stay away, but he knows Dean's stupid, so he suggests heading out there and setting up surveillance.
Sam is investigating what looks like the corpse of the trucker our missing hunter was following. He died from blood loss. The coroner jokes vampire. Sam is unimpressed.
Dean calls in. Explains what Frank learnt about the numbers.
Oh oh, he's gonna want Sam to join him, but Sam won't leave the little girl. Oh, such a lovely set-up for tension ♥
Huh? Wha-?
Dean: Alright well keep me posted [hangs up].
??? When... when did our boys grow up? I... that was... amicable... does not compute ???
Frank: Got the equipment arranged. Come and get your costume on and we can scoot!
Dean [bemused]: Costume? What?
♥ Oh, this is gonna be good! Road-tripping with Frank Devereaux. I.Love.It.
Lol. Frank has them in electrician gear. He has the 'manager' uniform, of course :p
Yikes, turns out Dick Enterprises already has the place/field wired. But luckily Frank knows how to tap into existing surveillance just as well as setting up his own :)
Frank [in surveillance van]: You look terrible. When's the last time you slept through a night?
Oh man Dean, if even the crazy paranoid guy who probably tries not to sleep at all if he can help it is noticing this then you know things are bad...
But can I say again how much I'm loving having Frank around this episode? :D
I ♥ you Frank. Never leave us! ...well, except when the episodes don't call for you anymore anyways.
Awww, Dean has fallen asleep in his chair ♥
This is good. Except for where it means Sam can't get through to him.
The voicemail Sam leaves suggests he's just checking-in though, so we're good. For now.
He's figured out what the missing hunter was hunting and it's something I can't spell so I won't :p What it wasn't was the Japanese fox demon thing that nabbed him.
Unless I'm wrong and the eyes on that waitress weren't the same as Amy's... which is a possibility we can't rule out of course.
Aaaaah! Sam has found the waitress! But he doesn't know she's the waitress! Well, he knows she's a waitress but not - oh, you know.
Heh. So the waitress and the hooker are working together. Oh Sam. You been played.
Aw, Dean waking up when he didn't mean to fall asleep = adorable.
Dean: How long was I out?
Frank: About 36 hours.
Dean: What?! Why didn't you wake me?
Frank: Not your butler.
♥ ♥ ♥
You know what? I'm imaging Bobby contacting Frank at some point before the end. They would have bitched at each other but eventually Bobby would have managed to slip in something like - 'Listen you idjit, things are getting bad, now if something happens to me, shut up, it might, and if it does, those boys are gonna come looking for you, especially Dean. Now if they do, I want you to take care of them for me. No, I'm not asking you to babysit, just... do what you can, alright? Make sure they don't take any stupid risks... yes, stupider than usual. Just, make sure they eat once in a while and catch some zees now and then. Slip 'em some pills if you have to. Remember you owe me, Frank... okay... what? No I don't have any LSD, what are you -?'
Anyway...
While Dean was out one of Dick's employees, a naughty little girl called Amanda, turned up with some other randoms to survey the land with the intent to build something. Frank doesn't know what... yet.
Frank: Patience grasshopper.
Dean: Yeah, well patience and me aren't really on terms.
Frank: Well then go out and kill something or whatever you kids do to blow off steam.
No, seriously, STAY FOREVER?
Oh my GOD, we're having a moment and everything!
Frank: Did I mention you look awful?
Dean [exasperated]: Yes. Maybe because somebody I cared about just got shot in the head. And this is like shoving a rock up a hill, and - [realising he's about to bare his soul to a nutty guy he hardly knows] Screw you.
Frank: Here's my advice you didn't ask for - quit.
Dean: What?
Frank: You wanna keep going?
Dean: I want Dick Roman on a spit! (oh Dean... more than living?)
Frank: But you're gonna drive yourself into the ground first. Good plan.
♥ ♥ ♥
Holy shit, this has taken a turn I wasn't expecting -
Frank: Do what I did when I was 26 and came home to find my wife and two kids gutted on the floor. Decide to be fine until the end of the week. Make yourself smile because you're alive and that's your job. And do it again the next week.
Dean: So fake it?
Frank: I call it being professional. Do it right, with a smile. Or don't do it.
Oh, wow. Frank, bb, you just jumped from quirky awesome to angsty awesome and I will LOVE YOU ALWAYS ♥
...but Dean? Um, I kinda need you to not 'do it' okay? Because you're being all relatively healthy and shit right now when you're supposed to be going off the rails so I can get all emotional about it and stuff. Alright?
Anyhow, little girl calls Dean because she hasn't heard back from Sam. And Dean finally listens to his brother's voicemail and apparently little Sammy has made a mistake. Dun dun dun.
Somewhere dark and undefined, Sam is tied to a chair unconscious.
He wakes up and finds out he's not alone, there's plenty of other conscious and semi-conscious guys stashed in the same place. Including our missing hunter. He's been fed on three times already. Three or four feedings and you're dead...
Back at Chrissy's, Dean rushes to help. He goes to search the guy's room too but, hee, he's not quite as tactful as puppy dog Sam.
Dean: Look, I don't have time to hold your hand here, so -
Chrissy: What are you saying?
Dean: I'm saying go wait in the living room. Your dad might not want you to know everything about him.
