Robin’s Rambles: Supernatural 9.08, “Rock and a Hard Place”
Robin’s Rambles – Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Episode 9, Season 9
I really enjoyed tonight’s episode, but I’m itching to see the forward motion of the myth arc already. It seems as if we’re having more one-shots with no change in the storyline. Zeke still shares Sam’s body.
Nice waitress gives a homeless guy leftovers and is creepily taken out from under a lifted SUV and dumped in a manhole by a blue-lighted creature.
Bunker – Sam, exhausted, sleeps on his arms on the table. They speak of Kevin and Crowley. Jody Mills calls; four people have disappeared and someone lifted an SUV. Sam and Dean investigate. One pastor, one engaged couple, one waitress, all members of the same church. Jody joined a church, too, after Crowley, etc. they speak to the drunk, bug-eyed witness who describes someone lifting a car, blue like fire, but not, and the waitress wasn’t there. Dean pays him. No angel.
Dean and Sam go to church. Bonnie assures them the missing folks are front and center in their prayers. She invites them to join their abstinence group. Dean and Sam decide to join. They sign purity pledges, reinstating new vows of chastity. LOL! Clean slate, virgins till marriage! They sign and are declared virgins!
The waitress, somewhere underground, surveys her surroundings with some blue light thing. It’s dark, creepy. “Stay away from me,” she pleads.
Dean gets all the women in the chastity group all hot and bothered (and interested) when he talks about sex. Sam discusses how all his relationships haven’t ended well. Dean was purifying and swears he knows Suzie from somewhere. He follows her out. Sam discusses Honor with another girl. Suzie offers to counsel Dean, give him books. He wants to go with her, just to be safe. Dean is sure he’s gonna get with the chastity counselor.
Sam returns to Jody. They compare notes–the missing people people all did the deed. This thing is taking virgins who break their chastity vow.
Dean and Suzie go to her place. Dean ignores Sam’s calls and lights a candle. Suzie, scared, asks Dean to pray with her. Sam tries Dean’s other cell, no answer. Jodi tells Sam she enjoys church, it makes sense and comforts her.
Suzie gives Dean chastity books. When she’s in the bathroom, he finds in her drawer porn tapes she starred in!–and hangs up on Sam. When Suzie returns, he reveals what he has learned about her foray into Casa Erotica and smoothly, adorably seduces her with admiration and his bad boy ways. Ole! LMAO!
The waitress finds an oil lantern, lights it, and discovers she’s imprisoned with Pastor Fred, Neil, and Flora. The blue light attacks, taking Pastor Fred, terrifying the other three. They hear him screaming above.
Sam and Jody realize Dean and Suzie must have broken their vows and head off to find them.
Suzie and Dean, dressed, kiss in post-coital bliss, are enveloped, and disappear.
Flora runs bloody fingers down the wall, thirsty, needing a way out. She licks blood off her fingers. Dean and Suzie are thrown into the hole. Where are we? He asks? “Hell,” Neil answers.
At Suzie’s apartment, Sam has found the Casa Erotica DVD and tells Jodi Dean crossed someone off his bucket list.
The waitress describes to Dean and Suzie the bright blue light that took the pastor.
Sam and Jody, on the computer, do research on a goddess named Vesta, who buried virgins underground to ensure good harvests.
Suzie suggests to Dean that God wants them down there because of what they did. Dean says it’s not God’s work. He finds his backup phone and searches for bars.
Jodi reads from the net about Vesta’s blue halo of light, used to maim, disorient or kill. Dean calls, but the signal is lost. Sam hears a train whistle.
Nasty Neil wants to serve up the waitress, whose leg is broken, to the entity. Dean shoves him against the wall, furious, and says maybe they’ll give it Neil.
Sam and Jody figure out the farm and that virgin blood is required against Vesta. They go to the prissy redhead, who thinks they’re devil worshippers and wants to call the cops. “I am the cops,” says Jody, punching the girl in the nose and wiping her blood with a handkerchief. I love Jody!
Sam and Jodi enter the old farm, flashlights shining.
