A man at a petrol station gives a woman a ride, who turns out to be the mother of all. Eve kisses him and he gives her a sermon on how Jesus loves them. The apocalypse came and went and he didn't even notice. A mother wouldn't abandon a child and she's a mother. She whispers in his ear and Rick (Brent Stait) goes home where he kills his wife (Kimberly Unger).
Bobby (Jim Beaver) tells the others how hunters are finding vampires, ghouls, werewolves, on the I-80. Dean (Jensen Ackles) refers to it as the monster march. They speak to Rick in jail and Bobby tags along too, all having to don suits. Sam (Jared Padalecki) views footage and they see Eve (Julia Maxwell). Dean: "freakish nightmare what the hell was that?" Dean refers to Eve as Big Momma. Bobby thinks they're over their heads. Another man goes mad at the cannery. Rufus (Steven Williams) arrives there before Bobby. Rufus is tracking "81 flavours of crazy." Flavours being Dean's word. Rufus wants to partner like the old times and Bobby wants to drive, just like Dean does.
Bobby and Rufus perform an autopsy on the dead man and Bobby notices a substance in his ear. Yuk. It's not ectoplasm. They all worked at the cannery. Hey, Bobby was driving when they met Sam and Dean. Bobby suggests Dean, Sam and Rufus should get a room as they're so friendly. Gwen (Jennifer Heafey) and Samuel (Mitch Pileggi) are already at the cannery and Dean pulls a gun on him and this time Sam stops him (last time Dean stopped Sam from shooting him). Sam thinks he may know something. Dean asks Sam if he recalls what Samuel did to them. Samuel calls Bobby the man pretending to be their family. Well he was more family than Samuel ever was or could be. Sam got his soul back, no thanks to him and Samuel is hunting Eve. She's escaped from purgatory. She was on earth 10,000 years ago.
Bobby says he threw Sam and Dean to the ghouls and Gwen asks Dean if that's true. She was awfully naive not knowing the man she's been hunting with for so long. Dean replies, Samuel "didn't even blink." Dean shoots Gwen cos he's been possessed by the the thing and runs away. He has discharge in his ear. Sam says they need to find Dean alive or Sam will put a bullet in Samuel's head - that was prophetic coming from him as he'll do just that. Sam calls Dean. Dean mentions a "12" harpy crawled out of his ear." Calling it a 'Khan worm on steroids'. Rufus checks his ear. Dean comments he needs to buy him a drink first, before he lets Rufus get so close, and there was Bobby telling them to get a room. Ha. Rufus: "second date." Bobby gets everyone to lock their guns away. They make calls to see if anyone knows anything and come up empty.
Sam and Dean follow Samuel to the loo and Rufus mentions Omaha. Bobby calls that low. Dean asks how Samuel sleeps at night after feeding them to Crowley. Samuel isn't apologizing. Sam is angry he still sold him out even after he spent a year with him. Samuel doesn't believe that compares to what Sam did, but Sam didn't have a soul. What was Samuel's' excuse aside from wanting Mary back, which he didn't get? Samuel is possessed by the harpy. They retrieve the guns and insist on staying together. Sam stops them from stepping on a trip wire, that was set up quickly. Sam gets separated and comes face to face with Samuel. Sam wouldn't go with Samuel he'd shoot him. Samuel wants to tell Sam about what he did in that year and Sam puts a bullet in Samuel's head. That's what he said he'd do.
Sam is handcuffed and he insists he's Sam and no one saw anything come out of Samuel and nothing is found in his ears. Rufus suggests they cut him open. Er, who will watch Dean, watch Sam, watch Samuel. Sam gets his soul back and ends up being the one to shoot Samuel and Dean knows he did the right thing. Dean will assume Sam is really him. Sam doesn't recall the good things about Samuel and what he did to them. Dean recalls Mom would say, "Just cos you're blood - it doesn't make you family. You've gotta earn that."
