Dean (Jensen Ackles) attempts to wake up Sam (Jared Padalecki).
Great Falls Junior college, Paterson, New Jersey a janitor is killed by an anatomy dummy. Dean offers pills to Sam but he doesn't want them. He felt like he was out for a week but he doesn't want to talk about it, taking another page out of Dean's book. He's okay. Dean tells him it was hell and Sam could have died. Dean adds the past belongs in the past and Sam's meant to ignore it. Violence and alcohol may work for Dean, but his life's on the line.
They investigate the janitor, Steve's (Nicholas Carella) murder and Dean is preoccupied by the dummy, out he comes with the jokes, "Be my Valentine, have a heart." He also smells sulphur and Sam has to point out they're in a lab. Lisa (Cindy Sampson) calls. There's mention of Dr Laura and Ghosts Gone Wild. Sam picks up a strange EMF reading from said anatomy dummy. The video from the lab doesn't help them and Sam tells Dean about Steve who appeared to be a model guy (no pun intended by use of the word model!) He rubbed his girlfriend's feet whilst watching Glee. Dean comments he just threw up in his mouth. Also mentions Kermit.
They then check out the killing of a security guard. Dave (Jorge Vargas) at a mannequin warehouse, obviously the mannequin did it. As they don their suits once more. Could almost get a joke here with mannequins and suits, oh never mind. Sam gets another EMF reading, this time from the mannequin and mentions the "Anatomy dummy you were molesting at the lab" gave him the same reading. References to Chucky and Dean thinks it creepy. "I don't like the way Kim Cattrall's looking at me."
Isabel (Rosalie Ward) tells them her sister Rose (Christina Sicoli) went missing a year ago and Dean thinks a vengeful spirit may be involved. Lisa's phone rings again and it's Ben (Nicholas Elia) on the other end. He claims she's locked herself in her room and won't come out or take calls. Sam tells him he had to deal with his year and so must Dean. Rose was shy and an easy target, but she did more for Isabel than anyone else. That was a clue. The two DBs are in the photo she has and they all work at the factory. Steve quit after Rose disappeared.
Dean goes to see Lisa and Sam questions the factory workers, one gets nervous. Jonny (Jake Richardson) insists there's nothing wrong. Lisa opens the door dressed for a date and Dean posits they've been Parent Trap-ed. She doesn't want anything from Dean and Dean tells her she should ask for something. She just wants to move on. Jonny feels a cut on his head and Sam returns to save him. He places salt around the doors and windows and ensures Jonny stays inside the salt circle. Rose is back and Sam asks what he did to her. He, Dave and Steve set her up on a blind date with a dummy and made her think she had a secret admirer. She hit her head on the table and they buried her. It was Steve's fault and Jonny wanted to call for help. Hey if Sam didn't have a soul he'd have thought it funny too.
Sam burns her bones. Dean knows no matter how much you love someone you can't stay to hurt them. If he stays Ben will become like him and he's not someone Ben should be. In a role reversal Dean is the one who now gets a called a 'dick.' He's walking out on his family, but Sam is his family. Sam calls Jonny to return home and he lives near the bar where Isabel arrives. As we get flashes to Dean's year with Lisa and Ben. Jonny has a blow up sex doll and is killed, and he had the audacity to be part of the joke they played on Rose.
Isabel was also at the college and the bar so Sam makes the connection that it has something to do with her. She has Rose's kidney, which is the point she made about Rose being the only one who did anything for her. She has a haunted kidney and Dean suggests they call Dr Robert. Sam thinks otherwise and suggests hoodoo. Dean leaves the impala behind and Rose possessed the sex doll. Dean: "This is not a sex doll, you leave my baby alone." As his beloved possessed baby gives chase to him. That's the second time his baby has been possessed by a spirit. It was taken over by Constance, the woman in white in the pilot episode and chased them, both having to jump the bridge to escape. The Impala crashes into a shop window and Isabel gets glass in her, so the possessions over and Rose is sorry. Yeah, she gave her the kidney to save her life and then she's the one who snatches it away from Isabel. How did Isabel end up where she did anyway?
Not another Rose who was possessed, there was a Rose in 2.11 Play Things. Dean fixes the Impala again, "carjacked by a Poltergeist." Dean says an innocent was killed and Sam adds they save lives now and then. Sam: "Satan's left the building." He has a soul cos of Dean and he'd have done the same for him, is what Dean can say. Which is all they do for each other really. Since season 2. The same way Rose gave her kidney to save her sister Isabel, parallels can be drawn with Sam and Dean, two brothers always saving each other. It's like a continuing cycle or catch 22. Sam has Dean's back. Sam also used to say over the seasons that they can't save everyone all the time, all they can do is try.
As Lisa is shown quite a bit now, there's no moving on from her for a reason. Have to say the title of this episode didn't live up to much of a reckoning, not even for Sam judging what happened to him at the close of last episode. Just another ghost getting even and taking her sister out in the process too, even if that wasn't her intention. 2.11 was all about hoodoo and creepy dolls, as Dean referred to them.
Lisa and Ben are getting tedious, and they appeared to be included just so Sam can get his line in about having to deal with his year and Dean must do the same. Dean being different as he can recall hos past but Sam's not meant to. Yes, Dean remembers all and he shouldn't have to either, especially since they said their goodbyes and moved on, or at least were meant to forget each other. Which is what Lisa was doing, but Dean in opposite of chick mode wasn't dealing with it at all. Well usually the chick is portrayed as having all the relationship issues and hated the way it was brought down on Dean, that he was the sole reason for their not being able to have a life together.
Does Dean deep down somewhere, kind of regret Sam coming back cos that sort of wrecked havoc on his life? Not that Dean would ever have such feelings; as they both live (and die) for each other; but Sam had to make an appearance cos of the Djinns in 6.1 Exile on Main Street. Then it has to be asked, whose fault was that? Samuel's, the Campbell clan for hunting them. Don't think they would have tracked Dean down otherwise, or would they have, especially since the female Djinn told Dean he killed her father?
Dean's reference to 'Snooki' was about Nicole 'Snooki' Polizzi from Jersey Shore. Dr Laura is Laura Schlessinger who had a radio talk show and expressed her right wing opinions. It's mentioned here how Dean turns to violence and alcohol to deal with his problems, in 2.11, it was Sam who got drunk to escape what he may one day become. Then he shares a beer with Dean at the end of this episode. Sam also took the Impala in the episode Changing Channels, as well as Andy in Simon Said.
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