SPN - "Hello, Cruel World"
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feliciakwSo. Much. Edge-of-my-seat goodness in this one. This long & rambly will be full of unadulterated squee. Seriously. I really hope you enjoyed it as much as I did, because it makes me eager to turn on the next ep immediately.
Then . . . Sheriff Mills! Sam before and after re-souling. Lucifer. Sam cut his hand. Tummy monsters. Leviathan kills Cas, tosses Dean and Bobby around, and in general is extremely unpleasant and icky.
Now . . .
Picking up immediately from where we left off. There are apparently lots of leviathans crammed into Jimmy (poor guy). He's looking kinda woozy and is bleeding black ick. He threatens a "we'll be back" and stumbles down the hall.
Meanwhile, Sam is being throttled by a hallucination. Lucifer snarks, "You come back, I'm sorry, with no soul, like some petty American Psycho until Saint Dean glues you back together again . . . " Take note of that wording. "Saint Dean." Rather in keeping with the on-going theme. More on that in a moment.
Dean interrupts the hallucination, and the three of them (Dean, Bobby, and Sam) go after Cas/Jimmy/Leviathan . . .
Ooh! Leviathan heads toward open water. Of course! Because leviathans are sea creatures. Nice call! They want to stretch out in their natural habitat.
Team Free Will arrives in time to see the water turn black and watch the leviathans escape.
Title splat. We now know what that is supposed to be, yeah? The icky ichor of an exploding leviathan vessel, or exploding leviathan.
Okay, so the leviathans are using the water system to get around. Great. :-P
Cas's coat washes ashore, and Dean picks it up, mourning his friend. He rolls it up to take with him, and you know, you just KNOW, he's going to stash it carefully in the back of the Impala as a treasure from a friend.
(And apparently, that's exactly what Jensen intended to convey when he played the scene. Found this out later, and am totally not surprised.)
Show! Your music is back! Show! "Old Black Water"!!!!! YOU LOVE ME!!!! Seriously. This is one of my favorite songs. Especially the a cappella part. Rather a disturbing use of the song though, yeah? But very appropriate. *shudder*
So. The leviathans are using the waterways to possess people. Huh. Um, okay.
Sam's dreaming Lucifer's voice, but it's really Dean waking Sam up after a major power nap. "Here. Hydrate. And protein--ate." Oh, Dean. I do love you. Hee!
Dean and Bobby treat and re-dress Sam's hand. The leviathans are in the wind (or rather, the waterways) for the moment. In the meantime, Dean wants to know what's going on in Sam's gourd. Sam explains that it's not just flashbacks, that he's hallucinating now. Dean is not happy.
Dean pours himself and Bobby a drink. The scene that follows is one of the most affecting in the ep. Lucifer is there, prompting Sam's answers, and Dean realizes that Sam is hallucinating right now. Dean insists that Lucifer isn't real. "He says the same thing about you," Sam tells Dean. It's chilling.
Leviathan!girl is channel surfing. The news tells of a random unexpected eclipse. And a commercial for Biggerson's pie bar. "It's like a salad bar, but with pie." We totally need a scene of Dean at the pie bar. She also gets her intel from a Dr. Sexy commercial. That right there should scare us.
Back at Bobby's, Sam is breaking down his gun. Bobby is pleased that Sam's not curled up under the sink. Dean is disconcerted that Sam is just silently field stripping his weapon. Dean thinks ahead and activates the GPS in Sam's cell phone.
Bobby asks Dean how Dean's doing. Because Bobby recognizes that this is a partnership, and that Dean needs attention, too. Dean, however, disagrees, as he believes anything he's going through is of lesser import than what Sam's going through--maybe this is the kind of crazy you can't fix. Besides, Dean keeps his marbles in a lead box. He's fine. Of course, Bobby says. Dean just lost one of the best friends he ever had, his brother's in the bell jar, and Purgatory's most wanted is surfing the sewer lines, but Dean's "fine." Yeah, Bobby's not buying that for a minute.
"Good," Dean says, ready to get back to work. But if at any time Dean wants to decide that this facade is total baloney, Dean knows where Bobby is. This is one of the reasons I kinda love Bobby. Because he's awesome.
Also? Jensen looks really good.
"You wanna do couples yoga, or do you wanna get back to hunting the big bads?" Dean asks. Now how would Dean know about the therapeutic value of couples yoga? Oh, that's right. He spent a year living with a yoga instructor. :-) Lisa is still in the back of his mind, and might always be.
