Alice’s Full Recap: “Supernatural” 8.20, “Pac-Man Fever”

ByAlice Jester

Two dumb teenage boys are walking by the railroad tracks at night playing with their handhelds (PSPs?) and they find a body.  Instead of freaking out, they poke it with a stick, because young teens are supposed to be moronic.  They poke again when nothing happens and bloated body explodes all over them.  Yep, they freak out now! 

Crime scene.  Dean and Charlie get out and the cop doesn’t seem to be surprised to see them, since their “other” agent is already there.  BTW, standing at the police tape watching the whole thing are none other that Jared Padalecki’s parents.  Jared shared that during his live tweet of the episode on Wednesday.  Anyway, we know who the “other agent” is.  Sam, well dressed but still a bit peaked, has already gotten a head start.   That’s okay, it’s hard to look pale at night!  

Oh my God, is anyone noticing that bright yellow tie Sam is wearing?  That looks exactly like the same one he wore in “What Is and What Should Never Be” in the alternate universe.  Actually, I just found a picture from that episode, and it’s the same shirt and suit too!  How clever, considering this is a Djinn episode too (oops, did I spoil the surprise?).  He’s giving details about the case, but I’m too distracted by the tie to get them down.  He did mention the coroner had already been there and scooped up what was left of the body.  Dean says there’s nothing else to see then and Sam can head home.  Home!  I still get all excited knowing these guys actually have a home now.  Sam won’t budge for there’s still the task of questioning the witnesses.  Dean assigns Charlie to do that.  She’s not happy.  “But I don’t want to miss the broment.”  Ha!  She’s got a case there.  She goes, and the brothers have their chat. 

Charlie is a natural with one thing, and that’s connecting with gamers.  Because she knows the game they’re playing, she’s got the boys eating out of her hand.  In the meantime, Dean gets that Sam’s frustrated but he’s also sick.  Sam won’t leave, claiming he needs to do this. “Play through the pain, remember?”  Dean gets all disgusted.  “Don’t quote me to me.”  Bwah!  Oh that’s precious.  Nothing like having something you said thrown back in your face by your sibling.  That’s the circle of life right there.    

Sam flashes Dean a sickly bitch face so Charlie breaks the tension with a piece of info.  The victim had a blue handprint on his arm.  Dean thinks this is good news, and Sam should go home to read about this.  “I’m not leaving until we find out who’s doing this,” Sam defiantly declares.  “Whatever,” Dean says storming off.  “You guys fight like an old married couple,” Charlie says, watching Dean walk away in a tizzy.  Oh Charlie, it’s so fun watching you get up to speed with these two.  She wonders if that means they don’t have to break into the coroner’s office, but Sam thinks that’s a great idea.  In the meantime, Dean leaves, ditching his two partners.  Sam isn’t worried, he stole Charlie’s car and he knows where Dean’s going.  The light hits his face and oh man, Sam does look sick.  Charlie is at first relieved, then what Sam said about her car hits her.  “You stole my car?”  Sam answers with a nervous laugh.  Cut him a break Charlie, he’s sick.  

Dean is seen coming through the coroner doors in the dark.  He breaks out the flashlight, moves forward and jumps out of his skin when two people are already there waiting for him.  It’s Sam and Charlie!  “What took you so long?”  Sam asks.  “I had to stop for gas,” confesses Dean.  Hee, he’s just not winning here.  Naturally, things aren’t getting better when they see the headlights of a car pulling up outside.  Charlie springs into action, deciding to stall the coroner while the boys check out the morgue. 

This actually wasn’t one of my favorite bits, so I’ll jump through this part a little.  Coroner  bitch in pant suit arrives and Charlie stalls by asking for a copy of the form she needed.  Seems that the FBI field office had a power outage after the fire.  Hey, Sam and Dean probably couldn’t have done better.  Sam and Dean find out the bodies are gone, and Sam’s very bright yellow tie gives enough wattage so he can read the report in the lowlight that the bodies were burned.  I mean really, this is a very dingy place and that tie just sticks out!  Sam really needs to wear bright yellow more often.  Charlie stalls more by talking power suits, the guys leave, she leaves.