Dean works a grate. Suzie confesses to the waitress she wasn’t as strong as she thought she was, chastity-wise. Hey, it was Dean!
Sam finds the opening to the prison, calls Jody and yells to Dean that they’re getting them out. He’s working at the manhole with a crowbar when Vesta sends him flying. Seeing the fallen Sam, Jody races to his side, but she finds herself a foot off the ground, Vesta holding a blue forefinger in her face. “Now, now,” Vesta says warning lay. Jody’s eyes go wide.
This is how a god attacks? Jody asks, calling her Lindsay Lohan. Apparently, that “hippie,” Christ, spoiled Vesta’s fun. She begins punching Jodi, over and over, as the sheriff taunts her. Vesta adapted–she even got a sweater set. She uncovers a bloody torture table.
Dean tinkers with the manhole cover and asks for a screwdriver. He’s handed a scissor from the first aid kit.
Vesta straps Jody to the table, bitching about having to take born-again virgins. A real charity case, taunts Jody. Not charity, I take what I deserve, Vesta assures her–when they’re about to die, she eats their livers, the only part of their body still working to purify the livers they’ve trashed. Jody moves to stab Vesta with a sharpened branch, but Vespa takes it and says, THIS is how a goddess acts! And stabs Jody in the shoulder. Sam attacks her and she sends him flying. Jody pulls the branch from her shoulder.
Vesta tries to devour Sam’s liver, but it’s no good, she says he’s all safety pins and duct tape inside. “How are you alive?” she demands. From behind her, Jody stabs her, and she dies.
Dean flings open the manhole cover and surveys Sam and Jody. “What’d I miss?” he asks.
Hotel room – Jody says goodbye to Sam and Dean with painful hugs. What if there’s something really wrong with me? Sam says–Vesta said I was practically dead inside. He fears he’ll never be all right. Dean can’t let him put this on himself. He starts to tell him about Zeke, but the angel pops out and tells him Sam isn’t ready to know, and if he rejects Zeke, he’ll die. How much longer are we going to keep playing this? Dean demands. Not much longer, promises Zeke, and retreats. Dean asks Sam to have faith, they’ll figure this out–if there’s something wrong, it’s not Sam’s fault.
QUIZ!
1. I was so rooting for Dean to tell Sam the truth! Now I believe that Zeke has ulterior motives that are at odds with Sam and Dean. I dread to know what they are. What do you think?
2. I loved seeing Jody back again. She’s a terrific female character who has survived hanging with the brothers to fight another day. Brave, funny, cool. What do you think of Jodi?
3. Jody turned to church to help her deal with Crowley, et al. She implied that Sam and Dean have each other. What did you think of that? Are the Winchesters like each other’s church?
4. What did you think of Vesta as a villain? Kind of stock, right? Hated Christ, adapted to current times, focused on one special body part?
5. Did you feel this episode was making fun of virginity? It certainly wasn’t making it seem like anyone had much respect for it, with everyone breaking their vow left and right.
6. I give this episode a solid 9. I really enjoyed it for the humor, Dean’s hilarious “share” and Jody’s spunky heroism. You?
7. I guess the mytharc moved glacially with Zeke’s appearance and insistence on Dean not telling Sam the truth, but come ON, we just had ep 8!
1. I think Zeke is going to be a key player of sending the angels back to heaven, not because he is nice, but of a consequence of his bad intentions.
That’s interesting! So you believe that, as punishment, Zeke will end up the catalyst that sends all the angels back to heaven? I hadn’t considered that.
2. Jodi rocks!
3. She meant that the guys are there to comfort each other, as family.
4. It was OK. liver is the purifying filter of our bodies.
5. Sign of our times I guess
6. 9.5 love the acting in this show so much.
As do I!
7. I’m from the generation that enjoys the moment and when the conclusion comes, my liver is always intact.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO THE WINCHESTER FANS IN USA!!! Thank you! I spent it with my family and had a great day. Love, Robin
1. I think Zeke is going to be a key player of sending the angels back to heaven, not because he is nice, but of a consequence of his bad intentions.
