First Impressions: 5.11 Sam, Interrupted
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raloriaA new season and a new set of episode reviews. Enjoy!
With each of these reviews I'll include 2 cropped caps from the episode. One of Dean and one of Sam. I decided to do something different and make them b&w.
Consider these fanart. If you take either of them, please give credit. :)
I'm a bit late with this, sorry. Since I've got my comm![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
spn_westcoast to monitor and discuss the episodes as they air with other viewers, I don't get to take notes during the initial showing anymore. So these notes (which are a bit long - sorry!) were made during my 3rd viewing of the eppy.
Note: "==============" signifies a commercial break.
Recap: Meg and the hellhouds, Jo gets attacked, Jo & Ellen die, Dean ranting from “Yellow Fever” about them being crazy, insane people for hunting ghosts, Sam fighting hunters, showdown with Lucifer who tells Sam he'll need that pent up rage.
We're at Glenwood Springs Psychiatric Hospital in Ketchum, OK. Aka as Riverview in Vancouver. Hee!
Patient, Susan doesn't want to take her pills because then she'll sleep and the monster will come and kill her like it did her roommate, Annie. The doctor, assures her there is no such thing as monsters and that Annie's death was a suicide.
Later on it's lights out and Susan doesn't go to bed.
Good reason, too....'cause something is trying to come in through the ventilation vent in her room. She screams, gets attacked, and a nurse comes in later to finder her wrists slashed.
The boys are sitting in the same doctor's office now that we saw before.
Wait...did that form say Edward Van Halen? *gigglesnorts*
Apparently the boys are Eddie and his brother Alex and were referred there by a Dr. Barbar. Oh, boys....*facepalms*
Dean/Eddie goes on about Sam/Alex being the crazy one.
Sam says he feels fine besides being a little depressed about starting the Apocalypse. The guys tell the whole truth...Lilith, stopping Lucifer, hunting with an angel named Castiel, even Ruby and the demon blood.
Dean defends Sam, saying the Apocalypse wasn't his fault.
“My brother's not evil. He was just....high.” Hee!
You get the impression Dean is slightly amused that in telling the truth that they're considered crazy. Sam looks a little less happy about having his past mistakes brought up yet again. Poor Sam.
I love the little smile the boys share when they find out they're both being admitted. Hee! :)
Dean does his usual tough-guy bravado with the sweet nurse, but she does a thorough examination on both him and Sam. Yikes! Love the facial expressions and awkward discussion afterwards.
Dean looks around at the other patients, clearly not comfortable in this situation and we learn this whole hunt wasn't his idea, it was Sam's. They're here for an old hunting buddy of John's, Martin, who saved his life numerous times. We hear about Albuquerque but never do learn what happened there or what drove Martin to enter the hospital.
Sam admits he took this job so they could keep busy because the past few weeks Dean's been worrying him.
Dean says Ellen & Jo's deaths were a tragedy, but he's not going to dwell on it, he's moving on, which is just what Sam's concerned about. We're back to Sam's old fear from S2 of Dean not dealing with his feelings and instead bottling them up tight.
The conversation ends quickly when they spot Martin.
He comments on how big they've gotten. Hee!
He admits in the past he could've taken care of this himself, but clearly he needs help now. There's been no sightings of whatever is killing the patients, but Martin's sure there's something there, he just doesn't know what.
Sam asks if he's checked out any of the dead bodies and this really bothers Martin. He can barely even utter the word “bodies”.
The friendly Dr. approaches, and invites them all to the group session....all except Dean.
Dean's little “What? Why” really shows that he doesn't want to be separated from Sam and even in the background you can sense Sam's uneasiness. The doctor points out their “dangerously co-dependent” relationship and decides they should spend some time apart.
Sam sits in the group session and one patient, Ted, goes on about the monster that's attacking people. He saw it when it attacked Susan. Again the doctor preaches that monsters do not exist, but Sam's intrigued...they've got a witness.