Back at the MOL cave, they research.  Sam throws monster suggestions out at Charlie, who’s keeping track of it all on her iPad.  She dismisses each idea with a darn good reason.  “I hate that thing. I want one,” Sam says bitterly.  Dean on the other side of the table strikes gold in John’s journal.  It’s a Djinn, but a bastard offshoot.  They jelly up the insides and leave a blue handprint.  “I hate that thing,” answers Charlie.  “And I want one.”  Take that technology!  Sam, who in the better light is back to looking very peaked, wonders if these new Djinn die like regular Djinn.  Yep.  Oh great, this gives Charlie the opportunity to ramble on about getting out, stretching her legs, grabbing grub.  “Unlike you Sam, I won’t forget the pie.”  Sam tries to laugh, but he’s too busy looking at her strangely.  Plus he still looks like hell, which I am totally finding hot right now.  Something is seriously wrong with me.  “She seem a little off to you,” Dean asks.  “Since the second she got here,” answers Sam. 

Yeah, something is amiss.  Suddenly Charlie is in a regular apartment, and she’s doing her regular hacking thing of transferring funds from one place to a donation site.  Somehow that involves laying out all her fake ids on a table, but I’ll dismiss that is everyone’s got a method of doing things.  She hears a noise, goes to check it out but sees nothing.  Anyone who watches this show knows that something is always there.  Oh, there it is behind her.  It’s the coroner bitch, and her eyes are blue.  Evil!  Yeah, we’re all shocked. 

Sam’s back at the MOL cave trying to call Charlie on the phone, and just as reminder in case we all forgot that Sam is sick, he goes into a coughing fit.  Dean walks in and Sam tries to play it cool, but Dean just shakes his head.  Any word from Charlie?  Nope, and there was no comic convention in Topeka.  Duh!  There never is.  Dean pulls out his phone, and now we find out why he borrowed her phone earlier.  To enable the GPS.  Charlie is an uber hacker.  She didn’t realize Dean did this?  Either that or she did and thought it was a good idea.  This helps them find the apartment.  

A lot of what’s coming next is plot exposition, so I’ll move a little fast through this.  Sam and Dean find Charlie’s computer and fake ids.  “Who the Hell is she, Jason Bourne?”  Really Dean??  That’s coming from you, the king of fake aliases?  Anyway, they find who the donations are going to and Dean checks it out.  It’s a woman named Gertrude Middleton, who’s been in the hospital in a persistent vegetative state for 16 years.  Seems that her and husband went to pick up their 12 year old daughter at a sleepover and got hit by a drunk driver.  The hubby was killed.  The nurse finds the donations a nice gesture, but the woman is already gone.  Dean wonders if she has gotten any visitors?  A few nurses say someone comes in and reads to her at night, but no one has signed in.  Dean is definitely touched by this story and stays behind when the nurse leaves.  “You’ve got one hell of a daughter Mrs. Middleton.  I promise you I will find her.”  

Charlie is tied up to a chair in a warehouse, and she’s quite nervous about the whole thing as the evil Djinn coroner comes in to taunt her, cause that’s what evil beings do.  “Do you know what I smell on you?” Evil Djinn asks.  “Deodorant, a little pee maybe?”  Funny how nervous Charlie works when she’s in peril as well as normal situations.  No, the right answer is fear.  Charlie wonders how Djinns smell fear.  That gets some attention.  “Well, well, well.  If you know about Djinn, than you and your little friend must be hunters, not FBI.”  Charlie nervously claims she’s a hunter in training, so not worth killing.  Oh, so does that make Dean worth killing?  I could see Dean captured with her in that situation going, “Thanks a lot.”  

Yeah, she’s worth killing alright.  Hunter or not, the fear on her is positively delicious.  It’s the red hair, trust me.  We have quite a luscious scent (I’m kidding!).  “I knew you’d make a meal fit for two.”  Yes, this is important.  Djinn lady touches her arm, the Djinn tattoos appear and Charlie is now in big peril.  Meanwhile, back at the MOL cave, Sam gets the whole story from Dean.  “Gertrude seemed like a cool mom.  Young, strong, taken from her family too soon.  Remind of you anybody?”  Actually no Dean, since Sam was only an infant when that happened to Mary.  But, it is a good point.  You three are kindred spirits in the lost mothers club.  

Sam’s mad research skills figured out the coroner involved in a similar case nine years ago is the same one involved in their case now.  At least his brain is still working!  Back to Charlie, who’s showing one last act of defiance, even though she’s toast.  “My manly, man friend’s going to come and get you, you creepy power suit lady.”  She likes that idea, since Dean reeked of fear as well.  She grabs onto Charlie’s arm real tight, so now girlfriend is in a coma.  It’s serious, it’s serious.  

Back to smart but sickly Sam, who’s figured out creepy power suit lady has been covering her tracks by faking reports.  “Why did she get sloppy again after nine years?”  Dean asks.  Remember, this is important.  Turns out Djinn lady owns two properties, a house and an abandoned shipping warehouse.  Yeah, it’s a bit obvious where she’ll keep the victims, huh?  

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