A policeman, Hatch ( Todd Mann) cuts himself and his skin falls off, only his blood and entrails are left behind. Ooh Dean (Jensen Ackles) get a shirt! Dean is dreaming, Sam (Jared Padalecki) is exercising and Dean's on the road. SO we see him naked too! Sam's been with a pro, (Julia Voth) which he wouldn't really do if he was the 'old' Sam. He pays her and where was Dean's tattoo as Sam still has his? Sam throws her card away - well he can hook up with anyone and he does that as routine now.
Sam is in Pennsylvania and Dean tells him it's been one and a half days, since they were just on a case, Sam likes to work. Dean: "Who died and made you boss?" That's a loaded question for this show considering the number of deaths of lead characters and others. SO don't answer that Sam. Colfax (Justin Reinsilber) says he called but the chief wouldn't take his call. He's told to calm down. The patrolman, Gray (Darren Bennett) breaks out into pustules. Sam and Dean a la suit and Sam asks, "You molding the minds of tomorrow?" Dean: "Still driving the plastic piece of crap." Not for long. The man has been liquefied. Toby Gray came out in boils and there's no signs of any hex. Dean refers to the DBs as "Skidmark and Bubblewrap." Charming Dean, won't look at bubblewrap in the same way again! Especially when to comes to popping it. He has such a way with words.
Dean pulls out in front of Sam on the road, Sam's racing him. Dean: "No, I was kicking your ass." Sam: "very mature." In terms of being ahead of him. Dean calls Colfax 'Kojak'. These Feds portrayed by Sam and Dean don't have names. Sam breaks his door in. Usually that was Dean's forte in the past. Dean: "Dude." Faces have been scratched off the photos. Colfax scratches his head. They all had it coming and he's next. God wants them all dead cos of Birch. Sam loses his cool again. They planted the gun on him. Colfax's head bleeds and he dies. Locusts then crawl out of his head. Sam thinks the angels are behind it. Dean calls Castiel (Misha Collins). Sam says he tried to call Cas as soon as he got out. Dean tries and he appears for him. Why would he come for Sam? Sam comments "He's right behind me isn't he?"
Cas can only say hello to Sam, cos he likes Dean better. He and Dean share a more profound bond, but he wasn't going to mention that. If Cas had answers for Sam then maybe he'd have answered but he preferred to keep him in the dark anyway, or should that be hanging for answers. Dean says he should have answered Sam. Cas isn't here cos Dean called. All the men were killed with the Staff of Moses but the weapon hasn't been used to its fullest capacity. "I think we can rule Moses out as a suspect."
Cas tells them heaven is corrupted, powerful weapons were stolen during the chaos and he needs their help, for a change. Cas reverts to using 'inverted comma' gestures. The only lead they have is Birch's father, Darryl (Ian Brown), anyway the father would have been too obvious. Sam and Dean still have their old pics on their fake IDs. Darryl didn't do it and the boy, Aaron ( Adam Osei) still has part of the staff and he got the staff from an angel. At least it's part of the staff, thus it wasn't used to its fullest. He bought it and gave his soul in return. Sam can't believe he did that. Cas explains if a claim is made on a living soul it leaves a brand and he can read it. Dean protests and Sam asks if there's any damage, like he'd care. AS there isn't, he's all for it.
Dean can't believe he'd torture a child. Cas doesn't have the luxury to think about that and well Sam doesn't really care either way as long as they get what they're after, which isn't really Sam as we knew him cos he doesn't feel anything at all.
Cas realizes it was Balthazar, (Sebastian Roche) a good friend. Dean wonders if his buddy is "moonlighting as a crossroads demon." One of Balthazar's henchmen appears and fights Cas and they both fall out of the window landing on Sam's car. That put a dent in the works. See it wasn't around for long. Sam seems to bemoan the loss of his plastic car but not Aaron being used in that way. Hey couldn't they have just vanished instead of just landing on the car. Sam: "My car!" Dean: "Okay silver lining."
He's working with Raphael. Dean thinks there's too many angels. They don't want a civil war, whoever has the weapons will win. Raphael wants the apocalypse back. Cas didn't say anything cos he was too ashamed. He takes Dean's blood, why not Sam's. Well I had to ask. Again they leave evidence behind in the hotel room and won't they know who was in the room, even if they used fake IDs. Also who called the police anyway when you hear the siren?