That’s interesting! So you believe that, as punishment, Zeke will end up the catalyst that sends all the angels back to heaven? I hadn’t considered that.
2. Jodi rocks!
3. She meant that the guys are there to comfort each other, as family.
4. It was OK. liver is the purifying filter of our bodies.
5. Sign of our times I guess
6. 9.5 love the acting in this show so much.
As do I!
7. I’m from the generation that enjoys the moment and when the conclusion comes, my liver is always intact.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO THE WINCHESTER FANS IN USA!!! Thank you! I spent it with my family and had a great day. Love, Robin
[quote]3. Jodi turned to church to help her deal with Crowley, et al. She implied that Sam and Dean have each other. What did you think of that? Are the Winchesters like each other’s church?[/quote] Maybe once, but the lie about Zeke should be a big issue. Plus Dean has never trusted Sam since Ruby and Sam is always feeling less than Dean so I think there are massive issues there.
I think Sam feels Dean has never fully trusted him and that he has constantly screwed up in Dean’s eyes, as Sam pointed out in “Sacrifice.” I also agreed with your statement that hearing Sam discuss the trials or other personal matters with Jodi would have been nice.
[quote]4. What did you think of Vesta as a villain? Kind of stock, right? Hated Christ, adapted to current times, focused on one special body part?
[/quote] Very stock and very repetitive. Pagan Gods aren’t just neglectful like Christian Gods, they are violent cannibals. Plus Pagan God tells a secret about Sam to move the show along. It’s a rehash of You Can’t Handle the Truth.
I agree with what you said here.
I’m even more unhappy because it looks as if the entire point of the story is how bad DEAN feels about what is happening to Sam while Sam is utterly obliterated by Zeke.
I really hope this doesn’t happen. I think Dean would know if Zeke took over Sam completely. I hope he already realizes that, instead of healing Sam, Zeke is making him weaker. I hope Dean is catching on to Zeke’s game. I think Cas already would have, which is why Zeke wanted him banned from the bunker.
[quote]3. Jodi turned to church to help her deal with Crowley, et al. She implied that Sam and Dean have each other. What did you think of that? Are the Winchesters like each other’s church?[/quote] Maybe once, but the lie about Zeke should be a big issue. Plus Dean has never trusted Sam since Ruby and Sam is always feeling less than Dean so I think there are massive issues there.
I think Sam feels Dean has never fully trusted him and that he has constantly screwed up in Dean’s eyes, as Sam pointed out in “Sacrifice.” I also agreed with your statement that hearing Sam discuss the trials or other personal matters with Jodi would have been nice.
[quote]4. What did you think of Vesta as a villain? Kind of stock, right? Hated Christ, adapted to current times, focused on one special body part?
[/quote] Very stock and very repetitive. Pagan Gods aren’t just neglectful like Christian Gods, they are violent cannibals. Plus Pagan God tells a secret about Sam to move the show along. It’s a rehash of You Can’t Handle the Truth.
I agree with what you said here.
I’m even more unhappy because it looks as if the entire point of the story is how bad DEAN feels about what is happening to Sam while Sam is utterly obliterated by Zeke.
I really hope this doesn’t happen. I think Dean would know if Zeke took over Sam completely. I hope he already realizes that, instead of healing Sam, Zeke is making him weaker. I hope Dean is catching on to Zeke’s game. I think Cas already would have, which is why Zeke wanted him banned from the bunker.
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I’m even more unhappy because it looks as if the entire point of the story is how bad DEAN feels about what is happening to Sam while Sam is utterly obliterated by Zeke.[/quote]
I’m seriously worried that Zeke is going to start BEING Sam and Dean won’t realize it’s not his brother.
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I’m even more unhappy because it looks as if the entire point of the story is how bad DEAN feels about what is happening to Sam while Sam is utterly obliterated by Zeke.[/quote]
I’m seriously worried that Zeke is going to start BEING Sam and Dean won’t realize it’s not his brother.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING OR TURKEY DAY TO MY SUPERNATURAL FAMILY.
