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Tonight we were asked to pretty much forget the recent story lines of Supernatural. No Lilith, no Castiel, no Alistair (besides an honourable mention), no Bobby, no Bela... basically this episode asks us to go back to the basics of the horror story. Ok, I'll buy it this time, but please don't make a habit of it. I'm liking that the focus of the show has shifted from Sam to Dean recently. I guess the show IS called "Supernatural" and not "Those Fabulous Winchester Boys".

Already, I digress. Focus aaaaaand here we go.

An old man is drinking beer, watching TV. He is unshaven, the place is dark and dingy. The sign on the wall says "Home Sweet Home". Ha! OF COURSE this home ain't so sweet.

The power goes out and the doors won't open when he tries them. Freaky looking pale girl comes out of the closet. He says, "You!? Impossible." I detest zombie movies and really hate how Hollywood has decided that taking frames out of movies to make that icky, jerky, zombie-like character is the way to go now-a-days (whatever happened to good old slasher flicks?). So this girl (that looks like she is straight from a sequel to The Ring) kills the old man and blood gets smeared on the iconic wall-hanging. Time to bring in Sam and Dean.

AH! Here they are! Sam is sleeping in the back of the car, Dean is reading by flashlight. Dean, you've been working too hard blablabla. Work work work. Dean says he is fine, Sam says NO, he is the opposite of fine. Found something in Nebraska, looks like a ghost, yadda yadda. Apparently Dean has been working like a... sorry, gotta say it... Winchester outta hell and hasn't taken a break in a month. If you've been keeping track at home you will know that one month earth time is about 10 years hell time, just a fun fact. Oh, and I assume if you are reading this you must have at least a rudimentary knowledge of the show or this is making no sense... and in that case, why are you still reading?

Now we are in Nebraska and walking into the house where (we will find out the old man's name is Mr. Gibson, so he will now be referred to as Mr. G) Mr. G was killed in a locked room in the locked house. Oh-Oh boys! There is a For Sale sign in the yard but what you didn't see was the Sold plank that has fallen into the grass. Wow! Is this house ever ugly. Tip of the day: brown wallpaper with flowers does not look good anywhere and white cupboards and one pale yellow wall does not make me want to spend time in the kitchen. Don't do it. There is a part of the wall that is slightly extended. Sam guesses immediately that it is a covered dumbwaiter (that's like a tiny elevator on a pulley system for kitchens and such, not a server with a low IQ). The ghost-detector thing tells us that there is ghost activity in the house... the boys tell us it could be the many power lines nearby that are interfering. What's in the closet? Nothing in the rest of the house but in the closet there is a doll head with all the hair gone. Clichéd slightly, but so are many things. You will see what I mean by that soon (mostly because I am going to blatantly point them out). Cue the new owners!

Hello happy family, dressed in white, in white vehicles to make you all look so sweet, together and innocent. Nice dog, needs a more original name than Buster though. Boy (Danny) about 13. Girl (Kate) a couple years older, trying to get bars on her cell reception. Right now I am thinking "Hello Beetlejuice". No, wait. I've got a better one. "Hello Amityville Horror". Unsuspecting family, house with a past. Better make sure that the kids see scary things that the adults don't. Oops, Kate sees the girl that killed Mr. G in the upstairs window. Why don't ghosts ever haunt the main floors? Sam and Dean hurry out of the house. Their cover this time is they are from the county and the family has to stay in a motel (probably with "hooker-stained sheets" again, as Kate points out) because the house has asbestos AND a gas leak. What are the odds, eh?

Dean and Sam talk to Mr. G's old housekeeper. He was very private. His wife died in childbirth. The daughter hung herself when she was 20. Both were cremated. Hmmm. How do you salt and burn the bones of a body to exorcize a ghost when the body is already gone? Makes me think here... why would Mr. G react the way he did if it were his daughter? "You?!" seems like a massive recognition, but not so much a familiarity that you would expect if you see your child after... I think it was 30 years. Housekeeper didn't see anything paranormal but did hear a rustling in the walls without ever seeing a rat. Dumbwaiter... rustling... walls... the... you are getting the picture right? I thought I was too.

The family sets up house. They didn't have to go to a motel because luckily Uncle Ted is with them and he has built enough houses to know the excuses are bunk. Turns out our family isn't so clean as their white adornments would seem to indicate. We don't know WHAT the problem is yet, but they have had a bad year and they are here to make a change. I don't think it's too premature to tell you that the oldest boy died in a car accident. Danny is upstairs unpacking (like a normal teenaged boy, actually playing some sort of video game) when a baseball rolls to him. He talks to the closet and rolls the ball back. Then the ball is thrown to him. We don't see who yet BUT...

Dad discovers the word GO written on a wall in red crayon (redrum, REDRUM!) and immediately "knows" that Danny did it. No, I didn't do it Dad; it was the girl in the walls. She wants the adults to leave but I can stay. Dad doesn't buy it. Ok, yes big bro is dead, yes they had a bad year and ok, Danny could have been acting out a lot because of it all... but who the hell would just ground a 13ish year old boy for saying that it was the girl in the walls WITHOUT considering his story even a little?? I mean, come on! That's one messed up story! I'd at least be a little concerned and ask him how many fingers I was holding up and what does the colour blue taste like?