At a local high school, a couple of guys on the swim team have been possessed, and they proceed to eat their teammates.
Meanwhile, Sheriff Jody Mills (Sheriff Mills \o/) has had an appendectomy, and her roomie is driving her nuts with her hospital horror stories and her paranoia. (Also, can we get a definitive spelling on her name, please? I usually see it Jody, though some places, including the wiki, have it as Jodie. And I have a friend who spells it Jodi.)
Back at Bobby's, Dean (aka Gunga Din) has been on a supply run. Sam and Bobby have found a news report of a swim team that was torn apart by a "wild animal." It might be a leviathan thing, Sam says. Dean points out that Sam isn't in any condition to hunt, and Sam readily agrees. Dean doesn't want to leave Sam in the middle of a psychotic break, but Bobby presents the obvious solution. He'll stay and run the hub (phone banks! \o/) and keep an eye on Sam while Dean head off on the hunt solo. Dean is hunting solo! This situation has never struck me they way it does right now. I don't know why.
The leviathans reconnoiter. "Edgar" is apparently "Annie's" superior in whatever chain of command they have going. "Annie" points out that they're all very hungry, and "Edgar" tells her they need a better solution. Also, they have the knowledge and memories of the people they're possessing.
Later, in the hospital, "Annie" goes to see Dr. Gaines (Sheriff Jody's doctor). Ah. So apparently leviathans are similar to shapeshifters? Shapeshifters that possess people? Wha?
Dean arrives on the scene and introduces himself as Ian Anderson. (I'm much pleased that he chose a flautist.) I kinda like the CSI guy that's already on the scene. "Step lightly," he says. Dean scopes out the place and finds a smear of black goo. Not good.
Jody is awakened from her "fun painkillers" sleep to see her doctor attacking her roomie. She grabs her friend Ivy Pole and follows them down the hall.
Sam gets a call from Dean, and Lucifer is sitting at the table reading. Dean confirms that they are positive for ick, and that it looks like the same thing that Cas was bleeding. The most amazing thing about this scene? Lucifer is reading Weekly World News. I thought that was out of print. *does research* Huh. So apparently they do print a supplement for The Sun? That explains the reference to Will and Kate? Well, other than the obvious newsworthiness of it.
Dean fills Sam in on a couple of the missing kids, says he's heading back to Bobby's. It's definitely looking like a leviathan thing. Dean asks how Sam is doing. "Okay," is the standard answer, though Lucifer is having a great day.
Jody follows her doctor and her roomie into a closed part of the hospital, which happens to be the organ transplant unit. There she watches Dr. Monster Face cut open her roomie and eat her liver. Heading back to her room, she's discovered by a nurse, and promptly passes out.
The nurse gets Jody back in bed, and Dr. Monster Face, wiping his mouth with a napkin, comes in and asks why she was out of bed. Tension rises as Jody figures out just how much trouble she's in. The nurse gives her a sedative, but as soon as doctor and nurse are gone, Jody is out of bed, getting her purse, (falling on the floor from the sedative), and calling Bobby.
Sam has an argument with Lucifer, and Bobby walks in on the bag lady moment. Sam and Bobby have a little heart-to-heart, and Bobby offers Sam encouragement. "You're here with us." While Lucifer stabs Bobby in the back with a fire poker. But Bobby doesn't collapse dead, so it's obviously a hallucination.
Bobby's local phone rings, and it's Sheriff Jody. "My surgeon is a monster," she tells him. And no, that's not a metaphor or hyperbole. Heh. "When you and I killed zombies that one time, I know you handle this kind of thing." Jodydemands requests demands requests/demands immediate rescue.
So. Opium dream, or something's eating folks at the hospital. So Bobby has to head out and investigate, leaving Sam to watch the phones. (This I would kind of like to see.)
Edgar brings the swim team boys to Dr. Monster Face, who leads them back to thesecret lair under-renovation transplant unit. The plan is to set up shop in the hospital where they can feed regularly and no one would be the wiser. Place leviathans in key positions, and they can take over the joint. Edgar congratulates DMF (fka Annie) on the plan. It's exactly what "the boss" was wanting. They start with the head nurse and the hospital admin, who cannot scream because DMF severed their vocal cords. (AAAAACKKKK!!!! *SHUDDER*)
But wait. With severed cords, how will they be able to resume their positions on the hospital staff, especially with no one noticing they can't talk?