Dean, meanwhile meets his doctor, the very pretty Dr. Erica Cartwright. He agrees to talk to her, but he's got questions of his own and after a dead-on Hannibal Lector impersonation by Dean (bravo! Jensen) they're trading off questions. It's a nice little scene in which we learn what's going on with Dean. He's only getting 3 or 4 hours of sleep every couple of nights, has some 50 drinks a week, and has never had a long-term relationship (no real surprise there, but what about Cassie?). In turn, he tells her about hunting demons and ghosts and what the signs are for spotting them. She wraps things up by wanting to talk about his dad. Uh, oh....
Sam catches up with Dean in the hallway and Dean's looking a little ragged having just been “thraped” as he puts it. Sam tells him about the lead and Dean's more than eager to get the case over and get out of there. Dean turns around and meets Wendy who promptly kisses him. Mmmm....DeanKissing..... :D
Suddenly Dean's not all that eager to leave. Heh.
Sam: “Dude. You cannot hit that.”
Dean: “Oh, so torn.”
It's later on and it looks like Sam's fashioned a lock pick out of a small metal spring. Clever!
Dean's been monitoring the nurses shifts and it's time to visit Ted.
They're almost to the room when they hear screaming within. Ted's being attacked!
Dean tells Sam to hurry up in picking the lock and Sam fires back with a very angry “Back off!”.
It's all for naught, 'cause Ted's now hanging by a sheet wrapped around an overhead pipe.
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The boys are in the morgue to check out Ted's body.
Mmmm....single layers finally! \0/
*stares....drools....lingers*
Oh, where were we?
Sam's feeling around Ted's head and finds a small hole in the back of his neck.
He sticks a whole long q-tip in there, surmising that the hole goes all the way into the brain.
Sam quickly volunteers to cut open the head to find out while Dean goes outside to keep watch. Amazing how Sam is the one who's no longer squeamish round dead, gruesome bodies. He's come a long way from nearly puking over a dead vampire's head in Bloodlust. On the other side of the coin, Dean seems more than happy to let Sam take over in these matters. The effects of his time in Hell, maybe?
Dean soon hears someone, rushes inside to tell Sam, they put the skull back together (cool effects & makeup, btw), and they finish up just in time for the sweet nurse to come in, wondering what they're up to.
Cornered, Sam fidgets until Dean comes up with a solution....turn on the crazy by dropping his pants, wiggling, and yelling “Pudding!” LOL!
It works of course, and the nurse ushers them out of the room with Dean mouthing to Sam that “Crazy works”. Heh.
They report back to Martin, who has some interesting artwork he made of clowns hanging on the wall. Martin's got an idea of what this thing is now...a wraith. He's even got a cool drawing of one in his journal. Good news is that silver will kill one, bad news is they can look human and only show their real form in a mirror.
We see Dean hanging out by the nurses station and monitoring the security mirror. Dr. Cartwright comes by to inquire what he's up to and ask why he has to hunt monsters. Dean discloses that he has to save everyone from the end of the world. She marvels at how he can carry that weight on his shoulders, or even get up each morning. Dean really doesn't have an answer for that and you can see he struggles with it. The good doctor walks past and Dean sees the wraith reflected in the mirror instead! Eeek!
Sam's found some silver plated knives for the 3 of them. Wendy comes by again and this time plants a kiss on a very unwilling Sam. She proclaims to want him now 'cause he's “larger”. Heh. Martin bows out of the hunt. He's too scared to do this anymore despite wanting to help out. The brothers are on their own and take opposite wings of the building. We follow Sam as he stalks the hallway and spots the doctor approaching. He jumps the Dr., cutting his arm a bit in the process. Orderlies step in, but Sam takes them out with a determined fury of moves. Soon he's about to kill the Dr., when Martin holds him back, pointing out that the wound isn't crackling like it would on a wraith. Sam drops the knife in horror.
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We return from the break with Sam in his room, blissed out on the happy drug cocktail they gave him. Dean comes in and proclaims Sam always was “a happy drunk”. Sam pulls on Dean's arm and tells him the doctor wasn't the wraith and then he wonders if maybe Dean's finally cracked and really gone crazy, that he was even kind of crazy since coming back from Hell and even sort of before that. Dean's not real amused and says it was simply a mistake and he'll find the wraith. Sam reassures Dean that he loves him (awww!) and then tweaks Dean's nose with a loud “Boop!” LOL! Dean is still not amused.
