Recap – “You Can’t Handle The Truth”
Next thing Sam is walking away with a desktop computer from Channel 6 that has Ashley Frank’s picture outside, aka the woman on the TV when people were going postal with truth. She was also the nurse in “Salvation” that Dean was flirting with and Zantanna in Smallville. Sam wonders if this is who they’re looking for. “Call it a hunch,” Dean says as he pays the guard at the gate. Something tells me this guard doesn’t like the attention whore. They’re at the motel and they manage to hook up the desktop to the laptop. How convenient they have the cable available to do that. They have it on the chair and are watching from the edge of the bed.
Now, we’ve seen this before with Sam, but not quite to this degree. They’re going over hours of footage. The sun comes up and Dean is eating donuts and drinking coffee. Sam hasn’t moved. “She’s creepy. I mean the hair alone,” Dean says munching away. Why isn’t Sam at least drinking some coffee? Dean is starting to think she isn’t the one but Sam isn’t ready to give up. Next shot is much later, Dean is eating pizza and all Sam has done different is taken off his flannel shirt, showing that nice skimpy undershirt. He’s unmoved, not tired, not sleepy, just focused. Remember this, it’s apparently a relevant clue. Finally, Sam hits pay dirt. There’s a scene where a dog comes up behind Ashley Frank and her eyes flash. She’s the one!
So, time to follow Ashley Frank from the studio. I already think she’s evil because she’s driving a European sports car. For shame! I think it’s a Ferrari actually, but it’s so hard to tell in the dark. She pulls up to this nice contemporary mansion and Sam and Dean watch outside. Sam thinks that place looks normal? There’s nothing about that contemporary design that’s normal. The house Dean and Lisa were living in, that was normal. Dean’s convinced the house is full of creep, so naturally Sam and Dean are going to sneak in after her. That’s their thing. Dean has the knives, Sam has the jar of dog blood. “Do I even want to know where you got that?” Dean asks. “Probably not,” says Sam. I’m shocked Jared pulled off that line as much of a huge dog lover he is. He was even petting the service dogs at Chicago Con.
Lots of time shown of Sam and Dean searching the house, further cementing the choppy pacing of this episode. They find a stone wall and a water wall, burning fireplace, cats, a cool circular stairwell, a mosaic wall hanging of the Goddess Veritas and oh, cut up bodies and body parts in the really deluxe master bath. At least it’s not the basement, huh? A cat starts snacking on a body and she has the most delightful jeweled collar. Man, if I put that on my cat the hubby would toss us both out on the street. Oh, there’s Veritas. She has a wicked TK toss of her own and Sam and Dean go flying, landing unconscious in a pool of blood in the spa. Nice.
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Alice,
Great recap as usual.
So much about this episode has already been said, so I won’t reiterate.
The thing about Cas finding the boys. He doesn’t show up unless they call (pray) to him. Maybe they are invisible to angel eyes unless they go shouting angel names.
Dean has shown like for animals (rabbits!) but not Yorkies. And Sam did have that dog during his run away time. Equal like maybe? Well, not now Sam, but Sammy Sam.
Thank you ever so much for referring to Sam’s shirt as skimpy! Though I believe it unfair that in this show, that is what we get to call skimpy. *shallow sigh*. And I agree that the tub should have been full of hot, steamy water….*more shallow sighing* The pic you put up to mention Sam’s hair? Great, but I couldn’t stop looking at Dean! The expression on his face…heh.
Thanks again for the recap!
Hey Alice,
I am pretty sure our lovely Goddess is driving a 1960’s Jaguar XKE otherwise known as an E-Type (possibly a 1962 in specific). 😀
Also, I was thinking. If Sam’s logic chip was working, he would have realized playing the sympathy card (especially with no soul/emotion) would not work on Dean. Not this time.
A more honest answer from Sam would have been more along the lines of “I probably need help, but since I’m such a good hunter I don’t know if I want help.” I think Dean would have believed that over the unconvincing “I need help.”