Sam is timing his field assembly of his weapon when he hears the Impala pull up. Dean's back. Dean followed the swim team kids back to town. He called Bobby, who's working his own case. Dean needs backup, and that means Sam. Sam is reluctant, but Dean just needs him to keep the engine running and wait by the back door. Getaway driver. "Just don't let Satan change my pre-sets." In other words, that's *all* Sam needs to do--keep the engine running and wait by the back door. Sam grabs his pistol and follows Dean out the door.
Bobby gets Jody out of the hospital, snark is exchanged, and he returns to the morgue to investigate.
Sam and Dean in the Impala, and Dean is saying some rather disturbing things. I mean, yeah, they make sense, and they might be something Dean would point out . . . but . . . Then the "You are never gonna be okay, Sam." That right there is so NOT Dean.
Which is because it isn't Dean. Dean comes home to find Bobby's house empty. No Sam, no Bobby. And no Sam. This is not good.
Sam and "Dean" arrive at an office building, and "Dean" declares there are five of 'em.
"Dean": Alright, c'mon.
Me: Nonononono!!! You said "keep the engine running and wait at the back door." You said no changing the pre-sets.
Sam: You sure?
"Dean": Yeah, and listen. When we get in there--
Me: YOU'RE CHANGING THE PRE-SETS!!! YOU'RE NOT DEAN!!!!
Dean goes on about how Sam is nuts and "how can you deal?"
"Dean": You think this is an office building, right?
Me: You are so NOT Dean!
"Dean": Sorry. Wrong.
Sam: Where the hell are we?
LuciDean: Oh, you think I'm Dean. Riight.
Transition to Lucifer, who proceeds to taunt Sam into shooting, and suggest Sam shoot himself. *shudder*
Bobby gets caught examining the autopsy, and he's more than a little freaked out. The leviathan soon reveals himself as such, and we get a glimpse of what they really look like. For some reason, they remind me of Maurice Sendak and the monsters in Where the Wild Things Are.
Bobby unloads a shotgun round, and it just bounces right through. Oh, this is not good. Bobby high-tails it out of there.
Dean follows Sam's GPS to theoffice building warehouse where a van is parked.
Dean enters the warehouse, and LuciDean grins smugly. "Oh, look. Another me."
Sam's freaking out. He can't make sense of reality, and points his loaded weapon at Dean. Between the real Dean and hallucination Lucifer, Sam shoots.
This next bit is amazing, and I love it.
"This discussion does not require a weapons discharge!"
Dean has been to Hell. He knows about Hell. He knows about torture. He knows that Hell torture, and Hell pain feels different. (As Alistair said, it's just so "concrete" up here.) There's a difference between Hell torture and Hell pain and pain in the corporeal life. Dean is going to use his own personal knowledge of Hell to get Sam through his experience.
Sam's cut hand. "This is real," Dean says. "Not a year ago, not in Hell. Now. I was with you when you cut it, I sewed it up. Look." And Dean presses on the wound and the pain is real, canceling out the hallucination. "This is different, right? Than the crap that's tearing at your walnut. I'm different. Right?"
"Yeah, I think," Sam says, and pulls his hand away and gives Dean the gun, and presses on the injury himself.
This next part I just love to pieces, so I'm just gonna quote it here:
"Hey. I am your flesh and blood brother, okay? I'm the only one who can legitimately kick your ass in real time. You got away. We got you out, Sammy. Believe in that. Believe me, okay? You gotta believe me. You gotta make it stone number one and build on it. You understand?"
And I cannot help but think of the verse that refers to Jesus as the chief cornerstone: with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. In him the whole building is joined together (Ephesians 2:20-21)
Saint Dean. Stone #1. And I can't help but think back to some of the messianic parallels I've seen in Dean over the seasons. Dying in his brother's place. Being betrayed by his brother. Saving the world in a totally unexpected way. Chosen warrior for Good. And now Stone #1 that will save a crumbling Sam.
And this doesn't even take into account the interest all the baddies have had in him over the years. Or of being the Michael Sword.
Now, just to be clear, I'm NOT saying that Dean is Show's version of the Second Coming, or anything like that. That would be getting too literal. But this just seems to confirm my theory that Dean is in fact the show's chosen warrior for Good, whose mission it is to save his brother and save the world. Personification of Messiah? No. Allegory of a messiah figure? Yes. At least not beyond the realm of possibility.