I love the gott darn plots you all come up with, DAMN REALLY FOLKS…Dean is an angel….. another post sorry. jsyk Crowley is the LORD to me. So we all, are WAITING.for the truth.
I used to tweet with KIM RHODES so I have ALWAYS LOVED HER AND Mrs Mills. next….
There are only 2 or 3 posts I reply to and YOURS DEAR ROBIN IS ONE 8)
I said ZEKE was taking to long to heal SAM but you guys explained to me TIME AND TIME AGAIN how it was necessary. Well, well, well, NOBODY LISTENS TO MISS NOLANOLA 😕
The funniest and BEST, making MISS NOLANOLA smile scene, was the CLIMAX speech by Dean WINCHESTER. 😉
I only give this a 6, I think on ALICE’S CUTEST IN MY EXPERIENCE, POLLS. 🙂
I want to give THANKS FOR THIS SITE and you wise people with such imaginative contemplations.
You all must be writers ‘PERCY’S OWNER, RACESTAFFER, KAJ, GINGER, GWEN, BEVIE, RMOTES where the hell are you lady’ 😮 ….et al. xxo=kiss kiss hugz
I am making GUMBO for 1. Yes me, myself and I. Only 2 friends remain in New Orleans for me, guess my ass should move closer to friends……smh :sigh:
Long as I am well, I shall be with WFB my 1st and only site.
See you next week for the MOFO HELLAITUS. I cant win……… 😮
HAPPY THANKSGIVING OR TURKEY DAY TO MY SUPERNATURAL FAMILY.
I love the gott darn plots you all come up with, DAMN REALLY FOLKS…Dean is an angel….. another post sorry. jsyk Crowley is the LORD to me. So we all, are WAITING.for the truth.
I used to tweet with KIM RHODES so I have ALWAYS LOVED HER AND Mrs Mills. next….
There are only 2 or 3 posts I reply to and YOURS DEAR ROBIN IS ONE 8)
I said ZEKE was taking to long to heal SAM but you guys explained to me TIME AND TIME AGAIN how it was necessary. Well, well, well, NOBODY LISTENS TO MISS NOLANOLA 😕
The funniest and BEST, making MISS NOLANOLA smile scene, was the CLIMAX speech by Dean WINCHESTER. 😉
I only give this a 6, I think on ALICE’S CUTEST IN MY EXPERIENCE, POLLS. 🙂
I want to give THANKS FOR THIS SITE and you wise people with such imaginative contemplations.
You all must be writers ‘PERCY’S OWNER, RACESTAFFER, KAJ, GINGER, GWEN, BEVIE, RMOTES where the hell are you lady’ 😮 ….et al. xxo=kiss kiss hugz
I am making GUMBO for 1. Yes me, myself and I. Only 2 friends remain in New Orleans for me, guess my ass should move closer to friends……smh :sigh:
Long as I am well, I shall be with WFB my 1st and only site.
See you next week for the MOFO HELLAITUS. I cant win……… 😮
Thanks for the review.
1. I have not trusted Zeke for a while – and Sam seems worse now than when he first woke up in the car after Zeke possessed him. I think Zeke is actually draining Sam rather than curing him. Color me suspicious – but I also find it fishy that Zeke did not want Cas around.
Yes! I think Cas would have “outed” Zeke to Dean, which is why the angel wanted Cas gone.
2. Love Jodi. Kind of a surrogate mom to the guys. Still remember her telling Sam to go get rest and threatening to use her mom voice in Time After Time After Time.
Jodi was great to the brothers, kind of taking up where Bobby left off.
3. The Winchesters are family. Jody has no family, since they died in Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid – so she has made her congregation her family. She knows how lucky the brothers are to still have family – each other.
You are correct!
4. I was fine with the Vesta story, but frankly found the scenes in the sewer before Dean arrived to be pretty boring. A lot of whining by the 3, with nothing actually happening.
I didn’t care for the sewer scene, either. Kinda meh.
5. No, I did not feel they were making fun of virgins – but Sam and Dean as virgins was funny on its face – before you even got to the best Dean Winchester soliloquy ever!