Dean's looking down the hallways and runs into Dr. Cartwright. She's worried about him and he gives the patented Dean Winchester “I'm fine!”. She says he's carrying around too much guilt, too much weight is on his shoulders and that it's killing him. He can't save everyone....in fact he can't save anyone these days. Her demeanor changes from one of compassion, to attack, pointing out all the ways in which he's failed: Ellen & Jo's deaths, Sam killing Lilith, and breaking the first seal. “All you do is fail.” She tells him there's no way he can save the world which has Dean demanding to know who she is. An orderly in the hallway tells Dean to settle down. Dean's still staring down the doctor and asks the guy who she is, to which the orderly says there's nobody there at all. The doctor tells him she's not real, but all in his head because he really is going crazy. Dean finally sees there isn't anyone there and it scares him. He wanders down the hall, seeing people's reflections as monstrous and grotesque. Coming to a locked door, he cowers against it, alone and as terrified as we've ever seen him.
The good doctor comes to Sam's room. Sam's no longer drugged out of his mind and apologizes to the doctor and says he's had a moment of clarity....that there's no such thing as monsters. The doctor says monsters aren't Sam's problem, it's his overwhelming anger. He attacked like a man possessed and this really unsettles Sam and he asks for a 2nd chance. It's given to him, but he's warned that if there's another incident he'll put Sam in a place for violent patients that will much less forgiving.
Sam enters the main room and finds Dean, but he starts pointing out that it wasn't the demon blood, it was Sam's lying and arrogance. Soon he's surrounded by angry patients, all telling him it's all his fault. Sam lashes out, but in reality nobody's there. The orderlies drag him off, yelling and screaming, while a dejected Dean sits nearby. He doesn't even seem to notice Sam being taken away as he mutters, “What's happening?”
Dean sneaks into Martin's room and he's figured out that “Crazy is the clue”. Despite his scattered brain (and Martin has to keep him focused), he manages to work out a possible cause to what's happening. He can see himself and Sam eventually going crazy because of what they've seen, but not both at the same time. Somehow the wraith poisoned them with something to make them go crazy. His first guess is Wendy because she kissed both him and Sam.
Martin & Dean walk to Wendy's room, with Dean carefully trying not step on any cracks in the floor. Wendy screams and they break in the door to see the sweet nurse leaning over Wendy's body. Her reflection shows the face of the wraith and Dean questions if it's real. She assures him it is after withdrawing her spiky protrusion that eminates from her wrist.
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The nurse attacks Martin, sending him out into the hall so she can punch Dean quite a few times. Ouch! Martin comes back in and manages to cut her palm with the silver knife. She runs out and Martin finds out Wendy's still alive. He urges Dean to go after the wraith, but Dean is really losing it and says he can't. Martin tells him he has to, which gets Dean moving as 2 orderlies come in and tackle Martin. Dean staggers down the hall, his vision warping everything around him, but he carries on.
The nurse enters a padded room where Sam is strapped down to a bed. He finally sees her in the mirror and she points out how careless the boys were about proclaiming their hunting ways. They were easy targets and all she had to do was touch them. She's all gleeful over how yummy crazy brains are. Sam yells that she did this to him, but it wasn't all her.
“I helped, but that rage? No, no, no, no. That was all you. I don't make crazy, I just crank up what's already there. You build your own hell, but I give you the Legos.” She's about to put her spike into his neck when Dean bursts in. He's not to steady, but he also “crazy...so what the hell?” They fight with her ultimately holding him against a wall and aiming the spike right at his forehead. Dean grabs hold of the spike and breaks it off. She screams as blood gushes from it and Dean looks like he's nearly going to puke. LOL But he regains composure long enough to grab the silver knife and plunge it into her heart. She slides down the wall, dead and things return to normal for the boys. Dean undos the buckles holding Sam as an alarm goes off.
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The boys run out of the hospital and head to where the Impala's parked.
But before they can hit the road, Sam admits the nurse was right.....he is angry, has been nearly his whole life, at their dad, Dean, Lilith, and now Lucifer. He can't blame it on Ruby or the demon blood anymore because it's just him. “I'm mad all the time and I don't know why!” Dean tells him to stop, that it doesn't matter. He has to bury those feelings, so they can keep going and not end up like Martin. He asks if Sam's with him and Sam answers that he is. They get in the car and drive off, but Sam still looks troubled over what he's learned about himself.