At Balthazar's house, Dean comments 'It's more Dr No and less Liberace'. Cas grieved for Balthazar and he can do whatever he likes. He was brave and honourable and they fought together. Balthazar still sees Cas as a brother. He stole the weapons cos he could. He's just following in Cas's footsteps. Cas proved they could do anything. Cas believes if they can beat Raphael they can end this. Thunder crashes and Raphael arrives. Sam says he's also got a knife so why didn't the angel think about throwing the knife. Raphael and Cas fight and Balthazar turns him into salt. Raphael needs a new vessel now. They surround Balthazar with oil and he calls Dean a "hairless ape." Well that's no different from Uriel and all the other angels now is it, so much for being different than them, harking back to season 5. Cas: "I believe the hairless ape has the floor." Balthazar is forced to release Aaron's soul. Souls hold power. Was that a clue for Sam? Cas lets Balthazar go.
Ben's Hallowe'en costume was a wendigo mask, which Sam finds. Dean asks if Sam's Okay. He's been wondering since he didn't object to Cas tazering Aaron. Dean was the only one who objected, whereas in the past Sam would have been the one to raise an uproar, he just went along with it now. Sam didn't care but Sam argues Dean's wrong. Dean: "Somethings different with you." Sam knows, he's been hunting for a year and he's "rough around the edges."
Dean is aware what hell does to a guy. Sam replies he knows what it did to Dean, but he's fine, cos Dean was tortured. Sam believes they're both different, but he's not saying he's stronger than Dean. Yes they are different and why'd Dean return with his soul intact, since we all know that's where the show was heading this season? Sam is more than just rough around the edges. He genuinely doesn't care anymore, he's more interested in hunting at any cost. Then Sam doesn't want to talk about his time in hell and that's not shocking since Dean felt the same. Dean was tortured but Sam wasn't. At least no one knows for sure yet.
Sam without a conscience gave Jared a different character to play, rather than caring Sam who always had to opt for the right thing. It's Dean's turn to do that now and it gives them both a different dynamic, whereas before Dean would be the first to pick up a gun or torture for info. He now is the voice of reason. Dean almost always used to do the killing, now Sam doesn't wait to get stuck in.
Supernatural kind of picks up this episode with the slow start of the past two episodes. What I don't like is the Lisa and Ben dynamic. They were fine when first introduced in season 3 and Dean thought Ben was his - but after so many episodes, they just make the scenes drag on. Everytime Lisa comes on it makes me cringe. Frankly why'd Dean want to hook up with someone as boring as Lisa is beyond me. Granted he wanted and deserves a family, but this 'ready made' one just doesn't fit Dean or the show. Dean just appears to fall into a quivering heap or mess after his encounters with her.
Dean's references to "Chuck Heston's disco stick" was a reference to Charlton Heston's portrayal of Moses in the Ten Commandments.
Dean's line, "I don't know who's on first; what's on second" dates back to the Abbott and Costello comedy double act films, One Night in the Tropics (1940) and The Naughty Nineties (1945) where baseball players on a team were named "Who; What; Didn't Know; Why; Because; Tomorrow; Today." Costello doesn't understand it when Abbott tells him 'Who is on first base.' So he asks "Who's on first?" Abbott replies: "Yes." It makes sense, really it does. Reminds me of the lines from that Cary Grant movie, The Bachelor and The Bobby-Soxer, aka Bachelor Knight (1947) with Myrna Loy and Shirley Temple.
"Hey, you remind me of a man."
"What man?"
"Man with the power."
"What power?"
"The power of Hoodoo."
"Hoodoo?"
"You do?"
"Do what?"
"Remind me of a man..." And on it continues.
Dean also calls Colfax Kojak and everyone knows who he's talking about.
At least some reprieve in the form of Cas, his fight scenes and Sam's car being totalled much to Dean's pleasure. Bobby could've salvaged it at the yard. Many angels from the past returning such as Raphael and Balthazar pledging 'allegiance' to Cas only to get the same burning oil treatment too, all the while all the angels being the same in their allusions to humans being hairless apes. Actually some of hem are hairy! Cas prefers Dean to Sam, as we already knew.
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