I loved that! Gave me tingles!
6. I give it an 8. Enjoyed the humor, Dean and Susie scenes LexieCharlaaand Sam and Jodi scenes. Felt the sewer scenes before the Dean and Susie arrival dragged a bit, though.
I agree with you.
7. Looking forward to next week! So am I!
Thanks for the review.
1. I have not trusted Zeke for a while – and Sam seems worse now than when he first woke up in the car after Zeke possessed him. I think Zeke is actually draining Sam rather than curing him. Color me suspicious – but I also find it fishy that Zeke did not want Cas around.
Yes! I think Cas would have “outed” Zeke to Dean, which is why the angel wanted Cas gone.
2. Love Jodi. Kind of a surrogate mom to the guys. Still remember her telling Sam to go get rest and threatening to use her mom voice in Time After Time After Time.
Jodi was great to the brothers, kind of taking up where Bobby left off.
3. The Winchesters are family. Jody has no family, since they died in Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid – so she has made her congregation her family. She knows how lucky the brothers are to still have family – each other.
You are correct!
4. I was fine with the Vesta story, but frankly found the scenes in the sewer before Dean arrived to be pretty boring. A lot of whining by the 3, with nothing actually happening.
I didn’t care for the sewer scene, either. Kinda meh.
5. No, I did not feel they were making fun of virgins – but Sam and Dean as virgins was funny on its face – before you even got to the best Dean Winchester soliloquy ever!
I loved that! Gave me tingles!
6. I give it an 8. Enjoyed the humor, Dean and Susie scenes LexieCharlaaand Sam and Jodi scenes. Felt the sewer scenes before the Dean and Susie arrival dragged a bit, though.
I agree with you.
7. Looking forward to next week! So am I!
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I’m seriously worried that Zeke is going to start BEING Sam and Dean won’t realize it’s not his brother.[/quote]
Noooo!! 😥 That is a terrifying thought. I want Sam, not Zeke in a Sam suit. Lucifer in a Sam suit was bad enough. 🙁
As to the questions:
1. I was very happy thinking Dean was about to spill the beans. Then Zeke shows up! Ugh. I was a believer that Zeke was a good angel..now, I am not so sure. I don’t want anything else to happen to Sam damn it!
2. I love Jodi. Wish her and Bobby had been able to get together.
3. She’s absolutely right. Sam and Dean are very lucky to have that relationship. They would die for each other, love each other no matter what. Yeah. Not many people have a relationship like that with anyone.
4. She was boring. Blah.
5.Not so much making fun of virginity as much as making fun of Dean as a virgin… which is just hilarious.
6. 9’s about right. I loved the whole chastity pledge, and Dean’s comments at the meeting and him meeting a porn star. He was so goofy and dorky- love. I worried over Sam and his lack of energy. I even liked the part when Vesta mentioned how broken he was, mostly because of Sam’s reaction. The end really made the whole thing for me. The boys were awesome! So many feels and I wanted to cry. Jared is pulling the Zeke/ Sam thing off really well.
7. Yeah, i wanted a bit more movement here. When the epi first started and went no where towards the arch I was disappointed. The guys totally made this episode what it was, not the writers.
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I’m seriously worried that Zeke is going to start BEING Sam and Dean won’t realize it’s not his brother.[/quote]
Noooo!! 😥 That is a terrifying thought. I want Sam, not Zeke in a Sam suit. Lucifer in a Sam suit was bad enough. 🙁
As to the questions:
1. I was very happy thinking Dean was about to spill the beans. Then Zeke shows up! Ugh. I was a believer that Zeke was a good angel..now, I am not so sure. I don’t want anything else to happen to Sam damn it!
2. I love Jodi. Wish her and Bobby had been able to get together.
3. She’s absolutely right. Sam and Dean are very lucky to have that relationship. They would die for each other, love each other no matter what. Yeah. Not many people have a relationship like that with anyone.
4. She was boring. Blah.
5.Not so much making fun of virginity as much as making fun of Dean as a virgin… which is just hilarious.