So happy to have the show back after a long hiatus. In a way this episode was very intimate because the whole hour is in one setting and while the brothers were still on a hunt, they end up dealing with a lot of their own personal issues. There's also Martin, a once great hunter reduced to a frightened and nervous patient. Even Dean recognizes that he and Sam might wind up the same way. I liked the monster of the week. A wraith is something different and unique and seeing that deadly spike was quite unexpected.
Then we have Sam and Dean. Their issues, enhanced by the wraith cause them to see things that aren't there and deal with their own individual emotional baggage. Sam's still dealing with his guilt over the apocalypse and realizes he's got a serious anger problem. Dean is feeling the pressure of having to save the world and blames himself for everything that's gone wrong. A lot of what the boys go through is the same things they've been experiencing for a long time. Dean's still this broken, weight-of-the-world-on-his-shoulder, man with daddy issues hero. He doesn't deal with his emotions or his problems, he doesn't have time for that. The world's at stake and he can't dwell on his failings. He kills the next bad thing in his path and moves on. Sam has always been the one to analyze his feelings, express them and get them out in the open. We've seen this from S1 and his resentment towards his father and the hunting life, but it kicked into high gear after he was brought back to life in AHBL. The Sam that returned from the dead was immediately ready to enact his revenge, to kill without question. It only intensified once Dean made his deal and went to hell. The brothers are working together and it almost feels like old times, but there's still that slight tension, that slight bit of doubt between them. Dean especially is still not sure if Sam's going to make the right decision and not say yes to Lucifer. Sam is still recognizing that Dean is different since his time in hell. However, the main caring bond between them is still there and I believe that's what will continue to hold them together as a team, but will the growing seed of doubt eventually drive them apart again?
As expected, I liked the episode. The mix of humor, emotion, and scariness was good and on a shallow note...damn, it was nice to see the boys in single layers of clothing! Teehee! I'm already ready for the next eppy. :)
With each of these reviews I'll include 2 cropped caps from the episode. One of Dean and one of Sam. I decided to do something different and make them b&w.
Consider these fanart. If you take either of them, please give credit. :)
I'm a bit late with this, sorry. Since I've got my comm
spn_westcoast to monitor and discuss the episodes as they air with other viewers, I don't get to take notes during the initial showing anymore. So these notes (which are a bit long - sorry!) were made during my 3rd viewing of the eppy.Note: "==============" signifies a commercial break.
Recap: Meg and the hellhouds, Jo gets attacked, Jo & Ellen die, Dean ranting from “Yellow Fever” about them being crazy, insane people for hunting ghosts, Sam fighting hunters, showdown with Lucifer who tells Sam he'll need that pent up rage.
We're at Glenwood Springs Psychiatric Hospital in Ketchum, OK. Aka as Riverview in Vancouver. Hee!
Patient, Susan doesn't want to take her pills because then she'll sleep and the monster will come and kill her like it did her roommate, Annie. The doctor, assures her there is no such thing as monsters and that Annie's death was a suicide.
Later on it's lights out and Susan doesn't go to bed.
Good reason, too....'cause something is trying to come in through the ventilation vent in her room. She screams, gets attacked, and a nurse comes in later to finder her wrists slashed.
The boys are sitting in the same doctor's office now that we saw before.
Wait...did that form say Edward Van Halen? *gigglesnorts*
Apparently the boys are Eddie and his brother Alex and were referred there by a Dr. Barbar. Oh, boys....*facepalms*
Dean/Eddie goes on about Sam/Alex being the crazy one.
Sam says he feels fine besides being a little depressed about starting the Apocalypse. The guys tell the whole truth...Lilith, stopping Lucifer, hunting with an angel named Castiel, even Ruby and the demon blood.
Dean defends Sam, saying the Apocalypse wasn't his fault.
“My brother's not evil. He was just....high.” Hee!
You get the impression Dean is slightly amused that in telling the truth that they're considered crazy. Sam looks a little less happy about having his past mistakes brought up yet again. Poor Sam.