Oh Dean :p
Haha. Love it - Chrissy was faking with Sam. She knows EVERYTHING. I like it, that she was basically playing Sam. Smart idea of her Dad's I guess - as long as people think she doesn't know anything about the life then she'll be a little safer, hunters won't force her to tag along and help with jobs, evil things might be less likely to try and interrogate her. Not foolproof, but it's something.
Aw, bless her, she wants to come too because she doesn't trust that Dean won't just fail to come back like everyone else. Wow, she even burned her Dad's research, so Dean will have to take her if he wants to know where to go. Smart cookie.
Aw, and now we're having a little re-cap of the show for Chrissy's benefit in the car and she's all blown away about the idea of Sam going to college. Sweet. Oh, and John's journal is wrong, the thing I can't spell likes to work in pairs, which is why Sam and Chrissy's dad both got blindsided by the two of them. Dean knows otherwise cos he caught wise to the gig during a hunt while Sam was at Stanford. Geeze, Dean, you could have at least updated the journal after that job, you know? Ugh, men. So disorganised.
Oh, selfless Sammy goads the monster I can't spell into feeding off him and not Chrissy's dad. I wouldn't have expected anything less from you bb.
Hee! Chrissy spots the monsters they need to follow, then this -
Dean [holding out his fist]: Alright!
Chrissy [with disdain]: What century is this? No one fist-bumps anymore.
Dean: Come on, give it up. Good work.
Chrissy: You're a dweeb.
Dean: [wiggles fist, insisting]
Chrissy: [reluctantly bumps it]
Dean: [slaps a handcuff on her and ties her to the steering wheel]
♥ Oh Dean, your methods my be unorthodox, but your heart's in the right place.
Aw, he still won't let her go, even when he learns there's an element of revenge in this for her. Because monsters killed her mum. I just, my heart is all squishy! Dean knows what's right and healthy, he just chooses not to fix himself, because he doesn't deserve to be anything but broken :(
So in he goes.
Fight fight fight.
Dean has the upper hand then - oh Chrissy! You got out after all huh?
Chrissy's run for her dad gives the monster a juicy hostage, forcing Dean to let his captive monster go.
Huh... interesting eyebrow raise from Chrissy though. Is this a plan? ...that would be kind of annoying. Maybe it was just secret on the fly communication.
Yup, her frightened little girl thing is all an act. As soon the waitress tries to eat up her dad she's a badass kid again, whipping a knife from her sleeve and stabbing the unspellable monster right in the heart, fuck yeah!
Sam finishes off the other one and... ah, so they both die all shrivelled up and horrible. Guess the waitress wasn't an Amy monster after all.
We'll call that my second mistake. My first being the freaking time travel part of this episode it turns out :( Maybe next week??
Cut forward to Chrissy's dad in hospital. Dean urges him to quit, just like Frank told him to. He and his daughter could still lead regular lives.
Chrissy's dad: You ever know anyone who left the life?
And that's the message we've always had in this show, isn't it? Once you're in, there's no getting out. Hunting changes you and you can't go back, even if you do live long enough to try.
I know fic is all about finding a balance between hunting and regular living, but I got to admit, I do like the bleak either/or attitude to this in canon. So beautifully tragic ;)
Aw, cute goodbye between Dean and Chrissy.
She was okay :)
The Impala may be fake in the next scene, but the talk about feelings isn't. Or rather, the not-talk. Sam's not okay, but he's not gonna elaborate. Guess he doesn't have to. He wants to work.
Sam: Should I even ask?
Dean: I'm fine.
Sam: Fine? Really?
Dean: ...you're right, we should just... work. Right? Figure out a way to kick Dick Roman's ass. I mean, hey, we are the professionals.
Oh god, ouch ouch ouch. Dean, you trying to smile like Frank told you to might be one of the scariest things I've seen on this show. Oh bb...
But seriously, this 'faking it' thing is gonna backfire, right? You're gonna breakdown soon? Right? I mean, you've seen where that method of coping led Frank - hidden from the world, paranoid, alone. That's not living Dean! So... you're going to breakdown from the strain of it. Right?
Verdict? Not what I was expecting. And yet Sam and Dean's reactions to everything were fairly predictable throughout. A nice, quiet, easy plot that ambled along without many surprises. Some set-up that suggests there's a plan in the works for the leviathans, which I'm happy about. I thought the guest star girl (a non-famous one this time I believe?) was nice enough. And Dean, oh Dean... his grief was a thing of beauty... although not as much as I was expecting.
As seems the norm for this season, a lot of what's happening feels like a slow build to something bigger in the works for later. I thought Bobby's death would be the beginning of a payoff, but it looks like it was just a teaser. Which I'm fine with... but the longer they work on this build up of hidden emotion and having the boys fail to deal with things (well, Dean anyway - Sam does seem to be dealing as he goes), the bigger the payoff needs to be to compensate. And I'm still iffy about whether the show is good enough to deliver anymore.
Best part of the episode in any case was Frank Devereaux hands down XD It was him that made me think Slash Fiction was going to be worthwhile as well.
I might even go as far as to say...
He's saving the season for me...
No... would I?
...maybe I would.
He is awesome :D
Overall though...