6. 9’s about right. I loved the whole chastity pledge, and Dean’s comments at the meeting and him meeting a porn star. He was so goofy and dorky- love. I worried over Sam and his lack of energy. I even liked the part when Vesta mentioned how broken he was, mostly because of Sam’s reaction. The end really made the whole thing for me. The boys were awesome! So many feels and I wanted to cry. Jared is pulling the Zeke/ Sam thing off really well.
7. Yeah, i wanted a bit more movement here. When the epi first started and went no where towards the arch I was disappointed. The guys totally made this episode what it was, not the writers.
Thanks for the giving… of the thanks. And watch… cuz it’s a U’ie back at ya’. Enjoy the coming repast!
If being confronted by character limits now and then makes someone a writer, then yeah… That’s so me :-/ – Is it really just hearsay that God looks after fools and children? Cuz I’d only need it to be halfway true to be fully blessed.
1) I don’t trust Zeke at all. I’m conflicted. I really want Sam to be ok, but I also love Jared playing a badass, so I’m happy if Zeke turns out to be an enemy.
2) I adore Jodi. It’s good to have a strong and slightly older female character. So many of the supporting characters are really young now.
No strong opinion on 3-6 but..
7) Oh yes, they really need to get a move on!
1) I don’t trust Zeke at all. I’m conflicted. I really want Sam to be ok, but I also love Jared playing a badass, so I’m happy if Zeke turns out to be an enemy.
2) I adore Jodi. It’s good to have a strong and slightly older female character. So many of the supporting characters are really young now.
No strong opinion on 3-6 but..
7) Oh yes, they really need to get a move on!
I love what you said here, and I agree with you completely! Love, Robin
7. Okay, I did enjoy the episode and it kept me entertained, but it’s past time to get to the mytharc for the season. Abaddon was introduced in the 3rd episode and not heard from since. Crowley is sitting in a basement, Zeke is sitting in Sam, Kevin if off-screen and we’re reminded of him in every episode, Cas is still at the Gas N Sip being klutzy, Bartholomew is running amok (I guess), angels are taking vessels right and left (I guess) and we’ve spent five episodes on one-off’s that mean nothing.
I know the one-offs are important for syndication, but some of us watch the show for the stories, and I’d like to finally get to one this season.
I love what you said here, and I agree with you completely! Love, Robin
7. Okay, I did enjoy the episode and it kept me entertained, but it’s past time to get to the mytharc for the season. Abaddon was introduced in the 3rd episode and not heard from since. Crowley is sitting in a basement, Zeke is sitting in Sam, Kevin if off-screen and we’re reminded of him in every episode, Cas is still at the Gas N Sip being klutzy, Bartholomew is running amok (I guess), angels are taking vessels right and left (I guess) and we’ve spent five episodes on one-off’s that mean nothing.
I know the one-offs are important for syndication, but some of us watch the show for the stories, and I’d like to finally get to one this season.
Wow, I’m always so humbled to come here and read all the wonderful replies to my reviews. I want to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving, Chanukah, and beginning of the Christmas shopping season. I hope you all get the very best health as the first, foremost gift this year. I mentioned that the movement on the mytharc has been glacial, with too many standalone episodes. I think I’m ready for the mid-season finale. By the way, I’ve maintained all along that Zeke had evil intentions. I had hoped he wasn’t going to harm Sam, but it appears I was wrong. Maybe he wants Sam’s big, gorgeous body all to himself, and his plan all along was to kill Sam? I hope not! Love, Robin
Wow, I’m always so humbled to come here and read all the wonderful replies to my reviews. I want to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving, Chanukah, and beginning of the Christmas shopping season. I hope you all get the very best health as the first, foremost gift this year. I mentioned that the movement on the mytharc has been glacial, with too many standalone episodes. I think I’m ready for the mid-season finale. By the way, I’ve maintained all along that Zeke had evil intentions. I had hoped he wasn’t going to harm Sam, but it appears I was wrong. Maybe he wants Sam’s big, gorgeous body all to himself, and his plan all along was to kill Sam? I hope not! Love, Robin