Bobby says Omaha was his fault and says sorry Rufus lost her. Rufus will never forgive Bobby for what happened. Samuel wakes and the harpy goes into Rufus or Bobby and gets electrocuted forcing the harpy out. It's in one of them. Sam checks for goo and decides to use electricity on each of them. Bobby goes last so it has to be him. Rufus has a pacemaker. Bobby stabs Rufus, should have seen that coming. Sam asks why Dean keeps talking about harpies. Dean protests he doesn't and tells Sam to shut up. Yeah Sam this isn't the time for harpy talk. The harpy (ha) doesn't leave Bobby with the use of electricity.
There's no name for the creature yet and apparently Eve made it. She's the mother, we know that by now, and has a message for them: they're all going to die. Sam tapes Bobby's mouth and Dean has to be the one to electrocute Bobby, as Sam can't watch, the benefit of a soul wherein Dean has to be the one who continues doing the dirty work just as in earlier seasons. Bobby is free and the worm is killed. Okay I stopped calling it a harpy too. As for calling it a harpy Eve made it so it must be female, ha.
They bury Rufus. Everyone went out in this episode and thus the title. Bobby tells them about being a mechanic and how his wife went psycho, Rufus saved him and taught him what was out there. Dean says it doesn't matter what happens cos at the end of the day they're all family. He knows something will get them eventually and he's knows it's okay whatever happens and he'll forgive them for it, blank apology. Bobby pours scotch over Rufus's grave.
The title also reminds me of the Agatha Christie book, Ten Little Indians which was changed for the purposes of the movie and stage play to And Then There Were None and in some ways this episode lived up to that. All the Campbell's are gone - that we know of, and Rufus too. The plot of the book: people get killed off one by one and one isn't really dead, who turns out to be the killer. This is what happens here, especially when Samuel came back to life with the harpy/worm still inside him. They also suspected each other of being the one possessed just as in the book/movie, they all suspected each other of being the killer.
So many met their doom in this episode. With Samuel it was anticipated after his betrayal of the Winchesters. He couldn't really be expected to get off scott free. But he was still hunting, even if we never figure out if it was still for Crowley or not, still in the hopes of bringing back Mary. As he was a hunter, that's one less around to hunt monsters etc. Gwen being killed was a surprise but it wasn't as if she was a major character. To have her die as soon as she found out about Samuel's betrayal of his grandsons didn't leave for any condemnation or retribution on her part.
Rufus was expected to also meet his maker eventually, not this early. Another reason for the title, as said before. Pedantically speaking - there were three still left standing . Eve was introduced now when there's six episodes left, so take it she won't amount to much, since she was being built up as someone/thing to fear since 6.5 when mentioned by the Alpha vampire. Releasing a 'worm' , oh sorry harpy, on the world to 'corrupt' people to her will wasn't very original and she came across as weak if this is all she has to offer. Let's face it, demon possession is much more interesting and more down Supernatural street.
Somewhere Sam would have thought, if not said, they can't save everyone - meaning Rufus here and maybe Gwen. Ironic in some ways that it was Bobby possessed by the worm/harpy who killed Rufus, especially after he said he'd never forgive him for Omaha. Also when Rufus met Bobby he helped him with his possessed wife. Sam showed very little remorse for killing Samuel although he has a soul. Dean justifying he had little choice. To be fair, think he felt a little left out in not being the one to pull the trigger out of revenge. Dean was once upon a time so very trigger happy. Now that's Sam's forte. They reversed it here as it was Dean killing Gwen when he was possessed and Sam being the one to kill Samuel without being infected.
As far as episodes go about being 'taken over' by entities or viruses, season 2's Croatoan was much more exciting and atmospheric with everyone being stuck in the clinic and being taken over and killed off. More drama , more brotherly discourse and discussion, with Dean wanting to give up the fight and hunting. Years later he's still here. Dean in that episode, "massacre a town." Here it was more like massacre the human race and his line, "one way to wipe out a town, take it from the inside." Which appears to be Eve's intention.
Also the season 1 X-Files episode Ice, referencing the movie The Thing; being isolated and having to work out who was infected with the extra-terrestrial parasitic worm.
Samuel was already on the case and knowing about Eve. Did Crowley tell him? Also, he seemed to be hiding something about Sam and his "lost" year. Chris Cooper, the name on Sam's phone is named for the props master on the show.
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