Blue Earth, Minnesota: Meg (Nicki Aycox) goes after Pastor Jim (Richard Sali) telling him she's done bad things. She had a chat with a man and slit his throat and removed his heart from his chest. Her eyes change. Jim tells her it's hallowed ground and she can't be here. She wants the Winchesters. Then she slits his throat.
Leaving Salvation: The heartland of America. Are you ready for Judgement Day JW 2:27
Sam (Jared Padalecki) has a flash to a baby in a crib and the mother. He has another vision of the map and the mother dressed in white. Monica (Erin Karplunk) talks to her baby, Rosie. "Sometimes she looks at you and it's just like she's reading your mind." She's six months old. Sam has a vision of the demon standing over her and she's on fire like their Mom. The camera pans in on the clown mobile hanging from the crib. Sam tells Dean (Jensen Ackles) and Dean says it happened in Sam's nightmares and how he has visions when he's awake now. The visions get stronger the closer he gets to the demon. Dad (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) berates Dean for not telling him sooner about Sam and his visions.
Dean: "Call me, you kiddin' me. Dad I called you from Laurence, Sam called you when I was dying. Getting you on the phone, I've got a better chance of winning the lottery." Dad never turned up for them no matter how many times Dean asked for his help, even when they were facing Meg. He turned up then but only remained in the shadows. Seems he only arrives when he hears the demon may be around. The other times they have to fend for themselves, just like they did when they were little.
Sam knows the demon's coming and that family is going through what they endured too. Dad says no one's going to go through this again. Meg calls Sam who believes she died falling from a seven story drop. "It's time for the grown ups to talk, Sam, let me speak to him now." She tells Dad about watching Jim Murphy choke on his blood and Caleb (Josh Blacker) is with her now. She wants the Colt. She wants to meet him at a warehouse in Lincoln tonight, which is just a plot to get him away from Sam and Dean. Sam says they need the gun.
Dean suggest they give her a fake gun from an antique store. Dad declares his hopes for them once more, "I wanna stop losing people we love - I want you to go to school, I want Dean to have a home. I want Mary alive. I just want this to be over." Sentiments echoed by Sam in 1.16 Shadow when he said the same thing to Dean about it being over and then him having his own life and doing what he wants.
They know it's a trap cos Meg ain't really that clever. Dean makes him promise he won't get himself killed. They have four bullets left in the Colt. Dean insists they have to get the demon before it gets the family, but Dean would prefer to be with Dad and so does Sam, who wishes Dad was here.
How come Meg couldn't sense Dad when he was up on the water tower. He puts a rosary into the water, turning it into holy water. Does he just carry the rosary around for blessings or does he really believe in having it close for religious reasons? Sam is finally relieved they'll be killing the demon and he thanks Dean for everything. He knew he could always count on Dean and wanted to let him know. Dean doesn't want to hear that cos "no one's dying tonight." One of Dean's fave lines, well okay not fave but oft used. Only the demon will be dying. Meg: "I can see where your boys get their good looks...considering what they say about you, I thought you'd be taller." No that's Sam. She's joined by another demon (Sebastian Spence) and shoots him. He lives, showing the gun's a fake. Holy water seems to work on them.
Sam notices static on the car radio and Dean can't get hold of Dad. The lights flicker inside the house as in the Pilot episode. Monica's husband has a gun. What was he doing with that? He appeared to be waiting for them, or for something else, like he's expecting the demon. The bullet goes through the demon and he disappears when the colt is fired. The crib is set on fire. Dad is caught. The house is ablaze and the demon watches through the window. Dean stops Sam from going in. Sam wanted to end all this, Dean tells him it would have ended his life. Dean: "You're just willing to sacrifice yourself is that it? Well that's not gonna happen, not as long as I'm around...it's not worth dying. If hunting this demon means getting yourself killed, then I hope we never find it."
Sam: "That thing killed Jess, that thing killed Mom."
Dean: "You said yourself once that no matter what we do they're gone and they're never coming back." We get Dean repeating Sam's lines now and making him remember that it's not worth dying over right now. Sam said that in the Pilot and Dean was angry at him for saying that, now the position's reversed and Dean says it. Jess and Mom won't be back but they're here and he won't let Sam kill himself. Dean' s line of telling Sam he's going to sacrifice himself and Dean won't let that happen as long as he's around; is kind of the premise of this show, at least one of them. His line resonates throughout the seasons as we'll come to see. Nothing will stop Dean and Sam sacrificing each other for one other.
Sam however is angry, "Don't you say that after all this." He pushes Dean against the wall. Dean: "The three of us, that's all we have. That's all I have." Dean's barely holding it together but without Sam or Dad he doesn't know what he'll do. Meg answers Dad's phone and tells him he'll never see Dad again.
The episode was heating up as the penultimate in season 1 and now it's left to Sam and Dean to rescue Dad, even if he hasn't been around for them and being there for them when they really needed it. At this point in time, he's family and Sam and Dean are still in awe of him and need him as much as he needs them. Darn demon got away again.
Thought the JW on the writing in the beginning was referring to Dad, John Winchester, a foreboding of what was to come for him and that was what I thought the first time I watched this episode. As for Dad admonishing (love that word) Dean for not telling him about Sam's visions sooner, Dad was in Laurence when Dean called him practically begging for help in season 1 Home episode but he preferred to hide out at Missouri's. Also he knew of Sam's visions since Missouri spelled out to him that even with all his powers, Sam couldn't sense his own father.
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