I love the little smile the boys share when they find out they're both being admitted. Hee! :)
Dean does his usual tough-guy bravado with the sweet nurse, but she does a thorough examination on both him and Sam. Yikes! Love the facial expressions and awkward discussion afterwards.
Dean looks around at the other patients, clearly not comfortable in this situation and we learn this whole hunt wasn't his idea, it was Sam's. They're here for an old hunting buddy of John's, Martin, who saved his life numerous times. We hear about Albuquerque but never do learn what happened there or what drove Martin to enter the hospital.
Sam admits he took this job so they could keep busy because the past few weeks Dean's been worrying him.
Dean says Ellen & Jo's deaths were a tragedy, but he's not going to dwell on it, he's moving on, which is just what Sam's concerned about. We're back to Sam's old fear from S2 of Dean not dealing with his feelings and instead bottling them up tight.
The conversation ends quickly when they spot Martin.
He comments on how big they've gotten. Hee!
He admits in the past he could've taken care of this himself, but clearly he needs help now. There's been no sightings of whatever is killing the patients, but Martin's sure there's something there, he just doesn't know what.
Sam asks if he's checked out any of the dead bodies and this really bothers Martin. He can barely even utter the word “bodies”.
The friendly Dr. approaches, and invites them all to the group session....all except Dean.
Dean's little “What? Why” really shows that he doesn't want to be separated from Sam and even in the background you can sense Sam's uneasiness. The doctor points out their “dangerously co-dependent” relationship and decides they should spend some time apart.
Sam sits in the group session and one patient, Ted, goes on about the monster that's attacking people. He saw it when it attacked Susan. Again the doctor preaches that monsters do not exist, but Sam's intrigued...they've got a witness.
Dean, meanwhile meets his doctor, the very pretty Dr. Erica Cartwright. He agrees to talk to her, but he's got questions of his own and after a dead-on Hannibal Lector impersonation by Dean (bravo! Jensen) they're trading off questions. It's a nice little scene in which we learn what's going on with Dean. He's only getting 3 or 4 hours of sleep every couple of nights, has some 50 drinks a week, and has never had a long-term relationship (no real surprise there, but what about Cassie?). In turn, he tells her about hunting demons and ghosts and what the signs are for spotting them. She wraps things up by wanting to talk about his dad. Uh, oh....
Sam catches up with Dean in the hallway and Dean's looking a little ragged having just been “thraped” as he puts it. Sam tells him about the lead and Dean's more than eager to get the case over and get out of there. Dean turns around and meets Wendy who promptly kisses him. Mmmm....DeanKissing..... :D
Suddenly Dean's not all that eager to leave. Heh.
Sam: “Dude. You cannot hit that.”
Dean: “Oh, so torn.”
It's later on and it looks like Sam's fashioned a lock pick out of a small metal spring. Clever!
Dean's been monitoring the nurses shifts and it's time to visit Ted.
They're almost to the room when they hear screaming within. Ted's being attacked!
Dean tells Sam to hurry up in picking the lock and Sam fires back with a very angry “Back off!”.
It's all for naught, 'cause Ted's now hanging by a sheet wrapped around an overhead pipe.
==============================
The boys are in the morgue to check out Ted's body.
Mmmm....single layers finally! \0/
*stares....drools....lingers*
Oh, where were we?
Sam's feeling around Ted's head and finds a small hole in the back of his neck.
He sticks a whole long q-tip in there, surmising that the hole goes all the way into the brain.
Sam quickly volunteers to cut open the head to find out while Dean goes outside to keep watch. Amazing how Sam is the one who's no longer squeamish round dead, gruesome bodies. He's come a long way from nearly puking over a dead vampire's head in Bloodlust. On the other side of the coin, Dean seems more than happy to let Sam take over in these matters. The effects of his time in Hell, maybe?
Dean soon hears someone, rushes inside to tell Sam, they put the skull back together (cool effects & makeup, btw), and they finish up just in time for the sweet nurse to come in, wondering what they're up to.
Cornered, Sam fidgets until Dean comes up with a solution....turn on the crazy by dropping his pants, wiggling, and yelling “Pudding!” LOL!