So Danny is grounded. Kate is lying in bed, arm stretched out. Buster starts licking her hand a lot and is affectionate enough that Kate is grossed out. Her bedroom door opens. Oh *deleted explicative* it's Buster that comes into the room! Eww eww eww. The closet door shuts, it's too dark to see the licking-bandit.

The family is gathered in the living room, kids freaking out, adults being obtuse. Sam and Dean burst in. You have a ghost. No we don't says Dad. Duh we do says Kate. Buster WAS outside, where is he now... let's follow the trail of blood. That wall over there says "It's too late" in blood. Poor Buster. Run family Run! Crap, tires slashed on all vehicles and all the weapons gone from the boys' car. Kate sees the girl out in the field. That's odd, why would the ghost be out of the house? No one else sees her. Believe it or not, Dad still doesn't believe. Mom is mute on the subject and Uncle Ted is kind of a jackass. Don't worry people; we do this for a living! Danny compares them to Scooby-Doo... ok, maybe he IS a little slow after all.

How do we guard against ghosts and demons and other non-physical nasties? We stand in an unbroken circle of salt of course. No Uncle Ted, you jackass, it doesn't have to be kosher. Shut up and let the fabulous Winche....errr....Sam and Dean do their job.

Crap this is long and I'm not done... I'll try to wrap it up a little quicker.

The girl shows up. Everyone in the circle of salt. Um, how did she walk through the circle? Oh oh, "psycho Nell" is not a ghost and not dead and she is screaming like a banshee and has a knife. I guess Uncle Ted was right to call her a backwoods hick. Everyone BACK outside! Where is Danny? We now have Mr. G's daughter's diary, but no Danny. Split up. Girls to the shed, there is only one door and the walls are thin enough that there isn't anything/one hiding in them. Sam and Dad check the house, Uncle Ted and Dean outside. Dean finds an entrance to the space between the walls where the girl lives. They go in. Freaky stuff. Dark, close quarters. There is a hole in the floor. Gotta check it out. Dean recites a mantra of "Please nobody grab my leg, please nobody grab my leg" as he goes down the hole. Uncle Ted stays behind and yes, gets murdered by banshee girl. Dean finds dead animals, little ones and dogs mostly. I'm not sure if this kitchen or Mr. G's is worse. Dead animals, blood... yellow walls... close one. "Dog, it's what's for dinner!"

Reunion in the shed. Sorry, Ted is dead. Dean affirms to the family that he should never have left Ted alone, he is very, very sorry. Wow Dean, what is going on with you? Big time on the amendment theme for him this episode.

We FINALLY find out what is in the diary. The girl is not the child that was born when Mr. G's wife died in childbirth. She is that girl's daughter. Her daddy called her a dirty little whore and she was so ashamed about the pregnancy that it is pretty much all she talked about in the diary. Guess who fathered the baby? Yep, dear old Daddy, Mr. G himself. Sigh.

Danny is tied up. Banshee girl climbs through a hole in the wall to bring him food. Here you are boy, look at the nice plump rat I brought you. Ok, fine, I'll kill it for you. Oh, I'm hungry too, let me take a bite. Ok, she can't cook her food and eats the rat raw and right off the vine, so to speak, but she can write "It's too late" in blood? What's up with THAT?

Dean figures it out. Remember that covered imbecile server from earlier? Dumbwaiter, I mean. Let's open that up. He climbs to the bottom, finds Danny and unties him. Small beams of light from the flashlight, I kept waiting for the battery to die and everything to be plunged into darkness. What?! That's what would happen if this were the big screen instead of my 27". Dean finds one of his guns; she's a klepto and has conveniently left stuff just lying around. Excellent! Danny is free now and Dad has fashioned a rope out of some curtains (not MacGyver worthy, but it was Sam's idea so I will give it a solid B+) to help Sam haul Danny up. Danny says "Hurry, he's coming back!" Yep, you read that right! "HE". It's her brother. I did some math in my head, and used a few toes, and could only come up with that they must be twins, doesn't make sense otherwise. Danny is brought to safety, Dean kills bro with his newly-found gun. YAY!

Oops, where is sis? She is almost inside the shed where Mom and Kate are hiding. She is dragged out by her feet, the girls are saved and there are vicious stabbing sounds. Overkill Dad. You know that yahoo emoticon that has the squiggly mouth and the eyes darting back and forth as if nervous? That's the face I'm making now. Uh, good job saving the family Dad, but now I'm a little afraid of you.

It's over! Are you ok Mom and Dad? Mom says, "We are the opposite of ok... but we are together." Step back a sec! Isn't that very close to the convo Sam and Dean had in the car right at the top of the show? I think so! Aww, at least Sam and Dean have each other. Now they need someone ELSE for Dean seeing as Sam already has demon girl in coma girl's body to boink on occasion.

The end. Well, almost. Dean "felt for those sons of bitches back there". Not the family, but the feral brother and sister; he can't blame THEM for what they became. He admits that when he finally gave in and started torturing souls in hell, he LIKED it. Poor Dean. Will he ever feel like he has atoned for what he did in the pits? Personally, I will be glad to get back to the usual storyline. This show scared me a little and it's been a while since a TV show or movie did that for me. Now, if you will excuse me, I have to check the locks on my doors and sleep with my light on.

Tags: Supernatural, Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles