Supernatural: Death Takes a Holiday

Posted by: Stacy  •  March 17, 2009 @ 4:46pm

Filed under: Recaps & Reviews

There are 66 seals that Lilith needs to precipitate the breaking of...now we are back on track with that story line. Hell on earth needs to be averted and it is much more serious than just depriving me of my coffee in the morning.

What brings our boys to this case is a town where people are not dying. They should be dying...its not like they are all genetically-perfect, good Samaritans who jog regularly, eat their daily recommended amount of fruit, and look both ways before they cross the street...they just aren't. The opening scene has a guy getting shot by a mugger and not dying in his friends arms from the bullet in his heart. Besides this guy, Sam and Dean's attention is grabbed by a terminal cancer patient who gets up and leaves the hospital after his wife pulls the plug. After visiting the gunshot victim (posing as owners of the website flooredbythelord.com) Sam and Dean get no clues as to what is going on.

I entered the url and the page shows the site is coming soon. Isn't it a law that the producers of Supernatural have to purchase the site since they used the name on the show? That's what Conan O'Brien taught me when he introduced the horny manatee website.

So no one has died since a boy named Cole Griffin bit it from an asthma attack ten days ago. Sam says they should find his ghost and see if he knows anything. Oddly, Dean is a little put off by the séance they perform in the graveyard to try to talk to Cole. "I can gank a monster or touch a corpse, but this?" Meanwhile, back at the cemetery, a man breaks up the séance and accuses the boys of devil worship. Only it is not a man, it is Alistair in a man-suit. Al flings Dean and knocks him out. Sam uses his psychic powers to exorcise Al from the body he is in...not a lot of effort and no nose bleed for Sam; he is getting stronger.

With only a concussion for Dean, our boys continue their investigation. To break one of the seals Alistair has to kill a reaper under the solstice moon (tonight of course). Reapers are being kidnapped so Lucifer can be another step closer to rising. They cannot see the reapers though, so they have to become ghosts to be on the same plane of existence...or astral project themselves there. As if they haven't done enough to Pam the psychic, they get her to help them out. Pam chants them to death (not really, but cute, yes?) and whispers in Sam's ear that he has a great ass. Sam wisely does not repeat this to Dean due to Dean's fragile ego when it comes to approval from the ladies. One problem: once they are "ghosts", how do they do anything to protect and warn the reapers since they are now essentially "walking pieces of fog"?

Cole is found at his house, haunting his mom. He reluctantly teaches the Winchester boys how to focus their energy so that they can move things and pop in and out wherever they want. Think the subway train ghost with the pop can in the movie...well, Ghost. The boys know where to look for Alistair now because Cole saw the black smoke take his reaper at the funeral home. Just then the house starts to shake and things go wonky. Another reaper has shown up for Cole. This one is familiar though...she is Tessa - the one that tried to take Dean in season 2 at the hospital: the one where John Winchester died. After Tessa confesses to Dean that he was the one that got away (literally), Dean confesses that he has felt a void in himself since he did the getting away...like he feels he should be dead. It doesn't hurt that his reaper comes in an attractive package. Tessa agrees to hold off on reaping Cole until the boys can stop Alistair, but she is going to take Cole first when she goes back to work. The boys agree and Sam goes to talk to Cole and lies to him...he says he will not let the reaper take him. Oh Sammy, I am really starting to dislike you. Just before they go to search out the cloud of black smoke that is Alistair, Al comes to them and steals Tessa away. Despite their really cool new ghost moves, the boys fall into Alistair's trap and are shot with rock salt which apparently hurts a LOT. They are imprisoned by an iron chain and salt circle and forced to watch him kill the first reaper with a scythe that he got from one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. Tessa is able to break the circle of salt. Escapes are made.

Sam goes back to his body in time to find a dying, gutted psychic. She was stabbed while defending the soulless bodies of our boys. Sam gives her the drink that she asks for and she gives him some advice: you are on the wrong path Sam, stop using your powers. Even the good you think you are doing is not really good. You are going to end up in a big bad place. And tell Bobby to go to hell for introducing me to you two. Pam is dead.

Meanwhile Dean, not back in his body yet, meets Alistair in front of the funeral home that the skurfuffle (use this word if you don't already; it will catch on!) just took place. All of a sudden Alistair is hit by lightning! And Castiel shows up! Where the hell were you when the rest of this went on? Castiel explains that they were there but were blocked by anti-angel ruins painted on the funeral home. And also, Bobby wasn't the one who called about the reaper-seal; it was Castiel doing his best Midwest-hunter impression. Plus, Castiel maintains that if the angels actually had asked for help from the boys, they would have done the exact opposite. Valid.

Tessa is free to reap Cole now. She convinces him to come with her by telling him that his mom is so sad still BECAUSE he is hanging around and because she can feel him there; he needs to move on in order for his mom to let go of some of her pain. Like Pam did for Sam, Tessa has some parting words for Dean: Stop lying to yourself. You came back to earth to get a second chance...REALLY? Something nasty is coming and there are no such things as miracles. Watch your back, you are expendable and won't be treated as special as the angels say you are. Smart women.

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