“So you’re really it,” Sam asks. “The first of your species.” Yep, the very first. Sam logically asks if he’s the first, who made him? Oh, a chicken and egg thing. “Well, we all have our mothers. Even me.” Dean asks what that means, but no, that mystery ends up fueling our debates now. Great job guys! Dean wants to know why there’s a big surge in vamps. “We’re going to war,” a-vamp says. Now my head is swimming. Against who? I guess we can make that shocking reveal #3.
Sam now wants to know why go to war and why did Samuel bring him there? Sadly, A-vamp is too fascinated by Sam’s scent to explain that. “You smell cold. You have no soul. What an oddity. Do you feel how empty you are? What is it like to have no soul?” Sam tells him to answer his question, but a-vamp wants his answered first. “You’re the one in the cage.” A-vamp takes that as a “touche.”
“The thing about souls, if you’ve got one of course (rub it in!), they’re predictable. You die, you go up or down. Where do my kind go?” Dean doesn’t get where this is going but a-vamp claims he’s trying to answer the question. “When we freaks die where do we go? Not Heaven, not Hell, so?” “Legoland?” Dean asks. Too funny! We went there for the first time last year and even we were geeking out over the whole cities created out of lego. Freaks abound!
A-vamp doesn’t think Dean’s joke is all that funny. “A little rusty on our Dante boys.” Sam gets it, Purgatory. It’s about time this show mentioned Purgatory. It took six freaking seasons? Dean is surprised to hear Purgatory is real. Hell is, why not? “Of course, and it is filled with the soul of every hungry thing like me that ever walked this earth.” The mystery is where is it? “That is what your kind hearted granddaddy is trying to beat out of me.”
Sam sums up shocking reveal #4. “Samuel brought you here to find out where Purgatory is?” A-vamp says why would he know where it is, but Sam knows when someone is lying. That’s his new superpower. “You know exactly where it is.” Sam wants to know why Samuel cares. “He doesn’t care. He does as he is told.” So here we go, one BEST Dean Winchester lines EVER! “Well if the old man’s Kermit, who’s hand’s up his ass?” Come on a-vamp, you know you want to crack up over that!
This interview with the vampire is interrupted by an armed Samuel, Christian, and red shirt of the week. Sam and Dean are stripped of all their weapons out in the hall. Dean claims he has seen some stupid in his day but Samuel takes the crown. “Putting Jaws in a fishbowl? How do you think that’s gonna end?” Duh, bloody of course! Dean goes on pissing off the guy with the gun, bringing up how he’s got everyone convinced he’s John Wayne. “So whatever you’re doing, whatever you’re hiding, it’s going to put you and everyone around you in the ground.” Samuel goes after Dean in anger and Dean manages to knock away his shotgun. Sam disables Christian and Dean picks up his gun…only to hear the click of a shotgun nearby. It’s Gwen, with a wicked smile. “Hi.” Dean puts down his gun. “Gwen. And I thought we had something special.” Come on Dean, that’s your cousin!
Meanwhile, back at the cage, a-vamp finishes his nail job on the leather strap and red shirt is toast. His screams alert the others though, now they are screwed. Samuel lets Sam and Dean have their weapons back. They go to check out the carnage. Jaws got out of the fishbowl. Oh yeah, color me surprised.
The dead man’s blood is busted open on the floor, so Samuel asks Christian how much is left. He pulls out two syringes. Not good. Dean wants to know how long until a-vamp is 100%. An hour, maybe less. Samuel plans to get him dosed up and back in the cage, but Dean won’t have it. “I don’t know what your big plan was, but playing catch is not on the table. We take the thing’s head off or it kills us all. You know that.”
NOW Samuel decides to listen to Dean. He knows he’s right, as does Christian and Gwen. Sam’s opinion doesn’t matter since he’s the soulless guy. Dean gives the orders now. “Okay, we split up, clear every room. You get a shot you take it. It’s not going to kill him, but dude will move a lot slower without any kneecaps.” Then he turns to Samuel. “And if we make it through this you, me and Sam are having one hell of a family meeting.” I love it! I want in on that meeting. Interesting how this hints that Samuel and Dean have many of the same instincts. Samuel just has to go against them to serve a purpose. No wonder they are butting heads so bad. They are so much alike. That’s like Sam and John’s relationship, don’t you think? I love parallels!
We get a nice long tense search for a-vamp to kill time. They don’t find anything. Sure enough, as soon as Christian relaxes and lets his guard down, you know something’s going to jump out from the shadows. A-vamp and his fluid neck twister works! Down goes Christian. All right! Parker Lewis is dead! Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. A-vamp knows Christian wasn’t worth the conversion, too much of a tool. He flings Grandpa and now he gets Sam. Lucky vamp. He easily overpowers Sam and grabs onto him by the neck. He looks him square in the eye, fascinated by the prey. “The boy with no soul. I’ve got big plans for you. It’s amazing how a pesky little soul gets in the way. Not with you. You will be the perfect animal.”
A-vamp extracts his teeth, goes for the bite and I’m thinking Sam should go through the Sam crap that Dean did, don’t you think? Just desserts. No, instead someone shows up with a shot of dead man’s blood. It’s, Christian? A black eyed Christian?? WTF??? He’s a demon! That makes so much sense! No wonder he hated Dean so much. Demons can’t stand him. How sad though, he liked Sam. They were buds. Once again, Sam is BFFs with a demon. Man, can he ever catch a break? I don’t know, that’s shocking reveal #5 to me. Dean comes in just in time to see 3 demons, one being Christian, grab a-vamp and then disappear. That leaves a stunned Dean, Gwen and Sam behind. Me too! WTF just happened?
Awesome review! I’m lost on the souless rules as well. But then, as far as we know, this is pretty much a first. So maybe SPN feels comfortable making up their own rules.
I thought the lady in the window who called to Dean and went bloody, was one of the hunters back at the Campbell compound. And Montana does the internet!!! Promise!
Alice, great job as always.
No matter what, Dean still cares for Sam, he wanted Cas to heal Sam right away. Have to love Dean for that.
I don’t know which I like more NoBS!Dean or BadAss!Cas when it comes to dealing with Gramps. 😀
As a fan of ‘Smallville’ since day one, I also saw the farm and thought that Sam and Dean were going to pay Clark and Co. a visit. Wouldn’t that be funny. 🙂
(Jason Teague may have been shot by Lionel Luther, but he was really killed by Dean Winchester). 😀
Just because Gramps is ‘family’, that doesn’t mean that he is FAMILY. (does that make sense?) Just because he is a Campbell, that doesn’t mean that Dean has to trust him, no questions asked.
I agree, some episodes require multi viewings. What you may not catch the first time, or may not make sense, when you watch the episode again, then it becomes clear.
I agree with your opinion of Gwen (or is it Glen Campbell? 😀 Bobby did have Kenny Rodgers on his episode). I think she is nothing like Hunter!Mary. I personally think that H!Mary would have wiped the floor and (dare I say) ceiling with Gwen.
‘Sam and Dean follow in a car that sticks out like a sore thumb’: two words: CLOAKING DEVICE 😀 😀
‘Sam is BFF’s with a demon’ DAH!!! 😆 😆
We now know that even before Ruby, anyone that Sam considered a friend had a 99.99% chance of being a demon. Poor Sammy.
Can’t wait til your recap of this week’s ep. The end reminded me of the end of ‘Good God’. Do you agree? The heart to heart (chick flick moment) at the picnic table.