It works of course, and the nurse ushers them out of the room with Dean mouthing to Sam that “Crazy works”. Heh.
They report back to Martin, who has some interesting artwork he made of clowns hanging on the wall. Martin's got an idea of what this thing is now...a wraith. He's even got a cool drawing of one in his journal. Good news is that silver will kill one, bad news is they can look human and only show their real form in a mirror.
We see Dean hanging out by the nurses station and monitoring the security mirror. Dr. Cartwright comes by to inquire what he's up to and ask why he has to hunt monsters. Dean discloses that he has to save everyone from the end of the world. She marvels at how he can carry that weight on his shoulders, or even get up each morning. Dean really doesn't have an answer for that and you can see he struggles with it. The good doctor walks past and Dean sees the wraith reflected in the mirror instead! Eeek!
Sam's found some silver plated knives for the 3 of them. Wendy comes by again and this time plants a kiss on a very unwilling Sam. She proclaims to want him now 'cause he's “larger”. Heh. Martin bows out of the hunt. He's too scared to do this anymore despite wanting to help out. The brothers are on their own and take opposite wings of the building. We follow Sam as he stalks the hallway and spots the doctor approaching. He jumps the Dr., cutting his arm a bit in the process. Orderlies step in, but Sam takes them out with a determined fury of moves. Soon he's about to kill the Dr., when Martin holds him back, pointing out that the wound isn't crackling like it would on a wraith. Sam drops the knife in horror.
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We return from the break with Sam in his room, blissed out on the happy drug cocktail they gave him. Dean comes in and proclaims Sam always was “a happy drunk”. Sam pulls on Dean's arm and tells him the doctor wasn't the wraith and then he wonders if maybe Dean's finally cracked and really gone crazy, that he was even kind of crazy since coming back from Hell and even sort of before that. Dean's not real amused and says it was simply a mistake and he'll find the wraith. Sam reassures Dean that he loves him (awww!) and then tweaks Dean's nose with a loud “Boop!” LOL! Dean is still not amused.
Dean's looking down the hallways and runs into Dr. Cartwright. She's worried about him and he gives the patented Dean Winchester “I'm fine!”. She says he's carrying around too much guilt, too much weight is on his shoulders and that it's killing him. He can't save everyone....in fact he can't save anyone these days. Her demeanor changes from one of compassion, to attack, pointing out all the ways in which he's failed: Ellen & Jo's deaths, Sam killing Lilith, and breaking the first seal. “All you do is fail.” She tells him there's no way he can save the world which has Dean demanding to know who she is. An orderly in the hallway tells Dean to settle down. Dean's still staring down the doctor and asks the guy who she is, to which the orderly says there's nobody there at all. The doctor tells him she's not real, but all in his head because he really is going crazy. Dean finally sees there isn't anyone there and it scares him. He wanders down the hall, seeing people's reflections as monstrous and grotesque. Coming to a locked door, he cowers against it, alone and as terrified as we've ever seen him.
The good doctor comes to Sam's room. Sam's no longer drugged out of his mind and apologizes to the doctor and says he's had a moment of clarity....that there's no such thing as monsters. The doctor says monsters aren't Sam's problem, it's his overwhelming anger. He attacked like a man possessed and this really unsettles Sam and he asks for a 2nd chance. It's given to him, but he's warned that if there's another incident he'll put Sam in a place for violent patients that will much less forgiving.
Sam enters the main room and finds Dean, but he starts pointing out that it wasn't the demon blood, it was Sam's lying and arrogance. Soon he's surrounded by angry patients, all telling him it's all his fault. Sam lashes out, but in reality nobody's there. The orderlies drag him off, yelling and screaming, while a dejected Dean sits nearby. He doesn't even seem to notice Sam being taken away as he mutters, “What's happening?”
Dean sneaks into Martin's room and he's figured out that “Crazy is the clue”. Despite his scattered brain (and Martin has to keep him focused), he manages to work out a possible cause to what's happening. He can see himself and Sam eventually going crazy because of what they've seen, but not both at the same time. Somehow the wraith poisoned them with something to make them go crazy. His first guess is Wendy because she kissed both him and Sam.