Friday is almost here! I have my fingers crossed for more answers cause Sam really does need help.
Don’t hot dogs come with onions and tomato sauce … That’s two of your five-a-day right there! Also mustard is sort of plant based, at least in theory …
I think it’s cunning the way Souless Sam has inverted all the little things that used to define the character. His hair is perfect, he eats proper Man Food, he has actual sex, he’s altogether free from the ravages of guilt … He has become James Bond. Yuk. Bring back the old shaggy, finnicky, embarressed one that we know and love! ( but lets have a bit more angst and bondage first, because we’re worth it … ) 😉
Good recap Alice. Loved the calendar as 2010 too. Don’t need to be reminded that they kept the boys apart for a year.
Dean did resist his first impulse, which was to kill Sam. That was evident when he put the knife down. But there was no way Sammy would get off scot free. Sam’s plea for Dean to feel sorry for him saved Sam. Maybe Dean still has some brotherly bond with Sam, although after what Sam did, it can’t be much. As to the severity, you don’t poke a hornet’s nest with a stick and expect not to get stung! How Sam could have thought his brother was not going to unload on him I don’t know. Sam lost his feelings not his intelligence. Sam really should have really spent more time in having that beer with Dean!
Maybe after a year of lying to people and getting away with it, he thought it would work here too. It was a while before I believed Sammy was really telling the truth this time. And I have to wonder why he waited until he actually was caught red-handed before he told Dean the truth. Sam is lucky Dean didn’t kill him.
Chuckle, Alice, I too am an American made…or, well, Canadian made, American made…..OH you know what I mean, gal. I grew up in a 66 Cutlass Supreme.
However, I had a number of friends who were European car nuts so I learned my exotics too. 🙂
And hey, guessing is good – think of it this way, you were right that it was a European car!!
One of the things that bothers me the most about that episode was Bobby’s reveal that Dean is his favourite. I’d always have thought that Sam and Bobby had more in common, and Bobby seems to understand Sam, so I was kinda hoping….
Seriously though, is Sam anyones favourite? Makes me sad.
Also, the eating tongue thing? Wrong, on so many fecking levels. The dentist thing…. wrong. Anything to do with teeth, wrong….
Out of interest, what questions would people have asked Sam and Dean had they been in that situation?
Well, I’m glad that I’m not the only one to notice that Sam is no one’s favorite. Bobby, Castiel, Ellen, Jo, everyone prefers Dean. And as if it wasn’t obvious enough, now they have the characters say it aloud. I didn’t think Bobby’s words were funny. I was sad to hear them. I wish Samuel was “good” so he could make a connection with Sam rather than Dean, for a change.
In this case, don’t forget that Bobby’s words were inspired by a Goddess out to have folks committ suicide so she could eat them. Do NOT take Bobby’s words as TRUTH. He may have spoken the truth in that moment, but moments change.
To me, even what Dean said under the curse of truth was not!truth. There was an element of truth to it but it was truth pulled by Veritas with one goal in mind – to hurt someone else.
And if it makes anyone feel any better, BOTH boys are my favourite. 😀
Great recap Alice,
I think this episode should have been called ‘Somebody give Dean a Hug, He needs One’. 🙂
Goddess spells should have a declaimer on them:’side effects include suicide and becoming lunch’. 😆
You are right, when you side with the MOTW and not one of the starring characters there is a problem. 😆
Remember in ‘Time is on my side’, Sam told Dean that they were already on a case ‘Dean’s deal’, This episode Bobby tells Dean, that the case he is on is ‘Sam’.
I think that Sam (in the form of Colin Ford) is standing in the cage with Lucifer and Micheal/Adam, and he is holding on to Dean’s amulet, waiting for his big brother to come and get him. But that is just me. 😀
I just thought of something, when did Lisa ever see Sam and Dean together? In ‘the kids are alright’, she never saw Sam, in ’99 problems’, Dean was there alone. How does she know what kind of relationship they have or had? IMO she is just a jealous ‘female dog’.
I promise that this will be my last Lisa bashing. 😛