Dean is Sam's cornerstone, and that brings Sam back to reality.
Bobby calls Sam, tells him the sheriff was right, and the hospital is definitely their kind of thing. Black ooze indicates leviathan. They plan to regroup back at the house.
But when Sam and Dean get their, the house is not much more than a shell of charred wood and embers. NOOOOOOOO!!!!! Not Bobby's house!!!!!! *gasp* O.O
And no sign of Bobby.
Sam and Dean split up to search the scrapyard, and Dean makes a heart wrenching call to Bobby. "I ca . . . If you're gone, I swear, I am going to strap my Beautiful Mind brother into the car, and I'm going to drive us off the pier. You asked how I was doin'? Well, not good. Now you said you'd be here. Where are you?"
Oh, Dean. *wraps him in fuzzy blankets and gives him cookies*
Sam meets up with LeviathanEdgar. Menacing Baddie things are said, and Dean shoots him in the head with a shotgun. To no effect. Hm. Instant repair. This must be the solution to the vocal cords things from earlier.
Edgar throws Dean into a car, and as Dean falls, his leg snaps. Agh!!!
Sam clobbers Edgar, and Dean drops a car on him. But not before Edgar knocks Sam out cold with a pipe to the side of the head. Edgar is squooshed, Sam is unconscious, and Dean is crippled.
"Sammy, c'mon, now. I'm the one with the broken leg. You gotta carry me. Sam?" Dean is desperate and needs his brother. But things are very dire, so he calls 911.
In the ambulance, Sam is declared to have head trauma. Lucifer is back, and admits that he's not real. But it doesn't matter; he's not going anywhere. Sam has a pooka! Like Harvey. Or John Creighton's Harvey, Scorpius, in Farscape. Used judiciously, this could be very enlightening. Only I'm thinking Lucifer will be much more along the lines of Harvey!Scorpius, rather than Elwood Dowd's rabbit Harvey.
Anyway, pooka!
Sam seizes, and the paramedic radios in to Sioux Falls General Hospital. You know, where the baddies are setting up shop. Dean desperately asks to be taken anywhere else, and gets a needle full of sedation for his trouble.
Meanwhile, leviathan goo reabsorbs back into the body, and I'm left on the edge of my seat wanting to watch the next episode RIGHT NOW!
Oh, Show. You raise my blood pressure.
Then . . . Sheriff Mills! Sam before and after re-souling. Lucifer. Sam cut his hand. Tummy monsters. Leviathan kills Cas, tosses Dean and Bobby around, and in general is extremely unpleasant and icky.
Now . . .
Picking up immediately from where we left off. There are apparently lots of leviathans crammed into Jimmy (poor guy). He's looking kinda woozy and is bleeding black ick. He threatens a "we'll be back" and stumbles down the hall.
Meanwhile, Sam is being throttled by a hallucination. Lucifer snarks, "You come back, I'm sorry, with no soul, like some petty American Psycho until Saint Dean glues you back together again . . . " Take note of that wording. "Saint Dean." Rather in keeping with the on-going theme. More on that in a moment.
Dean interrupts the hallucination, and the three of them (Dean, Bobby, and Sam) go after Cas/Jimmy/Leviathan . . .
Ooh! Leviathan heads toward open water. Of course! Because leviathans are sea creatures. Nice call! They want to stretch out in their natural habitat.
Team Free Will arrives in time to see the water turn black and watch the leviathans escape.
Title splat. We now know what that is supposed to be, yeah? The icky ichor of an exploding leviathan vessel, or exploding leviathan.
Okay, so the leviathans are using the water system to get around. Great. :-P
Cas's coat washes ashore, and Dean picks it up, mourning his friend. He rolls it up to take with him, and you know, you just KNOW, he's going to stash it carefully in the back of the Impala as a treasure from a friend.
(And apparently, that's exactly what Jensen intended to convey when he played the scene. Found this out later, and am totally not surprised.)
Show! Your music is back! Show! "Old Black Water"!!!!! YOU LOVE ME!!!! Seriously. This is one of my favorite songs. Especially the a cappella part. Rather a disturbing use of the song though, yeah? But very appropriate. *shudder*
So. The leviathans are using the waterways to possess people. Huh. Um, okay.
Sam's dreaming Lucifer's voice, but it's really Dean waking Sam up after a major power nap. "Here. Hydrate. And protein--ate." Oh, Dean. I do love you. Hee!