Martin & Dean walk to Wendy's room, with Dean carefully trying not step on any cracks in the floor. Wendy screams and they break in the door to see the sweet nurse leaning over Wendy's body. Her reflection shows the face of the wraith and Dean questions if it's real. She assures him it is after withdrawing her spiky protrusion that eminates from her wrist.
===============================
The nurse attacks Martin, sending him out into the hall so she can punch Dean quite a few times. Ouch! Martin comes back in and manages to cut her palm with the silver knife. She runs out and Martin finds out Wendy's still alive. He urges Dean to go after the wraith, but Dean is really losing it and says he can't. Martin tells him he has to, which gets Dean moving as 2 orderlies come in and tackle Martin. Dean staggers down the hall, his vision warping everything around him, but he carries on.
The nurse enters a padded room where Sam is strapped down to a bed. He finally sees her in the mirror and she points out how careless the boys were about proclaiming their hunting ways. They were easy targets and all she had to do was touch them. She's all gleeful over how yummy crazy brains are. Sam yells that she did this to him, but it wasn't all her.
“I helped, but that rage? No, no, no, no. That was all you. I don't make crazy, I just crank up what's already there. You build your own hell, but I give you the Legos.” She's about to put her spike into his neck when Dean bursts in. He's not to steady, but he also “crazy...so what the hell?” They fight with her ultimately holding him against a wall and aiming the spike right at his forehead. Dean grabs hold of the spike and breaks it off. She screams as blood gushes from it and Dean looks like he's nearly going to puke. LOL But he regains composure long enough to grab the silver knife and plunge it into her heart. She slides down the wall, dead and things return to normal for the boys. Dean undos the buckles holding Sam as an alarm goes off.
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The boys run out of the hospital and head to where the Impala's parked.
But before they can hit the road, Sam admits the nurse was right.....he is angry, has been nearly his whole life, at their dad, Dean, Lilith, and now Lucifer. He can't blame it on Ruby or the demon blood anymore because it's just him. “I'm mad all the time and I don't know why!” Dean tells him to stop, that it doesn't matter. He has to bury those feelings, so they can keep going and not end up like Martin. He asks if Sam's with him and Sam answers that he is. They get in the car and drive off, but Sam still looks troubled over what he's learned about himself.
So happy to have the show back after a long hiatus. In a way this episode was very intimate because the whole hour is in one setting and while the brothers were still on a hunt, they end up dealing with a lot of their own personal issues. There's also Martin, a once great hunter reduced to a frightened and nervous patient. Even Dean recognizes that he and Sam might wind up the same way. I liked the monster of the week. A wraith is something different and unique and seeing that deadly spike was quite unexpected.
Then we have Sam and Dean. Their issues, enhanced by the wraith cause them to see things that aren't there and deal with their own individual emotional baggage. Sam's still dealing with his guilt over the apocalypse and realizes he's got a serious anger problem. Dean is feeling the pressure of having to save the world and blames himself for everything that's gone wrong. A lot of what the boys go through is the same things they've been experiencing for a long time. Dean's still this broken, weight-of-the-world-on-his-shoulder, man with daddy issues hero. He doesn't deal with his emotions or his problems, he doesn't have time for that. The world's at stake and he can't dwell on his failings. He kills the next bad thing in his path and moves on. Sam has always been the one to analyze his feelings, express them and get them out in the open. We've seen this from S1 and his resentment towards his father and the hunting life, but it kicked into high gear after he was brought back to life in AHBL. The Sam that returned from the dead was immediately ready to enact his revenge, to kill without question. It only intensified once Dean made his deal and went to hell. The brothers are working together and it almost feels like old times, but there's still that slight tension, that slight bit of doubt between them. Dean especially is still not sure if Sam's going to make the right decision and not say yes to Lucifer. Sam is still recognizing that Dean is different since his time in hell. However, the main caring bond between them is still there and I believe that's what will continue to hold them together as a team, but will the growing seed of doubt eventually drive them apart again?
As expected, I liked the episode. The mix of humor, emotion, and scariness was good and on a shallow note...damn, it was nice to see the boys in single layers of clothing! Teehee! I'm already ready for the next eppy. :)
