A woman covered in blood runs with her baby and hides under the bed, but she's found and killed. Dean (Jensen Ackles) brings Lisa (Cindy Sampson) and Ben (Nicholas Elia) back to a new house.
Lansing, Michigan. Sam (Jared Padalecki) dressed in suit and tie tells Samuel (Mitch Pileggi) the alarm never went off and the baby is missing. Dean wants them to stay in and orders pizza. Sam didn't find any EMF, or sulphur. Samuel has trouble using the computer, so why didn't he just call Bobby, even though we are meant to see them getting to work with their family more? "Sometimes I wonder about us." Sam: "Sometimes I wonder about me too." The alarm never went off and there are same systems in other houses. Sam doesn't seem interested in the missing babies, whereas in the past that would have been his first concern. He's more interested in the hunt. Ben (Nicholas Elia) plays with Dean's gun and Dean is angry, he doesn't want him touching shooting a gun. He loses his cool and rightly so. Dean isn't Dad after all and so doesn't want to teach Ben the same things he learned, or had already learned at his age.
Another couple with a six month old baby (why is the baby always six months old?) are attacked. Lisa wants to know what's happening with Dean. He can't let anything happen on his watch and he doesn't now what could come after them. Sam finds both parents dead and a man attacks him in their house in a security uniform. Sam cuts him with a blade and his skin burns. Sam finds the baby and needs Dean's help, like all of a sudden Dean is such an expert on babies. Still he was good. Dean: "What's so nuts you've gotta threaten a damn drive-by?" The baby is a shapeshifter. Sam: "Welcome to the party Guttenberg." Dean has to leave and gives Lisa the gun, cos it's okay for her to use it. Reminds her to salt all the doors and windows.
Dean brings his pick-up but Sam has his car and Dean needs to wear his seatbelt. Needing baby supplies they head to the market. Dean appears to be in his element with the baby, he's been on milk runs. Well he did look after Sam a lot of the time. The baby doesn't stop crying at the checkout so a woman (BJ Harrison) helps out and takes the baby from Dean. Sam tells Dean people are staring at them like they're child abusers. The baby is called Bobby John cos each of them call him a different name. Come on would you give your baby to a stranger. Dean notices the woman's flashing eyes in the CCTV. Dean demands the baby before he stabs her in the neck. Sam exclaims, "Dean" didn't that reek of emotion on Sam's part like he cares, or did he just not want the hassle of being watched by everyone, which is kind of like the same thing? Next follows a funny chase scene.
Sam thinks he was probably followed. The man gets Sam's plates checked out since he's not the patrolman, (Jackson Berlin) after shifting into the body. Sam calls the baby, "it." Dean's got a 'Dr Huxtable vibe-like' father material - like with Ben and he likes to think of him as his own. After their childhood, he wants to do something different with Ben, just as I said. Sam says he keeps them on lockdown and that's no different from how they were raised. For 22 years, Dad said their life was temporary. How can Dean watch out for them and not "turn them into Dad."
One of the father's is still alive and Sam leaves to check out the lead. Dean gives the baby a suck of his booze. The father tells Sam his wife cheated on him (yeah with his lookalike) and lied to him, he was out of town, but it wasn't him. Dean and his vibrating bed again. The baby shapeshifts. Sam thinks the patrolman is the baby's father, who comes after the baby, saying the baby should be "with our father." They head to Samuel.
Dean says the baby isn't really a baby but he's not a monster either. Samuel will know what to do. Becoming very reliant on Samuel aren't' they, whereas before they hardly ever needed anyone. Sam thinks Samuel is like Dean: "I'm a freakin' headcase." Dean's very protective . Dean: "You can just stand there and think of me." Dean doesn't want Samuel to answer the question of what he'll do. Dean tells them they're all hunters. Samuel recalls Mom was tiny too. Samuel suggests they raise him. But Dean's mind goes to torture and rightly so. Christian's (Corin Nemec) heard about Dean's time in the pit. Mark (David Paetkau) thinks he could be a great hunter. Dean: "You can't Angelina Jolie a shapeshifter." Dean wants to know how both Sam and Samuel returned from where they were.
The baby is given to Christian. Dean bursts out he's got no business raising anything. (As we'll see in episode 6.7). Sam asks why; cos he's a hunter. Their place is raided by the shifter and kills Mark. They should have known it would have been easier to use the knife on him and why aren't they prepared with silver bullets either when they know what's after them. Also Sam said he was followed before, so it's pretty likely he was followed again.
Sam leaves the panic room to help and now Sam has also been shapeshitfed into, then changes into Dean (again as in 1.6 Skin.) Funny the shifter doesn't kill Sam and Dean, why? Sam thinks the shifter was an Alpha: the first one which spawned the others and could feel the baby anywhere. They don't know if it can be killed. The shifter in the motel meant Alpha as in 'father.' Dean knows if Sam heard them at the motel then he knew he was an Alpha and that he'd come for the baby. Sam used the baby as bait and that's not all Sam will use as bait later on.
Sam thought Samuel's was the safest place. Samuel claims not to have caught the shifter and have to find some way to find it. Samuel is definitely up to something. Dean is afraid cos Dad was like Dean all the time. Lisa tells him things re different now cos Sam's around. Now it's Lisa's turn to get the "I get it" line. Everyone in the show lately gets that line. Dean isn't bad and wants him to leave. He can return when he can. The Impala is back!
Sometimes I don't like it when they use clips in the 'Then' segment cos it usually gives away what the episode is about, okay not usually, it does give it away so there's not much of an element of surprise and don't think they should do that.
As if Sam and Dean reuniting wasn't enough, they now have a baby to look after too, at least Dean does. Sam is just oblivious to any sort of feelings or 'paternal instinct' and what is it they say, never work with children and animals. Appears the 'Alphas' of a species or monster etc, are making an appearance this season and are referred to as "our father or father." Why after all this time are they located or found? Samuel appears to be keeping them for his own purposes, like he's selling them but he wouldn't be in it for the the money. Sam seemed to show some speckle of feeling or emotion or why else would he say they're being watched like they're 'abusers.' Then it's revealed he was using the baby as bait to catch the shifter. Again the Sam we knew wouldn't do that.
Lots of references to films, such as Three Men and A Baby, when Sam calls Dean 'Guttenberg, as in Steve, one of the stars. The Cosby Show, where Bill Cosby played Dr Huxtable with his brood of children. Also an Angelina Jolie reference here to looking after the baby, which she does, look after children and has quite a brood of her own.
I likes the references made to Dad, their own upbringing, especially now they had a baby to look after and protect for a while. Also the allusions to how Dean doesn't want to be like Dad and not wanting the same life for Ben. No mention of Dean looking after Sam when he was a baby either, but then some could say he's still looking out for him now. Maybe he just wanted to forget. Sam calling the baby "it." Whereas he would have called it a baby normally and he called them all babies when he was investigating. Dean had experience with the milk run cos Lisa used to look after her niece.
Also Sam calling the baby after Dad, 'John' and Dean calling him Bobby, shows he no longer is in awe of Dad anymore, so at least he's grown over 6 seasons, character-wise. Whereas Sam who had Dad issues since season 1 thinks of him now. Then we get Dean calling the baby a "thing" in the motel. That motel room looked eerily familiar. Harking back to season 1 cos I love my allusions to past episodes, when Sam was at Stanford, Sam refers to the Brady Bunch (also mentioned last episode) and his friend refers to the Huxtables.
Did you like the way the baby shifted into the baby on the nappy/diaper pack cos he hadn't come across any other images?
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