Dean and Bobby treat and re-dress Sam's hand. The leviathans are in the wind (or rather, the waterways) for the moment. In the meantime, Dean wants to know what's going on in Sam's gourd. Sam explains that it's not just flashbacks, that he's hallucinating now. Dean is not happy.
Dean pours himself and Bobby a drink. The scene that follows is one of the most affecting in the ep. Lucifer is there, prompting Sam's answers, and Dean realizes that Sam is hallucinating right now. Dean insists that Lucifer isn't real. "He says the same thing about you," Sam tells Dean. It's chilling.
Leviathan!girl is channel surfing. The news tells of a random unexpected eclipse. And a commercial for Biggerson's pie bar. "It's like a salad bar, but with pie." We totally need a scene of Dean at the pie bar. She also gets her intel from a Dr. Sexy commercial. That right there should scare us.
Back at Bobby's, Sam is breaking down his gun. Bobby is pleased that Sam's not curled up under the sink. Dean is disconcerted that Sam is just silently field stripping his weapon. Dean thinks ahead and activates the GPS in Sam's cell phone.
Bobby asks Dean how Dean's doing. Because Bobby recognizes that this is a partnership, and that Dean needs attention, too. Dean, however, disagrees, as he believes anything he's going through is of lesser import than what Sam's going through--maybe this is the kind of crazy you can't fix. Besides, Dean keeps his marbles in a lead box. He's fine. Of course, Bobby says. Dean just lost one of the best friends he ever had, his brother's in the bell jar, and Purgatory's most wanted is surfing the sewer lines, but Dean's "fine." Yeah, Bobby's not buying that for a minute.
"Good," Dean says, ready to get back to work. But if at any time Dean wants to decide that this facade is total baloney, Dean knows where Bobby is. This is one of the reasons I kinda love Bobby. Because he's awesome.
Also? Jensen looks really good.
"You wanna do couples yoga, or do you wanna get back to hunting the big bads?" Dean asks. Now how would Dean know about the therapeutic value of couples yoga? Oh, that's right. He spent a year living with a yoga instructor. :-) Lisa is still in the back of his mind, and might always be.
At a local high school, a couple of guys on the swim team have been possessed, and they proceed to eat their teammates.
Meanwhile, Sheriff Jody Mills (Sheriff Mills \o/) has had an appendectomy, and her roomie is driving her nuts with her hospital horror stories and her paranoia. (Also, can we get a definitive spelling on her name, please? I usually see it Jody, though some places, including the wiki, have it as Jodie. And I have a friend who spells it Jodi.)
Back at Bobby's, Dean (aka Gunga Din) has been on a supply run. Sam and Bobby have found a news report of a swim team that was torn apart by a "wild animal." It might be a leviathan thing, Sam says. Dean points out that Sam isn't in any condition to hunt, and Sam readily agrees. Dean doesn't want to leave Sam in the middle of a psychotic break, but Bobby presents the obvious solution. He'll stay and run the hub (phone banks! \o/) and keep an eye on Sam while Dean head off on the hunt solo. Dean is hunting solo! This situation has never struck me they way it does right now. I don't know why.
The leviathans reconnoiter. "Edgar" is apparently "Annie's" superior in whatever chain of command they have going. "Annie" points out that they're all very hungry, and "Edgar" tells her they need a better solution. Also, they have the knowledge and memories of the people they're possessing.
Later, in the hospital, "Annie" goes to see Dr. Gaines (Sheriff Jody's doctor). Ah. So apparently leviathans are similar to shapeshifters? Shapeshifters that possess people? Wha?
Dean arrives on the scene and introduces himself as Ian Anderson. (I'm much pleased that he chose a flautist.) I kinda like the CSI guy that's already on the scene. "Step lightly," he says. Dean scopes out the place and finds a smear of black goo. Not good.
Jody is awakened from her "fun painkillers" sleep to see her doctor attacking her roomie. She grabs her friend Ivy Pole and follows them down the hall.
Sam gets a call from Dean, and Lucifer is sitting at the table reading. Dean confirms that they are positive for ick, and that it looks like the same thing that Cas was bleeding. The most amazing thing about this scene? Lucifer is reading Weekly World News. I thought that was out of print. *does research* Huh. So apparently they do print a supplement for The Sun? That explains the reference to Will and Kate? Well, other than the obvious newsworthiness of it.
