After tormenting ourselves through the Christmas hiatus (Well not really, as Christmas Day fell on Thursday and I happened to be in the US, I got to watch a Very Supernatural Christmas on the CW for once. And yes, I found that damn exciting) – we now get back to our regularly scheduled programming and well, who can we really forget how we finished off with 2008, with Dean revealing his deep, dark secrets of hell? It appears a month has passed in the world of the supernatural, and the boys have been cross-tracking the country on back-to-back hunts. Sammy not getting his beauty sleep or something?
We jump in with a haunted house which the brothers are trying to investigate after a redneck old man was discovered in a very icky manner, but a new family is attempting to move in and just simply won’t take no for an answer, even if they psyche the boys out by “leaving” for the motel only to return once the boys are gone. They’re either very smart or very stupid, and in this case I’ll go with really stupid. When such hot tottie comes knocking on your door…well, you hope you have plenty of rope handy so you can tie them up and err…
*cough*
Sorry. Was distracted there.
So, the boy is seen playing with a young girl and talks about how she lives in the walls, whereas his teen sister is pretty freaked out by the whole thing, and yet seems inherently cool, and could potentially fit right into this show in a few year’s time.
The family and the boys kind of get stuck on the property that night as all the tyres are slashed and they can no longer escape. For once, a seemingly smart ghost. Particularly considering this ghost can cross salt lines…and isn’t affected by rock salt. Uh oh.
So, what the boys think they’re hunting here is the ghost of a young girl who committed suicide years ago in this house…is actually the girl’s daughter. You see, daddy dearest abused his daughter and when she fell pregnant, he locked the kid up in the basement. She killed herself after her twins were born, leaving her 2 cubs to grow up in the basement with no human contact, education or daylight. Yes, there’s 2 of them. And yes, it sounds totally ripped from the headlines, doesn’t it?
So they’re pretty feral kids and damn terrifying.
As Dean and the brother find out when they investigate the inner walls of the house and the brother is killed. Eep.
And then the little boy is kidnapped by the young feral who wants a new playmate. And Dean won’t be able to live with himself if he dies, so he has to heroically go in and find the young boy and rescue him. And while the girls heroically attempt to save themselves in the shed, the boys and the family’s daddy first try to find the young boy, which Dean does manage to do, hence learning about the feral brother and then they all get chased outside and have to fight off the ferals, with Dean rather vengefully kills the young man…as daddy heroically takes out the young woman after she attempts to claw her way into the shed. Quite a heroic episode. And yeah. I can see countless therapy bills for this family.
But, this being our beloved show of course, means we get another very brief glimpse of the gorgeous star of the show, Metallicar, as our boys yet again decide to find the prettiest bit of scenery to pull over and have another heart-to-heart moment…and seriously, Krip, can you lay off the picturesque tourist propaganda for a change? I like these exchanges, because they’re some of the rare glimpses we get into…well, they all tend to be Dean moments, so we get momentary flashes into Dean’s damaged psyche. But I feel like every episode seems to be finishing with one of these scenes now, and this show is anything but formulaic. I mean, this season has been a case of opening with the boys driving to their next destination, arguing over whatever revelation was made in the previous episode, and then expositing about new beast, and then closing off with the tourist shot of Vancouver.
Anyway, this time we learn how Dean is broken up this time because he actually started to enjoy torturing those souls down under (huh, that’s how I feel whenever I visit home). And he’s not happy with what that potentially says about him. And Sam again weeps majestically, stoically….silently.
