Supernatural: Sex and Violence

Posted by: Stacy  •  February 20, 2009 @ 5:43pm

Filed under: Recaps & Reviews

This episode started with a woman pounding on some beef with a meat tenderizer. Her husband walks in and there is an obvious tension. She tries to talk to him and is met with hostility. Still, she keeps a positive attitude and tries to talk to him even though he is trying to have a fight. She turns around and he kills her with...yep, the meat tenderizer. Blood everywhere. This is the 3rd local murder of a wife by her husband in 2 months and the husbands are all pleading guilty; this is not a possession case or they wouldn't have any memory. Cue the Winchester boys.

Dean wakes up to Sam in the bathroom whispering on the phone with Ruby. Dean pretends to be sleeping when Sam wakes him up, Sam pretends it was a bowel movement that had him up and ready to go. An interview with the latest wife-killer has the husband claiming to love his wife but also he says he knew exactly what he was doing when he killed her. A little digging finds a $9000 bill for M & C Entertainment (which Dean imparts is a cover for a little lurid side action since 900 numbers and strip clubs always have names like that). Busted, the husband comes clean. Her name is Jasmine, she is a stripper and she told him that if he killed his wife, they could be together forever. Will our boys investigate further? Dude, her name is Jasmine...would Dean pass up a case that involves strippers? Not a chance.

Sam, as a federal agent, meets with the coroner of all the cases...a very pretty Dr. Cara Roberts. Autopsies were needed on the husbands...they killed themselves shortly after the murders. The only thing the doc found out of the ordinary was a commonality of elevated oxytocin levels; this hormone is usually only really seen during childbirth, lactation and sex. Strippers, murder, infidelity and suicide...I'm thinking that its sex that is the connector here! There is definite flirting going on between the doc and Sam. Then Dean walks in. Dressed as a federal agent and with his regular cocky attitude, Dean tells the doc that she can dismiss the agent title and just call him Dean. Without blinking an eye and without really taking her attention off of Sam, the doc tells Dean that she is Dr. Roberts. Hahaha! Outside, Dean accuses Sam with "Dude, you totally c-blocked me". Hahaha. This rejection doesn't bother a cheery Dean as much as it should though. "Strippers, Sammy". 'Nough said.

Bobby's theory is that the bad guy is a Siren. She morphs into a particular guy's dream girl and Sirens "shake their thing and the guy zombies out". Next victim: Lenny. The name of the perfect girl for him: Belle. Lenny is persuaded by Belle to kill his ailing mother whom he takes care of and evidently loves a lot. After some very interesting sex (with a great mirror shot), Lenny takes Belle up on her offer to be with him forever and takes her suggestion to bash his mother's brains in. Belle leaves during the time that Lenny is taking the poker to his mother's head. The mirror scene: Lenny is lying on the pull-out couch, Belle is riding him. The mirror above them (where she can see but he cannot) shows a really cool (to us morbid types) hairless person...have you seen I am Legend? In the mirror the Siren looks kinda like the cancer patients in that movie.

The trust issue between our boys is very shaky right now because of Sam hiding things. Faced with Sam being out and having left his cell phone on the table, Dean struggles with himself and finally picks it up and presses redial. It is Ruby, he hangs up. Sigh. My poor boys are ripping their relationship apart with lies and omissions. Anyways. Bobby's Siren lore turns up that they can be killed by their own poison...oxytocin. The procedure is to stab her with a bronze dagger covered with the blood of a sailor under her thrall. The catch is that the boys can't use the blood of one of her past victims because the hormone fades.

Federal agents Sam and Dean are back at the doc's office. Another agent is there, from the Omaha Violent Crimes Unit and he thinks he has jurisdiction. A quick call from the agent to the boys' director (Bobby) convinces the new agent (Nick) that the boys are legit and are to be the lead agents. Nick tags along with Dean to the stripper, pardon me, to the bar with the independent contactor-dancers and they are bonding; it would seem that Nick knows just as much about Dean's car and all kinds of 80's metal music as Dean does. Dean gives the ultimate compliment to Nick of "For a federal agent you're not a total dick". Nick opens up to Dean about something weird he has discovered; he says that at the last few crime scenes connected to this case he has found flower petals. Dean remembers seeing these particular flowers at the doc's office, where, at the moment, Sam is totally getting down and dirty with same-said doc. Before Sam and the doc started bumping uglies, she divulges to him that she WAS married but he ended up dying of a heart-attack. Suspicious! More damning evidence is when Sam asked her about the "split-up" and she says "Yeah, I suppose that's the word for it".

In the car alone now, Dean calls Sam. Dean decides that the doc is the Siren, Sam is compromised and that he can't trust Sam now. Gee, perhaps he would have had more faith in his brother's protestations if the trust hadn't already been compromised because of Sam's secret dealings with Ruby. So Dean calls someone he can trust...Nick. Nick meets Dean in the car and they discuss the delivery of the poison from the Siren to her thrall while sharing a drink from Dean's trusty flask. They figure out it is her saliva that captures her victims...just as Dean takes another swig from the flask that Nick just had his lips on...oh, poop. Misdirection. So Nick is the Siren and he and Dean are going to be "brothers forever". Fanfreakingtastic. Step one: infect Dean. Step two: get rid of Sam.

Back in the motel room the confrontation starts. Dean gets a knife to Sam's throat and cuts him just a little when Nick tells him to. Then Nick opens his mouth and has a creepy second mouth thingy in his throat which spits saliva into Sam's face, infecting Sam. The distrust between our boys comes out full force as they fight with muscle and words to prove themselves worthy of Nick's undivided love; Sam is hiding and lying about things, Dean is the weaker hunter and is a cry baby for whining about the souls he tortured in hell. The fight explodes into the hall and when things are at their worst...BAM! Bobby suddenly appears and stabs Dean in the shoulder with a bronze knife, which he then throws at Nick. Nick dies in front of a mirror, showing the Siren's true face again. Convenient place for a mirror.

The end has Bobby and our boys at their cars, drinking soda (because they have to drive). Are they going to be ok? They both say yes, but the hesitation is there and we know the worst of these trust issues are coming soon.

The next new episode (that I have found) is going to be March 12. I will throw up a couple of rerun recaps, since I just started this. I hope at least one person is out there reading them!

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