Dean fills Sam in on a couple of the missing kids, says he's heading back to Bobby's. It's definitely looking like a leviathan thing. Dean asks how Sam is doing. "Okay," is the standard answer, though Lucifer is having a great day.
Jody follows her doctor and her roomie into a closed part of the hospital, which happens to be the organ transplant unit. There she watches Dr. Monster Face cut open her roomie and eat her liver. Heading back to her room, she's discovered by a nurse, and promptly passes out.
The nurse gets Jody back in bed, and Dr. Monster Face, wiping his mouth with a napkin, comes in and asks why she was out of bed. Tension rises as Jody figures out just how much trouble she's in. The nurse gives her a sedative, but as soon as doctor and nurse are gone, Jody is out of bed, getting her purse, (falling on the floor from the sedative), and calling Bobby.
Sam has an argument with Lucifer, and Bobby walks in on the bag lady moment. Sam and Bobby have a little heart-to-heart, and Bobby offers Sam encouragement. "You're here with us." While Lucifer stabs Bobby in the back with a fire poker. But Bobby doesn't collapse dead, so it's obviously a hallucination.
Bobby's local phone rings, and it's Sheriff Jody. "My surgeon is a monster," she tells him. And no, that's not a metaphor or hyperbole. Heh. "When you and I killed zombies that one time, I know you handle this kind of thing." Jody
So. Opium dream, or something's eating folks at the hospital. So Bobby has to head out and investigate, leaving Sam to watch the phones. (This I would kind of like to see.)
Edgar brings the swim team boys to Dr. Monster Face, who leads them back to the
But wait. With severed cords, how will they be able to resume their positions on the hospital staff, especially with no one noticing they can't talk?
Sam is timing his field assembly of his weapon when he hears the Impala pull up. Dean's back. Dean followed the swim team kids back to town. He called Bobby, who's working his own case. Dean needs backup, and that means Sam. Sam is reluctant, but Dean just needs him to keep the engine running and wait by the back door. Getaway driver. "Just don't let Satan change my pre-sets." In other words, that's *all* Sam needs to do--keep the engine running and wait by the back door. Sam grabs his pistol and follows Dean out the door.
Bobby gets Jody out of the hospital, snark is exchanged, and he returns to the morgue to investigate.
Sam and Dean in the Impala, and Dean is saying some rather disturbing things. I mean, yeah, they make sense, and they might be something Dean would point out . . . but . . . Then the "You are never gonna be okay, Sam." That right there is so NOT Dean.
Which is because it isn't Dean. Dean comes home to find Bobby's house empty. No Sam, no Bobby. And no Sam. This is not good.
Sam and "Dean" arrive at an office building, and "Dean" declares there are five of 'em.
"Dean": Alright, c'mon.
Me: Nonononono!!! You said "keep the engine running and wait at the back door." You said no changing the pre-sets.
Sam: You sure?
"Dean": Yeah, and listen. When we get in there--
Me: YOU'RE CHANGING THE PRE-SETS!!! YOU'RE NOT DEAN!!!!
Dean goes on about how Sam is nuts and "how can you deal?"
"Dean": You think this is an office building, right?
Me: You are so NOT Dean!
"Dean": Sorry. Wrong.
Sam: Where the hell are we?
LuciDean: Oh, you think I'm Dean. Riight.
Transition to Lucifer, who proceeds to taunt Sam into shooting, and suggest Sam shoot himself. *shudder*
Bobby gets caught examining the autopsy, and he's more than a little freaked out. The leviathan soon reveals himself as such, and we get a glimpse of what they really look like. For some reason, they remind me of Maurice Sendak and the monsters in Where the Wild Things Are.
Bobby unloads a shotgun round, and it just bounces right through. Oh, this is not good. Bobby high-tails it out of there.
Dean follows Sam's GPS to the
Dean enters the warehouse, and LuciDean grins smugly. "Oh, look. Another me."
Sam's freaking out. He can't make sense of reality, and points his loaded weapon at Dean. Between the real Dean and hallucination Lucifer, Sam shoots.
This next bit is amazing, and I love it.
"This discussion does not require a weapons discharge!"
Dean has been to Hell. He knows about Hell. He knows about torture. He knows that Hell torture, and Hell pain feels different. (As Alistair said, it's just so "concrete" up here.) There's a difference between Hell torture and Hell pain and pain in the corporeal life. Dean is going to use his own personal knowledge of Hell to get Sam through his experience.
