7x04 sneak peek!
Click to view"The judge in this case, the bad guy of the episode, isn't really assessing Dean's actual guilt," executive producer Sera Gamble tells Zap2it. "He's assessing Dean's own perception of himself and his guilt."
Of course, despite all of his swagger and bravado, Dean is not his own biggest fan.
"At this point in the series we're well-acquainted with Dean's penchant for self-flagellation about some of the things he's done, so I think we're rooting for him to see the good that he does," Gamble says. "There's seemingly no amount of persuading that will help Dean. That's the question of the episode. If you weigh things out really clearly for him and emotionally for him, can you allow him to see that some of this stuff is not his fault?"
Sam will step in as Dean's lawyer in the trial. "Sam just inserts himself into this trial to defend his brother," Gamble tells us. Of course, at the beginning of the series, Sam had just aced his LSATs and was on his way too law school... a plan that, obviously, ran off course. Sam will put some of his old Stanford learnin' to good use in this episode. "It's fun to see," Gamble says. "It's a little taste of what Sam would have been in another life."
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