Sam's cut hand. "This is real," Dean says. "Not a year ago, not in Hell. Now. I was with you when you cut it, I sewed it up. Look." And Dean presses on the wound and the pain is real, canceling out the hallucination. "This is different, right? Than the crap that's tearing at your walnut. I'm different. Right?"
"Yeah, I think," Sam says, and pulls his hand away and gives Dean the gun, and presses on the injury himself.
This next part I just love to pieces, so I'm just gonna quote it here:
"Hey. I am your flesh and blood brother, okay? I'm the only one who can legitimately kick your ass in real time. You got away. We got you out, Sammy. Believe in that. Believe me, okay? You gotta believe me. You gotta make it stone number one and build on it. You understand?"
And I cannot help but think of the verse that refers to Jesus as the chief cornerstone: with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. In him the whole building is joined together (Ephesians 2:20-21)
Saint Dean. Stone #1. And I can't help but think back to some of the messianic parallels I've seen in Dean over the seasons. Dying in his brother's place. Being betrayed by his brother. Saving the world in a totally unexpected way. Chosen warrior for Good. And now Stone #1 that will save a crumbling Sam.
And this doesn't even take into account the interest all the baddies have had in him over the years. Or of being the Michael Sword.
Now, just to be clear, I'm NOT saying that Dean is Show's version of the Second Coming, or anything like that. That would be getting too literal. But this just seems to confirm my theory that Dean is in fact the show's chosen warrior for Good, whose mission it is to save his brother and save the world. Personification of Messiah? No. Allegory of a messiah figure? Yes. At least not beyond the realm of possibility.
Dean is Sam's cornerstone, and that brings Sam back to reality.
Bobby calls Sam, tells him the sheriff was right, and the hospital is definitely their kind of thing. Black ooze indicates leviathan. They plan to regroup back at the house.
But when Sam and Dean get their, the house is not much more than a shell of charred wood and embers. NOOOOOOOO!!!!! Not Bobby's house!!!!!! *gasp* O.O
And no sign of Bobby.
Sam and Dean split up to search the scrapyard, and Dean makes a heart wrenching call to Bobby. "I ca . . . If you're gone, I swear, I am going to strap my Beautiful Mind brother into the car, and I'm going to drive us off the pier. You asked how I was doin'? Well, not good. Now you said you'd be here. Where are you?"
Oh, Dean. *wraps him in fuzzy blankets and gives him cookies*
Sam meets up with LeviathanEdgar. Menacing Baddie things are said, and Dean shoots him in the head with a shotgun. To no effect. Hm. Instant repair. This must be the solution to the vocal cords things from earlier.
Edgar throws Dean into a car, and as Dean falls, his leg snaps. Agh!!!
Sam clobbers Edgar, and Dean drops a car on him. But not before Edgar knocks Sam out cold with a pipe to the side of the head. Edgar is squooshed, Sam is unconscious, and Dean is crippled.
"Sammy, c'mon, now. I'm the one with the broken leg. You gotta carry me. Sam?" Dean is desperate and needs his brother. But things are very dire, so he calls 911.
In the ambulance, Sam is declared to have head trauma. Lucifer is back, and admits that he's not real. But it doesn't matter; he's not going anywhere. Sam has a pooka! Like Harvey. Or John Creighton's Harvey, Scorpius, in Farscape. Used judiciously, this could be very enlightening. Only I'm thinking Lucifer will be much more along the lines of Harvey!Scorpius, rather than Elwood Dowd's rabbit Harvey.
Anyway, pooka!
Sam seizes, and the paramedic radios in to Sioux Falls General Hospital. You know, where the baddies are setting up shop. Dean desperately asks to be taken anywhere else, and gets a needle full of sedation for his trouble.
Meanwhile, leviathan goo reabsorbs back into the body, and I'm left on the edge of my seat wanting to watch the next episode RIGHT NOW!
Oh, Show. You raise my blood pressure.
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Date: 2011-10-08 09:42 pm (UTC)I did adore that whole conversation in the warehouse and I enjoy Sam having a head!Lucifer the way Baltar has a head!Six in BSG (or, as you astutely point out, the way John has a head!Scorpy in Farscape, which I need to watch more of sometime). And I cannot communicate my love for the whole this-world-is-real-because-it-hurts thing. I don't know why, but that totally pushes my buttons.
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Date: 2011-10-10 04:28 pm (UTC)Because, dude.
*flappyhands*